Genres & Styles

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, popular music was considered nothing but vulgar entertainment. Today, jazz and rock music are seen as forms of art, and their practitioners are regularly accorded a status on par with the cultural and...

The forgotten history of the "all-girl" big bands of the World War II era takes center stage in Sherrie Tucker's Swing Shift. American demand for swing skyrocketed with the onslaught of war as millions-isolated from loved ones-sought diversion, comfort,...

Beginning in the year of Prince's birth, 1958, with the recording of Minnesota's first R&B record by a North Minneapolis band called the Big Ms, Got to Be Something Here traces the rise of that distinctive sound through two generations of political...

The practice of blurring the line between score and sound design has transformed contemporary film soundscape by challenging not only the long-established hierarchical relationships between dialogue, music, and sound effects, but also the modes of...

A major study sure to fascinate musicians, Brahms enthusiasts and those interested in the history of recorded music. How did Brahms conduct his four symphonies? What did he want from other conductors when they performed these works, and to which among...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621064046Author Alexander HerbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Microcosm PublishingPublisher Microcosm Publishing

A first-ever book on the subject, New York City Blues: Postwar Portraits from Harlem to the Village and Beyond offers a deep dive into the blues venues and performers in the city from the 1940s through the 1990s. Interviews in this volume bring the...

Popular music was in a creative upheaval in the late 1970s. As the singer-songwriter and producer Chris Stamey remembers, "the old guard had become bloated, cartoonish, and widely co-opted by a search for maximum corporate profits, and we wanted none of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062279804Author Simon ReynoldsFormat PaperbackPage Count 704Imprint Dey Street BooksPublisher Dey Street BooksWeight(grams) 839g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495008740Author Frederic ChopinPage Count 112Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Favourite carols and festive tunes have here been creatively arranged for the beginner quartet (Grade 1-2+) by the ever-resourceful Mary Cohen. From the more solemn to the extremely boisterous, these arrangements explore a wide range of musical styles as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780739094235Author Alfred MusicFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Alfred MusicPublisher Alfred MusicWeight(grams) 816gDimensions(mm) 300mm * 226mm * 20mm

"Nowhere near famous but still infamous," Psalm One is a legend to rap nerds, scholars, and "heads," and has gone on to work with the brightest names in rap and have her work celebrated and taught around the globe. In Her Word Is Bond, Psalm One tells...

Billboard magazine named The Beatles the greatest performing musical act of all time, and their albums continue to chart to this day. This is no surprise to the author, who combed through nearly 60 years of the magazine, week by week, to compile a...

In the sound of the 1960s and 1970s, nothing symbolized the rift between black and white America better than the seemingly divided genres of country and soul. Yet the music emerged from the same songwriters, musicians, and producers in the recording...

Byron Almen proposes an original synthesis of approaches to musical narrative from literary criticism, semiotics, historiography, musicology, and music theory, resulting in a significant critical reorientation of the field. This volume includes an...

Tiki torches, cocktails, la dolce vita, and the music that popularized them-Mondo Exotica offers a behind-the-scenes look at the sounds and obsessions of the Space Age and Cold War period as well as the renewed interest in them evident in contemporary...

Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, is equally celebrated as the composer of madrigals of great power and tortured complexity and as the murderer of his wife and her lover in flagrante delicto. His life and compositions are not unconnected. His neurotic...

Following his investigation into experimental music and sound recording in Records Ruin the Landscape, David Grubbs turns his attention to the live performance of improvised music with an altogether different form of writing. Now that the audience is...

for sopranos, altos, and unison men, with piano or organ accompaniment Anthems for SA & Men is the perfect collection for church choirs looking for high-quality, accessible material in three parts. Ideal for performance during Holy Communion, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593765460Author Stanley Mouse MillerFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Soft Skull PressPublisher Soft Skull Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495066122Author Ludwig van BeethovenPage Count 31Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

The South -- an inspiration for songwriters, a source of styles, and the birthplace of many of the nation's greatest musicians -- plays a defining role in American musical history. It is impossible to think of American music of the past century without...

In this innovative book, Gundula Kreuzer argues for the foundational role of technologies in the conception, production, and study of nineteenth-century opera. She shows how composers increasingly incorporated novel audiovisual effects in their works and...

Popular styles of electronic dance music are pervasively mediated by technology, not only within production but also in performance. The most familiar performance format in this style, the DJ set, is created with turntables, headphones, twelve-inch vinyl...

The New York loft jazz scene of the 1970s was a pivotal period for uncompromising, artist-produced work. Faced with a flagging jazz economy, a group of young avant-garde improvisers chose to eschew the commercial sphere and develop alternative venues in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935950073Author David MarkeyFormat HardbackPage Count 306Imprint Bazillion PointsPublisher Bazillion PointsWeight(grams) 1710g

How Ruffhouse Records founder Chris Schwartz overcame poverty, abuse, and addiction to start one of the most pivotal labels in hip-hop history and launch the careers of some of music's biggest stars "All respect to Chris Schwartz. He is a great...

During the years between the world wars, a small but dynamic community of African American jazz musicians left the United States and settled in Paris, creating a vibrant expatriate musical scene and introducing jazz to the French. While the Harlem...

A cycle of choral settings with words by Campion, Shakespeare, and anon. for SATB (with tenor solo) and small orchestra. Full scores and orchestral parts are available on hire. Good ale and Blow, blow, thou winter wind are available separately.About...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780901938558Author Maria BoxallPage Count 92Imprint Schott & Co LtdPublisher Schott & Co Ltd

The most significant factor in the career of Aaron ""T-Bone"" Walker was his ability to bridge the worlds of blues and jazz. The guitar artistry of this early exponent of urban blues was not only admired by blues musicians like B.B. King, Gatemouth...

In the early seventies, King Crimson, Yes, Jethro Tull, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, and many others brought forth a series of adventurous and visionary works, often of epic length. Responding both to the new possibilities in rock music opened up by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781973160793Author William a HinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 258Imprint Hinson InterprisePublisher Hinson InterpriseWeight(grams) 889gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556524509Author Frank TenailleFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint A Cappella BooksPublisher A Cappella BooksWeight(grams) 426g

Nineteen seventy-seven. New York City. Dark. Dangerous. Thrilling. Punk Rock. Blondie. David Bowie. Drinking. Drugs. Happening at the speed of light.THSeventeen-year old Laura quaking within her skin while the bursting punk rock revolution explodes...

Queen and Philosophy: Guaranteed to Blow Your Mind is a collection of cutting-edge philosophical essays on the rock group Queen, founded in 1970 and originally featuring lead vocalist Freddie Mercury. Queen's reputation and fan following continue to...

Rise Against Presents: Nowhere Generation, is the graphic novel companion to their ninth studio album!The world is a powder keg - a system that favors power, wealth, and status - and we are well past the tipping point. But RISE AGAINST PRESENTS: NOWHERE...

An authoritative guide to Prokofiev’s nine piano sonatas by the pianist and teacher Boris Berman   Boris Berman, renowned concert pianist and teacher, is one of the world’s foremost authorities on Sergei Prokofiev. In this book, he draws on his intimate...

The last of a long line of distinguished Russian aristocrats, Yevgeny Mravinsky emerges from the 20th Century musical scene as a noble conductor and exceptional treasure of Soviet culture. His friendship of some forty years with Dmitri Shostakovich led...