Genres & Styles

Amidst the heated fray of the Culture Wars emerged a scrappy festival in downtown New York City called Bang on a Can. Presenting eclectic, irreverent marathons of experimental music in crumbling venues on the Lower East Side, Bang on a Can sold out...

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This collection of over fifty years of writing about the South and its music by Stanley Booth, one of the undisputedly great chroniclers of the subject, is a classic, essential read. Booth's close contacts with many of the musicians he writes about...

Music and Revolution provides a dynamic introduction to the most prominent artists and musical styles that have emerged in Cuba since 1959 and to the policies that have shaped artistic life. Robin D. Moore gives readers a chronological overview of the...

for SATB (with divisions) and organ This touching carol for choir and organ sets a tender text by G. K. Chesterton. Immaculately crafted, it has at its heart another winning melody from arguably the world's most famous living composer of carols...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780915608263Author Peter GuralnickFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Country Music Foundation Press,U.S.Publisher Country Music Foundation Press,U.S...

The first time on the open road with Dad's beat-up clunker and a brand-new driver's lecense. That first kiss. Practicing Steve Tyler moves in the garage. Lazy summer days with nothing to do but hang out with a group of friends and the radio. Classic Rock...

It is the summer of 1976 and Salvo Ursari, a man of retirement age, is walking on a taut wire strung between the Twin Towers of New York's World Trade centre, almost fourteen hundred feet above the city. Far below him in the gaping crowd stands his wife,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859653152Author Mike EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Plexus Publishing LtdPublisher Plexus Publishing Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781456629397Author Olegario DiazFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Ebookit.comPublisher Ebookit.com

With roots in Appalachia, the Mississippi Delta, New Orleans, the Piedmont, Memphis, and the prairies of Texas and the American West, the musical genre called Americana can prove difficult to define. Nevertheless, this burgeoning trend in American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312063245Author Charles Shaar MurrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 247Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 386g

German Lieder in the Nineteenth-Century provides a detailed introduction to the German lied. Beginning with its origin in the literary and musical culture of Germany in the nineteenth-century, the book covers individual composers, including Shubert,...

Where would classical music be without the orchestra? Whether they are of the symphony or chamber variety, every orchestra is made up of a group of musicians playing together as one body to bring the music of the great composers to life. This handy...

Beethoven's String Quartet in C-sharp minor Op. 131 (1826) is not only firmly a part of the scholarly canon, the performing canon, and the pedagogical canon, but also makes its presence felt in popular culture. Yet in recent times, the terms in which the...

Connecting the black music tradition with the black activist tradition, Party Music brings both into greater focus than ever before and reveals just how strongly the black power movement was felt on the streets of black America. Interviews reveal the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060914448Author John LennonFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780931340901Author John ArdoinFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Amadeus PressPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

The phrase "popular music revolution" may instantly bring to mind such twentieth-century musical movements as jazz and rock 'n' roll. In Sounds of the Metropolis, however, Derek Scott argues that the first popular music revolution actually...

Sounding Out: Pauline Oliveros and Lesbian Musicality examines the musical career of the avant-garde composer, accordionist, whose radical innovations of the 1960s, 70s and 80s have redefined the aesthetic and formal parameters of American experimental...

This companion volume provides organists with new, dedicated three-stave accompaniments to twenty-four of the twenty-eight choruses in the main Sacred Choruses volume. In every case, these organ transcriptions, made by John Rutter, are based directly on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385520508Author Liam ClancyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 369gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621064657Author Reid ChancellorFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Microcosm PublishingPublisher Microcosm Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573709265Author Richard RodgersFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

What is jazz? What is gained - and what is lost - when various communities close ranks around a particular definition of this quintessentially American music? "Jazz/Not Jazz" explores some of the musicians, concepts, places, and practices which, while...

The Relentless Pursuit of Tone: Timbre in Popular Music assembles a broad spectrum of contemporary perspectives on how "sound" functions in an equally wide array of popular music. Ranging from the twang of country banjoes and the sheen of hip-hop strings...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780958268431Author Garry Sharpe-YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Zonda Books LimitedPublisher Zonda Books LimitedWeight(grams) 1067g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439199947Author Norman LebtechtFormat PaperbackPage Count 402Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 588gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

In The Williamsburg Avant-Garde Cisco Bradley chronicles the rise and fall of the underground music and art scene in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn between the late 1980s and the early 2010s. Drawing on interviews, archival collections,...

Caryl Emerson (a literary specialist) and Robert William Oldani (a music historian) take a comprehensive look at the most famous Russian opera, Modest Musorgsky's Boris Godunov. The result is both a historical study of a famous work and an interpretative...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312181338Author ReighleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 227g

Winner of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award in Concert Music BooksProposing that Arnold Schoenberg has been more discussed than heard, more tolerated than loved, Allen Shawn puts aside ultimate judgments about Schoenberg's place in music history to explore...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306825347Author Barney HoskynsFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Da Capo Press IncPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528991599Author Gillian PerrinFormat PaperbackPage Count 382Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802844729Author Calvin R. StapertFormat PaperbackPage Count 241Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847614193Author Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationPage Count 86Imprint Schott Music LtdPublisher Schott Music Ltd

This book is a critical history of Sub Pop, the Seattle independent rock label that launched the careers of countless influential 'grunge' bands in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It focuses in particular on the languages and personas of the 'loser', a...

Already one of the biggest pop stars in the world at 25 years old, Ariana Grande is simply unstoppable. From her early career on Broadway, to her star turns on Nickelodeon, to three Billboard #1 albums including 2018's Sweetener, Grande is a...

Legendary jazzman Johnny Otis has spent a lifetime at the center of L.A.'s black music scene as a composer, performer, producer, d.j., activist, and preacher. His energetic, anecdotal memoir, Upside Your Head! Rhythm and Blues on Central Avenue,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556527890Author Pamela Des BarresFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Chicago Review PressPublisher Chicago Review PressWeight(grams) 526gDimensions(mm)...