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The Andre Hodeir Jazz Reader (Jazz Perspectives)

The Andre Hodeir Jazz Reader (Jazz Perspectives)




Review "Hodeir is one of the most brilliant, provocative, and opinionated writers in the history of jazz."-Leonard Feathe...
Lennie Tristano: His Life in Music (Jazz Perspectives)

Lennie Tristano: His Life in Music (Jazz Perspectives)


Eunmi Shim



Lennie Tristano: His Life in Music (Jazz Perspectives)...
Understanding Society through Popular Music

Understanding Society through Popular Music


Joe Kotarba, Phillip Vannini



Review "Unique, novel, and refreshing! Understanding Society Through Popular Music is a stimulating and original approach t...
Hip hop underground: the integrity and ethics of racial identification

Hip hop underground: the integrity and ethics of racial identification


Anthony Kwame Harrison



Review “Hip Hop Underground, the first book-length ethnographic study of hip hop, takes the reader inside the worl...
Dancing in the Distraction Factory: Music Television and Popular Culture

Dancing in the Distraction Factory: Music Television and Popular Culture


Andrew Goodwin



Dancing in the Distraction Factory: Music Television and Popular Culture...
From This Moment On

From This Moment On


Shania Twain



Review “Packed with intimate details that may surprise even her most dedicated fans.” —EW.com ...
Fleetwood Mac: 40 years of creative chaos

Fleetwood Mac: 40 years of creative chaos


Donald Brackett



Review "Forty years after their inception in 1967, Brackett recounts the history of the band Fleetwood Mac, from their blue...
Natalie Curtis Burlin: a life in Native and African American music

Natalie Curtis Burlin: a life in Native and African American music


Michelle Wick Patterson



Review "[Natalie Curtis Burlin] sheds light on early ethnomusicologists'' relationships to the social, political, and cul...
Beethoven: The Ninth Symphony (Yale Music Masterworks)

Beethoven: The Ninth Symphony (Yale Music Masterworks)


David Benjamin Levy



Review "Levy operates from many perspectives - social, cultural, historical, and theoretical... his scholarship is formid...
Richard Rodgers (Yale Broadway Masters)

Richard Rodgers (Yale Broadway Masters)


Geoffrey Block



Review "Geoffrey Block's book is perceptive, stimulating, sometimes provocative, and always interesting. By setting out t...
The ballad of Baby Doe: ''I shall walk beside my love''

The ballad of Baby Doe: ''I shall walk beside my love''


Duane A. Smith, John Moriarty



About the Author John Moriarty is the artistic director, emeritus, Central City Opera House Association. He conducted "Th...
Giacomo Puccini, Tosca

Giacomo Puccini, Tosca


Mosco Carner



Book Description Compares Puccini's libretto for the opera Tosca with Sardou's play, and analyzes its musical structure. ...
Handbook of Recording Engineering

Handbook of Recording Engineering


John Eargle



From the Back Cover John Eargle's 4th edition of The Handbook of Recording Engineering is the latest version of his long-...
Muse: the Origin of Symmetry TAB

Muse: the Origin of Symmetry TAB


Muse



Muse: the Origin of Symmetry TAB...
Steep Slopes: Music and Change in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea

Steep Slopes: Music and Change in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea


Kirsty Gillespie



Steep Slopes: Music and Change in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea...
Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990 (2 vols)

Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990 (2 vols)


David Freeland



From School Library Journal Grade 9 Up–This up-to-date work expands on Nicolas Slonimsky's Baker's Biographical Di...
Sex Money Kiss

Sex Money Kiss


Gene Simmons



From Publishers Weekly The legendary lothario of the rock band Kiss believes that the most important things in life are m...
Class act: the jazz life of choreographer Cholly Atkins

Class act: the jazz life of choreographer Cholly Atkins


Cholly Atkins, Jacqui Malone



From Library Journal This is more than a factual biography of a great artist; it is a personal encounter with an excepti...
The Grammar of Carnatic Music

The Grammar of Carnatic Music


K. G. Vijayakrishnan



About the Author K.G. Vijayakrishnan is Professor at the School of Language Sciences, Central Institute of English Foreig...
West African Pop Roots

West African Pop Roots


John Collins



Review "[A]n important resource for anyone interested in the historical development of popular music... Collins brings to...
George Gershwin: A New Biography

George Gershwin: A New Biography


William G. Hyland



From *Starred Review* In this in-depth, well-researched biography, Hyland (Richard Rodgers [1998]) explores Gershwin's c...
Papageno: Emanuel Schikaneder: Man of the Theater in Mozart's Time

Papageno: Emanuel Schikaneder: Man of the Theater in Mozart's Time


Kurt Honolka



Language Notes Text: English, German (translation) ...
Writing about Music: A Style Sheet, Second Edition

Writing about Music: A Style Sheet, Second Edition


D. Kern Holoman



Review "Leavened with an elegant, gentle wit [and] features levelheaded, common-sense advice. . . . Holoman's excellences...
The Life of Mozart: Including his Correspondence (Cambridge Library Collection - Music)

The Life of Mozart: Including his Correspondence (Cambridge Library Collection - Music)


Edward Holmes



Book Description This 1845 biography of Mozart by the music journalist Edward Holmes was the first to be published in Eng...
The History of the Royal Academy of Music: Compiled from Authentic Sources (Cambridge Library Collection - Music)

The History of the Royal Academy of Music: Compiled from Authentic Sources (Cambridge Library Collection - Music)


William Wahab Cazalet



Book Description The Royal Academy of Music in London was founded in 1822 by Lord Burghersh (later 11th Earl of Westmorla...
A Dictionary of Musicians, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time (Cambridge Library Collection - Music) (Volume 1)

A Dictionary of Musicians, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time (Cambridge Library Collection - Music) (Volume 1)


John Sainsbury



Book Description The publisher John Sainsbury produced this biographical dictionary of musicians in 1824. Drawing on Fren...
The Life of Handel (Cambridge Library Collection - Music)

The Life of Handel (Cambridge Library Collection - Music)


Victor Schoelcher



Review This is not for the casual reader. But any serious student or lover of eighteenth-century music will find the deta...
British Musical Biography: A Dictionary of Musical Artists, Authors and Composers, born in Britain and its Colonies (Cambridge Library Collection - Music)

British Musical Biography: A Dictionary of Musical Artists, Authors and Composers, born in Britain and its Colonies (Cambridge Library Collection - Music)


James Duff Brown, Stephen S. Stratton



Book Description This alphabetical reference book, first published in 1897, lists over 2,500 famous and lesser-known musi...
Beethoven after Napoleon: Political Romanticism in the Late Works

Beethoven after Napoleon: Political Romanticism in the Late Works


Stephen Rumph



Review "A brilliant and unfailingly provocative reading of Beethoven's music. Rumph challenges and refines our views of t...
Justin Bieber: First Step 2 Forever (100% Official)

Justin Bieber: First Step 2 Forever (100% Official)


Justin Bieber



From School Library Journal Grade 4–10—Interspersed with tweets, headline-sized quotes, and graphic, two-page...