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  • Interviews with American Composers

    Barney Childs in Conversation

    by Barney Childs, Virginia Anderson, Robert Fink, Kevin Holm-Hudson, Thomas S. Clark, Gayle Sherwood Magee1, Sara Haefeli4, Frances White6, James Pritchett7, Jay M. Arms9, Dave Headlam1, John Schneider2, Ronald Kuivila5, Bruce Quaglia7, Rob Haskins0, Michelle Fillion2, Stuart Dempster4, David Neal Lewis6, Jeffrey Perry8, Peter Gena1, Horace J. Maxile Jr.4 ...
    Series series Music in American Life
    In 1972-73, Barney Childs embarked on an ambitious attempt to survey the landscape of new American concert music. He recorded freewheeling conversations with fellow composers, most of them under forty, all of them important but most not yet famous. Though unable to publish the interviews in his lifetime, Childs had gathered invaluable dialogues with the likes of Robert Ashley, Olly Wilson, Harold ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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    Don't Fall in Love

    by Dave Cullen ...
    Narrated by Reader tbd 1 ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours

    An epic work of multi-decade reporting immersed in the lives of two gay soldiers before, during, and after Don't Ask, Don't Tell, from the author of the bestselling contemporary classic, Columbine.Years before he became a celebrated author, Dave Cullen, in denial about his own sexuality, enlisted in the Army infantry praying it would teach him to be a “real man.” His own experience informs this ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • Thinking in Jazz

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    by Paul F. Berliner ...
    A landmark in jazz studies, Thinking in Jazz reveals as never before how musicians, both individually and collectively, learn to improvise. Chronicling leading musicians from their first encounters with jazz to the development of a unique improvisatory voice, Paul Berliner documents the lifetime of preparation that lies behind the skilled improviser's every idea.The product of more than fifteen ... Read more

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  • Capturing Sound

    How Technology Has Changed Music

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    There is more to sound recording than just recording sound. Far from being simply a tool for the preservation of music, the technology is a catalyst. In this award-winning text, Mark Katz provides a wide-ranging, deeply informative, consistently entertaining history of recording's profound impact on the musical life of the past century, from Edison to the Internet. Fully revised and updated, this ... Read more

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  • The Power of Black Music

    Interpreting Its History from Africa to the United States

    by Samuel A. Floyd, Jr. ...
    When Jimi Hendrix transfixed the crowds of Woodstock with his gripping version of "The Star Spangled Banner," he was building on a foundation reaching back, in part, to the revolutionary guitar playing of Howlin' Wolf and the other great Chicago bluesmen, and to the Delta blues tradition before him. But in its unforgettable introduction, followed by his unaccompanied "talking" guitar passage and ... Read more

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  • Jazzology

    The Encyclopedia of Jazz Theory for All Musicians

    by Robert Rawlins, Nor Eddine Bahha ...
    (Jazz Instruction). A one-of-a-kind book encompassing a wide scope of jazz topics, for beginners and pros of any instrument. A three-pronged approach was envisioned with the creation of this comprehensive resource: as an encyclopedia for ready reference, as a thorough methodology for the student, and as a workbook for the classroom, complete with ample exercises and conceptual discussion. Includes ... Read more

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  • The Studio Recordings of the Miles Davis Quintet, 1965-68

    by Keith Waters ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Recorded Jazz
    The "Second Quintet" -- the Miles Davis Quintet of the mid-1960s -- was one of the most innovative and influential groups in the history of the genre. Each of the musicians who performed with Davis--saxophonist Wayne Shorter, pianist Herbie Hancock, bassist Ron Carter, and drummer Tony Williams--went on to a successful career as a top player. The studio recordings released by this group made ... Read more

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  • Jazz Composition

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    The ECM Years, 1975-1984

    by Mervyn Cooke ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Recorded Jazz
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