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  • The Transformation of Black Music

    The rhythms, the songs, and the ships of the African Diaspora

    by Sam Floyd, Melanie Zeck, Guthrie Ramsey ...
    Powerful and embracive, The Transformation of Black Music explores the full spectrum of black musics over the past thousand years as Africans and their descendants have traveled around the globe making celebrated music both in their homelands and throughout the Diaspora. Authors Samuel A. Floyd, Melanie Zeck, and Guthrie Ramsey brilliantly discuss how the music has blossomed, permeated present ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

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  • A Long Strange Trip

    The Inside History of the Grateful Dead

    by Dennis McNally ...
    The complete history of one of the most long-lived and legendary bands in rock history, written by its official historian and publicist—a must-have chronicle for all Dead Heads, and for students of rock and the 1960s’ counterculture.From 1965 to 1995, the Grateful Dead flourished as one of the most beloved, unusual, and accomplished musical entities to ever grace American culture. The creative ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Dylan Goes Electric!

    Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night that Split the Sixties

    by Elijah Wald ...
    THE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE A COMPLETE UNKNOWN. One of the music world’s pre-eminent critics takes a fresh and much-needed look at the day Dylan “went electric” at the Newport Folk Festival.On the evening of July 25, 1965, Bob Dylan took the stage at Newport Folk Festival, backed by an electric band, and roared into his new rock hit, Like a Rolling Stone. The audience of committed ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Kingdom of Zydeco

    by Michael Tisserand ...
    An important book for anyone with an interest in life, American music, Southern culture, dancing, accordions, the recording industry, folklore, old dance clubs in the weeds, fortune tellers, hoodoos or shotguns.” -Annie ProulxThere’s a musical kingdom in the American South that’s not marked on any map. Stretching from the prairies of Louisiana to the oil towns of East Texas, it is ruled over ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • On Highway 61

    Music, Race, and the Evolution of Cultural Freedom

    by Dennis McNally ...
    On Highway 61 explores the historical context of the significant social dissent that was central to the cultural genesis of the sixties. The book is going to search for the deeper roots of American cultural and musical evolution for the past 150 years by studying what the Western European culture learned from African American culture in a historical progression that reaches from the minstrel era ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Playing Along

    Digital Games, YouTube, and Virtual Performance

    by Kiri Miller ...
    Series series Oxford Music / Media
    Why don't Guitar Hero players just pick up real guitars? What happens when millions of people play the role of a young black gang member in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas? How are YouTube-based music lessons changing the nature of amateur musicianship? This book is about play, performance, and participatory culture in the digital age. Miller shows how video games and social media are bridging ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • The Cape Breton Fiddle Companion

    by Liz Doherty, PhD ...
    Celtic music scholar and musician Liz Doherty is no stranger to Cape Breton music – in fact, she has made a study of it. Doherty’s exposure to, and research of, the island’s music traditions was the germination for this compendium on the Cape Breton fiddle: its history, its people, the tunes, the recordings. The fiddle music of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, has its own sound, artistic standards ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Balinese Gamelan Music

    (Downloadable Audio Included)

    by Michael Tenzer ...
    With extensive photographs and an audio CD, this guide to Balinese music showcases the history, culture and art of the gamelan ceremony.Bali has developed and nourished an astonishing variety of musical ensembles—called gamelan—comprising dozens of instruments mainly made of bronze or bamboo, and organized into groups with as many as 30 to 40 players. In Balinese Gamelan Music, Michael Tenzer, a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Mariposa Folk Festival

    A History

    by Michael Hill ...
    A history of the Mariposa Folk Festival, from its humble roots in Orillia in 1961 to international acclaim and legendary status as a premier folk music gathering.Mariposa began in the heyday of the early 60s “folk boom.” In its more than fifty-five years, it has seen many of the world’s greatest performers grace its stages: Pete Seeger, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Gordon Lightfoot, Buffy Sainte ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Music, Criticism, and the Challenge of History

    Shaping Modern Musical Thought in Late Nineteenth Century Vienna

    by Kevin Karnes ...
    Series series AMS Studies in Music
    More than a century after Guido Adler's appointment to the first chair in musicology at the University of Vienna, Music, Criticism, and the Challenge of History provides a first look at the discipline in this earliest period, and at the ideological dilemmas and methodological anxieties that characterized it upon its institutionalization. Author Kevin Karnes contends that some of the most vital ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Agustin Lara

    A Cultural Biography

    by Andrew Grant Wood ...
    Series series Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music
    Few Mexican musicians in the twentieth century achieved as much notoriety or had such an international impact as the popular singer and songwriter Agustín Lara (1897-1970). Widely known as "el flaco de oro" ("the Golden Skinny"), this remarkably thin fellow was prolific across the genres of bolero, ballad, and folk. His most beloved "Granada", a song so enduring that it has been covered by the ... Read more

    $56.69 USD

  • They Bear Acquaintance

    African American Spirituals and the Camp Meetings

    by Nancy L. Graham ...
    Series Book 4 - Music and Spirituality
    Identifying the roots of African American spirituals and other religious folk music has intrigued academics, hymnologists and song leaders since this genre came to the public eye in 1867. The conversation on origins has waned and waxed for over eighty years, sometimes polemical, sometimes compromising. They Bear Acquaintance looks at this discussion through the output of various well-regarded ... Read more

    $76.09 USD