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  • To Do This, You Must Know How

    Music Pedagogy in the Black Gospel Quartet Tradition

    Series series American Made Music Series
    To Do This, You Must Know How traces black vocal music instruction and inspiration from the halls of Fisk University to the mining camps of Birmingham and Bessemer, Alabama, and on to Chicago and New Orleans. In the 1870s, the Original Fisk University Jubilee Singers successfully combined Negro spirituals with formal choral music disciplines, and established a permanent bond between spiritual ... Leer más

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  • Songbook

    de Nick Hornby ...
    “All I have to say about these songs is that I love them, and want to sing along to them, and force other people to listen to them, and get cross when these other people don’t like them as much as I do.” —Nick Hornby, from SongbookA wise and hilarious collection from the bestselling author of Dickens and Prince, Just Like You, Funny Girl and About a Boy.Songs, songwriters, and why and how they get ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Mozart's The Magic Flute

    A Short Guide to a Great Opera

    de Michael Steen ...
    Series series Great Operas
    Even Salieri, the notorious villain of Peter Shaffer's drama Amadeus, admired Mozart's comic opera Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), which was premièred in Vienna a few weeks before Mozart's death in December 1791. Though sometimes enjoyed as a children's opera, this is not a pantomime: rooted in Freemasonry, the Enlightenment and the Age of Reason, it promotes the ideals of progress, virtue, ... Leer más

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  • Earth Dances

    Music in Search of the Primitive

    de Andrew Ford ...
    Minimalism, savagery, the raw and the cooked, the primal and the pre-verbal, Elvis’s hips, The Rite of Spring . . . Earth Dances is an original investigation of how music and primitivism intersect – a dazzling journey through music and culture.With alternating chapters of criticism and interviews, including with Liza Lim and Brian Eno, composer and broadcaster Andrew Ford explores the relationship ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • The James Brown Reader

    Fifty Years of Writing About the Godfather of Soul

    Edición de Nelson George, Alan Leeds ...
    Nelson George and Alan Leeds have assembled the first comprehensive collection of writings about the late, great Godfather of Soul, creating a fascinating mosaic of the man and the musician. Known as the hardest-working man in show business, James Brown embodied rhythm and blues, funk and soul, and sensuality. His musical innovations in such indelible grooves as “Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex ... Leer más

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  • Always Magic in the Air

    The Bomp and Brilliance of the Brill Building Era

    de Ken Emerson ...
    During the late 1950s and early 1960s, after the shock of Elvis Presley and before the Beatles spearheaded the British Invasion, fourteen gifted young songwriters huddled in midtown Manhattan's legendary Brill Building and a warren of offices a bit farther uptown and composed some of the most beguiling and enduring entries in the Great American Songbook. Always Magic in the Air is the first ... Leer más

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  • Marc Blitzstein:His Life, His Work, His World

    His Life, His Work, His World

    A composer and lyricist of enormous innovation and influence, Marc Blitzstein remains one of the most versatile and fascinating figures in the history of American music, his creative output running the gamut from films scores and Broadway operas to art songs and chamber pieces. A prominent leftist and social maverick, Blitzstein constantly pushed the boundaries of convention in mid-century America ... Leer más

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  • Weather Bird

    Jazz at the Dawn of Its Second Century

    de Gary Giddins ...
    Gary Giddins's Weather Bird is a brilliant companion volume to his landmark in music criticism, Visions of Jazz, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. More then 140 pieces, written over a 14-year period, are brought together for the first time in this superb collection of essays, reviews, and articles. Weather Bird is a celebration of jazz, with illuminating commentaryon ... Leer más

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  • Postmodern Music, Postmodern Listening

    Kramer was one of the most visionary musical thinkers of the second half of the 20th century. In his The Time of Music, he approached the idea of the many different ways that time itself is articulated musically. This book has become influential among composers, theorists, and aestheticians. Now, in his almost completed text written before his untimely death in 2004, he examines the concept of ... Leer más

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  • Angelo Badalamenti's Soundtrack from Twin Peaks

    Series series 33 1/3
    When Twin Peaks debuted on the ABC network on the night of April 8, 1990, thirty-five million viewers tuned in to some of the most unusual television of their lives. Centered on an eccentric, coffee-loving FBI agent's investigation into the murder of a small town teen queen, Twin Peaks brought the aesthetic of arthouse cinema to a prime time television audience and became a cult sensation in the ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • The Gaithers and Southern Gospel

    Homecoming in the Twenty-First Century

    Series series American Made Music Series
    In The Gaithers and Southern Gospel, Ryan P. Harper examines songwriters Bill and Gloria Gaither's Homecoming video and concert series--a gospel music franchise that, since its beginning in 1991, has outperformed all Christian and much secular popular music on the American music market.The Homecomings represent "southern gospel." Typically that means a musical style popular among white evangelical ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Musical Portraits : Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers

    Exploring the Modern Musical Minds: An In-Depth Analysis

    In 'Musical Portraits: Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers,' Paul Rosenfeld offers an insightful exploration of contemporary music through the prism of biographical analysis and aesthetic interpretation. Each chapter serves as a detailed portrait, interweaving critical commentary with the personal and professional lives of influential composers such as Stravinsky, Schoenberg, and Copland. ... Leer más

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