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  • Revolutions in American Music

    Three Decades That Changed a Country and Its Sounds

    The story of how unexpected connections between music, technology, and race across three tumultuous decades changed American culture.How did a European social dance craze become part of an American presidential election? Why did the recording industry become racially divided? Where did rock ’n’ roll really come from? And how do all these things continue to reverberate in today’s world?In ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Mavericks and Other Traditions in American Music

    From colonial times to the present, American composers have lived on the fringes of society and defined themselves in large part as outsiders. In this stimulating book Michael Broyles considers the tradition of maverick composers and explores what these mavericks reveal about American attitudes toward the arts and about American society itself.Broyles starts by examining the careers of three ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

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    Revolutions in American Music

    Three Decades That Changed a Country and Its Sounds

    Narrado por John McLain ...

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    13 hora 35 minutos

    How did a European social dance craze become part of an American presidential election? Why did the recording industry become racially divided? Where did rock 'n' roll really come from? And how do all these things continue to reverberate in today's world?In Revolutions in American Music, award-winning author Michael Broyles shows the surprising ways in which three key decades—the 1840s, the 1920s, ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • Leo Ornstein

    Modernist Dilemmas, Personal Choices

    Leo Ornstein: Modernist Dilemmas, Personal Choices traces the meteoric rise and heretofore inexplicable disappearance of the Russian-American, futurist-anarchist, pianist-composer from his arrival in the United States in 1906 through a career that lasted nearly a century. Outliving his admirers and critics by decades Leo Ornstein passed away in 2002 at the age of 108. Frequently compared to Igor ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Bach Perspectives, Volume 5

    Bach in America

    Series series Bach Perspectives
    More than a century passed after Johann Sebastian Bach's death in 1750 before his music found an audience in the United States. Volume Five in the Bach Perspectives series tracks the composer's reputation in America from obscure artist to a cultural mainstay whose music has spread to all parts of the country.Barbara Owen surveys Bach's early reception in America. Matthew Dirst focuses on John ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Theology and the Blues

    Series series Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture
    While all music genres incorporate religious imagery, the blues has its origin in the soil of the church. In its infancy, the blues was often dismissed as undermining the church’s gospel songbook. The initial resistance, however, could not suppress the organic development of a genre of music born from suffering. The great Mississippi Delta bluesman, Muddy Waters, once said, "The blues was born ... Leer más

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    Still Life

    Ten Crime Stories

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    8 hora 5 minutos

    These ten sharp yet deeply human stories show how people from all walks of life can end up on the wrong side of the law, regardless of their intentions. A compelling portrait of modern Sweden that speaks to universal questions about crime and morality, from the internationally bestselling author of Quicksand.A police officer fresh out of the academy becomes acutely aware of the deadly consequences ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Notes from the Ameripocalypse

    The Best of Essay Club 2016

    Publishing essays in the age of the tweet is a bit like selling buggywhips next to the car dealership. One would only expect such an activity to be pursued by old fuddy-duddies waving their canes at the kids on their lawns. We are actually huge proponents of social media. The restrictions of 140 characters have brought soul back to wit, and created surprisingly elegant moments of poignancy in the ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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  • The History of Jazz

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    Ted Gioia's History of Jazz has been universally hailed as a classic--acclaimed by jazz critics and fans around the world. Now Gioia brings his magnificent work completely up-to-date, drawing on the latest research and revisiting virtually every aspect of the music, past and present. Gioia tells the story of jazz as it had never been told before, in a book that brilliantly portrays the legendary ... Leer más

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  • Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician

    The Learned Musician

    Finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in Biography. A landmark biography of Bach on the 250th anniversary of the composer's death, written by the leading Bach scholar of our age.Although we have heard the music of J. S. Bach in countless performances and recordings, the composer himself still comes across only as an enigmatic figure in a single familiar portrait. As we mark the 250th anniversary of ... Leer más

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  • Braving the Wilderness: Reese's Book Club

    The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

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