Portrays the complex politics of gender, sex, class, and race in Puerto Rican salsa music.
Author: Aparicio, Frances R.
Publisher: Wesleyan
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First edition of this experimental music classic is now available
Author: Lucier, Alvin
Author: Simon, Douglas
Publisher: Wesleyan
Illustration: N
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Journalist and biographer Nash interviews 27 country music stars, from Merle Haggard and Loretta Lynn to contemporary chart-toppers like Reba McEntire and Ro......
Colby, the owner of the Greenwich Village music and comedy venue for over a quarter of a century, shares his memories of Bob Dylan, Billy Joel, Woody Allen, ......
For a brief time in a Europe threatened and then occupied by Nazi Germany, jazz was heard as ubiquitously as rock 'n' roll is today.
Author: Zwerin, Mike
Pu......
The first full history to describe the development of country rock.
Author: Einarson, John
Publisher: Cooper Square Press
Illustration: N
Language: ENG
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This definitive volume celebrates the harmonica's illustrious history, focusing on every musical genre that has felt the harp's impact.
Author: Field, Kim
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In industry circles, musicians from Kentucky are known to possess an enviable pedigree -- a lineage as prized as the bloodline of any bluegrass-raised Thorou......
In this collection of provocative essays, leading thinkers, preachers, and scholars from around the country challenge both the Black church and the hip-hop g......
Modeled on the brilliant approach first formulated by distinguished professor music and master clarinetist Michele Gingras in her Clarinet Secrets and More C......
In Experiencing Stravinsky, music historian Robin Maconie takes a completely fresh approach to understanding the great composer’s works, explaining wha......
The Performing Life: A Singer’s Guide to Survival is the first-hand account of the 35-year career of singer, music professor, and recording artist Shar......
Organized into four main parts, this book first explores the mind-body connection and then separately discusses the mind, body, and soul of musicians, schola......
Shpil offers an expansive history of klezmer, from its medieval origins through the present era. Individual chapters concentrate on the most common instrumen......
Although fans and scholars alike recognize the Grateful Dead as icons of the psychedelic music, the band’s improvisatory approach still remains an enig......
Often underestimated, lyric diction is a portal to powerful performance. It is through lyric diction that singers are able to communicate the wishes and desi......
The A to Z of Sacred Music covers the most important aspects of the sacred music of Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and other......
This book looks closely at both Beethoven and the Grosse Fuge, placing both in their historical and social contexts. It considers interesting questions about......
The Hungarian composer Gysrgy Ligeti (1923-2006) was one of the most innovative and influential composers of the last 50 years. Ligeti reached his creative m......