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Funk - The Music, the People, and the Rhythm of the One

Funk: It's the only musical genre ever to have transformed the nation into a throbbing army of bell-bottomed, hoop-earringed, rainbow-Afr...

Goodbye Russia - Rachmaninoff in Exile

Reeling from the trauma of a life in upheaval, he wrote almost no music and quickly had to reinvent himself as a fêted virtuoso pianist, ...

Mozart in Italy - Coming of Age in the Land of Opera

At thirteen years old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a child prodigy who had captured the hearts of northern Europe, but his father Leopold ...

Hymns for Public Worship

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. T...

Darmstädter Beiträge zur Jazzforschung 18. Destination Unknown - Die Zukunft des Jazz

Wie klingt der Jazz der Zukunft? Wen erreichen wir mit dieser Musik und wen wollen wir erreichen? Wie wichtig sind Räume, im wörtlichen g...

The Philosophy of Modern Song

"The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan's first book of new writing since 2004's Chronicles: Volume One and since winning the Nobel P...

The Silver Beatles - A Story of Struggle, Luck and Genius: The Beatles before they became the Beatles

A story of struggle, luck and genius: the Beatles before they became the Beatles Marco Crescenzi, an expert about everything concerning t...

Metallica All the Songs

The latest in the bestselling All the Songs series, this is the most in-depth exploration of Metallica's songs ever written. The latest b...

Historical Dictionary of Jazz

Historical Dictionary of Jazz, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary secti...

U2 - Rock 'n' Roll to Change the World

Timothy D. Neufeld explores U2's many phases of artistic expression and cultural engagement and the band's employment of faith and activi...

The New Wave of British Heavy Metal Encyclopedia

20 Jahre Plattensammeln und über zwei Jahre Recherche stecken in diesem Standardwerk über die Geschichte der New Wave Of British Heavy Me...

Humming

Humming is a ubiquitous and mundane act many of us perform. The fact that we often hum to ourselves, to family members, or to close frien...

Representing Australian Aboriginal Music and Dance 1930-1970

It's How You Flip It - Multiple Perspectives on Hip-Hop and Music Education

The cultural practices of hip-hop have been among people's favorite forms of popular culture for decades. Due to this popularity, rap, br...

Listen - The Stages and Studios That Shaped American Music

An extraordinary archive of the most iconic sites on the American musical landscape. Prompted by the closing of New York’s famed CBGB, Rh...

Schoenberg on Form

Remixing the Hip Hop Narrative - Between Local Expressions and Global Connections

Although hip hop is now a well-established global music genre and cultural form, its history and current impact have not yet been suffici...

The Ultimate Book of Blues Guitar Legends - The Players and Guitars That Shaped the Music

The Ultimate Book of Blues Guitar Legends features 150+ blues guitarists from prewar to today, featuring artist photography and an author...

Judas Priest - Album by Album

In Judas Priest: Album by Album, leading metal author Martin Popoff leads a cast of notable metal musicians and journalists in dissecting...

Smile - The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of Brian Wilson

The story of the Brian Wilson's legendary SMiLE album from Beach Boys authority David Leaf. This is the first book to tell the full story...

The Silver Snarling Trumpet - The Birth of the Grateful Dead--The Lost Manuscript of Robert Hunter

Discovered at last, the legendary lost manuscript of Grateful Dead co-founder and primary lyricist Robert Hunter, written in the early 19...

The Beatles a Hard Day's Night & More

The Beatles A Hard Day's Night & More covers the Beatles first film and its related soundtrack albums from the British, American and Cana...

Iron Maiden - Album by Album, Updated Edition

Iron Maiden is a compendium of in-depth, entertaining, and profusely illustrated conversations about all seventeen of the legendary metal...

The Year That Made the Musical - 1924 and the Glamour of Musical Theatre

"The musicals playing in 1924 were a stunning combination of the old and the new. William Everett reveals, in this compelling new book, a...

The Beatles in America - The Stories, the Scene, the Memories

This is the definitive, fully illustrated account of the Beatles concerts and controversies, and of how the United States dominated their...

Nsync 30th Anniversary Celebration - We Want You Back!

NSYNC 30th Anniversary Celebration is the definitive illustrated tribute to one of the most prolific and iconic groups in pop music today.

Orpheus in the Underworld - Essays on Music and Its Mediation

Delves into Theodor W. Adorno's lesser-known musical career and successful music criticism. Theodor W. Adorno is recognized as one of the...

Music with Stanley Cavell in Mind

"Music with Stanley Cavell in Mind provides a first-of-its-kind intervention by leading philosophers and scholars of music into an intell...

The Most Interesting Man in the World

The Godfather of New York City hardcore and founding member of Agnostic Front invites you into his lower east side pad to regale you with...

Off the Ground - Paul McCartney in the 1990s

A sympathetic but clear-eyed exploration of Paul McCartney's work in the 1990s, arguably his most important since the rise of the Beatles...

Bangtan Remixed - A Critical Bts Reader

Bangtan Remixed delves into the cultural impact of celebrated K-Pop boy band BTS, exploring their history, aesthetics, fan culture, and c...

Autonomy - Portrait of a Buzzcock

From bass player to lead guitarist, singer and last remaining founding member, Steve Diggle has been the driving force keeping Buzzcocks ...

Now You're One of Us - The Incredible Story of Redd Kross

Now You're One of Us is the definitive statement about Redd Kross, an in-depth and riveting tale told in the voices of the talented and t...

The Oxford Handbook of Asian Philosophies in Music Education

This volume focuses on the collective wisdom of Asian philosophies and their implications for music education. All twenty chapters are wr...

The Mariachi Voice

The Mariachi Voice is a practical resource for all educational program directors, voice professors, historians, singers, and students of ...

Encore - My journey back to centre stage

An inspirational and moving memoir from Britain's bestselling classical artist - this is Russell Watson, the man behind the voice.

What a Fool Believes - A Memoir

"A sweeping and evocative memoir from the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, Grammy Award-winning, platinum selling singer-songwriter Michael McD...

Mind Games

The definitive exploration--told in revelatory detail--of the writing, recording, and release of John Lennon's celebrated and magical fou...

Embodied Expression in Popular Music - A Theory of Musical Gesture and Agency

This book explores the intimate connection between body and instrument in popular music, explaining chords, melodies, riffs, and grooves ...

501 Essential Albums of the '90s - The Music Fan's Definitive Guide

501 Essential Albums of ’90s is the ultimate curated list detailing dozens of the decade’s most influential releases across all genres, f...

Infinite Dreams - The Life of Alan Vega

A raw but engaging exploration of a man whose artwork, music, and philosophy inspired thousands

Disco - Music, Movies, and Mania Under the Mirror Ball

This dazzling volume shines new light on the songs, styles, and enduring pop culture impact of the 1970s musical genre that emerged from ...

I Can't Remember If I Cried - Rock Widows on Life, Love, and Legacy

I CAN'T REMEMBER IF I CRIED: ROCK WIDOWS ON LIFE, LOVE, AND LEGACY

Hit Me with Music - Roots Rock Reggae

In his new book, Jaffe reveals the world of the Wailers during their early years as an international act from 1973 to 1975, a socially an...

Music and Dance as Everyday South Asia

This book offers an inclusive lens through which to study the music and dance of South Asia, its diasporas, and the people who produce an...

Original Pirate Material - The Streets and Hip-Hop Transatlantic Exchange

With his debut album Original Pirate Material (2002) (OPM) Mike Skinner, who recorded under the name The Streets, combined the world of U...

Mariachi in the Twenty-First Century

This Element contributes to the interdisciplinary study of mariachi, especially in the United States, by focusing on two areas that have ...

The Chronicles of Doom - Unraveling Rap's Masked Iconoclast

"The definitive biography of MF DOOM, charting the reclusive and revered hip-hop artist's life, career, and eventual immortality"--

Taylor Swift: The Story of Her Eras

Taylor Swift''s defining breakout hit, ''Love Story'', was written in twenty minutes on her bedroom floor and now is used for fan proposa...

How to Run an Indie Label

How To Run an Indie Label tells you everything you need to know about how to be a creative force. Music is like no other business. It's a...

Dowland

"Dowland celebrates the story of one of the most important, most studied, and most performed composers to emerge from early modern Englan...

Music of Life

for SATB and piano Music of Life is a vibrant setting of a poem by George Parsons Lathrop that describes how music underpins all earthly ...

Dub - The Sound of Surprise - History - Interviews - Sound Systems - Engineers & Studios - Discography

DUB, The Sound of Surprise ist die weltweit erste Biografie des jamaikanischen Dubs in englischer Sprache. Das Buch mit über 200 Abbildun...

Aesthetic Amalgams and Political Pursuits - Intertextuality in Music Videos

This open access book illustrates how intertextuality in music videos can be used to create new aesthetic patterns and develop a politica...

Insurgent Soundscapes of Dancehall Music - Black Politics and the Global 1990

This book evaluates modern Caribbean politics through the soundscapes of Reggae and Dancehall. Born to Reggae in the 1970s, Dancehall is ...

Dolly Parton All the Songs - The Story Behind Every Track

A VISUAL FEAST: This book features over 500 color and black-and-white photos of Dolly's career, some never-before-seen.

Silencing the Drum - Religious Racism and Afro-Brazilian Sacred Music

Silencing the Drum explores the role of sacred music in Afro-Brazilian religious traditions and provides detailed accounts of religious i...

The Artistry and Legacy of Queen

Over a career spanning six decades, Queen have become one of the most successful music artists in the history of the recorded music indus...

Schubert's Piano

"Revealing the connections that link Schubert's distinctive sound world to performance practice, social history, aesthetics, organology, ...

The Sacramentality of Music

This book explores how music is sacramental: able to serve as a means of divine revelation and transformative grace by way of a sacrament...