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The Andre Hodeir Jazz Reader (Jazz Perspectives)

Review "Hodeir is one of the most brilliant, provocative, and opinionated writers in the history of jazz."-Leonard Feathe...

Lennie Tristano: His Life in Music (Jazz Perspectives)

Eunmi Shim

Lennie Tristano: His Life in Music (Jazz Perspectives)...

Understanding Society through Popular Music

Joe Kotarba, Phillip Vannini

Review "Unique, novel, and refreshing! Understanding Society Through Popular Music is a stimulating and original approach t...

Hip hop underground: the integrity and ethics of racial identification

Anthony Kwame Harrison

Review “Hip Hop Underground, the first book-length ethnographic study of hip hop, takes the reader inside the worl...

Dancing in the Distraction Factory: Music Television and Popular Culture

Andrew Goodwin

Dancing in the Distraction Factory: Music Television and Popular Culture...

From This Moment On

Shania Twain

Review “Packed with intimate details that may surprise even her most dedicated fans.” —EW.com ...

Fleetwood Mac: 40 years of creative chaos

Donald Brackett

Review "Forty years after their inception in 1967, Brackett recounts the history of the band Fleetwood Mac, from their blue...

Natalie Curtis Burlin: a life in Native and African American music

Michelle Wick Patterson

Review "[Natalie Curtis Burlin] sheds light on early ethnomusicologists'' relationships to the social, political, and cul...

Beethoven: The Ninth Symphony (Yale Music Masterworks)

David Benjamin Levy

Review "Levy operates from many perspectives - social, cultural, historical, and theoretical... his scholarship is formid...

Richard Rodgers (Yale Broadway Masters)

Geoffrey Block

Review "Geoffrey Block's book is perceptive, stimulating, sometimes provocative, and always interesting. By setting out t...

The ballad of Baby Doe: ''I shall walk beside my love''

Duane A. Smith, John Moriarty

About the Author John Moriarty is the artistic director, emeritus, Central City Opera House Association. He conducted "Th...

Giacomo Puccini, Tosca

Mosco Carner

Book Description Compares Puccini's libretto for the opera Tosca with Sardou's play, and analyzes its musical structure. ...

Handbook of Recording Engineering

John Eargle

From the Back Cover John Eargle's 4th edition of The Handbook of Recording Engineering is the latest version of his long-...

Muse: the Origin of Symmetry TAB

Muse

Muse: the Origin of Symmetry TAB...

Steep Slopes: Music and Change in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea

Kirsty Gillespie

Steep Slopes: Music and Change in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea...

Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990 (2 vols)

David Freeland

From School Library Journal Grade 9 Up–This up-to-date work expands on Nicolas Slonimsky's Baker's Biographical Di...

Sex Money Kiss

Gene Simmons

From Publishers Weekly The legendary lothario of the rock band Kiss believes that the most important things in life are m...

Class act: the jazz life of choreographer Cholly Atkins

Cholly Atkins, Jacqui Malone

From Library Journal This is more than a factual biography of a great artist; it is a personal encounter with an excepti...

The Grammar of Carnatic Music

K. G. Vijayakrishnan

About the Author K.G. Vijayakrishnan is Professor at the School of Language Sciences, Central Institute of English Foreig...

West African Pop Roots

John Collins

Review "[A]n important resource for anyone interested in the historical development of popular music... Collins brings to...

George Gershwin: A New Biography

William G. Hyland

From *Starred Review* In this in-depth, well-researched biography, Hyland (Richard Rodgers [1998]) explores Gershwin's c...

Papageno: Emanuel Schikaneder: Man of the Theater in Mozart's Time

Kurt Honolka

Language Notes Text: English, German (translation) ...

Writing about Music: A Style Sheet, Second Edition

D. Kern Holoman

Review "Leavened with an elegant, gentle wit [and] features levelheaded, common-sense advice. . . . Holoman's excellences...

The Life of Mozart: Including his Correspondence (Cambridge Library Collection - Music)

Edward Holmes

Book Description This 1845 biography of Mozart by the music journalist Edward Holmes was the first to be published in Eng...

The History of the Royal Academy of Music: Compiled from Authentic Sources (Cambridge Library Collection - Music)

William Wahab Cazalet

Book Description The Royal Academy of Music in London was founded in 1822 by Lord Burghersh (later 11th Earl of Westmorla...

A Dictionary of Musicians, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time (Cambridge Library Collection - Music) (Volume 1)

John Sainsbury

Book Description The publisher John Sainsbury produced this biographical dictionary of musicians in 1824. Drawing on Fren...

The Life of Handel (Cambridge Library Collection - Music)

Victor Schoelcher

Review This is not for the casual reader. But any serious student or lover of eighteenth-century music will find the deta...

British Musical Biography: A Dictionary of Musical Artists, Authors and Composers, born in Britain and its Colonies (Cambridge Library Collection - Music)

James Duff Brown, Stephen S. Stratton

Book Description This alphabetical reference book, first published in 1897, lists over 2,500 famous and lesser-known musi...

Beethoven after Napoleon: Political Romanticism in the Late Works

Stephen Rumph

Review "A brilliant and unfailingly provocative reading of Beethoven's music. Rumph challenges and refines our views of t...

Justin Bieber: First Step 2 Forever (100% Official)

Justin Bieber

From School Library Journal Grade 4–10—Interspersed with tweets, headline-sized quotes, and graphic, two-page...

Louis Armstrong and Paul Whiteman: Two Kings of Jazz

Joshua Berrett

From Publishers Weekly Paul Whiteman and Louis Armstrong were both hugely popular performers in their day, but while Arms...

Women in Music Vol. 1 : An Encyclopedic Biobibliography

Don A. Hennessee

From Eighteen years after its first release, the editors have produced a new edition of Women in Music, which is five ti...

Icons of R&B and Soul: An Encyclopedia of the Artists Who Revolutionized Rhythm (2 volumes Set)

Bob Gulla

From School Library Journal Grade 7 Up—In the preface to these volumes, Gulla opines that given the information av...

Hendrix: Setting the Record Straight

Edward E. Kramer, John Mcdermott

Review The facts about the greatest guitarist of all time - a classic Hendrix book - Paul McCartney Authoritative...any f...

The Barber of Seville (Opera Classics Library Series)

Burton D. Fisher

Review A new Libretto translation of Rossini's THE BARBER OF SEVILLE, featuring each Italian paragraph above its Eng...

Voices in Bali: Energies and Perceptions in Vocal Music and Dance Theater (Music Culture)

Edward Herbst

Review "The musical transcriptions are refined, and the accompanying CD offers excerpts of important music not featured o...

Die Fledermaus (Opera Journeys Mini Guide)

Burton D. Fisher

From the Publisher Other Opera Journeys Publishing titles ALSO AVAILABLE at amazon.com: OPERA CLASSICS LIBRARY SERIES: &...

Musicians & Composers of the 20th Century

Alfred W. Cramer

From School Library Journal Grade 6 Up—Composers, instrumental and vocal performers, and teachers who "made an end...

When Men Dance: Choreographing Masculinities Across Borders

Anthony Shay, Jennifer Fisher

Review "An intriguing, readable book about how, why, when, and where men dance...Highly recommended." --Choice "When Men...

Berber Culture On The World Stage: From Village To Video

Jane E. Goodman

Review "... This astute and well-written book is essential reading not only for scholars and students of the Middle East an...

He Is . . . I Say: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Neil Diamond

David Wild

From Publishers Weekly Wild, who's written companion books to the sitcoms Friends and Seinfeld, doesn't pretend to any ob...

Blues Traveling: The Holy Sites of Delta Blues, Third Edition

Steve Cheseborough

Review "Providing excellent maps and driving instructions. . . . Along the way Cheseborough provides details on the towns...

Abingdon Worship Annual 2005: Contemporary and Traditional Resources for Worship Leaders (Abingdon Worship Annual)

B. J. Beu, Leonard Sweet, Mary J. Scifres

Abingdon Worship Annual 2005: Contemporary and Traditional Resources for Worship Leaders (Abingdon Worship Annual)...

Cavalleria Rusticana (Opera Journeys Mini Guide Series)

Burton D. Fisher, Pietro Mascagni

From the Publisher Other Opera Journeys Publishing titles ALSO AVAILABLE at amazon.com: OPERA CLASSICS LIBRARY SERIES: &...

Shout, Sister, Shout!: The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Gayle F. Wald

From Publishers Weekly Though Elvis, Ginger Baker, Keith Richards and Jerry Lee Lewis paid her tribute, Sister Rosetta Th...

Church and Worship Music: An Annotated Bibliography of Contemporary Scholarship: A Research and Information Guide (Routledge Music Bibliographies)

Avery T. Sharp, James Michael Floyd

About the Author Avery Sharp and James Michael Floyd are both professors of music at Baylor University. They are the coa...

Cavalleria Rusticana and I Pagliacci (Opera Classics Library Series)

Burton D. Fisher

From the Publisher Other Opera Journeys Publishing titles ALSO AVAILABLE at amazon.com: OPERA CLASSICS LIBRARY SERIES: &...

The Copyright Guide: A Friendly Handbook for Protecting and Profiting from Copyrights

Lee Wilson

Review A copyright is a set of rights granted by the federal government to the creators of literary, musical, dramatic, c...

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