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The Andre Hodeir Jazz Reader (Jazz Perspectives)

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)

Lennie Tristano: His Life in Music (Jazz Perspectives)


Eunmi Shim



Lennie Tristano: His Life in Music (Jazz Perspectives)...
Understanding Society through Popular Music

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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)

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''

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

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

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: the Origin of Symmetry TAB


Muse



Muse: the Origin of Symmetry TAB...
Steep Slopes: Music and Change in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea

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)

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

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...