Specifically designed for busy teachers who have responsibility for co- ordinating a subject area within their primary school. Each volume in the seri ...
In this sparkling collection, "roots" music authority Tony Russell offers vivid portraits of the men and women who created country music, the artists ...
Over its eighty-year history, country music has evolved from little-known local talents to multimillion-dollar superstar musicians. In the 1920s, the ...
Get ready to step into the mysterious world of the video game sound designer and composer. Creating Music and Sound for Games examines the responsibil ...
This book is extremely helpful to the beginning rock guitarist. It has some appropriate finger independence exercises, and is also an amazing tool for ...
Creative Music Composition is designed to be an introductory textbook for music students. "Creative composition"-composing in your own style, rather t ...
Why did jazz become a dominant popular music genre in the 1920s and rock 'n' roll in the 1950s? Why did heavy metal, punk rock and hiphop find their w ...
This unique collection of essays examines the flow of African American music and musicians across the Atlantic to Europe from the time of slavery to t ...
Nick Cave is now widely recognized as a songwriter, musician, novelist, screenwriter, curator, critic, actor and performer. From the band, The Boys Ne ...
I haven't had enough time to fully delve into this book, but on first inspection, it seems like a winner. It breaks down for you the skeleton of each ...
Written against the academically dominant but simplistic romanticization of popular music as a positive force, this book focuses on the 'dark side' of ...
This volume examines how the search for ''cultural authenticity,'' the dispute over the past, and the role of ''modernity'' have been instrumental in ...
La Mer stands at the center of Debussy's achievement. Described by the composer as "a seascape without figures," it is arguably the greatest and most ...
As a work of cultural criticism that recalls the concerns of Foucault, Hayden White, Zizek, and others Decentering Music examines the struggle for the ...
As a work of cultural criticism that recalls the concerns of Foucault, Hayden White, Zizek, and others Decentering Music examines the struggle for the ...
In this thorough introduction to the technology behind audio workstations, Dr Francis Rumsey explains not only how digital audio works but also how to ...
One of the most fascinating figures of seventeenth-century music, composer and singer Antonia Padoani Bembo (c.1640 - c.1720) was active in both Venic ...
