A Practical Guide to Teaching Music in the Secondary School provides valuable support, guidance and creative ideas for student teachers, mentors and p ...
Anybody who wants a career in the music industry should read this book. That's all that needs to be said.
This reference guide to the life and work of the prolific American wind band composer, Alfred Reed, includes a brief biography followed by detailed bi ...
From the medieval chansonniers to contemporary rap renditions, this book traces the changing interpretation of troubadour and trouv?re music, a repert ...
26 b/w photographs, 1 map In Echoes from Dharamsala, Keila Diehl uses music to understand the experiences of Tibetans living in Dharamsala, a town in ...
Remski's first novel is a love story of bizarre proportions set in Toronto. It is told from the point of view of a man remembering his life growing up ...
Although Dvor?k's cello concerto is enormously popular, no extended study of it has been undertaken hitherto. This book is a comprehensive study inten ...
Django Reinhardt was arguably the greatest guitarist who ever lived, an important influence on Les Paul, Charlie Christian, B.B. King, Jerry Garcia, C ...
Discovering Country Music chronicles the incredible evolution of country music in America - from the fiddle to the pop charts - and provides an insigh ...
Geared towards teens, this book is for readers that are ready to move beyond the stage of simply ripping audio from CDs to the more creative ends of d ...
Long a taboo subject among critics, rhythm finally takes center stage in this book's dazzling, wide-ranging examination of diverse black cultures acro ...
A critical survey of Hollywood film musicals from the 1960s to the present. This book examines how, in the post-studio system era, cultural, industria ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
This volume examines how the search for ''cultural authenticity,'' the dispute over the past, and the role of ''modernity'' have been instrumental in ...
Written against the academically dominant but simplistic romanticization of popular music as a positive force, this book focuses on the 'dark side' of ...
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 ...
Nick Cave is now widely recognized as a songwriter, musician, novelist, screenwriter, curator, critic, actor and performer. From the band, The Boys Ne ...
