Performing Arts in Changing Societies
Performing Arts in Changing Societies is a detailed exploration of genre development within the fields of dance, theatre, and opera in selected European countries during the decades before and after 1800. An introductory chapter outlines the theoretical and ideological background of genre thinking in Europe, starting from antiquity. A further fourteen chapters cover the performing genres as they developed in England, France, Germany, and Austria, and follow the dissemination and adaptation of the corresponding genres in minor and major cities in the Nordic countries. With a strong emphasis on the role that pragmatic and contextual factors had in defining genres, the book examines such subjects as the dancing masters in Christiania (Oslo), circa 1800, the repertory and travels of an itinerant acrobat and his wife in Norway in the 1760s, and the influence of Enlightenment ideas on bourgeois drama in Denmark. Including detailed analyses in the light of material, political, and social factors, this is a valuable resource for scholars and researchers in the fields of musicology, opera studies, and theatre and performance studies.
The Indian Drum of the King-God and the Pakhāvaj of Nathdwara
The book studies the evolution of the ancient drum m聶da聶ga into the pakhavaj crossing more than two thousand years of history.
The Elusive Celt; Perceptions of Traditional Irish Music Communities in Europe
The Elusive Celt departs from previous work in the wider ethnomusicological field about traditional Irish music within its home contexts by adding a central and eastern European perspective on perceptions of Irish musical culture and images of 'the Celtic.'
Backstaged
Go backstage with Alison Bonaguro for 15 years of her best stories about life as a country music journalist.Bonaguro -- a country music fan first and an industry insider second -- is the only one who can take you behind the scenes to see what goes on when a country star isn't on stage. After spending much of her professional life having in-depth conversations with the stars you love, she's finally sharing the fascinating kinds of stories that didn't make it into her actual stories. The ones where she and Lee Brice got kicked out of a Vegas bar, or when she got to know Blake Shelton in the lobby of a Holiday Inn, or how she almost died after a Luke Bryan interview, or the night she accidentally had dinner with Kid Rock, or shared Skinny Bitches with Miranda Lambert's parents, or walked inside the ropes with golfer John Daly, or got subpeonaed by Sara Evans' ex-husband, or the one about the living hell she went through when she dared to not love a Beyonce song. Those are just a few of the tales she has to tell after spending close to two decades making a living out of loving country music. No one else can tell these stories, because no one else has lived them and chronicled them quite like Bonaguro, who is a consistent and prolific voice within Nashville media circles.
Out Of My Head Songbook
Sixteen songs accurately scored for piano/guitar from the William Michael Perry album "Out Of My Head"
Somebody Else’s Dream
The year 2021 marks the 50th anniversary of the disturbing song "Timothy." Banned by radio stations and called "the worst song ever recorded," its lyrics about cannibalism in a Pennsylvania coal mine eerily parallel the real-life Sheppton disaster. Written by playwright Rupert Holmes, the Billboard hit launched the career of The Buoys. They went on to perform at the legendary Whisky a Go Go, Stone Balloon, and the Satsop River Festival which they kicked off in front of 150,000 fans. The Buoys toured the Netherlands, got hustled in a pool game with Sly Stone-before his massive ten-mile traffic jam, hung out with Blue ?yster Cult-before their riot at the Kingston Armory, received a lecture on libertarianism from musical genius Frank Zappa, and were mentored by Delaney Bramlett-before cocaine ruined his life. Morphing into Dakota, and produced by Chicago's Danny Seraphine and Rufus's Hawk Woliinski, the band played on the same stage as the Beach Boys during the national Bicentennial Celebration. They were invited to replace the Pure Prairie League's Vince Gill and joined Freddie Mercury and Queen on a sold-out 35-city tour ending in a three-day standing-room-only Madison Square Garden concert. Here is the story of an amazing American AOR band with more than ten recorded albums who, despite the infamous "Dakota Curse" and the Coal Region Hoodoo, achieved acclaim in Europe, Korea, and Japan. Their story also depicts a cautionary tale of substance abuse, the pitfalls of fame, and the true price of the rock and roll fantasy.
Popular Opera in Eighteenth-Century France
This is the first book for a century to explore the development of French opera with spoken dialogue from its beginnings. Musical comedy in this form came in different styles and formed a distinct genre of opera, whose history has been obscured by neglect. Its songs were performed in private homes, where operas themselves were also given. The subject-matter was far wider in scope than is normally thought, with news stories and political themes finding their way onto the popular stage. In this book, David Charlton describes the comedic and musical nature of eighteenth-century popular French opera, considering topics such as Gherardi's theatre, Fair Theatre and the 'musico-dramatic art' created in the mid-eighteenth century. Performance practices, singers, audience experiences and theatre staging are included, as well as a pioneering account of the formation of a core of 'canonical' popular works.
Social Partner Dance
Social Partner Dance: Body, Sound, and Space is an ethnographic theory of social partner dancing built on participant observation and interviews with instructors of tango, lindy hop, salsa, blues, and various other forms. The work establishes a general analytical language for the study of these dances, based on the premise that a thorough understanding of any lead/follow form must consider in depth how it manages the four-part relationship between self, partner, music, and surroundings. Each chapter begins with a brief vignette on a distinct dance form and explores the focused worlds of partnered dancing done for the joy and entertainment of the dancers themselves. Grounded intellectually in embodiment studies and sensory ethnography, and empirically in ethnographic fieldwork, Social Partner Dance promotes scholarship that understands the social, cultural, and political functions of partner dance through its embodied practice.
The Routledge Companion to Jazz Studies
The Routledge Companion to Jazz Studies presents over forty commissioned articles from internationally renowned scholars and highlights the strengths of current jazz scholarship in a cross-disciplinary field of enquirey. Each chapter reflects on developments within jazz studies over the last twenty-five years.
Sing and Sing on
A sweeping history of Ethiopian musicians during and following the 1974 Ethiopian revolution. Sing and Sing On is the first study of the forced migration of musicians out of the Horn of Africa dating from the 1974 Ethiopian revolution, a political event that overthrew one of the world's oldest monarchies and installed a brutal military regime. Musicians were among the first to depart the region, their lives shattered by revolutionary violence, curfews, and civil war. Reconstructing the memories of forced migration, Sing and Sing On traces the challenges musicians faced amidst revolutionary violence and the critical role they played in building communities abroad. Drawing on the recollections of dozens of musicians, Sing and Sing On details personal, cultural, and economic hardships experienced by musicians who have resettled in new locales abroad. Kay Kaufman Shelemay highlights their many artistic and social initiatives and the ways they have offered inspiration and leadership within and beyond a rapidly growing Ethiopian American diaspora. While musicians held this role as sentinels in Ethiopian culture long before the revolution began, it has taken on new meanings and contours in the Ethiopian diaspora. The book details the ongoing creativity of these musicians while exploring the attraction of return to their Ethiopian homeland over the course of decades abroad. Ultimately, Shelemay shows that musicians are uniquely positioned to serve this sentinel role as both guardians and challengers of cultural heritage.
American Atheist
The second book from Carlo Campbell also known as Afloe. A vivid excursion into the soul, mind and heart of a Philadelphia wordsmith. A meditation on reality and search for what it means to be human...or aspire to in these days and times.
Timeless Songs of Stephen Foster Harmonized Anew for Solo Piano
A largely self-taught composer, Stephen Foster was the most influential--American songwriter of the 19th century. As described by the Songwriters Hall of Fame, "Fosters' songs were the first genuinely American in theme, characterizing love of home, American temperament, river life and work, politics, battlefields, slavery and plantation life." Although written in a simple harmonic language, Foster's songs captured unique qualities of the American experience. In the current album, Lee Evans applies to these works the extended harmonies that are a feature of the 20th century American Songbook. In doing so, he provides us with a wonderful opportunity to examine this music in a new musical light.
Armenian Duduk
The Third Edition of Armenian Duduk Method is the only trilingual comprehensive and easy-to-use guide designed for anyone interested in playing Armenian Duduk from the complete novice just learning the basics to the more advanced player. Using his prominent performance and pedagogy background Georgy Minasov takes an all-in-one approach by combining theory, scales and technique into a single volume. For those who want to enrich their repertoire the book features over 250 songs from different music genres including such duduk standards as Hovern Enkan, Machkal, Eshkhemet and much more.The book is divided into four sections. The first section aims to teach the beginners to perform smoothly and correctly read the notes. Section II fixes and further builds on the skills gained in Section I, adding competence of correct performance of folk and gussan songs, dance melodies, and spiritual music. Sections III and IV include ensembles and mughams - the pearls of Eastern culture along with their audio tracks accessible online.More information about the book can be found by accessing book's official website at www.minasovduduk.com
You Call That Music?!
You Call That Music?!: Korean Popular Music Through the Generations provides a critical overview of the history of Korean popular music from 1920 to the 2000s from the perspective of cultural history. First published in Korean in 2017 by one of the best-known critics, Lee Young-Mee, this book is a timely and much-needed source of information on Korean popular music of the past hundred years. Through this English translation, readers are able to make meaningful connections between specific forms of Korean popular music of various periods and the contemporaneous Korean social and political circumstances. Structured around the central theme of generational conflict, the book provides readers with an accessible way to engage with Korea's social history and a greater understanding of how specific musical works, genres and styles fit into that history. Its strong narrative force helps illuminate the connections between modern Korean social history and the particular trends of musical production and their reception through the decades.You Call That Music?! is an invaluable resource for those researching and studying Korean popular music specifically as well as Korea's cultural and social history.
Classical Music for Dummies
Classical music was never meant to be an art for snobs! In the 1700s and 1800s, classical music was popular music. People went to concerts with their friends, they brought snacks and drinks, and cheered right in the middle of the concert. Well, guess what? Three hundred years later, that music is just as catchy, thrilling, and emotional. From Bach to Mozart and Chopin, history's greatest composers have stood the test of time and continue to delight listeners from all walks of life. And in Classical Music For Dummies, you'll dive deeply into some of the greatest pieces of music ever written. You'll also get: A second-by-second listening guide to some of history's greatest pieces, annotated with time codes A classical music timeline, a field guide to the orchestra, and listening suggestions for your next foray into the classical genre Expanded references so you can continue your studies with recommended resources Bonus online material, like videos and audio tracks, to help you better understand concepts from the book Classical Music For Dummies is perfect for anyone who loves music. It's also a funny, authoritative guide to expanding your musical horizons--and to learning how the world's greatest composers laid the groundwork for every piece of music written since.
Faces of Rap Mothers - Book Four
The series features an additional eight volumes and thus far, between Book One through Four (Books Three and Four are currently in development) extend over forty (40) rap mothers to the author's fans and readers. "Faces of Rap Mothers," created by author Candy DeVore Mitchell has transitioned to mainstream media in the form of a reality NOW NETWORK (over 20 channels and on Roku) program with BET considering a formal association. The series remains an interesting, informative, backstage pass to life of women involved in rap and hip-hop that are franchised with, or related to, infamous icons within the industry. "Faces of Rap Mothers - Book One," nominated, "Most Entertaining Hip-Hop Book of 2019" by Soul Central Magazine's, Mark Rowe is certainly a collector's edition.
Gene Pitney
Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway. Burt Bacharach and Hal David. Carole King and Gerry Goffin. Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil. Barry Mason and Les Reed. Dimitri Tiomkin and Ned Washington. Randy Newman. Al Kooper. An eclectic group of famed and acclaimed songwriters who all have one thing in common: in the 1960s they all wrote hit songs for Rock & Roll Hall of Fame member Gene Pitney. "Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart," "That Girl Belongs To Yesterday," "Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa," "Town Without Pity," "Just One Smile," and "Backstage" are just a few of Pitney's worldwide hits. Gene Pitney was, without a doubt, the Frank Sinatra of his generation. Hit after hit after hit. Screaming female fans. Sold out concerts in the US and abroad, especially England, Ireland, Italy, and Australia. He did not just sing the songwriters' songs; he interpreted them; he brought them to life. He actually gave them context and essence that the writers never imagined. Whether it was a searing lyric of lost love that Pitney delivered with crushing pain or the story of eternal love that he delivered with a warmhearted whisper, everysong received the extraordinarily unique Pitney treatment. When one of his hits blared out of a transistor radio in the 1960s, there was never any doubt who was singing. How did the shy, clean-cut 24-year-old American singer rework, recast, and record an early Rolling Stones song in 1964 and give the Glimmer Twins, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, their first chart hit in both England and the USA? Why did Pitney NOT want to record "Only Love Can Break A Heart," the Burt Bacharach-Hal David song that became his biggest hit in the USA, and how did recording it come about? How did a very wet-behind-the-ears Gene Pitney get his hands on a song that would be nominated for an Academy Award before his career was in full swing? Dave McGrath was Gene Pitney's friend, business partner, and confidante for over twenty years. Together they formed Gene Pitney Music & Merchandising in 1985, when Pitney decided to resurrect his career in the USA. McGrath did press, fan, and PR legwork for Pitney and, along with his wife, Guida Brown, designed and produced all of Pitney's American tour merchandise. Pitney was Best Man at McGrath's wedding in 1998; McGrath was a pallbearer at Pitney's funeral in 2006.
Come Away with Me - A Collection of Original Hymns
Covering a variety of subjects, these 16 original hymns are perfect for use in worship and other settings. Each hymn features inclusive language in a traditional (as opposed to pop) style with background information. Texts are shown in four-line poetic verses and are interlined with music), and is given brief background information.Come Away With Me is a collection of sixteen original hymns (both texts and tunes are original) on a variety of subjects. Each hymn is presented as poetry (without music), set as a congregational hymn (text interlined within the music), and is given brief background information. The ideas in the texts are rich theologically, yet easily comprehended, use totally inclusive language, and are set as artistically beautiful poetry in standard metrical schemes (common meter, long meter, 66.86, and so forth). The hymn tunes are written in well-crafted, imaginative, memorable, traditional (as opposed to pop) styles, and set in classic hymn format (melody as the uppermost note in the right hand of the accompaniment). * New and fresh original hymnody for use in worship and other settings * Hymn texts in inclusive language * Offers music, text, and background material for each hymn * Texts are set to singable tunes and are in standard meters
Scatterling of Africa
There are moments in life that are pure, and which seem to hang in the air, unhitched from the everyday world as we know it. Suspended for a few seconds, they float in their own space and time with their own hidden prospects. For want of a better term, we call these moments "magical" and when we remember them they are cloaked in a halo of special meaning.'For 14-year-old Johnny Clegg, hearing Zulu street music as plucked on the strings of a guitar by Charlie Mzila one evening outside a corner caf矇 in Bellevue, Johannesburg, was one such 'magical' moment.The success story of Juluka and later Savuka, and the cross-cultural celebration of music, language, story, dance and song that stirred the hearts of millions across the world, is well documented. Their music was the soundtrack to many South Africans' lives during the turbulent 70s and 80s as the country moved from legislated oppression to democratic freedom. It crossed borders, boundaries and generations, resonating around the world and back again. Less known is the story of how it all began and developed.Scatterling of Africa is that origin story, as Johnny Clegg wrote it and wanted it told. It is the story of how the son of an unconventional mother, grandson of Jewish immigrants, came to realise that identity can be a choice, and home is a place you leave and return to as surely as the seasons change.
Behind The Curtains
Do you remember when certain songs connected you to that special someone and related to a certain time and location as if the recording artist knew what you were going through? Those were the days of doo-wop, better known as the good old days.The songs were magical, they touched you.Songs like: "Tears On My Pillow"-by Little Anthony & The Imperials, "Lovers Never Say Goodbye"-The Flamingoes, "Oh What a Night"-The Dells, "For Your Precious Love"-Jerry Butler & The Impressions. Even a song like "Soldier Boy"- by the Shirelles today relate to our troops, friends and love ones in combat. Fighting to preserve our freedom. The magical legacy carried over into the sixties and seventies."Yes I'm Ready"-Barbara Mason, "Hey There Lonely Girl"- Eddie Holman, "Storm Warning"- The Volcanos, "Love Aint Been Easy"-The Trammps. These songs and the late Weldon McDougal III inspired me to write the true story of "The Volcanos" and "The Trammps". You will read about the beginning of my hunger to be in show business, the success and the unheard-of phenomenon that took place behind- the-curtains with "The Volcanos" and The Grammy Award Winning "Trammps." Jerry Blavat would say "You Only Rock Once" Read on and relive the days of doo-wop, disco, and memories. It's show time! So Let the show begin..............
Behind The Curtains
Do you remember when certain songs connected you to that special someone and related to a certain time and location as if the recording artist knew what you were going through? Those were the days of doo-wop, better known as the good old days.The songs were magical, they touched you.Songs like: "Tears On My Pillow"-by Little Anthony & The Imperials, "Lovers Never Say Goodbye"-The Flamingoes, "Oh What a Night"-The Dells, "For Your Precious Love"-Jerry Butler & The Impressions. Even a song like "Soldier Boy"- by the Shirelles today relate to our troops, friends and love ones in combat. Fighting to preserve our freedom. The magical legacy carried over into the sixties and seventies."Yes I'm Ready"-Barbara Mason, "Hey There Lonely Girl"- Eddie Holman, "Storm Warning"- The Volcanos, "Love Aint Been Easy"-The Trammps. These songs and the late Weldon McDougal III inspired me to write the true story of "The Volcanos" and "The Trammps". You will read about the beginning of my hunger to be in show business, the success and the unheard-of phenomenon that took place behind- the-curtains with "The Volcanos" and The Grammy Award Winning "Trammps." Jerry Blavat would say "You Only Rock Once" Read on and relive the days of doo-wop, disco, and memories. It's show time! So Let the show begin..............
Someone Has to Care
Welcome to this exploration of the Roots of hip-hop. The roots of hip-hop, as in: the Roots--a story of one of the most enduring, multi-talented, and successful groups of the past thirty years in any genre--and the story of the roots of hip-hop, that is, the story of hip-hop, a musical culture born in New York's South Bronx during the 1970s. Alongside the two hip-hop stories I tell here, I also tell the story about what God has to do with the Roots of hip-hop--a theological story, if you will. I describe how, in the process of becoming one of the most creative faith-rooted voices in music today, the Roots' developed a calling as artists. And I do this, in part, to say that you, too, can discover and live your prophetic calling. You can't help but be inspired by the Roots. Yet the best result of that is that you become inspired to be your most playful, passionate, purposeful, prophetic self in the world around you.
Wind of Change
No question Scorpions, Germany's loudest and proudest rock band ever, have been one of that country's most successful musical exports. Wind of Change documents the band's career with analysis of every song on every album the Teutonic tone-masters ever crafted.Beginning with Lonesome Crow back in '72 through to the triumphant "retirement" album Sting In The Tail, and beyond into Comeblack - the stories of their making are all here. Wind of Change draws on the authors interviews with all of the principals and beyond, including Klaus Meine, Uli Jon Roth, Herman Rarebell, Rudolf Schenker and Matthias Jabs, along with the likes of legendary manager David Krebs, Ralph Rieckermann and Francis Buchholz.
Syd Barrett & Pink Floyd
Syd Barrett was an art school student when he founded Pink Floyd. Famous before his twentieth birthday, Barrett led the charge of psychedelia onstage at London's famed UFO club, and his acid-inspired lyrics became a hallmark of London's 1967 Summer of Love. By turns improvisatory and whimsical, Zen-like and hard-living, Barrett pushed the boundaries of music into new realms of artistic expression while fighting the demons of drug abuse and mental illness.This probing story, twenty years in the writing, features a wealth of first-hand interviews with Syd's family, friends and members of the band, giving us an unvarnished look at Barrett's life and work. Author Julian Palacios traces Barrett's swift evolution from precocious youth to internationally acclaimed psychedelic rock star, examining both his wide-ranging inspirations and his influence on generations of musicians. A never-to-be-forgotten casualty of the excesses, innovations, and idealism of the 1960s, Syd Barrett is one of the most heavily mythologised men in rock, and this book offers a rare portrayal of a unique spirit in freewill.
The Sun Goes Down
Dublin's Thin Lizzy have become one of the most revered cult acts of all time. Studious and discerning fans of hard rock the world over revelling in the storytelling acumen of the legendary Phil Lynott and the craft and class of his band. Through numerous new interviews with most of the principles involved and a mountain of painstaking research, The Sun Goes Down is the sequel to From Dublin To Jailbreak and examines the second half of the band's career from the making of Bad Reputation in 1977 through to 1983's Thunder And Lightning and the last concert at the Reading Festival. Alcohol and drugs wreaked havoc between band members, producers and managers. Line-up changes and a mostly grinding existence finally took its toll after the smash hit records and sold-out tours. Author Martin Popoff's celebrated record-by-record methodology highlights a new appreciation of the deep album tracks hiding within this band's often forgotten later years. The book also reveals Phil Lynott in all his dastardly guises, making The Sun Goes Down, an essential read for the devoted fans.
Black Ephemera
PROSE Award- Music and Performing Arts Category Winner A framework for understanding the deep archive of Black performance in the digital era In an era of Big Data and algorithms, our easy access to the archive of contemporary and historical Blackness is unprecedented. That iterations of Black visual art, such as Bert Williams's 1916 silent film short "A Natural Born Gambler" or the performances of Josephine Baker from the 1920s, are merely a quick YouTube search away has transformed how scholars teach and research Black performance. While Black Ephemera celebrates this new access, it also questions the crisis and the challenge of the Black musical archive in a moment when Black American culture has become a global export. Using music and sound as its primary texts, Black Ephemera argues that the cultural DNA of Black America has become obscured in the transformation from analog to digital. Through a cross-reading of the relationship between the digital era and culture produced in the pre-digital era, Neal argues that Black music has itself been reduced to ephemera, at best, and at worst to the background sounds of the continued exploitation and commodification of Black culture. The crisis and challenges of Black archives are not simply questions of knowledge, but of how knowledge moves and manifests itself within Blackness that is obscure, ephemeral, fugitive, precarious, fluid, and increasingly digital. Black Ephemera is a reminder that for every great leap forward there is a necessary return to the archive. Through this work, Neal offers a new framework for thinking about Black culture in the digital world.
Promo Man
If you've never heard of Nick Panaseiko, that's entirely understandable. He was a backstage guy, making sure that the act onstage is playing to a full house, making sure their records were on the radio and in record stores. He was a promo man. Kelly Jay of Crowbar referred to the Canadian music industry of the era as a matter of 'six degrees of Nick Panaseiko'. Taking off from a popular Panasonic ad campaign of the day, legendary rocker Ronnie Hawkins dubbed him, 'Nick Panaseiko, a man slightly ahead of his time'. And at his induction into the Jack Richardson Hall of Fame, Alice Cooper, Ronnie Hawkins and Peter Criss of Kiss all sent video tributes. Promo Man places Nick Panaseiko in the zeitgeist of the music industry in the 60s and 70s and his work with the acts who were - and in some cases still are - the aural soundtrack to our lives. How Nick made his way to the epicenter of the Canadian music industry and made his way out alive is the story of Promo Man. Promo Man takes the reader from the 17-year-old kid who booked The Supremes to a sold-out show through his success breaking Kiss in Canada to his time with Quality Records and WEA in the 70s. While Nick Panaseiko's metier was promoting acts, his other duties as assigned including finding Freddie Mercury and Liberace Toronto gay bars, playing board games with young Marlon Richards, finding cocaine for his father, Keith and Ronnie Wood, having to deal with a racist Bill Cosby, being the de-facto minder for Keith Moon at a party and being an extra in a Van Halen video. The book truly lives in his tales of a breakneck lifestyle, working with and promoting acts including Queen, Liberace, The Cars, Van Halen, and finally The Rolling Stones. This is an insider's look at the freewheeling times of the Canadian music industry as it came into being, told by the consummate insider. Key to the book are the many photographs by acclaimed rock and roll photographer John Rowlands of Nick with artists including Debbie Harry, Donna Summer, Kiss, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Johnny Cash, Liberace, Keith Moon, and Freddie Mercury. The fast pace of the narrative coupled with the photos brings to life a much mythologized time in popular music. "He was the best record hustler I've ever seen"Ronnie Hawkins "In the Canadian music industry, it was always 6 degrees of separation to Nick Panaseiko" - Kelly Jay of Crowbar "Nick was definitely driven. Bill Graham was driven in the same kind of way. He had the same kind of drive, ambition and energy to wake up, pick up the phone and just go all day. Nick had it."Graham Lear (drummer REO Speedwagon, Santana, Gino Vanelli)Praise for Nick Panaseiko and Promo Man..."Nick Panaseiko has led a remarkable life filled with adventure, fueled by a love of music and the music industry. A promotion man extraordinaire, Panaseiko is also an accomplished raconteur from the old school who loves to tell often hilarious stories of the stars he has worked with and what he was willing to do to promote a record."Rob Bowman, Grammy Award-winning Professor of MusicKlanac has written an engaging and fascinating portrait of Panaseiko, the Promo Man next door who became a big-time player in a burgeoning Canadian music industry that literally grew out from under his feet.- Paul Myers, author of It Ain't Easy: Long John Baldry and the Birth of the British Blues, and A Wizard A True Star: Todd Rundgren In The Studi and Kids In The Hall: One Dumb Guy.
100 Gypsy Jazz Guitar Licks
Remi Harris' 100 Gypsy Jazz Guitar Licks If you're looking for the most direct pathway to learn incredible gypsy jazz guitar soloing - here it is!"Remi Harris is one of the very finest and most exciting exponents of gypsy jazz guitar ... now he is passing along his knowledge and experience to anyone who wants to play this wonderful music and discover just how incredibly cool it really is!" - Dr Martin Taylor MBEGet ready to master authentic gypsy jazz guitar soloing with over 100 guitar licks that perfectly recreate the feel of the classic sound.- Would you like to play effortless hot club style guitar solos?- Want to build a vocabulary of authentic gypsy jazz guitar licks that work perfectly, every single time?- Do you want to master the language of guitar Django Reinhardt, Bir矇li Lagr癡ne, and many more?Gypsy Jazz (also known as gypsy swing, jazz manouche or the hot club style) was one of the most ground-breaking and accessible forms of early jazz, and is still incredibly popular today through the "modern manouche" movement. However, it typically doesn't lend itself to the kind of music theory that most guitarists are used to playing. 100 Gypsy Jazz Guitar Licks cuts right to the chase with an overview of how gypsy jazz guitarists think when they solo, then dives straight in to teach every concept via 100 iconic licks. You'll be sounding like an authentic gypsy jazz guitar player in no time at all.
Piano Sonata in C Major
A short piano sonata in three movements, all based around a similar theme in the key of C major. I - Minuet II - Rondo III - Fughetta
The History of Punk Rock
Author Brendan Masar introduces readers to the driving beat of punk rock. The scene in which punk rock originated is richly detailed, from New York to London. Genre characteristics are explained, and new wave, post-punk, and hardcore are all explored. The evolution in which punk became mainstream and what punk rock is in the 21st century is also explained.
Appalachian Mountain Songs and Other American Folksongs
This vintage book contains a collection of Appalachian songs complete with lyrics and musical scores. Appalachian music refers to music from the Appalachia region of the Eastern United States. Deriving from various European and African influences, it was a key influence on early Old-time music, country music, and bluegrass, and had a significant influential on the American folk music revival during the 1960s. Contents include: "The Battle of Jericho", "Little Innocent Lamb", "Humble", "De Animals A-comin'", "Sister Mary Wore Three Lengths of Chain", "Keep in the Middle of the Road", "Roll, Jordon, Roll", "Ol' Ark's A-movin'", "Steel Away", "I Got Shoes", "Ready When He Comes", etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in a modern, high-quality edition complete with the original text and artwork.
Country Music’s Most Embarrassing Moments
A collection of stories shared by 25 country music stars in which they were embarrassed, often in the middle of a performance. Country music fans will enjoy this look at the occupational hazards of being an entertainer.
Country Music’s Most Embarrassing Moments
A collection of stories shared by 25 country music stars in which they were embarrassed, often in the middle of a performance. Country music fans will enjoy this look at the occupational hazards of being an entertainer.
Night Beat
Few journalists have staked a territory as definitively and passionately as Mikal Gilmore in his twenty-year career writing about rock and roll. Now, for the first time, this collection gathers his cultural criticism, interviews, reviews, and assorted musings. Beginning with Elvis and the birth of rock and roll, Gilmore traces the seismic changes in America as its youth responded to the postwar economic and political climate. He hears in the lyrics of Bob Dylan and Jim Morrison the voices of unrest and fervor, and charts the rise and fall of punk in brilliant essays on Lou Reed, The Sex Pistols, and The Clash. Mikal Gilmore describes Bruce Springsteen's America and the problem of Michael Jackson. And like no one else, Gilmore listens to the lone voices: Al Green, Marianne Faithfull, Sinead O'Connor, Frank Sinatra. Four decades of American life are observed through the inimitable lens of rock and roll, and through the provocative and intelligent voice of one of the most committed chroniclers of American music, and its powerful expressions of love, soul, politics, and redemption.
The American Opera Singer
In America today, opera has never been more popular, and one reason for this is, no doubt, that American opera singers are fixtures on every leading opera stage throughout the world. In this lively and engrossing account, Peter G. Davis, music critic for New York magazine and a leading opera authority, tells the story of how these plucky, resilient and supremely talented American singers have transformed this venerable European-born art form and made it their own. Starting with opera's arrival in America in the early nineteenth century, Davis shows how American singers grew in sophistication and stature along with the country. From the nineteenth-century pioneers who crashed the gates of Europe's elite opera circles, to the glamorous singers of the early twentieth century who were also Hollywood stars and publicity magnets, to the highly professional singers since World War II who not only have gained European acceptance but now dominate the industry, this lively and highly readable account chronicles the extraordinary lives and adventures of these larger-than-life personalities. Included are Maria Callas, Beverly Sills, Richard Tucker, Leontyne Price, Marilyn Horne, Lawrence Tibbett, and a galaxy of others whose stories are as dramatic and compelling as the roles they sang on stage. Full of prima-donna antics, hilarious backstage anecdotes, and performance lore, The American Opera Singer will delight anyone who has felt the magic of opera, and will provide a new canon of American singing sure to provoke spirited debate among aficionados. Trained as a musician and composer, Peter G. Davis has been writing about music for over thirty years in such publications as the New York Times, The Times of London, High Fidelity, and Opera News. He is currently music critic for New York magazine and lives in New York City. Experience the artistry of America's supremely talented singers on RCA Victor Red Seal's The American Opera Singer, a companion 2-CD set to this book, now available in record stores.
The Anglo Concertina Music of John Watcham
JOHN WATCHAM is one of the most influential players of the Anglo concertina - the lead musician for Chingford Morris, Albion Morris, Brighton Morris and Taylor's traditional English Morris dance teams. He has also performed with folkrock pioneer Ashley Hutchings and played on the Rattlebone & Ploughjack and Son of Morris On recordings, and he is also featured on the Anglo International! CD. Specializing in Cotswold English Morris dance music, his playing has a solid understanding of the unique timing of Morris dances, and often incorporates an active bass line and inventive chordal accompaniments.Here are 50 tunes as played by John, carefully transcribed to be played on a 30-button Anglo concertina. All tunes feature the same easy-to-use button numbering and tablature system found in the Rollston Press concertina books, along with Button Maps to show exactly which buttons are needed for every tune. QR codes are included with many of the tunes to link to videos of John and others playing concertina, often accompanying English Morris dancers. THE TUNES: Ashen Faggot Wassail, Balance the Straw, Belle Isles March, Birds-a-Building, Black Joker, Blue Eyed Stranger, Bonny Green Garters (Bampton), Bonny Green Garters (Headington), Constant Billy, Country Gardens, Cuckoo's Nest, Cuckoo In The Nest, Epping Forest, Fieldtown Processional, Gallant Hussar, Glorishears, Golden Vanity, Grand Union Jig, Henry Harvey, Hey Diddle Dis, Jockie to the Fair, Ladies of Pleasure, Laudnum Bunches, Lumps of Plum Pudding, Maid of the Mill, Monck's March, Much Wenlock Dance, Mundesse, Old Trunkles, Old Woman Tossed Up, Over the Hills and Far Away, Over the Water to Charlie, Persian Dance (Galopede), Princess Royal (Bampton), Princess Royal (Longborough), Rigs of Marlow, Ring O'Bells, Rodney, Saturday Night, Shepherd's Hey, Sherborne Jig, Shooting, Smash the Windows, Southover, Swaggering Boney, Upton-on-Severn Stick Dance, Webley Twizzle, Wheatley On, Winster Processional, Young Collins.
The Beatles in Los Angeles
The Beatles in Los Angeles takes you past the velvet ropes and inside the mansion gates where The Beatles loved, explored, and experienced all the adventures and mystical chaos that swirls around LA like no other city. With brand new interviews from those who were there, along with recently discovered exclusive photographs, The Beatles in Los Angeles is a kaleidoscope of stories spanning over 50 years and covers the group's adventures in the City of Angels as both a band and solo artists, including: - New Details on how The Beatles first appearance at the Hollywood Bowl in 1964 almost didn't happen. - Exclusive pictures from the only meeting EVER between The Beatles and Elvis Presley at his Bel Air estate in 1965 and the story behind this photographic discovery.- George Harrison's and John Lennon's dangerous nights on the Sunset Strip and how they narrowly avoided the law. - Insight into Paul McCartney's lavish LA mansion parties throughout the 1970's and the Hollywood royalty that attended them all. - Unknown stories about John Lennon's Santa Monica Beach bachelor pad and his wild ride down Pacific Coast Highway.- Ringo's reckless Los Angeles talk show appearance, and why two Beatles crashed the Paramount Studios' "Happy Days" set. - The story behind Paul's 2019 concert at Dodger Stadium where he reunited with Ringo and performed an unexpected Beatles classic. The Beatles in Los Angeles brings you up to date and takes you behind the scenes for some of the most exciting and still unknown adventures in Beatles' history. You'll feel like you are with John, Paul, George, and Ringo every step of the way during their wild LA nights and triumphant LA days.
Then Garth Became Elvis
Discover country stars in their own voice!Discover country music stars' most insightful, unguarded comments, told to award-winning writer Tom Alesia, during an exhilarating quarter century. More than 100 of the genre's biggest acts--including Garth Brooks, Kenny Chesney, Carrie Underwood, Miranda Lambert and Eric Church--offer perspective from unique times in their careers. They're joined by legends, critics' favorites, one-hit wonders and impersonators. A snappy, emotional and funny book for any country fan who's past their first rodeo!
Pop Masculinities
In Pop Masculinities, author Kai Arne Hansen investigates the performance and policing of masculinity in pop music as a starting point for grasping the broad complexity of gender and its politics in the early twenty-first century. Drawing together perspectives from critical musicology, gender studies, and adjacent scholarly fields, the book presents extended case studies of five well-known artists: Zayn, Lil Nas X, Justin Bieber, The Weeknd, and Take That. By directing particular attention to the ambiguities and contradictions that arise from these artists' representations of masculinity, Hansen argues that pop performances tend to operate in ways that simultaneously reinforce and challenge gender norms and social inequalities. Providing a rich exploration of these murky waters, Hansen merges the interpretation of recorded song and music video with discourse analysis and media ethnography in order to engage with the full range of pop artists' public identities as they emerge at the intersections between processes of performance, promotion, and reception. In so doing, he advances our understanding of the aesthetic and discursive underpinnings of gender politics in twenty-first century pop culture and encourages readers to contemplate the sociopolitical implications of their own musical engagements as audiences, critics, musicians, and scholars.
Disinformation in Mass Media
The founding in 1777 of the Journal de Paris, France's first daily and distinctly commercial paper, represents an early use of disinformation as a tool for political gain, profit, and societal division. To attract a large readership and bar competition for C.W. Gluck's works at the Paris Op矇ra, it launched a prolonged campaign of anonymous lies, mockery, and defamation against two prominent members of the Acad矇mie Fran癟aise who wished the Op矇ra to be open to all deserving composers but lacked a comparable daily forum with which to defend themselves. In this unique episode, music served as a smokescreen for nefarious activity. No musical knowledge is necessary to follow this purely political drama.
The Oxford Handbook of Country Music
Now in its sixth decade, country music studies is a thriving field of inquiry involving scholars working in the fields of American history, folklore, sociology, anthropology, musicology, ethnomusicology, cultural studies, and geography, among many others. Covering issues of historiography and practice as well as the ways in which the genre interacts with media and social concerns such as class, gender, and sexuality, The Oxford Handbook of Country Music interrogates prevailing narratives, explores significant lacunae in the current literature, and provides guidance for future research. More than simply treating issues that have emerged within this subfield, The Oxford Handbook of Country Music works to connect to broader discourses within the various fields that inform country music studies in an effort to strengthen the area's interdisciplinarity. Drawing upon the expertise of leading and emerging scholars, this Handbook presents an introduction into the historiographical narratives and methodological issues that have emerged in country music studies' first half-century.
Smile When You Call Me a Hillbilly
Today, country music enjoys a national fan base that transcends both economic and social boundaries. Sixty years ago, however, it was primarily the music of rural, working-class whites living in the South and was perceived by many Americans as "hillbilly music." In Smile When You Call Me a Hillbilly, Jeffrey J. Lange examines the 1940s and early 1950s as the most crucial period in country music's transformation from a rural, southern folk art form to a national phenomenon. In his meticulous analysis of changing performance styles and alterations in the lifestyles of listeners, Lange illuminates the acculturation of country music and its audience into the American mainstream. Dividing country music into six subgenres (progressive country, western swing, postwar traditional, honky-tonk, country pop, and country blues), Lange discusses the music's expanding appeal. As he analyzes the recordings and comments of each of the subgenre's most significant artists, including Roy Acuff, Bob Wills, Bill Monroe, Hank Williams, and Red Foley, he traces the many paths the musical form took on its road to respectability. Lange shows how along the way the music and its audience became more sophisticated, how the subgenres blended with one another and with American popular music, and how Nashville emerged as the country music hub. By 1954, the transformation from "hillbilly" music to country music was complete, precipitated by the modernizing forces of World War II and realized by the efforts of promoters, producers, and performers.
Orbit
The band known as much for their talent onstage as their antics offstage, M繹tley Cr羹e epitomized the drug-fueled, sex-riddled excess of 1980's metal acts. In the process, they forged a rock dynasty few other bands have been able to achieve. Nikki Sixx, Tommy Lee, Mick Mars, and Vince Neil became household names, the scourge of the Christian right, and the darlings of the Billboard charts. Read about their meteoric rise and fall in this issue of Orbit!As featured on CNN, Time Magazine, People Magazine, LA Times, Forbes, and MSNBC! Orbit is a comic book biography series that focuses on the people that have made a difference in the world! Read about the world of M繹tley Cr羹e in comic book form!
The Three Apostles of Russian Music
The Three Apostles of Russian Music looks at three figures in the Soviet avant-garde who led modernist music in the 1920s. Mosolov, Popov, and Roslavets were popular composers who are now unfortunately forgotten. These remarkable musicians produced compositions like the sensational machine music Foundry by Mosolov. The first symphony by Popov attracted musicians in Europe and America but was banned after the premiere, while Roslavets discovered serialism before Schoenberg, opening up a new trend in modernism. This book is the first study in English of the work, lives, and legacies of these "apostles" of the Russian avant-garde.
American Popular Music
Explore the rich terrain of American popular music with the most complete introduction of its kind. With the sixth edition of the bestselling text American Popular Music: From Minstrelsy to MP3, Starr and Waterman help students hear more in the music around them with a cultural and social history of popular music.
An Outkast Reader
OutKast, the Atlanta-based hip-hop duo formed in 1992, is one of the most influential musical groups within American popular culture of the past twenty-five years. Through Grammy-winning albums, music videos, feature films, theatrical performances, and fashion, Andr矇 "Andr矇 3000" Benjamin and Antwan "Big Boi" Patton have articulated a vision of postmodern, post-civil rights southern identity that combines the roots of funk, psychedelia, haute couture, R&B, faith and spirituality, and Afrofuturism into a style all its own. This postmodern southern aesthetic, largely promulgated and disseminated by OutKast and its collaborators, is now so prevalent in mainstream American culture (neither Beyonc矇 Knowles's "Formation" nor Joss Whedon's sci-fi /western mashup Firefly could exist without OutKast's collage aesthetic) that we rarely consider how challenging and experimental it actually is to create a new southern aesthetic. An OutKast Reader, then, takes the group's aesthetic as a lens through which readers can understand and explore contemporary issues of Blackness, gender, urbanism, southern aesthetics, and southern studies more generally. Divided into sections on regional influences, gender, and visuality, the essays collectively offer a vision of OutKast as a key shaper of conceptions of the twenty-first-century South, expanding that vision beyond long-held archetypes and cultural signifiers. The volume includes a who's who of hip-hop studies and African American studies scholarship, including Charlie Braxton, Susana M. Morris, Howard Ramsby II, Reynaldo Anderson, and Ruth Nicole Brown.
Hymns Picture Book
Are you looking for that can encourage meaningful communication and provide enjoyment for people with cognitive loss."Hymns Picture Book" is ideal for sharing relaxing pleasures with a loved one.The pictures used in these books were specifically chosen for people with Alzheimer's & dementia, there is a large variety of images that do not require any "memory" to prompt conversation.Inside this picture book for Elderly, you'll find: Carefully chosen Bible verses for encouragement, love, strength, healing and HopePremium Therapeutic Pictures of Nature and landscapes to set positive moodLarge Print, Helvetic font for facilitating ease of readingOnly One picture per page for simplicitySmooth High definition Pictures on 70lb paper for rich quality.Use in group and care-setting to spark conversation, reminiscence reinforcing long term memory stimulationNo mention of Dementia or Alzheimer's or Parkinson's on or inside the Book or anything that could cause stress or embarrassmentUseful for a visiting family member who is seeking an activity to do with a family member with declining memoryIdeal gift for your beloved parent for Thanksgiving, Christmas or New Year's Eve.Our picture books for people with dementia are also great for care homes, either as a group activity, or individually.
