Getting Into Jazz
Mark Barnett knows and loves jazz, and he has a special talent for explaining the music-and his passion for it-in words that everyone can understand. It's a talent that shines from every line in this book.The contents of the book originally appeared in columns Barnett wrote for the comprehensive All About Jazz website (www.allaboutjazz.com), guiding listeners track by track through some of his favorite jazz albums.His first contribution was to the site's "Building a Jazz Library" section, recommending ten of the most memorable albums from one of his favorite artists, Stan Getz. That was followed by "How to Listen," a Q&A article with tips on getting the most out of the jazz experience. Barnett then wrote "Getting into Jazz," a column for those who "want to listen to jazz but aren't sure where to start," using his CD reviews as teaching tools. His reviews analyze the best tracks on each disc, pointing out what to listen for (and exactly when). All of these elements are now compiled into this book, a definitive guide to the jazz Barnett loves so well. If you're new to this music, let it inspire you to start your own jazz journey.
Soundscapes of Liberation
In Soundscapes of Liberation, Celeste Day Moore traces the popularization of African American music in postwar France, where it signaled new forms of power and protest. Moore surveys a wide range of musical genres, soundscapes, and media: the US military's wartime records and radio programs; the French record industry's catalogs of blues, jazz, and R&B recordings; the translations of jazz memoirs; a provincial choir specializing in spirituals; and US State Department-produced radio programs that broadcast jazz and gospel across the French empire. In each of these contexts, individual intermediaries such as educators, producers, writers, and radio deejays imbued African American music with new meaning, value, and political power. Their work resonated among diverse Francophone audiences and transformed the lives and labor of many African American musicians, who found financial and personal success as well as discrimination in France. By showing how the popularity of African American music was intertwined with contemporary structures of racism and imperialism, Moore demonstrates this music's centrality to postwar France and the convergence of decolonization, the expanding globalized economy, the Cold War, and worldwide liberation movements.
THE GUITAR BIBLE Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Music Reading and Writing Volumes 1, 2, 3 and 4
This book is four volumes in one and is a learning resource to play the guitar. The book consists of seven chapters on how to master playing, theory, rhythm, chords, scales, scales that work with the chords, solo's and how to read and write songs of many styles such as classical, rock, blues, jazz, reggae and country. The book also includes hundreds of original written songs. This book teaches you to teach yourself with the multitude of information it contains.
Craw 1993-1997
Anyone interested in dark, heavy, complex rock/metal-everything from Tool, Meshuggah and King Crimson to Neurosis, Kayo Dot, Don Caballero, Today Is the Day, Isis, Dazzling Killmen and Gorguts-needs to know this music. Each of Craw's first three full-lengths is an endlessly involving labyrinth in which elegiac beauty presses up against nightmarish ugliness. These albums feature air-tight, ingeniously off-kilter riffs; intoxicating guitar textures; vocals that range from a faint whine to a horrifying shriek; an immense dynamic range; epic, multichapter song structures; and esoteric lyrical themes. The songs don't follow conventional patterns, but their internal logic is uncannily sound; they're scientific in their microdetail, yet at the same time, bracingly emotional. I've been listening to these records for two decades, and their urgency and mad brilliance haven't diminished in the slightest."Craw's music is explosive, eerie and downright riveting, combining the visceral rush of metallic post-hardcore, the compositional majesty of progressive rock and the purposeful abstraction of experimental improv, while at the same time achieving a rare, insular coherence all its own." - Hank Shteamer, writer, musician"Craw was one of those things where the first time I saw it, it just completely blew me away. I'd never heard anything quite like Craw up to that point. They were this strange mixture of noise-rock and metal with this very eccentric preacher-type character doing these weird pseudo sermons over the top of the music. It was just a very potent concoction of elements. Having a seen a band like that expanded the horizons of what was possible, so in that way, Craw definitely rubbed off on Isis." - Aaron Turner, Isis and Hydra Head Records"What Craw will use as a moment in one song, another band might use as a theme for a whole album. Craw's sound is spread out across a universe of disparate musical genres. They never imitate. Other bands imitate them." - Steve Albini
Jazz Dialogues
Backstage, on the bus, or in the studio, saxophonist Jon Gordon, winner of the prestigious Thelonious Monk International Jazz Saxophone competition, chats with several generations of great musicians. From Jay McShann to Renee Rosnes, Jazz Dialogues lets the reader hang out with dozens of jazz artists to learn about their careers, influences, and the dues they've paid. These candid, poignant, and often hilarious conversations paint a first-person portrait of jazz history.Artists include: Jay McShann, Eddie Locke, Cab Calloway, Maria Schneider, Jan Garbarek, Ken Peplowski, Tim Hagans, Mark Turner, Hank Mobley, Bill Easley, Doc Cheatham, Scott Robinson, Eddie Bert, Phil Woods, Danny Bank, Billy Drummond, Ben Monder, Charles McPherson, Milt Hinton, Ben Riley, Bill Stewart, Art Blakey, Jon-Erik Kellso, Eddie Chamblee, Jimmy Lewis, Chuck Redd, Bill Charlap, McCoy Tyner, Melissa Aldana, Ronnie Mathews, Kevin Hays, Jim McNeely, Steve Wilson, Red Holloway, Barney Kessel, Joe Williams, Quincy Davis, Bob Mintzer, Dick Hyman, Lee Konitz, Leroy Jones, Renee Rosnes, David Sanborn, Gil Evans, Don Sickler, Sean Smith, Sarah Vaughn, Derrick Gardner, Sylvia Cuenca, Harold Mabern, Gene Bertoncini, Mike LeDonne, Essiet Okon Essiet, Bill Mays, and Joe Magnarelli.
The Twelve Carols of Christmas
A Christmas carol music book with full piano arrangements plus the words sheet to print out for group sing-alongs.The most popular Christmas carols - for group singing - number about twelve. That's all you need for a great Christmas singalong. And here they are, along with Jingle Bells and We wish you a Merry Christmas, all arranged in easy classical piano, plus guitar chords. For a truly blessed Christmas, copy the words sheet in the centre, gather your friends, add piano or guitar, and worship the baby born to be King of the world.- Twelve most popular carols- Plus Jingle Bells and We wish you a Merry Christmas- Simple classical piano- Guitar chords- Words sheet to copy for sing alongCONTENTS1. Hark the Herald Angels Sing2. Silent Night3. O Come all Ye Faithful4. Joy to the World5. Away in a Manger (Two versions)6. The First Nowell7. We Three Kings8. O Holy Night9. What Child is this?10. While Shepherds Watched (Two versions)11. Angels We Have Heard on High12. O Little Town of BethlehemNolene Prince is the composer of Holy is the Lord of Hosts as well as the co-author of Nine Days in Heaven. She earned a bachelor's degree in music, specialising in singing, and after teaching school music also attended Bible College. She lives in Melbourne, Australia with her husband, Dennis Price. Together they have three married children and twelve grandchildren.
Wacken for Beginners
After her first experiences as an author in the 1990s with the "Kauderwelsch Band Costa Rica", which she wrote after a year's stay in Central America, and "How about a sheep - Surprising impulses for climate changes in the office" in 2018"WACKEN for Beginners 2019" (that she didn't just write for WACKEN-GREENHORNS)is her third book of hearts.The idea of writing this special homage to WACKEN came to her mind at her first Wacken in 2018. This Festival visit was only possible because she surprisingly got a ticket two days before the festival started.Within a very short time she had to decide wether to go to WACKEN or not.Although it quickly became clear, that she had to drive alone, she decided to do so.At over 30簞C she made her way by train to WACKEN with only a small pink backpack and her sleeping bag as companions.-A thousand stories about WACKEN haunted her head, but absolutely ZERO real experience.Fortunately she met many experienced Wacken visitors on the way, who were always there to help and advice her. In the end it were these encounters that made her days in Wacken an unforgettable experience.She has written this book to be able to gratefully pass on her insights and experiences to others who may be in a similar situation or who simply want to get a little more involved with what actually makes this incredibly delightful WACKEN feeling.Would you like to know more about the soul of WACKEN and the people who created this festival and make it possible every year?Great, then THIS book is exactly the right thing for YOU.With the symbol of the cow skull, the founders of the W: O: A - FESTIVAL Thomas Jensen and Uwe H羹bner made themselves known as "boys from the village". For Regine Rauin, the ram's head symbolises not only her own zodiac sign but also her origin as a country girl. To be more precise, a village that at that time consisted of only 200 inhabitants - and about 20 cow meadows.With the ram in her zodiac sign, she knows all about having horns. So who could be better suited than her to accompany YOU on your first WACKEN?Since Aries are not only faithful and assertive, but also quick and wildly determined, this book (and the similarly named German version) was started 33 days before the beginning of W: O: A 2019 and is therefore highly topical!Are you in? Then let's go to the HOLY GROUNDWACKEN-OPEN-AIR 2019 - the 30th WACKEN since its inception.Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator
Hymns Of The Kingdom
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The Latin Hymn-Writers And Their Hymns
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Cathy Berberian: Pioneer of Contemporary Vocality
Cathy Berberian (1925-1983) was a vocal performance artist, singer and composer who pioneered a way of composing with the voice in the musical worlds of Europe, North America and beyond. As a modernist muse for many avant-garde composers, Cathy Berberian went on to embody the principles of postmodern thinking in her work, through vocality. She re-defined the limits of composition and challenged theories of the authorship of the musical score. This volume celebrates her unorthodox path through musical landscapes, including her approach to performance practice, gender performativity, vocal pedagogy and the culturally-determined borders of art music, the concert stage, the popular LP and the opera industry of her times. The collection features primary documentation-some published in English for the first time-of Berberian's engagement with the philosophy of voice, new music, early music, pop, jazz, vocal experimentation and technology that has come to influence the next generation of singers such as Theo Bleckmann, Susan Botti, Joan La Barbara, Rinde Eckert Meredith Monk, Carol Plantamura, Candace Smith and Pamela Z. Hence, this timely anthology marks an end to the long period of silence about Cathy Berberian's championing of a radical rethinking of the musical past through a reclaiming of the voice as a multifaceted phenomenon. With a Foreword by Susan McClary.
The Latin Hymn-Writers And Their Hymns
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Pi疆 Cantiones
This is a reprint of a classical work which, originally published in 1910, has passed into the public domain. The original description follows: A collection of Ancient & School Song, chiefly Ancient Swedish, originally published in A.D. 1582 by Theodoric Petri of Nyland. Revised and re-edited, with Preface and Explanatory Notes, by the Rev. G. R. Woodward, M.A. and printed at the Chiswick Press for the Plainsong & Medieval Music Society. London: 44 Russel Square, W. C. M. CM. X.
Hymns Of The Kingdom
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While We Were Getting High
A photographic portrait of Britpop, featuring the most iconic bands of the genre, with many never-before-seen images. Remember the rise and fall of Britpop - the seminal UK-based music and culture movement of the 90s - through its most striking images, with many never published before. Also featuring interviews with the heroes of Britpop, including Noel Gallagher. Hundreds of photographs taken by renowned photographer Kevin Cummins, chief photographer at the NME for more than a decade, showcase Britpop's greatest stars at their most creative and iconic. Artists photographed include: - Oasis - Blur - Pulp - Kula Shaker - The Verve - Suede - Elastica - Happy Mondays - The Stone Roses - The Bluetones - The Boo Radleys - Dodgy - The Charlatans - Echobelly - Gene - Kenickie - Mansun - The Divine Comedy - Supergrass - Sleeper - Menswear - Marion - The Seahorses - Shampoo ...and many more.
Country-Gitarre f羹r Anf瓣nger
Meistere traditionelle und moderne Country-Gitarre Country-Gitarre f羹r Anf瓣nger lehrt dich die Grundlagen einer der beliebtesten Musikrichtungen von heute. Du wirst alle wesentlichen Techniken auf musikalische Weise lernen, zusammen mit vielen Akkordfolgen, Country-Gitarren-Licks und Soli. M繹chtest du die wesentlichen Techniken des Country-Gitarrenspiels beherrschen? Hast du versucht, Country-Gitarre zu spielen, aber nicht das Gef羹hl, mehr als nur ein paar Akkorde und klischeehafte Licks gelernt zu haben?Tr瓣umst du davon, Soli zu spielen wie die legend瓣ren Gitarristen Roy Nichols, James Burton, Luther Perkins und Eldon Shamblin? Country-Gitarre f羹r Anf瓣nger wurde entwickelt, um Anf瓣ngern beizubringen, die grundlegenden Techniken zum Erlernen der Country-Gitarre zu beherrschen. Du beginnst mit den wesentlichen Country-Gitarren-Akkorden, Sequenzen und Rhythmus-Patterns und gehst dann zu fortgeschritteneren Techniken wie Flatpicking, Chicken Picking, Country-Gitarren-Soli, Bending und Intervallspiel 羹ber. Lerne die Grundlagen der Country-Gitarre Entdecke die folgenden Techniken der Country-Gitarre: Lerne die Bausteine von Country-Gitarrenakkorden, Rhythmen und Sequenzen. Meister die Fingerpicking-Technik der Country-Gitarre und das Hybridpicking, um ein vielseitiger Spieler zu werden, der auf alles vorbereitet ist.Entdecke die besten Country-Gitarren-Tonleitern, die du in deinen Soli verwenden kannst, um den Country-Sound zu verst瓣rken. Lerne Hunderte von Country-Gitarren-Licks, die du sofort in deinem Spiel verwenden kannst.Wende fortgeschrittene Country-Gitarrenkonzepte an, wie Arpeggien, Intervallspiel und Leersaiten-Tricks. Bonus: 羹ber 170 Audiotracks zum kostenlosen Download Das bekommst du: Ein kompletter Leitfaden zur Country-Gitarrenmusik f羹r Anf瓣nger, der dir Akkorde, Rhythmus und Gitarrensoli beibringt. ?ber 100 Seiten mit Akkorden, musikalischen ?bungen, Tricks und Country-Gitarren-Solo-IdeenEin Leitfaden f羹r Fingerpicking und Flatpicking, mit dem du alles spielen kannst, was die Band von dir verlangt.Eine ?bersicht 羹ber die besten Tonleitern, Arpeggien und Akkorde, die man verwenden kann ... und wann man sie benutzen sollte. Hunderte von Country-Gitarren-Licks, Tipps und Tricks in einer Schritt-f羹r-Schritt Methode. Das komplette Handbuch zur Country-Gitarre f羹r Anf瓣nger Country-Gitarre f羹r Anf瓣nger ist in zwei Abschnitte unterteilt. Teil Eins: Akkorde und Rhythmusgitarre er繹rtert die wesentlichen Akkord-Voicings, die in allem zu finden sind, von Cowboyballaden bis hin zu Western Swing. Es gibt auch einige Geheimnisse der Country-Gitarre ... Sobald du diese Voicings aufgefrischt hast, wirst du entdecken, wie sie in der echten Country-Rhythmusgitarre verwendet werden. Teil Zwei: Tonleitern, Arpeggien und Lead-Gitarre entwickelt die gesamte Bandbreite an Tonleitern, Arpeggien und Solo-Ans瓣tzen, die beim Spielen von Country-Gitarre verwendet werden. Die Beherrschung der Fertigkeiten in diesem Abschnitt bereitet deine Finger auf die technisch anspruchsvolleren Aspekte des Erlernens der Country-Gitarre wie Banjo Rolls und Leersaiten-Ideen vor. Hol dir jetzt Country-Gitarre f羹r Anf瓣nger und mache deinen ersten Schritt auf dem Weg zum Country-Gitarren-Helden.
Banned - Drabbles
A drabble introduction to a terrifying collection of 22 rock band themed horror stories from worldwide authors.Perfect for the Halloween season, but best read with the lights on!Are you brave enough?Fractured Fairytale by Alanna Robertson-WebbTransmission by Antonia Rachel WardPowerslave by Beth W. PattersonPiece of my Heart by Chris BannorFrom Her to Eternity by David GreenJust a Singer in a Rock n Roll Band by Gregg CunninghamWhile My Guitar Gently Weeps by Holley CornettoSay You Love Me or Say Goodnight by J.W. GarrettAngie Baby by Kimberly ReiWho Wants to Live Forever by Maxine ChurchmanThe Last Drink by Melinda PounceyCross Road Blues by Raven Corinn CarlukThe Night Creeper by Robin BraidWaiting for the Beginning by Steven StreeterSex Type Thing by S.O. GreenNightmares Made Flesh by Sam M. PhillipsTorn by Stacey Jaine McIntoshThe Man who Sold the World by Stephanie ScissomTeenagers by Stephen HerczegBody Electric by Tim MendeesHere Comes My Girl by Trisha McKeeWhore by Zoey Xolton
Bedroom Beats & B-Sides
The first decades of the 21st century saw dramatic changes in the music industry as technology transformed creation, communication, and consumption. Amid this turmoil one change occurred relatively quietly, almost naturally: so-called bedroom producers, music makers raised on hip-hop and electronic music, went from anonymous, often unseen creators to artists in their own right. In Bedroom Beats and B-sides, journalist Laurent Fintoni details the rise of a new generation of bedroom producers at the turn of the century through the stories of various instrumental hip-hop and electronic music scenes. From trip-hop, downtempo, and IDM to leftfield hip-hop, glitch, and beats, the book explores how these scenes acted as incubators for new ideas about composition and performance that are now taken for granted. Combining social, cultural, and musical history with extensive research and over 100 interviews, the book tells the B-side stories of hip-hop and electronic music from the 1990s to the 2010s. Using the format of a beat tape, it explores the evolution of a modern beat culture from local scenes to global community via the diverse groups of idealists on the fringes who made it happen and the external forces that shaped their efforts. Before the uniformity of streaming services, always-on social media, and online tutorials for everything, this is a portrait of independence and experimentation amid historical change. It's a story of obsession and dedication and how the fringes brought about a quiet musical revolution.
Elvis Presley’s from Elvis in Memphis
"I had to leave town for a little while--" with these words, Elvis Presley truly came home to rock and roll. A little over a month earlier he had staged rock's first and greatest comeback in a television program, forever known as "The '68 Comeback Special." With this show, he resurrected himself--at the age of 33, no less--from the ashes of a career mired in bad movies and soundtracks. So where to go from here? Like a killer returning to the scene of the crime, Elvis came back home to Memphis, where it had all begun. Eschewing the fancier studios of Nashville and Hollywood, he set up shop at the ramshackle American Sound Studio, run by a maverick named Chips Moman with an in-house backing band now known as "The Memphis Boys," and made the music of his life. The resulting work, From Elvis in Memphis, would be the finest studio album of his career, an explosion of mature confidence and fiery inspiration. It was the sound of Elvis establishing himself as a true rock and roll artist--and proving his status as a legend.
Bluegrass Ambassadors
Bluegrass Ambassadors is the first book-length study of the McLain Family Band, which has spread the gospel of bluegrass for more than fifty years. Interpreting the band's diverse repertoire as both a source of its popularity and a reason for its exclusion from the bluegrass pantheon, Paul Jenkins advances subtle arguments about genre, criticism, and audience.
Puccini’s La Boh癡me
Giacomo Puccini's La Boh�me is one of the most frequently performed operas in the world. But how did it come to be so adored? In this book, author Alexandra Wilson traces La Boh�me's rise to fame and demonstrates that its success grew steadily through stage performances, recordings, filmed versions and the endorsements of star singers. More recently, popular songs, film soundtracks and musicals that draw on the opera's music and themes added further to its immense cultural impact. This cultural history offers a fresh reading of a familiar work. Wilson argues that La Boh�me's approach to realism and its flouting of conventions of the Italian operatic tradition made it strikingly modern for the 1890s. She explores how Puccini and his librettists engaged with gender, urban poverty and nostalgia--themes that grew out of the work's own time and continue to resonate with audiences more than 120 years later. Her analysis of the opera's depiction of Paris reveals that La Boh�me was not only influenced by the romantic mythologies surrounding the city to this day but also helped shape them. Wilson's consideration of how directors have reinvented this opera for a new age completes this fascinating history of La Boh�me, making it essential reading for anyone interested in this opera and the works it inspired.
Jazz in EuropeNetworking and Negotiating Identities
Should we talk of European jazz or jazz in Europe? What kinds of networks link those who make it happen 'on the ground'? What challenges do they have to face? Jazz is a part of the cultural fabric of many of the European countries. Jazz in Europe: Networking and Negotiating Identities presents jazz in Europe as a complex arena, where the very notions of cultural identity, jazz practices and Europe are continually being negotiated against an ever changing social, cultural, political and economic environment. The book gives voice to musicians, promoters, festival directors, educators and researchers regarding the challenges they are faced with in their everyday practices. Jazz identities in Europe result from the negotiation between discourse and practice and in the interstices between the formal and informal networks that support them, as if 'Jazz' and 'Europe' were blank canvases where diversified notions of what jazz and Europe should or could be are projected.
Sittin’ in
A rare collection of more than 200 full-color and black-and-white souvenir photographs and memorabilia that bring to life the renowned jazz nightclubs of the 1940s and 1950s, compiled by Grammy Award-winning record executive and music historian Jeff Gold and featuring exclusive interviews with Quincy Jones, Sonny Rollins, Robin Givhan, Jason Moran, and Dan Morgenstern.In the two decades before the Civil Rights movement, jazz nightclubs were among the first places that opened their doors to both Black and white performers and club goers in Jim Crow America. In this extraordinary collection, Jeff Gold looks back at this explosive moment in the history of Jazz and American culture, and the spaces at the center of artistic and social change. Sittin' In is a visual history of jazz clubs during these crucial decades when some of the greatest names in in the genre--Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong, Oscar Peterson, and many others--were headlining acts across the country. In many of the clubs, Black and white musicians played together and more significantly, people of all races gathered together to enjoy an evening's entertainment. House photographers roamed the floor and for a dollar, took picture of patrons that were developed on site and could be taken home in a keepsake folder with the club's name and logo.Sittin' In tells the story of the most popular club in these cities through striking images, first-hand anecdotes, true tales about the musicians who performed their unforgettable shows, notes on important music recorded live there, and more. All of this is supplemented by colorful club memorabilia, including posters, handbills, menus, branded matchbooks, and more. Inside you'll also find exclusive, in-depth interviews conducted specifically for this book with the legendary Quincy Jones; jazz great tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins; Pulitzer Prize-winning fashion critic Robin Givhan; jazz musician and creative director of the Kennedy Center, Jason Moran; and jazz critic Dan Morgenstern.Gold surveys America's jazz scene and its intersection with racism during segregation, focusing on three crucial regions: the East Coast (New York, Atlantic City, Boston, Washington, D.C.); the Midwest (Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, St. Louis, Kansas City); and the West Coast (Los Angeles, San Francisco). This collection of ephemeral snapshots tells the story of an era that helped transform American life, beginning the move from traditional Dixieland jazz to bebop, from conservatism to the push for personal freedom.
Made in Finland
Made in Finland: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, culture, and musicology of twentieth and twenty-first century popular music in Finland. The volume consists of essays by leading scholars in the field, and covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of popular music in Finland. Each essay provides adequate context so readers understand why the figure or genre under discussion is of lasting significance. The book is organized into five thematic sections: Emerging Foundations of Popular Music in Finland; Environments, Borderlines, Minorities; Transnationalisms; Sounds from the Underground; and Redefining Finnishness.
Chilean New Song and the Question of Culture in the Allende Government
Focusing on the cultural debate within the left during the Popular Unity government in Chile (1970-73), Chilean New Song and the Question of Culture in the Allende Government situates the discourses and artistic production linked to the Chilean New Song movement, in order to demonstrate that the musicians were part of the committed intelligentsia. Thus, they actively participated in the discussion and proposal of ways to integrate culture in the revolutionary process, playing an important political and cultural role. The analysis is mainly based on the government-friendly press and on records released between 1970 and 1973, verifying how the main trends observed in the cultural debate were expressed in the movement; the extent to which the positions defended by the musicians have been in tune with governmental purposes; and if they have in fact influenced the cultural policies debated and pursued by Popular Unity.
Fandom and the Beatles
More than 50 years after their breakup, the Beatles are still attracting fans from various generations, all while retaining their original fan base from the 1960s. Why have those first-generation fans continued following the Beatles and are now introducing their grandchildren to the group? Why are current teens affected by the band's music? And perhaps most importantly, how and why do the Beatles continue to resonate with successive generations? Unlike other bands of their era, the Beatles seem permanently frozen in time, having never descended into "nostalgia act" territory. Instead, even after the announcement of the band's breakup in 1970, the group has maintained its cultural and musical relevance. Their timeless quality appeals to younger generations while maintaining the loyalty of older fans. While the Beatles indeed represent a specific time period, their music and words address issues as meaningful today as they were during the Summer of Love: politics, war, sex, drugs, art, and creative liberation. As the first anthology to assess the nature of fan response and the band's enduring appeal, Fandom and the Beatles: The Act You've Known for All These Years defines and explores these unique qualities and the key ways in which this particular pop fusion has inspired such loyalty and multigenerational popularity.
Black Diamond Queens
African American women have played a pivotal part in rock and roll-from laying its foundations and singing chart-topping hits to influencing some of the genre's most iconic acts. Despite this, black women's importance to the music's history has been diminished by narratives of rock as a mostly white male enterprise. In Black Diamond Queens, Maureen Mahon draws on recordings, press coverage, archival materials, and interviews to document the history of African American women in rock and roll between the 1950s and the 1980s. Mahon details the musical contributions and cultural impact of Big Mama Thornton, LaVern Baker, Betty Davis, Tina Turner, Merry Clayton, Labelle, the Shirelles, and others, demonstrating how dominant views of gender, race, sexuality, and genre affected their careers. By uncovering this hidden history of black women in rock and roll, Mahon reveals a powerful sonic legacy that continues to reverberate into the twenty-first century.
Silk & Steel
The first 25 years of metal were glorious and well documented. The last 25 years of metal were triumphant and victorious - only no one knew it.This book will serve as a guide to righting that injustice and will help music collectors in rediscovering old bands while discovering new music to add to the soundtrack of their lives.
Learn To Play Electric Guitar
Learn To Play Electric Guitar is a comprehensive course for beginners to get started enjoying the fun of playing the electric guitar. It will lead you on a path to electric guitar mastery. It will show you in a very simple method of how to get started playing electric guitar. Learn parts of the guitar, how to properly hold it, what chords need to be learned first and how to play those guitar chords to create music. Learn electric guitar techniques such as strumming, arpeggiating, timing and practice habits. Learn common scales for playing guitar solos, and training exercises. In a simple step-by-step method that will produce quick results. Yep, it's all here in this book Learn To Play Electric Guitar. If you've always wanted to learn to play the electric guitar, then this book is for you. Even if you play guitar already, you can still learn some new music concepts from this book. Packed with information that most guitar players don't know. This book is designed to take you from an absolute newbie (who knows nothing about the guitar) to a well proficient player of music knowledge and understanding. Improve your rhythm guitar playing, Lead guitar playing, your music theory, and techniques associated with playing electric guitar in this comprehensive course.
Damaged
Damaged: Musicality and Race in Early American Punk is the first book-length portrait of punk as a musical style with an emphasis on how punk developed in relation to changing ideas of race in American society from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. Drawing on musical analysis, archival research, and new interviews, Damaged provides fresh interpretations of race and American society during this period and illuminates the contemporary importance of that era. Evan Rapport outlines the ways in which punk developed out of dramatic changes to America's cities and suburbs in the postwar era, especially with respect to race. The musical styles that led to punk included transformations to blues resources, experimental visions of the American musical past, and bold reworkings of the rock-and-roll and rhythm-and-blues sounds of the late 1950s and early 1960s, revealing a historically oriented approach to rock that is strikingly different from the common myths and conceptions about punk. Following these approaches, punk itself reflected new versions of older exchanges between the US and the UK, the changing environments of American suburbs and cities, and a shift from the expressions of older baby boomers to that of younger musicians belonging to Generation X. Throughout the book, Rapport also explores the discourses and contradictory narratives of punk history, which are often in direct conflict with the world that is captured in historical documents and revealed through musical analysis.
Damaged
Damaged: Musicality and Race in Early American Punk is the first book-length portrait of punk as a musical style with an emphasis on how punk developed in relation to changing ideas of race in American society from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. Drawing on musical analysis, archival research, and new interviews, Damaged provides fresh interpretations of race and American society during this period and illuminates the contemporary importance of that era. Evan Rapport outlines the ways in which punk developed out of dramatic changes to America's cities and suburbs in the postwar era, especially with respect to race. The musical styles that led to punk included transformations to blues resources, experimental visions of the American musical past, and bold reworkings of the rock-and-roll and rhythm-and-blues sounds of the late 1950s and early 1960s, revealing a historically oriented approach to rock that is strikingly different from the common myths and conceptions about punk. Following these approaches, punk itself reflected new versions of older exchanges between the US and the UK, the changing environments of American suburbs and cities, and a shift from the expressions of older baby boomers to that of younger musicians belonging to Generation X. Throughout the book, Rapport also explores the discourses and contradictory narratives of punk history, which are often in direct conflict with the world that is captured in historical documents and revealed through musical analysis.
Wayfaring Stranger
Can you feel nostalgic for a life you've never known? Suffused with her much-loved warmth and wit, Emma John's memoir follows her moving and memorable journey to master one of the hardest musical styles on earth - and to find her place in an alien world. Emma had fallen out of love with her violin when a chance trip to the American South introduced her to bluegrass music. Classically trained, highly strung and wedded to London life, Emma was about as country as a gin martini. So why did it feel like a homecoming? Answering that question takes Emma deep into the Appalachian mountains, where she uncovers a hidden culture that confounds every expectation - and learns some emotional truths of her own.
Forests, Flowers, and Fairytales
Singing princesses from tall towers, temper tantrums gone awry, unconventional love affairs, and shepherds who can't catch a break are just a few of many things you'll find within the operas and ballets of Debussy, Dukas, and Ravel. This edition combines volumes 2 and 3 of the Tales of Love, Loss, Magic, and Reality eBook anthology to provide a one-stop place for the theatrical works of these French masters of music. Included are Debussy's Pell矇as et M矇lisande and Jeux; Dukas' Ariane et Barbe-bleue and La P矇ri; and Ravel's L'Heure espagnole, L'Enfant et les sortil癡ges, Daphnis et Chlo矇, and Ma m癡re l'Oye.
Ornamentik
Nicolas Tourney is a French experimental musician, sound designer, and owner of the label Snow in Water Records. Ornamentik is the third issue of a work started by "Blast Screen" and continued with "IR, exhibition catalog".
Voices of Dissent
This book is an interdisciplinary analysis of an art form that is crucial to the understanding of Italian contemporary society: political music from the 1960s to today. Using cultural studies, digital humanities and literary analysis, this book analyses a corpus of political music to offer insights into the sociolinguistic aspects of Italian.
The Alphorn through the Eyes of the Classical Composer (Premium Color)
'The Alphorn through the Eyes of the Classical Composer' is the first and definitive book to be written about the alphorn in English. It has been written with English-speaking readers in mind, as it examines the extensive interest of primarily non-Swiss composers, writers and artists in the alphorn as a symbol of the Alps, the influence and significance of the alphorn in culture, literature and the arts across the globe, and the ways in which the instrument has been specifically utilised by the Swiss as the iconic representation of their country.This book also explores the use of the musical language of the alphorn call, to ascertain why and how such references as those of Berlioz or Beethoven can convey so much meaning. Dr Jones seeks out what it is that a composer brings into the concert hall, the theatre, the opera house, the church, or the drawing room by such a quotation, to what heritage they are referring, and upon what basis there are grounds for an assumption that such a reference will be understood by an audience.The book, which will be of interest to researchers in Swiss cultural studies and ethnomusicology, builds on Dr Jones's research and PhD thesis. The six chapters deal with a variety of topics, including a basic introduction to the alphorn and an exploration of the promotion of the instrument as the symbol of Switzerland, as well as the reasons behind symbolic references to alphorn motifs by European and British composers in concert repertoire, jazz and film.
The Alphorn through the Eyes of the Classical Composer (B&W)
'The Alphorn through the Eyes of the Classical Composer' is the first and definitive book to be written about the alphorn in English. It has been written with English-speaking readers in mind, as it examines the extensive interest of primarily non-Swiss composers, writers and artists in the alphorn as a symbol of the Alps, the influence and significance of the alphorn in culture, literature and the arts across the globe, and the ways in which the instrument has been specifically utilised by the Swiss as the iconic representation of their country.This book also explores the use of the musical language of the alphorn call, to ascertain why and how such references as those of Berlioz or Beethoven can convey so much meaning. Dr Jones seeks out what it is that a composer brings into the concert hall, the theatre, the opera house, the church, or the drawing room by such a quotation, to what heritage they are referring, and upon what basis there are grounds for an assumption that such a reference will be understood by an audience.The book, which will be of interest to researchers in Swiss cultural studies and ethnomusicology, builds on Dr Jones's research and PhD thesis. The six chapters deal with a variety of topics, including a basic introduction to the alphorn and an exploration of the promotion of the instrument as the symbol of Switzerland, as well as the reasons behind symbolic references to alphorn motifs by European and British composers in concert repertoire, jazz and film.
Pressed for All Time
In histories of music, producers tend to fall by the wayside--generally unknown and seldom acknowledged. But without them and their contributions to the art form, we'd have little on record of some of the most important music ever created. Discover the stories behind some of jazz's best-selling and most influential albums in this collection of oral histories gathered by music scholar and writer Michael Jarrett. Drawing together interviews with over fifty producers, musicians, engineers, and label executives, Jarrett shines a light on the world of making jazz records by letting his subjects tell their own stories and share their experiences in creating the American jazz canon. Packed with fascinating stories and fresh perspectives on over 200 albums and artists, including legends such as Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane, and Miles Davis, as well as contemporary artists such as Diana Krall and Norah Jones, Pressed for All Time tells the unknown stories of the men and women who helped to shape the quintessential American sound.
Anton穩n Dvo%r獺k’s New World Symphony
Before Anton穩n Dvor獺k's New World Symphony became one of the most universally beloved pieces of classical music, it exposed the deep wounds of racism at the dawn of the Jim Crow era while serving as a flashpoint in broader debates about the American ideals of freedom and equality. Drawing from a diverse array of historical voices, author Douglas W. Shadle's richly textured account of the symphony's 1893 premiere shows that even the classical concert hall could not remain insulated from the country's racial politics.
Faces of Rap Mothers - Book Two
In this, Book Two, Laurice Adams, Antonette Ames, Dianna Boss, Carlene Corsey, Angela Gilchrist-Guyton, Rolanda Shemwell Greer Macharia, Jamika Smith, Fedra Thompson, and Sharon Lynette Young, join Candy and share their histories within the rap and hip hop culture with a dedication chapter for Queen G, Tyrese Gibson's sister. Faces of Rap Mothers, creation of owner, Candy Strother DeVore-Mitchell features multi-series books representing rap and hip-hop's most iconic figures. Book One 1st - Edition Fall 2019 and Book 1 - 2nd Edition February of 2020 to recover, restructure, and re-release Candy DeVore-Mitchell's original book. Book Two arrived fall of 2020. Official Faces of Rap Mothers Books carry the DonnaInk Publications, L.L.C., Beat Deep Books, and Little Buggy Productions logos featuring untold rap and hip-hop artisan stories the public may not know. These are eclectic collectible titles. Entertaining. Informative and designed with a manga-esque stylus. Book One was nominated "Most Entertaining Book of 2019" by Soul Central Magazine's CEO to award platforms across Europe and the United States - as told to the publisher.. Faces of Rap Mothers is now a rap and hip-hop trending platform; having incorporated, Candy Strother DeVore-Mitchell bought a television network on Roku, so Faces of Rap Mothers Television Network serves as a burgeoning channel provider building solid audiences with increasing programming owner participants. Additionally, Faces of Rap Mothers has created Faces of Rap Mothers Music Group, where Faces of Rap Mothers Member Artists share rights to music hitting airwaves across America. These remakes, and soon to be "new" creations, are "dope" as far as listeners share. The Faces of Rap Mothers Movie is in production in 2022 and is directed and written by Walter Franks with SAG actors in participation. Series Books include: Faces of Rap Mothers Books One through Ten in print and hardcover - Books Five and Six are releasing before the end of 2021Rap Mothers Save The Day Books One through Ten in print and hardcover - Books One through Three are published or publishing by the end of 2021 - these are children's books and feature rap mothers saving the day for youth in each story with exception of book three that is about being a twin.Faces of Rap Mothers Fathers Editions Books One through Ten in print and hardcover - Book One releasing by the end of 2021.Faces of Rap Mothers Presents Books One through Ten in print and hardcover - Book One - Group X releasing November 2021 and Book Two - Curvy Queens of Dallas spring of 2022, followed by Book Three - The Life and Times of Bonnie Williams: Stanley "Tookie" Williams Beloved Wife.Additionally, varied publisher sponsored books and merchandise are available as the "original" gifts of the "Faces of Rap Mothers" multi-series books franchise through Publisher, DonnaInk Publications, L.L.C. and their Beat Deep Books and Little Buggy Productions Imprints. --------- About the Author: Niece of Ophelia DeVore-Mitchell, Candy Strother DeVore-Mitchell, wears many hats. Presently, her newest involves 1) music production company and 2) television network owner. These new performance verticals are subsidiary in nature to the overarching Faces of Rap Mothers (a California corporation) doing business as Faces of Rap Mothers Enterprise. Candy is a wife and mother and an actress, author, and executive producer and CEO of Black Cash Records, two of Candy's children, namely HONEY and KING THA RAPPER, are rap / hip-hop entertainers. She resides in Los Angeles with her children and husband. The author and contributors are available for interviews and book signings.
The Beatles from A to Zed
A legendary record producer and performer takes readers on an alphabetical journey of insights into the music of the Beatles and individual reminiscences of John, Paul, George, and Ringo. Peter Asher met the Beatles in the spring of 1963, the start of a lifelong association with the band and its members. He had a front-row seat as they elevated pop music into an art form, and he was present at the creation of some of the most iconic music of our times. Asher is also a talented musician in his own right, with a great ear for what was new and fresh. Once, when Paul McCartney wrote a song that John Lennon didn't think was right for the Beatles, Asher asked if he could record it. "A World Without Love" became a global No. 1 hit for his duo, Peter & Gordon. A few years later Asher was asked by Paul McCartney to help start Apple Records; the first artist Asher discovered and signed up was a young American singer-songwriter named James Taylor. Before long he would be not only managing and producing Taylor but also (having left Apple and moved to Los Angeles) working with Linda Ronstadt, Neil Diamond, Robin Williams, Joni Mitchell, and Cher, among others. The Beatles from A to Zed grows out of his popular radio program "From Me to You" on SiriusXM's The Beatles Channel, where he shares memories and insights about the Fab Four and their music. Here he weaves his reflections into a whimsical alphabetical journey that focuses not only on songs whose titles start with each letter, but also on recurrent themes in the Beatles' music, the instruments they played, the innovations they pioneered, the artists who influenced them, the key people in their lives, and the cultural events of the time. Few can match Peter Asher for his fresh and personal perspective on the Beatles. And no one is a more congenial and entertaining guide to their music.
Metodo di Contrabasso
Una ristampa facsimilie della prima edizione del Metodo Contrabasso di Giovanni Bottesini.
Rock and Roll Children
"We gotta get out of this place." -Any kid in the '80s trying to make it playing rock and roll.Mix one dash of high school and two jiggers of teenage angst with a metric ton of heavy metal, and you have the recipe for the improbable wild ride of five kids with limited means and big dreams.Seventeen-year-old Sean needs a lot of things: He needs his parents to stop hassling him. He needs his car to actually start. He needs his Jewfro to grow out into heavy metal hair. But most of all, he needs a band...Without one he isn't sure that he's ever going to make it out of this two-horse town.He's been trying to put a band together for as long as he can remember, but finding like-minded metalheads in rural America has been challenging. Finally the stars align and a band is born. It's magic. But can these five talented metal kids keep things together long enough to play the show of a lifetime?If you are a fan of heavy metal music and grew up in the 1980s (or just wished you had) this story is for you.
Paul McCartney
As humanly possible, this book attempts to evaluate every track that Paul McCartney has released on a major label. Thus, the premise of this book: to sift the gems from the chaff and examine what's driven McCartney up and down for fifty years. There are plenty of tracks suitable for casual fans, adolescents, even preschoolers. But there are tracks for an older audience too, tracks so good they can supply grown-ups with a rewarding soundtrack for a lifetime. It's these that make for a playlist worth keeping. From 1970 and beyond, the songwriting Paul McCartney seemed to be saddled with a rickety who-cares system that generated iffy results. Gone were 'Eleanor Rigby' and 'Penny Lane'. Instead, came the thought-free 'Mary Had a Little Lamb' and 'Bip Bop', songs The Beatles wouldn't have considered for a second. Troubles swarmed around him as he searched for his place. The Beatles had theirs - where was his? Was he overly obsessed with perfection? Maybe. Or was it insecurity? His next record couldn't be a forward-thinking experiment, with sales falling wherever they may. It had to - had to - be a chart topper adored all over the world.
The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia
Praise from Jesse Green, New York Times Chief Theater Critic, Arts, in the 2023 Holiday Gift Guide: "From A (the director George Abbott) to Y ('You Could Drive a Person Crazy'), The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia, by Rick Pender, offers an astonishingly comprehensive look, in more than 130 entries, at the late master's colleagues, songs, shows and methods."The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia is a wonderfully detailed and comprehensive reference devoted to musical theater's most prolific and admired composer and lyricist. Entries cover Sondheim's numerous collaborators, from composers and directors to designers and orchestras; key songs, such as his Academy Award winner "Sooner or Later" (Dick Tracy); and major works, including Assassins, Company, Follies, Sweeney Todd, and West Side Story. The encyclopedia also profiles the actors who originated roles and sang Sondheim's songs for the first time, including Ethel Merman, Angela Lansbury, Mandy Patinkin, and Bernadette Peters.Featuring a detailed biographical entry for Sondheim, a chronology of his career, a listing of his many awards, and discussions of his opinions on movies, opera, and more, this wide-ranging resource will attract musical theater enthusiasts again and again.
Bruce Springsteen: All the Songs
A new, definitive look at one of music's greatest songbooks, by two expert authors. The latest in the bestselling All the Songs series, Bruce Springsteen: All the Songs is the most in-depth exploration of The Boss's music ever written. From Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ through Western Stars, this extensive, 670-page volume provides the full story behind each remarkable cut, with illuminating insights that reveal Springsteen's creative inspiration. It's the most complete history of one of the greatest musical legacies of all time and gives you the background on all the songs leading up to the Boss's new album, Letter to You. Arranged chronologically by album, authors Margotin and Guesdon explore the details behind early hits such as Blinded by the Light and Spirit in the Night, to masterpieces such as Born to Run, Hungry Heart, Dancing in the Dark, Born in the U.S.A., The Rising, Tucson Train, and more - including outtakes, covers and rare tracks. With hundreds of photographs and detailed analysis of every single song, this is the single-greatest record of Bruce Springsteen's music ever produced.
Sweet Thunder
This book offers a detailed examination of the literary influences behind the experimental music of five twentieth-century Italian composers: Luigi Dallapiccola, Bruno Maderna, Luciano Berio, Giacomo Manzoni and Armando Gentilucci.
Journeys Through Galant Expositions
Ever since the nineteenth century, descriptions of musical form have tended to rely heavily on architectonic analogies. In contrast, earlier discussions more often invoked the metaphor of a journey to describe the structure of a composition. In Journeys Through Galant Expositions, author L. Poundie Burstein encourages readers to view the form of Galant music through this earlier metaphorical lens, much as those who composed, performed, improvised, and listened to music in the mid-1700s would have experienced it. By elucidating eighteenth-century ideas regarding musical form and applying them to works by a wide range of composers -- including Haydn and Mozart, as well as a host of others who are often overlooked -- this innovative study provides an accessible new window into the music of this time. Rather than dissecting concepts from the 1700s as a mere historical exercise or treating them as a precursor of later theories, Burstein invigorates the ideas of theorists such as Heinrich Christoph Koch and shows how they can directly impact our understanding and appreciation of Galant music as audiences and performers.
Analytical Approaches to 20th-Century Russian Music
Musical analyses of works by thirteen Russian composers show how approaches to tonality, modernism, and serialism forge forward-looking, independent paths from their western counterparts. Drawing from composers active throughout the twentieth century, this volume for the first time identifies large-scale trends in this repertoire.
