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"The author's love for her mother burns beneath every sentence, illuminating the story from within. An overdue tribute to an underappreciated icon."--Oprah Daily A long-awaited, myth-busting, and deeply affecting memoir by the daughter of legendary...
Editeur :
Da Capo
Parution :
2024-05-07
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With flashing lights, bright colors, and big money, game shows have been an integral part of American culture since the days of radio. While the music that accompanies game shows is charming and catchy, it presents two unique, opposing challenges: first, it must exhibit...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-04-30
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Insurgent Fandom offers a behind-the-scenes look at a transnational subculture known to few--ultra. As the most dedicated soccer fans, ultras support their team through collective singing, jumping, flag-waving, and lighting marine flares. While some characterize ultras...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-04-30
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When we talk about a jazz "standard" we usually mean one of the many songs that jazz musicians repeatedly play as part of their core repertoire. But unlike musical works in the tradition of so-called classical music, standards--whether plucked from the "Great American...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-04-26
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Since the 1990s, migrant musicians have become increasingly prominent in New York City's jazz scene. Challenging norms about who can be a jazz musician and what immigrant music should sound like, these musicians create mobile and diverse notions of jazz while...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-04-23
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Alfonso X (1221-84) ruled over the Crown of Castile from 1252 until his death. Known as "the Wise," he oversaw the production of a wealth of literature in his scriptorium. One of the most impressive of these literary outputs is the collection of songs known as the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-04-23
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In today's technological and globalised world, music remains a basic dimension of society. Music, Encounter, Togetherness outlines a relational approach to music that creates space for both human agency and social relationship. Throughout the book, author Nicholas Cook...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-04-23
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You don't have to be a jazz expert to give your students a great introduction to improvisation.
The Classroom Guide to Jazz Improvisation provides what music educators have sought for decades: an easy, step-by-step guide to teaching jazz improvisation in the music...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-04-23
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In this valuable resource guide for both beginners and professionals, veteran songwriter, producer, arranger, vocalist, music director, and educator Larry D. Batiste shares practical advice and tips from his decades of experience in ways that are bound to help all...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-04-23
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Searching for the Origins of the Portuguese Waltzes is a collection of narratives depicting a six-year quest to discover the roots of a piece of traditional music played in St. John’s, Newfoundland: the Portuguese Waltzes. Through interviews, research, and observations,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-04-16
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Surveying the impact of Cuba's economic crisis after the demise of the eastern socialist block, this book documents a relatively unexplored transnational network of collaborations among Cuban musicians that migrated to many different countries from the 1990s forward....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-04-12
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Simon Reynolds's first book in eight years is a celebration of music that feels like a taste of tomorrow. Sounds that prefigure pop music's future - the vanguard genres and heroic innovators whose discoveries eventually get accepted by the wider mass audience. But it's...
Editeur :
White Rabbit
Parution :
2024-04-11
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***A FINALIST FOR THE 2025 SOUTHERN BOOK PRIZE*** THE FIRST BIOGRAPHY OF THE THRIVING AND INFLUENTIAL ROCK SCENE IN CHAPEL HILL, WHICH GAVE THE WORLD ARTISTS LIKE BEN FOLDS FIVE, SUPERCHUNK, AND SQUIRREL NUT ZIPPERS North Carolina has always produced extraordinary music...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2024-04-09
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The New York Times bestselling author of Dylan Goes Electric! follows Jelly Roll Morton on a journey through the hidden worlds and forbidden songs of early blues and jazz. In Jelly Roll Blues: Censored Songs and Hidden Histories, Elijah...
Editeur :
Da Capo
Parution :
2024-04-02
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This edited book considers the impact of neoliberalism on music teaching, research and scholarship in a higher education context. As a subject that bears little resemblance to other university practical disciplines, and fares poorly in a model driven by economics,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-03-29
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So wird das Showbusiness Ihr Business Tauchen Sie ein in die Welt der Musik und entdecken Sie, wie Sie als leidenschaftlicher Musiker oder Produzent den Sprung auf die große Bühne schaffen! Christoph Klein führt Sie durch den Dschungel von GEMA, GVL und...
Editeur :
Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2024-03-28
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Für Dummies
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'The rainbow reaches right across the sky, for miles and miles, and has landed right in the middle of our field. My mother, Alison, is standing at the beginning. I'm sure it's a beginning, rather than the end, as there's no pot of gold in sight. The point where...
Editeur :
White Rabbit
Parution :
2024-03-21
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An insider history of the Blind Boys of Alabama, the longest running group in American music, and the untold story of their world, written with band members and key musical colleagues. The Blind Boys of Alabama are the quintessential Gospel vocal group, and the...
Editeur :
Da Capo
Parution :
2024-03-19
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Theory in popular music has historically tended to approach musical processes of rhythm, harmony, counterpoint, and form as abstractions, without very directly engaging the intimate connection between the performer and instrument in popular music performance. Embodied...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-03-18
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The world's biggest star squeezed down to a miniature pocket-size.Harry Styles is the hero we all deserve right now. And judging by the deafening noise he received on his sell-out world tour to support his acclaimed record, Harry's House, he is the defining icon of our...
Editeur :
OH
Parution :
2024-03-14
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