Arts / Music

Blues, Funk, Rhythm and Blues, Soul, Hip Hop, and Rap

by Eddie S Meadows

Despite the influence of blues performance and study as a worldwide phenomenon, no comprehensive and fully annotated reference tool currently exists on the genre. This much needed bibliography fills an important...

Higher Education in Nazi Germany (Responding to Fascism Vol 11)

by A Wolf

Higher Education in Nazi Germany was first published in 1944, when it was apparent that Germany was likely to lose the war. Developing themes that were to become commonplace in the analysis of totalitarian regimes,...

An Introduction to Music Technology

by Dan Hosken

An Introduction to Music Technology is a college textbook for the introductory course in Music Technology. The text begins by discussing the software, hardware, and networking features of a computer with special...

How to Listen to Great Music: A Guide to Its History, Culture, and Heart

by Robert Greenberg

From one of the most trusted names in continuing education-the knowledge you need to unlock "the most abstract and sublime of all the arts."

Whether you're listening in a concert hall or on your iPod, concert...

When That Rough God Goes Riding: Listening to Van Morrison

by Greil Marcus

This book is a quest to understand Van Morrison's particular genius through a close look at the most extraordinary and unclassifiable moments in his long career, beginning in 1965 and continuing in full force...

Songs in the Key of My Life: A Memoir

by Ferentz Lafargue

“Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.” —Stevie Wonder, “Sir Duke”

In 2003, young professor Ferentz LaFargue traveled to Paris, where his fiancée, Tricia, declared she...

Is Tiny Dancer Really Elton's Little John?: Music's Most Enduring Mysteries, Myths, and Rumors Revealed

by Gavin Edwards

Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n' Roll, and . . . Ham Sandwiches?

If you are a music fan, you may be aware of some of music’s most enduring mysteries. Where did Pearl Jam get their name? Are the White Stripes related by...

33 Revolutions per Minute: A History of Protest Songs, from Billie Holiday to Green Day

by Dorian Lynskey

From one of the United Kingdom’s most prominent music critics, a page-turning and wonderfully researched history of 33 songs that have transformed the world through the twentieth century and beyond.

When pop...

Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: A Musical Journey

by Peter Guralnick, Robert Santelli & Holly George-Warren

A companion to the groundbreaking PBS documentary series, this volume is a unique and timeless celebration of the blues, from writers and artists as esteemed and revered as the music that moved them.

Included...

Alternative Approaches in Music Education: Case Studies from the Field

by Ann C. Clements

This book provides personalized case studies of music programs that are engaging in alternative approaches. The diversity of these real-world case studies will inspire questioning and curiosity, stimulate lively...

Disciplining the Arts: Teaching Entrepreneurship in Context

by Gary D. Beckman

Increasingly, the availability of entrepreneurship education is becoming a factor in college choice as fine arts students demand training that helps them create an arts-based career after graduation. Disciplining...

Women of Influence in Contemporary Music: Nine American Composers

by Michael K. Slayton

In this collection of essays and interviews, nine gifted composers openly discuss their work.

A Pete Seeger Discography: Seventy Years of Recordings

by David King Dunaway

Pete Seeger is one of the most recorded artists in American history, and his recording catalog tells us not just the story of his career but the story of our culture and its political and social history. This...

The Solo Singer in the Choral Setting

by Margaret Olson

This handbook offers a unique perspective of choral singing from a soloist's viewpoint, providing a clear outline of several issues facing the solo singer in the choral setting. It discusses concepts as diverse...

Music Advocacy: Moving From Survival to Vision

by John L. Benham

This book is a summary of the practice of music advocacy. It is a compilation of research and experience gained from 30 years experience by one of the nation's most successful advocates for music education....

Opera for Everybody

by Susie Gilbert

Susie Gilbert traces the development of ENO from its earliest origins in the darkest Victorian slums of the Cut, where it was conceived as a vehicle of social reform, through two world wars, and via Sadler's...

Music and Cyberliberties

by Patrick Burkart

An activist's guide for musicians and fans opposed to the major label lockdown of online music

Twentieth Century Music and the Question of Modernity

by Eduardo De La Fuente

This book analyzes the history of contemporary or 'new' music in the twentieth century through the lens of the sociology of modern culture, linking the paradoxical aspects of twentieth century music to the central...

The Maker of Modern Japan

by L A Sadler

This book remains one of the few volumes on Tokugawa Ieyasu which draws on more material from Japanese sources than quotations from the European documents from his era and is therefore much more accurate and...

The Origins of Socialist Thought in Japan

by JOHN CRUMP

Socialism first gained a major foothold in Japan after the revolution and the subsequent Meiji restoration of 1868. Against the background of the rapid development of capitalism in Japan after the revolution,...