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Book SynopsisThis volume problematizes the historic dominance of Western classical music education and posits culturally sustaining pedagogy (CSP) as a framework through which music curricula can better serve increasingly diverse student populations. By detailing a qualitative study conducted in an urban high school in the United States, the volume illustrates how traditional approaches to music education can inhibit student engagement and learning. Moving beyond culturally responsive teaching, the volume goes on to demonstrate how enhancing teachersâ understanding of alternative musical epistemologies can support them in embracing CSP in the music classroom. This new theoretical and pedagogical framework reconceptualizes current practices to better sustain the musical cultures of the minoritized.This text will benefit researchers, academics, and educators with an interest in music education, multicultural education, and urban education more broadly. Those specifically interested iTable of ContentsPart I: Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy, 1: The Importance of Theory, 2: Why Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy for Music Education? Part II: Historical Overview of Today’s Music Classroom 3: Music and the ‘Civilizing’ Mission, 4: Music and the ‘Civilizing’ Mission in the United States, 5: Character Improvement and Music Education in the United States, 6: Music Education Standardization and Codification Part III: Today’s Music Classroom 7: How do our Normalized Practices Impact Children Today? 8: Two Music Teaching Approaches 9: How do Students describe a Meaningful Music Classroom? Part IV: Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy in Music Education 10: Musical Epistemology and Music Education Part V: Moving Forward Toward Culturally Sustaining Music Pedagogy 11: Practical Implications for the Music Classroom 12: Towards a Framework for Culturally Sustaining Music Pedagogy

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Book SynopsisReligion, Culture and Spirituality in Africa and the African Diaspora explores the ways in which religious ideas and beliefs continue to play a crucial role in the lives of people of African descent. The chapters in this volume use historical and contemporary examples to show how people of African descent develop and engage with spiritual rituals, organizations and practices to make sense of their lives, challenge injustices and creatively express their spiritual imaginings. This book poses and answers the following critical questions: To what extent are ideas of spirituality emanating from Africa and the diaspora still influenced by an African aesthetic? What impact has globalisation had on spiritual and cultural identities of peoples on African descendant peoples? And what is the utility of the practices and social organizations that house African spiritual expression in tackling social, political cultural and economic inequities? The essays in this volumTable of Contents1 Introduction: Mapping Religious Expressions and Spirituality of African Descendant Communities, William Ackah; Section 1: Religious Expressions, Traditions and Identities; 2 Church Women’s Legacy of Power: Case of U.S. African Methodist Episcopal Church, Jualynne E. Dodson; 3 Blacksmith’s Razor and the Vulture’s Head: African Spirituality and the Emancipation of Africa, Kofi Asare Opoku; 4 A Tale of Two Worlds: An Early Nineteenth Century Encounter between the Akan and the Danes and The Rise of Protestantism in West Africa, Ebenezer Ayesu; 5 The Resurgence of the Presbyterian and Anglican Missions in Calabar, Ekwutosi Essien Offiong; 6 Pain and the Black Garment: Pastoral Responses to African Widowhood, Elijah Baloyi; 7 An Act of Theological Negritude: Kwame Bediako on African Christian Identity, Tim Hartmann; Section 2: Arts, Aesthetics and Culture; 8 From Selma to Ferguson: Embodied Performance, Social Change and Political Organizing within the United States, Joy R. Bostic; 9 Sounds of Blackness? Struggles for Freedom in 21st Century Congregational Songs in South London, Pauline E. Muir; 10 The Cornel West Theory: prophetic criticism and the cultural production of hip hop, Michael Brandon McCormack; 11 Politically Freed Yet Mentally Enslaved! Reflecting on Psalm 8 by way of Steve Biko’s Notion of Black Beauty, Madipoane Masenya (Ngwan’a Mphahlele); 12 Rape, Rage and Culture: African Men’s Indigenous Knowledge and Resolutions to the Rape Crisis, Baba Amani Olubanjo Buntu; 13 Responding to Black Youth Invisibility: The Black Church Nurturing the Artist Within, Sarah Farmer; 14 Mariama Ba’s So Long a Letter and the Educational Empowerment of Muslim Women, Rizwana Latha

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Book SynopsisIssues in African American Music: Power, Gender, Race, Representation is a collection of twenty-one essays by leading scholars, surveying vital themes in the history of African American music. Bringing together the viewpoints of ethnomusicologists, historians, and performers, these essays cover topics including the music industry, women and gender, and music as resistance, and explore the stories of music creators and their communities.Revised and expanded to reflect the latest scholarship, with six all-new essays, this book both complements the previously published volume African American Music: An Introduction and stands on its own. Each chapter features a discography of recommended listening for further study. From the antebellum period to the present, and from classical music to hip hop, this wide-ranging volume provides a nuanced introduction for students and anyone seeking to understand the history, social context, and cultural impact of African American music.Trade Review"With this latest edition of their landmark collection, Portia Maultsby and Mellonee Burnim have once again shown why they have been leading ethnomusicologists for decades. Deftly organized and updated with robust case studies, Issues in African American Music documents the fruit of the interpretive turn in African American music studies, joining historical inquiry with powerful, smartly argued opinion. This book will define the field for the next generation of scholars, activists, students, and fans."—Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr., author of Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop "This indispensable anthology builds on the scholarship of Maultsby and Burnim's first volume, expanding its critical and theoretical scope and reach. By focusing on ways to approach reading multiple genres, as well as the intersecting politics of black music and mass culture, the impact of gender on black musicking, and the trajectories of black sonic activism, Issues in African American Music underscores the lasting influence, centrality, and historical depths of these expressive forms that sit at the heart of American culture."—Daphne Brooks, author of Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850-1910Table of ContentsPART I: INTERPRETING MUSIC 1. Performing Blues and Navigating Race in Transcultural Contexts (Susan Oehler Herrick)2. New Bottle, Old Wine: Whither Jazz Studies? (Travis A. Jackson)3. The Politics of Race Erasure in Defining Black Popular Music Origins (Portia K. Maultsby)4. Negotiating Blackness in Western Art Music (Olly Wilson)PART II: MASS MEDIATION5. Crossing Musical Borders: Agency and Process in the Gospel Music Industry (Mellonee V. Burnim)6. Industrializing African American Popular Music (Reebee Garofolo)7. The Motown Legacy: Homegrown Sound, Mass Appeal (Charles E. Sykes)8. Stax Records and the Impulse Toward Integration (Rob Bowman)9. Uptown Sound—Downtown Bound: Philadelphia International Records (John A. Jackson)10. "And the Beat Goes On": SOLAR—The Sound of Los Angeles Records (Scot Brown)11. Tyscot Records: Gospel Music Production as Ministry (Tyron Cooper)PART III: GENDER 12. Voices of Women in Gospel: Resisting Representations (Mellonee V. Burnim)13. Are All the Choir Directors Gay? Black Men’s Sexuality and Identity in Gospel Performance (Alisha Lola Jones)14. Women in Blues: Transgressing Boundaries (Daphne Duval Harrison)15. Jazz History Remix: Black Women from "Enter" to "Center" (Sherrie Tucker)16. The Reception of Blackness in "women’s music" (Eileen M. Hayes)17. African American Women and the Dynamics of Gender, Race, and Genre in Rock ’n’ Roll (Maureen Mahon)18. "Ain’t Nuthin’ But a She Thang": Women in Hip Hop (Cheryl L. Keyes)PART IV: MUSICAL AGENCY—AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC AS RESISTANCE19. The Antebellum Period: Communal Coherence and Individual Expression (Lawrence W. Levine)20. Civil Rights Period: Music as an Agent of Social Change (Bernice Johnson Reagon) 21. The Post-Civil Rights Period: The Politics of Musical Creativity (Mark Anthony Neal)

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Book SynopsisOffers a critique of discourse about African music. This work offers a look at the history of African music scholarship. It offers an alternative "Afro-centric" means of understanding African music, and in doing so, describes a different mode of creativity beyond the usual provenance of Western criticism.Trade Review"presents a new way to think about African music. . . . obligatory reading." -- Grant Olwage, South AfricanJournal of Musicology "few books in recent years have pursued a more ambitious agenda. . .without any doubt the most powerful theoretical intervention in African musicology in a decade or more. . . by a long stretch, one of the most edgy and stylish pieces of writing on the politics of culture in postcolonial Africa to have appeared of late." -- Veit Erlmann, Music Theory Spectrum"strikingly original.. upset[s] applecarts of convention and dispassionate prose. . . engag[es] readers in thorough, lively, critical debate about African music and Africanist musical scholarship. . .will be required reading for students of ethnomusicology, music theory, and historical musicology for some time." -- Gabriel Solis, Notes"At times frankly informative, at times darkly ironic, and at times passionately earnest, Representing African Music reads like a resource text, satire, and manifesto all at once...[offers a] trenchant critique of otherwise neutral-seeming representations of African music.. makes many daring statements and reaches a series of alarming conclusions...Those in search of a genuinely global musical discourse...could do much worse than begin their quest by reading Agawu's Representing African Music. His is the unmistakable voice of authentic hope." -- Martin Scherzinger, Current Musicology"unfailingly intelligent, well informed, and closely argued . . .lucidly and elegantly written. . .stimulating and provocative. . provides an African outlook on controversies that have been primarily covered by scholars in Europe and the United States. . .filled with incisive observations." -- Richard M. Shain, International Journal of African Historical Studies"This is a strikingly original book, promising to shed new light both on music from across the African continent, and on the history of Africanist musical discourse. Upsetting apple carts of convention and dispassionate prose, this book, while sure to elicit controversy from virtually all corners of contemporary American musical scholarship, should be required reading not only for African music theorists, and historical musicologist with an interest in the politics of representation.Kofi Agawu's Representing African Music does an excellent jobof engaging readers in a thorough, lively, criticaldebate about African music and Africanist musicalscholarship." -- Gabriel Solis, University ofIllinois,Urbana-Champaign,NotesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. Colonialism's Impact 2. The Archive 3. The Invention of African Rhythm 4. Polymeter, Additive Rhythm, and Other Enduring Myths 5. African Music as Text 6. Popular Music Defended Against its Devotees 7. Contesting Difference 8. How Not to Analyze African Music 9. The Ethics of Representation Epilogue References

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Book SynopsisA songbook that includes the songs from the debut album of Scottish teen singer-songwriter Amy MacDonald arranged for piano, voice and guitar. It includes four pages of colour photographs.Table of ContentsMr Rock'n' Roll; This Is The Life; Poison Prince; Youth Of Today; Run; Let's Start A Band; Barrowland Ballroom; L.A.; A Wish For Something More; Footballer's Wife; The Road To Home; Pound; Body Breakdown; Cry for Eternity; The Flame of Youth; Trail of Broken Hearts

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Book SynopsisCovers the songs of Chas and Dave, from their 1970s 'rockney', through their heyday of chart success, TV appearances and football collaborations in the 1980s, right up to their debut at the Glastonbury Festival.Table of ContentsAin’t No Pleasing You; Beer Belly; The Diddlum Song; Flying; Gertcha; Harry Was A Champion; I Wonder In Whose Arms; In Sickness And In Health; London Girls; Margate; Mustn’t Grumble; One Of Them Days; Poor Old Mr Woogie; Rabbit; The Sideboard Song; Snooker Loopy; That Old Piano; That’s What I Like; Wallop; Wish I Could Write A Love Song

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Startling insights on every page."---Henrietta Bredin, Country Life Magazine"A provocative and beautiful collection of twenty-six often deeply personal essays. . . . The works in Ways of Hearing point to the magic in music . . . its ability to enrich and affirm life, to express depths that words cannot reach, to provide hope and healing, and perhaps most importantly, to connect us to other people, near and far, and to all that exists and moves around us. . . . The volume . . . is a pleasure."---Thomas M. Kitts, Popular Music and Society"Across the 26 easily digestible essays that span subjects from Olivier Messiaen to Charles Mingus, this book gives the reader a unique insight into the role music plays in the lives of some of the world’s great artists and thinkers."---Angus McPherson, Limelight Magazine

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Book SynopsisCritiquing avant-garde rock bands from the 1960s to the present, Bill Martin examines how social upheaval gave rise to this new form of musical expression. He covers early experimentation by artists such as James Brown; initiation into the mainstream and the resulting adaptations by the Beatles and the Who; and continues into the present looking at how groups like Stereolab, Sonic Youth, Jim O’Rourke, and others continue to innovate. An annotated discography is included.

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Sound Heritage is the first study of music in the historic house museum, featuring contributions from both music and heritage scholars and professionals in a richly interdisciplinary approach to central issues. It examines how music materials can be used to create narratives about past inhabitants and their surroundings - including aspects of social and cultural life beyond the activity of music making itself - and explores how music as sound, material, and practice can be more consistently and engagingly integrated into the curation and interpretation of historic houses.The volume is structured around a selection of thematic chapters and a series of shorter case studies, each focusing on a specific house, object or project. Key themes include: Different types of historic house, including the case of the composer or musician house; what can be learned from museums and galleries about the use of sound and music and what may not transfer to the historic h

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Book SynopsisReform, Notation and Ottoman Music in Early 19th Century Istanbul: EUTERPE presents the first complete set of transcription and edition of Euterpe (1830) from Byzantine neumatic notation into the modified staff notation used by classical Turkish music and is accompanied by a substantial examination of the related historical, theoretical and musical topics. Through a series of Ottoman/Turkish classical vocal music compositions that can be dated to the 18th and 19th centuries, Euterpe and related sources reinforce a much broader picture of musical practice and transmission in which we clearly see that the Greek and Turkish traditions are linked. Reform, Notation and Ottoman Music in Early 19th Century Istanbul is presented in two parts: historical discussion and musical analysis, and complete transcription and edition of Euterpe.This book will appeal to music scholars and university studentsTable of ContentsPart 1: Historical Discussion and Musical Analysis 1. Euterpe in an Ottoman context 2. Makam, Usul, Repertoire and Style in Euterpe Part 2: Transcription and Edition of Euterpe 1. Methodology 2. Edition

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Book SynopsisFrench and Soviet Musical Diplomacies in Post-War Austria, 1945-1955 investigates how promoting ''national'' music and musicians was used as an important asset by France and the USSR in post-Nazi Austria, covering music's role in international relations at various levels, within changing power frameworks. Bridging international relations, musical sociology, media studies, and Cold War history, four incisive chapters examine the crossroads of Soviet, French, and Austrian cultural politics and discourse-building, presented in two parts - institutions of musical diplomacy: Soviet and French cultural diplomats in comparison; sounds of music coming to Austria: Soviet and French musicians on tour. Using a communication- and media-oriented approach, this study casts new light, firstly, on the interpretative power of ''receiving'' publics and, secondly, on the role of cultural transmitters at different levels. This is a valuable study for those specialising in Russian andTable of ContentsIntroduction Section 1. Institutions of Musical Diplomacy. Soviet and French Cultural Diplomats in Comparison Chapter 1. Soviet Cultural Propaganda an Its Exponents in Moscow and Austria Chapter 2. French Diplomatie Culturelle Across Austria: Paris-Vienna-Innsbruck and Beyond Section Two: Sounds of Music Coming to Austria: Soviet and French Musicians On Tour Chapter 3. The Russians Are Coming! Between Tchaikovsky and Stalin Chapter 4. The Gallic Muse Coming to Austria Conclusion: A Zero-Sum Game, a Language of Universal Harmony, or a Multi-Polar Relation?

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Book SynopsisParticipation in country music culture has long been dictated and restricted by entrenched systems of gatekeeping. This collection contests those systems and challenges the received narrative, examining contemporary issues in country music through feminist, intersectional, and post-colonialist theories.Table of ContentsIndustry: 1. Mailbox Money: Novel Liberation Strategies of a Black Female Country Songwriter Alice Randall; 2. Dixie Chicked: Sony vs. The Chicks and the Regendering of Country Music in the Early Twentieth-Century Kristine M. McCusker; 3. How 360° Deals Homogenized Country Music Rachel Skaggs; 4. A Double-Edged Sword: Industry Data and the Construction of Country Music Narratives Jada Watson; Codes of Conduct: 5. Why Country Music Needs Latina Feminism Sophia Enriquez; 6. Pistol Annies: Country Rebels with Humor Stephanie Vander Wel; 7. From Bros to Gentlemen: The Problem of Consent in Contemporary Country Music Phoebe E. Hughes; 8. Cowboys on a Beach: Summer Country and the Loss of Working-Class Identity Jocelyn R. Neal. Authenticity: 9. Dolly Parton's Netflix Reimagining: How Her Twenty-First Century 'Jolene' Revises Country Music's Authenticity Narrative Leigh H. Edwards; 10. 'When Britney [Spears] Ruled the World': Expanding the Stylistic Boundaries of Nostalgia in Country Music Paula J. Bishop; 11. Rhinestone Revivals: Repurposing the Nudie Suit for the Twenty-first Century Janet Aspley; 12. Country Music Doesn't Have to Suck: Intertextuality, Community, and Bloodshot Records Nancy P. Riley. Boundary Work: 13. Playing at the Border: Navajo Country Western Music and Border Town Racism Kristina Jacobsen; 14. Country-Loving Mexican Americans: Dual Patriotism and Inevitable Fandom among Mexican American Country Music Lovers Nadine Hubbs; 15. Practices of Genre Surveillance in Country Music: Hearing Racial Politics in Beyoncé's and The Chicks' 'Daddy Lessons' Rebekah Hutten; 16. 'We Have a Lot of Work to Do': Rhiannon Giddens and Country Music's Mixed Roots Tracey E. Laird. Epilogue: Country Music Needs a Revolution Rissi Palmer.

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Book SynopsisDedicated to the late Gerard BÃhague (1937-2005), whose pioneering work in Latin American music, popular culture, and performance studies contributed extensively to ethnomusicological discourse in the 1970s-1990s, this anthology offers comparative perspectives on the evolving legacy of performance ethnography in socio-musical analysis. President of the Society for Ethnomusicology from 1979-81, editor of its journal, Ethnomusicology, from 1974-78, and founder and editor of the trilingual Latin American Music Review from 1980 until his death, BÃhague also established the ethnomusicology graduate program at the University of Texas at Austin in 1974, thereby influencing the training and thinking of dozens of the fieldâs practitioners. Among these are the volumeâs eight authors, whose contributions reflect the heritage but also contemporary trajectories of BÃhagueâs scholarly concerns. Prefaced by an essay outlining key developments in the ethnography of performance paradigm, the volumeâs seven case studies portray snapshots of musical life in representative communities of the Americas, including the southwestern and Pacific United States, Puerto Rico, Bolivia, Chile, Cuba, and Ecuador. Situated in milieus ranging from the indigenous festivals of the Andean highlands, to the competitive public gatherings of poet-singers in post-Pinochet Chile, to the Puerto Rican dance halls of the Hawaiian islands, these studies pose anthropological inquiries into the ontology of performance practice, the social power of poetic performativity, and the experience and embodiment of sound in place.Trade Review’The ethnography of musical performance is so fundamental to contemporary ethnomusicology that it is like the air we breathe. Buchanan’s introduction offers a new window to the genesis of this approach and its broad reach, and then points us to the next steps forward. The articles that follow explore the politics of performance and the power of performativity in relation to history, subjectivity, and specific events through a series of vibrant case studies from across the Americas. Of special interest to Latin Americanists, Americanists, and ethnomusicologists in general, this book both explains and exemplifies why the ethnography of performance has become foundational to the ethnomusicological project.’ Thomas Turino, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USATable of ContentsIntroduction, Donna A. Buchanan; Part I Genres, Histories, and Discourses of Power Performed; Chapter 1 The Teatro Bufo: Cuban Blackface Theater of the Nineteenth Century, Robin Moore; Chapter 2 La Música Nacional: A Metaphor for Contrasting Views of Ecuadorian National Identity, Ketty Wong; Chapter 3 Conserve, Adapt, and Reconverge: Rationalizing a Template in Hawai’i Puerto Rican Musical Performance, Ted Solís; Part II Performing Practice: Style and the Politics of Subjectivity; Chapter 4 Transformation in Communion: Toward an Aesthetic of Improvisation, Tim Brace; Chapter 5 Feminine Flowers among the Thistles: Gendered Boundaries of Performance in Chilean Canto a lo poeta, Emily Pinkerton; Part III Situated Events and Performance Politics: Fiesta, Festival, Stage, and Street; Chapter 6, Michelle Wibbelsman; Chapter 7 Performing Indigeneity: Poetics and Politics of Music Festivals in Highland Bolivia, Thomas Solomon;

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Book SynopsisHow do you turn songwriting talent into a professional career? This essential guide tackles that question, alongside many others, taking songwriters through all the developmental phases and commercial experiences along the way in order to inspire and encourage the reader to find their own voice and write successfully within their chosen genre. Collating the best-available expertise with fresh ideas about the industry, Andrew West equips the reader with what every productive songwriter needs to know: how to write communicative songs that express meaning and convey individuality; how to develop songs into records; how the writer can function as a marketer and seller of original work; how domestic and international markets operate; and how to act and interact meaningfully within the culture of those market. Armed with this knowledge, the songwriter is able to engage creatively and financially to make the most of their potential.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Foreword Introduction Chapter 1. What are Songs? Scope; Typology; Music; Creativity; Communication Chapter 2. What is Songwriting? Solo Collaboration; Audience Chapter 3. The Writing Styles of The Great Songwriters: Tom Waits; Lucinda Williams; Jeff Tweedy; Bob Dylan; Amy Winehouse; Morrissey and Marr; Arcade Fire; Neil Finn; Joni Mitchell; George and Ira Gershwin; Lennon and McCartney; Neil Young; Marvin Gaye; Shane MacGowan; Kraftwerk; Carole King; Cole Porter; Radiohead; Robert Johnson; Adele; Hank Williams; Elvis Costello; Daniel Johnston; Van Morrison; Ulvaeus and Andersson Chapter 4. How to Develop As a Songwriter: Composition; Production; Performance; Arrangement; Culture Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWelsh post-punk band Young Marble Giants released one LP in 1980 and then, like their vanishing portraits on the album's cover, disappeared. Even though Colossal Youth received positive reviews and sold surprisingly well, Young Marble Giants quickly slid into the margins of rock ''n'' roll historyrelegated to cult status among post-punk and indie rock fans. Their lasting appeal owes itself to the band's singular approach and response to punk rock. Instead of employing overt political ideology and abrasive sounds to rebel against the status quo, Young Marble Giants filled their songs with restraint, ambiguity, and silence. The trio opened up their music to new sounds and ideas that redefined punk's rules of rebellion.Where did their rebellious ideas and impulses come from? By tracing Colossal Youth's artistic origins from Ancient Greece to the 20th-century avant-garde, Michael Blair and Joe Bucciero uncover the intricacies of Young Marble Giants' idiosyncratic take on musiTrade ReviewFans of this album – and it is a great one – should find something to chew on here. * Buzz Magazine *Table of ContentsTrack Listing Acknowledgements 1. For You are Movement… 2. Eaten Out of House and Home 3. Everything Comes from Chaos 4. Showing the Way to Go 5. The World is Not You 6. Let’s Be a Tree 7. Don’t Label Me 8. Sit at Home and Watch the Tube 9. No Rain Outside 10. Blind as the Fate Decrees 11. The Editors Agree 12. They Were Good, They Were Young 13. ...and That is Nothing Bibliography Endnotes

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Book SynopsisLed by the iconic frontman Robert Smith, the Cure remain one of the most beloved and influential bands in the history of alternative rock. Thanks in part to classic singles like "Just Like Heaven," "Boys Don't Cry," "Lovesong," "In Between Days," and many others, the Cure have sold millions of records worldwide and have performed in front of countless fans in every corner of the globe. Albums like Disintegration, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, and The Head on the Door are universally hailed as landmarks of the genre. For the first time, The Cure FAQ covers the band's forty-plus year career while offering fresh insight into each song in the Cure's vast canon. Each album is dissected and reviewed with candid commentary and extensive research. With their March 2019 entry into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame firmly establishing the Cure's place in the musical stratosphere, the timing for a career overview is perfect and The Cure FAQ delivers.

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Book Synopsis#1 New Release in Punk and Music Philosophy & Social Aspects, Theory, Composition & Performance ─ A Look at the History of the Emo and Indie Music EraExplore the cultural, social, and psychological factors surrounding the genres. Though songs can be timeless, music is often a result of the era in which it was created. The 2000s in music gave rise to indie, emo, and punk rock, carrying an emotional tone that has resonated with listeners ever since. Originally appealing to a small selection of music lovers, this music era now holds a significant place in the history of rock. The relationship between music and mental health. Music leaves its mark on the world by touching the hearts and minds of its creators and listeners. This book explores that connection and takes a look at what emo, alternative, and indie music did for the mental health of musicians and listeners. Inside stories from the music legends themselves. The voices of the rock musicians who contributed to these genres of music are just as important now as they were then. Author Taylor Markarian includes both her own interviews with bands and those from outside sources to provide an oral history and offer an authentic portrayal of these underground arts. Markarian’s book offers a comprehensive look into genres of music that have been simultaneously mocked and admired. Discover in From the Basement: The beauty and legitimacy of the gritty, wailing music that evolved into indie, alternative, and emo Insights from conversations with favorite emo/indie bands of the time The impact these genres have had on the millennial generation and today’s pop culture and mental health Extensive coverage of bands like Save the Day, Dashboard Confessional, and My Chemical Romance If books such as Please Kill Me, American Hardcore, Meet Me in the Bathroom, and Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs have rocked your world, then From the Basement: A History of Emo Music and How It Changed Society should be your next read. Please note: A batch of printed copies mislabeled the band Hot Water Music as How Water Music. If you received a copy with this issue, please contact support@mango.bz to recieve a corrected copy of the book.Trade Review“Taylor has not only been a part of meticulously documenting the history of emo with well-researched commentary and thoughtful interviews as a journalist, but has lived and breathed it as a passionate fan.” — Rabab Al-Sharif, Executive Editor of Loudwire“She’s a force of investigative passion. Weaving history with humor, she tracks down a genre and a generation with a tremendous amount of access—and who better to take us down into the basement of it all?” — Danielle Barker, Literary Critic and Scholar“Taylor Markarian has such a unique voice and a keen understanding of the musical scenes she’s been documenting during her writing career. It was only a matter of time before she told a larger story via a book format. I’ll be reading cover to cover.” — Amy Sciarretto, Atom Splitter PR“In just a few sentences, I found myself sucked in. I was suddenly emo’s number one fan and I just had to dive deeper into the genre’s history. Taylor’s passion for music immediately captivates you and you don’t want to leave until you’ve read everything she has to say.” — Brandon Ramos, Social Media Director of Epitaph Records“I am excited to say I was interviewed for this amazing piece of work. I highly recommend it.” — Eddie Reyes, Founder of Taking Back Sunday, Fate’s Got A Driver"A definitive work on emo music." -- Jameson Ketchum, Godspeed Podcast

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Book SynopsisBruce Springsteen called him 'one of the great, great American songwriters', Jackson Browne hailed him as 'the first and foremost proponent of song noir', and Stephen King once said that if he could write like him, he 'would be a happy guy'. The list of artists that lined up to appear on his records include Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Dave Gilmour and Emmylou Harris. So how is it that most people, if they have heard of Warren Zevon at all, know him only as 'that Werewolves' guy'? This book goes beyond that solitary hit single to examine all aspects of Zevon's multifaceted, five-decade career, from his beginnings in the slightly psychedelic folk duo Lyme and Cybelle, through to his commercial breakthrough in the late Seventies with Excitable Boy, his critically acclaimed late Eighties comeback Sentimental Hygiene, his decline into cult obscurity, and his triumphant if heart-breaking final testament, The Wind, released just prior to his death in 2003. Along the way the reader will discover one of rock's consummate balladeers, as well as a cast of characters including doomed drug dealers, psychopathic adolescents, outlaws of the Old West, BDSM fetishists, ghostly gunslingers, an unfeasibly large assembly of apes, and, yes, lycanthropes unleashed on the streets of London.

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Book SynopsisDinner with David Bowie, kissing with Jackie Wilson, close encounters with Iggy Pop, Rod Stewart and Ron Wood. Not even 20, still less a rock goddess, but Chrissie Hynde wasn?t hanging around. The talented, charismatic writer-singer escaped Ohio for Britain in 1973, hoping to form a rock?n?roll band. She befriended journalist Nick Kent, designer Vivienne Westwood, hustler Malcolm McLaren and famous musicians from Nick Lowe to Lemmy. She wrote for The NME and narrowly avoided becoming Mrs. Sid Vicious. Meeting Pete Farndon, James Honeyman-Scott and Martin Chambers, Chrissie finally realised her dream: The Pretenders, one of the world?s most exciting, enduring and best-loved rock groups. The Pretenders proved revelatory, lashing hard rock to the sexy, sassy swagger of streetwise punk and catchy, chart-busting pop. ?Brass In Pocket? was a worldwide hit. America took to its heart the ex-pat from the Heartlands, as Chrissie became an international star and a reluctant flagbearer for rock?s sisterhood. Weathering tragic loss, The Pretenders have continued to make great music. Combining dry wit with diligent research and a deep knowledge of rock music, Richard Butterworth appraises The Pretenders? turbulent, vital early years: from Chrissie?s arrival in Britain, through the band?s 1978 birth to 1990 and their fifth album. Enjoy the ride.

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Book SynopsisAn enigma, Leonard Norman Cohen was possibly the most improbable bohemian intellectual songwriter/singer in music history. He was certainly the working-class hero, the peoples? poet, the suicidal lamenter of doom and the purveyor of popular songs. But the truth is even more complex. Throughout his life, there were juxtapositions of the most unlikely life choices and influences. To have fashioned a mishmash of ideas, styles and influences into a successful, long-lasting musical career is nothing short of amazing. He blended secular, mystical, sexual and religious themes into ambiguous poetic tapestries and devised an intricate, unique musical style. He possessed a deep baritone voice that, although mesmerising, was sometimes in danger of sounding monotonous. Leonard was able to fuse these elements into a distinctive amalgam that somehow worked on many levels. He did not look the part, play the game or conform to any rules, but Leonard touched hearts and minds all over the world, while writing some remarkable songs, including ?Halleluyah? and ?Suzanne?. Focusing equally on this popular early albums, his more experimental mid-period and his final, late-career renaissance, this book analyses and interprets every album and every individual song to shed light on the phenomenon of Leonard Cohen.

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Book SynopsisThis book is the first to cover the entirety of Foo Fighters' discography, as well as Dave Grohl's various experimental side projects.

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Book SynopsisThe The was always a personal project for songwriter Matt Johnson. Started in 1979, when Johnson was a teenager, the post-punk outfit became central to the political and personal pop of the 1980s.

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Book SynopsisThis is the untold story of black music – its triumph over racism, segregation, undercapitalised record labels, media discrimination and political anxiety – told through the perspective of the most powerful office in the world: from Louis Armstrong's spat with President Eisenhower and Eartha Kitt's stormy encounter with Lady Bird Johnson to James Brown's flirtation with Nixon, Reaganomics and the 'Cop Killer' scandal. Moving, insightful and wide-ranging, Hey America! charts the evolution of sixties soul from the margins of American society to the mainstream, culminating in the rise of urban hip-hop and the dramatic stand-off between Donald Trump and the Black Lives Matter movement. Trade Review'An erudite and deeply passionate dive into the complex relationship between American music and politics' -- Sean O'Hagan * The Observer *'The author has done a terrific job of accentuating the social tensions and ambiguities among various racial groups which still exist in the United States and which, if anything, have been heightened since Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 45th president in 2017' -- Neil Drysdale * Dundee Courier *'Hey America! delivers another startling, detailed account melding music and politics as [Cosgrove] charts how black music has coloured the White House' * Sunday Post *

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Book Synopsis"This book is pure gold for the singer and singing therapist of today" - Mary Thienes Schunemann, founder, naturally you can sing! productions. "The life work of this Swedish artist is not so much the introduction of a new 'method' ...rather, this is the first adequate description in all music history of the western art of singing in terms of the human being's true nature." - Jurgen Schriefer, musicologist. Through experiential exercises and careful reasoning, Uncovering the Voice provides a new spiritually-enlivened interpretation of the processes involved in singing. It develops a knowledge of the essential nature of song, and summons us to work for the purity and preservation of true singing. First published in Germany in 1938, Uncovering the Voice disappeared under the weight of political events and the Second World War and was not republished until the 1970s. The new edition of this classic work has been re-edited and re-designed, and includes a biographical account of the author by Jurgen Schriefer as well as previously unpublished photographs. Afterword Dr E. Kolisko

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Book SynopsisThrough the book you can see, touch and feel music as you discover the 7 Swars and create music with the Swar Tarang app while integrating activities and stories from the book.

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Book SynopsisIn this pioneering musicological study the Danish emeritus professor Finn Egeland Hansen proposes that the classical-romantic main current of the 19th century in fact represents two sub-currents, the one focusing on the romantic aspects, the other focusing on the classical aspects of its musical style. His thesis is discussed with excerpts from the standard musicological literature plus writings by Saint-Saëns, and Finn Egeland Hansen exemplifies his argument in readings of the music by three stylistically different composers – the French Camille Saint-Saëns and Charles Gounod and the Danish Niels W. Gade. Finn Egeland Hansen labels these harbingers’ style as retro-classicism.

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Book Synopsis324 pages of never before seen Roxy Music photographs from one of the most high-profile Roxy Music fans celebrating the 50th anniversary of the band's debut album. A perfect gift for fans of 80s bands, Roxy Music and music photography. 2022 marks the 50th anniversary of Roxy Music's eponymous debut album, which the band are celebrating with a North America and UK tour, their first in over a decade. To coincide with this milestone, we are proud to present a one-of-a-kind historical document and celebration of one of the most beloved and enduring bands of our times. Documenting the band from their heyday in 1973 right up to Roxy's last live performance in 2019 - more often than not from the photographer's pit - and punctuated by rare memorabilia, priceless memories and cheeky anecdotes, Roxy Live is the book Roxy fans have been waiting for.

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Book SynopsisHangin’ Tough, the second album by the New Kids on the Block, has sold more than seventeen million copies worldwide since it was released in 1988. But the album and the band have also been dismissed, derided and deemed uncool by the music establishment. Almost thirty years later, the New Kids still perform the songs from Hangin’ Tough.Hundreds of thousands of grown women still flock to their concerts to hear—and go bat-shit crazy for—the songs they first heard when they were teenagers. Is this mere nostalgia or can the science of music help explain the enduring success of Hangin’ Tough? What is it about this album that made it so special? Is the music any good or are there other factors at play too? Journalist and New Kids fan Rebecca Wallwork sets out to analyze the quality of Hangin’ Tough with the help of music cognition experts, critics, producers and music industry pros. This is not a story about crazy fans, boy bands and truckloads of cheesy merchandise; it is an exploration of a watershed album and moment in pop culture history. It is a glimpse into the brain of not just New Kids fans, but into the minds and hearts of anyone who loves music.Trade ReviewMaking the case for the slick-sounding album’s place in music history seems a considerable undertaking. Yet author Wallwork presents more than enough plausible evidence about the band’s place in pop culture through research and interviews with those who worked with the boys during its heyday. She aims to explain why this album still resonates with her and the band’s mostly female audience (now in their 40s), and she tackles her subject on multiple fronts: the science, particularly the psychology, of why music from people’s teen years sticks with them well into adulthood; the genius of the band’s creator, Maurice Starr, who was also responsible for its music; and the personalities, talents, and musical influences of the five band members. In some ways, this book is not so much a band biography or album history as it is a story about fandom. Even elitist rock fans who don’t remember the New Kids fondly will find that Wallwork’s work may crack their hard, cynical shells. * Kirkus Reviews *What makes Wallwork’s book so great is that you can use it to understand how YOU fell in love with ‘that band’ from your teenaged years, and why you can’t let them go, no matter how you think your tastes have changed. Wallwork refused to apologize for her fandom, and instead invited you along to understand why you feel the way you do about your version of New Kids on the Block. * Bearded Gentleman Music *With this book, Wallwork isn't trying to convince readers to like New Kids on the Block. Rather she just wants to understand her own fandom. She wants to make sure she's not looking at it through the lens of nostalgia, something everyone has questioned at least once with something they remember fondly. Hangin' Tough will remind fans why they love NKOTB and will make others think differently about the group. * Examiner *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Do You Remember? Chapter 2: It Starts With a Whisper Chapter 3: Rise N’ Grind Chapter 4: Listen Up, Everybody Chapter 5: Space Cowboy Chapter 6: Click, Click, Click Chapter 7: Let’s Get This Chapter 8: Put You in a Trance Chapter 9: BH Love Eternal Pose For Me (photos)

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Startling insights on every page."---Henrietta Bredin, Country Life Magazine"A provocative and beautiful collection of twenty-six often deeply personal essays. . . . The works in Ways of Hearing point to the magic in music . . . its ability to enrich and affirm life, to express depths that words cannot reach, to provide hope and healing, and perhaps most importantly, to connect us to other people, near and far, and to all that exists and moves around us. . . . The volume . . . is a pleasure."---Thomas M. Kitts, Popular Music and Society"Across the 26 easily digestible essays that span subjects from Olivier Messiaen to Charles Mingus, this book gives the reader a unique insight into the role music plays in the lives of some of the world’s great artists and thinkers."---Angus McPherson, Limelight Magazine

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Book SynopsisTaces the humble beginning of Maurice White, his development as a musician, and his formation of Earth, Wind & Fire. Earth, Wind & Fire stood apart from other soul bands with their philosophical lyrics and extravagant visual art, much of which is studied in the book, including album covers, concerts, and music videos.

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Book SynopsisFeaturing dozens of photographs-as well as guest contributions from family members and friends such as Bonnie Bramlett, Mick Fleetwood, and Graham Nash-one of rock's true heroes finally shares his colourful, unique, and ultimately triumphant journey through a life in music.

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Book SynopsisAward-winning music journalist Don McLeese offers the first musical biography of the electrifying artist who has most successfully bridged the disparate worlds of commercial country and alternative/Americana/roots music, Dwight Yoakam.Trade ReviewThis lovingly crafted and compulsively readable biography is essential for fans of Yoakam and lovers of good music writing. * Library Journal *Table of Contents Introduction: A Thousand Miles from Nowhere 1. How Far Is Heaven? 2. Readin', Rightin', Rt. 23 3. South of Cincinnati, West of Columbus 4. Corvette Cowboy 5. From Kentucky Bourbon to Babylonian Cowboys 6. Who You Callin' Cowpunk? 7. Honky-Tonk Man 8. "It's Jes' Ol' Hillbilly Stuff" 9. Hillbilly Deluxe 10. Streets of Bakersfield 11. Bonus Cut 12. "Well, I'm Back Again . . ." 13. Wild Ride 14. Gone, Real Gone 15. Act Naturally 16. The Same Fool 17. Playing Out the String 18. South of Heaven, West of Hell (and Off the Charts) 19. Splitsville 20. Produced by Dwight Yoakam 21. The Buck Stops Here 22. "I Wanna Love Again, Feel Young Again" Appendix. The Dwight Dozen: A Selected Discography Acknowledgments

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