Music Books
Basic Books Music: A Subversive History
Book SynopsisThe phrase "music history" likely summons up images of long-dead composers, smug men in wigs and waistcoats, and people dancing without touching. In Music: A Subversive History, Gioia responds to the false notions that undergird this tedium. Traditional histories of music, Gioia contents, downplay those elements of music that are considered disreputable or irrational-its deep connections to sexuality, magic, trance and alternative mind states, healing, social control, generational conflict, political unrest, even violence and murder. They suppress the stories of the outsiders and rebels who created musical revolutions and instead celebrate the mainstream assimilators who borrowed innovations, diluted their impact, and disguised their sources. Here, Gioia attempts to reclaim music history for the riffraff, the insurgents, and provocateurs-the real drivers of change and innovation. In Music, Gioia tells the four-thousand-year history of music as a source of power, change, upheaval, and enchantment. He shows how social outcasts have repeatedly become the great trailblazers of musical expression: slaves and their descendants, for instance, have repeatedly reinvented music in America and elsewhere, from ragtime, blues, jazz, R&B, to bossa nova, soul, and hip hop. A revolutionary and revisionist account, Music: A Subversive History is essential reading for anyone interested in the meaning of music.
£15.19
Chronicle Books 2000s Music Trivia Game CDU of 6
Book SynopsisSearching for some aughts nostalgia? Find it here with this totally sick 2000s Music Trivia set from Ridley's Games!Relive the decade that brought us flip phones, gel pens, and juicy tubes. With 40 question cards and two different games to play, all you need to bring is your '00s music knowledge! Time for trivia? Simply divide into two teams and take turns asking the opposing team a question. You can choose whether to play multiple-choice or question-only, depending on how confident your team feels. Want to belt out a tune? Pick a player to sing the lyric line on the card to their team, who must correctly sing the next line back. And if they're feeling like ballers, they can name the artist and song title for bonus points! Made for people who'd love to relive those fetch days, this trivia game is suitable for ages 8+, 2 or more players, and has an average 15-minute gameplay. At Ridley's Games, we like to make Good Clean Fun that's as kind to the planet as it can be, so this is a
£45.00
Fantagraphics I Like People That Cant Sing
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£29.99
Indiana University Press Becoming Clara Schumann
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe book succeeds . . . by discussing the material world and practices of classical music. In setting forth concrete details and eschewing the hyperbolic and metaphoric, Stefaniak brings classical music back to life. -- M. Dineen * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsChronologyIntroduction1. Schumann's Early-Career Concert Vehicles: Transcendent Interiority and the Cutting Edge of Popular Pianism2. The Imagined Revelation of Musical Works3. The Compositional Agency of the Revelatory Interpreter4. Clara Schumann's 1840s Compositions and her Midcentury Persona5. Navigating and Shaping Local Concert Scenes and Canons: Clara Schumann's 1854-56 Tours6. Revelatory Interpretation and the Performance of MemoryEpilogueBibliographyIndex
£15.19
University of California Press Jazz Diasporas Race Music and Migration in PostWorld War II Paris 18 Music of the African Diaspora
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University of California Press Music after the Fall Modern Composition and
Book SynopsisA survey of contemporary Western art music within the transformed political, cultural, and technological environment of the post-Cold War era. It considers musical composition against this changed backdrop, placing it in the context of globalization, digitization, and new media.Trade Review"...an essential survey of contemporary music." * New York Times *"...Rutherford-Johnson catalogues the bewildering diversity of twenty-first-century composed music, and, more important, makes interpretative sense of a corpus that ranges from symphonies and string quartets to improvisations on smashed-up pianos found in the Australian outback..."Music After the Fall” is the best extant map of our sonic shadowlands, and it has changed how I listen." Alex Ross * The New Yorker *"In relaxed and readable prose, Rutherford-Johnson describes in detail how pieces of new music might be received, experienced or understood by a general audience, without any need for a background in musical training...an informed, engaged and thoughtful account." * The Journal of Music *"Music After the Fall succeeds, faced with a bewildering range of styles, in showing us how to approach the at times forbidding terrain of contemporary music." * Gramophone *2017 Music Book of the Year -- Alex Ross * The New Yorker *"This remarkable feat of synthesis and analysis...has fundamentally changed my vision of the music of our time. No one who seriously follows contemporary music should be without it." -- Alex Ross * The Rest is Noise *"Music After the Fall is sharp, provacative and always on the money. The listening list alone promises months of fresh discovery, the main text a fresh new way of navigating the world of sound." * The Wire *Table of ContentsList of illustrations Acknowledgments 1. 1989 and After 2. Mediation and the Marketplace 3. Permission: Freedom, Choice, and the Body 4. Fluidity: Digital Translations, Displacements, and Journeys 5. Mobility: Worldwide Flows, Networks, and Archipelagos 6. Superabundance: Spectacle, Scale, and Excess 7. Loss: Ruins, Memorials, and Documents 8. Recovery: Gaps between Past and Present Appendix 1: Recommended Listening Appendix 2: Further Reading Notes Index
£22.50
University of California Press Modal Subjectivities
Book SynopsisIn this boldly innovative book, renowned musicologist Susan McClary presents an illuminating cultural interpretation of the Italian madrigal, one of the most influential repertories of the Renaissance. A genre that sought to produce simulations in sound of complex interiorities, the madrigal introduced into music a vast range of new signifying practices: musical representations of emotions, desire, gender stereotypes, reason, madness, tensions between mind and body, and much more. In doing so, it not only greatly expanded the expressive agendas of European music but also recorded certain assumptions of the time concerning selfhood, making it an invaluable resource for understanding the history of Western subjectivity. Modal Subjectivities covers the span of the sixteenth-century polyphonic madrigal, from its early manifestations in Philippe Verdelot's settings of Machiavelli in the 1520s through the tortured chromatic experiments of Carlo Gesualdo. Although McClary takes the lyrics into account in shaping her readings, she focuses particularly on the details of the music itselfthe principal site of the genre's self-fashionings. In order to work effectively with musical meanings in this pretonal repertory, she also develops an analytical method that allows her to unravel the sophisticated allegorical structures characteristic of the madrigal. This pathbreaking book demonstrates how we might glean insights into a culture on the basis of its nonverbal artistic enterprises.Trade Review"...the book's engaging style, bold premise, and persuasive argument will reward and gratify the reader who possesses a modicum of music literacy and a general interest in Renaissance poetics, regardless of discipline." * Renaissance Quarterly *Table of ContentsList of ExamplesAcknowledgments1 Introduction: The Cultural Work of the Madrigal2 Night and Deceit: Verdelot’s Machiavelli3 The Desiring Subject, or Subject to Desire: Arcadelt4 Radical Inwardness: Willaert’s Musica nova5 The Prisonhouse of Mode: Cipriano de Rore6 The Coney Island of the Madrigal: Wert and Marenzio7 The Luxury of Solipsism: Gesualdo8 The Mirtillo/Amarilli Controversy: Monteverdi9 I modiAppendix: ExamplesIndex
£28.90
University of California Press Blacksound
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£22.50
University of California Press Fanfare for a City
Book SynopsisFanfare for a City invites us to listen to the sounds of Paris during the Second Empire (18521870), a regime that oversaw dramatic social change in the French capital. By exploring the sonic worlds of exhibitions, cafés, streets, and markets, Jacek Blaszkiewicz shows how the city's musical life shaped urban narratives about le nouveau Paris: a metropolis at a crossroads between its classical, Roman past and its capitalist, imperial future. At the heart of the narrative is Baron Haussmann, the engineer of imperial urbanism and the inspiration for a range of musical responses to modernity, from the enthusiastic to the nostalgic. Drawing on theoretical approaches from historical musicology, urban sociology, and sound studies to shed light on newly surfaced archival material, Fanfare for a City argues that urbanism was a driving force in how nineteenth-century music was produced, performed, and policed.Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations and Musical Examples Acknowledgments Introduction 1 • Baron Haussmann’s Musical Imagination 2 • Fanfare City: The Expositions universelles 3 • Urban Planning Lessons from the Café-Concert 4 • Street Music: Between Regulation and Liberation 5 • Street Cries: Constructing the Old City Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
£46.75
University of California Press Sounds of Survival Polish Music and the
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Harvard University Press Here and There
Book SynopsisStanley Cavell was one of the most distinguished and wide-ranging philosophers of his time. This posthumous volume assembles an array of writings that Cavell left behind, synthesizing into a cohesive intellectual vision unpublished works on modernity, music, skepticism, psychoanalysis, anthropology, tragedy, and the human voice.Trade ReviewThe writings gathered here are sparkling examples of Stanley Cavell’s claim that a philosophical puzzle can arise anywhere in the weave of life. Originally composed for different occasions, collectively they now seem like a letter from beyond, addressing each reader as if Cavell were speaking directly to them. -- Veena Das, author of Life and WordsIn this collection’s essays on music, we find Cavell listening closely, hearing the ways that music works with philosophy to help us understand the world. Quoting Wittgenstein, he also aptly evokes the spirit of Here and There itself: ‘Who can understand my philosophical work who does not know what music has meant in my life?’ -- John Harbison, Pulitzer Prize–winning composer and Institute Professor of Music, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyStanley Cavell was the most searingly brilliant and original philosopher of his generation. Again and again, these occasional essays, reviews, and lectures remind us why: sentences that take one’s breath away with their ethical urgency and existential precision, their baroque energy and lacerating honesty. Gratitude has to be one’s first response to the appearance of this collection. -- J. M. Bernstein, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, The New School for Social ResearchWhat comes across most powerfully…is Cavell’s attentive listening, throughout his long and distinguished career, for what one might call the hum of humanity. -- Christopher Benfey * New York Review of Books *Filled with situated insights into the academic debates of the end of the last century and the beginning of our own…Readers will find it worthwhile to tune in. Nowhere else will one encounter the sounds one encounters in Stanley Cavell’s mixtapes. -- Michael S. Roth * Los Angeles Review of Books *Cavell’s prose is suffused by the influence of the techniques and ethos of ordinary language philosophy—by its invitation to ask yourself what you would want or be tempted or inclined to say when. The auto-narrating trail Cavell leaves in his prose—his tendency to voice, even dramatize, his promptings or temptations to certain utterances—bears the unmistakable imprint of Austin’s and Wittgenstein’s methods. -- Lola Seaton * The Point *
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Princeton University Press Defining Russia Musically
Book SynopsisShows how enlightened aristocrats, reactionary romantics, and the theorists and victims of totalitarianism have variously fashioned their vision of Russian society in musical terms. This book focuses on four individual composers, each characterized both as a self-consciously Russian creator and as a European.Trade ReviewOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1997 "A passionate vision of what Russian music has meant both as an expression and as a shaping force of the country's character... [Taruskin is] an exceptionally gifted critic... [T]he connections between technique and expression are formidably argued, and it is the capacity to do this, with patience and depth of understanding and with a vast knowledge of the literature, that gives Taruskin's criticism its quality."--John Warrack, Time Literary Supplement "Taruskin's work is far too rich and multi-layered, steeped in Russian intellectual history, literature, and culture, even to synopsize in a short review... His newest book is essential for musicologists wishing to understand Russia's place in music, and for Slavists wishing to understand music's place in Russia."--Robert W. Oldani, The Russian Review "More than a musicologist, Richard Taruskin is a cultural critic who deserves non-scholarly readers. His brilliant and alarmingly timely book Defining Russia Musically is about the battle for a nation's soul--fought between Europe and Asia, modernity and primitivism--in the music of Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich."--Peter Conrad, The Observer "Taruskin's hallmarks are evident throughout: research of almost astonishing breadth, impatience with facile views and those who propound them, and contempt for formalist modes of analysis that ignore the extramusical. This is an important, challenging book; no other book in English covers this ground with equal depth or brilliance."--Choice "When this controversial book first appeared in hardback, it sparked a debate ... both because of and despite the way it tore into big names in the musicological world. Now it seems like a landmark... Richard Taruskin raises important questions about how cultural and artistic judgements are made."--Literary ReviewTable of ContentsOthers: A Mythology and a Demurrer (By Way of Preface)Pt. IDefining Russia Musically (Seven Mini-Essays)11N. A. Lvov and the Folk32M. I. Glinka and the State253P. I. Chaikovsky and the Ghetto484Who Am I? (And Who Are You?)615Safe Harbors816After Everything997Objectives105Pt. IISelf and Other1118How the Acorn Took Root1139"Entoiling the Falconet"15210Ital'yanshchina186Pt. IIIHermeneutics of Russian Music: Four Cruxes23711Chaikovsky and the Human: A Centennial Essay23912Scriabin and the Superhuman: A Millennial Essay30813Stravinsky and the Subhuman36014Shostakovich and the Inhuman468Index545
£49.50
The University of Alabama Press Coming Out of War Poetry Grieving and the Culture of the World Wars
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£23.36
University of South Carolina Press Charleston Belles Abroad: The Music Collections
Book SynopsisAn examination of the influential role music played in the lives of elite southern women during the antebellum periodIn Charleston Belles Abroad, Candace Bailey examines the vital role music collections played in the lives of elite women of Charleston, South Carolina, in the years leading up to the Civil War.Bailey has studied a substantial archive of music held at several southern libraries, including the library in the historic Aiken-Rhett House, once owned by William Aiken Jr., a successful businessman, rice planter, and governor of South Carolina. Her skill as a musicologist enables her to examine the collections as primary sources for gaining a better understanding of musical culture, instruction, private performance, cultural tourism, and the history of the music industry during this period.The bound and unbound collections and their associated publications show that international travel and music education in Europe were common among Charleston’s elite families. While abroad, the budding musicians purchased the latest music publications and brought them back to Charleston, where they often performed them in private and at semipublic events.Through a narrow exploration of the collections of these elite women, Bailey exposes the cultural priorities within one of the South’s most influential cities and illuminates both the commonalities and discrepancies in the training of young women to enter society. A noteworthy contribution to southern and urban history, Charleston Belles Abroad provides a deep study of music in the context of transatlantic values, interpersonal relationships, and stability and tumult in the South during the nineteenth century.
£45.90
Boydell & Brewer Ltd Music in FifteenthCentury Bohemia
Book SynopsisA long-needed reassessment of the musical culture of fifteenth-century Bohemia, liberating it from nineteenth- and twentieth-century nationalist agendas and reassessing its position in European music history.What was musical culture like in a country in fifteenth-century Central Europe where theologians tried to restore the values of the early church--including through musical practices--only to be branded "heretical"? Bohemian theologians tried to return to Christianity's "roots" by promoting frequent bread-and-wine communion for all (including children) and by encouraging lay participation in worship through translations into the vernacular. Unlike in many other European lands, monophonic chant and sacred songs were primarily used (though some advanced contemporary polyphonic settings circulated as well). These religious and musical developments formed part of the seedbed that would develop more fully during the European Reformation through the work of Martin Luther and others. Music in Fifteenth-Century Bohemia: Between Reform and Identity Building contains essays on liturgy, song, and the influence of the Hussite movement. The book resists both nationalistically tinged narratives and the marginalization that has long resulted from an emphasis on the disparities between Czech and Western European musical traditions. One chapter demonstrates how a fifteenth-century song was employed in the revival of Czech culture in the nineteenth century. Taken as a whole, the essays in this important collection illustrate the distinctive and often effective ways in which fifteenth-century Czech culture dealt with the dichotomy between religious reform and cultural identity.
£85.50
Boydell and Brewer Reading Texts in Music and Literature of the Long
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£23.74
Taylor & Francis Ltd On the Track
Book SynopsisOn the Track offers a comprehensive guide to scoring for film and television. Covering all styles and genres, the authors, both noted film composers, cover everything from the nuts-and-bolts of timing, cuing, and recording through balancing the composer''s aesthetic vision with the needs of the film itself. Unlike other books that are aimed at the person dreaming of a career, this is truly a guide that can be used by everyone from students to technically sophisticated professionals. It contains over 100 interviews with noted composers, illustrating the many technical points made through the text.Trade Review'A stupendous book that doesn't scant in offering details about the complex world of the music composition for movies ... It is obligatory reading for the composer that wants to enter the wonderful world of filmscoring.' – Audiomidilab, Community of Music TechnologyTable of ContentsForeword by John Williams I Preliminaries II Conceptualizing III Timings IV Composing V Recording VI Electronic and Contemporary Scoring VII Songs VIII The Business
£77.89
Cambridge University Press Germaine Tailleferre
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£18.00
BIS Publishers B.V. Don’t Talk Just Kiss: Pop Music Wisdom, Love
Book SynopsisWhen times are particularly difficult, and you are likely to slip into despair, some of the greatest pop songs about love can provide true comfort to make it through the pain. The problem with advice in general is that we often don’t take it. The great thing about advice songs is that you can kick back and listen to someone else coach you through a tough situation while rocking out at the same time. This well-produced and iconic album of words of love is the perfect gift for music lovers of all ages. This wonderful book lists 250 of the best pop songs for when you are in despair about love. The songs represent all popular music styles from the last fifty years, from rock to folk, and from punk to hip hop. This book is a collection of famous love songs. It gives the reader the song titles, painted by hand by the designer, and a striking quote from the song lyrics, as well as indexes on the artists. ‘Don’t Talk Just Kiss’ is the new edition of the successful ‘Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow’.
£14.99
Little, Brown Gallagher
£15.29
Orion HipHop Is History
Book SynopsisA must-read for old-school hip-hop heads and burgeoning fans alikeTime''Hip Hip is not History, it''s Our story. Brilliant book''Craig Charles''Hip-Hop Is History melds a detailed chronological retelling of the genre''s story with occasionally hair-raising memoir ''Guardian''Sharp and lyrical analyses of hip-hop''s evolution with fascinating, up-close recollections of the genre''s turning point... an exuberant account of a dynamic musical genre and the cultural climate in which it evolved Publishers WeeklyWhen hip-hop first emerged in the 1970s, it wasn''t expected to become the cultural force it is today. But for a young Black kid growing up in a musical family in Philadelphia, it was everything. He stayed up late to hear the newest songs on the radio. He saved his money to buy vinyl as soon as it landed. He even started to try to make his own songs. T
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Bonnier Books UK Lucky Girl
Book Synopsis'You can look at my life in two ways. Some people see a nightmare, some see a fairytale. I've just always thought I was lucky...People often ask me how I did it, this book is my answer. This is my story, everything I've learned along the way, I hope it can help you find your own luck. 'Lottie Tomlinson has gone through a huge amount in her 23 years on this planet. Touring with her brother Louis as a make-up artist with One Direction at the age of 16, you'd think her life was a fairytale. But this only masked the tragedy happening at home, when her mother became ill with leukaemia and died when Lottie was just 18. Leaving behind five smaller siblings, Lottie came home and tried to find a way to hold the family together. But sadly, tragedy struck again when the family lost Lottie's little sister Félicité, at just 18.Despite all this, incredibly Lottie has built a successful business empire, has a loving stable partner and
£13.49
Penguin Putnam Inc The Wu-tang Manual: The Wu-Tang Clan no rights -
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£20.80
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Amplified Come as You Are
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Music journalist Azerrad provides an electric revision to his 1993 account of the defining band of the grunge movement. (...) The band’s myriad fans will be rapt." — Publishers Weekly (starred review) Thirty years after its original publication, rock writer Azerrad (Our Band Could Be Your Life) updates and nearly doubles the number of pages of his groundbreaking Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana. The author intersperses hundreds of new, detailed paragraphs throughout the original text to amplify and clarify the earlier material. Most satisfying, he adds a lengthy epilogue which deals with events that happened after the 1991 release of the album Nevermind, including Kurt Cobain’s last months and tragic death in 1994. New material includes the Nirvana tours and practice sessions that Azerrad attended; Cobain’s meeting with one of his heroes, William Burroughs; the telltale signs that pointed to Cobain’s self-destructive impulses and his eventual death; and the utter remorse that Azerrad and other insiders felt after Cobain’s suicide at age 27. VERDICT (...) Nirvana fans will want to read it. — Library Journal (starred review) "Michael Azerrad has always demonstrated a passionate feeling for the ideas, the ambitions, that drive the notable moments of recent musical history. But this annotated edition of his earlier book, which was already a very successful biography, breaks out even further into high art. He's the perfect narrator, now, for a very important question, perhaps increasingly forgotten: why was punk important and how do we talk about it now? The urgencies of this question are everywhere in this powerful, uncertain, and profoundly human work. Azzerad's restless plunging onward, represents the further entanglement in deep, fraught, endangered wisdom." — Rick Moody, bestselling author of The Ice Storm and Hotels of North America “Enriched with new anecdotes, insights and info-morsels, this super-expanded Michael Azerrad classic is a great story made even more gripping. Nirvana’s underground-overground arc becomes a prism for understanding an entire era of rock music and pop culture.” — Simon Reynolds, author of Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-84 "Essential for Nirvana fans." — Kirkus Reviews "A fascinating examination of a band's rise and demise; life and death, personality flaws and mistakes and the ways in which someone in the public eye deals with them" — Culture Catch “Veteran music scribe Michael Azerrad’s absorbing, admirable and deeply personal sequel to his acclaimed 1993 bio Come As You Are: The Story Of Nirvana. (...) [This] might be the most fully rounded portrait of the artist to date” — Tinnitist
£28.50
Faber & Faber Me and Mr Jones
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Hodder & Stoughton Mood Machine
Book SynopsisSince Spotify launched in 2008, music streaming services have steadily encroached on our lives. Streaming was sold as a legal alternative to piracy. But in reality, it was an untenable model that enriched a small number of executives while pillaging music communities and exploiting listeners.Mood Machine tells the story of the so-called streaming revolution by reckoning with both sides of what Spotify refers to as its two-sided marketplace: the listeners who pay with their dollars and data, and the musicians who provide the material powering it all (and are increasingly charged fees to access their fans).With testimony from industry insiders and artists alike, Pelly will give voice to the new discontent, and sketch out how the ecstasy and diversity and connection of music can be preserved for future generations.
£15.29
Anthology Editions Transcendent Waves: How Listening Shapes Our
Book SynopsisHow can thoughtfully and intentionally listening to our world expand and inform our creative practices? What insights can we gain when we delve into the immersive world of sound, which permeates our every moment? In Transcendent Waves, sound healing practitioner, meditation teacher, and artist Lavender Suarez outlines how listening can unlock moments of creative spark, self awareness, and calm in a work that is equal parts how-to guide and contemplative artist’s workbook. Suarez's illustrated meditations follow in the artistic tradition of Yoko Ono’s Grapefruit and the creations of the Fluxus group, but also offer a modern take on listening in a world that gets louder every day. Covering everything from the noise of everyday life to musical compositions, Transcendent Waves compiles scientific evidence, anecdotes, and thoughtful prompts to spark a sense of wonderment and appreciation for the intricacies of sound and the new perspectives it can bring to our daily creative worlds.Trade ReviewLavender Suarez beautifully details the ideas behind how sound affects the world we live in. - Selective Memory Magazine (Dec. 2020)Transcendent Waves is a delightfully experimental new book which pays homage to the creative power of deep listening and the potential for sound to serve as a gateway towards transcendence. - Redefine Magazine, Jan. 2021Virtually every page of this book features a concept that forces you to reconsider your approach to listening, to music and the world around you. For Suarez, listening is an active mode rather than a passive one; by focusing on it, sound can spark your imagination and kickstart your creativity. There are countless waves waiting to be caught. - Aquarium Drunkard, Book Club Selection, Jan. 2021
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The History Press Ltd The Invisible Man: The Story of Rod Temperton,
Book Synopsis‘My favourite moment is when I finish a song, that is the moment I cherish.’ – Rod TempertonThe Invisible Man tells the remarkable story of how Rod Temperton worked his way up from a Grimsby fish factory to become one of the most successful songwriters of all time.Born in Cleethorpes in 1949, Temperton embarked on a career in music with the funk band Heatwave, for whom he wrote the international hits ‘Boogie Nights’ and ‘Always and Forever’, before his songwriting talent caught the attention of Michael Jackson’s legendary producer, Quincy Jones.For Jackson’s Off the Wall album, Temperton penned both the hit ‘Rock with You’ and the album’s title track. Three years later, he started work on what would become the best-selling album of all time – Michael Jackson’s Thriller – writing three songs, including the now legendary title track. And yet despite collaborating with some of music’s biggest stars, including Donna Summer and Michael McDonald, Temperton was famously reclusive and seldom gave interviews. Having enjoyed unprecedented access to the great man for his Sony Award-winning radio documentary on Temperton, Jed Pitman presents the fully updated, definitive story of one of music’s most talented individuals.
£999.99
Reservoir Books Perreo. Una revolución Perreo. A Revolution
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Footnote Press Ltd Rebel Sounds
Book Synopsis'Empathy is the currency of all music and Joe Mulhall does a great job of explaining how that quality has been used to generate solidarity for the struggle and sympathy for those who suffer injustice' Billy BraggWhile the global history of the dictatorships, oppression, racism and state violence over the last century is well known - the role that music played in people's lives during these times is less understood.This book is a collection of stories and hidden histories about how music provided light in the darkest of times over the past century. How it steeled souls and inspired resistance to oppression. Rebel Sounds will explore freedom songs in the Republic of Ireland, the Soviet Union's oppression behind the Berlin Wall, authoritarian dictatorships in Brazil and Nigeria, institutionalised racism and police violence in America and South Africa, street violence in Britain, ethnic cleansing in the Balkans and musical resistance in war-torn Ukraine.This is a social history of the twentieth century but one that takes in the human impulse to create, share and enjoy the one thing that connects cultures and spans generations: music.'Illuminating, uplifting and important' James O'Brien
£17.00
MIT Press Ltd The Evolving Animal Orchestra
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£999.99
Spenwood Books The Stranglers Live Excerpts
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£27.00
Hal Leonard Corporation Fifty Shades of Crimson
Book SynopsisFeatures interviews with Bill Bruford, Peter Giles, Gordon Haskell, Judy Dyble and more . . .In 1969 five young Englishmen calling themselves King Crimson altered the course of rock music, and despite a revolving-door lineup, the band has continued to innovate and inspire for more than fifty years. Fifty Shades of Crimson tells the story of this legendary band and of the unique English guitarist Robert Fripp it revolves around. With a deep passion for the music, author Pete Tomsett celebrates the achievements of Fripp and the array of incredible talent that has passed through Crimson, while not shying away from the many behind-the-scenes difficulties.Getting signed after supporting The Rolling Stones at Hyde Park, Crimson shot to fame with their debut album, In the Court of the Crimson King, becoming one of the most influential bands of that era and triggering the rise of prog rock. While going through countless personnel, including Greg Lake, Bill Bruford and John Wet
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Penguin Putnam Inc How to Write One Song
Book SynopsisA thoughtful, counterintuitive book about creativity from celebrated songwriter and Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy.
£17.99
Little, Brown The Piano Player of Budapest
Book SynopsisThis is a story about a piano and its most prodigious player - how it, along with him, survived.When her father died, singer songwriter Roxanne de Bastion inherited a piano she knew had been in her family for over a hundred years. But it is only when she finds a cassette recording of her grandfather, Stephen, playing one of his compositions, the true and almost unbelievable history of the piano, this man and her family begins to unravel.Stephen was a man who enjoyed great fame, a man who suffered the horrors of concentration camps in WWII, a man who ultimately survives - along with his piano. By piecing together his cassette recordings, unpublished memoirs, letters and documents, Roxanne sings out her grandfather''s story of music and hope, lost and found, and explores the power of what can echo down through generations.
£999.99
WW Norton & Co Introduction to PostTonal Theory
Book SynopsisThe classic survey of the field, retooled for a new generation of students.
£76.95
Hal Leonard Corporation The British Amp Invasion: How Marshall, Hiwatt,
Book SynopsisAlthough rock 'n roll is America's all-time leading cultural export half of the classic rock sound ä hard-hitting skintight audacious and vibrant ä was born across the pond. Musician journalist and writer Dave Hunter's ÊThe British Amp Invasion: How Marshall Hiwatt Vox and More Changed the Sound of MusicÊ charts the forty-plus year confluence of British industrial ingenuity and popular culture that grew a minor also-ran offshore industry into a true world leader. Art inspired engineering engineering influenced art and as both evolved at breakneck speed the finest amplifiers in the world were devised and refined on the British Isles. The symbiotic relationship born of this partnership produced the most powerful music ever known to mankind ä a sound that still resonates today in the most literal sense possible. Hunter's original account provides a ground-level perspective of the simultaneous development of an adolescent audio industry and a nascent musical style documenting their twin struggle to find their footing and stride forward. Rich with behind-the-scenes accounts and high-resolution images of the era's greatest (and highly collectible) amplifiers many of which have never been told or seen before this book is a welcome addition to the libraries of audio aficionados guitarists bassists and other musicians classic rock fans collectors of vintage gear and anyone with an eye for fine photography and an ear for compelling histories.
£22.50
Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd From CBGB to the Roundhouse
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Waterbrook Press (A Division of Random House Inc) Musicophilia
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£15.38
Columbia University Press Counterpoint in Composition Paper
Book Synopsis-- Stanley Persky, City University of New YorkTable of ContentsIntroduction Part 1. The Techniques of Elementary Counterpoint 1. Cantus Firmus and First Species 1. Cantus Firmus 2. Two-part Counterpoint, First Species 3. Three-part Counterpoint, First Species 2. Second Species 1. Two-part Counterpoint 2. Three-point Counterpoint 3. Third Species 1. Two-part Counterpoint 2. Three-part Counterpoint 3. Three Notes against One 4. Fourth Species 1. Two-part Counterpoint 2. Three-part Counterpoint 5. Fifth Species 1. Two-part Counterpoint 2. Three-part Counterpoint Part 2. The Techniques of Prolonged Counterpoint 6. Counterpoint in Composition, I 1. The Direct Application of Species Counterpoint 2. Two Major Influences on Contrapuntal Texture 7. Counterpoint in Composition, II 1. Melodic-contrapuntal Prolongations 2. Counterpoint within Prolonged Chords 3. The Evolution of Dissonance 4. Repetition and Articulation 5. Harmonic Influences on Voice Leading 6. Chromaticism; Contrapuntal Leading-tone Chords 7. Octaves and Fifths 8. The Chorale 1. The Elements of Chorale Writing 2. Setting a Single Phrase 3. Setting Groups of Two or More Phrases 4. The Complete Chorale 9. Combined Species 1. Combination of Two Second Species 2. Combination of Second and Third Species 3. Combination of Second and Fourth Species 4. Combination of Third and Fourth Species 5. Combination of Two Fifth Species 6. Progressions from Combined Species in Composition 10. Voice-Leading Techniques in Historical Perspective (ca. 1450-ca. 1900)
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Simon & Schuster The Meaning of Jungkook
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£23.19
The University of Chicago Press Art of Darkness A Poetics of Gothic
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface 1: Approaching Others (Thoughts before Writing) Anthropology and Its Discontents. Occult Thought and Hegemonic Histories. The Hermeneutic Recognition of Others. The Rehabilitation of Hermeneutic Dialogue. Archaeology, Genealogy, and Hermeneutic History. 2: The Scope of Renaissance Magic The New Magic. The World of the Renaissance Magus. Agrippa versus Foucault. Locating Occult Musics. 3: Modes and Planetary Song: The Musical Alliance of Ethics and Cosmology Structures and Their Reproduction. Structural Transformations circa 1500. Structure and Event. 4: Ficino's Magical Songs Spirit, Soul, Music. Word, Image, Music. Phantasmic and Demonic Song. Substance, Figure, Sound. Seeing and Hearing in the Renaissance. 5: Musical Possession and Musical Soul Loss Possession, Shamanism, and Soul Loss. Musical Soul Loss and Possession: Examples from Nonelite Culture. Possession and Soul Loss in Ficino's Furors. Thoughts on the Politics of Early-Modern Mysticism. 6: An Archaeology of Poetic Furor, 1500-1650 Foucault's Epistemes. Magical Furor. Analytic Furor. Poetic Furor and Archaeological Ambivalence circa 1600. 7: Archaeology and Music: Apropos of Monteverdi's Musical Magic 8: Believing Others (Thoughts upon Writing) Appendix: Passages Translated in the Text Works Cited Index
£28.00
WW Norton & Co Harmonic Practice in Tonal Music
Book SynopsisConceptually sophisticated and exceptionally musical, Harmonic Practice in Tonal Music provides a thorough treatment of harmony and voice-leading principles in tonal music.
£62.69
Spenwood Books Cropredy Capers
Book SynopsisCropredy Capers is an oral history of the folk-rock band Fairport Convention and contains over 250 fan memories and 250 photos and items of memorabilia from the band's 57-year career
£27.00
Indiana University Press MinimalismOrigins
Book SynopsisThe term Minimalism appeared in the mid-1960s, primarily with reference to the stripped-down sculpture of artists like Robert Morris and Donald Judd. Investigating the origins of Minimalism in postwar American culture, the author redefines it as a movement that developed radically reductive stylistic innovations in numerous media.Trade Review... a landmark work, the first attempt to write a pre-history of minimalism that embraces all the arts. Its importance cannot be overestimated." --K. Robert Schwarz, Institute for Studies in American Music "All told, this book is mandatory reading for anyone who wishes to understand the history and nature of minimalism." --i/e NINETable of ContentsPaintSoundSpaceEndBibliographyIndex
£18.04
The University of Chicago Press Blue Notes in Black and White
Book SynopsisCharting the development of jazz photography from the swing era of the 1930s to the rise of black nationalism in the '60s, this title offers an account of the partnership between two of the twentieth century's innovative art forms. It introduces us to the great jazz photographers - including Gjon Mili, William Gottlieb, Herman Leonard, and more.Trade Review"Benjamin Cawthra, writing with grace and a formidable command of jazz history and American culture, makes us see the sounds, the social relations, and the myths of jazz as he ably uncovers the personal and institutional networks of musicians, writers, magazines, and record companies in which jazz photography developed. Even as Blue Notes in Black and White casts a sharp eye on photographic aesthetics, it also works as a groundbreaking history of jazz criticism. At its best, this excellent book serves as a model for a multisensory music criticism: while reading it, I often felt I was hearing the music more deeply." -John Gennari, author of Blowin' Hot and Cool: Jazz and Its Critics"
£37.05
The University of Chicago Press The Soul of Mbira
Book SynopsisA scholarly portrayal of Shona musicians and the African Musical tradition. l Berliner provides the complete cultural context for the music and an intimate, precise account of the meaning of the instrument and its music.
£20.00
University of Illinois Press Why Suyá Sing
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