Written against the academically dominant but simplistic romanticization of popular music as a positive force, this book focuses on the 'dark side' of ...
Nick Cave is now widely recognized as a songwriter, musician, novelist, screenwriter, curator, critic, actor and performer. From the band, The Boys Ne ...
For people suffering with dementia, the world can become a lonely and isolated place. Music has long been a vital instrument in transcending cognitive ...
When it comes to keeping children engaged, take a clue from the Pied Piper: Music does the trick. The 548 recordings listed in Children’s Jukebox offe ...
In 1946, Harry Choates, a Cajun fiddle virtuoso, changed the course of American musical history when his recording of the so-called Cajun national ant ...
New York City's Broadway district is by far the most prestigious and lucrative venue for American performers, playwrights, entertainers, and technicia ...
Patterns are everywhere in nature--in the ranks of clouds in the sky, the stripes of an angelfish, the arrangement of petals in flowers. Where does th ...
Since its first publication in 1990, Brahms and His World has become a key text for listeners, performers, and scholars interested in the life, work, ...
There are undercurrents and peripheral taste preferences that are a defining part of our individual and collective cultural experience. Music is no ex ...
By age thirty-nine, Blair Kilpatrick had settled into life as a practicing psychologist, wife, and mother. Then a chance encounter in New Orleans turn ...
Long considered the last word on Hank Williams, this biography has remained continuously in print since its first publication in 1994.- This new editi ...
Around about August 1948, Mr and Mrs Cyril Wakeman had an early night and some time later, at Perivale in Middlesex, Mrs Wakeman produced a bonny baby ...
Review“Roll ‘em: Tyler’s memoir is a wild ride. Explicit and filled with expletives, it reads like an even wilder and louder version of Richards’ best ...
American Indian Sovereignty and Law: An Annotated Bibliography covers a wide variety of topics and includes sources dealing with federal Indian policy ...
A rich and engrossing account of 'sexual outlaws' in the Hausa-speaking region of northern Nigeria, where Islamic law requires strict separation of th ...
This volume explores abductive cognition, an important but, at least until the third quarter of the last century, neglected topic in cognition. The bo ...
Jihadist ideology inspires a diverse and decentralized collection of radical groups to fight alleged enemies of Islam and to attempt to restore - a ho ...
Architectural pioneers such as Frank Gehry and Greg Lynn introduced the world to the extreme forms made possible by digital fabrication. It is now pos ...
