There are undercurrents and peripheral taste preferences that are a defining part of our individual and collective cultural experience. Music is no ex ...
Bach's spectacular Goldberg Variations represent a high point in the repertory of keyboard music, particularly for the harpsichord. This book takes a ...
Bach's spectacular Goldberg Variations represent a high point in the repertory of keyboard music, particularly for the harpsichord. This book takes a ...
This book is a waste of time and money. I wished they'd named it accurately, "Academic blowhards give opinions on obscure stuff". About 10% of this bo ...
Wade Mainer (b. 1907) is believed to be the longest-lived country entertainer ever. His banjo lessons began in childhood and he played informally into ...
"When bebop was new," writes Thomas Owens, "many jazz musicians and most of the jazz audience heard it as radical, chaotic, bewildering music." For a ...
Even in Beethoven's day everyone was talking about the "Moonlight" Sonata. This is a comprehensive introduction to Beethoven's most popular piano sona ...
The ninth entry in the acclaimed series celebrating the best writing on every style of music, from rock to hip-hop, R&B to jazz, pop to blues, and mor ...
The most comprehensive music career guide available: covers the entire range of career issues most musicians face. Contrary to the standard joke about ...
Benjamin D. Koen, Beyond the Roof of the World: Music, Prayer, and Healing in the Pamir Mountains. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009, 225 pp. Dr ...
In twentieth-century African American fiction, music has been elevated to the level of religion primarily because of its Orphic, magical power to unse ...
James Joyce used music and musical allusion in ways that no other writer has attempted. Ulysses alone contains more than 800 song references, many a ...
Can a type of music be "owned"? Examining how music is linked to racial constructs and how African American musicians and audiences reacted to white a ...
Since he first hitched a ride out of Lubbock, Texas, at the age of sixteen, singer-songwriter and Flatlanders band member Joe Ely has been a road warr ...
From the front man, and lead singer/songwriter of Alabama---the biggest country music group of all time---comes an inspiring memoir of faith, family, ...
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, ...
Having been a songwriter most of my life, condensing my ideas and emotions into short rhyming couplets and setting them to music, I had never really c ...
Anton Bruckner's Eighth Symphony (1890), one of the last of the great Romantic symphonies, is a grandly complex masterpiece. This book explores this m ...
Is business, for music, a regrettable necessity or a spur to creativity? Are there limits to the influence that economic factors can or should exert o ...
If you're a music lover, you may be surprised at the incredible wealth of treasures eBay offers-right at your fingertips. Buying & Selling Music, Inst ...
