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This bibliography documents the prolific output of the Welsh composer Alun Hoddinott, artistic director of the Cardiff Festival of Twentieth- Century Music. 278 musical works are catalogued, along with derived pieces composed between 1946 and 1991. An introductory biography is included.

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The story of a building, the community of musicians who worked there and how their music changed 1960s America.

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These essays document the American experience as recorded in popular sound, relating topics concerning 20th century music to issues of politics, society and culture. The focus is to place music in societal perspective and encourage investigation of the issues behind popular tunes.

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These essays document the American experience as recorded in popular sound, relating topics concerning 20th century music to issues of politics, society and culture. The focus is to place music in societal perspective and encourage investigation of the issues behind popular tunes.

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[This book is] a comprehensive illustrated history of the U.S. musical from its colonial origins to the present, tracing the connections and influences of the minstrel show, operetta, burlesque, melodrama, revues, circus, dance, musical comedy, the Broadway opera, the book musical and other forms.

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This comprehensive collection of 492 songs constitutes a body of work surprisingly large in proportion and revealing in scope. Compiled from songs originally printed with music, lyrics with designated tunes, and lyrics otherwise indicating that they were actually, sung, the book follows a chronology that is historically meaningful.

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The fuging-tune has long been associated with American music. The almost 1300 fuging-tunes by American composers published between 1770 and 1820 testify to their widespread popularity and musical impact.

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John Evans, a twenty-two-year-old farmhand from Snowdonia, Wales, travelled to America to discover whether there was indeed, as widely believed, a tribe of Welsh-speaking native Americans still walking the great plains.

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Thank God for Nat, who places the soul of the musician above that of his art.--Dizzy Gillespie

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"Examines Amalia Rodrigues's seminal international hit album, recorded live at the Paris Olympia in 1956"--

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"Examines Amalia Rodrigues's seminal international hit album, recorded live at the Paris Olympia in 1956"--

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"A personal narrative to sound written by one of the top figures in sound studies and that outlines a new way of thinking about migratory poetics"--

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"A personal narrative to sound written by one of the top figures in sound studies and that outlines a new way of thinking about migratory poetics"--

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"Collected here for the first time are more than 2,000 wise and witty quotations on every type of music and musicians, from Plato to Igor Stravinsky, Duke Ellington, Frank Sinatra, John Lennon, and a h"

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"This encyclopedia is the diverse lexicographic work available in the English language and provides a treasure trove of information on the violin--its technique, its history, and its place in music. Beg"

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This volume is the first index of spirituals to be published in more than half a century and will be a research tool for scholars and students of African-American history and music.

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The first introductory textbook to situate popular culture studies in the United States as an academic discipline with its own history and approach to examining American culture, its rituals, beliefs, and the objects that shape its existence.

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The first introductory textbook to situate popular culture studies in the United States as an academic discipline with its own history and approach to examining American culture, its rituals, beliefs, and the objects that shape its existence.