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The reflexive approach and the concept of bimusicality have made possible this in-depth study of the Rada rite, the foundation of the complex and sensationalized religion of Haiti, Vodun.

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"The never-before told story of drum machines, from their primitive beginnings to their Eighties dominance to the ways they're still changing music today"--

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Explores the synergies between jazz and the French. This cultural history teases out the threads of artistic collaborations and rivalries, revisits influential meetings, love affairs and friendships, and explores tensions in US-French relations, to show how jazz has helped shaped modern French culture.

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From humbling beginnings in County Donegal in Ireland to worldwide recording success, Daniel O'Donnell recounts the incredible story of his life, charting the ups and downs with remarkable honesty.

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The volume commences with a biography, and then supplies a complete catalog of works and a selected listing of performances. The first part lists references to general reviews of Pinkham's work or reviews of more than one composition; The volume concludes with four appendixes: a list of works arranged chronologically by date of composition;

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Almost all of the singer-songwriters discussed here including Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Tom Waits, Amy Winehouse, The White Stripes, and many more sing in an exotic and raw vocal style, which one would not traditionally call reassuring, and yet their profoundly unique voices appear to be the only ones capable of conveying their unique messages.

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"This book examines the concept of 'dark sound', a strand of contemporary music that links the ideas of death, desire and violence with women's and gender studies"--

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"Analyzes the music of Darkthrone and Norwegian black metal through the lens of exotic "Northern-ness," exploring black metal's global appeal and commercialization as a distinctly Scandinavian musical style"--

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"This book tells the story of David Bowie becoming a medium for and an instigator of music videos, and how this shaped almost five decades of music videos to come"--

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"A Vintage books original"--Title page verso.

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Shows 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.

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This book tells the story of how the young Englishman Eric Fenby met his idol and became his aide.

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The definitive account of rock in the city that has produced louder, more important, in-your-face rock than anywhere else on the planet, told from the bands- the Stooges, MC5, Grand Funk Railroad, Ted Nugent, the White Stripes, Kid Rock, and more- the fans, and everyone who was there to witness it.

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Early in the century, a handful of American composers began creating a new musical culture in the United States. This movement, known as experimentalism, peaked during the 1950s and 1960s, when the music of composers like John Cage, Henry Cowell, and Charles Ives reached a new wide audience.

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Aims to provide comprehensive information on the technology of music. The encyclopaedia's entries cover an immense musical field. Included are entries on traditional and electronic instruments, and on such topics as computer music composition, microphone placement and psychoacoustics.

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English National Opera Guides are ideal companions to the opera. They provide stimulating introductory articles together with the complete text of each opera in English and the original.

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