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This bibliography culls material from a variety of sources and catalogues the numerous writings that encompass Sinatra's accomplishments, public persona, and cultural impact.

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For the first time, students and scholars will have access, in a single source, to biographical, historical, and bibliographical data concerning the writers of the hymn texts, the composers of the hymn tunes, and the various routes by which the hymns found their way onto the pages of that large collection of gospel and traditional hymnody.

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This book offers a long-overdue examination of choral performance practices in the 1800s, including expressive devices, pronunciation, instruments, and choral/orchestral placement. More than one-hundred musical examples, illustrations, tables, and photographs and contemporaneous sources detail how choral music was sung in this time period.

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Opera has often used classical literature as a means of expressing the most vital concerns of the period in which the operas were written. Sing Sorrow explores the classical roots of many noted operas, illustrating the ways in which the operas reflected the political concerns of their time through these ancient narratives.

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Singing and Dancing to The Book of Mormon examines a cultural phenomenon, asking: What made The Book of Mormon such a success In what ways does the work utilize established artistic traditions (musical theatre, comic tropes), but revise them to create something new What cult...

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Timothy Cheeks Singing in Czech: A Guide to Czech Lyric Diction and Vocal Repertoire, with its accompanying audio, builds on the original pioneering work of 2001 that set a new and very welcome high standard for teaching lyric diction, according to Notes: The Journal of the Music Library Association.

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In Singing in Greek: A Guide to Greek Lyric Diction and Vocal Repertoire Lyda Zervanos reveals to singers the vast riches of Greek vocal music.

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As one of their great figures, the Dogon of Mali honor Abir, a singer and prophet from the nineteenth century who composed the principal mourning songs. This book examines how these prophecies and songs form a poignant expression of ethnic Dogon philosophy.

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With new lessons and chapters on kinesthetic imagination and neuroplasticity, the second edition of this book reveals how the Feldenkrais Method of neuromuscular activities can be used to obtain optimal vocal performance. It features unique modularized lessons specifically designed for liberating function in singers and other voice professionals.

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Military culture and sheet music writers understood music to have the power to help create a strong military and community in the face of conflict. This study of sheet music and military singing practices critically situates them in the context of the war and in social discourses, including issues of social change, segregation, and suffrage.

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Military culture and sheet music writers understood music to have the power to help create a strong military and community in the face of conflict. This study of sheet music and military singing practices critically situates them in the context of the war and in social discourses, including issues of social change, segregation, and suffrage.

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Deciphers sounds and silences buried within the ghostly horrors of Arthur Machen, Shirley Jackson, Charles Dickens, M R James and Edgar Allen Poe, Dutch genre painting from Rembrandt to Vermeer, artists as diverse as Francis Bacon and Juan Munoz, and the writing of many modernist authors including Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, and James Joyce.

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It has long been argued that opera is all about sex. This work explores the impact of this sexual obsession, and of the power relations that come with it, on the music, words, and staging of opera. It combines readings of specific scenes with efforts to situate these musical moments within the observed historical contexts.

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Deadheads--the passionate, million-strong followers of The Grateful Dead--have their own language. Skeleton Key is the first-ever overview of that language, a guide to more than 1,000 fantastical terms coined during the life of a band still going strong after almost 30 years.

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"The only plan right now is to kill everybody" Joey Jordison, drummerIgnoring every rule in the book and more besides, Slipknot are a notoriously controversial band who combine a talent for outrage with their music.

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In Smi Musical Performance and the Politics of Indigeneity in Northern Europe, ethnomusicologist Thomas Hilder offers the first book-length study of this diverse and dynamic music scene and its intersection with the politics of indigeneity.

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Using his trademark wit, insight and verve, icon Henry Rollins shares journals from his gruelling world tours of 1997 and 1998, as well as a record of the fulfilment of his longstanding dream to journey through Africa.

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Musical Transcriptions, biographical information, and photos covering fingerstyle jazz guitar pioneer Snoozer Quinn. First time in detail treatment of Quinn's life and playing style. Includes transcriptions of eight Quinn's recorded performances. Also includes short interviews and exhaustive discography.

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But Miles regularly changed styles, leaving his inimitable impact on many forms of jazz, whether he created them or simply developed the work of others, from modal jazz to be-bop, his seminal quintet and his big-band work, to the jazz funk experiments of later years.

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This perfect guide to the inner workings of the music industry and instant celebrity is a hysterical and witty look at what happens just before and during one's 15 minutes of fame.