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Encompassing six decades of performances, personalities, and shows, an illustrated history of the relationship between television and rock music draws on dozens of in-depth interviews to describe such key events as Elvis Presley's performance on The Ed Sullivan Show, American Bandstand, the influen

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Steel Drums and Steelbands: A History is a vivid account of the events that led to the "accidental" invention of the steel drum: the only acoustic musical instrument invented in the 20th century. Angela Smith walks readers through the evolution of the steel drum from an object...

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Lyricist, composer, tortured genius and enigma. A biography both of the man and his work.

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In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Steve Reich was considered a fringe experimentalist. Hoek's bio-bibliography serves as an essential guide to this literature, comprehensively surveying Reich's life and work.

Included are details of all of Reich's compositions: dates, instrumentation, premiere performances, and publishers;

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In Sting and The Police: Walking in Their Footsteps, Aaron J. West explores the cultural and musical impact of Stewart Copeland, Andy Summers, and Sting. West details the distinctive hybrid character of The Polices musical output, which would also characterize Stings post-Police development as a musician.

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Protest songs are united by the fact they all have something to say, something to dispute, or something to rile against. This book covers 50 of the most influential musical protests and statements recorded.

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Thirty years of collecting and 15 years of research have resulted in this discography that features all known recordings, transcriptions, and films made by Cole until 1950, when his jazz style faded away, and a selection of his later jazz-related trio sides.

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A new edition of this classic of rock journalism that first asked the question: What one album would you bring to a desert island, and why

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Following the pattern established with his pioneering work, Woodwind Music of Black Composers, Aaron Horne now presents a comparable work for the string music of Black composers.

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A cutting-edge volume that brings together educational research and practical strategies to align voice pedagogy with the twenty-first century teacher and student.

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A wide variety of essays by colleagues and former students reflect Professor Strunk's particular role as music historian, teacher, and a pre-eminent musicologist. Donald Grout provides the introduction and outlines the problems confronting musicology today. Other essays are devoted to early Christian music, Renaissance music, early Italian opera; A

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Carl Dahlhaus was without doubt the premier musicologist of the postwar generation, a giant whose recent death was mourned the world over. Translated here for the first time, this fundamental work on the development of tonality shows his complete mastery of the theory of harmony. In it Dahlhaus explains the modern concepts of harmony and tonality,

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Studio Electrophonique tells the story of the Sheffield home studio that helped launch the careers of some of the biggest names in British pop: The Human League, Heaven 17, Pulp, ABC and more.

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Analyzing one of the first albums to feature Hatsune Miku, the voice synthesized virtual pop idol, this book explores the environments in which the Vocaloid culture has been practiced.

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Analyzing one of the first albums to feature Hatsune Miku, the voice synthesized virtual pop idol, this book explores the environments in which the Vocaloid culture has been practiced.

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Presents the story of the biggest pop culture phenomenon of the 1990s: the rise and fall of the superstar DJ. This title reveals an account of flawed people, broken dreams and what really happens when it all goes Pete Tong.

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It is June 2001. Keith Streng steers a cramped mini-van north along Lincoln Avenue in Chicago while Peter Zaremba, Bill Milhizer and Ken Fox sprawl in the back nursing hangovers. They pull into the Apache, quaintly described as a "hooker hotel" by local folk. This is a bare-knuckled account of road-paving rock & roll played in the real world.

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The first published writing of the jazz giant, covering his life from his days in New Orleans through his success in Chicago and New York.

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Through their own words, Vacher tells their story in Los Angeles, offering along the way a close look at the role the black musicians union played in their lives while also taking on jazz historiographys comparative neglect of these West Coast players.

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Through their own words, Vacher tells their story in Los Angeles, offering along the way a close look at the role the black musicians union played in their lives while also taking on jazz historiographys comparative neglect of these West Coast players.