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Everyone knows the story of the Delta blues, with its fierce, raw voices and tormented drifters and deals with the devil at the crossroads at midnight. This book rewrites that story.

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The interviews included in this fascinating collection of discussions with popular songwriters focus on the craft itselfand as such, they are of interest to both music fans and to budding songwriters.

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"Inner Adult" is an album of new songs by Terre Roche. It's also a book with lyrics framed in Terre's drawings. It was recorded at Coral Star Studio, on the island of St. John in the US Virgin Islands during hurricane season, September 2023. All songs are first takes. You can stream the audio of the songs using QR codes in the book

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"Inner Adult" is an album of new songs by Terre Roche. It's also a book with lyrics framed in Terre's drawings. It was recorded at Coral Star Studio, on the island of St. John in the US Virgin Islands during hurricane season, September 2023. All songs are first takes. You can stream the audio of the songs using QR codes in the book

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Tracing a line from Brian Wilson's very first musical loves (George Gershwin and the Four Freshmen) through to the Smile and Pet Sounds tours, this book details over 50 years in the musical life of one of America's foremost pop composers. It looks at the birth and evolution of his musical ideas, also discussing a number of songs.

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A cross-disciplinary guide to periodical literature in music dealing with scholarly journals and all journals important to the profession. Some 200 titles are treated extensively and each entry addresses historical background, physical description, content, critical assessment and bibliography.

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Though the term Irish music typically evokes images of fiddles, flutes, and Riverdance, Ireland and its culture have also given rise to a wealth of orchestral music, including compositions ranging from string quartets to operas.

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This book includes 8 compositions written for the piano and 2 for voice and piano.

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Irwin Bazelon, one of the most original figures in American music in the second half of the 20th century, devoted his life to the art of composition.

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Aims to illuminate the origins of hip-hop nostalgia and examine how artists maintain control of their music and culture in the face of corporate record companies, government censorship, and the standardization of the rap image. This book provides a common ground upon which to reconsider many of the developments in the industry.

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Memoir of a celebrated R&B/ soul singer of the 1960s: Regarded as one of the most gifted rhythm and blues/soul singers of the era, Maxine Brown inspired an entire era with her style and her tone, exemplified by her chart-topping hits "All in My Mind," "Funny," and "Oh No, Not My Baby."

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This book tells the history of the London black music culture that emerged in post-colonial London at the end of the twentieth century; the people who made it, the racial and spatial politics of its development and change, and the part it played in founding London's precious, embattled multiculture. -- .

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This book tells the history of the London black music culture that emerged in post-colonial London at the end of the twentieth century; the people who made it, the racial and spatial politics of its development and change, and the part it played in founding London's precious, embattled multiculture. -- .

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Contrary to arguments by the Recording Industry Association of America, this book posits major record labels led the change to digital music to strengthen profits. This updated edition explores both the transitions to the download era and the streaming era for recorded music.

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Discusses the iconic 1991 album that ushered Balkan music into western popular, jazz, and world music spheres.