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George Harrison was always known as the 'quiet Beatle'. This biography reaffirms Harrison's importance as an innovative and hugely talented musician and shows that, as a member of the most important band ever, as well as in his multi-faceted career after the Beatles, Harrison was no ordinary man.

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An invaluable resource, a trove of lore for anyone interested in The Velvet Underground, their roots, and legacy.

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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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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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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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From 1660 through approximately 1830, the alteration of Shakespearean texts to comply with contemporary dramaturgy was a normal occurrence, and the need to adapt Shakespeare to popular tastes generated music quite different in style, function, and influence from that envisioned by the Elizabethan playwright.

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Born to legendary singer Nat "King" Cole in the halcyon days of the 1950s, Natalie Cole grew up to become a versatile singer all the way to a Grammy Award-winning status. But that success came with a price, where she was dragged down by depression and drugs. This is her autobiography.

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"A follow-up to Hegarty's successful Noise/Music, this book looks at noise in a range of contexts within sound studies and cultural theory"--

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Another Mickey is a slice of Americana--the venture of an Air Force brat raised in a military family anchored in Texas culture, observations of people and places critical to folk and country music, and a revelation of the inner workings of a Texas music scene, and Texas songwriter--Townes Van Zandt--that had a prolific influence on American music in the late twentieth century.

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The authors document the numerous attempts to ban or censor rock music, and dramatically show how it has been blamed for everything from anarchy and juvenile delinquency to drugs, deafness, teen pregnancy, suicide, abortion, pornography, and even murder. Here is the complete history of that "sick, repulsive, horrible, and dangerous" music as seen by its enemies.

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At fourteen, Toronto school friends Steve 'Lips' Kudlow and Robb Reiner made a pact to rock together forever.

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This is a one-stop sourcebook for orchestras, opera companies, conductors, and librarians programming vocal excerpts for concert performance. Includes detailed information on a vast repertoire of vocal pieces commonly extracted from operas, operettas, musicals, and oratorios more than 1,500 excerpts from 400 parent works.

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Tracing Sondheim's career from his initial success as lyricist for "West Side Story" and "Gypsy" to his most recent work - "Into the Woods" and "Assassins" - Joanne Gordon emphasizes not only the disturbing content of Sondheim's work, but his innovative use of form.