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Comprising both interpretive essays and a selection of documents that bear on Dvorak's career and music, this volume addresses fundamental questions about the composer while presenting an argument for a radical reappraisal.

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Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen are widely acknowledged as the great pop poets of the 1960s, transforming the popular song into a medium for questioning the personal, social and political norms of their times.

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Bob Dylan's performance at Newport in 1965 changed the face of rock and roll and the face of folk music forever. He had to teach his audience how to hear sounds that had never before been heard. Dylan did the same for religion when he converted to Christianity in late 1978. This book focuses on Dylan's religious period.

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Arranged alphabetically from Bryan Adams to Dottie West, Dynamic Duets gives the back stories on all of the pairings that cracked Billboard's Top 40 between 1955 and the end of the century. The book includes photographs of many of the records and/or the performers, chart and l...

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The essential book for any fan of the Boss, Bruce Springsteen.

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Echoes from the East: The Javanese Gamelan and its Influence on the Music of Claude Debussy chronicles Debussy's encounter with the music of the gamelan, an ensemble of tuned percussion instruments, at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1889. This book explores the profound effect this event had on his work and style.

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This work details each recording session, as well as the records on which each song appeared, and includes 104 songs that were never released.

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In this collection, a group of distinguished composers and theorists who have actively worked in the field of electronic music, present detailed analyses of important electroacoustic works, while also demonstrating some recent approaches to the analysis of the music of this medium.

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This is a desk reference for academic and public library music reference collections as well as for music professionals. The more than 250 books discussed represent a core bibliography on this late 20th-century phenomenon of "electronic" and "computer" music.

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The influential rock musician Elvis Costello is recognized for the impressive breadth and scope of his music.

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"Meant to be a field guide for further research, it pitches to the most erudite echelons of Elvis fandom without going over the heads of the masses. It is also easily the coolest, most reasonable book about the Kink yet." Booklist

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Providing an overview of the music, fashion, films, and philosophies behind the movement, this encyclopedia chronicles the history and development of heavy metal, including sub-movements such as death metal, speed metal, grindcore, and hair metal. It includes coverage on heavy metal fashion; and, masculine and feminine images.

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Independent rock, known as indie rock (rock independent of the major label corporations), is music dedicated to the art of rock: it's adventurous, eclectic, defiant, inventive, and restlessly creative.

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Bob Leszczak has amassed several hundred examples of musical pseudonyms in The Encyclopedia of Pop Music Aliases, 1950-2000, describing the history of these artists from their obscure origins under another name to their rise to prominence as a major musical act.

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The British punk movement is thought to have begun in the mid-1970s with bands such as the Clash and the Sex Pistols, and the American punk movement in the early 1970s with bands such as the Ramones, Patti Smith, and Television playing at CBGB's in New York City's Lower East Side.

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Hip Hop music is comprised of several art forms: 1) MC-ing or rapping 2)B-boying or breakdancing 3)Deejaying (music) and 4) Graffiti art (visual art).

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"Drawing equally from Viennese operetta, Parisian cabaret, vaudeville, and Tin Pan Alley, the American musical theatre has thrived in an unprecedented variety of forms and styles as our truest hybrid a"

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This eclectic encyclopaedia chronicles the careers of over 110 musical artists from all over the world. Author Stan Jeffries chronicles the careers of the leading bands and solo acts from 37 different nations. Entries include biographical information and trace the entrants' musical development.

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A guide to The Welfare State, a theatre group which uses the traditions of carnival, music hall and fairground to entertain audiences. Their work formed the centrepiece of Glasgow's 1990 City of Culture celebrations.

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