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A discography of the works and recordings of Igor Stravinsky to date and a chronicle of the composer's recording career. Following an introduction tracing his recording history, it lists 191 studio performances, recorded issues and unpublished recordings.

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For the author, regardless of what is going on in the world or her life, singing in an amateur choir never fails to take her to a place where hope reigns and everything good is possible. In this book, she unearths the history of group singing, and explores discoveries from the new science of singing, including all the unexpected health benefits.

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Considers the nature of operatic performance and the acoustic images of performance present in operas from Monteverdi to Ravel. This book argues that operatic works are indelibly bound to the contingency of live singing, playing, and staging. It explores a spectrum of attitudes towards musical performance.

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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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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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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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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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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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The emergence of Jack Teagarden as an important jazz stylist was a significant feature of the '20s jazz scene. He brought a maturity to the sound of the trombone and until late in his life played with

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Built on interviews with the most recognizable names in the jam band scene, a narrative that moves through time, paralleling the development of the jam band community.

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Provides an explanation of the basic elements of jazz, traverses the genre's history to see how it evolved, and profiles its key figures, theories, controversies, and role in American culture.

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Jazz Baroque: Vivaldi/Bach is a volume of tasteful and exciting jazz-tinged piano solo arrangements of Baroque music, written at mostly the intermediate, upper intermediate and early advanced levels

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Bushell vividly recounts his musical experiences, featuring candid assessments of the legends with whom he performed as well as eye-opening accounts of the early days of jazz and the racism that he encountered on the road.

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Is jazz a universal idiom or is it an African-American art form Although whites have been playing jazz almost since it first developed, the history of jazz has been forged by a series of African-American artists whose styles caught the interest of their musical generation--masters such as Louis Arm

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Is jazz a universal idiom or is it an African-American art form The author, himself a jazz composer, performer and author of several books on jazz and Latin music, sets out to encourage jazz lovers to take a rhetoric-free look at the charged issue of race as it has affected the world of jazz.

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An overview of contemporary jazz networks in Europe, with a focus on challenges faced by European jazz musicians and strategies to overcome them.

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"The jazz decade saw the emergence of many of the great figures who defined the music for the world: Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, Earl Hines, Bix Beiderbecke, Fats Waller, Jack Teagarden, Fletcher He"

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"This is the only jazz history written by a musician that is not strictly autobiographical. Rex Stewart, who played trumpet and cornet with Fletcher Henderson and Duke Ellington, knew personally all th"