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The Latin sound called salsa, or, more correctly, Afro-Hispanic music of the Antilles, is a vital force on the international contemporary music scene.

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Boggs presents a history of salsa, showing how Afro-Cuban music was embraced in New York City, how it has undergone cycles of popularity, and how it has been replicated abroad. The text contains interviews with such key figures as Palladium Mambero and Ernie Ensley.

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Hennessee provides a biographical overview of the life of Samuel Barber, one of America's foremost composers, as well as comprehensive bibliographical information about his complete oeuvre. The volume consists of four main sections: a brief biography, a complete list of works and performances, a discography, and an annotated bibliography.

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"In all my whole career the Brick House was one of the toughest joints I ever played in. It was the honky-tonk where levee workers would congregate every Saturday night and trade with the gals who'd s

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One of the United States' musical greats, the influence of trumpeter Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong extended well beyond the world of jazz. This encyclopedia presents alphabetic short entries discussing such topics as musical styles, friends and colleagues, family, tours, writings, recordings, record com

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When pressed to name the most influential musician of the 20th century, many music historians will name Louis Satchmo Armstrong.

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"The noted blues scholar Paul Oliver here examines the many different skeins of the blues form, relating them to other black traditions - musical and religious - and tracing the origin of the blues thr"

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"The first collection to show the full range of ways in which the Bible was mediated through both popular and elite music in nineteenth-century Britain"--

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"Focuses on the relationship between music, sex, and gender - with emphasis on contemporary pop music, which has been overlooked in previous related scholarship"--

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"Focuses on the relationship between music, sex, and gender - with emphasis on contemporary pop music, which has been overlooked in previous related scholarship"--

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This bibliography culls material from a variety of sources and catalogues the numerous writings that encompass Sinatra's accomplishments, public persona, and cultural impact.

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Opera has often used classical literature as a means of expressing the most vital concerns of the period in which the operas were written. Sing Sorrow explores the classical roots of many noted operas, illustrating the ways in which the operas reflected the political concerns of their time through these ancient narratives.

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It has long been argued that opera is all about sex. This work explores the impact of this sexual obsession, and of the power relations that come with it, on the music, words, and staging of opera. It combines readings of specific scenes with efforts to situate these musical moments within the observed historical contexts.

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Deadheads--the passionate, million-strong followers of The Grateful Dead--have their own language. Skeleton Key is the first-ever overview of that language, a guide to more than 1,000 fantastical terms coined during the life of a band still going strong after almost 30 years.

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"The only plan right now is to kill everybody" Joey Jordison, drummerIgnoring every rule in the book and more besides, Slipknot are a notoriously controversial band who combine a talent for outrage with their music.

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Using his trademark wit, insight and verve, icon Henry Rollins shares journals from his gruelling world tours of 1997 and 1998, as well as a record of the fulfilment of his longstanding dream to journey through Africa.

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