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Offering commentary, musical analysis, and detailed interpretation of her songs' lyrics, this book examines the qualities of Sheryl Crow's music that have served to establish the artist's success and popularity.

Sheryl Crow continues to be celebrated for her legacy as a singer-songwriter and pop culture icon.

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The Words and Music of Sting subdivides Sting's life and works into rough periods of creative activity and offers a fantastic opportunity to view Sting's many stylistic changes within a coherent general framework.

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A fascinating portrait of one of America's greatest composer-performers in his own words and the words of the musicians he played with.

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Thea Musgrave ranks among the world's foremost living composers, and is widely known for the warmth, humor, and theatrical qualities of her music. Hixon has prepared the first and only substantial bibliographical treatment of the composer, and the only complete listing of her works, with the assistance of Musgrave herself.

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"What were Prince's politics What did he believe about God And did he really forsake the subject--sex--that once made him the most subversive superstar of the Reagan era In this illuminating, thematic biography, Joseph Vogel explores the issues that made PRince one of the late 20th century's most unique, controversial, and fascinating artists"--Dust jacket.

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Charlie Barnet (1913-1991) is best known as the popular bandleader whose hits included "Cherokee", "Pompton Turnpike", and "Skyliner". In this book, he writes of his whiskey and marijuana habits, of his whorehouse visits and his half-dozen marriages.

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This book is a comprehensive collection of his best pieces: from early work on The Clash, The Sex Pistols and David Bowie, to pieces on Suede, Blur and Nirvana.

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The elegant and unsparingly honest memoir of the romance between jazz titan Charles Mingus and Sue Graham Mingus.

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Offers an introduction to the underlying principles of non-Western music and to encourage the reader to explore rich and fascinating sounds and rhythms from around the world. This book covers the traditional music of five continents, namely Sub-Saharan Africa, the Islamic world, the Indian subcontinent, China and the Far East.

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This volume describes the traditional vocal and instrumental music of the Lao-speaking people living in Northeast Thailand. Beginning with a description of the cultural and historical contexts of this music, Miller continues with an overview of Northeast Thai music, its instruments, concepts, and certain proto-musical genres.

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This critical discography of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde opens with an introduction that illustrates the challenges the opera poses to performers. The discography lists all complete recordings, all major selections, and hundreds of individually recorded vocal and instrumental excerpts from 1901 to 1999.

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"Explores the relationship between music, memory, and ageing through a focus on "inheritance tracks," with contributions from leading scholars of popular music studies"--

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This book is a substantial and thorough musicological analysis of Turkish folk music. It reproduces in facsimile Bartok's autograph record of eighty seven vocal and instrumental peasant melodies of the Yuruk Tribes, a nomadic people in southern Anatolia. Bartok's introduction includes his annotations of the melodies, texts, and translations and est

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This volume's 657 entries lists over 6500 song titles and covers the years 1874 to 1988. The discography arranges show titles alphabetically and offers information on record label, musical conductor, lyricist and cast members and goes on to provide television and movie chronologies.

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A thorough information source on 20th century Danish music.

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Twentieth-Century American Music for the Dance: A Bibliography provides a guide to one of the most important areas of modern music.

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