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Discusses the influence of Indian music and culture in the West. This book tells how words such as karma, yoga, raga, nirvana, all once unknown, have entered the language. It aims to demystify musical structures, foreign instruments, terminology and the Eastern musical framework.

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Through its Decca 5000 series of the 1930s and 1940s, the American Decca recording company became the most influential record label in the burgeoning hillbilly music category, the forerunner of today's country and western music.

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This book traces the rise and development of the blues both in relation to other forms of black music and in the context of American social history as experienced by African Americans.

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A presentation of Charlie Parker's ten sessions, recorded with Dial, which includes the repertory, original issues and reissues, titles and notated transcriptions, and analyses of performances.

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The early swing era of jazz, from 1930 to 1941, represents both an extension of developments of the previous decade and an introduction of new tendencies that influenced subsequent periods of jazz history.

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The Ella Fitzgerald Companion is a celebration of the woman who is arguably musical history's greatest singer of popular.

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Boy choristers have sung the daily liturgy in English cathedrals and collegiate churches for fourteen hundred years. This title tells their history, in cathedrals and monasteries, in royal and collegiate chapels, from the middle ages, through the upheavals of the Reformation, and to their CD-celebrated triumphs and also the introduction of girls.

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This work argues that research into the cultural history of music can significantly help our understanding of the evolution of English national identity. It identifies the intellectual, social and political assumptions which surrounded English music in the early part of the 20th century.

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From football hooligan to opera singer, from the Cockney Reds to Catullus, from a hectic household to tranquility of spirit, Mark Glanville has travelled many paths, been many people -- this is his story.

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Telecaster, Chris Adams takes readers on a mystery tour of the late 60s rock world to determine whether a Fender Telecaster bought second hand in a London music store in 1973 is the one used by Jimi Hendrix to record Purple Haze in January 1967. Follow the clues on this fascinating journey into Hendrix history.

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The work includes every book published about the band, every article that appeared in a major magazine or journal, chapters and entries in books, and articles from The San Francisco Chronicle and The San Francisco Examiner newspapers.

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The Grateful Deads 100 Essential Songs examines the bands remarkable musical legacy, delving into 100 songs (plus a few extras) performed by the Dead throughout their career. It includes a playlist of performance and studio recordings, as well as other song analyses and first-hand narratives of hundreds of Dead concerts.

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"In The Heart of Rock & Soul, veteran rock critic Dave Marsh offers a polemical guide to the 1,001 greatest rock and soul singles ever made, encompassing rock, metal, R&B, disco, folk, funk, punk, regg"

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"The last few years have witnessed an enormous resurgence in the popularity of jazz, after some lean times in the sixties when many potential jazz fans turned to rock. Now the pendulum is on the backsw"