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The heart of Smith's well-researched, meticulously assembled discography is the detailed chronology of every Cash recording date through April 1984. Information given includes session date, location, musicians, producer, songs recorded (including takes), songwriter and release history.

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A continuation of the 40-year recording career of one of the most popular country music performers of our time, this second volume (the first published by Greenwood in 1985) follows Johnny Cash's recording activity from 1984 through 1993.

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This catalog is divided into four major sections: singles, extended-play albums, long-play albums, and compact discs.

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Carey Fleiner examines English rock group the Kinks and their social and cultural influences both on and by the group from the early '60s to present day. In and around the biographical survey of the band's career, The Kinks looks at the several contexts in which the Kinks--and more recently, band founders and brother Ray and Dave Davies as solo acts--created and performed their work.

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'The loveliest and certainly the most human book about pop music I've ever read A delightful and humane soap opera, a real page-turner, full of rounded and entirely recognisable characters.'

Jon Ronson, Daily Telegraph

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The intimate chronicle of one of our leading composers and writers.

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In a sequel to Dave Oliphant's The Early Swing Era: 1930 to 1941, McClellan (professional education, Berklee College of Music, Boston) profiles big bands, vocalists, and small groups playing swing music during World War II and--unlike most commentators-- on through the next decade.

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This book is a comparative analysis of the history of popular music and folk studies in Chile, Argentina, and Brazil as it relates to society, culture, and representations of national identity.

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For everyone who has fallen in love with Latin music, a guide to its many styles that also traces its place in American music and culture

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Art and Lives of Twelve Great Bluesmen

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"Preferring Paul to John was like preferring Cliff Richard to Elvis Presley, or Donovan to Dylan. John was the leader; he was his own man."-Martin Amis

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"Huddie Ledbetter (1889--1949), known to millions of fans simply as Leadbelly, was arguably the most famous black singer in American history. His close musical associations included such towering figure"

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The first overview of music journalist Ralph J. Gleason, and a discussion of in what ways music journalists contribute to the people and music they write about.

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The London Philharmonic Orchestra has over 1000 recordings to its credit. This study contains 1300 entries relating to the orchestra, including live recordings and videos. Indexes cover soloists, singers (including full casts of operas), producers, engineers and recording companies.

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"Among the many introductions to opera, this is perhaps the best. J. Merrill Knapp, Professor Emeritus at Princeton University, divides his subject into two parts: In the first, he discusses the struct"

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Now fully updated with a new chapter: The classic introduction to the bebop era and the legendary performers who created it

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Matthew Smith-Lahrman sheds light on the words of Curt Kirkwood, founding member and songwriter of the Meat Puppets, a pioneering rock 'n' roll band of the last four decades. A lyricist whom Rolling Stone writer Kurt Loder once rated alongside Bob Dylan, Kirkwood remains an important, yet overlooked songwriter.

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The Militant Song Movement in Latin America examines the history of the militant song movement in Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina, considering their different political stances and musical deportments.

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This reference guide provides access to almost 1,000 books, book chapters, articles, and dissertations about the three Mozart-Da Ponte operas, Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Cosi fan tutte.

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Morton Feldman (1926-1987) is today widely regarded as one of America's foremost experimental composers. these essays reveal as much about Feldman's own work and attitudes as they do about the work and thought of the many composers and artists about whom he wrote.

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Schuman, Persichetti, and Mennin were three of the most significant American composers of the 20th century; yet their music has largely disappeared from view since their respective deaths. This book provides a thorough examination of their lives and work, and thereby clarifies their considerable individuality, both as composers and as human beings.