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By: Marc Shapiro

ISBN: 9780753510551
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2007
UK Publication Date: 10th March 2005
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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George Harrison was always known as the 'quiet Beatle'. This biography reaffirms Harrison's importance as an innovative and hugely talented musician and shows that, as a member of the most important band ever, as well as in his multi-faceted career after the Beatles, Harrison was no ordinary man.


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By: Clinton Heylin

ISBN: 9780306814778
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2006
Publisher: Hachette Books
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An invaluable resource, a trove of lore for anyone interested in The Velvet Underground, their roots, and legacy.


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By: Ken Emerson

ISBN: 9781841157283
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2006
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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The story of a building, the community of musicians who worked there and how their music changed 1960s America.


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By: Kenneth J. Bindas

ISBN: 9780313274657
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 1992
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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These essays document the American experience as recorded in popular sound, relating topics concerning 20th century music to issues of politics, society and culture. The focus is to place music in societal perspective and encourage investigation of the issues behind popular tunes.


(Paperback)

By: Kenneth J. Bindas

ISBN: 9780275943066
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 1992
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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These essays document the American experience as recorded in popular sound, relating topics concerning 20th century music to issues of politics, society and culture. The focus is to place music in societal perspective and encourage investigation of the issues behind popular tunes.


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By: Julian Mates

ISBN: 9780275927141
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 1987
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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[This book is] a comprehensive illustrated history of the U.S. musical from its colonial origins to the present, tracing the connections and influences of the minstrel show, operetta, burlesque, melodrama, revues, circus, dance, musical comedy, the Broadway opera, the book musical and other forms.


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By: Karl Kroeger

ISBN: 9780313290008
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 1993
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The fuging-tune has long been associated with American music. The almost 1300 fuging-tunes by American composers published between 1770 and 1820 testify to their widespread popularity and musical impact.


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By: Gruff Rhys

ISBN: 9780241965368
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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John Evans, a twenty-two-year-old farmhand from Snowdonia, Wales, travelled to America to discover whether there was indeed, as widely believed, a tribe of Welsh-speaking native Americans still walking the great plains.


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By: Mark Booth

ISBN: 9780313213052
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 1983
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Patricia Lust

ISBN: 9780313245992
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 1985
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Anmar Faruqi Elzein

ISBN: 9780313205545
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 1981
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Kathleen A. Abromeit

ISBN: 9780313305771
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 1999
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This volume is the first index of spirituals to be published in more than half a century and will be a research tool for scholars and students of African-American history and music.


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By: Randy Neighbarger

ISBN: 9780313278051
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 1992
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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From 1660 through approximately 1830, the alteration of Shakespearean texts to comply with contemporary dramaturgy was a normal occurrence, and the need to adapt Shakespeare to popular tastes generated music quite different in style, function, and influence from that envisioned by the Elizabethan playwright.


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By: Lisabeth Kaplan

ISBN: 9781543906202
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
Publisher: BookBaby
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By: Natalie Cole

ISBN: 9780446527460
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2000
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
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Born to legendary singer Nat "King" Cole in the halcyon days of the 1950s, Natalie Cole grew up to become a versatile singer all the way to a Grammy Award-winning status. But that success came with a price, where she was dragged down by depression and drugs. This is her autobiography.


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By: Paul Hegarty

ISBN: 9781501335440
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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"A follow-up to Hegarty's successful Noise/Music, this book looks at noise in a range of contexts within sound studies and cultural theory"--


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By: Mickey White

ISBN: 9781098366575
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
Publisher: BookBaby
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Another Mickey is a slice of Americana--the venture of an Air Force brat raised in a military family anchored in Texas culture, observations of people and places critical to folk and country music, and a revelation of the inner workings of a Texas music scene, and Texas songwriter--Townes Van Zandt--that had a prolific influence on American music in the late twentieth century.


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By: Kerry Segrave

ISBN: 9780306805028
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 1993
Publisher: Hachette Books
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The authors document the numerous attempts to ban or censor rock music, and dramatically show how it has been blamed for everything from anarchy and juvenile delinquency to drugs, deafness, teen pregnancy, suicide, abortion, pornography, and even murder. Here is the complete history of that "sick, repulsive, horrible, and dangerous" music as seen by its enemies.


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By: Robb Reiner

ISBN: 9780552174725
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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At fourteen, Toronto school friends Steve 'Lips' Kudlow and Robb Reiner made a pact to rock together forever.


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By: Professor or Dr. Nicholas Tochka

ISBN: 9781501363078
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Victor V. Smith

ISBN: 9781543946031
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2019
Publisher: BookBaby
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By: John Yaff

ISBN: 9781538114599
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This is a one-stop sourcebook for orchestras, opera companies, conductors, and librarians programming vocal excerpts for concert performance. Includes detailed information on a vast repertoire of vocal pieces commonly extracted from operas, operettas, musicals, and oratorios more than 1,500 excerpts from 400 parent works.


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By: Joanne Gordon

ISBN: 9780306804687
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 1992
Publisher: Hachette Books
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Tracing Sondheim's career from his initial success as lyricist for "West Side Story" and "Gypsy" to his most recent work - "Into the Woods" and "Assassins" - Joanne Gordon emphasizes not only the disturbing content of Sondheim's work, but his innovative use of form.


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By: John White

ISBN: 9780826469151
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2004
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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As the handsome (and much-married) leader of a series of big bands and small groups in the 1930s and 1940s, clarinetist Artie Shaw achieved measures of fame and fortune that temporarily eclipsed those of his great rival, Benny Goodman.

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