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In Listening to Art Song, Margaret Olson offers an easy-to-read, fresh perspective on the remarkably diverse musical genre of art song, surveying for readers such topics as the development of song, the elements that make up song, and the art of listening to song. Readers will ...

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Discusses the relationship between popular music and literature in conjunction with the connection between high and low art.

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This musical tale will warm the hearts of anyone who loves that time-honored tradition, the summer band concert! Written by a town band conductor from personal experience, this delightful chronicle tells the story of how a simple idea turns a town's need for music into its most cherished institution.

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Investigating areas as diverse as travel literature, fiction, dialect, the stage, radio, and television, feature film, music and sport, this fascinating book assesses the attitudes and portrayal of the North of England within the national culture and how this has impacted upon attitudes to the region and its place within notions of Englishness.

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Written with remarkable candor and emotional depth, "Losing My Cool" portrays the allure and danger of hip-hop culture with the authority of a true fan who's lived through it all, while demonstrating the saving grace of literature and the power of the bond between father and son.

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Crime was everywhere, the government was broke and the city's infrastructure was collapsing, but between 1974 and 1978 virtually all forms of music were being recreated in New York City: disco and salsa, the loft jazz scene and the Minimalist classical composers, hip hop and punk. This book deals with this topic.

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Lukas Foss's career encompasses the worlds of composition, conducting, performing, teaching, and the organization of major music festivals. discographical citations to compositions by Foss as well as to works conducted and performed by him;

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The book is organized around topical issues and explores such themes as black power, revolution, socialism, black feminism, and world peace.

One of the few books on music and social change to deal specifically with black music, this volume begins by tracing all black music to its African roots.

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Under the rubric spirituals are subsumed sorrow songs, jubilee songs, shout songs, chants, homilies, mantras, affirmations, and collective, personal, and historical allegories.

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Stephen Daviss brilliantly written personal account of criss-crossing America with Led Zeppelin on their 1975 tour. A warts-and-all snapshot of the worlds biggest hard-rock band at their peak.

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An exploration of Jacques Offenbach's "Les Contes d'Hoffmann". It investigates the political climate of the 1870's that influenced the composer's vision and the reception of his last work. Drawing upon insights, it considers how the opera's music and libretto took shape within a literary and theatrical tradition.

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Chronologically following Nicholas Tawa's The Coming of Age of American Art Music, this new study stands on its own in examining the music of the most prominent American composers active in the first three decades of the twentieth century.

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Manchester Beethoven studies presents ten original chapters by scholars with close ties to the University of Manchester. The volume contains new research on a range of biographical, analytical and cultural topics, and reflects the breadth of ongoing Beethoven scholarship in Manchester.

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This edited volume examines manele (sg. manea), an urban Romanian song-dance ethnopop genre that combines local traditional and popular music with Balkan and Middle Eastern elements. The genre is performed primarily by male Romani musicians at weddings and clubs and appeals es...

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Margaret Webster presided over many firsts in the American theater. She was the first woman to direct Shakespearean plays on Broadway, she was one of the founders of the American Repertory Theatre, she was active in the beginning of the Off-Broadway movement, and she wrote an assortment of articles, speeches, memoirs, and autobiographies.

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Never before in paperback: An intimate portrait of the private Callas.

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Marshal Royal was at the core of the Count Basie Orchestra for 20 years during its resurgence in the 1950s and 1960s. Before that he was a pioneer of jazz on the West Coast of the US. His memoirs provide a document of the history of jazz on the West Coast and the development of big band jazz.