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This investigation of the Brandenburg Concertos explores musical, social, and religious implications of Bach's treatment of eighteenth-century musical hierarchies.

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Mercier examines the 107 songs Hans Pfitzner wrote for voice and piano. This work provides IPA pronunciation symbols, translations into English, and brief biographies of the poets associated with Pfitzner's songs.

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Since his professional debut in 1962, Stevie Wonder has recorded sixty-four singles that have made the top 100 in the US, including ten that reached number one. Combining biography and critical analysis, this work shows the ways in which Stevie Wonder's body of work has emerged, developed, reflected its time, and influenced many other artists.

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Southerness has become less and less about being born and raised in the southeastern United States and more about embracing the pride and protest long central to The South. This book explores this contemporary southern identity through an ethnographic analysis of southern rock music and the musicians who create it.

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Southerness has become less and less about being born and raised in the southeastern United States and more about embracing the pride and protest long central to The South. This book explores this contemporary southern identity through an ethnographic analysis of southern rock music and the musicians who create it.

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This work contains session and release information, single and album chart histories, television programs, awards, and indices for song titles, composers, and musicians plus extras such as album notes and Statler proverbs.

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Learn the history of America's very first professional, black and white band! Based in Philadelphia, the Polkadots turned later, the Rhythm Rockets, was the very first professional, integrated band out there on the road showing America what brotherly love was all about.

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Long-time vocalist, composer, and recording artist, Len Mink, examines the origins, power, and potential of music, the role of sound in the universe, and the wide variety of revelations found in a quantum study of the sound we call music.

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The acclaimed, first comprehensive biography of the most successful female vocal group of all time

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This book analyses experimental performances by British music ensembles in the twenty-first century. It shows how theatrical approaches to presenting orchestral music can facilitate unique and powerful experiences for audiences, enable new interpretation of repertoire, and connect music-making to contemporary social issues.

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Many books have been written about Tin Pan Alleythe colloquial name assigned to popular music before the advent of rock 'n' rollyet little is available about the individual songs defining this enormously significant style of American music.

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Many books have been written about Tin Pan Alleythe colloquial name assigned to popular music before the advent of rock 'n' rollyet little is available about the individual songs defining this enormously significant style of American music.

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This is the musical counterpart to the famous Francis James Child collection of English and Scottish ballads from the 13th to the 19th centuries. Professor Child's canon established the texts; Professor Bronson's work provides both tunes and texts. Originally published in 1959. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technolo

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With this volume, incorporating Ballads 244-305, Bertrand Harris Bronson completes his epic task of providing the musical counterpart to Francis James Child's collection of English and Scottish ballads. As in the previous volumes, the texts are linked with their proper traditional tunes, systematically ordered and grouped to show melodic kinship an

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In the sequel to "Roosevelt's Blues", Guido van Rijn presents an account of the gospel and blues music of the immediate post-war period, concentrating on songs that comment on contemporary political events and issues during a crucial time in the shaping of black consciousness in America.

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A historical overview of the development of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame including career biographies of all the inductees.

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"An academic collection that explores and examines The Velvet Underground in the 1960s and the solo activities of band members up to the present"--

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This book shows how over the hundred years between the Vienna Congress and the dissolution of the Empire, the waltz altered from signifier of upper-class artificecovering with glitz and glamour the poverty and war central to the timeto the link between the three classes, between man and nature, and between Viennese and Other.

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This first in-depth study of European national anthems analyzes their evolution as indicative of the culture, characteristics, and histories of the 15 different nations.

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Through an examination of her music, videos, philanthropic work, and biographical details, this book gives insight into Alanis Morissette's musical career and day-to-day life, from her early pop beginnings in Canada to her work today.

As a whole, Alanis Morissette's work has never been critically analyzed.

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This detailed exploration looks at the musical works of recording artist Billy Joel and his impact on popular culture.

Billy Joel skyrocketed to popularity in 1977 with his fifth album, The Stranger, and he has been a major American artist ever since.