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Stolz explores Black Sabbaths nineteen studio albums, several live albums, and additional studio tracks, urging readers to reassess the work of this seminal act in American rock music history. The book uncovers how Black Sabbaths song catalog explored and defined the musical genre they founded, mastered, and disseminated.

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In Experiencing David Bowie: A Listener's Companion, musicologist, writer, and musician Ian Chapman unravels the extraordinary marriage of sound and visual effect that lies at the heart of the work of one of the most complex and enduring performers in popular music.

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Thirty-seven profiles of major figures in the culture of our century.

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One of the greatest of the pianists after the time of Liszt, Ferruccio Busoni was a turn-of-the-century composer whose music has recently begun to be taken very seriously in academic circles and among contemporary performers.

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Bridge's works, enjoying renewed interest since the late 1960s, are the subject of careful research in this volume, which lists his works and their performances. Contemporary performances of Bridge's work receive particular attention by the inclusion of excerpts from current reviews which signal a fresh look at this critically appreciated artist.

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A collection of essays examining Frank Sinatra's influence on American popular culture from the 1940s through the 1990s.

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Composers were chosen based on the excellence of their music, their importance in the period's daily musical life, and the availability of information on their lives, music, and recordings.

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This work is a researched examination of the history and scope of musical composition by African-American women, focusing on the implications of race, gender, and class for their musical creativity, and showing how this category was shaped by the individual personalities of its participants.

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Drawing on primary documents as well as interviews and letters, the authors of this book have created a portrait of one of America's most distinguished and prolific composers whose creative output spans more than half a century.

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This biography portrays with precision and insight the tragically brief life - from the Brooklyn tenements to Broadway, Hollywood, and Carnegie Hall - of George Gershwin (1898-1937), a man whose music and career - like F. Scott Fitzgerald's - embodied the glamorous success and lost possibility of the Jazz Age.

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Gian Carlo Menotti is a composer known chiefly for his popular operas, including Amahl and the Night Visitors, The Medium, and The Consul.

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Spaeth provides program notes to the better-known classical and romantic symphonies in the hope that people will better recognize them.

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Here is an up-to-date, thoroughly researched biography of the world's most popular pop-punk band.

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A practical guide for guitarists searching for new repertoires including women composers. The book lists musical works by instrumentation and features biographies of each composer.

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Austrian conductor Hans Rosbaud was a leading figure in European musical life from the late 1920s until his death in 1962.

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One of the most successful films inspired by comic books, The Dark Knight was the second feature of a trilogy directed by Christopher Nolan. One of the film's highlights was its rich score, created by two of Hollywood's leading composers, Academy award winner Hans Zimmer and m...

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One of the most prolific composers of the 20th century, Heitor Villa-Lobos' influence on the music of Latin America was enormous.

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