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Presenting information heretofore difficult or impossible to find in English, this work opens a window on the colorful panorama of Finnish music.

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"Tells the story of an album of European electronic tape music that emerged from the sounds of the Greek anti-Fascist resistance, bore witness to the Iranian Revolution, and served as a precursor the Industrial and noise scenes"--

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"Tells the story of an album of European electronic tape music that emerged from the sounds of the Greek anti-Fascist resistance, bore witness to the Iranian Revolution, and served as a precursor the Industrial and noise scenes"--

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The interviews included in this fascinating collection of discussions with popular songwriters focus on the craft itselfand as such, they are of interest to both music fans and to budding songwriters.

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Memoir of a celebrated R&B/ soul singer of the 1960s: Regarded as one of the most gifted rhythm and blues/soul singers of the era, Maxine Brown inspired an entire era with her style and her tone, exemplified by her chart-topping hits "All in My Mind," "Funny," and "Oh No, Not My Baby."

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Discusses the iconic 1991 album that ushered Balkan music into western popular, jazz, and world music spheres.

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Discusses the iconic 1991 album that ushered Balkan music into western popular, jazz, and world music spheres.

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Eight-time Oscar nominee, James Newton Howard is one of Hollywood's most sought-after composers. Though The Sixth Sense is the most famous collaboration of Howard and director M. Night Shyamalan, the film score for Signs is held in much higher esteem. This book provides backg...

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"The fifties, though a quiescent period in many ways, was one of the most fervent decades in jazz history. The landmarks of modern jazz were firmly planted and, it could be argued, nearly all direction"

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This is the first book on the French composer Jean Langlais to be published in English and also the first to provide complete information on all of his published works plus 86 unplubished compositions, and eleven orchestral works.

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"Miyazaki Hayao's beloved animated film, My Neighbor Totoro (1988), expresses nostalgia for both an innocent past and a distant home, sentiments greatly enhanced by Joe Hisaishi's music"--

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"An exploration of the history and cultural significance of Australia's top-selling album by an Australian in Australia, often referred to as Australia's unofficial national anthem"--

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"Discusses Kylie Minogue's reception by critics as "too formulaic" or "too commercial," and interrogates the way that commercial pop albums are remembered in both the popular music press and in academic research"--

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A native of New Orleans, Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869) is widely acknowledged as the leading American piano virtuoso of the 19th century and as a composer of major significance, particularly in his ability to capture his contemporary public's taste while incorporating European, African-American, Caribbean, and South American influences.

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The annotated entries cover a wide range of valuable information on 19th-century American music, American studies, church music, music education, teacher training programs, music publishing, and instrument manufacturing.

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Marc Blitzstein was one of the 20th century's most important American composers, lyricists, and critics, often credited with having invented opera in the American vernacular. This book catalogs his writings and writings about him, with listings, analysis, performance history, and the summaries of his 128 original musical works and more.

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"The story about and behind the legendary 1978 debut album by first-generation Moluccan musicians raised in postcolonial Holland"--