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The Piano Bench of Easy Classical Music(Music Sales America). The Piano Bench of Easy Classical Music is a tremendous piano collection containing 400 pages of great music literature, specially selected and edited for the developing pianist who loves classical music. Here you will find the world's favorite preludes, minuets, sonata...
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Tori Amos - The Singles(Music Sales America). This terrific collection assembles her 17 top singles, arranged for piano/vocal with full lyrics. Includes: Caught a Lite Sneeze * China * Cornflake Girl * Crucify * God * Hey Jupiter * In the Springtime of His Voodoo * Jackie's Strength...
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Cat Stevens Complete: Songs from 1970-1975(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). 62 songs from this gifted singer-songwriter, plus a discography of his early-'70s output. Includes: Another Saturday Night * Father and Son * The First Cut Is the Deepest * Hard Headed Woman * If You Want to Sing Out Sing Out...
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Hot Licks for Bluegrass Banjo(Music Sales America). Over 650 bluegrass, blues and jazz licks in Scruggs, single-string and melodic style. Use licks to create solos and play back up and expand your musical understanding and knowledge of the fingerboard. The licks of J.D. Crowe, Bela Fleck, Bill Keith,...
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Complete Banjo Repair(Music Sales America). The set-up, maintenance, and restoration of the 5-string banjo are covered in this book with clear instructions and detailed photographs and diagrams. Indispensable for amateur and professionalAuthor: Larry SandbergPublisher: Music SalesPublished: 05/01/1992Pages: 112Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.72lbsSize: 11.05h x 8.54w x 0.32dISBN:...
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The Banjo Picker's Fake Book(Music Sales America). The ultimate source book for the traditional banjo player. Contains over 230 jigs, reels, rags, hornpipes and breakdowns from all the major traditional instrumental styles. Spiral bound. Contents include: Arkansas Traveler * Bill Cheatham * Bugle Call Rag * Come Dance...
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The Irish Songbook: 75 Songs from the Clancy Brothers(Music Sales America). 75 songs collected, adapted, written and sung by the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem. Piano/vocal plus chords. Illustrated.Author: The Clancy BrothersPublisher: Music SalesPublished: 01/01/1992Pages: 192Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.41lbsSize: 12.09h x 9.09w x 0.55dISBN: 9780825602375
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Japanoise: Music at the Edge of CirculationNoise, an underground music made through an amalgam of feedback, distortion, and electronic effects, first emerged as a genre in the 1980s, circulating on cassette tapes traded between fans in Japan, Europe, and North America. With its cultivated obscurity, ear-shattering sound, and over-the-top performances,...
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Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression, 3rd edition with a new introduction by the authorThis thirtieth anniversary edition of Sound and Sentiment makes Steven Feld's landmark, field-defining book available to a new generation of scholars and students. A sensory ethnography set in the rain forest of Papua New Guinea, among the Kaluli people of Bosavi, Sound and Sentiment...
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Segregating Sound: Inventing Folk and Pop Music in the Age of Jim CrowIn Segregating Sound, Karl Hagstrom Miller argues that the categories that we have inherited to think and talk about southern music bear little relation to the ways that southerners long played and heard music. Focusing on the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth,...
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River of Tears: Country Music, Memory, and Modernity in BrazilRiver of Tears is the first ethnography of Brazilian country music, one of the most popular genres in Brazil yet least-known outside it. Beginning in the mid-1980s, commercial musical duos practicing m sica sertaneja reached beyond their home in Brazil's central-southern region to become...
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Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock MusicIn 1968, the New Yorker hired Ellen Willis as its first popular music critic. Her column, Rock, Etc., ran for seven years and established Willis as a leader in cultural commentary and a pioneer in the nascent and otherwise male-dominated field of rock criticism....
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Classic Yiddish Stories of S. Y. Abramovitsh, Sholem Aleichem, and I. L. PeretzTwo early works by S.Y. Abramovitsh introduce the reader to Abramovitsh s alter ego Mendele the Book Peddler. Mendele narrates both The Little Man and Fishke the Lame. In different voices, he also presents a diverse cast of characters including Isaac Abraham as tailor...
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A House with Seven Windows: Short StoriesA House with Seven Windows by Kadya Molodowsky is the famed Yiddish poet's only collection of short stories. Written in simple prose, these stories are subtle portraits--tragic-comic, bittersweet, always generous spirited--of ordinary people: Jews in pre-World War II Eastern Europe and Jews struggling to...
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The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop2007 Alan Merriam Prize presented by the Society for Ethnomusicology 2007 PEN/Beyond Margins Book Award Finalist Explores how the traditions of black music are intertwined in the games black girls grow up with When we think of African American popular music, our first thought...
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From Sacred Song to Ritual Music: Twentieth-Century Understandings of Roman Catholic Worship MusicFrom Sacred Song to Ritual Music is a guide to changes in Roman Catholic worship music theory and practice in the twentieth century. Nine papal, conciliar, curial, bishops' conference, and scholars' documents treat: 1) What is Roman Catholic worship music? 2) What is its...
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The Anthropology of MusicIn this highly praised and seminal work, Alan Merriam demonstrates that music is a social behavior--one worthy and available to study through the methods of anthropology. In it, he convincingly argues that ethnomusicology, by definition, cannot separate the sound-analysis of music from its cultural...
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Singing in My Soul: Black Gospel Music in a Secular AgeBlack gospel music grew from obscure nineteenth-century beginnings to become the leading style of sacred music in black American communities after World War II. Jerma A. Jackson traces the music's unique history, profiling the careers of several singers--particularly Sister Rosetta Tharpe--and demonstrating the important...
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Slim Harpo: Blues King Bee of Baton RougeAs Louis Armstrong forever tethered jazz to New Orleans and Clifton Chenier fixed Lafayette as home to zydeco, Slim Harpo established Baton Rouge as a base for the blues. In the only complete biography of this internationally renowned blues singer and musician, Martin Hawkins...
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In Search of Buddy Bolden: First Man of JazzThe beginnings of jazz and the story of Charles "Buddy" Bolden (1877-1931) are inextricably intertwined. Just after the turn of the century, New Orleanians could often hear Bolden's powerful horn from the city's parks and through dance hall windows. Despite his lack of formal...
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