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Widespread Panic in the Streets of Athens, GeorgiaIn April 1998, legendary southern jam band Widespread Panic held a free open-air record release show in downtown Athens, Georgia, its homebase. No one involved could have known that the predicted crowd of twenty thousand would prove to be nearly five times that size....
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Whisperin' Bill Anderson: An Unprecedented Life in Country MusicWhisperin' Bill: An Unprecedented Life in Country Music presents a revealing portrait of Bill Anderson, one of the most prolific songwriters in the history of country music. Mega country music hits like "City Lights," (Ray Price), "Tips Of My Fingers," (Roy Clark, Eddy Arnold,...
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Shout Because You're Free: The African American Ring Shout Tradition in Coastal GeorgiaThe ring shout is the oldest known African American performance tradition surviving on the North American continent. Performed for the purpose of religious worship, this fusion of dance, song, and percussion survives today in the Bolton Community of McIntosh County, Georgia. Incorporating oral history,...
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Mister Satan's Apprentice: A Blues MemoirMister Satan's Apprentice is the history of one of music's most fascinating collaborations, between Adam Gussow, a young graduate school dropout and harmonica player, and Sterling "Mr. Satan" Magee, a guitarist and underground blues legend who had originally made his name as "Five Fingers...
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Old Jewish Folk Music: The Collections and Writings of Moshe BeregovskiThis volume presents a cultural record of the Jewish folk music of Eastern Europe, through the eyes of ethnomusicologist, Moshe Beregovski. It includes contextual responses to Jewish folk music, essays on musical influences, and notes and lyrics of nearly 300 folk songs.Author: Mark SlobinPublisher:...
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Conjuring Freedom: Music and Masculinity in the Civil War's "Gospel Army"Conjuring Freedom: Music and Masculinity in the Civil War's "Gospel Army" analyzes the songs of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers, a regiment of Black soldiers who met nightly in the performance of the ring shout. In this study, acknowledging the importance of conjure as...
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A Few Honest Words: The Kentucky Roots of Popular MusicIn industry circles, musicians from Kentucky are known to possess an enviable pedigree-a lineage as prized as the bloodline of any bluegrass-raised Thoroughbred. With native sons and daughters like Naomi and Wynonna Judd, Loretta Lynn, the Everly Brothers, Joan Osborne, and Merle Travis, it's...
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Motown: Music, Money, Sex, and PowerIn 1959, twenty-nine-year-old Berry Gordy, who had already given up on his dream to be a champion boxer, borrowed eight hundred dollars from his family and started a record company. A run-down bungalow sandwiched between a funeral home and a beauty shop in a...
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The Complete Marching Band Resource Manual: Techniques and Materials for Teaching, Drill Design, and Music ArrangingThe Complete Marching Band Resource Manual is the definitive guide to the intricate art of directing college and high school marching bands. Supplemented with musical arrangements, warm-up exercises, and over a hundred drill charts, this manual presents both the fundamentals and the advanced techniques...
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Music, Education, and Diversity: Bridging Cultures and CommunitiesMusic is a powerful means for educating citizens in a multicultural society and meeting many challenges shared by teachers across all subjects and grade levels. By celebrating heritage and promoting intercultural understandings, music can break down barriers among various ethnic, racial, cultural, and language...
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Sound the Trumpet, Beat the Drums: Horse-Mounted Bands of the U.S. Army, 1820-1940Stemming from the tradition of rallying troops and frightening enemies, mounted bands played a unique and distinctive role in American military history. Their fascinating story within the U.S. Army unfolds in this latest book from noted music historian and former army musician Bruce P....
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The Words and Music of Frank ZappaThe Words and Music of Frank Zappa moves beyond the details of Frank Zappa's life (1940-93) toward a focused treatment of the rock and pop songs of this great American composer. Today Zappa's music can be appreciated as a whole, emerging as a coherent,...
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Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs, and Classical MusicIn the tradition of Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential and Gelsey Kirkland's Dancing on My Grave, Mozart in the Jungle delves into the lives of the musicians and conductors who inhabit the insular world of classical music. In a book that inspired the Amazon Original...
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Music from Titanic: Violin(Instrumental Folio). 8 instrumental solos, including: Hard to Starboard * Hymn to the Sea * My Heart Will Go On * Never an Absolution * Rose * Southampton * Take Her to Sea, Mr. Murdoch * Unable to Stay, Unwilling to Leave.Author: Hal Leonard...
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Solo Jazz Guitar(Guitar Educational). The complete chord melody method, including 20 songs and step-by-step lessons This comprehensive volume covers diatonic and minor third substitutions, contrary motion, back cycles, walking bass lines, modal chord scales, chord scales with tension, and standard notation and tablature. Songs include: All...
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Charlie Parker for Guitar: Note-For-Note Transcriptions and Detailed Performance Notes for 18 Bebop Classics(Guitar Educational). This fascinating new book will let you explore the music of one of the 20th century's most influential musicians. For the first time ever, saxophonist Charlie Parker's legendary heads and improvised solos have been meticulously adapted for the guitar in standard notation...
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Dmitri Kabalevsky - Complete Sonatas for Piano: Schirmer Library of Classics Volume 2033(Piano Collection). Includes all three sonatas (1927, 1945, 1946) from the popular Russian master, now at a new lower priceAuthor: Dmitri KabalevskyPublisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Published: 12/01/1998Pages: 96Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 11.70h x 8.80w x 0.60dISBN: 9780793589265
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Ray Brown's Bass Method(Bass Instruction). Legendary jazz bassist Ray Brown reveals his lessons and teaching philosophy in this in-depth book. Includes: solo exercises and arpeggios; music fundamentals; right- and left-hand positions; scales; chords; exercises in tenths; rhythm patterns with drops; diminished chords; runs and variations; blues patterns;...
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Il Trovatore: Vocal Score(Vocal Score). Italian/English. Translated by Jeffreys.Author: Giuseppe VerdiPublisher: RicordiPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 384Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.90lbsSize: 10.50h x 7.80w x 0.80dISBN: 9780793584765This title is only available via back order
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The Aristocats(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). This delightful Disney animated movie features such classics as: Scales & Arpeggios * Ev'rybody Wants to Be a Cat * She Never Felt Alone * Thomas O'Malley Cat * and the title song. Features beautiful full-color illustrations.Author: Hal Leonard CorpPublisher: Hal Leonard...
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