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Bassology of AC/DC: Bass Tab(Music Sales America). Learn to play over 20 high-voltage AC/DC bass lines with these transcriptions in tab and standard notation with complete lyrics and chord symbols. Also includes band history and discography.Author: Ac/DCPublisher: Music SalesPublished: 01/01/2007Pages: 160Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.37lbsSize: 11.76h x 8.90w x...
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The Piano Bench of Classical Music: Piano Solo(Music Sales America). Over 125 great masterpieces from the Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Modern eras. Contents: RENAISSANCE & BAROQUE: BACH: Two-Part Inventions: No. 1, No. 4, & No. 8 * Three-Part Invention No. 9 * Prelude and Fugue in C * Chorale * Sarabande...
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Solo Guitar Playing - Volume 2(Music Sales America). This second volume of the popular classical guitar method features instruction, graded exercises, practice studies, and a survey of the guitar repertoire. Volume Two develops technique, sightreading, and includes an advanced repertoire of thirty works.Author: Frederick NoadPublisher: Music SalesPublished: 02/01/1999Pages: 160Binding...
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Real Country: Music and Language in Working-Class CultureIn Lockhart, Texas, a rural working-class town just south of Austin, country music is a way of life. Conversation slips easily into song, and the songs are full of conversation. Anthropologist and musician Aaron A. Fox spent years in Lockhart making research notes, music,...
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Hello, Hello Brazil: Popular Music in the Making of Modern Brazil"Hello, hello Brazil" was the standard greeting Brazilian radio announcers of the 1930s used to welcome their audience into an expanding cultural marketplace. New genres like samba and repackaged older ones like choro served as the currency in this marketplace, minted in the capital...
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Sudden Music: Improvisation, Sound, NatureMusic, said Zen patriarch Hui Neng, "is a means of rapid transformation." It takes us home to a natural world that functions outside of logic, where harmony and dissonance, tension and release work in surprising ways. Weaving memoir, travelogue, and philosophical reflection, Sudden Music...
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Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea IslandsA valuable collection of folk music and lore from the Gullah culture, Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands preserves the rich traditions of slave descendants on the barrier islands of Georgia by interweaving their music with descriptions of their language, religious and social...
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To Be, or Not... to BopYou don't have to know John Birks 'Dizzy' Gillespie's songs to feel his influence. The self-taught trumpet player rose from a poor but musically driven upbringing to become a jazz mastermind, founding the bebop movement and giving rise to Afro-Cuban music.Author: Dizzy Gillespie, Al...
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Indigenous Pop: Native American Music from Jazz to Hip HopPopular music compels, it entertains, and it has the power to attract and move audiences. With that in mind, the editors of Indigenous Pop showcase the contributions of American Indian musicians to popular forms of music, including jazz, blues, country-western, rock and roll, reggae,...
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The Implacable Urge to Defame: Cartoon Jews in the American Press, 1877-1935From the 1870s to the 1930s, American cartoonists devoted much of their ink to outlandish caricatures of immigrants and minority groups, making explicit the derogatory stereotypes that circulated at the time. Members of ethnic groups were depicted as fools, connivers, thieves, and individuals hardly...
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In Harness: Yiddish Writers' Romance with CommunismHere is a detailed glimpse into the lives and times of Yiddish writers enthralled with Communism at the turn of the century through the mid-1930s. Centering mainly on the Soviet Jewish literati but with an eye to their American counterparts, the book follows their...
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Teaching Strings in Today's Classroom: A Guide for Group InstructionTeaching Strings in Today's Classroom: A Guide for Group Instruction assists music education students, in-service teachers, and performers to realize their goals of becoming effective string educators. It introduces readers to the school orchestra environment, presents the foundational concepts needed to teach strings, and...
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Mc5: Sonically Speaking: A Tale of Revolution and Rock 'n' RollAlong with the Stooges, the Velvet Underground, and the New York Dolls, the MC5 are recognized in music circles as one of the bands that paved the way for punk rock. While the group did not reach the heights of national celebrity or financial...
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Historians on Hamilton: How a Blockbuster Musical Is Restaging America's PastAmerica has gone Hamilton crazy. Lin-Manuel Miranda's Tony-winning musical has spawned sold-out performances, a triple platinum cast album, and a score so catchy that it is being used to teach U.S. history in classrooms across the country. But just how historically accurate is Hamilton?...
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The Restoration of Gregorian Chant: Solesmes and the Vatican EditionThis book presents for the first time in English the fully documented history of the Gregorian chant restoration which culminated in the publication of the Vatican Edition ordered by Pope Pius X at the dawn of the twentieth century. It is based upon archival...
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Please Be with Me: A Song for My Father, Duane AllmanA deeply personal, revealing, and lyrical portrait of Duane Allman, founder of the legendary Allman Brothers Band, written by his daughter "Duane Allman was my big brother, my partner, my best friend. I thought I knew everything there was to know about him, but...
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Rush and Philosophy: Heart and Mind UnitedThe progressive/hard rock band Rush has never been as popular as it is now. A documentary film about the band, Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage, which was released in the summer of 2010 has been universally well received. They had a cameo in the...
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Fire in My Bones: Transcendence and the Holy Spirit in African American GospelGlenn Hinson focuses on a single gospel program and offers a major contribution to our understanding not just of gospel but of the nature of religious experience. A key feature of African American performance is the layering of performative voices and the constant shifting...
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American Lonesome: The Work of Bruce SpringsteenAmerican Lonesome: The Work of Bruce Springsteen begins with a visit to the Jersey Shore and ends with a meditation on the international legacy of Springsteen's writing, music, and performances. Gavin Cologne-Brookes's innovative study of this popular musician and his position in American culture...
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Jim Crow's Counterculture: The Blues and Black Southerners, 1890-1945In the late nineteenth century, black musicians in the lower Mississippi Valley, chafing under the social, legal, and economic restrictions of Jim Crow, responded with a new musical form--the blues. In Jim Crow's Counterculture, R. A. Lawson offers a cultural history of blues musicians...
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