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The Interpretation of French SongThis is the standard work on its subject, and its author the outstanding authority. Pierre Bernac had a long and distinguished career as a singer, specializing in the French song (or mélodie) repertoire. For many years he was incomparable partnered by Francis Poulenc, one...
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Fight the Power: Rap, Race, and RealityLike the hard-hitting sounds of a Public Enemy jam, the words of the band's lead singer, Chuck D, excite the mind and senses. In his first book, Chuck D pours out commentary that takes on Hollywood, race, the music industry, the murders of Tupac...
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Bing Crosby: Swinging on a Star: The War Years, 1940-1946The best thing to happen to Bing Crosby since Bob Hope, (WSJ) Gary Giddins presents the second volume of his masterful multi-part biography. Bing Crosby dominated American popular culture in a way that few artists ever have. From the dizzy era of Prohibition through...
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Elvis Presley: A BiographyAlmost 30 years after his death, Elvis Presley remains one of the most influential performers and recognized pop culture icons the world over. His then-unprecedented musical style-a fusion of blues, country, pop, bluegrass, and gospel-ushered in the age of rock n' roll and paved...
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Cruel to Be Kind: The Life and Music of Nick LoweThe definitive biography of singer-songwriter Nick Lowe, best-known for Cruel to Be Kind and (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding Described as Britain's greatest living songwriter, Nick Lowe has made his mark as a pioneer of pub rock, power-pop, and punk rock...
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Music's Spell: Poems about Music and MusiciansMusic may be the universal language that needs no words--the "language where all language ends," as Rilke put it--but that has not stopped poets from ancient times to the present from trying to represent it in verse. Here are Rumi and Shakespeare, Elizabeth Bishop...
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The Life and Legend of LeadbellyHuddie Ledbetter (1889-1949), known to millions of fans simply as Leadbelly, was arguably the most famous black singer in American history. His close musical associations included such towering figures as Blind Lemon Jefferson, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and John and Alan Lomax. He helped...
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Chicago Blues: The City and the MusicChicago has always had a reputation as a wide open town with a high tolerance for gangsters, illegal liquor, and crooked politicians. It has also been the home for countless black musicians and the birthplace of a distinctly urban blues-more sophisticated, cynical, and street-smart...
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Squeeze This!: A Cultural History of the Accordion in AmericaNo other instrument has witnessed such a dramatic rise to popularity--and precipitous decline--as the accordion. Squeeze This! is the first history of the piano accordion and the first book-length study of the accordion as a uniquely American musical and cultural phenomenon. Ethnomusicologist and accordion...
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Arnold SchoenbergIn this lucid, revealing book, award-winning pianist and scholar Charles Rosen sheds light on the elusive music of Arnold Schoenberg and his challenge to conventional musical forms. Rosen argues that Schoenberg's music, with its atonality and dissonance, possesses a rare balance of form and...
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The Complete Collaborator: The Pianist as PartnerTake more than forty years of partnering celebrated soloists in concerts all over the world, add nearly thirty years of teaching the art of accompanying, and you have the qualifications for such an audacious title as The Complete Collaborator. All the tools for understanding...
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Music in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: The Oxford History of Western MusicThe universally acclaimed and award-winning Oxford History of Western Music is the eminent musicologist Richard Taruskin's provocative, erudite telling of the story of Western music from its earliest days to the present. Each book in this superlative five-volume set illuminates-through a representative sampling of...
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Kansas City Jazz: From Ragtime to Bebop--A HistoryThere were four major galaxies in the early jazz universe, and three of them--New Orleans, Chicago, and New York--have been well documented in print. But there has never been a serious history of the fourth, Kansas City, until now. In this colorful history, Frank...
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Hip Hop AmericaFrom Nelson George, supervising producer and writer of the hit Netflix series, The Get Down, Hip Hop America is the definitive account of the society-altering collision between black youth culture and the mass media.Author: Nelson GeorgePublisher: Penguin BooksPublished: 04/26/2005Pages: 256Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 8.04h...
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Diez Deditos and Other Play Rhymes and Action Songs from Latin AmericaSinger-songwriter José-Luis Orozco has assembled a collection of finger rhymes and other action songs from Latin America. Including favorites such as The Wheels on the Bus as well as folk songs from a variety of Spanish-speaking countries, Diez Deditos is a treat for the...
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Set the Boy Free: The AutobiographyThe long-awaited memoir from the legendary guitarist and cofounder of the seminal British band The Smiths.An artist who helped define a period in popular culture, Johnny Marr tells his story in a memoir as vivid and arresting as his music. The Smiths, the band...
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Kentucky Traveler: My Life in MusicIn Kentucky Traveler, Ricky Skaggs, the music legend who revived modern bluegrass music, gives a warm, honest, one-of-a-kind memoir of forty years in music--along with the Ten Commandments of Bluegrass, as handed down by Ricky's mentor Bill Monroe; the Essential Guide to Bedrock Country...
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We All Sing with the Same VoiceA lyrical and joyful celebration of inclusion and respectFirst featured as a song on the widely popular Sesame Street, the beloved educational children's television show, We All Sing with the Same Voice is a joyous read-aloud that embraces the notion that no matter where...
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Before the Legend: The Rise of Bob MarleyBob Marley was a reggae superstar, a musical prophet who brought the sound of the Third World to the entire globe. Before the Legend: The Rise of Bob Marley goes beyond the myth of Marley to bring you the private side of a man...
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Encanto - Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack Arranged for Big-Note Piano(Big Note Songbook). Your favorite songs from the popular Disney movie are now available in big-note piano format! Titles include: All of You * Colombia, Mi Encanto * Dos Oruguitas * The Family Madrigal * Surface Pressure * Waiting on a Miracle * We...
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