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Author
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
xii, 242 p.
Description
"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2012" Jennifer C. Lena is visiting assistant professor of sociology at Barnard College.
Why do some music styles gain mass popularity while others thrive in small niches? Banding Together explores this question and reveals the attributes that together explain the growth of twentieth-century American popular music. Drawing on a vast array of examples from sixty musical styles--ranging from rap and...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (536 pages)
Description
Listening to the Music the Machines Make is the revolutionary story of electronic pop from 1978 to 1983, a true golden age of British music. This definitive account explores how krautrock, disco, glam rock and punk inspired a new generation to rip up the rulebook and venture toward a new frontier of electronic music – one that laid the foundations for Hip-Hop, house, techno and beyond.
Including an extensive collection of archive images throughout,...
8) The complete singer-songwriter: a troubadour's guide to writing, performing, recording, and business
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xi, 236 pages) : illustrations
10) Salsa Y Tropical
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file (43 min., 42 sec.)) : sound, color.
Description
This "compilacion del video de la musica" features world-renowned Latin performers Gruapo Mana, Jose Luis Rodriguez, Los Tupamaros, and so many more! This video features energetic, Caribbean salsa music, along with tropical, "cumbia" tunes, sweetly syncopated dance music originating from Colombia. This rhythmic and enticing compilation rewards its listeners - and dancers! - again and again. Featured in all their brilliance are 10 Latin salsa and tropical...
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (3 minutes)
Description
Tango has long become more than the popular Argentine urban dance which developed after 1870 in the poor working class and immigrant areas on the outskirts of Buenos Aires. Tango has aficionados worldwide - be it for its music, culture or the dance. On New Year's Eve 2006, conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim, Argentinean by birth and upbringing, celebrated the end of the year with a spectacular musical event: a festival of Argentinean music live...
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (3 minutes)
Description
Tango has long become more than the popular Argentine urban dance which developed after 1870 in the poor working class and immigrant areas on the outskirts of Buenos Aires. Tango has aficionados worldwide - be it for its music, culture or the dance. On New Year's Eve 2006, conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim, Argentinean by birth and upbringing, celebrated the end of the year with a spectacular musical event: a festival of Argentinean music live...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (830 pages) : illustrations
Description
This masterful survey covers all genres of popular music, from pop, rock, soul, and country to jazz, blues, classic vocals, hip-hop, folk, gospel, and ethnic/world music. Collectors will find detailed discographical data while music lovers will appreciate the detailed commentaries and deep research on the songs, their recording, and the artists.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
x, 178 p.
Description
Sonic Multiplicities is a fascinating book, with essays rich in empirical detail and—captivatingly combining the personal and the theoretical—evocative of the complexities of experience, desire and politics in our perplexingly mobile and entangled world. The book focuses on Hong Kong pop music as part of a translocal, if not global network of flows, providing a starting point for the authors to unsettle received notions of Chineseness, place and...
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (4 minutes)
Description
Tango has long become more than the popular Argentine urban dance which developed after 1870 in the poor working class and immigrant areas on the outskirts of Buenos Aires. Tango has aficionados worldwide - be it for its music, culture or the dance. On New Year's Eve 2006, conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim, Argentinean by birth and upbringing, celebrated the end of the year with a spectacular musical event: a festival of Argentinean music live...
20) Songwriting
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Formats
Description
This friendly, hands-on guide shares insight from songwriters who've written legendary songs that have gotten airplay for five decades. Discover tips on identifying the music genre that best fits your talents, building your own lyric-writing voice, and creating music and melodies. This book also guides you through collaborating with other writers, creating demo recordings and navigating the business of professional songwriting.
