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subject:"Music / History & Criticism" from books.google.com
Written with the same zeal and spirit that the Grateful Dead brought to its music for more than thirty years, the book takes readers on a personal tour through the band’s inner circle, highlighting its frenetic and very human faces.
subject:"Music / History & Criticism" from books.google.com
From 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.
subject:"Music / History & Criticism" from books.google.com
Looking at the first American performances of his works and the dissemination of his ideas among American composers in the 1910s, 1920s and early 1930s, she convincingly debunks the myths surrounding Schoenberg's alleged isolation in the US ...
subject:"Music / History & Criticism" from books.google.com
A history of vocal pedagogy from the beginning of the bel canto tradition of solo singing in the late 16th century and dealing extensively with such topics as the emergence of virtuoso singing, national singing styles, and the 'secrets' of ...
subject:"Music / History & Criticism" from books.google.com
Presents a detailed analysis of the musical styles and forms developed by Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven.
subject:"Music / History & Criticism" from books.google.com
In Can’t Buy Me Love, Jonathan Gould explains why, placing the Fab Four in the broad and tumultuous panorama of their time and place, rooting their story in the social context that girded both their rise and their demise.
subject:"Music / History & Criticism" from books.google.com
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • David Byrne’s incisive and enthusiastic look at the musical art form, from its very inceptions to the influences that shape it, whether acoustical, economic, social, or technological—now updated with a new ...
subject:"Music / History & Criticism" from books.google.com
This absorbing and award-winning biography tells the story of the tragedies and triumphs of Clara Wieck Schumann (1819-1896)--at once artist, composer, editor, teacher, wife, and mother of eight children.
subject:"Music / History & Criticism" from books.google.com
Includes primary source material in the form of photographs, transcripts, etc.