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Miles, Ornette, Cecil
Jazz Beyond Jazz
Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, and Cecil Taylor revolutionized music from the end of the twentieth century into the twenty-first, expanding on jazz traditions with distinctly new concepts of composition, improvisation, instrumentation, and performance. They remain figures of controversy due to their...
Published November 25th 2007 by Routledge
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Music Publishing
The Roadmap to Royalties
Music Publishing covers the basics of how a composition is copyrighted, published, and promoted. Publishing in the music business goes far beyond the physical sheet--it includes live performance and mechanical (recording) rights, and income streams from licensing deals of various kinds. A single...
Published June 23rd 2008 by Routledge
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Operetta
A Theatrical History
"Operetta: A Theatrical History" is considered the classic history of this important musical theater form. Traubner's book, first published in 1983, is still recognized as the key history of the people and productions that made operetta a worldwide phenomenon. Beginning in mid-19th century Europe,...
Published September 24th 2003 by Routledge
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Playing the Violin
Drawing on twenty years of teaching experience, author Mark Rush systematically builds the fundamentals of violin playing from the ground up. The book focuses on proper setup from how to stand, to holding the violin, to the best way to move the bow. These are fundamental components necessary for...
Published May 31st 2006 by Routledge
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Popular Music Genres
An Introduction
An accessible introduction to the study of popular music, this book takes a schematic approach to a range of popular music genres, and examines them in terms of their antecedents, histories, visual aesthetics, and sociopolitical contexts. Within this interdisciplinary and genre-based focus, readers...
Published November 8th 2004 by Routledge
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Ray Charles
Man and Music, Updated Commemorative Edition
Ray Charles: Man and Music is a complete biography of this seminal singer/pianist who has been active on the American music scene since the mid-'50s. Originally published in 1995 by Penguin Books, and universally hailed as the definitive biography, this new edition will bring Charles's life up to...
Published January 21st 2004 by Routledge
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Ray Davies
Not Like Everybody Else
Ray Davies: Not Like Everybody Else is a critical biography of Ray Davies, with a focus on his music and his times. The book studies Davies’ work from the Kinks’ first singles through his 2006 solo album, from his rock musicals in the early 1970s to his one-man stage show in the 1990s, and from his...
Published November 29th 2007 by Routledge
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Roadkill on the Three-Chord Highway
Art and Trash in American Popular Music
It's the real stories, not the publicists' confections, that concern Colin Escott. We hear Perry Como's story in his own words: it wasn't all smooth. We learn about the astonishing twists and turns in Roy Orbison's life, and the stories behind the songs we know so well. And we go down with Vernon...
Published July 25th 2002 by Routledge
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Roger Sessions
A Biography
Recognized as the primary American symphonist of the 20th century, Roger Sessions (1896-1985) is one of the leading representatives of high modernism. His stature among American composers rivals Charles Ives, Aaron Copland, and Elliott Carter. Sessions was awarded two Pulitzer prizes, election to...
Published December 4th 2007 by Routledge
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Situating Salsa
Global Markets and Local Meanings in Latin Popular Music
Situating Salsa offers the first comprehensive consideration of salsa music and its social impact, in its multiple transnational contexts....
Published May 2nd 2002 by Routledge
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Southwest Shuffle
Southwest Shuffle documents an important period in country music history. During the '30s and early '40s, hundreds of thousands of "Okies," "Arkies," and other rural folks from around the Southwest resettled in California, in search of work. A country music scene quickly blossomed there, with...
Published April 24th 2003 by Routledge
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Spreadin' Rhythm Around
Black Popular Songwriters, 1880-1930
Spreadin' Rhythm Around: Black Popular Songwriters, 1880-1930 is a classic work on a little-studied subject in American music history: the contribution of African-American songwriters to the world of popular song. Hailed by Publishers Weekly as "thoroughly researched and entertainingly written,"...
Published September 29th 2005 by Routledge
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Talkin' to Myself
Blues Lyrics, 1921-1942
Talkin' to Myself: Blues Lyrics, 1921-1942 is a compendium of lyrics by the great blues recording artists of the classic blues era. It includes over 2000 songs, transcribed directly from the original recordings, making it by far the most comprehensive and accurate collection of blues lyrics...
Published July 21st 2005 by Routledge
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Teenage Nervous Breakdown
Teenage Nervous Breakdown: Music and Politics in the Post-Elvis Era combines music and cultural history and criticism to examine how rock and the rock lifestyle have been merchandised first to a teenage audience and eventually to a worldwide consumer society. Well-known, iconoclastic writer/ critic...
Published May 24th 2006 by Routledge
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The Blues Lyric Formula
This book is the first rigourous and detailed exploration of exactly how blues singers used formulas to create songs, and it more than amply fills the gap in the the study of the blues, where the structure and content of the lyrics have been less fully explored than the musical form. Focusing on...
Published February 15th 2006 by Routledge
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The Ethnomusicologists' Cookbook
Complete Meals from Around the World
Named one of New York Times Top-20 Cookbooks of 2006. Have you ever wanted to host a full evening of Indian food, culture, and music? How about preparing a traditional Balinese banquet? Or take a trip to Cairo and enjoy an Egyptian feast? The Ethnomusicologists' Cookbook takes you around...
Published June 6th 2006 by Routledge
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The Making of the Sound of Music
The Sound of Music was the last – and most successful – collaboration of two giants of the musical theater, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein. Enjoying a long run on Broadway and then transformed into a major hit film--recently reissued in a 40th anniversary edition on DVD with new footage –...
Published April 1st 2007 by Routledge
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The Percussionists' Guide to Injury Treatment and Prevention
The Answer Guide to Drummers in Pain
Pain and injury are near constant companions for professional musicians. Aching hands, painful joint swelling, back problems, among other ailments were all thought to be part of the price musicians had to pay to be performers. However, thanks to an increasing awareness of both the kinesiology and...
Published June 1st 2006 by Routledge
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Routledge Guide to Broadway
The Routledge Guide to Broadway is the second title in our new student reference series. It will introduce the student to the Broadway theater, focusing on key performers, writers, directors, plays, and musicals, along with the theaters themselves, key awards, and the folklore of Broadway.Broadway...
Published December 18th 2006 by Routledge
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The Singer's Companion
"The Singer’s Companion" provides both beginning and advanced students of singing with a basic, reliable, and readable introduction to the many issues focusing on training and maintaining a healthy voice. It covers all the fundamental issues faced by vocalists in all styles of music, including how...
Published February 13th 2006 by Routledge
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The Voice of the Blues
Classic Interviews from Living Blues Magazine
The Voice of the Blues brings together interviews with many pioneering blues men including Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter, Jimmy Reed, B.B. King, and many others....
Published December 6th 2001 by Routledge
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Virtual Music
How the Web Got Wired for Sound
Virtual Music: How the Web Got Wired for Sound is a personal story of how one composer has created new music on the web, a history of interactive music, and a guide for aspiring musicians who want to harness the new creative opportunities offered by web composing. Also includes a 4-page color...
Published May 30th 2005 by Routledge
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Voices of the Country
Interviews with Classic Country Performers
"Voices of the Country" presents interviews with innovative musicians, producers, and songwriters who shaped the last fifty years of country music. From Eddy Arnold's new, smoother approach to song delivery to Loretta Lynn's take-no-prisoners feminism, these people opened new vistas in country...
Published April 21st 2004 by Routledge
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Yodel-Ay-Ee-Oooo
The Secret History of Yodeling Around the World
First published in 2004...
Published October 30th 2003 by Routledge
