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Publisher
Twirl
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When did people start making music? What types of music are there? How are musical instruments made? The Do You Know?(TM) series provides in-depth looks at a wide range of popular subjects. Appealing to children who want to know everything, each thought-provoking book features: 96 pages of engaging and educational answers to many popular questions; Hundreds of labeled full-color illustrations; An index to key terms."--
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley Limited
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Discover the power of music and be inspired by cultures from all over the world with the Children's Book of Music. You'll find out how instruments are made and played and learn about the fascinating lives and achievements of great composers and musicians, from Bach to Bowie, Bjork, and Beyonce. The book is packed with facts and photos highlighting musical styles from around the globe, from the very earliest music through classical and blues, via reggae,...
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
This volume of History Comics follows Aaliyah, a hip-hop superfan, as she gets a lesson in all things "old school" when she takes a day trip to the Bronx, where her dad shows her all the heroes who helped create the foundations of this musical and cultural revolution.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"The greatest popular songs, whether it's Aretha Franklin singing "Respect" or Bob Dylan performing "Blind Willie McTell," have a way of embedding themselves in our memories. You remember a time and a place and a feeling when you hear that song again. In Holding the Note, David Remnick writes about the lives and work of some of the greatest musicians, songwriters, and performers of the past fifty years"--
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A stirring account of how the flowering of the European Enlightenment, two World Wars, and the Holocaust can be remembered through the poignant works of music created in their wake"--
When it comes to how societies remember these increasingly distant dreams and catastrophes, we often think of history books, archives, documentaries, or memorials carved from stone. But in Time’s Echo, the award-winning critic and cultural historian Jeremy Eichler...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Through rare and never-before-seen photographs, Amy Fleisher Madden, founder of Fiddler Records, thoughtfully and lovingly put together this moving archive of the second and third waves of emo. With a foreword by Chris Carrabba and revealing essays from Frank Iero, Geoff Rickly, Norman Brannon, and Matt Pryor, as well as insights and bite-sized narratives from photographers and other musicians of the era, this heartwarming time capsule expounds an...
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Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Film Music: A Very Short Introduction focuses on the most central issues in the practice of film music. What is film music? How is it composed? How does film music work? Why does film music work? The rich and deeply moving sounds of film music are as old as cinema. The very first projected moving images were accompanied by music around the globe as a variety of performers-from single piano players to small orchestras-brought images to life. Film...
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Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"In a dim clearing off a county road in Kentucky sits a sagging outdoor stage buried in moss and dead leaves. It used to be the centerpiece of carnival-like Sunday afternoons where local guitarists, fiddlers and mandolin players hammered out old mountain ballads while legends from the dawn of country music performed their classic hits. Most of the musicians who showed up have long since passed, but Nashville stars Ricky Skaggs and Marty Stuart survive....
Author
Publisher
Black Dog & Leventhal
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"With A Child's Introduction to Hip Hop, parents can teach their kids about their favorite musical genre through this beautifully illustrated exploration of the history and origins of hip hop, beginning with the "Holy Trinity" of DJ Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa, and Grandmaster Flash, to today's Kanye West, Cardi B, and more, all leading up to the 50th anniversary of the birth of hip hop in August 2023"--
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Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Musician and music historian Craig Harris tells the compelling stories of contemporary Indigenous musicians of North America in their own words"--
"Music historian Craig Harris explores more than five hundred years of Indigenous history, religion, and cultural evolution in Rise Up! Indigenous Music in North America. More than powwow drums and wooden flutes, Indigenous music intersects with rock, blues, jazz, folk music, reggae, hip-hop, classical...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An illuminating deep dive into the making of Bruce Springsteen's most surprising album, Nebraska, revealing its pivotal role in Springsteen's career--from the New York Times bestselling author of Petty: The Biography. Without Nebraska, Bruce Springsteen might not be who he is today. The natural follow-up to Springsteen's hugely successful The River should have been the hit-packed album Born in the U.S.A, but instead, in 1982, he came out with Nebraska,...
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Publisher
Walker Books US, a division of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Cece Bell loves music and collecting old record albums, her introduction explains, especially albums featuring animal artists. The bouncing harmonies of the Barbershop Beagles, the elegant crooning of the elephant Ella Fontaine, the hilarious rhymes of the Hip-Hop Hedgehogs--all are represented in this quirky ABC book that draws on the creator's personal collection of albums, memorabilia, and lyrics dating between 1944 and 1984, the heyday of album...
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Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Where exactly does the South begin and end? Current maps are too rigid to account for the ways Black people have built the South while being simultaneously excluded from it. Drawing from the different ways Black artists in the 2-5-2 area code in North Carolina use "vibe" as a mode of knowing and communication, author Corey J. Miles illustrates how Black feeling and unfeeling offer entry points into the contemporary South that challenge static and...
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Series
Music matters volume 012
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton is best-known for two songs covered by white rock 'n' roll stars (Elvis Presley, "Hound Dog"; Janis Joplin, "Ball 'n' Chain") but she is unquestionably one of the great blueswomen of her generation. She embodies some of the clichés of the blues, too: Born in the South, raised in the church, appropriated by white performers, hard drinking, relatively early death, big nickname, buried in an indigent's grave. Lynnée...
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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In this collection of three essays, internationally renowned tenor Ian Bostridge explores his relation to the performance of Western classical vocal music through the lens of gender, politics, or the ultimate paradoxical grounding of identity, death. As a performer who needs to negotiate between his own identity and that of the musical text he delivers on stage or in the concert hall, Bostridge asks questions about how the complex identity of a piece...
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