In the realm of singer songwriters, few have been as influential as Neil Young, whose music has always been creative and......more
Dive into the musical universe of solo Ian Hunter songs like never before with Ian Hunter On Track. We unlock the secret......more
Towards the tail end of the 1980s, Neil Hannon: a talented singer/songwriter from Northern Ireland, formed his first lin......more
Released in 1969, Let it Bleed was The Rolling Stones’ eighth studio album (tenth in the USA). The second in a sequence ......more
Cinema scholars categorize city symphony films of the 1920s and early 1930s as a subgenre of the silent film. Defined in......more
Cinema scholars categorize city symphony films of the 1920s and early 1930s as a subgenre of the silent film. Defined in......more
From her childhood in Detroit to her professional career in New York City, American composer Lucia Dlugoszewski (1925-20......more
Venezuelan music has remained largely unnoticed in the academic English literature. Boasting a tremendous wealth of trad......more
Taking Mary Shelley’s novel as its point of departure, this collection of essays considers how her creation has not only......more
Though The Velvet Underground were critically and commercially unsuccessful in their time, in ensuing decades they have ......more
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In 2019, Los Angeles-based composer, producer, and conductor Lucas Cantor Santiago was asked by the Chinese technology c......more
Margaret Brandman’s ’Contemporary Aural Course’ consists of audio files providing verbal instruction, musical examples, ......more
Director David Lynch is best known for films that channel the uncanny and the weird into a distinct "Lynchian" aesthetic......more
An archive of aural sensations past, teeming with rare and previously unpublished vintage hi-fi brochures Remember rolle......more
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Authoritatively written and lavishly illustrated, Fender Stratocaster(R) 70 Years is the officially licensed anniversary......more
Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928-2016) has been called Finland’s most notable musical export after Sibelius. His prolific out......more
In 1973, a forty-year-old country musician named Willie Nelson, inspired by a failed music festival the year before, dec......more
This unique collaboration between a musicologist and two pianists - all experts in Russian music - takes a fresh look at......more
Viennese composer Julius Burger (also named Burger (1897-1995)) intersected with many important figures of 20th century ......more
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This book explores the world of Nordic ritual folk music, including Viking reenactments, neopagan spiritualities, and cr......more
Exploring how music is used to portray the past in a variety of media, this book probes the relationship between history......more
"This book inspires us all to immerse ourselves in the vast potential of music and other creative arts to heal our wound......more
One of The New Yorker’s Best Books of the Year Named one of the Most Memorable Music Books of the Year by No Depression:......more
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Substantially revised and expanded edition that sheds new light on Stanford’s career as composer, conductor and teacher,......more
In Before Sound, composer Tiziano Manca investigates the premises for and consequences of a major change in his composit......more
A series of 16 stand-alone chapters revisit pop/rock history viewed through a prism of causality highlighting previously......more
Paul Thom argues that opera is a set of practices framed by the concepts of work, interpretation, performance, and art. ......more
Challenging residual doubts about Vaughan Williams’s role and significance within twentieth-century music and culture, t......more
It was 1980. Once adored by the public, disco had run its course and was gasping its final breath. The New Wave of Briti......more
The creation of the Confederate States of America and the subsequent Civil War inspired composers, lyricists, and music ......more
Although philosophers have examined and commented on music for centuries, Martin Heidegger, one of the greatest philosop......more
Dive into the captivating world of music history with Dan Ouellette’s remarkable collection, The Landfill Chronicles: Un......more
Dive into the captivating world of music history with Dan Ouellette’s remarkable collection, The Landfill Chronicles: Un......more
This work is the result of research into a topic that is little discussed, the social role of the Catholic Church. What ......more
The Everly Brothers--aka Don and Phil to fans with an intimate appreciation for them--seemed to exist almost as an appar......more
How jazz spurred a generational debate that reshaped American culture....more
’ABC’, as perfect as anything I’ve ever witnessed up until that point in my tiny little life. Three minutes of divine de......more
California Gold offers a compelling cultural snapshot of a diverse California during the 1930s at the height of the New ......more
Through a collection of extensive interviews with choral conductors, educators, singers, and professional leaders, this ......more
Revised edition: Adolf Busch (1891-1952) was an all-round musician and a moral beacon in troubled times. As first violin......more
Through a collection of extensive interviews with choral conductors, educators, singers, and professional leaders, this ......more
Music as Agency: Diversities of Perspectives on Artistic Citizenship focuses on the concept, application, interpretation......more
The Malay Nobat: A History of Power, Acculturation, and Sovereignty explores the history and meaning of the nobat, a cou......more
Embark on a transformative journey with Niobis Queiro’s upcoming book, JOY NOTES: Balancing the Trauma with Triumph. Thi......more
Embark on a transformative journey with Niobis Queiro’s upcoming book, JOY NOTES: Balancing the Trauma with Triumph. Thi......more
Paper presented to the Physical Education Seminar of the 8th period of the Physical Education degree course at the Feder......more
(Berklee Guide). Use music to improve your wellbeing. Has music ever made you smile, cry, maybe even fall in love? Learn......more
Few composers embodied wider cultural interests than Wagner or had greater cultural consequences. This is the first coll......more
Sporotrichosis is a subacute or chronic mycotic infection of the skin and subcutaneous tissues characterized by nodular-......more
This volume invites its readers into the highly varied world of chamber music composition, performance, and reception fr......more
The mid-20th century saw the birth of a new kind of big band/orchestral music in what came to be called ’Easy Listening’......more
The White Stripes were one of the breakout bands of the early 2000s ’rock revival’. They produced some of the most indel......more
The book addresses the theme of the advent of a ’Matrix Land’ as a pervasive environment of digital (virtual) reality in......more
Testing and characterization of the technological properties of Eucalyptus wood, carried out at the Federal University o......more
The transportation of dangerous goods by road accounts for most of the chemical accidents that occur in São Paulo and Ri......more
Soil is extremely important to the construction industry, because as well as being a natural building material, it is al......more
This book approaches opera fantasias - instrumental works that use themes from a single opera as the body of their virtu......more
Designed for students, aficionados of classical music, and historians, this volume offers a wide-ranging, multi-discipli......more
Bruno Maderna was one of the most influential composers in the twentieth century. He was the eldest of the group of Ital......more
The Devil Prefers Mozart is the first comprehensive collection of Anthony Burgess’s writings about music. In this extens......more
Pietro Metastasio (1698-1782) can be considered as the most renowned operatic dramatist of eighteenth-century Europe. Hi......more
Flooding is something that causes a lot of damage in a city. New measures are being taken to prevent this from happening......more
An acceptable response to the US espionage act became the main focus of Dilma Rousseff’s government, with two strands to......more
This was the conclusion of the specialisation course in Cell Biology, of which I was a student in the first cohort, unde......more
In times of financial and economic crisis, such as those currently being experienced in Brazil, decision-making in organ......more
The process of personal development implies valuing critical-reflective work on the practices carried out and the experi......more
The book examines ethnic inspirations in American jazz, Slovak-American jazz, young French bands with diverse fusion, Hu......more
Essays on the history of bands in America from ca. 1820 to 1930, offering new insights on a major sphere of music making......more
Mozart, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that thi......more
Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered i......more
This book deals with the implementation of music teaching in the municipal network of Seropédica/RJ. The main objectives......more
The main objective was to try to bring up some issues involving this minority in some states, such as how they are treat......more
This edited volume concentrates on the period from the 1940s to the present, exploring how popular music forms such as b......more