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'An epic tale, told the way it should be' RECORD COLLECTOR'The book he was born to write' CLASSIC ROCK MAGAZINE'An entertaining read for long-standing fans and newcomers alike' GUITARISTThe final word on the only name synonymous with heavy metal - Black Sabbath.Way back...
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Orion
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2013-11-07
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Initially branching out of the European contradance tradition, the danzón first emerged as a distinct form of music and dance among black performers in nineteenth-century Cuba. By the early twentieth-century, it had exploded in popularity throughout the Gulf of Mexico...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-11-06
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Does music make kids smarter? At what age should a child begin music lessons? Where should you purchase an instrument? What should parents expect from a child's teachers and lessons? How can you get kids to practice? Raising Musical Kids answers these and many other...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-11-05
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February, 1940: After a decade of worldwide depression, World War II had begun in Europe and Asia. With Germany on the march, and Japan at war with China, the global crisis was in a crescendo. America's top songwriter, Irving Berlin, had captured the nation's mood a...
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PublicAffairs
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2013-11-05
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In diesem Buch werden die aserbaidschanische Musikkultur im 20. Jahrhundert und die Rezeption westlicher Musik aus dem Kontext des aserbaidschanischen Bewusstseins heraus untersucht. Unter anderem wird den historisch tief verankerten musikalischen Formen und Inhalten...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-05
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Der Schwerpunkt dieser empirischen Studie liegt auf einer Untersuchung zum funktionellen Nachvollzug der physiologischen Gesangsstimme.Der funktionelle Nachvollzug meint das intuitive Nachvollziehen von Bewegungen im Sinne von Empathie und Nachahmung und geht auf W.B....
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-04
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Die Ouvertüre zum Sommernachtstraum war die Erfolgskomposition des jungen Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Mit ihrer Mischung aus Verträumtheit und jugendlichem Elan eroberte Mendelssohn die Herzen der Engländer. Zugleich war die Ouvertüre eine Visitenkarte seiner...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-04
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This is the first book to tackle the diverse styles and multiple histories of popular music in India. It brings together fourteen of the field's leading scholars to contribute chapters on a range of topics from the classic songs of Bollywood to contemporary remixes. The...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-11-01
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Do you enjoy listening to music while driving?Do you find radio traffic information indispensable?Do you like to sing along with whatever you like as you drive?
This book tells the fascinating story of how, over the course of the twentieth century, we turned...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-11-01
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The Romantic pianist - the solo pianist who plays nineteenth-century piano music - has become an attractive figure in the popular imagination, considering the innumerable artworks, literary works, and films representing this performer's seductive allure. Dreams of Love...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-11-01
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How does the immediate experience of musical sound relate to processes of meaning construction and discursive mediation?
This question lies at the heart of the studies presented in Experience and Meaning in Music Performance, a unique multi-authored work that both...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-10-31
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'Johnny Cash ... Every man could relate to him, no man could be him, and only one man could get inside his head - Robert Hilburn' BONOPeople don't just listen to Johnny Cash: they believe in him. But no one has told the Man in Black's full story, until now.In Johnny...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2013-10-31
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Just as our society delights in citations, quotations, and allusions in myriad contexts, not least in popular song, late medieval poets and composers knew well that such references could greatly enrich their own works. In The Art of the Grafted Song: Citation and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-10-28
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Musical Intimacies and Indigenous Imaginaries explores several styles performed in the vital aboriginal musical scene in the western Canadian province of Manitoba, focusing on fiddling, country music, Christian hymnody, and step dancing. In considering these genres and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-10-25
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In the late 1960s, a new movement emerged championing historically informed 'authentic' approaches to performance. Heard today in concert halls across the world and in a library's worth of recordings, it has completely transformed the way in which we listen to 'old'...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-10-25
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The amazing life of Madness frontman and national treasure, SuggsSuggs is one of pop music's most enduring and likeable figures. Written with the assured style and wit of a natural raconteur, this hugely entertaining and insightful autobiography takes you from his...
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Quercus
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2013-10-24
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This is the second of a two-volume study of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Taking into account the vast increase in our knowledge of the composer due to the Bach scholarship of the last sixty years, Richard Jones presents a vivid and in some respects radically new...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-10-17
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Pop music and rock music are often treated as separate genres but the distinction has always been blurred. Motti Regev argues that pop-rock is best understood as a single musical form defined by the use of electric and electronic instruments, amplification and...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-10-14
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Pop music and rock music are often treated as separate genres but the distinction has always been blurred. Motti Regev argues that pop-rock is best understood as a single musical form defined by the use of electric and electronic instruments, amplification and related...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-10-14
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Conor Maynard shot to fame posting cover versions of Usher, Drake and the Kings of Leon on YouTube. He soon developed a big following and he has become a huge YouTube sensation, with millions of followers. Conor's talent was quick to catch people's attention and having...
Editeur :
Coronet
Parution :
2013-10-10
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