Inventor-Musicae Yearly Bulletin (2014) (Inventor-Musicae, #1)
by Mehmet Okonsar
From Jazz to Swing (Jazz History, Culture & Criticism S.) (Jazz History, Culture & Criticism)
by Thomas Hennessey
In the 1920s, many black regional jazz bands were recorded and became products of the entertainment industry, which was altering the face of America from the handmade, homemade, homemade society of the ninteenth century to the mass-produced, mass-consumed technological culture of the twentieth century.Making use of the files of African American newspapers, such as the Chicago Defender, as well as published and archival oral history interviews, Hennessey explores the contradictions that musicians...
A photographic story of the New York City Ballet's production of Shakespeare's fantasy of the misadventures of fairies and mortals.
About Bach
That Johann Sebastian Bach is a pivotal figure in the history of Western music is hardly news, and the magnitude of his achievement is so immense that it can be difficult to grasp. In About Bach, fifteen scholars show that Bach's importance extends from choral to orchestral music, from sacred music to musical parodies, and also to his scribes and students, his predecessors and successors. Further, the contributors demonstrate a diversity of musicological approaches, ranging from close studies of...
Diese Arbeit wurde mit dem Karl Heinz Ditze-Preis der Universitat Hamburg ausgezeichnet. Obwohl Gustav Mahlers Entwurf zu einer Zehnten Symphonie im Particell durchgehend ausgefuhrt ist, galten grosse Teile des Instrumentalwerks lange als skizzenhaft und unfertig. Die grundliche Analyse des Notentextes zeigt nun, dass die Form aller funf Satze wie auch der Gesamtanlage symphonisch ausgestaltet ist. Mahler entwickelte in diesem Werk nicht nur seine motivische Variantentechnik weiter, sondern hat...
The Palace of Eternal Youth (Library of Chinese Classics)
By the time Jimi Hendrix died in 1970, the idea of a black man playing lead guitar in a rock band seemed exotic. Yet a mere ten years earlier, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley had stood among the most influential rock and roll performers. Why did rock and roll become "white"? Just around Midnight reveals the interplay of popular music and racial thought that was responsible for this shift within the music industry and in the minds of fans.Rooted in rhythm-and-blues pioneered by black musicians, 1950s...