In the weeks leading up to The White Stripes' tenth-anniversary show, the band embarked on an adventurous and unprecedented tour that took them to every province and territory in Canada - from ocean to permafrost-playing unusual venues to crowds of all sizes, and culminating with the anniversary show. Photographer Autumn de Wilde traveled with the band into town and over tundra, capturing the beauty of the landscape, the exhilarating power of the live shows, the band's intense connection with th...
Billie Holiday singing at the New Orleans Swing Club. Dexter Gordon hanging out at Bop City. Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane all swinging through for gigs. Was this slice of jazz history in New York or perhaps New Orleans? No, this was San Francisco's Fillmore District in its heyday. The Fillmore in the 1940's and 1950's was an eclectic, integrated and hopping neighborhood of streets full of restaurants, pool halls, theaters and stores - many minority-owned - and b...
In this generous collection of book reviews and literary essays, legendary Village Voice rock critic Robert Christgau showcases the passion that made him a critic-his love for the written word. Many selections address music, from blackface minstrelsy to punk and hip-hop, artists from Lead Belly to Patti Smith, and fellow critics from Ellen Willis and Lester Bangs to Nelson George and Jessica Hopper. But Book Reports also teases out the popular in the Bible and 1984 as well as pornography and sci...
Forty years of rock 'n' roll and rebellion, it's all here: the music the mud and the memories. "Join Together! Forty Years of the Rock Festival" takes us behind the scenes of the major rock festivals such as Monterey Pop, Woodstock, Isle of Wight, Live Aid, Lollapalooza, Ozzfest, Live 8, the US Festivals, Vans Warped Tour, SARSstock, Woodstock '99, Coachella Bonnaroo, and dozens of other international events. Over 90 artists contribute their unique memories and perspectives on the music festival...
Musicologist Tawna presents a portrait of how various strata of Americans encountered, performed, and enjoyed music from the dawn of the 19th century to the Civil War. Relying on letters, memoirs, interviews, and other primary sources, he explores settings from the opera house to the saloon and disc
Listening for the Secret (Studies in the Grateful Dead, #1)
by Ulf Olsson
Listening for the Secret is a critical assessment of the Grateful Dead and the distinct culture that grew out of the group's music, politics, and performance. With roots in popular music traditions, improvisation, and the avant-garde, the Grateful Dead provides a unique lens through which we can better understand the meaning and creation of the counterculture community. Marshaling the critical and aesthetic theories of Adorno, Benjamin, Foucault and others, Ulf Olsson places the music group with...
The Venetian Instrumental Concerto During Vivaldi's Time (Eastern European Studies in Musicology, #21)
by Piotr Wilk
It is the first monograph in which the concertos of all composers active in this field in the Republic of Venice in the years 1695-1740 are methodically discussed. The Venetian instrumental concerto from Vivaldi's time is portrayed here through an extensive and thorough survey of the most complete and representative musical material that allowed for the making of conclusions as to its typology, form, style and technique. The concertos discussed here include 974 works by fifteen composers active...
Reclaiming Late-Romantic Music (Ernest Bloch Lectures, #14)
by Peter Franklin
Why are some of the most beloved and frequently performed works of the late-romantic period--Mahler, Delius, Debussy, Sibelius, Puccini--regarded by many critics as perhaps not quite of the first rank? Why has modernist discourse continued to brand these works as overly sentimental and emotionally self-indulgent? Peter Franklin takes a close and even-handed look at how and why late-romantic symphonies and operas steered a complex course between modernism and mass culture in the period leading up...
The years between roughly 1760 and 1810, a period stretching from the rise of Joseph Haydn's career to the height of Ludwig van Beethoven's, are often viewed as a golden age for musical culture, when audiences started to revel in the sounds of the concert hall. But the latter half of the eighteenth century also saw proliferating optical technologies-including magnifying instruments, magic lanterns, peepshows, and shadow-plays-that offered new performance tools, fostered musical innovation, and s...
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 der Arschig- und Mugam-Musik, Volkstanzen und Volksliedern sowie den traditionellen Musikinstrumenten grosse Aufmerksamkeit geschenkt. Anhand verschiedener Werkanalysen und Notenbeispiele aserbaidschanischer Komponisten wird gezeigt...
Life of Robert Schumann (Classic Reprint)
by Wilhelm Joseph Von Wasielewski
Michelangelo Rossi's two books of five-voice polyphonic madrigals are among the most expressive works of their kind ever composed. Showing the influence of Gesualdo, the madrigals were probably written in Rome betwen 1624 and 1629, when Rossi was in the service of Cardinal Maurizio of Savoy. They were apparently never published, and there is only one complete manuscript source, which once belonged to Queen Christina of Sweden and now forms the principal source for Brian Mann's critical edition....
Nothing defines the songs of the Great American Songbook more centrally than their urban sensibility. During the first half of the twentieth century, songwriters such as Harold Arlen, Irving Berlin, Dorothy Fields, George and IraGershwin, and Thomas "Fats" Waller flourished in New York City, the home of Tin Pan Alley, Broadway, and Harlem. Through their songs, these artists described America -- not its geography or politics, but its heart -- to Americansand to the world at large. In City Song...
Songs create the soundtrack for our lives: they inform, stimulate, tell us about ourselves, thrill us and make us glad to be alive. Some songs stay with you for three minutes; others a lifetime. Each has its own quality , its own story. Rockwiz is a successful Australian television quiz show series, focused on rock music and featuring different guest artist musicians who perform live in each episode and hosted by the charismatic Julia Zemiro.The latest instalment in a successful series, Rockwi...
The Classical Guitar (The Frederick Noad guitar anthology)
by Frederick M Noad
The term jam band" is used to categorize a type of music that favours improvisation and musicianship over concise riffs, hooks, and traditional songwriting structure. The term also helps define the fiercely dedicated fans of the music as accurately as it does the bands. Much as with the Grateful Dead,the progenitors of the jam band scene,the survival of the scene depends upon a symbiotic relationship with fans. Jam bands nurture a close relationship with their fans, fostered through constant to...