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Anselm Gerhard

Die Ouvertüre gehört zur Oper wie der Spitzenton in der höchsten Sopran- oder Tenor-Lage. Sollte man meinen. Dabei beginnt längst nicht jede Oper mit einer Ouvertüre. Dieses Buch beschreibt Erscheinungsformen und Funktionen der instrumentalen Einleitung im Musiktheater...

The Oxford Handbook of the Disney Musical

Dominic Broomfield-Mchugh , Colleen Montgomery

The Oxford Handbook of the Disney Musical brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to interrogate an enduringly popular and influential cultural phenomenon. Broadening the purview of extant scholarship while also reflecting its methodological multiplicity,...

Heartbreaker

Mike Campbell

A fast-paced, tender-hearted rock 'n' roll memoir for the ages, Mike Campbell's Heartbreaker is part rags-to-riches story and part raucous, seat-of-the-pants adventure, recounting Campbell's life and times as lead guitarist of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Mike...

Jerome Kern's Jewel Box

Stephanie Ruozzo

Jerome Kern’s Jewel Box shows how the integration of spoken and sung performances in Kern's early musicals reveals new connections between musical theater scores and “straight” (spoken) theater. Kern’s scores are foundational to the American musical, and subsequent...

Volcanic Tongue

David Keenan

Volcanic Tongue presents the first ever collection of multi-award-winning author David Keenan's music writings. Keenan has been writing about music since publishing his first fanzine, inspired by The Pastels and by Glasgow (and Airdrie's) DIY music scene, in 1988. Since...

Crazy Diamonds:The Little Guide to Pink Floyd

Orange Hippo!

Pink Floyd are firmly in the pantheon of all-time great rock bands, with their name as well known and well respected now as it was 50 years ago. And with such legendary albums as The Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall still adored today, you can betPink Floyd will still...

Metallica

Chris Ingham

A deep dive into the music and songwriting of the world's greatest heavy metal band: Metallica.A must-read for any metalhead, Metallica: The Stories Behind the Songs breaks down the writing and recording of every track from each of the band's studio albums, including...

Lesarten und Lebenswelten

Laurenz Lütteken

Laurenz Lüttekens pointierte Essays, gerichtet an ein breites Publikum, laden zu Erkundungen und Reflexionen über den unendlichen Gegenstand Musik vom späten Mittelalter bis in die Gegenwart ein. Dabei stehen Texte zu einzelnen Werken im Mittelpunkt, nicht im Sinne von...

Eternal Flame

Jennifer Otter Bickerdike

The authorized biography of the quintessential ’80s pop bandThe Bangles, who scored massive hits with “Manic Monday,” Walk Like an Egyptian,” “Hazy Shade of Winter,” and more   From their first meeting in 1981, the Bangles were...

Pretend We're Dead

Tanya Pearson

"A refreshing and much-needed contribution to the male-dominated history of rock ’n’ roll."--Kirkus ReviewsFrom the founder of the Women of Rock Oral History Project, an exploration of women in the '90s rock scene, featuring original...

Das Subjekt im Klang

Max Ischebeck

Musik ist mit unzähligen sozialen Prozessen und Situationen in unterschiedlichen Bereichen der Gesellschaft verknüpft. Dabei wird sie völlig anders eingesetzt, rezipiert und erfahren als andere Medien, etwa als die Schrift, die gesprochene Sprache oder Bilder. Vor...

Before Elvis

Preston Lauterbach

In this thought-provoking book, the Black musicians who influenced Elvis Presley's music finally receive recognition and praise. After Baz Luhrmann’s movie, Elvis, hit theaters, audiences and critics alike couldn't help but question the Black origins...

Stomp Off, Let's Go

Ricky Riccardi

The revelatory origin story of one of America's most beloved musicians, Louis Armstrong How did Louis Armstrong become Louis Armstrong? In Stomp Off, Let's Go, author and Armstrong expert Ricky Riccardi tells the enthralling story of the iconic trumpeter's meteoric...

fabric

Joe Muggs

Available in a first edition print run strictly limited to 4,000 copies, fabric tells the story of one of the most revered clubs in the history of dance music culture.fabric captures the journey of a small group of enthusiasts who, rebelling against the...

Long Live

Nicole Pomarico

This lushly illustrated package is the ultimate fan guide for Swifties! It covers the Taylor Swift multiverse from all angles with a journey through fandom history, exclusive interviews, and behind-the-scenes detail on her career across eras, including The Tortured...

Music and Dance as Everyday South Asia

Sarah L. Morelli , Zoe C. Sherinian

Music and Dance as Everyday South Asia offers an inclusive lens through which to study the music, dance, and allied arts of South Asia, its diasporas, and the people who produce and use these cultural expressions. The authors in this collection--ethnomusicologists,...

High and Rising

Marcus Moore

Feel Like Going Home

Peter Guralnick

Feel Like Going Home vividly brings to life such early blues masters as Muddy Waters , Skip James, and Howlin' Wolf, along with illuminating excursions into the blues-based rock 'n' roll of Jerry Lee Lewis, Charlie Rich, and the Sun Records label. With unique insight...

Rebel Musix, Scribe on a Vibe

Vivien Goldman

Rebel Musix, Scribe on a Vibe collects the extraordinary output of Vivien Goldman from 1975 onwards; spanning a time when punk burnt its scalding flame to scorch our musical earth and clear it for new genres, like post-punk and hip-hop. One of only a handful of women...

Carmen in Diaspora

Jennifer M. Wilks

Carmen in Diaspora is a cultural history ofCarmen adaptations set in African diasporic contexts. It explores the phenomenon of the connection between the story of Carmen, which originally appeared in Prosper Mérimée's eponymous 1845 novella and came to...