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André Malraux
Artists, reporters, musicians, and groupies chronicle the emergence of punk music in New York's underground and give backstage accounts of d... (Description from external book data)
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Jon Savage
WINNER OF THE RALPH J. GLEASON AWARD INCLUDES FOREWORD BY JOHNNY MARR Award-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author Jon Savage's definitive... (Description from external book data)
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Albert Mudrian
This exciting history, featuring an introduction by famed DJ John Peel, tells the two-decade-long history of grindcore and death metal throu... (Description from external book data)
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Lou Reed
AN UPDATED, COMPREHENSIVE COLLECTION OF LYRICS FROM THE VELVET UNDERGROUND FOUNDER AND SOLO ARTIST LOU REED, INCLUDING INTRODUCTIONS BY MART... (Description from external book data)
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Michael Eric Dyson
NOW A NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, AND PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY BESTSELLER "Dyson writes with the affection of a fan but the rigor of an academic. .... (Description from external book data)
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David Lewin
David Lewin's Generalized Musical Intervals and Transformations is recognized as the seminal work paving the way for current studies in math... (Description from external book data)
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Tom Moon
A guide to music provides recommendations on one thousand recordings that represent the best in such genres as classical, jazz, rock, pop, b... (Description from external book data)
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Denise P. Gallo
A comprehensive annotated bibliography of all the printed materials on Gioachino Rossini, the famous 19th-century composer (Description from external book data)
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Greg Renoff
A vivid and energetic history of Van Halen's legendary early years After years of playing gigs everywhere from suburban backyards to dive ba... (Description from external book data)
This book introduces music education majors to basic instrumental pedagogy for the instruments and ensembles most commonly found in the elem... (Description from external book data)
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David Margolick
The story of the song that foretold a movement and the Lady who dared sing it. Billie Holiday's signature tune, 'Strange Fruit', with its gr... (Description from external book data)
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Caroline Potter
Satie's music and ideas are inextricably linked with the City of Light. This book situates Satie's work within the context and sonic environ... (Description from external book data)
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Michael Saffle
First published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. (Description from external book data)
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Robert Palmieri
First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. (Description from external book data)
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Vic Hobson
The book Jazzmen (1939) claimed New Orleans as the birthplace of jazz and introduced the legend of Buddy Bolden as the First Man of Jazz. ... (Description from external book data)
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John Rahn
First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. (Description from external book data)
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Nat Hentoff
This book is a selective tribute and guide to the jazz life, the players, and the music. It is not a chronological or comprehensive history,... (Description from external book data)
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Andy R. Brown
This book defines the key ideas, scholarly debates, and research activities that have contributed to the formation of the international and ... (Description from external book data)
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John F. Link
This is a comprehensive guide to research on the American composer Elliott Carter (b. 1908), widely acknowledged as one of the greatest comp... (Description from external book data)
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Isabella van Elferen
Is "goth music" a genre, and if so, how does it relate to the goth subculture? The music played at goth club nights and festivals encompasse... (Description from external book data)
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Rachel Carroll
Bringing together exciting new interdisciplinary work from emerging and established scholars in the UK and beyond, Litpop addresses the ques... (Description from external book data)
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Paul Edwards
A first of its kind collection, How to Rap is an insightful and intelligent breakdown of the elements of rap for anyone wanting to learn the... (Description from external book data)
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Robert Adlington
For a century and more, the idea of democracy has fuelled musicians imaginations. Seeking to go beyond music s proven capacity to contrib... (Description from external book data)
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Martin Tröndle
Classical Concert Studies: A Companion to Contemporary Research and Performance is a landmark publication that maps out a new interdisciplin... (Description from external book data)
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Monty Adkins
More than forty years after the composer's death, the music of Roberto Gerhard (1896-1970) continues to be recorded and performed and to att... (Description from external book data)
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Nanette Nielsen
German music critic and opera producer Paul Bekker (1882 “1937) is a rare example of a critic granted the opportunity to turn his ideas into... (Description from external book data)
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Rufus Hallmark
German Lieder in the Nineteenth-Century provides a detailed introduction to the German lied. Beginning with its origin in the literary and m... (Description from external book data)
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Albert Mudrian
Decibel magazine is regarded as the best extreme music magazine around. Precious Metal gathers pieces from Decibel's most popular feature, t... (Description from external book data)
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Tim Shephard
As a coherent field of research, the field of music and visual culture has seen rapid growth in recent years. The Routledge Companion to Mus... (Description from external book data)
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Kenneth M. Smith
Commentary on Skryabin has struggled to situate an understanding of the composer's music within his idiosyncratic philosophical world views.... (Description from external book data)
