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2007 Arts Club of Washington's National Award for Arts Writing - Finalist
SEE ALSO: Pimps Up, Ho's Down: Hip Hop's Hold on Young Black Women by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting.
An inside look into the beats, lyrics, and flow of hip-hop's history
With roots that stretch from West Africa through the black pulpit, hip-hop emerged in the streets of the South Bronx in the 1970s and has spread to the farthest corners of the earth. To the Break of Dawn uniquely...
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The definitive history of the first 30 years of heavy metal, containing over 100 interviews with members of Black Sabbath, Metallica, Judas Priest, Twisted Sister, Slipknot, Kiss, Megadeth, Public Enemy, Napalm Death, and more.
More than 30 years after Black Sabbath released the first complete heavy metal album, its founder, Ozzy Osbourne, is the star of The Osbournes, TV's favourite new reality show. Contrary to popular belief, headbangers and...
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Taking a cognitive approach to musical meaning, Arnie Cox explores embodied experiences of hearing music as those that move us both consciously and unconsciously. In this pioneering study that draws on neuroscience and music theory, phenomenology and cognitive science, Cox advances his theory of the "mimetic hypothesis," the notion that a large part of our experience and understanding of music involves an embodied imitation in the listener of bodily...
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In Fever, music critic Tim Riley argues that while political and athletic role models have let us down, rock and roll has provided enduring role models for men and women. From Elvis Presley to Tina Turner to Bruce Springsteen to Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love, Riley makes a persuasive case that rock and roll, far from the corrosive force that conservative critics make it out to be, has instead been a positive influence in people's lives, laying out...
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Straight-from-the-record transcriptions with tab for 11 of the best from these album rockers: The Best of Times * Blue Collar Man (Long Nights) * Come Sail Away * Crystal Ball * The Grand Illusion * Lorelei * Mademoiselle * Miss America * Renegade * Rockin' the Paradise * Suite Madame Blue.
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The Christmas collection that all jazz cats will want in their stocking! This unique fake book features 150 custom arrangements of carols and contemporary holiday songs featuring sophisticated jazz chord changes in the popular, user-friendly Real Book format. Players will enjoy putting the cool back into these Christmas classics: All I Want for Christmas Is You * Auld Lang Syne * Baby, It's Cold Outside * Blue Christmas * The Chipmunk Song * Christmas...
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Easy guitar arrangements for all 16 tracks on Taylor's blockbuster album: All Too Well * Begin Again * Everything Has Changed * Holy Ground * I Almost Do * I Knew You Were Trouble * The Last Time * The Lucky One * Red * Sad Beautiful Tragic * Starlight * State of Grace * Stay Stay Stay * Treacherous * 22 * We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together. Includes standard notation and tablature.
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"The piano works of Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) are among the most treasured musical compositions of the twentieth century. In this volume, pianist and Russian music scholar Sofia Moshevich provides detailed interpretive analyses of the ten major piano solo works by Shostakovich, carefully noting important stylistic details and specific ways to overcome the numerous musical and technical challenges presented by the music. Each piece is introduced...
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Ray Charles (1930-2004) led one of the most extraordinary lives of any popular musician. In Brother Ray, he tells his story in an inimitable and unsparing voice, from the chronicle of his musical development to his heroin addiction to his tangled romantic life. Overcoming poverty, blindness, the loss of his parents, and the pervasive racism of the era, Ray Charles was acclaimed worldwide as a genius by the age of thirty-two. By combining the influences...
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Hacía falta que alguien desmontase la visión academicista de la historia convencional, centrada en cuestiones estilísticas, y prestase atención al papel que la música tiene en la vida cotidiana de la gente común.
Ted Gioia replantea miles de años de historia de la música y refleja su dinámica, mostrando que "la innovación musical ocurre de abajo arriba y de afuera adentro".
Analiza su conexión con el conflicto generacional o el malestar...
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Get the Summary of Peter Guralnick's Last train to Memphis in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Last Train to Memphis" chronicles the early life and rise to fame of Elvis Presley, from his humble beginnings in Tupelo, Mississippi, to his induction into the U.S. Army. Born to Vernon and Gladys Presley in 1935, Elvis grew up in a loving yet financially unstable household. His musical journey began in church and continued...
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Nuestra música popular argentina, compuesta por grandes poetas y compositores, tan rica en su esencia, desde siempre nos inspiró y motivó a nosotros, los arregladores, a escribir nuestras propias versiones, siempre con el objetivo de servir a sus creadores y de ofrecer un cancionero de nuestra música, enriqueciendo así el repertorio de nuestros coros y grupos vocales.
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Sonic Youth's distinctive, uncompromising sounds have provided a map for innumerable musicians who followed, from '90s groundbreakers like Nirvana and Pavement to current faves like the Strokes and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. More than perhaps any other act, Sonic Youth has brought fringe" art to the mainstream, helping spawn an alternative arts scene that prospers to this day: a world of punk rock, underground films and comics, experimental music, conceptual...
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When jazz evolved in the United States there were many genres such as Bebop and Hard Bop. Cozy Eggleston was born in the small town of Cairo, Illinois. He was a self-taught saxophonist who had high aspirations to become a successful jazz musician. Cozy came along in the era when saxophonist Lester "The Prez" Young was "Boss on the scene." "Prez" became Cozy's idol the day they met.
Cozy wrote a song called "Big Heavy." During that time jazz...
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Alois Schöpf, Schriftsteller, Journalist sowie Gründer und Leiter der Innsbrucker Promenadenkonzerte, blickt auf eine zwanzigjährige Praxis als Dirigent verschiedener Blasorchester und Musikkapellen zurück. 'Das erfolgreiche Konzert' verarbeitet die konkreten Erfahrungen des ausübenden Musikers ebenso wie die Anforderungen, die ein langjähriger Veranstalter an ein Orchester, an ein Konzert und an die Organisation eines erfolgreichen Konzerts...
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Robert Soubeyran war Professor für Musikwissenschaft am regionalen Nationalkonservatorium für Musik in Montpellier, Organist, Pädagoge und Komponist. Ihm ist die Unterstützung durch große Lehrer wie Olivier Messiaen zugutegekommen.
Allerdings war es die Begegnung mit Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov, durch die er die Fragen beantwortet bekam, die sich seiner Musiker-Seele stellten, so dass er den lichtvollen Pfad fand, nach dem er sich sehnte.
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