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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The Pulitzer Prize-winning musician offers his own take on jazz music as he discusses the secrets of listening to jazz, the different styles of various jazz musicians, its improvisational principles, and its influence on modern life and on one's view of the world around.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A user's guide to opera--Matthew Aucoin, "the most promising operatic talent in a generation" (New York Times Magazine), describes the creation of his groundbreaking new work, Eurydice, and shares his reflections on the past, present, and future of opera"--
Author
Publisher
City Lights Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"What's Good is a work of passionate lyrical analysis, a set of freewheeling liner notes, and a love letter to the most vital American art form of the last half century. Over a series of short chapters, each centered on a different lyric, Daniel Levin Becker considers how rap's use of language operates and evolves at levels ranging from the local (slang, rhyme) to the analytical (quotation, transcription) to the philosophical (morality, criticism,...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Pop music surrounds us - in our cars, over supermarket speakers, even when we are laid out at the dentist - but how often do we really hear what's playing? Switched on Pop is the book based on the eponymous podcast that has been hailed by NPR, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, and Entertainment Weekly for its witty and accessible analysis of Top 40 hits. Through close studies of sixteen modern classics, musicologist Nate Sloan and songwriter Charlie Harding...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"Music critic Matthew Guerrieri reaches back before Beethoven's time to examine what might have influenced him in writing his Fifth Symphony, and forward into our own time to describe the ways in which the Fifth has, in turn, asserted its influence."--
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Personally compiled and curated by Yoko Ono, Imagine John Yoko is the definitive inside story-told in revelatory detail-of the making of the legendary album and all that surrounded it: the locations, the creative team, the artworks and the films, in the words of John & Yoko and the people who were there. Features 80% exclusive, hitherto-unpublished archive photos and footage sequences of all the key players in situ, together with lyric sheets, Yoko's...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
""Not since the late Leonard Bernstein has classical music had a combination salesman-teacher as irresistible as Kapilow." -Kansas City Star. Few people in recent memory have dedicated themselves as devotedly to the story of twentieth- century American music as Rob Kapilow, the composer, conductor, and host of the hit NPR music radio program, What Makes It Great? Now, in Listening for America, he turns his keen ear to the Great American Songbook,...
Author
Publisher
Faber and Faber
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
“Each of these chambers contains wonders of history, destiny, and mythology. Chamber Music is hip hop as race and class politics, as music and as poetry on the move. Through Ashons vibrant textured prose we watch in awe as these young men seize on whatever the culture has to offer, sampling leftovers and legacies, making themselves into ferocious artists” Margo Jefferson, award-winning author of Negroland. "Stylistically loaded, reckless, funny,...
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