University of Illinois Press, 2011. — 290 p. — (Music in American Life).
Bean Blossom, Indiana--near Brown County State Park and the artist-colony town of Nashville, Indiana--is home to the annual Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival, founded in 1967 by Bill Monroe, the father of bluegrass. Widely recognized as the oldest continuously running bluegrass music festival in the world,...
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books; First Edition edition (November 25, 2014) Language: English ISBN10: 9781250065995 ISBN13: 978-1250065995 ASIN: 1250065992 "Ms. Albertine's book is wiry and cogent and fearless.… Her book has an honest, lo-fi grace. If it were better written, it would be worse."―Dwight Garner, The New York Times "Forget Katniss And Tris - Viv Albertine Is Your New...
University of Illinois Press, 2005. — 209 p. — (Music in American Life).
Bill Monroe is so foundational to bluegrass music that the entire genre took its name from his band, the Blue Grass Boys. In Come Hither to Go Yonder, Bob Black recounts his years spent as a member of that seminal band. While other work on Bill Monroe has been written from a historical point of view, Come...
University of Illinois Press, 2004. — 634 p. — (Music in American life).
The first in-depth history of the involvement of African-Americans in the early recording industry, this book examines the first three decades of sound recording in the United States, charting the vigorous and varied roles black artists played in the period leading up to the Jazz Age. Applying more than...
University of Illinois Press, 2004. — 634 p. — (Music in American life).
The first in-depth history of the involvement of African-Americans in the early recording industry, this book examines the first three decades of sound recording in the United States, charting the vigorous and varied roles black artists played in the period leading up to the Jazz Age. Applying more than...
University of Illinois Press, 2009. — 640 p. — (Music in American Life).
This volume is an engaging and exceptional history of the independent rock 'n' roll record industry from its raw regional beginnings in the 1940s with R & B and hillbilly music through its peak in the 1950s and decline in the 1960s. John Broven combines narrative history with extensive oral history...
Second edition. — Routledge, 2015. — 605 p. — ISBN 978-1-315-85767-1. American Music: An Introduction, Second Edition is a collection of seventeen essays surveying major African American musical genres, both sacred and secular, from slavery to the present. With contributions by leading scholars in the field, the work brings together analyses of African American music based on...
University of Illinois Press, 2005. — 320 p. — (Music in American Life).
Beginning in 1949, while Elvis Presley and Sun Records were still virtually unknown--and two full years before Alan Freed famously "discovered" rock 'n' roll--Dewey Phillips brought rock 'n' roll to the Memphis airwaves by playing Howlin' Wolf, B. B. King, and Muddy Waters on his nightly radio show Red,...
Harper Collins e-books, 2010. — 514 p. — ISBN: 978-0-06-156355-3. Язык: Английский История одного из самых значимых брендов, выпускающих записи фолк- и этнической музыки. Каждая глава книги посвящена отдельному музыкальному направлению каталога с дискографией. Многочисленные воспоминания, интервью, богатый иллюстративный материал. Director’s Introduction. Creating Worlds Of...
Charles River Editors Press, 2019. — 282 p. Louis Armstrong once claimed that "Every time I close my eyes blowing that trumpet of mine-I look right in the heart of good old New Orleans...It has given me something to live for." This statement conjures an image which most anyone familiar with jazz music can recall: Armstrong clutching his trumpet forcefully, his eyes closed in a...
University of Illinois Press, 2011. — 464 p. — (Music in American Life).
This book is the first full biography of George Szell, one of the greatest orchestra and opera conductors of the twentieth century. From child prodigy pianist and composer to world-renowned conductor, Szell's career spanned seven decades, and he led most of the great orchestras and opera companies of the...
Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 2010. — 704 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-226-11263-3; ISBN10: 0-226-11263-2. Few American artists in any medium have enjoyed the international and lasting cultural impact of Duke Ellington. From jazz standards such as “Mood Indigo” and “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore,” to his longer, more orchestral suites, to his leadership of the stellar big band he...
University of Illinois Press, 2013. — 296 p. — (Music in American Life).
Sweet Air rewrites the history of early twentieth-century pop music in modernist terms. Tracking the evolution of popular regional genres such as blues, country, folk, and rockabilly in relation to the growth of industry and consumer culture, Edward P. Comentale shows how this music became a vital means of...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 382 p. The vibrant world of jazz may be viewed from many perspectives, from social and cultural history to music analysis, from economics to ethnography. It is challenging and exciting territory. This volume of nineteen specially commissioned essays provides informed and accessible guidance to the challenge, offering the reader a range of expert...
Notes on the text by David Nicholls. — Cambridge, Uk: Cambridge University Press, 1996-04. — 196 p. — ISBN: 0521496519 / 9780521496513 ; transferred to digital printing 2000. Since its original publication in 1930, Henry Cowell's 'New Musical Resources' has become recognized as one of the few seminal technical studies to be written by a twentieth-century composer. In 1971,...
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2013. — 624 p. — ISBN: 978-0-393-93531-8. Richard Crawford and Larry Hamberlin show how the lively interactions between the folk, popular, and classical spheres have made American music resonate with audiences around the world. Students will learn how to listen critically to eighty-eight pieces in all the major styles and genres, while gaining...
University of Illinois Press, 2014. — 400 p. — (Music in American Life). Steve Cushing, the award-winning host of the nationally syndicated public radio staple Blues before Sunrise, has spent over thirty years observing and participating in the Chicago blues scene. In Pioneers of the Blues Revival, he interviews many of the prominent white researchers and enthusiasts whose...
Scarecrow Press, 2012. — 470 p. Jazz is a music formed from a combination of influences. In its infancy, jazz was a melting pot of military brass bands, work songs and field hollers of the United States slaves during the 19th century, European harmonies and forms, and the rhythms of Africa and the Caribbean. Later, the blues and the influence of Spanish and French Creoles with...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 204 p. — ISBN10: 052171494X; ISBN13: 978-0521714945. A towering figure in American culture and a global twentieth-century icon, Bob Dylan has been at the centre of American life for over forty years. The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan brings fresh insights into the imposing range of Dylan's creative output. The first Part...
University of Illinois Press, 2008. — 144 p. — (Music in American Life).
Hazel Dickens is an Appalachian singer and songwriter known for her superb musicianship, feminist country songs, union anthems, and blue-collar laments. Growing up in a West Virginia coal mining community, she drew on the mountain music and repertoire of her family and neighbors when establishing her own...
University of Illinois Press, 2007. — 295 p. — (Music in American Life). As one of the best-known honky tonkers to appear in the wake of Hank Williams’s death, Faron Young was a popular presence on Nashville’s music scene for more than four decades. The Singing Sheriff produced a string of Top Ten hits, placed over eighty songs on the country music charts, and founded the...
University of Illinois Press, 2012. — 320 p. — (Music in American Life). Twentieth Century Drifter: The Life of Marty Robbins is the first biography of this legendary country music artist and NASCAR driver who scored sixteen number-one hits and two Grammy awards. Yet even with fame and fortune, Marty Robbins always yearned for more. Drawing from personal interviews and in-depth...
University of Illinois Press, 2013. — 304 p. — (Music in American Life). This biography charts the career and legacy of the pioneering American music manager Arthur Judson (1881–1975), who rose to prominence in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. A violinist by training, Judson became manager of the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1915 under the...
Scarecrow Press, 2007. — 453 p. — (Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts). The Broadway musical has greatly influenced both American and world culture. Shows such as Oklahoma! and Annie Get Your Gun are as American as apple pie, while the long runs of imports such as Cats, The Phantom of the Opera, and Les Misérables have broken records. Shows filled with rock and pop...
University of California Press, 2006. — 215 p. — (Music of the African Diaspora). This book explores the complexity of Cuban dance music and the webs that connect it, musically and historically, to other Caribbean music, to salsa, and to Latin Jazz. Establishing a scholarly foundation for the study of this music, Raul A. Fernandez introduces a set of terms, definitions, and...
University of Illinois Press, 2009. — 280 p. — (Music in American Life).
King of the Queen City is the first comprehensive history of King Records, one of the most influential independent record companies in the history of American music. Founded by businessman Sydney Nathan in the mid-1940s, this small outsider record company in Cincinnati, Ohio, attracted a diverse roster of...
New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992. — 336 p. — ISBN-10: 019507473; ISBN-13: 978-0195074734. In The Poets of Tin Pan Alley, Philip Furia presents a fascinating accout of the lives in words and music of some of America's greatest popular lyricists. Full chapters are devoted to such golden names as Irving Berlin, Lorenz Hart, Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Oscar...
Charleston: Pictorial Histories Publishing, 1993. — 126 p. Contents of this book include early brass band instruments, Civil War era brass instruments, rope tension drums, rudimental drumming, military bands and bandsmen (1861-65). Numerous photos help readers immerse themselves in this bygone era.
Oxford University Press, 1998. — 690 p.
Already a jazz classic, Gary Giddins' Visions of Jazz: The First Century contains no less than 78 chapters illuminating the lives of virtually all major figures in jazz history.
From Louis Armstrong's renegade style trumpet playing to Frank Sinatra's intimate crooning, jazz critic Gary Giddins continually astonishes us with his...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2009. — 720 p. The story of jazz for the general reader as it has never been told before, from the inside out: a comprehensive, eloquent, scrupulously researched page-turner. In this vivid history of jazz, a respected critic and a leading scholar capture the excitement of America’s unique music with intellectual bite, unprecedented insight, and the passion...
3rd ed. — Oxford University Press, 2021. — 600 p. — ISBN 9780190087210. An updated new edition of Ted Gioia's universally acclaimed history of jazz, with a wealth of new insight on this music's past, present, and future. Ted Gioia's The History of Jazz has been universally hailed as the most comprehensive and accessible history of the genre of all time. Acclaimed by jazz...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 452 p. — 2nd edition. — ISBN: 978-0-19-539970-7. Ted Gioia's History of Jazz has been universally hailed as a classic-acclaimed by jazz critics and fans around the world. Now Gioia brings his magnificent work completely up-to-date, drawing on the latest research and revisiting virtually every aspect of the music, past and present. Gioia tells...
Oxford University Press, 1998. — 710 p. — ISBN: 0-19-509081-0. История джаза от менестрелей до джаз-рока и фьюжн. The Prehistory of Jazz New Orleans Jazz The Jazz Age Harlem The Swing Era Modern Jazz The Fragmentation of Jazz Styles Freedom and Beyond Notes Further Reading Recommended Listening Index of Songs and Albums
University of Illinois Press, 2011. — 273 p. — (Music in American Life).
In this first biography of legendary banjoist J. D. Crowe, Marty Godbey charts the life and career of one of bluegrass's most important innovators. Born and raised in Lexington, Kentucky, Crowe picked up the banjo when he was thirteen years old, inspired by a Flatt & Scruggs performance at the Kentucky...
University of Illinois Press, 2014. — 433 p. — (Music in American Life). A member of Muddy Waters' legendary late 1940s-1950s band, Jimmy Rogers pioneered a blues guitar style that made him one of the most revered sidemen of all time. Rogers also had a significant if star-crossed career as a singer and solo artist for Chess Records, releasing the classic singles "That's All...
University of Illinois Press, 2015. — 305 p. At its peak the Federal Music Project (FMP) employed nearly 16,000 people who reached millions of Americans through performances, composing, teaching, and folksong collection and transcription. In Sounds of the New Deal, Peter Gough explores how the FMP's activities in the West shaped a new national appreciation for the diversity of...
University of Illinois Press, 2012. — 178 p. — (Music in American Life).
A pivotal member of the hugely successful bluegrass band Flatt and Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys, Dobro pioneer Josh Graves (1927-2006) was a living link between bluegrass music and the blues. In Bluegrass Bluesman, this influential performer shares the story of his lifelong career in music. In...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 314 p. Duke Ellington is widely held to be the greatest jazz composer and one of the most significant cultural icons of the twentieth century. This comprehensive and accessible Companion is the first collection of essays to survey, in depth, Ellington's career, music, and place in popular culture. An international cast of authors includes...
Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice Hall, 1994. — 444 p. "The book give's readers a peek into how jazz musicians put together performances and how their methods have differed from style to style. There is discussion of how jazz originated, and... provides examples of the roots, the earliest recordings, and many major styles that developed later. Styles are described in ways that...
University of Illinois Press, 2013. — 224 p. — (Music in American Life).
Saxophone virtuoso Charlie "Bird" Parker began playing professionally in his early teens, became a heroin addict at 16, changed the course of music, and then died when only 34 years old. His friend Robert Reisner observed, "Parker, in the brief span of his life, crowded more living into it than any other...
Lexington Books, 2018. — 217 p. In the mid-twentieth century, certain elements of the American popular music industry (publishers, recording companies, and broadcasters) began to redefine their product as something more than mere entertainment. This became evident in the arguments made by competing sides in a series of clashes that unfolded during that period, starting with the...
University of Illinois Press, 2012. — 250 p. — (Music in American Life).
In this ambitious book on southern gospel music, Douglas Harrison reexamines the music's historical emergence and its function as a modern cultural phenomenon. Rather than a single rhetoric focusing on the afterlife as compensation for worldly sacrifice, Harrison presents southern gospel as a network of...
Scarecrow Press, 2018. — 386 p. The US music industry is an exciting, fast-paced, marketplace which brings together creative and business interests to connect artists with audiences. This book traces the history of the music industry from the Colonial era to the present day, identifying trends and the innovative leaders who have shaped its course. This volume embraces the...
University of Illinois Press, 2007. — 322 p. — (Music in American Life). Started by the National Life and Accident Insurance Company in 1925, WSM became one of the most influential and exceptional radio stations in the history of broadcasting and country music. WSM gave Nashville the moniker “Music City USA” as well as a rich tradition of music, news, and broad-based...
University of Illinois Press, 2013. — 528 p. — (Music in American Life).
The first book devoted entirely to women in bluegrass, Pretty Good for a Girl documents the lives of more than seventy women whose vibrant contributions to the development of bluegrass have been, for the most part, overlooked. Accessibly written and organized by decade, the book begins with Sally Ann...
University of Illinois Press, 2013. — 232 p. — (Music in American Life).
One of the most influential and acclaimed female vocalists of the twentieth century, Patsy Cline (1932–63) was best known for her rich tone and emotionally expressive voice. Born Virginia Patterson Hensley, she launched her musical career during the early 1950s as a young woman in Winchester, Virginia, and...
Riverhead Books, 2022. — 198 р. — ISBN 978059354183 Every so often, a pairing comes along that seems completely unlikely—until it’s not. Peanut butter and jelly, Dennis Rodman and Kim Jong Un, ducks and puppies, and now: Dickens and Prince. Equipped with a fan’s admiration and his trademark humor and wit, Nick Hornby invites us into his latest obsession: the cosmic link between...
University of Michigan Press, 2017. — 370 p. Earle Brown (1926–2002) was a crucial part of a group of experimental composers known as the New York School, and his music intersects in fascinating ways with that of his colleagues John Cage, Morton Feldman, and Christian Wolff. This book seeks to expand our view of Brown’s work by exploring his practices as a composer and...
The New Press, 1993. — 583 p. A self-described “song-hunter,” the folklorist Alan Lomax traveled the Mississippi Delta in the 1930s and ’40s, armed with primitive recording equipment and a keen love of the Delta’s music heritage. Crisscrossing the towns and hamlets where the blues began, Lomax gave voice to such greats as Leadbelly, Fred MacDowell, Muddy Waters, and many...
University of Illinois Press, 2015. — 489 p. — (Music in American Life). In A City Called Heaven, gospel announcer and music historian Robert Marovich shines a light on the humble origins of a majestic genre and its indispensable bond to the city where it found its voice: Chicago. Marovich follows gospel music from early hymns and camp meetings through the Great Migration that...
Indiana University Press, 2014. — 212 p: musical examples. — (Musical meaning and interpretation). Charles Ives (1874–1954) moved traditional compositional practice in new directions by incorporating modern and innovative techniques with nostalgic borrowings of 19th century American popular music and Protestant hymns. Matthew McDonald argues that the influence of Emerson and...
New York: NYRB Classics, 2016. — 464 p. — ISBN10: 1590179455; ISBN13: 978-1590179451 — (New York Review Books Classics) Mezz Mezzrow was a boy from Chicago who learned to play the sax in reform school and pursued a life in music and a life of crime. He moved from Chicago to New Orleans to New York, working in brothels and bars, bootlegging, dealing drugs, getting hooked, doing...
University of Illinois Press, 2005. — 359 p. — (Music in American Life).
This award-winning book, now available in paperback, is the first solid appraisal of the legendary career of the eminent Hungarian-born conductor Fritz Reiner (1888-1963). Personally enigmatic and often described as difficult to work with, he was nevertheless renowned for the dynamic galvanization of the...
Penguin Books, 2010. — 924 p. For a major art form, jazz is still disarmingly young. It is possible, even now, to speak to a man who once listened to men who had been present at the birth of the music. This means that nothing in jazz is impossibly remote, and yet it too has its event horizon, for we can know nothing – or nothing beyond hearsay – of jazz before it was taken down...
University of Illinois Press, 2014. — 488 p. — (Music in American Life). Merging scholarly insight with a professional guitarist's keen sense of the musical life, Yankee Twang delves into the rich tradition of country & western music that is played and loved in the mill towns and cities of the American northeast. Clifford R. Murphy draws on a wealth of ethnographic material,...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 609 p.
The Cambridge History of American Music celebrates the richness of America's musical life. It is the first study of music in the United States to be written by a team of scholars. American music is an intricate tapestry of many cultures, and the History reveals this wide array of influences from Native, European, African, Asian, and...
Oxford University Press, 2000. — 493 p. New York City witnessed a dazzling burst of creativity in the 1920s. In this pathbreaking study, Carol J. Oja explores this artistic renaissance from the perspective of composers of classical and modern music, who along with writers, painters, and jazz musicians, were at the heart of early modernism in America. She also illustrates how...
Duke University Press, 2004. — 248 p. Available in English for the first time, Cuban Music from A to Z is an encyclopedic guide to one of the world’s richest and most influential musical cultures. It is the most extensive compendium of information about the singers, composers, bands, instruments, and dances of Cuba ever assembled. With more than 1,300 entries and 150...
University of Illinois Press, 2013. — 312 p. — (Music in American Life).
In this sweeping survey of intellectual and musical history, David C. Paul tells the new story of how the music of American composer Charles Ives (1874-1954) was shaped by shifting conceptions of American identity within and outside of musical culture. Paul focuses on the critics, composers, performers,...
University of Illinois Press, 2003. — 173 p. — (Music in American life).
With just forty-one recordings to his credit, Robert Johnson (1911-38) is a giant in the history of blues music. Johnson's vast influence on twentieth-century American music, combined with his mysterious death at the age of twenty-seven, has allowed speculation and myths to obscure the facts of his life....
Yale University Press, 2005. — 506 p.: ill. The first decades of the twentieth century were a fertile and fascinating period in American musical history. This book and the two CDs that accompany it present an exceptional collection of interviews with and about the most significant musical figures of the era. Tapping the unparalleled materials contained in the Oral History...
University of California Press, 2007. - 938 pp. This comprehensive biography of George Gershwin (1898-1937) unravels the myths surrounding one of America's most celebrated composers and establishes the enduring value of his music. Gershwin created some of the most beloved music of the twentieth century and, along with Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, and Cole Porter, helped make the...
University of Illinois Press, 2014. — 312 p. — (Music in American Life). A member of Muddy Waters' legendary late 1940s-1950s band, Jimmy Rogers pioneered a blues guitar style that made him one of the most revered sidemen of all time. Rogers also had a significant if star-crossed career as a singer and solo artist for Chess Records, releasing the classic singles "That's All...
University of Illinois Press, 2009. — 204 p. — (Music in American Life). George Gershwin lived with purpose and gusto, but with melancholy as well, for he was unable to make a place for himself--no family of his own and no real home in music. He and his siblings received little love from their mother and no direction from their father. Older brother and lyricist Ira managed to...
University of Illinois Press, 2014. — 353 p. — (Music in American Life).
Inspired by the Hank Williams and Leadbelly recordings he heard as a teenager growing up outside of Boston, Jim Rooney began a musical journey that intersected with some of the biggest names in American music including Bob Dylan, James Taylor, Bill Monroe, Muddy Waters, and Alison Krauss. In It for the...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 619 p. Joel Sachs offers the first complete biography of one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century American music. Henry Cowell, a major musical innovator of the first half of the century, left a rich body of compositions spanning a wide range of styles. But as Sachs shows, Cowell's legacy extends far beyond his music. He worked...
Oxford University Press, 1999. - 305 pp. Even as orchestras, performers, enthusiasts, and critics across the nation--and across the globe--celebrate the one-hundredth anniversary of his birth, George Gershwin (1898-1937) remains one of America's most popular yet least appreciated composers. True, he is loved and revered for his wonderful popular songs, a few instrumental works,...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 396 p.: musical examples: figures. Academic attention has focused on America’s influence on European stage works, and yet dozens of operettas from Austria and Germany were produced on Broadway and in the West End, and their impact on the musical life of the early twentieth century is undeniable. In this ground-breaking book, Derek B. Scott...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, Inc. 2006. — 100 p. — ISBN/ASIN: 019530053X; ISBN13: 9780195300536. American popular music is a kaleidoscopic mélange of styles and dreams. Its vibrancy reflects the mating of cultural diversity to artistic and creative freedom. The stories in this book illustrate how Americans, borrowing from diverse musical traditions, have contributed to...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 360 p. — ISBN10: 0195300521; ISBN13: 978-0195300529. Rock, country, pop, soul, funk, punk, folk, hip-hop, techno, grunge-it's all here. In American Popular Music: The Rock Years , Larry Starr and Christopher Waterman take readers on a fascinating journey through the rich historical and stylistic landscape of American rock. An abridged version of...
Oxford University Press, 1956. — 365 p. В книге подробно рассматривается история джазовой музыки, музыкальные жанры, предшествовавшие джазу и повлиявшие на его становление, эволюция джаза от менестрелей и регтайма до направления боп, проводится анализ музыкальной составляющей джаза. The Pre-History of Jazz Jazz and West African Music From Africa to the New World. The West...
Oxford University Press, 1970. — 192 p. — (Galaxy Books). — ISBN10: 0195012690. — ISBN13: 978-0195012699. — scanned PDF Beginning with the African musical heritage and its fusion with European forms in the New World, Marshall Stearns's history of jazz guides the reader through work songs, spirituls, ragtime, and the blues, to the birth of jazz in New Orleans and its adoption by...
Independent Music Press, 2008. — 208 p. Rage Against The Machine changed the shape of music with their rampant self-titled debut album in 1992. Here was a politically charged troupe who took advantage of major label backing yet spoke out on issues that few stars in the spotlight dared to - never afraid to insist their message was just as important as the music. The sales came...
University of Illinois Press, 2010. — 320 p. — (Music in American Life).
In this book, Robert L. Stone follows the sound of steel guitar into the music-driven Pentecostal worship of two related churches: the House of God and the Church of the Living God. A rare outsider who has gained the trust of members and musicians inside the church, Stone uses nearly two decades of...
University of Illinois Press, 2007. — 306 p. — (Music in American Life). The tragicomic life story of one of America's best-known country entertainers, told with warmth and honesty This book recounts the fascinating life of Roni Stoneman, the youngest daughter of the pioneering country music family, and a girl who, in spite of poverty and abusive husbands, eventually became...
Chicago Review Press, 2007. — 690 p. This entertaining history of Cuba and its music begins with the collision of Spain and Africa and continues through the era of Miguelito Valdés, Arsenio Rodríguez, Benny Moré, and Pérez Prado. It offers a behind-the-scenes examination of music from a Cuban point of view, unearthing surprising, provocative connections and making the case that...
University of Illinois Press, 2003. — 257 p. — (Music in American life). In "Bound for America", Nicholas Temperley documents the lives, careers, and music of three British composers who emigrated from England in mid-career and became leaders in the musical life of the American Federal era. William Selby of London and Boston (1738-98), Rayner Taylor of London and Philadelphia...
Greenwood Press, 2013. — 507 p. — ISBN: 978-0-313-34031-4. История, хронология, музыкальные и танцевальные стили и направления, национальные школы, инструментарий, выдающиеся исполнители. Каждая статья снабжена списком литературы по рассматриваемому вопросу. Popular Music. Popular Music Resources. Chronology of Latin American Popular Music. The Encyclopedia. About the Editor.
Sarah Crichton Books, 2016. — 261 p. — ISBN: 978-0-374-71125-2. Книга о принципах постановки бродвейского мюзикла. Dedication Tuning Up: or, How I Came to Write This Book A Note About the Shows Discussed and a Few Other Matters Overture Curtain Up, Light the Lights: Opening Numbers The Wizard and I: The “I Want” Song If I Loved You: Conditional Love Songs Put On Your Sunday...
University of Illinois Press, 2012. — 505 p. — (Music in American Life).
The Beautiful Music All Around Us presents the extraordinarily rich backstories of thirteen performances captured on Library of Congress field recordings between 1934 and 1942 in locations reaching from Southern Appalachia to the Mississippi Delta and the Great Plains. Including the children's play song...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 153 p. — (Very Short Introductions). Praised as "suave, soulful, ebullient" (Tom Waits) and "a meticulous researcher, a graceful writer, and a committed contrarian" (New York Times Book Review), Elijah Wald is one of the leading popular music critics of his generation. In The Blues, Wald surveys a genre at the heart of American culture. It is...
University of Illinois Press, 2013. — 360 p. — (Music in American Life). John Philip Sousa's mature career as the indomitable leader of the United States Marine Band and his own touring Sousa Band is well known, but the years leading up to his emergence as a celebrity have escaped serious attention. In this revealing biography, Patrick Warfield explains the making of the March...
University of Illinois Press, 2013. — 288 p. — (Music in American Life).
Gifted harpist Edna Phillips (1907–2003) joined the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1930, becoming not only that ensemble's first female member but also the first woman to hold a principal position in a major American orchestra. Plucked from the Curtis Institute of Music in the midst of her studies, Phillips was...
University of Illinois Press, 2013. — 344 p. — (Music in American Life). Attracting passionate fans primarily among African American listeners in the South, Southern Soul draws on such diverse influences as the blues, 1960s-era Deep Soul, contemporary R & B, neosoul, rap, hip-hop, and gospel. Aggressively danceable, lyrically evocative, and fervidly emotional, Southern Soul...
University of Illinois Press, 2008. — 208 p. — (Music in American Life).
What does it mean to be "Californian"? California Polyphony: Ethnic Voices, Musical Crossroads suggests an answer that lies at the intersection of musicology, cultural history, and politics. Consisting of a series of musical case studies of major ethnic groups in California, this book approaches the notion...
Rex Brown. Official Truth, 101 Proof: The Inside Story of Pantera. Перевод Николая Трофимова. Немногие heavy metal группы сумели выжить в период бурного расцвета музыкальной сцены в начале 1990-х гг. Pantera отличались от всех прочих. Вместо того, чтобы следовать законам рынка, группа воспитывала свою собственную аудиторию, выпустив ряд абсолютно бескомпромиссных, но добившихся...
2012. 3 с. Конспектировал Ник Шафоростов. Конспект краткой лекции знаменитого диджея Орасио Годоя (DJ Horacio Godoy) по истории традиционных оркестров аргентинского танго (orquesta tipica). Периодизация, имена, реалии. Орфография и пунктуация оригинала сохранена
Минск: А.Н. Вараксин, 2010. — 284 с. — ISBN: 978-985-6. Монография посвящена одному из оригинальных стилевых направлений второй половины XX века, нашедшему преломление, прежде всего, в творчестве Л. Янга. Т. Райли, С. Райха и Ф. Гласса. Адресуется музыкантам и широкому читателю, интересующемуся музыкой XX века.
М.: Музыка, 2010. — 368 с.: ил. — ISBN: 978-5-7140-1201-3.
Музыка Латинской Америки - огромная, но мало изученная у нас область искусства. Между тем творчество таких композиторов, как бразилец Эйтор Вилла-Лобос, кубинцы Амадео Рольдан и Алехандро Гарсия Катурла, мексиканцы Сильвестре Ревуэльтас и Карлос Чавес, аргентинцы Альберто Хинанстера и Астор Пьяццолла, свидетельствует,...
М.: Советский композитор, 1991. — 473 с. — (Зарубежная музыка. Мастера XX века). Книга познакомит читателей с крупнейшим американским композитором Чарльзом Айвзом (1874-1954), его жизнью и творчеством, раскроет его связи с представителями американской культуры, расскажет о том новом, что принесло творчество Айвза в мировую музыкальную культуру. Книга иллюстрирована и снабжена...
М.: Советский композитор, 1991. — 473 с. — (Зарубежная музыка. Мастера XX века). Книга познакомит читателей с крупнейшим американским композитором Чарльзом Айвзом (1874-1954), его жизнью и творчеством, раскроет его связи с представителями американской культуры, расскажет о том новом, что принесло творчество Айвза в мировую музыкальную культуру. Книга иллюстрирована и снабжена...
Монография. — М.: Музыка, 1965. — 525 с.
600 dpi, Gray, отсканированные страницы + слой распознанного текста.
В книге рассматривается картина возникновения американской музыки на художественной, общекультурной и социальной почве Нового Света, от начала колонизации до середины XX века.
Введение
Хоровой гимн Новой Англии
Истоки негритянской музыки
Спиричуэлс
Менестрели...
М. : Моск. гос. консерватория им. П. И. Чайковского. 2007. — 480 с., нот., ил. — (Учебное пособие)
Учебное пособие «Музыкальная культура США XX века» — коллективный труд российских музыковедов-исследователей. В книгу вошли исторические очерки, посвященные разным видам и жанрам традиционной музыки, творчеству крупнейших американских композиторов XX столетия и музыкальному театру...
Монография. — М.: Музыка, 2010. — 279 стр. Фундаментальный труд П.А. Пичугина посвящен одному из наиболее самобытных жанров латиноамериканской музыкальной культуры — аргентинскому танго. В центре внимания — генезис танго и его последующая эволюция. Исследуются социальные условия и историко-культурные предпосылки появления танго, рассматриваются конкретные...
М.: Музыка, 1974. — 346 с. В сборнике помещены статьи советских музыковедов и зарубежных авторов (материалы и фрагменты из книг), знакомящие читателя с различными аспектами народной и профессиональной музыки пяти стран Латинской Америки — Кубы, Чили, Бразилии, Мексики, Аргентины. Издание адресовано в первую очередь музыковедам и фольклористам, вместе с тем оно доступно и широкому...
М.: Музыка, 1974. — 346 с. В сборнике помещены статьи советских музыковедов и зарубежных авторов (материалы и фрагменты из книг), знакомящие читателя с различными аспектами народной и профессиональной музыки пяти стран Латинской Америки — Кубы, Чили, Бразилии, Мексики, Аргентины. Издание адресовано в первую очередь музыковедам и фольклористам, вместе с тем оно доступно и широкому...
Статья известного российского музыковеда Петра Поспелова, специализирующегося преимущественно на современной музыке, представляет собой текст с буклета музыкального фестиваля "Альтернатива" (1990 г. ). Автор раскрывает сущность понятия "минимализм" ("minimal art") в музыке и других видах некоммерческого искусства, останавливается на зарождении и развитии музыкального минимализма,...
М.: Советский композитор, 1977. — 184 с.
Работа посвящена песенному искусству народов Соединенных Штатов Америки — фольклорным образцам, композиторскому творчеству, роли песни в социальной и политической жизни нации. Материал сгруппирован по жанровому признаку: песни трудовые, песни различных профессий, лирические, шуточные, эпические баллады и др. Приводятся сведения о...
М.: Московская гос. филармония, 1945. — 31 с. Краткий исторический очерк. Американская музыка, точнее, музыка создаваемая композиторами Соединённых Штатов Америки, очень молода. Некоторые американские музыковеды определяют её возраст в 25—30 лет. Другие склонны (считать её еще более молодой. Немало противоречивых суждений вызывают попытки определить национальные корни...
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