Awarded the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award (2007).Described by New York Times critic John Rockwell as ''one of the best non-famous composers this country has to offer,'' Ben Johnston reconceives familiar idioms--ranging from neoclassicism and serialism to jazz and southern hymnody--using just intonation. Johnston studied with Darius Milhaud, Harry ......
People's Songs, American Communism, and the Politics of Culture, 1930-50
Winner of an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award, 1990.''A spirited and scholarly account of the relationship between the U.S. Communist movement and the folk music revival of the 1940s and 1950s.'' -- Paul C. Mishler, Nature, Society, and Thought''Shows the ways in which the folk music revival of the 1960s and the participatory cultures of the civil rights ......
Punk protagonist, legendary drinker, Irish musical icon. The complete and extraordinary journey of the Pogues’ notorious frontman from outcast to national treasure has never been told – until now.
A Furious Devotion vividly recounts the experiences that shaped the greatest songwriter of his generation: the formative trips to ......
An entertaining, definitive and in-depth study of prog rock, with a new cover and a foreword by Steve Hackett (Genesis). Progressive rock, a genre formed out of a creative surge in the late Sixties and throughout the Seventies. Made by young musicians for a young audience, prog music looked towards new horizons by synthesising rock, jazz, folk, ......
Cakes, Constellations, and Other Obtuse Metaphors to Help Your Practice
Songs, pervasive sonic ephemeral acts that combine words and music, live in a contemporary world of commercialization as commodity. Flowing through our everyday lives as a given and oft-underacknowledged artifact to accompany our shopping, car trips, date nights, and gym days. Yet songs have a history as long as humanity and language. They hold ......
A landmark in Brazilian music scholarship, A Respectable Spell introduces English-speaking readers to the rich history of samba from its nineteenth century origins to its emergence as a distinctive genre in the 1930s.
A must-read account of the cultural icon and poet laureate of the '60s and '70s. In his 1960s-1970s heyday, Rod McKuen was a phenomenally popular singer-songwriter as well as the bestselling poet in publishing history.
The first time in paperback, this is the best full-length biography of Aaron Copland, his life and his music.One of America's most beloved and accomplished composers, Aaron Copland played a crucial role in the coming of age of American music. This substantial biography is the first full-length scholarly study of Copland's life and work. A ......
Exploring Bach's enduring importance.That Johann Sebastian Bach is a pivotal figure in the history of Western music is hardly news, and the magnitude of his achievement is so immense that it can be difficult to grasp. In About Bach, fifteen scholars show that Bach's importance extends from choral to orchestral music, from sacred music to musical ......
An invention of the Industrial Revolution, the accordion provided the less affluent with an inexpensive, loud, portable, and durable ''one-man-orchestra'' capable of producing melody, harmony, and bass all at once. Imported from Europe into the Americas, the accordion with its distinctive sound became a part of the aural landscape for millions of ......
