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Accordion Crimesby E. Annie ProulxISBN 0684831546 (0-684-83154-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Accordion Crimes'Book summary:Proulx found fertile, if rocky, soil for her first two novels (Postcards and The Shipping News) in the far northeastern corner of North America. In Accordion Crimes she ranges much further afield. The novel follows an accordion from the hands of its maker in Sicily in 1890 until it is flattened by a truck in Florida in 1996. In the intervening century it passes through the hands of a host of unlucky owners and their kin: Abelardo Relampago, who dies from the bite of a poisonous spider; Dolor Gagnon, decapitated by his own chain saw; Silvano, cut down in the jungles of Venezuela by an Indian's arrow. [via]
Across the Great Divide: The Bandby Barney HoskynsISBN 0786880279 (0-7868-8027-9)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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Alkan, the Enigmaby Ronald SmithISBN 0800801695 (0-8008-0169-5)
Hardcover, Parkwest Pubns
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Aspects of Wagnerby Bryan MageeISBN 0586037748 (0-586-03774-8)
Hardcover, Panther
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aspects of Wagner'Book summary:Many music lovers find Wagner's operas inexpressibly beautiful and richly satisfying, while others find them revolting, dangerous, self-indulgent, and immoral. The man who W.H. Auden once called "perhaps the greatest genius that ever lived" has inspired both greater adulation and greater loathing than any other composer.
Presenting a penetrating analysis of Wagner's work, Magee here concentrates on how his sensational and deeply erotic music uniquely expresses the repressed and highly charged contents of the psyche. He examines not only Wagner's music and detailed stage directions but also the prose works in which he formulated his ideas, and sheds new light on his anti-semitism and the way in which the Nazis twisted his theories to suit their own purposes. Outlining the astonishing range and depth of Wagner's influence on our culture, Magee reveals how he continues to profoundly shock and inspire musicians, poets, novelists, painters, philosophers, and politicians today. [via]More editions of Aspects of Wagner:
The Attentive Listener: Three Centuries of Music Criticismby Harry HaskellISBN 0691026416 (0-691-02641-6)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Bach at Leipzig: A Playby Tom Stoppard, Itamar MosesISBN 0571211119 (0-571-21111-9)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bach at Leipzig: A Play'Book summary:Leipzig, Germany, 1722: Johann Kuhnau, revered organist of the Thomaskirche, suddenly dies, leaving his post vacant. In order to fill the position, the city council invites a small number of musicians to audition for the appointment, including Johann Sebastian Bach. This, however, is not his story. Based on actual events, Bach at Leipzig imagines with uncommon intelligence and wit how six little-known musicians resorted to bribery, blackmail, and betrayal in an attempt to secure the most coveted musical post in all of Europe.[via]
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The Bagpipe: The History of a Musical Instrumentby Francis M. CollinsonISBN 0710079133 (0-7100-7913-3)
Hardcover, Routledge
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The Baroque Concertoby Arthur HutchingsISBN 0684160595 (0-684-16059-5)
Hardcover, C. Scribner's sons
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Beethoven Essaysby Maynard SolomonISBN 0674063791 (0-674-06379-1)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Beethoven: His Spiritual Developmentby J. W. N. SullivanISBN 0766137988 (0-7661-3798-8)
Softcover, Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beethoven: His Spiritual Development'Book summary:Great men, especially creative artists whose work lives after them, engage people's imagination for centuries. Beethoven, as man and composer, has inspired innumerable books both by his contemporaries and later writers, and it is proof of his endlessly fascinating, controversial nature that they all throw a different light on some aspect of his life and work. Since J.W.N. Sullivan wrote his book in 1927, much new information about Beethoven, his character, his illnesses, and his relationships has come to light, but it is still a valid contribution to the literature on the composer. Sullivan's basic theory is that Beethoven's greatness lies in his extraordinary perceptions, his heightened experiences and "states of consciousness," and his ability to organize and synthesize these into a musical expression of a "view of life." He asserts that Beethoven's initial despairing, then defiant struggle against his suffering--especially his deafness and resulting isolation--gives his middle-period works their heroism, and that his ultimate acceptance of it as necessary to his creativity marks the peak of his "spirituality" and gives his latest works their unparalleled sublimity.
Like many biographies, the book reveals more about the author than the subject. Sullivan, who is not a musician, offers some interesting, if sometimes extravagantly extramusical, analyses of Beethoven's works (though elsewhere he decries injecting "meaning" into music). He sees Beethoven's late fugues as outbursts of "blind and desperate energy," another battle with hostile fate; many musicians see them as another battle with counterpoint. He also makes subjective, high-handed value judgments: he detests Wagner and dismisses Bach as too religious, while Haydn and Mozart are too shallow to equal Beethoven's struggle-generated "spirituality." The book also brings up questions about beauty and greatness in art, the relationship between moral character and genius, and the impact of a man's personal experiences upon his creativity--all age-old but forever timely. --Edith Eisler [via]
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Beethoven's Hairby Russell MartinISBN 076790351X (0-7679-0351-X)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beethoven's Hair'Book summary:A well-publicized 1994 Sotheby's auction listed, among other musical artifacts and ephemera on the block, a lock of Beethoven's hair. The high-bidders of the hair, two Beethoven enthusiasts, were easy enough to identify by their oddball names: one was a doctor named Che Guevara, the other a retired real estate developer named Ira Brilliant. But the real story, as author Russell Martin attempts to explain in this book, is how did the lock end up on the auction block? More important, can we learn anything from a 175-year-old snippet of hair? Somehow, author Russell Martin attempts to weave biographical information about Beethoven's life with scientific findings about his hair (the two buyers had the lock DNA-tested), as well as trace the path the hair took, from the great composer's head right into the present.
It's a tall order and one at which Martin partially succeeds. His facts about Beethoven and Ferdinand Hiller (the original keeper of the lock) are solid, but he hypothesizes at length about how the hair ended up in a small port town in Denmark during the Nazi occupation. Likewise, he spends nearly the entire second half of the book describing the lives of Guevara and Brilliant, occasionally sounding more like a press agent than a journalist. Subtitled "An Extraordinary Historical Odyssey and a Musical Mystery Solved," Beethoven's Hair doesn't truly solve any musical mysteries, but it is a fascinating, original read for Beethoven-philes who want to learn a little bit more about their favorite composer. --Jason Verlinde [via]
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Beethoven's Hair: An Extraordinary Historical Odyssey and a Scientific Mystery Solvedby Russell MartinISBN 0767903501 (0-7679-0350-1)
Hardcover, Broadway Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beethoven's Hair: An Extraordinary Historical Odyssey and a Scientific Mystery Solved'Book summary:A well-publicized 1994 Sotheby's auction listed, among other musical artifacts and ephemera on the block, a lock of Beethoven's hair. The high-bidders of the hair, two Beethoven enthusiasts, were easy enough to identify by their oddball names: one was a doctor named Che Guevara, the other a retired real estate developer named Ira Brilliant. But the real story, as author Russell Martin attempts to explain in this book, is how did the lock end up on the auction block? More important, can we learn anything from a 175-year-old snippet of hair? Somehow, author Russell Martin attempts to weave biographical information about Beethoven's life with scientific findings about his hair (the two buyers had the lock DNA-tested), as well as trace the path the hair took, from the great composer's head right into the present.
It's a tall order and one at which Martin partially succeeds. His facts about Beethoven and Ferdinand Hiller (the original keeper of the lock) are solid, but he hypothesizes at length about how the hair ended up in a small port town in Denmark during the Nazi occupation. Likewise, he spends nearly the entire second half of the book describing the lives of Guevara and Brilliant, occasionally sounding more like a press agent than a journalist. Subtitled "An Extraordinary Historical Odyssey and a Musical Mystery Solved," Beethoven's Hair doesn't truly solve any musical mysteries, but it is a fascinating, original read for Beethoven-philes who want to learn a little bit more about their favorite composer. --Jason Verlinde [via]
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Benjamin Britten: A Biographyby Humphrey CarpenterISBN 0684195690 (0-684-19569-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Castrati in Operaby Angus HeriotISBN 0714501530 (0-7145-0153-0)
Hardcover, Riverrun Pr
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Chroniclesby Bob DylanISBN 0743244583 (0-7432-4458-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chronicles'Book summary:As the first volume of Chronicles, Bob Dylans long-anticipated autobiography, finally appears, we are given a forcible reminder how it has never been easy to be a Dylan admirer. How could the fiercely anti-establishment composer of With God on Our Side embrace (in turn) orthodox Judaism, then fundamentalist Christianity two religions absolutely antithetical to his celebration of the unfettered human spirit ? How could the demigod of folk (and disciple of Woody Guthrie) make his controversial move into electric rock? How could this man of the streets become the arch capitalist? If no answers to these questions are to be found within the pages of Chronicles, there is nevertheless a whole host of pleasures to be encountered: literary felicities, brilliantly etched pen portraits of musical personalities he has encountered, the biting wit one might expect not to mention a thousand surprises (how could a man hardly noted for the beauty of his vocal tones be such an admirer of composers whose work he could never tackle, such as Harold Arlen, composer of Over the Rainbow?.
Those who have loved Dylans lyrics (and thats a good chunk of the academic world these days) will find the same coruscating prose here: idea and image fused into brilliant (if often opaque) word pictures, as Dylan takes us back to his early days on the New York folk scene, before he became the face of rebellion in music. There are insights into his reluctance to conform to the image his fans have of him (hence his highly unlikely conversion to religious dogmas?), and this inaugural volume of his autobiography takes the reader up to the moment of his first real celebrity. Its a fascinating and infuriating read, of a piece with Dylan the Enigma. And perhaps answers to those unanswered questions will appear in succeeding volumes. --Barry Forshaw [via]
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Chronicles: A Bob Dylan Seriesby Bob DylanISBN 0786273410 (0-7862-7341-0)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chronicles: A Bob Dylan Series'Book summary:One would not anticipate a conventional memoir from Bob Dylan--indeed, one would not have foreseen an autobiography at all from the pen of the notoriously private legend. What Chronicles: Volume 1 delivers is an odd but ultimately illuminating memoir that is as impulsive, eccentric, and inspired as Dylan's greatest music.
Eschewing chronology and skipping over most of the "highlights" that his many biographers have assigned him, Dylan drifts and rambles through his tale, amplifying a series of major and minor epiphanies. If you're interested in a behind-the-scenes look at his encounters with the Beatles, look elsewhere. Dylan describes the sensation of hearing the group's "Do You Want to Know a Secret" on the radio, but devotes far more ink to a Louisiana shopkeeper named Sun Pie, who tells him, "I think all the good in the world might already been done" and sells him a World's Greatest Grandpa bumper sticker. Dylan certainly sticks to his own agenda--a newspaper article about journeymen heavyweights Jerry Quarry and Jimmy Ellis and soul singer Joe Tex's appearance on The Tonight Show inspire heartfelt musings, and yet the 1963 assassination of John Kennedy prompts nary a word from the era's greatest protest singer.
For all the small revelations (it turns out he's been a big fan of Barry Goldwater, Mickey Rourke, and Ice-T), there are eye-opening disclosures, including his confession that a large portion of his recorded output was designed to alienate his audience and free him from the burden of being a "the voice of a generation."
Off the beaten path as it is, Chronicles is nevertheless an astonishing achievement. As revelatory in its own way as Blonde on Blonde or Highway 61 Revisited, it provides ephemeral insights into the mind one of the most significant artistic voices of the 20th century while creating a completely new set of mysteries. --Steven Stolder [via]
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The Complete Beatles Chronicleby Mark LewisohnISBN 0600610012 (0-600-61001-2)
Softcover, Book Sales
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Beatles Chronicle'Book summary:Marking the thirtieth anniversary of the break-up of the greatest group in the history of pop music, a new paperback edition of what has come to be regarded as the most authoritative document about the bank ever written, will be available. This much-acclaimed chronicle covers every working day of the Beatles' career, and author Mark Lewisohn, who is recognized as the world's leading authority on the subject, also includes track-by-track details of every Beatles recording session. [via]
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The Creators/a History of Heroes of the Imaginationby Daniel J. BoorstinISBN 0679743758 (0-679-74375-8)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Creators/a History of Heroes of the Imagination'Book summary:Historian Daniel J. Boorstin brings his customary depth and range to this compelling book on Western art, taking on everything from European megaliths (Stonehenge, for example) to Benjamin Franklin's autobiography ("the first American addition to world literature"). Boorstin does not aim at being comprehensive--he much prefers to linger over certain "heroes of the imagination" as he surveys human accomplishment in the fields of architecture, music, painting, sculpting, and writing--yet The Creators certainly feels comprehensive, as Boorstin carefully places everything he describes within a grand tradition of aesthetic achievement.
Boorstin knows that good history demands good writing, and his prose makes this big book easy to absorb. "This is a story," he writes, "of how creators in all the arts have enlarged, embellished, fantasized, and filigreed our experience"--an apt description of the role art plays in our life and an equally apt description of the way Boorstin interprets it for readers. (The Creators also is the second volume of a trilogy that starts with The Discoverers and concludes with The Seekers, although none of these books requires any knowledge of the others.) --John J. Miller [via]
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Dead Elvis: A Chronicle of a Cultural Obsessionby Greil MarcusISBN 0674194225 (0-674-19422-5)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Defining Russia Musically: Historical and Hermeneutical Essaysby Richard TaruskinISBN 0691070652 (0-691-07065-2)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Development of Western Music: A Historyby K. Marie StolbaISBN 0697125475 (0-697-12547-5)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Development of Western Musicby StolaISBN 0697417670 (0-697-41767-0)
Hardcover, William C Brown Communications
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The Development of Western Music: An Anthologyby K. Marie StolbaISBN 0697125491 (0-697-12549-1)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Development of Western Music: An Anthology'Book summary:An abridged version of a text which presents the history of music in the western world. The text emphasizes the most important styles, composers and works. Features include: timelines; maps; anthologies; recordings; and "insights" which offer sidelights on topics ranging from Europe's National beginnings, to the Theremin and Ondes Martenot. The text is intended for music students, and is written in a clear and accessible style. [via]
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Folksongs of Britain and Irelandby Peter KennedyISBN 0711902836 (0-7119-0283-6)
Softcover, Music Sales Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Folksongs of Britain and Ireland'Book summary:Edited by Peter Kennedy. Contains 360 songs from field recordings. In English, Manx, Lowland Scots, Scottish and Irish Gaelic, Welsh, Cornish, Channel Islands French, Romany and Tinker's Cants. [via]
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The Freedom Principle: Jazz After 1958by John LitweilerISBN 0688022464 (0-688-02246-4)
Hardcover, W. Morrow
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Gyorgy Ligetiby Richard ToopISBN 0714837954 (0-7148-3795-4)
Softcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gyorgy Ligeti'Book summary:The Hungarian Gyorgy Ligeti (b. 1923) is one of the most highly regarded and influential of living composers. Having survived persecution as a Jew during World War II, he fled to West Germany during the Hungarian Revolution, where his early musical development was shaped by his work in the Cologne electronic studios and by the influence of Stockhausen. Rather than becoming too closely identified with any single school or movement, Ligeti's music has drawn on a divers range of sources, from the folk music of his native Hungary to African and South American World music. In works such as his Requiem, used in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, he has proved that contemporary classical music can be accessible to a wide audience. This stimulating biography discusses Ligeti within the context of the political and cultural history of postwar Europe, and places him firmly at the forefront of musical change and innovation over the past four decades. [via]
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The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Musicby Don Michael RandelISBN 0674372999 (0-674-37299-9)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Hindemith, Hartmann and Henzeby Guy RickardsISBN 0714831743 (0-7148-3174-3)
Softcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd
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The History of the Blues: The Roots, the Music, the Peopleby Francis DavisISBN 0786881240 (0-7868-8124-0)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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Hymnal Companion to the Lutheran Book of Worshipby Marilyn Kay StulkenISBN 0800603001 (0-8006-0300-1)
Hardcover, Augsburg Fortress Pub
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Igor Stravinsky, an Autobiographyby Igor StravinskyISBN 0714510823 (0-7145-1082-3)
Hardcover, Calder and Boyars
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Igor Stravinskyby Michael OliverISBN 0714831581 (0-7148-3158-1)
Softcover, Phaidon Press
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In the Country of Country : People and Places in American Musicby Nicholas DawidoffISBN 067941567X (0-679-41567-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Incompleat Folksingerby Pete Seeger, Jo Metcalf SchwartzISBN 067120954X (0-671-20954-X)
Hardcover, Simon and Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Incompleat Folksinger'Book summary:Pete Seeger has sung as courageously as anyone has ever spoken, always in defense of the poor, the oppressed, and the exploited. His songs have enriched his life and his life has filled his songs with every emotion dear to the soul. But his deep understanding of sorrow and injustice have not spoiled a single note. He sings to enliven and encourage, to delight and tell tales. He snatches the riches of folksinging from as many sources as he can find and gives them freely and gladly to any audience that cares to listen.[via]Decades of work and travel have made him famous but he remains forever in tune with the folk. He describes his friends and inspirations, his conflicts with the bosses and the government, his favorite songs, stories, and instruments, and the kind of learning that comes from listening carefully. "Any fool can get complicated," he writes. "We are born in simplicity but die of complications."
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An Incomplete History of the Art of the Funerary Violinby Rohan KriwaczekISBN 0715636049 (0-7156-3604-9)
Hardcover, Duckworth
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Incomplete History of the Art of the Funerary Violin'Book summary:Tells the story of a music that emerged during the Protestant revolution in Europe, condemned by the Catholic Church for political and theological reasons, and of the Guild of Funerary Violinists. This work discusses the evolution of European culture, musical form, politics, changing attitudes to mortality, and the emotional effects of music. [via]
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It Came from Memphisby Robert GordonISBN 0743410459 (0-7434-1045-9)
Softcover, Atria Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'It Came from Memphis'Book summary:Perhaps no other city in America has provided more grist for the music sociology mill than Memphis, Tennessee. While Memphis has been the muse for some truly classic books (Peter Guralnick's Sweet Soul Music, to name just one), the rhetoric surrounding "The Birthplace of Rock & Roll"--also "The Home of the Blues"--can be as daunting as a walk down the ravenously gentrified blues theme park that is Beale Street.
Enter Robert Gordon, a Memphis native and keen chronicler of the city's secret history. Gordon's It Came from Memphis all but ignores the Bluff City's oft-cited musical hierarchy--B.B. King, Elvis, Al Green et al.--in favor of its great unheralded eccentrics. You might not be familiar with the Insect Trust or Mudboy and the Neutrons, but Gordon argues--with empathy and wit--that you should be.
But music is only part of the story here. Whether it's Memphis's wrestling legend Sputnik Monroe, or the city's esoteric patron saint, artist-professor John McIntire, Gordon's shrewd eye sees the mojo in them all. In a way, Gordon's book is even more vital than the classic volumes on Memphis music that predate it. Where Guralnick interprets a musical tradition that is already firmly embedded in the American psyche, Gordon gives voice to a clandestine tradition that otherwise might go forgotten. --Matt Hanks [via]
It Was Twenty Years Ago Todayby Derek TaylorISBN 0671642014 (0-671-64201-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Jazz: A History of America's Musicby Geoffrey C. WardISBN 0679765395 (0-679-76539-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jazz: A History of America's Music'Book summary:First off, let's get the kudos down: Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns deserve far more than simple gratitude for bringing jazz to the limelight with this lavishly illustrated volume. The book features among its 500-plus pictures many of the previously unseen shots of musicians and venues glimpsed in Burns's 10-part documentary, Jazz. (See our Ken Burns Jazz Store for the lowdown on the series.) Jazz: An Illustrated History follows the film episode by episode, and it's filled with rich historical detail in the early chapters. Like the series, however, the book trails off after a certain point in chronicling jazz's history. It gives background aplenty on early New Orleans music, the migration of jazz up the Mississippi to major urban centers, and the developments of swing and bebop. After bebop, the history gets a bit perfunctory. Dozens of major figures get mere sidebar coverage. Little is said of substance on Latin or Brazilian jazz, European contributions to the music, fusion, or umpteen smaller deviations from the mainstream. There are wonderful essays that highlight elements of jazz culture, particularly Gerald Early's consideration of race and white musicians in jazz and Gary Giddins's five-page essay on avant jazz. And there are fine sidebars as well. But developments during and after the 1960s are dealt with primarily in impressionistic guest essays rather than detail-oriented historical narrative. It is, of course, difficult to capture all jazz history in any single volume. So perhaps this ought to have been called Jazz: A Historical Appreciation, since the hundreds of images certainly create an intense sense of the music's milieu. --Andrew Bartlett [via]
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Johannes Brahms: A Biographyby Jan SwaffordISBN 0679745823 (0-679-74582-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Last Party: Studio 54, Disco, and the Culture of the Nightby Anthony Geust-HadenISBN 0688160980 (0-688-16098-0)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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The Last Party: Studio 54, Disco, and the Culture of the Nightby Anthony Haden-GuestISBN 068814151X (0-688-14151-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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The Life and Works of Beethovenby John N. BurkISBN 0781295726 (0-7812-9572-6)
Hardcover, Reprint Services Corp
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Lorenzo da Ponteby April FitzLyonISBN 0714537837 (0-7145-3783-7)
Softcover, Calder Publications Limited
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Magnificence: Onstage at the Met Twenty Great Opera Productionsby Robert JacobsonISBN 0671557238 (0-671-55723-8)
Hardcover, Simon and Schuster
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The Mansion on the Hill: Dylan, Young, Geffen, Springsteen, and the Head-On Collision of Rock and Commerceby Fred GoodmanISBN 0679743774 (0-679-74377-4)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Marrying Mozartby Stephanie CowellISBN 0670032689 (0-670-03268-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Marrying Mozart'Book summary:Mannheim, 1777. The four Weber sisters, daughters of a musical family, share a crowded, artistic life in a ramshackle house. Their father scrapes by as a music copyist; their mother keeps a book of prospective suitors hidden in the kitchen. The sisters struggle with these marriage prospects as well as their musical futures-until one evening at their home, when 21-year- old Wolfgang Mozart walks into their lives.
No longer a prodigy and struggling to find his own place in the music world, Mozart is enthralled with the Weber sisters: Aloysias beauty and talent captivates him; Josefas rich voice inspires him; Sophie becomes his confidante; and Constanze comes to play a surprising role in his life.
Eighteenth-century Europe comes alive with unforgiving winters and yawning princes; scheming parents and the enduring passions of young talent. Set in Mannheim, Munich, Salzburg and Vienna, Marrying Mozart is the richly textured love story of a remarkable historical figure-and four young women who engaged his passion, his music, and his heart. [via]
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The Met: One Hundred Years of Grand Operaby Martin MayerISBN 0671470876 (0-671-47087-6)
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Metropolitan Opera Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive Guide to the World of Operaby David HamiltonISBN 067161732X (0-671-61732-X)
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Minimalistsby SchwarzISBN 0714833819 (0-7148-3381-9)
Softcover, Phaidon Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Minimalists'Book summary:"Many do not consider minimalism to be an entirely respectable field of academic pursuit," admits author K. Robert Schwartz in his "Acknowledgments" in The Minimalists, a volume in the Phaidon Press Limited 20th Century Composers series. Minimalism, with its emphasis on seemingly endless repetition, can be physically damaging to those who attempt to perform it either vocally or instrumentally, and is terminally boring to those unable to tune into its subtle charms. On the other hand, it's tremendously popular, and has won new audiences to the concert hall and opera house. Schwartz explores the lives and work of America's two leading minimalists, Steve Reich and Philip Glass, in depth, and looks at seven other practitioners--La Monte Young, Terry Riley, John Adams, Meredith Monk, Michael Nyman, Louis Andriessen, and Arvo Part--more lightly. There are some amusing side trips here (Philip Glass refuses to acknowledge any intellectual debts to his predecessors; his predecessors object to his attitude), and a wealth of detail on these composers, their foibles, and what they're trying to achieve with their music. [via]
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Music in Renaissance Ferrara, 1400-1505by Lewis LockwoodISBN 0674591313 (0-674-59131-3)
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Music through the Renaissanceby James C. ThomsonISBN 0697000893 (0-697-00089-3)
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Musical Instruments from the Renaissance to the 19th Centuryby Sergio PaganelliISBN 0600359204 (0-600-35920-4)
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New Directions in Musicby David CopeISBN 0697034488 (0-697-03448-8)
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The New Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Rollby Rolling Stone, Patricia Romanowski, Holly George-Warren, Jon ParelesISBN 0684810441 (0-684-81044-1)
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No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylanby Robert SheltonISBN 068805045X (0-688-05045-X)
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The Npr Classical Music Companion: An Essential Guide for Enlightened Listeningby Miles HoffmanISBN 0618619453 (0-618-61945-3)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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On Record: Rock, Pop, and the Written Wordby Simon Frith, Andrew GoodwinISBN 0679722882 (0-679-72288-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Opera 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Operaby Fred PlotkinISBN 0786880252 (0-7868-8025-2)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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A Polish Renaissanceby Bernard JacobsonISBN 0714832510 (0-7148-3251-0)
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Race against Time: The Diaries of F.S. Kellyby Therese Radic, F. S. KellyISBN 0642107408 (0-642-10740-8)
Softcover, National Library of Australia
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Rave on: The Biography of Buddy Hollyby Philip NormanISBN 0684835606 (0-684-83560-6)
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The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll: Revised and Updated for the 21st Centuryby Patricia Romanowski, Holly George-Warren, Jon Pareles, Patricia Romanowski BasheISBN 0743201205 (0-7432-0120-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll: Revised and Updated for the 21st Century'Book summary:Completely updated with new entries and extensive revisions of the previous 1,800, The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia Of Rock & Roll is the authoritative volume on the world's music makers -- from the one-hit wonders to the megastars. In 1983, Rolling Stone Press introduced its first Rock & Roll Encyclopedia. Almost two decades later, it has become the premier guide to the history of rock & roll, and has been selected by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame & Museum as its official source of information. Giving full coverage to all aspects of the rock scene, it tells the story of rock & roll in a clear and easy reference format, including complete discographies, personnel changes for every band, and backstage information like date and place of birth, from Elvis Presley to Eminem.
Since the last edition, the music scene has exploded in every area, from boy-bands to hip-hop, electronica to indie rock. Here, the Encyclopedia explores them all -- 'NSync, Notorious B.I.G., Ricky Martin, Radiohead, Britney Spears, Blink-182, Sean "Puffy" Combs, Portishead, Fatboy Slim, Fiona Apple, Lil' Kim, Limp Bizkit, Oasis, Outkast, Yo La Tengo, TLC, and many, many more. The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll, Third Edition includes all the facts, phenomena, and flukes that make up the history of rock. Accompanying the biographical and discographical information on the nearly 2,000 artists included in this edition are incisive essays that reveal the performers' musical influences, first breaks, and critical and commercial hits and misses, as well as evaluations of their place in rock history. Filled with hundreds of historical photos, The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia is more than just a reference book, it is the bible of rock & roll. [via]
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The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll: The Definitive History of the Most Important Artists and Their Musicby Holly George-Warren, Anthony Decurtis, James Henke, Jim MillerISBN 0679737286 (0-679-73728-6)
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Rolling With the Stonesby Bill Wyman, Richard HaversISBN 0789489678 (0-7894-8967-8)
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The Romantic Generationby Charles RosenISBN 0674779347 (0-674-77934-7)
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Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrixby Charles CrossISBN 0786888415 (0-7868-8841-5)
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Rough Mix: An Unapologetic Look at the Music Business and How It Got That Way-A Lifetime in the World of Rock, Pop, and Country As Told by One of the Industry'sby Jim Jerome, Jimmy BowenISBN 0684807645 (0-684-80764-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Shostakovich: A Life Rememberedby Elizabeth WilsonISBN 0691128863 (0-691-12886-3)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Singer of Talesby Albert Bates Lord, Stephen Mitchell, Gregory NagyISBN 0674002830 (0-674-00283-0)
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Parry began recording and studying a live tradition of oral narrative poetry in order to find an answer to the age-old Homeric Question: How had the author of the Iliad and Odyssey composed these two monumental epic poems at the very start of Europe's literary tradition? Parry's, and with him Lord's, enduring contribution--set forth in Lord's The Singer of Tales--was to demonstrate the process by which oral poets compose.
Now reissued with a new Introduction and an invaluable audio and visual record, this widely influential book is newly enriched to better serve everyone interested in the art and craft of oral literature.
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Singer of Talesby Lord AbISBN 0689701292 (0-689-70129-2)
Softcover, Macmillan Pub Co
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A Song of Love and Death: The Meaning of Operaby Peter ConradISBN 0671672630 (0-671-67263-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Sony: The Private Lifeby John NathanISBN 0618126945 (0-618-12694-5)
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Stories of Famous Operasby Helene Adeline GuerberISBN 0722262558 (0-7222-6255-8)
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The Symphony Orchestra and Its Instrumentsby Sven KruckenbergISBN 0785815228 (0-7858-1522-8)
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Thayer's Life of Beethovenby Hugo Riemann, Elliot Forbes, Henry Edward Krehbiel, Alexander Wheelock Thayer, Hermann DeitersISBN 069102717X (0-691-02717-X)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Troubadour Lyric: A Psychocritical Readingby Rouben Charles CholakianISBN 0719032156 (0-7190-3215-6)
Hardcover, Manchester Univ Pr
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Wagner's Ring: Turning the Sky Aroundby M. Owen LeeISBN 0671707736 (0-671-70773-6)
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We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of L.A. Punkby Marc Spitz, Brenden MullenISBN 0609807749 (0-609-80774-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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When the Drummers Were Women: A Spiritual History of Rhythmby Layne RedmondISBN 0609801287 (0-609-80128-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'When the Drummers Were Women: A Spiritual History of Rhythm'Book summary:In this long-awaited, lavishly illustrated book, drummer Layne Redmond presents an empowering narrative history of the sacred drum in the ancient Goddess civilization, using her extensive collection of images gathered during more than five years of research and travel in the Mideast and Europe. 80 photos & drawings. [via]
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When We Were Good: The Folk Revivalby Robert CantwellISBN 0674951336 (0-674-95133-6)
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