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American Musicians II: 71 Portraits in Jazzby Whitney BalliettISBN 0195095383 (0-19-509538-3)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Musicians II: 71 Portraits in Jazz'Book summary:An earlier version of American Musicians appeared in 1986. Now the author has added 17 essays to the collection, and the result is a highly personal encyclopedia of jazz history, written with Whitney Balliett's trademark lyricism. Few critics can describe a piece of music with this kind of delicacy and precision. And the comments that Balliett elicits from his subjects are themselves worth the price of admission. Here, for example, pianist John Lewis goes right to the heart of jazz improvisation, and gives us a hint of what lays behind it: "When I take a solo, I try not to look at my fingers. It distracts me from music-making . . . I think about other things, even other music. If you break through those mere rules, destroy them, that's good, and it can become quite a marvelous experience. It's not just sadness or joy, it's something beyond that, perhaps exhilaration, but that's rare." [via]
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American Popular Music: From Minstrelsy to Mtvby Larry Starr, Christopher Alan WatermanISBN 019510854X (0-19-510854-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Popular Music: From Minstrelsy to Mtv'Book summary:The history of American popular music provides crucial insights into the establishment of a distinctively American culture. Authors Larry Starr and Christopher Waterman examine popular music in the United States from its beginnings to the end of the 20th century, furthering our understanding of the relationship between music, culture, and social identity. Using well-chosen examples, insightful, up-to-date commentaries, and an engaging writing style, American Popular Music: From Minstrelsy to MTV poses such questions as: Why do people make and listen to music? What do they want from it? What does it give them? Numerous listening examples (corresponding to the 2-CD package that accompanies the text) prompt readers to listen closely to popular music and to learn about its history and the people and institutions that have produced it.
American Popular Music: From Minstrelsy to MTV integrates detailed discussions of particular popular songs and recordings with a thoughtful consideration of the broader historical and cultural context. Other distinctive features include a rich illustration program, strong pedagogy including numerous boxed inserts, inclusion of earlier American popular music, and well-organized listening charts with lyrics. Themes such as the multicultural roots of popular styles, the development of musical technology, and the operations and strategies of the music industry unify the text. This book is an ideal text for courses in American Studies, Cultural Studies, Popular Culture, and Music. Its accessible style and warm tone will captivate students and other readers, encouraging them to become more critically aware listeners of popular music.
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American Singers: Twenty-Seven Portraits in Songby Whitney BalliettISBN 0195046102 (0-19-504610-2)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Art and the Everyday: Popular Entertainment and the Circle of Erik Satieby Nancy Lynn PerloffISBN 0198163983 (0-19-816398-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Banquet Years: The Origins of the Avant-Garde in France, 1885 to World War Iby Roger ShattuckISBN 0224615262 (0-224-61526-2)
Hardcover, Cape
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Beethoven's Ninth: A Political Historyby Esteban Buch, Richard MillerISBN 0226078248 (0-226-07824-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beethoven's Ninth: A Political History'Book summary:Who hasn't been stirred by the strains of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony? That's a good question, claims Esteban Buch. German nationalists and French republicans, communists and Catholics have all, in the course of history, embraced the piece. It was performed under the direction of Leonard Bernstein at a concert to mark the fall of the Berlin Wall, yet it also serves as a ghastly and ironic leitmotif in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange. Hitler celebrated his birthdays with it, and the government of Rhodesia made it their anthem. And played in German concentration camps by the imprisoned, it also figured prominently at Mitterand's 1981 investiture.[via]
In his remarkable history of one of the most popular symphonic works of the modern period, Buch traces such complex and contradictory usesand abusesof Beethoven's Ninth Symphony since its premier in 1824. Buch shows that Beethoven consciously drew on the tradition of European political music, with its mix of sacred and profane, military and religious themes, when he composed his symphony. But while Beethoven obviously had his own political aspirations for the piecehe wanted it to make a statement about ideal powerhe could not have had any idea of the antithetical political uses, nationalist and universalist, to which the Ninth Symphony has been put since its creation. Buch shows us how the symphony has been "deployed" throughout nearly two centuries, and in the course of this exploration offers what was described by one French reviewer as "a fundamental examination of the moral value of art." Sensitive and fascinating, this account of the tangled political existence of a symphony is a rare book that shows the life of an artwork through time, shifted and realigned with the currents of history.More editions of Beethoven's Ninth: A Political History:
Benny Goodman and the Swing Eraby James Lincoln CollierISBN 0195067762 (0-19-506776-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Berlioz and His Century: An Introduction to Age of Romanticismby Jacques BarzunISBN 0226038610 (0-226-03861-0)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Berlioz and the Romantic Centuryby Jacques BarzunISBN 0231031351 (0-231-03135-1)
Hardcover, Columbia University Press
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Between Montmartre and the Mudd Clubby Bernard GendronISBN 0226287378 (0-226-28737-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Between Montmartre and the Mudd Club: Popular Music and the Avant-Gardeby Bernard GendronISBN 0226287351 (0-226-28735-1)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Chamber Musicby Homer UlrichISBN 0231086172 (0-231-08617-2)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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The Compleat Conductorby Gunther SchullerISBN 0195126610 (0-19-512661-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Conducted Tourby Bernard LevinISBN 0224018965 (0-224-01896-5)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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Contemporary Class Pianoby Elyse MachISBN 0195166884 (0-19-516688-4)
Softcover, Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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The Duke Ellington Readerby Mark Tucker, Duke EllingtonISBN 0195093917 (0-19-509391-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Duke Ellington Reader'Book summary:This superb anthology covers the entire length of the composer's career, from his landfall in Manhattan in 1923 to the Old Master period of the early 1970s. There are dozens of reviews, essays, appreciations, and memoirs, written not only by music critics but by such heavy hitters as Ralph Ellison, Simone de Beauvoir(!), and Blaise Cendrars. The book also includes a selection of Ellington's own dicta--be sure not to overlook his 1937 polemic from "Down Beat": "Ellington Refutes Cry That Swing Started Sex Crimes!" Superbly edited and endlessly intriguing, the Reader is an essential volume for Ellington nuts and neophytes alike. [via]
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Ellington: The Early Yearsby Mark TuckerISBN 0252065093 (0-252-06509-3)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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For the Love of It: Amateuring and Its Rivalsby Wayne BoothISBN 0226065863 (0-226-06586-3)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Future Jazzby Howard MandelISBN 0195141210 (0-19-514121-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Go Cat Go!: Rockabilly Music and Its Makersby Craig MorrisonISBN 0252022076 (0-252-02207-6)
Hardcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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The Growth of Music: A Study in Musical Historyby H.C. CollesISBN 019316115X (0-19-316115-X)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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A Guide to Orchestral Music: The Handbook for Non-Musiciansby Ethan MorddenISBN 0195040414 (0-19-504041-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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"Easy and pleasurable to read...a genuinely useful guide for the music lover who has not had a musical education but loves concert music."--John Barkham Reviews [via]More editions of A Guide to Orchestral Music: The Handbook for Non-Musicians:
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Gustav Mahler: Vienna, Triumph and Disillusion (1904-1907)by Henry-Louis De LA GrangeISBN 019315160X (0-19-315160-X)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gustav Mahler: Vienna, Triumph and Disillusion (1904-1907)'Book summary:When the second volume of de La Grange's monumental study of Mahler appeared, it was hailed in The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and many other publications as an indispensable portrait of the great composer. Here at last is the third volume of this magisterial work.
Ranging from 1904 to 1907, it explores Mahler's final years as administrator, producer, and conductor of the Vienna Opera. It was a time of intense inner struggle, with Mahler's energy and creative powers drained by the competing demands of running the Hofoper and struggling for recognition as a composer. And they were tragic years as well, especially 1907, Mahler's last year in Vienna, when the death of his daughter and the diagnosis of heart disease forced him to leave the Opera. Throughout the book, de La Grange offers true-to-life portraits of Mahler the human being, the family man, and the composer, and he weaves in innumerable testimonies and anecdotes that throw new light on the great composer's complex personality.
The product of forty years of research, here is the definitive study of a musical giant. It is, as The Wall Street Journal said of volume two, "a work of the first importance, one that nobody seriously interested in Mahler can possibly afford to skip." [via]More editions of Gustav Mahler: Vienna, Triumph and Disillusion (1904-1907):
Gustav Mahler Vol. 2 : Vienna: The Years of Challenge (1897-1904)by Henry L. de La GrangeISBN 0193151596 (0-19-315159-6)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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Handbook for Sound Engineersby Glen M. BallouISBN 0240807588 (0-240-80758-8)
Softcover, Focal Pr
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Handelby Donald BurrowsISBN 0198166494 (0-19-816649-4)
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Handel's Dramatic Oratorios and Masquesby W. DeanISBN 0198161840 (0-19-816184-0)
Softcover, Clarendon Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Handel's Dramatic Oratorios and Masques'Book summary:Illustrating Handel's oratorios and masques in dramatic form--among them some of the highest achievements of musical drama ever written--Dean here begins by discussing general questions of history, style, and performace, and explains how the oratorios have been progressively misrepresented since Handel's day; subsequent chapters detail each of his 18 works in this genre. [via]
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Harmonyby Heinrich Schenker, Oswald Jonas, Elisabeth M. BorgeseISBN 0226737349 (0-226-73734-9)
Softcover, University of Chicago Press
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How to Read Music: For Singing, Guitar, Piano, Organ and Most Instrumentsby Roger EvansISBN 0241898986 (0-241-89898-6)
Hardcover, Elm Tree Books
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The Imaginary Museum of Musical Works: An Essay in the Philosophy of Musicby Lydia GoehrISBN 0198235410 (0-19-823541-0)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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In the Moment: Jazz in the 1980'sby Francis DavisISBN 0195054199 (0-19-505419-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Jazz Anecdotesby Bill CrowISBN 0195071336 (0-19-507133-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Jazz: Myth and Religionby Neil LeonardISBN 0195042492 (0-19-504249-2)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Johann Sebastian Bach the Culmination of an Eraby K. GeiringerISBN 0195005546 (0-19-500554-6)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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The Listener's Musical Companionby Bernard H. Haggin, Thomas S. HathawayISBN 0195063759 (0-19-506375-9)
Softcover, Oxford University Press
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Lost Chords: White Musicians and Their Contribution to Jazz, 1915-1945by Richard M. SudhalterISBN 019514838X (0-19-514838-X)
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Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890-1919by Richard K. Spottswood, Tim BrooksISBN 0252028503 (0-252-02850-3)
Hardcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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Louis Armstrong, in His Own Words: Selected Writingsby Louis Armstrong, Thomas BrothersISBN 019514046X (0-19-514046-X)
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The Mahler Companionby Andrew Nicholson, Donald MitchellISBN 0199249652 (0-19-924965-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Mahler Companionby Donald Mitchell, Andrew NicholsonISBN 0198163762 (0-19-816376-2)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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Mendelssohnby Philip Radcliffe, Peter Ward JonesISBN 0198164939 (0-19-816493-9)
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Mozart's Operas a Critical Studyby Edward J. DentISBN 0198162642 (0-19-816264-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Music for Analysis: Examples from the Common Practice Period and the Twentieth Centuryby Thomas Benjamin, Robert Nelson, Michael HorvitISBN 0195188152 (0-19-518815-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Music of Benjamin Britten: Illustrated With over 300 Music Examples and Diagramsby Peter EvansISBN 0198165900 (0-19-816590-0)
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The Music of Stravinskyby Stephen WalshISBN 0198163754 (0-19-816375-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Music Since the First World Warby Arnold WhittallISBN 0198165331 (0-19-816533-1)
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Music, Imagination and Cultureby Nicholas CookISBN 0198163037 (0-19-816303-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The New Grove Dictionary of Operaby Sadie StanleyISBN 0195221869 (0-19-522186-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The New Grove Dictionary of Opera'Book summary:Although not for every opera lover (or every opera lover's budget), this massive four-volume set--each volume coming in at around 1,300 pages--is indispensable for the opera educator, writer, or major fanatic. While in any encyclopedia the quality of writing and the critical viewpoint must of necessity be somewhat varied, the standards in the Grove series of reference works are always high and the level of usefulness enormous. Almost any opera that debuted before 1992 is to be found within these pages, making it especially useful in this age of obscure revivals; most singers of any note who had established careers before that date are also included. Although somewhat Anglocentric in its inclusions, this remains an invaluable reference work. [via]
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New Musical Figurations: Anthony Braxton's Cultural Critiqueby Ronald Michael RadanoISBN 0226701964 (0-226-70196-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Oh, Play That Thingby Roddy DoyleISBN 0224074431 (0-224-07443-1)
Softcover, Jonathan Cape
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Outcats: Jazz Composers, Instrumentalists, and Singersby Francis DavisISBN 019507470X (0-19-507470-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Oxford Book of English Madrigalsby Philip LedgerISBN 0193436647 (0-19-343664-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Oxford Book of French Chansonsby Frank DobbinsISBN 019343539X (0-19-343539-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Oxford Companion to Musicby Alison LathamISBN 0198662122 (0-19-866212-2)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Companion to Music'Book summary:First published in 1938, The Oxford Companion to Music has been the first choice for authoritative information on all aspects of music. Now, 17 years since the last edition, the Companion is here to serve a new generation of students, teachers, performers, concert goers, record collectors, and music lovers.
Completely revised and updated by a distinguished team of contributors, the Oxford Companion to Music features more than 1,000 new entries than the previous edition; more than 70 percent of the entire text is either new or entirely rewritten. Here, in articles that range from clear, concise definitions of musical ideas and terms to extended surveys of musical forms and styles, is authoritative coverage of virtually every musical subject. Embracing the world of music in all its variety--including jazz, popular music, and dance--the Companion offers a concentrated focus on the Western classic tradition, from the Middle Ages to the present day.
More than 8,000 articles sweep across an extraordinary range of subjects: composers, performers, conductors, individual works, instruments and notation, forms and genres. From the study of music--theory, aesthetics, scholarship--to the way it is performed and disseminated, the Companion provides comprehensive, accessible coverage of music in all its artistic, historical, cultural, and social dimensions.
Comprehensive, authoritative, up-to-date, and designed throughout for clarity and accessibility, the new Oxford Companion to Music, like every edition before it, will immediately become an indispensable resource for all who wish to enrich their love and knowledge of music. [via]More editions of The Oxford Companion to Music:
The Oxford Companion to Popular Musicby Peter GammondISBN 0193113236 (0-19-311323-6)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Ozark Folksongsby Vance RandolphISBN 0252009525 (0-252-00952-5)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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Performing the Nation: Swahili Music and Cultural Politics in Tanzaniaby Kelly M. AskewISBN 0226029808 (0-226-02980-8)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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As Askew shows, the genres of ngoma (traditional dance), dansi (urban jazz), and taarab (sung Swahili poetry) have played prominent parts in official articulations of "Tanzanian National Culture" over the years. Drawing on over a decade of research, including extensive experience as a taarab and dansi performer, Askew explores the intimate relations among musical practice, political ideology, and economic change. She reveals the processes and agents involved in the creation of Tanzania's national culture, from government elites to local musicians, poets, wedding participants, and traffic police. Throughout, Askew focuses on performance itselfmusical and otherwiseas key to understanding both nation-building and interpersonal power dynamics.More editions of Performing the Nation: Swahili Music and Cultural Politics in Tanzania:
Pro and Contra Wagnerby Thomas MannISBN 0226503356 (0-226-50335-6)
Softcover, University of Chicago Press
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Purcellby J. A. Westrup, Nigel Fortune, Curtis PriceISBN 0198165463 (0-19-816546-3)
Softcover, Oxford University Press
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Ravel: Man and Musicianby Arbie OrensteinISBN 0231039026 (0-231-03902-6)
Hardcover, Columbia University Press
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Richard Straussby Michael KennedyISBN 0198165811 (0-19-816581-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Riding on a Blue Note: Jazz and American Popby Gary GiddinsISBN 0195032136 (0-19-503213-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Road Goes on Forever: Portraits from a Journey through Contemporary Musicby Philip NormanISBN 0241108624 (0-241-10862-4)
Softcover, Elm Tree Books
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Samuel Barber: The Composer and His Musicby Barbara B. HeymanISBN 0195090586 (0-19-509058-6)
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San Antonio Rose: The Life and Music of Bob Willsby Charles R. TownsendISBN 025201362X (0-252-01362-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'San Antonio Rose: The Life and Music of Bob Wills'Book summary:San Antonio Rose: THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF BOB WILLS-a volume in the series Music in American Life. "You can change the name of an old song, rearrange it and make it swing." ---Bob Wills, Time Changes Everything · "One can only stand in awe at the kind of work that went into Townsend's book...San Antonio Rose must be recognized as a major advance in the study of American music It is a masterpiece of layout and design, rich with photos and well-done illustrations, and should be in the library of anyone interested in American music." ---Charles Wolfe, Journal of Country Music. · "In what was clearly a labor of love, Townsend has produced a thoroughly entertaining book, which is important both as a biography and as a study of popular culture. Townsend interviewed over 200 people, including Wills himself, listened to every known recording and transcription of Wills's music, and seems to have examined just about every piece of written material that is available on the subject. It is doubtful that anyone will ever write a more complete or more accurate account of Wills and his music." ---Bill C. Malone, Journal of American History · "A warm and honest portrait of the man who brought the music of 'country folks' to town, who merged the spontaneity of country fiddling with the Big Band Sound, giving birth to Western Swing." ---Louis Sahagun, Los Angeles Times Book Review · "A fine, engaging, and valuable biography...Townsend's affection for the music and the man is infectious." ---Publishers Weekly · "Will remain the definitive work and ultimate 'bible' of Wills and his music." ---Townsend Miller, Austin American-Statesman ~~CHARLES R. TOWNSEND, professor of history at West Texas State University, won a Grammy Award in 1975 for his brochure notes accompanying United Artists' release of For the Last Time, the last recording session of Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys. [via]
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