The long-awaited, untold, inside story of the rise of the legendary actor, singer, scholar, and activist. The first volume of …
With so much more music available these days, traditional ways of finding music have diminished. Today radio shows are often …
How and when does music become possible? Is it a matter of biology, or culture, or an interaction between the …
INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1: Blue Moon of Kentucky Rising (The Beginnings to 1920); CHAPTER 2: The Big City, The Big Country …
This book addresses the neglect of visual creativities and content, and how these are commercialised in the music industries. While …
This book presents a novel method of grafting musical wind instruments by exchanging an instrument’s standard mouthpiece with different tone …
This is a book on the therapeutic quality of music. Musicians, philosophers, music therapists, and others discuss their experiences. This …
Whenever a person engages with music--when a piano student practices a scale, a jazz saxophonist riffs on a melody, a …
Music in the everyday lives of U.S. troops and combat veterans In the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, recent technological …
Listening according to mood is likely to be what most people do when they listen to music. We want to …
In Ways of Listening, musicologist Eric Clarke explores musical meaning, music's critical function in human lives, and the relationship between …
In this sparkling collection, "roots" music authority Tony Russell offers vivid portraits of the men and women who created country …
The long-awaited and vastly entertaining autobiography of Scott Ian, guitarist and founder of groundbreaking and influential thrash metal legend Anthrax
In addition to his successful music career as one of the most storied and well-respected singers and songwriters, he is …
The first print run of the UK hardback edition will have black sprayed edges. In order to guarantee your copy, …
Consciousness has been described as one of the most mysterious things in the universe. Scientists, philosophers, and commentators from a …
A proposal that an embodied cognition approach to music research--drawing on work in computer science, psychology, brain science, and musicology--offers …
From Bach fugues to Indonesian gamelan, from nursery rhymes to rock, music has cast its light onto every corner of …
How Music Works is David Byrne's remarkable and buoyant celebration of a subject he's spent a lifetime thinking about. He …
We are in something of a golden age of music research. Technological advances have merged with philosophical interests to produce …
Take a visual journey through the world of music and learn the science behind it, too. Budding music fans will …
The rich and colorful story of America's most popular music and the singers and songwriters who have captivated, entertained, and …
To its millions of fans, country music is America's music, offering a window on the sweet dreams and cruel disappointments …
Authors Burstein and Straus combine decades of teaching experience with concise prose, carefully curated musical examples, and a robust, skill-sharpening …
Music Theory Essentials offers an antidote to music theory textbooks that are overly long and dense. Focusing on the essentials, …
First 20 chapters of the workbook for the textbook "Concise Introduction to Tonal Harmony" 2nd edition by Burnstein and Strauss.
Community musicians move in many diverse settings, and facilitate local music activities in a wide array of community contexts including …
