Music/Ethnomusicology
Music/Ethnomusicology
100 Greatest Soul Songs: The Stories Behind Soul and R&B Music's Biggest Hits
The greatest soul songs aren't just heard-they're felt. Now it's time to unlock their secrets. 100 Greatest Soul Songs takes you deeper than the radio ever could, revealing the untold stories behind the tracks that shook the charts and moved the...
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Go Back and Fetch It: Recovering Early Black Music in the Americas for Fiddle and Banjo
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Go Back and Fetch It: Recovering Early Black Music in the Americas for Fiddle and Banjo
Publisher : The University of North Carolina Press
Publication date : September 16, 2025
Language : English
Print length : 120 pages
ISBN-10 : 1469690578
ISBN-13 : 9781469690575
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Mothership Connected: The Women of Parliament-Funkadelic
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Publication date : September 30, 2025
Language : English
Print length : 360 pages
ISBN-10 : 1477332677
ISBN-13 : 9781477332672
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Stan Levey: Jazz Heavyweight
Stan Levey is one of the most influential drummers in the history of modern jazz. During his extraordinary career, the self-taught Levey played alongside a who’s who of twentieth century jazz artists: Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Stan Getz,...
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Sound Pictures: The Life of Beatles Producer George Martin, The Later Years, 1966–2016
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Sound Pictures: The Life of Beatles Producer George Martin, The Later Years, 1966–2016
More than anyone besides the bandmates themselves, George Martin was the man who created the unique sound of the Beatles. Sound Pictures offers a powerful and intimate account of how he did so. The second and final volume of...
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Of Potato Heads and Polaroids: My Life Inside and Out of Pearl Jam
Pearl Jam. Not many bands have achieved a status needing no adjective or description. Pearl Jam has. And fewer still have had an insider, much less a member, obsessively capture onstage and offhand pics of the experience-the friends, family, and...
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We Were Going to Change the World: Interviews with Women from the 1970s and 1980s Southern California Punk Rock Scene
The punk rock scene of the 1970s and ’80s in Southern California is widely acknowledged as one of the most vibrant, creative periods in all of rock and roll history. And while many books have covered the artists who contributed...
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Sinatra and Me: The Very Good Years
An intimate look at the legendary Frank Sinatra by one of his closest friends.Not many people were allowed inside Frank Sinatra's inner circle. But Tony Consiglio was a boyhood friend of Sinatra's who remained his friend and confidant for over...
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Face the Music: A Memoir
In this poignant memoir, the internationally celebrated bandleader reflects on family, illness, grief, and a bygone era of glamour, contemplating not just his career but the history of midcentury music and nightlife—and the enormously important role that the bandstand played...
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Calder: The Conquest of Space: The Later Years: 1940-1976
The concluding volume to the first biography of one of the most important, influential, and beloved twentieth-century sculptors, and one of the greatest artists in the cultural history of America--is a vividly written, illuminating account of his triumphant later years.The...
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Bundini: Don't Believe The Hype
“Bundini gave Ali his entire heart. Bundini played a very important part in Ali’s career. He was Ali’s right hand man. He knew exactly how to motivate him. He was the one guy who could really get him up to...
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Van Gogh and Music: A Symphony in Blue and Yellow
This engaging book is the first in-depth investigation of the influential role that music and sound played throughout Vincent van Gogh’s (1853–1890) life. From psalms and hymns to the operas of Richard Wagner to simple birdsong, music represented to Van...
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Showtime at the Apollo: The Epic Tale of Harlem's Legendary Theater
Writer Ted Fox and artist James Otis Smith bring to life Harlem’s legendary theater in this graphic novel adaptation of Fox’s definitive, critically acclaimed history of the Apollo.Since its inception as an African-American theater in 1934, the Apollo, and the...
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Hip Hop Honeys
They've been essential parts of decades-worth of rap videos yet rarely get the spotlight. That all changes with this book, where the women move to the foreground to be celebrated and showered with attention all their own. It's time to...
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Black Moses: The Hot-Buttered Life and Soul of Isaac Hayes
The first biography of soul pioneer Isaac Hayes, whose groundbreaking music provided the foundation for hip-hop and a new racial paradigm.“Black men could finally stand up and be men because here's Black Moses; he's the epitome of Black masculinity. Chains...
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Trips: Rock Life in the Sixties―Augmented Edition (Dover Books On Music: History)
"Name an iconic Sixties rock moment and Ellen Sander was probably there. A beautifully written, sweeping yet intimate account of America's cultural awakening in that decade. Massively entertaining" — Rolling StoneA #1 Amazon Bestseller: Musical Philosophy & Social Aspects!As a pioneering...
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Star Wars: Legion: (Star Wars Collectible) (Star Wars Collection)
Discover hundreds of stormtrooper helmet designs with a deluxe art book, and customize your own unique helmet with this collector’s set!In 2014, creatives from Lucasfilm, Disney, Industrial Light & Magic, Pixar, and Marvel Studios joined forces for an incredible artistic...
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Soul Train: The Music, Dance, and Style of a Generation
Celebrate the culture of cool with this compact, paperback edition of the heartfelt tribute to Soul Train, a worldwide phenomenon of dance, music, and fashion.From Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson of the award-winning hip-hop group the Roots, comes this vibrant book commemorating the...
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Dead Straight Guides Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan once declared “I have no respect for factual knowledge. I don’t care what anybody knows.” And he has often attempted to confuse and mislead with a stream of misinformation and even downright lies. Yet Dylan’s persistent evasions have...
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John Cage Was
Intimate portraits and remembrances of one of the most influential artists of the twentieth centuryIt is difficult to imagine a world without John Cage. His playful, challenging spirit remains pervasive―a formative force in the lives of those in the forefront...
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Dilla Time
WINNER OF THE PEN/JACQUELINE BOGRAD WELD AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHYNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“This book is a must for everyone interested in illuminating the idea of unexplainable genius.” ―QUESTLOVEEqual parts biography, musicology, and cultural history, Dilla Time chronicles the life and legacy of J Dilla,...
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Who's That Girl?: A Memoir (coming soon-September 17, 2024)
The definitive autobiography from Eve, the multiplatinum, Grammy Award®–winning, Emmy®-nominated rapper, singer-songwriter, actor, mother, philanthropist, and entrepreneur.In 1999, Eve Jihan Cooper made history with her solo debut album, Let There Be Eve…Ruff Ryders’ First Lady, reaching number one on the Billboard...
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Too Much Too Young, the 2 Tone Records Story: Rude Boys, Racism, and the Soundtrack of a Generation
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Too Much Too Young, the 2 Tone Records Story: Rude Boys, Racism, and the Soundtrack of a Generation
The definitive and remarkable story of 2 Tone Records, featuring an introduction by Pauline Black ―A Times/Sunday Times Book of the Year―An Uncut Book of the Year―Long-Listed for the Penderyn Music Book Prize―A Louder Than War Book of the Year―A Blitzed Magazine Book of the Year In 1979,...
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Tales from the Symphony: Perspectives from African American Musicians
This book contains conversations with nineteen African American classical musicians currently performing—or who have previously performed—in America’s major symphony orchestras. Each chapter focuses on the story of one musician and sheds light on the realities of African American musicians playing...
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Spirit of the Century: Our Own Story
An insider history of the Blind Boys of Alabama, the longest running group in American music, and the untold story of their world, written with band members and key musical colleagues. The Blind Boys of Alabama are the quintessential Gospel...
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Rise of a Killah
The story of the celebrated rapper and the iconic Wu-Tang Clan, told by one of its founding membersDennis Coles―aka Ghostface Killah―is a co-founder of the Wu-Tang Clan, a legendary hip hop group who established themselves by breaking all the rules,...
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Rap and Redemption on Death Row: Seeking Justice and Finding Purpose behind Bars
Imprisoned since age nineteen, Alim Braxton has spent more than a quarter century on North Carolina's death row. During that time, he converted to Islam and dedicated his life to redemption. Braxton, a rapper since the age of thirteen, uses...
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On Rhetoric and Black Music
This groundbreaking work examines how Black music functions as rhetoric, considering its subject not merely reflective of but central to African American public discourse. Author, musician, and scholar Earl H. Brooks argues that there would have been no Harlem Renaissance,...
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My Black Country: A Journey Through Country Music's Black Past, Present, and Future
Alice Randall, award-winning professor, songwriter, and author presents “a celebration of all things country music” (Ken Burns) as she reflects on her search for the first family of Black country music.Country music had brought Alice Randall and her activist mother...
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Living Space: John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Free Jazz, from Analog to Digital (Music / Culture)
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Living Space: John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Free Jazz, from Analog to Digital (Music / Culture)
Examines John Coltrane's "late period" and Miles Davis's "Lost Quintet" through the prisms of digital architecture and experimental photographyLiving Space: John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Free Jazz, from Analog to Digital fuses biography and style history in order to illuminate...
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