Music Styles and Genres Books

Learn to improvise on flute over the most recognised tune in jazzThis is not a how to play the flute book. It's a how to play music book!Once you have learnt some simple strategies to improvise over jazz chord changes, the next step is chord tone...

Take The Minor Pentatonic Scale Scale Beyond Blues & Classic Rock... The journey of virtually every guitar player begins with the pentatonic scale. No other scale has been used more to further the connection between the guitar and modern...

Master the acoustic guitar styles of 10 legendary acoustic singer-songwritersDo you need a simple method to improve your acoustic guitar playing technique?Are you stuck in a guitar rut, in need of a fresh injection of ideas?Do you want an insight...

The Ultimate Guide to Blues Guitar SoloingAre you struggling to learn the authentic language of blues guitar soloing? Joseph Alexander has helped over 500,000 guitar players improve their skills with his practical, step-by-step guitar guides and his...

Guitarra Neoclássica: Estratégias e VelocidadeA velocidade não é uma habilidade natural. Não se trata de prática irracional e certamente não se trata de sorte. Tocar rápido começa com um método que liberará seu verdadeiro potencial.Guitarra Neoclássica:...

Funk Guitar Mastery focuses on developing the rhythmic and technical skills needed to develop and understand how a funk guitar part functions and sits in the band. As proficiency is developed, funky chords, riffs, techniques and approaches are added to...

The Advanced Rhyming Dictionary represents the culmination of more than seven years of work. It is the first of its kind and is a compendium of two and three syllable multisyllabic rhyme schemes aimed at rappers, poets, educators and academics.Adam...

Miley Cyrus first shot to fame at a young age playing Hannah Montana but she has long-since said goodbye to her good girl image, and is now best known for pushing the boundaries - both on and off stage. This biography tells of Miley's extraordinary...

Gear up for an electrifying journey throughTHE HISTORY OF CASIO SYNTHESIZERS.This isn't your run-of-the-mill tale; it's a full-throttle dive into the rhythm, pulse, and unapologetic innovation that defines CASIO.CASIO didn't just create synthesizers;...

Do you want to get to know your favorite KPOP idols better, all the while getting your brain juices flowing by solving fun puzzles like word searches, crosswords, mazes, and more? Then dive into this BTS puzzle and trivia book, full of over 20...

A wonderful collection of 10 classic Polish folk songs. Songs include: 1. Wyjezdzojze Z Nami - Come, Come away with us, 2. Uśnij-ze mi uśnij - Sleep now, my baby, 3. Som, som, som, W Stawie Rybecki - Fish, fish, fish, tiny little fish, 4. Tam W Krakowie,...

This book is an oral history of punk in Belfast from the mid-70s to the mid-80s. It reads a small number of interviews in close detail to place them in the context of the Troubles and to draw out the imaginative ways that interviewees evoke the...

What do exotic area rugs, handcrafted steel-string guitars, and fiddling have in common today? Many contemporary tradition bearers embrace complexity in form and content. They construct objects and performances that draw on the past and evoke nostalgia...

At the height of the blues revival, Marina Bokelman and David Evans, young graduate students from California, made two trips to Louisiana and Mississippi and short trips in their home state to do fieldwork for their studies at UCLA. While there, they...

In this book, native popular musicologists focus on their own popular music cultures from Germany, Austria and Switzerland for the first time: from subcultural to mainstream phenomena; from the 1950s to contemporary acts. Starting with an...

This is the first book to take an interdisciplinary approach to the story of the Shanghai Yue Opera, bringing history, arts management, central and regional government policy, urbanisation, gender, media, and theatre artistic development in one. Through...

This theoretical book is meant to improve contemporary jazz styles techniques for all musician players of modern jazz.The book is divided into scale exercises, arpeggio exercises, jazz line phrases as well as contemporary chord progressions.

Authorship Roles in Popular Music applies the critical concept of auteur theory to popular music via different aspects of production and creativity. Through critical analysis of the music itself, this book contextualizes key concepts of authorship...

Boy Bands and the Performance of Pop Masculinity provides a history of the boy band from the Beatles to One Direction, placing the modern male pop group within the wider context of twentieth- and twenty-first-century popular music and culture. Offering...

Musical Theatre Education and Training in the 21st Century presents a wide range of viewpoints on the musical theatre profession. It brings together research from the UK, US, Australia and beyond, providing an essential resource for educators, students,...

This book provides a socio-cultural analysis of khayal bandishes composed by Ne'mat Khan 'Sadarang' and Feroze Khan 'Adarang'.

Rabaka explores funk as a distinct multiform of music, aesthetics, politics, social vision, and cultural rebellion that has been remixed, and continues to influence contemporary Black popular music and Black popular culture, especially rap music and the...

The Music of Sounds and the Music of Things is a book about sonic sampling and DIY (or DIT, that is, do it yourself or do it together) instrument making as two highly innovative yet inclusive forms of 21st century music making and is written by someone...

Einstein A Go-Go is the legendary all-ages live music and dance club in Jacksonville Beach, Florida, that became a celebrated clubhouse of sorts for thousands of young people from 1985-1997. Emerging acts at the time such as Nirvana, The...

And The Music Lives On is an authoritative compilation of articles focusing on the Hindi film music of the Golden Era. It emphatically highlights the exceptional composers, singers, and lyricists of that time. It provides in-depth explanations of musical...

Discover the magic of Christmas through music with *The Giant Book of Christmas Sheet Music for Violin*, the ultimate collection for violinists of all levels! Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned player, this festive anthology brings together all your...

The Legend of Michael Jackson: The King of Pop's Life and Legacy by Tristan Evergreen is a compelling tribute to one of the most influential figures in music history. Michael Jackson, the unparalleled King of Pop, left an indelible mark on the world...

HUSTLE HARMONIES: BLOOD TIESWALL STREET THUG CHRONICLES PILLOW TALK AND THE POWER OF LOVELYRICS THAT FLOW OVER A TIGHT BEAT CREATE BLOOD TIES...Embark on a poetic journey through the vibrant tapestry of urban life with Lyric Hawkins' 'Hustle Harmonies:...

Break the mold with this collection of 300 progressive and genre-bending chord combinations. Designed for songwriters who want to experiment with fresh, innovative sounds, Creative Chords will help you stand out with progressions that push boundaries...

Sonny Clark was a unique jazz pianist. Totally original, he never sounded like any other jazz pianist and no other piano player ever sounded like him.This is his story; the musicians he worked and recorded with included Rollins, Coltrane, Gordon and many...

This book will reconstruct and analyze the logic and frameworks surrounding positive evaluations of popular art in articles and books predominantly published in the United States and western Europe. It will also examine negative evaluations of the...

This volume aims to investigate various aspects of the musical world around surrounding Tartini. It primarily focuses on the analysis of the evidence on related to instrument making and sound research relating toassociated with Tartini and his circle.

The Groovology of White Affect theorizes white aesthetics and race formation in South Africa from a position immersed in the sonic. Mining boeremusiek's "heart-speech" across two centuries of reception, the book offers a theory of race formation steeped...

این کتاب گزارشی است از آرمان سازمان جشن هنر شیراز از برگزاری یک جشنوارهٔ هنری بین المللی در ایران در فضائی جستجوگر و آزاد، و معرفی مسئولین و مدیران سازمان و برنامه های موسیقی، رقص، نمایش و سینما از آسیا، آفریقا، اروپا و آمریکا که هر تابستان از سال ۱۳۴۶...

SEA SHANTIES FOR EASY GUITARAhoy there me Hearty's, learn to play the chords and tunes of ten of the world's favourite sea shanties!SEA SHANTIES ARE MORE POPULAR NOW THAN EVER. NOW YOU CAN PLAY AND SING ALONG WITH THEM IN NO TIME!Sea Shanties For Easy...

Gathering together shards of autobiography, poetry, and critical commentary on music and writing, Sheets of Sound evokes DeWald's experiences as a musician and poet, father and teacher, movie-lover and teenage skater. This debut collection of essays-by...

Frederick Charles Judd (1914-1992) was a pioneer of British electronic music, composing and recording at his home studio.'Electronic Music and Musique Concrète', originally published in 1961, was one of the earliest books to introduce to a...

Francesco Geminiani: The art of playing on the violin: containing all the rules necessary to attain to a perfection on that instrument, with great variety of compositions which will also be very useful to those who study the violoncello, Harpsichord etc...

First published in 1944, this classic book remains the definitive work on the masterpiece of the Romantic Ballet, Giselle.The book is in two parts, the first dealing with the original 1841 production, the second with technical and critical aspects of the...

Creatively bringing the songs, prayers, and poetry of Leonard Cohen into conversation with Scripture, this book deeply grounds Cohen's work in the landscape of the biblical imagination, paying special attention to Jesus together with the prophetic and...

This captivating study engages two of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century: Karl Barth, the Swiss Protestant theologian, who constructed his theology ""from above"" and engaged the powers in the background of Nazi Germany, and James...

Do you love country music?Are you a bit of a trivia lover?Then The Great Book of Country is for you!Whatever you're a fan of Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson or any of the other legendary artists within Country, this book is packed with...

In this remarkable book, Collin Cleary defends Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen against the claim that it "distorts" Germanic mythology. Wagner was a serious student of the myths and sagas of Northern Europe, and the Ring is surprisingly faithful...

Looking for intriguingly beautiful intermediate cello holiday duets?Sailing into Bethlehem: Christmas Duets for Two Cellosgives you a chance to play the carols you love with your teacher, your students, or your friends.Weaving...

Exploring American Folk Music: Ethnic, Grassroots, and Regional Traditions in the United States reflects the fascinating diversity of regional and grassroots music in the United States. The book covers the diverse strains of American folk music--Latin,...

A provocative analysis of Chinese opera as experienced and practiced across multiple stages. Unlike traditional scholarship on Chinese opera, Operatic China examines theatrical and paratheatrical performance, theatre critique, ethnographic writings,...