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1) Klezmer!
Author
Publisher
Kar-Ben Publishing ®
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A child makes a music-filled visit to her grandparents' apartment on the Lower East Side. Along the way, she dances to klezmer music, connecting its Old Country beginnings to its new rockin' vibe"--
3) Ah, music!
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Surveys the history and components of music, concentrating on Western musical traditions.
Author
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Will Ashon tells, in 36 interlinked 'chambers', the story of Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) and how it changed the world. As unexpected and complex as the album itself, Chamber Music ranges from provocative essays to semi-comic skits, from deep scholarly analysis to satirical celebration, seeking to contextualize, reveal and honor this singular work of art. Chamber Music is an explosive and revelatory new way of writing about music and culture."--...
Author
Publisher
McSweeney's Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
A celebration of music offers insight into the roles of time, place, and recording technology, discussing how evolutionary patterns and responses to cultural and physical contexts have influenced music expression throughout history.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Image
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Focusing on the years 1971 to the present, the DJ, producer, and Sundance award-winning director chooses one essential track from each year, revealing the pivotal role that American music plays around issues of race, gender, politics, and identity.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Recounts the life of one of the founding fathers of American gospel music, from his childhood listening to spirituals sung in fields and his connection to the church to becoming a pastor and creating a rich musical legacy.
Author
Publisher
Duckworth Overlook
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
With the advent of recording technology, LGBT messages were for the first time brought to the forefront of popular music. Bullock covers the history of recorded music by and for the LGBT community, and shows how those records influenced the evolution of the music we listen to today. He discusses how gay, lesbian, and bisexual performers influenced jazz and blues; examines the almost forgotten Pansy Craze in the years between the two World Wars; chronicles...
11) Country music
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The rich and colorful story of America's most popular music and the singers and songwriters who captivated, entertained, and consoled listeners throughout the 20th century--based on the upcoming eight-part film series to air on PBS in September 2019.2019.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The entire history of popular music over the past fifty years refracted through the big genres that have defined and dominated it-including rock, country, punk, R&B, dance and hip-hop-woven together into a cosmic reckoning with music's evolution as a popular art form, as a huge cultural and economic force, and as an essential component to our identities, from Black Sabbath to Black Flag to Beyonc�e, and beyond"--
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Millie danced to jazz in her Italian neighborhood. Pedro danced to Latin songs in his Puerto Rican neighborhood. It was the 1940s in New York City, and they were forbidden to dance together . . . until first a band and then a ballroom broke the rules. Machito and His Afro-Cubans hit the scene with a brand-new sound, blending jazz trumpets and saxophones with Latin maracas and congas creating Latin jazz, music for the head, the heart, and the hips....
Author
Publisher
Cinco Puntos Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"Which Side Are You On? tells the story of a song which was written in 1931 by Florence Reece in a rain of bullets. Florence's husband Sam was a coal miner in Kentucky. Miners went on strike until they could get better pay, safer working conditions, and health care. The company hired thugs to attack the organizers like Sam Reece. Writer George Ella Lyon tells this hair-raising story through the eyes of one of Florence's daughters, a dry-witted pig-tailed...
Author
Series
Publisher
Barron's
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
In words and pictures, this book reviews the history of rock music, from its birth in the 1950s to the experimental forms emerging in the 1990s. usic is one of our greatest delights -- and these unusually handsome and informative volumes transport readers into virtually every corner of music's universe, from Bach to rock. Beautifully illustrated, and written in a lively, approachable style, the books recount major events in music history, tell the...
Author
Series
Hip-hop family tree volume 1
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Originally serialized on the hugely popular website Boing Boing, The Hip Hop Family Tree is an encyclopedic comics history of the formative years of hip hop capturing the vivid personalities and magnetic performances of old-school pioneers and early stars.
20) The dam
Author
Publisher
Walker Studio, an imprint of Walker Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
''Play for all that are gone and for all that are still to come.'' Once the dam is finished, the land will be flooded. But before it is lost forever, Kathyn and her father return to the still and silent valley and fill the empty homes with one final song. And if you listen closely you can still hear it. -- a song for all that was and all that will never be. --Blurb.
''This is a true story. It was told to me by Mike and Kathryn Tickell. Kielder Water...
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