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Author
Publisher
Duckworth Overlook
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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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...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
Classical music has a reputation for being stuffy, boring, and largely inaccessible, but Burton-Hill is here to change that. An award-winning writer, broadcaster and musician, with a deep love of the art form she wants everyone to feel welcome at the classical party, and her desire to share her passion for its diverse wonders inspired this unique, enlightening, and expertly curated treasury. As she says, "The only requirements for enjoying classical...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does–humans are a musical species.
Oliver Sacks’s compassionate, compelling tales of people struggling to adapt...
Oliver Sacks’s compassionate, compelling tales of people struggling to adapt...
Author
Language
English
Description
"It's 1988. The CD has arrived. Sales of the shiny new disks are soaring on high streets in cities across the country. Meanwhile, down a dead-end street, Frank's music shop stands small and brightly lit, jam-packed with records of every kind. It attracts the lonely, the sleepless, the adrift. There is room for everyone. Frank has a gift for finding his customers the music they need. Into this shop arrives Ilse Brauchmann - practical, brave, well-heeled....
13) Fantasia
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Records
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Along with being a groundbreaking film, Fantasia remains a favorite among many Disney fans. Along with the original soundtrack, this collection features bonus material that sheds more light into one of Disney's most acclaimed movies. Includes bonus tracks of "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" and "Peter and the Wolf" read by Sterling Holloway.
20) Ah, music!
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Surveys the history and components of music, concentrating on Western musical traditions.
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