Bebop: The Music and Its Players 0195106512, 9780195106510

Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop 9780520938434

This powerful book covers the vast and various terrain of African American music, from bebop to hip-hop. Guthrie P. Rams

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Music and Its Effects 1546718478, 9781546718475

In this booklet, the author discusses the detrimental effects of music on our lives. He talks about the origin of music

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Jazz/Not Jazz: The Music and Its Boundaries 9780520951358

What is jazz? What is gained—and what is lost—when various communities close ranks around a particular definition of thi

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Heavy Metal: The Music and Its Culture [Revised] 0306809702, 9780306809705

Few forms of music elicit such strong reactions as does heavy metal. Embraced by millions of fans, it has also attracted

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Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop [1 ed.] 0520210484, 9780520210486

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China's Stockmarket: A Guide to Its Progress, Players and Prospects 1861976658, 9781861976659

An intelligent and accessible overview of one of the world's fastest growing and most important stock markets. Sixt

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Jazz Matters: Sound, Place, and Time since Bebop 9780520947399

What, where, and when is jazz? To most of us jazz means small combos, made up mostly of men, performing improvisationall

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Cursed Questions: On Music and Its Social Practices 9780520975453

Richard Taruskin’s sweeping collection of essays distills a half century of professional experience, demonstrating an un

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Contemporary Israeli Music: Its Sources and Stylistic Development 9652260116

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Dance and its music in America, 1528-1789 9781576471272

Beginning with Toya Indian dances in Florida and the Matachines dance-drama in the Southwest, and moving to ordination b

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