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Phonographic Memories: Popular Music and the Contemporary Caribbean Novel

Phonographic Memories is the first book to perform a sustained analysis of the narrative and thematic influence of Caribbean popular music on the Caribbean novel. Tracing a region-wide attention to the deep connections between music and memory in the work of Lawrence Scott, Oscar Hijuelos, Colin Channer, Daniel Maximin, and Ramabai Espinet, Njelle Hamilton tunes in to each novel’s soundtrack while considering the broader listening cultures that sustain collective memory and situate Caribbean subjects in specific localities. These “musical fictions” depict Caribbean people turning to calypso, bolero, reggae, gwoka, and dub to record, retrieve, and replay personal and cultural memories. Offering a fresh perspective on musical nationalism and nostalgic memory in the era of globalization, Phonographic Memories affirms the continued importance of Caribbean music in providing contemporary novelists ethical narrative models for sounding marginalized memories and voices.

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Book Reports: A Music Critic on His First Love Which Was Reading

In this generous collection of book reviews and literary essays, legendary Village Voice rock critic Robert Christgau showcases the passion that made him a critic—his love for the written word. Many selections address music, from blackface minstrelsy to punk and hip-hop, artists from Lead Belly to Patti Smith, and fellow critics from Ellen Willis and Lester Bangs to Nelson George and Jessica Hopper. But Book Reports also teases out the popular in the Bible and as well as pornography and science fiction, and analyzes at length the cultural theory of Raymond Williams, the detective novels of Walter Mosley, the history of bohemia, and the 2008 financial crisis. It establishes Christgau as not just the Dean of American Rock Critics, but one of America's most insightful cultural critics as well.

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The Adult Music Student: Making Music throughout the Lifespan

In music, while coaching groups of adults in ensemble settings and teaching them in the independent studio is a longstanding tradition, most tertiary-level music courses do not address the specific issues associated with teaching adults. The Adult Music Student addresses this gap, equipping music educators and professional musicians with the skills to provide optimal learning environments for adult music-makers, and exploring the process of learning and making music across the entire adult lifespan.

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Neil Young on Neil Young: Interviews and Encounters (Musicians in Their Own Words)

The life of rock's most durable troubadour in his own wordsNeil Young on Neil Young: Interviews and Encounters is a revealing anthology of Young's most significant, fascinating, and entertaining discussions, declarations, and dreams, chronicling fifty years of conversations, feature stories, and press conferences. With many interviews widely available for the first time—including new transcriptions and first-time translations into English—the book spans Young's words and ideas from 1967 onward: his early days with Buffalo Springfield and 1970s Harvest-fueled celebrity apex, an artistic rebellion and 1980s commercial dip, and the unexpected 1990s revival as the Godfather of Grunge through to his multi-decade victory lap as a living legend.Across the decades, Young's own words tell the story as he perpetually reinvents himself as a master of music and film, a technology pioneer and innovator, and a bold political observer and strident environmental advocate.

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The Music Advantage How Music Helps Your Child Develop Learn and Thrive by Dr. Anita Collins EPUB

ABOUT THE MUSIC ADVANTAGE An expert in cognitive development and music education reveals the remarkable and surprising benefits that playing–or even appreciating–music offers to children.

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The Secrets Of The Circle Of Fifths In Piano: An Easy-To-Follow Guidance Everyone Must Have: Learn To Play Piano

At last - a method that addresses every aspect of piano technique and is clear and easy to follow! This book lays the foundations for a lifetime of effortless piano playing.

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Rock Concert: A High-Voltage History from Elvis to Live Aid

Decades after the rise of rock music in the 1950s, the rock concert retains its allure and its power as a unifying experience - and as an influential multi-billion-dollar industry. In Rock Concert, acclaimed interviewer Marc Myers sets out to uncover the history of this compelling phenomenon, weaving together ground-breaking accounts from the people who were there.

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Boox: Drums: Level 2 - Tutorial

Big Bang Music are delighted to bring to you this series of tutor boox developed in partnership with the award-winning team at Hot House Music www.hhmusic.net. The boox series features 100% of original content which is designed to support and tutor entry level musicians as they progress towards Grade 1. You can also subscribe to supplementary “video” lessons through our Soul TV website www.soul-tv.com. You can enrich your learning by subscribing to a “live” music lesson with a specialist Hot House Music teacher!

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Boox: Drums: Level 1 - Tutorial

Big Bang Music are delighted to bring to you this series of tutor boox developed in partnership with the award-winning team at Hot House Music www.hhmusic.net. The boox series features 100% of original content which is designed to support and tutor entry level musicians as they progress towards Grade 1. You can also subscribe to supplementary “video” lessons through our Soul TV website www.soul-tv.com. You can enrich your learning by subscribing to a “live” music lesson with a specialist Hot House Music teacher!

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A Shostakovich Casebook (Russian Music Studies)

"The book . . . includes . . . valuable essays and interviews, which move beyond the scholarly controversy to sketch a nuanced picture of Shostakovich's life under a totalitarian regime. . . . The 'Casebook' contributors compellingly warn of replacing one mask with another, one black-and-white myth with its simple inversion." ―New York Times

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Boox: Drums: Level 3 - Tutorial

Big Bang Music are delighted to bring to you this series of tutor boox developed in partnership with the award-winning team at Hot House Music www.hhmusic.net. The boox series features 100% of original content which is designed to support and tutor entry level musicians as they progress towards Grade 1. You can also subscribe to supplementary “video” lessons through our Soul TV website www.soul-tv.com. You can enrich your learning by subscribing to a “live” music lesson with a specialist Hot House Music teacher!

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How Sweet It Is: A Songwriter's Reflections on Music Motown and the Mystery of the Muse

As part of Motown’s legendary songwriting and production team of Holland-Dozier-Holland, Lamont Dozier is responsible for such classics as “Baby I Need Your Loving,” “You Can’t Hurry Love,” “I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch),” “Stop! In the Name of Love,” “Heat Wave,” “Baby Love,” “It’s the Same Old Song,” “Nowhere to Run,” “You Keep Me Hanging On,” “Reach Out I’ll Be There,” “How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You),” and many more. After leaving Motown, he continued to make his mark as an influential songwriter, artist, and producer with hits such as “Give Me Just a Little More Time,” “Band of Gold,” and “Two Hearts,” a chart-topping Phil Collins single that earned the pair an Academy Award nomination and a Grammy win.

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Beginners Guide to Adobe Premiere Pro (2021 RELEASE): A Quick Reference Course to Creating Editing Editing and Improving...

Adobe Premiere Pro is a timeline-based video editing software application developed by Adobe Inc. and published as part of the Adobe Creative Cloud licensing program. For beginners, Adobe Premiere Pro is a perfect editor, because its versatility. The Adobe Premiere Pro video-editing software is the ultimate and standard editor worldwide, and a grasp of its operational features and workability will give anyone the skill to accomplish tasks in no time

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Klavier für Wiedereinsteiger für Dummies

Haben Sie vor längerer Zeit Klavierspielen gelernt und möchten nun Ihre Kenntnisse wieder auffrischen? Dieses Buch bietet Ihnen ein gut durchdachtes Programm für zwei Monate. Gewinnen Sie mithilfe von Fingerübungen, Technik-Etüden und ersten kleinen Musikstücken Ihre Fingerfertigkeit zurück. Trainieren Sie gezielt schwierige Passagen und lernen Sie ganz nebenbei ein wenig mehr über Musik. Begleitend zum Buch gibt es Videos der Ãœbungen zum Download, sodass Sie nicht nur hören, wie die Musikstücke klingen sollen, sondern auch sehen, wie die Finger gesetzt werden müssen.

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Guitar for dummies: Learn and Apply Music Theory for Guitarists. Play Guitar In A Week Or Less Even If You've Never Seen

Before you start learning to play the guitar, it helps to know what all the terminology commonly used actually refers to. Each part of the guitar plays an important part in creating the sound, including the volume, the key and the tone. Once you are an established player, you will be able to better understand what type of guitar you are looking for if you want a particular type of sound, if you know what job each part plays. Guitar lessons for absolute beginners is the book which contains all the information required for becoming a good guitar player.

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A Blaze of Light in Every Word: Analyzing the Popular Singing Voice (Oxford Studies in Music Theory)

The human singing voice holds immense power - to convey mood, emotion, and identity in songs, provide music's undeniable "wow" moments, and communicate a pop song's meaning perhaps more than any other musical parameter. And unlike the other aspects of musical content - like harmony, form, melody, and rhythm, for which generations of scholars have formed sophisticated analyses - scholarly approaches to vocal delivery remain grossly underdeveloped. An exciting and much-needed new approach, A Blaze of Light in Every Word presents a systematic and encompassing conceptual model for analyzing vocal delivery.

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Bending the Rules of Music Theory Lessons from Great Composers

For students learning the principles of music theory, it can often seem as though the tradition of tonal harmony is governed by immutable rules that define which chords, tones, and intervals can be used where. Yet even within the classical canon, there are innumerable examples of composers diverging from these foundational "rules." Drawing on examples from composers including J.S. Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Brahms, and more, Bending the Rules of Music Theory seeks to take readers beyond the basics of music theory and help them to understand the inherent flexibility in the system of tonal music. Chapters explore the use of different rule-breaking elements in practice and why they work, introducing students to a more nuanced understanding of music theory.

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Psychoacoustic Music Sound Field Synthesis: Creating Spaciousness for Composition Performance Acoustics and Perception

This book provides a broad overview of spaciousness in music theory, from mixing and performance practice, to room acoustics, psychoacoustics and audio engineering, and presents the derivation, implementation and experimental validation of a novel type of spatial audio system. Discussing the physics of musical instruments and the nature of auditory perception, the book enables readers to precisely localize synthesized musical instruments while experiencing their timbral variance and spatial breadth.

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Greek and Latin Music Theory: Principles and Challenges

Long recognized as a foundation of musical composition, criticism, pedagogy, and appreciation, the literature of ancient and medieval music theory has maintained its strong position in the academic curriculum up to the present day. Now blessed with fine English translations of many of the ancient and medieval authors, modern students of music theory have advantages that their predecessors lacked just a few generations ago. Yet the ancient writings by themselves do not yield to easy comprehension. They need expository help. In this collection of fifteen topical essays, the author offers a contribution to that educational goal. Covering a dense theoretical literature from the classical period of ancient Greece to the sixteenth century of the Common Era, these essays present a detailed examination of subjects of concern not only to specialists in the history of theory, but to scholars of the general history ofancient Greek music and the liturgical plainchant of the medieval West.

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Musical Motives: A Theory and Method for Analyzing Shape in Music

All music fans harbor in their memories vivid fragments of their favorite works. The starting guitar solo of "Satisfaction" by the Rolling Stones, the da-da-da-DUM gesture that opens Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, the lush swelling chords of a beloved movie soundtrack: hearing the briefest snippet of any of these is enough to transport listeners into the piece's sonic and emotional world. But what makes musical motives so powerful? In Musical Motives, author Brent Auerbach looks at the ways that motives ― the small-scale pitch and rhythm shapes that are ever-present in music ― unify musical compositions and shape our experiences of them.

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