Trefferliste "Music History" - alle Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr

Michael Stewart Foley

Dead Kennedys' Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

In 1978, San Francisco, a city that has seen more than its share of trauma, plunged from a summer of political tension into an autumn cascade of malevolence that so eluded human comprehension it seemed al…

Meinolf Brüser

Wenn Bach trauert

Meinolf Brüsers Buch bietet eine völlig neue Sicht auf Bachs Motetten und auf Bach selbst. Bachs Motetten sind in ihrer historischen Entstehung für die Musikwissenschaft ein Rätsel geblieben. Sie galten b…

Amara Pope-Sanfilippo

101 Fascinating R&B Facts

Feel the rhythm as you uncover 101 inspiring facts about R&B music.R&B has become one of the fastest-growing genres in the world. Its history is a heartbeat of social change, resistance, and creat…

Soyica Diggs Colbert

Freedom's Gate

Before they were household names, Maya Angelou, Lorraine Hansberry, Abbey Lincoln, Miriam Makeba, and Nina Simone needed a place to practice and perform. That place was the Village Gate, a New York City n…

Kassandra L Hartford

Sounding Nation, Hearing Race in Modern Music

In 1950, UNESCO's Statement on Race declared race a social construction, signaling a shift in public thought and policy around the meaning of race. Modern music was not immune to such shifts, and in fact …

Don Breithaupt

Steely Dan's Aja

Aja was the album that made Steely Dan a commercial force on the order of contemporaries like Fleetwood Mac, the Eagles and Chicago. A double-platinum, Grammy-winning bestseller, it lingered on the Billbo…

Melvin Gibbs

How Black Music Took Over the World

Why do Bob Marley, John Coltrane, Aretha Franklin, and Nina Simone move us the way they do? What drives the soulful notes of the Delta blues? What makes Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter inescapably great?How Black…

Annie Zaleski

Dolly Parton: The Stories Behind the Songs

Discover the fascinating stories that lie behind the music.In a career spanning 75 glorious years, Dolly Parton has written some of the greatest songs in music history. Join award-winning author Annie Zal…

Arno Lücker

250 Komponistinnen

Eine musikalische Entdeckungsreise ins Unbekannte und Unerhörte  Kaum ein Bereich der Gesellschaft und der Kunst hängt so am Althergebrachten wie die Welt der klassischen Musik. Auf den Bühnen der Konze…

Philip Abbott

Sounds for a New World

In the Greco-Roman world, gods were known to tame soundscapes, or acoustic landscapes. Zeus, Apollo, Orpheus, and other Classical deities demonstrated their power by bringing order to chaotic sound worlds…

Phillip Huscher

Passing the Baton

The untold story of how the Chicago Symphony Orchestra forged its place among the world's foremost performing arts institutions through 135 years of change.The Chicago Symphony Orchestra boasts a traditio…

Tony Rettman

Nyhc

Known for its glamorous 1970s punk rock scene, New York City matched the grim urban reality of the 1980s with a rawer musical uprising: New York hardcore. As bands of misfits from across the region gravit…

Charles King

Every Valley

Every Valley is a glittering narrative history of intertwined lives that tells the story behind one of the greatest pieces of music ever written, Handel's Messiah.'A delicious history of music, power, lov…

David Hepworth

Hope I Get Old Before I Die

From the author of Abbey Road comes the story of how enduring rock icons like Pink Floyd, Bruce Springsteen and many more have remained in the ever changing music game.'A genuinely great writer, with a wi…

Claudia Lonkin

Neue Deutsche Welle

Neue Deutsche Welle (NDW), or "German New Wave," was made extraordinarily popular in the 1970s and 1980s by the likes of Nena's "99 Luftballoons" and Trio's "Da Da Da"-and th…

Brian Morton, Richard Cook

The Penguin Jazz Guide

Richard Cook and Brian Morton's Penguin Jazz Guide: The History of the Music in 1001 Best Albums is an indispensible guide to the recordings that every fan should know. Richard Cook and Brian Morton's Pen…

John Radanovich

Pérez Prado

This is the story of how Cuban music captivated the world in the 1950s, told through the life of mambo's most famous musician, Pérez Prado.A riveting tour through rich moments in Cuban, Mexican, and Ameri…

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Rise Up! Hamilton: The Anthology (Limited Super Deluxe Edition Box Set) (Copper Black Ice Vinyl)

Tony Conrad,

What Music Did

In What Music Did, experimental filmmaker and violinist Tony Conrad explores in depth the relationship between music and mathematics. A work of decades that was left unfinished at the time of his death in…