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Drawn to Sound
Equinox Publishing Ltd 2010; US$ 29.99This ground-breaking volume bridges the fields of music and sound and also positions animation-film sound and music in the context of the screen and music industries. Animation experts like Paul Wells and Daniel Goldmark and film-music authorities including Philip Hayward, Ian Inglis and Janet Halfyard provide international perspectives on the history... more...
Electronic and Experimental Music
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 52.95Electronic and Experimental Music: Technology, Music, and Culture provides a thorough treatment of the relevant history behind the marriage of technology and music that has led to the state of electronic music today. Beginning with an early history of electronic music before 1945, the book outlines key composers, inventions, and concepts, ranging... more...
Heavy Metal Islam
Crown Publishing Group 2008; US$ 15.00?We play heavy metal because our lives are heavy metal.? ?Reda Zine, one of the founders of the Moroccan heavy-metal scene ?Music is the weapon of the future.? ?Fela Kuti An eighteen-year-old Moroccan who loves Black Sabbath. A twenty-two-year-old rapper from the Gaza Strip. A young Lebanese singer who quotes Bob Marley?s ?Redemption Song.? They... more...
The Cultural Context of Medieval Music
ABC-CLIO 2011; US$ 37.00An urgently needed guide to understanding medieval music to be used as a text for the university undergraduate, graduate students in music and interdisciplinary medieval studies, and for the professional musicologist and medievalist. This book will also be appreciated by everyone interested in early music. more...
Highlife Saturday Night
Indiana University Press 2012; US$ 23.99Highlife Saturday Night captures the vibrancy of Saturday nights in Ghana?when musicians took to the stage and dancers took to the floor?in this penetrating look at musical leisure during a time of social, political, and cultural change. Framing dance band "highlife" music as a central medium through which Ghanaians negotiated gendered and generational... more...
Bringing Metal to the Children
HarperCollins 2012; US$ 10.99Bringing Metal to the Children is a handbook to all things Heavy Metal, brought to you by insane prankster and guitar god Zakk Wylde, of Ozzy Osbourne and Black Label Society fame. This ?Complete Berzerker's Guide to World Tour Domination? provides tips and tests for the True Rocker?as wild man Zakk Wylde invites all who dare onto the tour bus... more...
Ginger Baker - Hellraiser
John Blake Publishing 2010; US$ 1.68Peter 'Ginger' Baker is a legend. A pioneering drummer who transcends genre, he's done much to popularise world music with his fierce passion for the rhythms of Africa. He is that rare thing - both critically acclaimed and globally successful. He has also lived a life more rock'n'roll than most.Ginger tells his story for the first time. It's often... more...
The Rock Metal Quiz Book
Andrews UK 2013; US$ 4.99Are you a fan of rock metal? Can you name the bands that are synonymous with this type of music and the songs that made them famous? Do you go to the Download Festival on the trail of your favourite rock stars? If you answered yes to any of the above questions, you definitely wont want to be without with The Rock Metal Quiz Book.What UK band... more...
The John Coltrane Reference
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 194.00The BBC's Jazz Book of the Year for 2008. Few jazz musicians have had the lasting influence or attracted as much scholarly study as John Coltrane. Yet, despite dozens of books, hundreds of articles, and his own recorded legacy, the "facts" about Coltrane's life and work have never been definitely established. Well-known Coltrane biographer and... more...









