Music-Essays

Musicians and artists from Adam Bohman, Chris Cutler and Haco to Felix Kubin and Otomo Yoshihide have explored the creative potential of the radio This anthology explores the themes, concepts and techniques of artist-made radio across more than 20 years. Interspersed with micro-essays on...

This Note's For You talks of the people who created the campaigns with the songs we remember the most. This collection of award-winning music in advertising campaigns is not available together anywhere else. It shows where this art in advertising form has been, where...

Singer/songwriter/multi instrumentalist NYMPHYA is a Cinematic Art Pop artist who creates modern music for the ancient and mystical in you. This metaphysical, musical memoir traces the journey through the 7 stages of Spiritual Alchemy and the creative process of her songwriting, uncovering the esoteric...

What is the relationship between music and radical social change? This book explores their confounding and exciting interrelations in original and engaging ways. Beginning with how capitalism and empire have progressively twisted and atomized our aurally aesthetic experiences over the past century, Alexander Billet...

Selected writings on three decades of popular music from one of the most influential critics of his generation.Spanning three decades worth of astute, acerbic, and overall astounding music writing, Kick Out the Jams is the first large-scale anthology of the work of renowned critic...

Open Access Musicology (OAM) publishes peer-reviewed, scholarly essays primarily intended to serve students and teachers of music history, ethno/musicology, and music studies. The constantly evolving collection ensures that recent research and scholarship inspires classroom practice. OAM essays provide diverse and methodologically transparent models for...

In 1906, Denver's Pietro Satriano and his 25-piece brass band became the first musical act to perform at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, then christened the Garden of the Titans. Over a century later, Denver is a must-stop for every nationally touring act, and Red Rocks,...

Captures classic rockers from Journey to Bruce Springsteen to the Cars, nascent new wavers such as the Police, Talking Heads and the Clash, as well as the year's greatest releases from rock, R&B, country and jazz stars.The On Record series is an year-by-year, comprehensive...

Living with a severe spinal injury and paralysis is a difficult challenge. However, I didn't allow it to define my life. I've always loved music and music production - especially hip-hop. I was determined not to let even a devastating life change sink my...

NAMED A BEST MUSIC BOOK OF 2023 by PITCHFORK, VARIETY, AND ROLLING STONE A companion to the #1 music podcast on Spotify, this book takes readers through the greatest hits that define a weirdly undefinable decade. The 1990s were a chaotic and gritty and...

Mines the grunge phenomenon from Nirvana to Pearl Jam, the explosion of rap (Public Enemy, Ice Cube), superstars from Garth Brooks to Paula Abdul to Metallica, and a full complement of one-hit wonders and underground sensations. The On Record series is an year-by-year, comprehensive...

Reflects on the biggest artists of the MTV era--Madonna, Cyndi Lauper, Huey Lewis, and even "Weird Al" Yankovic--in addition to acts from Van Halen to Prince and the year's top R&B, alternative, country and jazz releases.The On Record series is an year-by-year, comprehensive look...

Chronicles the first stirrings of synth pop writ large (the Human League, Soft Cell), the gated reverb drum sound that became ubiquitous (Phil Collins), superstars from Stevie Nicks to Billy Joel to the Police, and a full complement of one-hit wonders and R&B, country...

NEW AND EXPANDED EDITION, NOW WITH 58 SONGSFollowing his 2016 smash hit Anatomy of a Song, acclaimed musicjournalist Marc Myers collects fifty-five new oral histories oficonic songs from his popular Wall Street Journal column Songs that sell the most copies become hits, but some...

In these mini memoirs, Peter Cherches revisits musical experiences, pleasures, and obsessions that have punctuated his life. A singer and lyricist as well as "one of the innovators of the short short story" (Publishers Weekly), Cherches writes here from the perspective of a voracious...

First Floor started small. At first it was just a newsletter, an outlet where veteran electronic music journalist Shawn Reynaldo could write and share his ideas without having to contend with outside editors or cater to social media algorithms. It was a blank canvas,...

The penultimate Blank Forms anthology presents new interviews with musicians Theo Parrish, Amelia Cuni, Akio Suzuki and moreAt the centerpiece of this anthology is a career-spanning 20-hour conversation conducted over four days between producer, DJ and Detroit house music legend Theo Parrish and veteran...

A collection or articles published in the Waycross Journal-Herald by "Uncle Dave" Griffin, songwriter, author, and founder of the Annual Gram Parsons Guitar Pull and Tribute Festival, from Waycross, Georgia.Author: David GriffinISBN-10: 1938436636ISBN-13: 9781938436635Publisher: Aakenbaaken & KentLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/02/2018Pages: 164Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 7.00h x...

Notes on Key by Lawrence E. Anderson, Ph.D., is a masterwork of music education in a single volume. The breadth and depth of Dr. Anderson's knowledge about music is beyond impressive, and his passion for encouraging readers to explore and expand their own connection...

Perfect for any student of the violin, full of helpful and easy to follow exercises that will have you enjoying and progressing in your play.Author: J. T. CarrodusISBN-10: 1444617982ISBN-13: 9781444617986Publisher: Chapman PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/14/2009Pages: 94Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.28lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.23d

This is the first book whose subject is the music, sounds and silences of Antarctica. From 2011 until 2014, Australia marked its long-standing connection with Antarctica by celebrating the centenary of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition. The icy continent, with its extremes of climate and...

The definitive book on legendary Swedist psych band, Tr臈, Gr舖 och Stenar. The story of Tr臈, Gr舖 och Stenar is also a defining story of alternative culture. Across multiple incarnations, the musicians of this iconic group (whose name translates to "Trees, Grass and Stones")...

From U2 to Carly Simon, the Temptations to TLC, artists describe in their own words how their songs became the soundtrack of your life in this celebration of music featuring original interviews by music journalist Steve Baltin.Author: Steve BaltinISBN-10: 0785290559ISBN-13: 9780785290551Publisher: Harper HorizonLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

A critic's notebook on sparkle and spectacle. An Atlantic Edition, featuring long-form journalism by Atlantic writers, drawn from contemporary articles or classic storytelling from the magazine's 165-year archive. A collection of essays on musicians, celebrities, and aesthetic movements and moments that, taken together, characterize...

Living with a severe spinal injury and paralysis is a difficult challenge. However, I didn't allow it to define my life. I've always loved music and music production - especially hip-hop. I was determined not to let even a devastating life change sink my...

Unless you lived through the 1970s, it seems impossible to understand it at all. Drug delirium, groovy fashion, religious cults, mega corporations, glitzy glam, hard rock, global unrest--from our 2018 perspective, the seventies are often remembered as a bizarre blur of bohemianism and disco....

We know Woody Guthrie as the role model for Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen, as the bard of Greenwich Village, and of course as the scribe of America's other national anthem "This Land is Your Land." As we learn in the pages of Woody...

This oral autobiography of the underground experimentalist also serves as a history of the 1980s tape and electronic music scene in the USSince 1980, Jeph Jerman (born 1959)--sound artist, field recordist, percussionist and visual artist--has released over 200 sound works, under his own name,...

Sounds produced in the dialogue between man and machineFrom home studios to streaming platforms, artificial intelligence is defining the sound of the future. This collection of essays explores the key developments in the field of AI and music, examining the process that enables nonhuman...

How the playlist has colonized our listening habitsToday, the playlist structures how people listen, as well as how companies collect their data. This volume examines how the playlist has spawned new categories, aesthetic tendencies and behaviors.Author: Lina BrionISBN-10: 3959054556ISBN-13: 9783959054553Publisher: Spector BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/13/2022Pages:...

In Rubymusic, award-winning journalist and broadcaster Connie Kuhns takes readers on an explosive journey through the Pacific Northwest's groundbreaking women's music scene in the 80s and 90s. When journalist Connie Kuhns approached Vancouver Cooperative Radio in 1981 to host a music program dedicated solely...

In this new and final collection, Richard Taruskin gathers a sweeping range of keynote speeches, reviews, and critical essays from the first twenty years of the twenty-first century. With twenty-three essays in total, this volume presents five lectures delivered in Budapest on Hungarian music...

In this new and final collection, Richard Taruskin gathers a sweeping range of keynote speeches, reviews, and critical essays from the first twenty years of the twenty-first century. With twenty-three essays in total, this volume presents five lectures delivered in Budapest on Hungarian music...

More than 40 stories from the glory days of rock'n'roll, featuring Lou Reed, Elton John, Sting and The Clash. Allan Jones brings stories - many previously unpublished - from the golden days of music reporting. Long nights of booze, drugs and unguarded conversations which...

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and editor of The New Yorker gathers his writing on some of the essential musicians of our time--intimate portraits of Leonard Cohen, Buddy Guy, Mavis Staples, Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith, and more....

DJs like Fatboy Slim, Sasha and Paul Oakenfold are the new pop stars: high priests in the rapidly expanding world of dance music. Drawing on many nights out, this is DJ Dave Haslam's fascinating collection of portraits of the major players.Dave Haslam travels Britain...

The music and noise manifestos of the Italian Futurists formed a blueprint for sonic warfare waged against traditionalism, a radical new agenda played out with machines primed for maximal acoustic destruction and aimed at the negation of all existing value systems. THE ART OF...

A colorful and candid look at my 60 years in the music industry. Obviously a large portion of my life has been dedicated to singing and arranging and I will still arrange if the right person asks (and I'm in the mood) but I...

One of Pitchfork's 11 Best Music Books of 2021Recommended book in Rolling Stones June 2021 IssueWith an additional 30,000 words of compelling stories, research, and analysis, music journalist and 'In Defense of Ska' podcast creator/host Aaron Carnes presents the case that ska never died,...

"Anthems We Love is not just a tale of artistic adventure, it's also a manual for artists and fans alike. There is no formula. Just these inspiring stories of the heart . . . " --Cameron Crowe, Academy Award-nominated director, producer, and screenwriter (Jerry...

Discover music that dared to be different, risked reputations and put careers in jeopardy -- causing fascination and intrigue in some and rejection and scorn in others. This is what happens when people take tradition and rip it up.MusicQuake tells the stories of 50...

Music and Digital Media is the first comparative ethnographic study of the impact of digital media on music worldwide, covering popular, folk and art musics in the global South and North.Author: Georgina BornISBN-10: 1800082444ISBN-13: 9781800082441Publisher: UCL PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/12/2022Pages: 542Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.98lbsSize: 9.20h x...

The birth of acid house and club culture, as told by those who were there In 1987, four friends from London, Paul Oakenfold, Danny Rampling, Nicky Holloway and Johnny Walker, took a week-long holiday to Ibiza. What they saw there, and brought back home,...

Slouching Towards Big Pink is a stylish blend of memoir, travelogue, and scholarship. From the West Midlands to West Saugerties, the Isle of Wight to the New York island, these essays see Adrian Smith fly the flag for folk in 'sixties Coventry, criss-cross America...

The first detailed study of string quartets in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century Europe through the work of nine scholars who explore little-studied aspects of this multi-faceted genre.Author: Nancy NovemberISBN-10: 1644697874ISBN-13: 9781644697870Publisher: Academic Studies PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/19/2022Pages: 276Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.24lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69dReview...

A love letter to Korean pop sensation BTS and an ode to fandom. An Atlantic Edition, featuring long-form journalism by Atlantic writers, drawn from contemporary articles or classic storytelling from the magazine's 165-year archive. The supersonic rise of the Korean pop group BTS may...

"Plenty of rock bands treat their fans like congregants. But, not many shine a light on the arrangement. Fewer still go as far as The Hold Steady, whose lead vocalist and lyricist, Craig Finn, has a disarming way of combining humility and exultation." --New...

"If Memphis rock and roll had Sun Studio, and the Beatles had London's Abbey Road, DC punk had Inner Ear." --Washington PostIn the late 1970s, Don Zientara--a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War--founded Inner Ear Studio in the basement of his home in Arlington,...

A wide-ranging collection of interviews, anecdotes, essays, and ephemera concerning one of the most enigmatic bands to emerge from the 1960s hippy scene. "Encyclopaedic in scope, passionate in tone, this book is a minotaur's labyrinth of information about one of the most remarkable groups...

Music and Digital Media is the first comparative ethnographic study of the impact of digital media on music worldwide, covering popular, folk and art musics in the global South and North.Author: Georgina BornISBN-10: 1800082452ISBN-13: 9781800082458Publisher: UCL PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/12/2022Pages: 542Format: Hardcover