Music-Essays

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

The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan's first book of new writing since 2004's Chronicles: Volume One--and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. The audio is narrated by an all-star lineup including Bob Dylan, Jeff Bridges, Steve Buscemi, John Goodman,...

Nashville native Drew Bratcher writes musically about memory and memorably about music in uncommonly beautiful essays that announce the arrival of a major new voice. The title essay, a requiem in fragments, tells the story of a grandfather through his ear, comb, hands, El...

In Earworm and Event Eldritch Priest questions the nature of the imagination in contemporary culture through the phenomenon of the earworm: those reveries that hijack our attention, the shivers that run down our spines, and the songs that stick in our heads. Through a...

Contributions by Joshua Coleman, Christine Hand Jones, Kevin C. Neece, Charlotte Pence, George Plasketes, Jeffrey Scholes, Jeff Sellars, Toby Thompson, and Jude Warne After performing with Ronnie Hawkins as the Hawks (1957-1964), The Band (Rick Danko, Garth Hudson, Richard Manuel, Robbie Robertson, and Levon...

Contributions by Joshua Coleman, Christine Hand Jones, Kevin C. Neece, Charlotte Pence, George Plasketes, Jeffrey Scholes, Jeff Sellars, Toby Thompson, and Jude Warne After performing with Ronnie Hawkins as the Hawks (1957-1964), The Band (Rick Danko, Garth Hudson, Richard Manuel, Robbie Robertson, and Levon...

In The Politics of Vibration Marcus Boon explores music as a material practice of vibration. Focusing on the work of three contemporary musicians--Hindustani classical vocalist Pandit Pran Nath, Swedish drone composer and philosopher Catherine Christer Hennix, and Houston-based hip-hop musician DJ Screw--Boon outlines how...

In The Politics of Vibration Marcus Boon explores music as a material practice of vibration. Focusing on the work of three contemporary musicians--Hindustani classical vocalist Pandit Pran Nath, Swedish drone composer and philosopher Catherine Christer Hennix, and Houston-based hip-hop musician DJ Screw--Boon outlines how...

Long regarded as one of the more livable and lively cities in the country, Austin's only constant is change, a state of play that has instigated endless and passionate arguments about whether that change is for the better, worse, neither or both. In a...

As Megan Volpert stood over train tracks preparing to surrender to the psychedelic blindness of simple human misery, of all the Heartbreakers tracks available to come through her headphones, "Straight Into Darkness" is the one that did. In this highly philosophical and deeply personal...

A colorful and candid behind-the-scenes look at my 60 years in the recording 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...

This second volume of Music in Black American Life offers research and analysis that originally appeared in the journals American Music and Black Music Research Journal, and in two book series published by the University of Illinois Press: Music in American Life, and African...

This first volume of Music in Black American Life collects research and analysis that originally appeared in the journals American Music and the Black Music Research Journal, and in the University of Illinois Press's acclaimed book series Music in American Life. In these selections,...

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...

For fans of music books from David Hepworth, Pete Paphides, Bob Stanley and Craig Brown, as well as thought-provoking human interest stories like Moondust by Andrew Smith, and books by Jon Ronson, Louis Theroux and Stuart Maconie. Nick Duerden has spent many years interviewing...

The beat of the heart is structured, not improvised; it is a perpetual non-fleeting pulse spanning all human life until it is the last rhythm produced in our own conscious existence. Listening to the final beats of my father's heart - his last eternal...

Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988), an extraordinary, innovative, and often controversial moving force in modern music, has been the subject of a vast amount of literary criticism, philosophical discussions, and groundbreaking performances.Originally in French, Scelsi's writings have been included in anthologies of prose, poetry, and memories...