Music-Genres & Styles-Pop Vocal

In Who Did It First?: Great Pop Cover Songs and Their Original Artists, the second volume in Bob Leszczak's exciting Who Did It First? series, readers explore the hidden history of the most famous, indeed legendary, pop songs and standards. As Leszczak points out,...

(Guitar Recorded Versions). This 17-song folio matches the live album release of Roy Orbison's 1988 Cinemax special, where he was backed by Elvis' TCB Band and joined by all-stars such as Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, Elvis Costello, k.d. lang and...

(Paperback Songs). The most contemporary rhyming dictionary on the market Features more than 30,000 words encompassing standard vocabulary, proper nouns, popular expressions and more, all organized cross-phonetically to maximize word choice. Ideal for singer-songwriters, writers and poets, serious or recreational, pro or amateurAuthor: Hal...

(Mandolin). Strum, sing and pick along with 20 timeless hits, including: Bad Moon Rising * Don't Worry, Be Happy * Every Breath You Take * Happy Together * Mission: Impossible Theme * Song Sung Blue * Tears in Heaven * What a Wonderful World...

(Piano Play-Along). Play 8 of your favorite songs with sound-alike CD tracks. Each volume in this series comes with a CD of orchestrated arrangements. The music in this book matches these recorded orchestrations. There are two tracks for each a full performance for listening,...

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). Our new folio matches the 30th anniversary reissue of Billy Joel's classic album. Features all nine songs arranged by Billy Joel's keyboardist and Music Director, David Rosenthal. Songs are arranged to combine the piano parts and vocal melodies into playable arrangements...

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). Our matching folio features all nine songs from the wildly popular, multiplatinum magnum opus from Prince and the Revolution, often acknowledged as one of the best albums of all time. Contains: Baby I'm a Star * The Beautiful Ones * Computer...

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). 90 fabulous standards made famous during the 1930s and '40s: All of Me * Darn That Dream * In the Mood * Marie * Moonlight in Vermont * Old Devil Moon * Paper Doll * Pennies from Heaven * Stardust * Tuxedo...

Writer Ted Fox and artist James Otis Smith bring to life Harlem's legendary theater in this graphic novel adaptation of Fox's definitive, critically acclaimed history of the Apollo. Since its inception as an African-American theater in 1934, the Apollo, and the thousands of entertainers...

In what amounts to a history of the last twenty-five years of popular music, respected music journalist Garry Mulholland has compiled a list of the 500 greatest singles since The Sex Pistols' seminal "Anarchy in the UK". In incisive, outspoken and informative essays, Mulholland...

What really went on behind the doors of the world's top studios while recording the Beatles, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan and R.E.M.? How did producers deal with the legendary egos of Oasis and Paul Simon? Or the haunted perfectionism of Michael Jackson and Phil...

This collection explores Chicano, Mexican, and Cuban musical forms and styles and their transformation in the United States. Employing musical, historical, and sociocultural analyses, Loza addresses issues such as marginality, identity, intercultural conflict and aesthetics, reinterpretation, postnationalism, and mestizaje--the mixing of race and culture--in...

Texas-Mexican music, or m俍ica tejana, is not one single music but several musical and musico-literary genres, ensembles, and their styles, encompassing the corrido, canci, and what author Manuel Pe calls the canci-corrido. M俍ica tejana also includes two major regional ensembles and their styles-the conjunto...

Beginning with the emergence of commercial American music in the nineteenth century, Volume 1 includes essays on the major performers, composers, media, and movements that shaped our musical culture before rock and roll. Articles explore the theoretical dimensions of popular music studies; the music...

JAMBANDS BK/CD COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE PLAYERS MUSIC AND SCENEAuthor: Dean BudnickISBN-10: 0879307455ISBN-13: 9780879307455Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2003Pages: 274Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 9.25h x 7.42w x 0.81d

Based on the official Top 20 charts from Billboard in the US and NME/Music Week in the UK, this entertaining book shows at a glance the monthly international status of the hits. The fully updated and revised fourth edition lists the charts since they...

Although African influences undeniably pervade the popular music of Brazil, until now few books have examined the role of Blackness--what author Dari駭 Davis calls "Africaneity"--in the creation and development of twentieth-century Brazilian musical traditions. This innovative, accessible work offers a fascinating look at Brazilian...

These fourteen original essays examine the fascinating world of music scenes, those largely inconspicuous sites where clusters of musicians, producers, and fans explore their common musical tastes and distinctive lifestyle choices. Although most music scenes come and go with hardly a trace, they nevertheless...

What do AC/DC and Aphex Twin have in common? David Bowie and Butthole Surfers? The Clash and the Chemical Brothers? On the surface, very little. Yet they are all representative of the most important movement in modern music - Alternative.What makes these acts alternative?...

At a time when fundamentalism is on the rise, traditional religions are in decline and postmodernity has challenged any system that claims to be all-defining, young people have left their traditional places of worship and set up their own, in clubs, at festivals and...

In Soundtracks of Asian America, Grace Wang explores how Asian Americans use music to construct narratives of self, race, class, and belonging in national and transnational spaces. She highlights how they navigate racialization in different genres by considering the experiences of Asians and Asian...

"Hello, hello Brazil" was the standard greeting Brazilian radio announcers of the 1930s used to welcome their audience into an expanding cultural marketplace. New genres like samba and repackaged older ones like choro served as the currency in this marketplace, minted in the capital...

From the silent era to the present day, popular music has been a key component of the film experience. Yet there has been little serious writing on film soundtracks that feature popular music. Soundtrack Available fills this gap, as its contributors provide detailed analyses...

Yellow Music is the first history of the emergence of Chinese popular music and urban media culture in early-twentieth-century China. Andrew F. Jones focuses on the affinities between "yellow" or "pornographic" music-as critics derisively referred to the "decadent" fusion of American jazz, Hollywood film...

An investigation of music, sound, and public space in contemporary JapanIn this first book-length study of chindon-ya, Marié Abe investigates the intersection of sound, public space, and sociality in contemporary Japan. Chindon-ya, dating back to the 1840s, are ostentatiously costumed street musicians who publicize...

"Sylvan's thesis furnishes far more of the same valued experiences than is usually realized: ritual activity, communal ceremony, a philosophy and worldview, a code for living one's life, a cultural identity, a social structure, a sense of belonging, and crucially, Sylvan argues encounters with...

This book is a study of chang?, a particular style of music and dance in Guant疣amo, Cuba, and the roots of son, the style of music that contributed to the development of salsa, in Eastern Cuba. The book also highlights the connections between Afro-Haitian...

Many associate early western music with the likes of Roy Rogers and Gene Autry, but America's first western music craze predates these "singing cowboys" by decades. Written by Tin Pan Alley songsters in the era before radio, the first popular cowboy and Indian songs...

(E-Z Play Today). Features 40 easy-to-play favorites, including: Amazing Grace * America * Blue Danube Waltz * Kumbaya * Ode To Joy * Yellow Rose Of Texas * and many more.Author: Hal Leonard CorpISBN-10: 079352198XISBN-13: 9780793521982Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/1993Pages: 80Format: PaperbackWeight:...

Bachata--a guitar-based romantic music that debuted in Santo Domingo's urban shantytowns in the 1960s--is today one of the hottest Latin genres. Still, fans and musicians have not forgotten the social stigma the genre carried for decades. This book interweaves bachata's history and development with...

Includes twenty-four selections, transcribed and arranged by Hugo Frey: Deep River * Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen * Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.Author: Alfred MusicISBN-10: 0769215327ISBN-13: 9780769215327Publisher: Alfred MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1979Pages: 48Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.39lbsSize: 11.96h x 8.86w x 0.18d

Covering"the musical practice of one artist recording or performing another composer's song"has always been an attribute of popular music. In 2009, the internet database Second Hand Songs estimated that there are 40,000 songs with at least one cover version. Some of the more common...

Collected Piano Solos contains 47 advanced arrangements from the Dan Coates Popular Piano Library series. These wonderfully pianistic arrangements lie well under the hands and are a pleasure to play. As with all editions in the series, this book features clear engraving for ease...

This colorful, 164-page souvenir songbook for the hit Broadway musical contains sheet music for every song on the show's original cast recording Singers and pianists will delight in bringing the unforgettable songs from Cyndi Lauper's score to life with these impeccable piano/vocal arrangements. Several...

For pianists who enjoy popular music, this extensive sheet music collection guarantees unlimited fun Internationally acclaimed piano arranger Dan Coates makes 34 of today's hottest hits easy to play while keeping their original full sound. From pop gems to dance floor anthems, these songs...

Representing a variety of musical styles, all titles in this collection are timeless favorites that can be enjoyed by both kids and adults. All arrangements are in one or two page formats with optional duet accompaniments for maximum playing fun! Titles: Anakin's Theme (Star...

This Easy Piano arrangement of Laura Story's Blessings" is easier to play than the original edition. Arranged by Carol Tornquist in the key of C major (rather than the album key of B major), it's easier to sight read and play---plus, the melody is...

The official matching songbook to Amy Grant's best-selling Christmas album. Play and sing her renditions of classic Christmas standards along with beloved hits like A Christmas to Remember," "Grown-Up Christmas List," and "Tennessee Christmas." Contains four pages of beautiful color artwork, photos, and a...

Rich textures, sophisticated harmonies, and inventive rhythms make these arrangements ideal for hobbyists, advancing students, and professional musicians. Titles: Ain't Misbehavin' * Bye Bye Blackbird * California, Here I Come * Get Happy * Look for the Silver Lining * 'S Wonderful * Singin'...

This hit single is from Michael Bubl 's chart-topping album Crazy Love. Lyrics and chord symbols are included.Author: Michael Bublé, Carol MatzISBN-10: 0739066307ISBN-13: 9780739066300Publisher: Alfred MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2009Pages: 8Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.10lbsSize: 14.00h x 10.75w x 0.10d

This songbook contains four pages of color photographs and music selections from the much-awaited sixth Harry Potter movie. The music is by Nicholas Hooper, composer of Order of the Phoenix. Titles: Dumbledore's Farewell * Farewell Aragog * The Friends * Ginny * Harry and...

The third in our series of vocal collections from the Great American Songbook, this superb publication contains favorite songs written by Harold Arlen, Duke Ellington, George and Ira Gershwin, Johnny Mercer, Richard Rodgers, and Cole Porter. All ages will enjoy this timeless collection of...

The third in our series of vocal collections from the Great American Songbook, this superb publication contains favorite songs written by Harold Arlen, Duke Ellington, George and Ira Gershwin, Johnny Mercer, Richard Rodgers, and Cole Porter. All ages will enjoy this timeless collection of...

Dan Coates's Decade by Decade series is jam-packed with the best pop music of the 20th century. Never before has there been an easy piano collection with so many chart-toppers by award-winning performers and songwriters. Descriptions of each piece are included to broaden understanding...

Pop Trios for All is a versatile, educational, and fun series intended for like or mixed instruments to perform in any size group or combination of instruments. All books are in score format with each line increasing in difficulty from Grade 1 to Grade...

Pop Trios for All is a versatile, educational, and fun series intended for like or mixed instruments to perform in any size group or combination of instruments. All books are in score format with each line increasing in difficulty from Grade 1 to Grade...

Pop Trios for All is a versatile, educational, and fun series intended for like or mixed instruments to perform in any size group or combination of instruments. All books are in score format with each line increasing in difficulty from Grade 1 to Grade...

Pop Duets for All is a versatile, educational, and fun series intended for like or mixed instruments to perform in any size group or combination of instruments. All books are in score format with each line increasing in difficulty from Grade 1 to Grade...

Alfred introduces the first-ever collection of Leroy Anderson's vocal works. This centennial celebration features vocal versions of his best-loved songs including Sleigh Ride" and "Blue Tango." Other highlights include songs from the 1958 musical "Goldilocks" plus bonus unpublished songs. Collect Leroy Anderson classics now...

This companion volume to the 27 chart topping hits found on the Beatles 1 CD allows you to see, through beautifully rendered and vividly colored Song Maps, how the Four Lads from Liverpool arranged their music, and especially, their brilliant vocal harmonies. Along with...