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  • Boom's Blues

    Music, Journalism, and Friendship in Wartime

    Translated by Scott Rollins ...
    by Wim Verbei ...
    Series series American Made Music Series
    Boom's Blues stands as both a remarkable biography of J. Frank G. Boom (1920–1953) and a recovery of his incredible contribution to blues scholarship originally titled The Blues: Satirical Songs of the North American Negro. Wim Verbei tells how and when the Netherlands was introduced to African American blues music and describes the equally dramatic and peculiar friendship that existed between ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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    The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music

    by Ted Gioia ...
    “The essential history of this distinctly American genre.”—Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionIn this “expertly researched, elegantly written, dispassionate yet thoughtful history” (Gary Giddins), award-winning author Ted Gioia gives us “the rare combination of a tome that is both deeply informative and enjoyable to read” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). From the field hollers of nineteenth-century ... Read more

    $19.79 CAD

  • Do Not Sell At Any Price

    The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World's Rarest 78rpm Records

    by Amanda Petrusich ...
    “A thoughtful, entertaining history of obsessed music collectors and their quest for rare early 78 rpm records” (Los Angeles Times), Do Not Sell at Any Price is a fascinating, complex story of preservation, loss, obsession, and art.Before MP3s, CDs, and cassette tapes, even before LPs or 45s, the world listened to music on fragile, 10-inch shellac discs that spun at 78 revolutions per minute. ... Read more

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  • The First Four Notes

    Beethoven's Fifth and the Human Imagination

    by Matthew Guerrieri ...
    A TIME Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2012A New Yorker Best Book of the YearLos Angeles Magazine's #1 Music Book of the YearA unique and revelatory book of music history that examines in great depth what is perhaps the best-known and most-popular symphony ever written and its four-note opening, which has fascinated musicians, historians, and philosophers for the last two hundred years.Music ... Read more

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  • A Geometry of Music

    Harmony and Counterpoint in the Extended Common Practice

    by Dmitri Tymoczko ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Music Theory
    How is the Beatles' "Help!" similar to Stravinsky's "Dance of the Adolescents?" How does Radiohead's "Just" relate to the improvisations of Bill Evans? And how do Chopin's works exploit the non-Euclidean geometry of musical chords? In this groundbreaking work, author Dmitri Tymoczko describes a new framework for thinking about music that emphasizes the commonalities among styles from medieval ... Read more

    $70.39 CAD

  • Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings

    by Brian Harker ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Recorded Jazz
    For jazz historians, Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings mark the first revolution in the history of a music riven by upheaval. Yet few traces of this revolution can be found in the historical record of the late 1920s, when the discs were made. Even black newspapers covered Armstrong as just one name among many, and descriptions of his playing, while laudatory, bear little ... Read more

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  • Mozart's Marriage of Figaro

    A Short Guide to a Great Opera

    by Michael Steen ...
    Series series Great Operas
    Although the story of Figaro's success in preventing the Count of Almaviva's seduction of his fiancée Susanna was politically explosive, it was tolerated in the court of the relatively enlightened Habsburg Emperor Joseph II. Mozart's opera, Le Nozze di Figaro, uses a libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, and was premièred in Vienna in 1786. It was based on a famous play by the Frenchman Beaumarchais, a ... Read more

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  • Making Samba

    A New History of Race and Music in Brazil

    by Marc A Hertzman ...
    In November 1916, a young Afro-Brazilian musician named Donga registered sheet music for the song "Pelo telefone" ("On the Telephone") at the National Library in Rio de Janeiro. This apparently simple act—claiming ownership of a musical composition—set in motion a series of events that would shake Brazil's cultural landscape. Before the debut of "Pelo telephone," samba was a somewhat obscure term, ... Read more

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  • Notes on Chopin

    by André Gide ...
    Translated by Bernard Frechtman ...
    An inspiring discourse on the power of music from one of the twentieth century's most important figures, André GideAndré Gide, one of the great intellectuals of the twentieth century and a devoted pianist, invites readers to reevaluate Frédéric Chopin as a composer "betrayed . . . deeply, intimately, totally violated" by a music community that had fundamentally misinterpreted his work. As a ... Read more

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  • Barrelhouse Blues

    Location Recording and the Early Traditions of the Blues

    by Paul Oliver ...
    In the 1920s, Southern record companies ventured to cities like Dallas, Atlanta, and New Orleans, where they set up primitive recording equipment in makeshift studios. They brought in street singers, medicine show performers, pianists from the juke joints and barrelhouses. The music that circulated through Southern work camps, prison farms, and vaudeville shows would be lost to us if it hadn't't ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Show Boat

    Performing Race in an American Musical

    by Todd Decker ...
    Series series Broadway Legacies
    Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical tells the full story of the making and remaking of the most important musical in Broadway history. Drawing on exhaustive archival research and including much new information from early draft scripts and scores, this book reveals how Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern created Show Boat in the crucible of the Jazz Age to fit the talents of the show ... Read more

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  • Preachin' the Blues

    The Life and Times of Son House

    by Daniel Beaumont ...
    In June of 1964, three young, white blues fans set out from New York City in a Volkswagen, heading for the Mississippi Delta in search of a musical legend. So begins Preachin' the Blues, the biography of American blues signer and guitarist Eddie James "Son" House, Jr. (1902 - 1988). House pioneered an innovative style, incorporating strong repetitive rhythms with elements of southern gospel and ... Read more

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