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Music: styles & genres

Paperback. Considers the diverse musics and related identities that jazz communities have shaped over the course of the twentieth century. This book explores the many ways in which jazz musicians and audiences experience and understand themselves, their music, their communities, and the world at large. Num Pages: 236 pages, 8 figures, 6 tables. BIC Classification: AVGJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 356.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520228894
ISBN
9780520228894
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.92

Hardback. Looks at the vernacular cosmopolitanism of a group of jazz players in Ghana, who have traveled widely, played with American jazz greats, and blended Coltrane with local instruments and philosophy. This book describes their cosmopolitan outlook as an accoustemology, a way of knowing the world through sound. Num Pages: 328 pages, 78 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFDH; AVGJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 165 x 25. Weight in Grams: 649.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822351481
ISBN
9780822351481
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.91

Paperback. Five Musical Years in Ghana. 328 pages, 78 illustrations. Looks at the vernacular cosmopolitanism of a group of jazz players in Ghana, who have traveled widely, played with American jazz greats, and blended Coltrane with local instruments and philosophy. This book describes their cosmopolitan outlook as an accoustemology, a way of knowing the world through sound. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1HFDH; AVGJ. Dimension: 155 x 233 x 13. Weight: 528.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822351627
ISBN
9780822351627
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.58

Paperback. Num Pages: 32 pages. BIC Classification: AVGJ; AVQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 309 x 230 x 2. Weight in Grams: 142.
Publisher
Faber Music Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
32
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571526468
ISBN
9780571526468
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 11.88

Paperback. .
Publisher
Hal Leonard Corporation United States
Number of pages
72
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
SKU
V9780793565177
ISBN
9780793565177
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 18.93

Book. .
Publisher
Hal Leonard Corporation
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781423459156
ISBN
9781423459156
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 22.64

Paperback. Employing modes of criticism and theory that have transformed study in the humanities, this title addresses questions seldom if ever raised in jazz writing: What are the implications of building jazz history around the medium of the phonograph record? Why did jazz writers first make the claim that jazz is an art? Editor(s): Gabbard, Krin. Num Pages: 304 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGJ; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Edition
2nd ed.
SKU
V9780822315964
ISBN
9780822315964
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.62

hardcover. Features the articles that provide an overview of jazz studies writings from the 1990s to the present day, and engage with issues that are central to the discourse of jazz in popular culture. This title includes studies of specific scenes, artists and periods from jazz history. Editor(s): Whyton, Tony. Series Editor(s): Moore, Professor Allan F. Series: The Library of Essays on Popular Music. Num Pages: 568 pages, Illustrations, music. BIC Classification: AVGJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 175 x 249 x 43. Weight in Grams: 1330.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Routledge United Kingdom
Number of pages
568
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780754629511
ISBN
9780754629511
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 249.45

Hardcover. The story of jazz for the general reader as it has never been told before, from the inside out: a comprehensive, eloquent, scrupulously researched page-turner. Num Pages: 720 pages, 38 photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 169 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1144.
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
608
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393068610
ISBN
9780393068610
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 44.27

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
BOYE6
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
222
Condition
New
SKU
V9781580464451
ISBN
9781580464451
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.65

Paperback. Deconstructs Japanese rock music and reveals what happened when East met West after World War Two. This book explores the clash between traditional, conservative Japanese values and the wild rock 'n' roll renegades of the 1960s and 70s, and tells of the seminal artists in Japanese post-war culture. Num Pages: 304 pages, Colour Inserts. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; AVGP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 284. 304 pages, Colour Inserts. Deconstructs Japanese rock music and reveals what happened when East met West after World War Two. This book explores the clash between traditional, conservative Japanese values and the wild rock 'n' roll renegades of the 1960s and 70s, and tells of the seminal artists in Japanese post-war culture. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1FPJ; AVGP. Dimension: 197 x 130 x 21. Weight: 230.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Paper Back
Condition
New
SKU
V9780747593034
ISBN
9780747593034
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.76

Paperback. In Japanoise, David Novak draws on more than a decade of research in Japan and the United States to trace the "cultural feedback" that generates and sustains Noise. Series: Sign, Storage, Transmission. Num Pages: 304 pages, 51 illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 11. Weight in Grams: 458.
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822353928
ISBN
9780822353928
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.59

In Japanoise, David Novak draws on more than a decade of research in Japan and the United States to trace the "cultural feedback" that generates and sustains Noise. Series: Sign, Storage, Transmission. Num Pages: 304 pages, 51 illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 588.
Publisher
United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822353799
ISBN
9780822353799
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 115.61

Paperback. Brings together several Leos Janacek scholars to look closely at a range of issues surrounding his life and work. This book features essays accompanied by translated writings by the composer himself. It includes essays on Naturalism, opera direction, and Tristan and Isolde and four impressionistic chronicles of the 'speech melodies' of daily life. Editor(s): Beckerman, Michael. Series: Bard Music Festival. Num Pages: 320 pages, 11 halftones. 5 line illus. 4 tables. BIC Classification: AVGC5; AVGC6; AVGC9; AVH; BGF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 457.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691116761
ISBN
9780691116761
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.24
€ 42.32

Paperback. Arguing that jazz films create images of racial and sexual identity, many of which have become inseparable from popular notions of the music itself, this study explores the fundamental obsessions that American culture has brought to jazz in the cinema. Num Pages: 362 pages, 20 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFA; AVGJ; AVGK; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 592.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
y First edition
Number of pages
362
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226277899
ISBN
9780226277899
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.66

Paperback. Focusing on one album rather than an artist's entire output, the books dispense with the standard biographical background that fans know already, and cut to the heart of the music on each album. Series: 33 1/3. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 123 x 8. Weight in Grams: 120. Series: 33 1/3. 128 pages. Focusing on one album rather than an artist's entire output, the books dispense with the standard biographical background that fans know already, and cut to the heart of the music on each album. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGQ. Dimension: 167 x 123 x 8. Weight: 120.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826415721
ISBN
9780826415721
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.65

Paperback. .
Publisher
Faber Music Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
68
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
Pap/Com
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571529247
ISBN
9780571529247
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.78

Paperback. Carlos Santana's guitar style brought the rhythms of Afro-Cuban music to generations of people who might otherwise never have heard them. This title presents the combination of musical notation and guitar tabulature together with backing tracks on the CD that gives you the opportunity to learn eight of Carlos' tracks note-for-note. Series: Jam with. Num Pages: 56 pages. BIC Classification: AVGP; AVQS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 305 x 229 x 7. Weight in Grams: 270.
Publisher
Faber Music Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
56
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
Pap/Com
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571528295
ISBN
9780571528295
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.78

Hardcover. Num Pages: 120 pages, color illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: AVC; AVGE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 307 x 16. Weight in Grams: 1014.
Publisher
Tulika Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9789382381778
ISBN
9789382381778
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 36.34

Paperback. Jake Bugg: is he The Council Estate Bob Dylan, The Cockiest Lonnie Donegan Wannabe in Nottingham or The King of the Clifton Delta? Maybe he's all three. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: AVGP; AVH; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 24. Weight in Grams: 222.
Publisher
John Blake Publishing Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784183844
ISBN
9781784183844
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.38

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