This text tells the stories of the lives of eight figures in American music history, including Scott Joplin, Louis Armstrong, and Jelly Roll Morton. It also tells how ragtime and popular dance music fed into and changed the development of early jazz.
This text tells the stories of the lives of eight figures in American music history, including Scott Joplin, Louis Armstrong, and Jelly Roll Morton. It also tells how ragtime and popular dance music fed into and changed the development of early jazz.
A study of musicians who hail from the Lubbock area, including Buddy Holly, Lloyd Maines, The Flatlanders, Ponty Bone, and many more.
"In the tradition of Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential and Gelsey Kirkland's Dancing on My Grave comes an insider's look into the secret world of classical musicians." "From her debut recital at Carnegie Recital Hall to the Broadway pits of Les Miserables and Miss Saigon, …
"Max Baca is one of the foremost artists of Tex-Mex music, the infectious dance music sweeping through the Texas-Mexico borderlands since the 1940s. His Grammy-winning group, Los Texmaniacs, and his extensive work with the accordionist Flaco Jimmenez established the Albuquerque-…
by Jennings, Ros, Gardner, Abigail
fromRoutledge studies in popular music
Opening up the dialogue between popular music studies and aging studies, this book offers a major exploration of age and popular music across Europe. Using a variety of methods to illustrate how age within popular music is contingent and compelling, the volume explores how it pr…
"Networking the Russian Diaspora is a fascinating and timely study of interwar Shanghai. Aside from the vacated Orthodox Church in the former French Concession where most Russian émigreés resided, Shanghai today displays few signs of the bustling settlement of those years. Russi…
Part 1. Argentine Tango instrumental music. What makes it an Argentine tango? -- Trajectory of Argentine tango instrumental music -- Arranging and performance techniques -- Part 2. Representative Argentine tangueros and their orchestras from the Guardia Nueva to today. The Guard…
