Repeated Takes: A Short History of Recording Music and Its Effect on Music
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Repeated Takes is the first general book on the history of the recording industry, covering the...
O Sing Unto the Lord: A History of English Church Music
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Andrew Gant's compelling account traces English church music from Anglo-Saxon origins to the...
Listen Again: A Momentary History of Pop Music
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Arguing that pop music turns on moments rather than movements, the essays in Listen Again pinpoint...
Making Money, Making Music: History and Core Concepts
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Making Money, Making Music offers tools to encourage creative and adaptive entrepreneurship in the...
Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta
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Blues is the cornerstone of American popular music, the bedrock of rock and roll. In this...
Players' Work Time: A History of the British Musicians' Union, 1893-2013
Martin Cloonan and John Williamson
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This book examines the working lives of musicians over the past 120 years via the history of the...
Rock ‘n’ Roll is Here to Pay: The History of Politics in the Music Industry
Steve Shapple and Reebee Garofalo
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"At last, the definitive book on rock music as an industry." --Studs Terkel"Rock and roll is here to...
Bachata: A Social History of a Dominican Popular Music
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Like rap in the United States, bachata began as a music of the poor and dispossessed. Originating in...
The Oxford History of Western Music: Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century
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The Oxford History of Western Music is a magisterial survey of the traditions of Western music by...