Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music
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In 1915, Thomas Edison proclaimed that he could record a live performance and reproduce it...
Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture
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Disco is the music that America tried to forget. By the end of the 1970s "Saturday Night Fever"...
Making Musicians: A Personal History of the Britten-Pears School
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Moira Bennett worked at the Britten-Pears School in its hectic heyday in the 1980s. She charts its...
Hip Hop: The Illustrated History of Break Dancing, Rap Music and Graffiti
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"Extremely well-written" --Dave Marsh.... "The best and most reliable history" --Robert Palmer.......
Musical Maryland: A History of Song and Performance from the Colonial Period to the Age of Radio
David K. Hildebrand and Elizabeth M. Schaaf
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In Musical Maryland, the first comprehensive survey of the music emanating from the Old Line State,...
Historical Dictionary of Baroque Music
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The Historical Dictionary of Baroque Music covers the history of this period through a chronology,...
What it Looks Like: An Awakening Through Love and Trauma, War and Music, Sports and History, Politics and Spirituality
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Marta Maranda, despite not having the substance or behavioral addictions generally associated with...
Music/Video: Histories, Aesthetics, Media
Gina Arnold, Daniel Cookney, Kirsty Fairclough-Isaacs and Michael Goddard
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This book is a lively, comprehensive and timely reader on the music video, capitalising on...
Popular Music in Southeast Asia: Banal Beats, Muted Histories
Bart Barendregt, Henk Schulte Nordholt and Peter Keppy
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Southeast Asia, Popular Music, History