Light orchestral & big band music books

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This book provides biographies and discographies of some 500 conductors and composers of light and popular orchestral...  Read More >>

Presents an encyclopedic survey of Brazilian popular music that ranges over samba, bossa nova, MPB, jazz and instrumental...  Read More >>

Mercier examines the 107 songs Hans Pfitzner wrote for voice and piano. This work provides IPA pronunciation symbols,...  Read More >>

A polyphonic study of Balinese aesthetics that broadens an intercultural understanding of performance.  Read More >>

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This account of politics and popular music develops the concept of """"""""acting in concert,"""""""" a metaphor...  Read More >>

Offers special insight into some of the most popular songs of the twentieth century  Read More >>

aeo Informed by original ethnographic research and oral history into popular music and youth culture. aeo Presents...  Read More >>

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Responds to the separation of 'youth' and 'pop' in the 1980s and the fragmentation of the audience for popular music...  Read More >>

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This collection cuts across the many different ways of analyzing culture, and it is done through looking at spaces...  Read More >>

This is a broad survey of American popular music in the nineteenth century. Such music was enormously popular at...  Read More >>

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An introduction to the Native American culture. The Teacher's Resource Book provides pronunciations, tribe information,...  Read More >>

The fourth volume in the Greenwood series providing a near-definitive survey on the output of sound recordings made...  Read More >>

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A fascinating book of traditional and original dances and dance tunes, with chords, by fiddle and mandolin player...  Read More >>

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Two of the Russian composer's most popular works, reproduced directly from authoritative standard editions. Notable...  Read More >>

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). Features 50+ top requests of the martini scene: Ain't That a Kick in the Head * Alfie...  Read More >>

This book shows how Berlin progressed from the kind of ethnic and vaudeville songs that reflected his immigrant...  Read More >>

This text chronicles, critiques and celebrates Sinatra's five-decade career. Friedwald examines and evaluates all...  Read More >>