David Trippett 
Wagner in Context [EPUB ebook] 

Deems Taylor (1885-1966) was a composer, music critic, author, commentator, translator, and artist. He was the first American composer commissioned to write an opera by New York’s Metropolitan Opera, …

Bob Marley was the undisputed sovereign of reggae music and the revolutionary soul-prophet whose music had – and continues to have – a massive impact on people of throughout the world. "Catch A …

Sounds of the Borderland is the first book-length study of how popular music became a medium for political communication and contested identification during and after Croatia“s war of independence f …

What is it about the history, geographical position and cultures of the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia that has made music such a potent and powerful agent? This volume presents the first …

Though individual pieces from the late fifteenth century are widely accepted as being written for instruments rather than voices, they are traditionally considered as exceptions within the context of …

Now updated with two new chapters and an extraordinary collection of photographs, this second edition of Paul Friedlander“s Rock and Roll: A Social History is a smash hit. The social force of rock a …

This is a series of biographies of great composers which present the subjects against a social background of their times. Each book draws on personal letters and recollections, engravings, paintings …

A wry, funny and fascinating memoir from the German prince who fuelled the success of the Rolling Stones “This is one of the funniest rock books I“ve read“ New Statesman “ Unusually frank, enjoya …

Beyond the Sound Barrier examines twentieth-century fictional representations of popular music-particularly jazz-in the fiction of James Weldon Johnson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Langston Hughes, and Toni …

America’s Songs II: Songs from the 1890“s to the Post-War Years continues to tell the stories behind popular songs in our country’s history, serving as a sequel to the bestselling America’s Songs: S …