Roy Christopher 
Dead Precedents [EPUB ebook] 

Taking up questions and issues in early chant studies, this volume of essays addresses some of the topics raised in James Mc Kinnon »s The Advent Project: The Later Seventh-Century Creation of the Ro …

HONK! A Street Band Renaissance of Music and Activism explores a fast-growing and transnational movement of street bands—particularly brass and percussion ensembles—and examines how this exciting phe …

Film Music in the Sound Era: A Research and Information Guide offers a comprehensive bibliography of scholarship on music in sound film (1927–2017). Thematically organized sections cover historical s …

Shostakovich »s music is often described as being dynamic, energetic. But what is meant by  »energy » in music? After setting out a broad conceptual framework for approaching this question, Michael R …

As a popular music, the evolution of jazz is tied to the contemporary sociological situation. Jazz was brought from America into a very different environment in Britain and resulted in the establishm …

The music of Shostakovich has been at the centre of interest of both the general public and dedicated scholars throughout the last twenty years. Most of the relevant literature, however, is of a biog …

What can infants hear? What are their reactions to music? Is it useful for them to sing and listen to music? Is their auditory sensitivity developed before their birth? At what age do they start sing …

Popular music has long been used to entertain, provoke, challenge and liberate but also to oppress and control. Can popular music be political? What types of popular music work best with politics? Ho …

Imagine a world where Beatlemania was against the law-recordings scratched onto medical X-rays, merchant sailors bringing home contraband LPs, spotty broadcasts taped from western AM radio late in th …

_______________  »A coolly literary masterpiece » – Greil Marcus, Esquire  » Sad, funny, brilliant » – The Daily Telegraph  »In classic fish-out-of-water fashion Young writes with wry amusement alon …