Mike Casey 
Hands-On Dulcimer [PDF ebook] 

The Operatic Problem delves into various issues surrounding opera as a form of musical and theatrical performance. The book offers an in-depth analysis of the challenges and artistic dilemmas faced …

Music and Heritage provides new thinking about the diverse ways people engage with heritage. By exploring the relationships that exist between music, place and identity, the book illustrates how peop …

This book explores the growing phenomenon of music tourism – instances of people visiting places because of a connection with music. Asking how an abstract art form such as music can lead to tourism …

The emergence of social media in the early 21st century promised to facilitate new ‘DIY’ cultural approaches, emphasizing participation and democratization. However, in recent years these platforms …

The essays in Sound Judgment span the full career of Richard Leppert, from his earliest to work that appears here for the first time, on subjects drawn from early modernity to the present concerning …

Otherwise known as The Killer, Jerry Lee Lewis has lived an extraordinary life. He spent his childhood raising hell in Louisiana and Mississippi; gave rock-and-roll its devil”s edge with hit records …

Popular Christmas Carol for Elementary Piano A Silver Tonalities Arrangement!Easy Note Style Sheet Music Letter Names of Notes embedded in each …

Chopin”s twenty-four Préludes remain as mysterious today as when they were newly published. What prompted Franz Liszt and others to consider Chopin”s Préludes to be compositions in their own right …

Most musicians focus on learning technique (learning how to play an instrument), rather than on developing an individual, unique voice. Creative Music Making focuses on the creative development of mu …

Jazz and Totalitarianism examines jazz in a range of regimes that in significant ways may be described as totalitarian, historically covering the period from the Franco regime in Spain beginning in t …