Will Kaufman 
American Song and Struggle from Columbus to World War 2 [PDF ebook] 
A Cultural History

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 …

Quincy Jones: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography and discography on one of the most prolific composers, arrangers, and conductors in American music. This reference work wil …

Musical Rhythm in the Age of Digital Reproduction presents new insights into the study of musical rhythm through investigations of the micro-rhythmic design of groove-based music. The main purpose of …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, and Cecil Taylor revolutionized music from the end of the twentieth century into the twenty-first, expanding on jazz traditions with distinctly new concepts of compositi …

Brown Eyed Handsome Man: The Life and Hard Times of ChuckBerry draws on dozens of interviews done by the author himself and voluminous public records to paint a complete picture of this complicated f …

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 …