Music
Voices of the Country
Voices of the Country presents interviews with innovative musicians, producers, and songwriters who shaped the last fifty years of country music.
Ray Charles
Ray Charles: Man and Music is a complete biography of this seminal singer/pianist who has been active on the American music scene since the mid-1950s.
Early Musical Borrowing
This collection of essays examines the common compositional practice of borrowing or imitation in fifteenth-and sixteenth-century music.
Camille Saint-Saens
This monograph offers an overview of the writings about Camille Saint-Saens, his music, and the general period in which he worked, calling attention to both the lesser-known writings on him and his music.
Johannes Brahms
This is a guide to research on the great German Romantic composer Johannes Brahms (1833-1897). It includes approximately 2000 annotated entries on the scholarly literature on Brahms and dissertations covering his life and music.
Play Piano In a Flash!
• Ever wish you could sit down at a piano and just play a tune?• Have you taken lessons at some point in your life, but can't play a thing?• Are you sick and tired of dusting, not playing, that big hunk of furniture in your living room?
Night Beat
Few journalists have staked a territory as definitively and passionately as Mikal Gilmore in his twenty-year career writing about rock and roll. Now, for the first time, this collection gathers his cultural criticism, interviews, reviews, and assorted musings.
Molto Agitato
Behind the gold curtains of the Metropolitan Opera House, amidst the elaborate sets, bejeweled costumes, and labyrinth of administrative offices, the Met has traditionally operated in great secrecy. Until now.Johanna Fiedler, who was the Met?
FM
"It was all so honest, before the end of our collective innocence. Top Forty jocks screamed and yelled and sounded mightier than God on millions of transistor radios. But on FM radio it was all spun out for only you.
Motown
In 1959, twenty-nine-year-old Berry Gordy, who had already given up on his dream to be a champion boxer, borrowed eight hundred dollars from his family and started a record company.