Digging, 13: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music (Baraka Amiri)(Paperback)

Digging, 13: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music (Baraka Amiri)(Paperback)

For almost half a century, Amiri Baraka has ranked among the most important commentators on African American music and culture. In this brilliant assemblage of his writings on music, the first such collection in nearly twenty years, Baraka blends autobiography, history, musical analysis, and

Black Music (Jones (Amiri Baraka) Leroi)(Paperback)

The long-awaited reissue of the sequel to Amiri Baraka's seminal work, Blues People.Baraka writes with the passion and lyricism that can only come from a jazz critic who is uncompromisingly invested in the social and aesthetic dimensions of the music.--WBGO (Newark Public Radio)Jones has

On the Trail of Americana Music (Brookfield Ralph)(Paperback)

In this thorough exploration of the history and spread of Americana Music around the world, Ralph Brookfield goes beyond the headlines to uncover what drives singer songwriters to go to Nashville, play in small clubs and create their music against the increasingly difficult backdrop of Covid-19,

It Ain't Retro: Daptone Records & the 21st-Century Soul Revolution (Lipsky Jessica)(Paperback)

Soul is the most powerful expression of American music--a distinct combination of roots, migration, race, culture, and politics packaged together for your dancing pleasure. But if you thought the sounds of Motown or Stax Records died along with 8-tracks and macram , you'd be wrong. For two decades,

Soul Thieves: The Appropriation and Misrepresentation of African American Popular Culture (Brown T.)(Paperback)

Considers the misappropriation of African American popular culture through various genres, largely Hip Hop, to argue that while such cultural creations have the potential to be healing agents, they are still exploited -often with the complicity of African Americans- for commercial purposes and to

American Pastoral (Roth Philip)(Paperback / softback)

'A tragedy of classical proportions...a magnificent novel' The TimesDiscover the Pulitzer-prize winning novel that confirmed Philip Roth as one of the greatest American writers. 'Swede' Levov is living the American

Experiencing Latin American Music (Hess Carol A.)(Paperback)

Experiencing Latin American Music draws on human experience as a point of departure for musical understanding. Students explore broad topics--identity, the body, religion, and more--and relate these to Latin American musics while refining their understanding of musical concepts and

The Classical Music Lover's Companion to Orchestral Music (Philip Robert)(Paperback)

An invaluable guide for lovers of classical music designed to enhance their enjoyment of the core orchestral repertoire from 1700 to 1950Robert Philip, scholar, broadcaster, and musician, has compiled an essential handbook for lovers of classical music, designed to enhance their listening

Songbooks: The Literature of American Popular Music (Weisbard Eric)(Paperback)

In Songbooks, critic and scholar Eric Weisbard offers a critical guide to books on American popular music from William Billings's 1770 New-England Psalm-Singer to Jay-Z's 2010 memoir Decoded. Drawing on his background editing the Village Voice music section, coediting the Journal of Popular Music

Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation, with a New Afterword (Patel Eboo)(Paperback)

Recording Classical Music (Toft Robert)(Paperback)

Recording Classical Music presents the fundamental principles of digitally recording and editing acoustic music in ambient spaces, focusing on stereo microphone techniques that will help musicians understand how to translate 'live' environments into recorded sound. The book covers theory and the

The Two Faces of American Freedom (Rana Aziz)(Paperback)

The Two Faces of American Freedom boldly reinterprets the American political tradition from the colonial period to modern times, placing issues of race relations, immigration, and presidentialism in the context of shifting notions of empire and citizenship. Today, while the U.S. enjoys tremendous

American Poetry as Transactional Art (Fredman Stephen)(Paperback)

Explores the ways American poetry engages with visual art, music, fiction, spirituality, and performance art Many people think of poetry as a hermetic art, as though poets wrote only about themselves or as if the subject of poetry were finally only poetry--its forms and traditions. Indeed much of

An Introduction to American English (Tottie Gunnel)(Paperback)

An Introduction to American English explores American English in the context of American history and institutions, while also making comparisons with British

The Grammar of Our Civility: Classical Education in America (Pearcy Lee T.)(Paperback)

The pragmatic demands of American life have made higher education's sustained study of ancient Greece and Rome an irrelevant luxury--and this despite the fact that American democracy depends so heavily on classical language, literature, and political theory. In The Grammar of Our Civility, Lee T

Knock Out!: The True Story of Emilie Griffith (Kleist Reinhard)(Paperback)

An intoxicating portrait of boxer Emile Griffith, an Afro-Caribbean-American bisexual athlete and one of the world's greatest fighters The American boxing champion Emile Griffith gained notoriety in 1962 when he brutally defeated the Cuban fighter Benny Paret. Ten days after the fight, Paret, who

Agora Excavations, 1931-2006: A Pictorial History (Mauzy Craig A.)(Paperback)

In 2006, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens celebrated 75 years of archaeological work in the Athenian Agora, the civic center of classical Athens. Since the first trench was dug on May 25, 1931, excavations have continued in a series of yearly campaigns, only briefly interrupted by

S O S: Poems 1961-2013 (Baraka Amiri)(Paperback)

One of the New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books WITH AN APPENDIX OF NEVER-BEFORE-PUBLISHED WORK Fusing the personal and the political in high-voltage verse, Amiri Baraka was one of the preeminent literary innovators of the past century. This volume comprises the fullest spectrum of his

The Oxford Book of American Short Stories (Carol Oates Joyce)(Paperback)

In The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, Joyce Carol Oates offers a sweeping survey of American short fiction, in a collection of nearly sixty tales that combines classic works with many different, unexpected gems, and that invites readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and

The Structure of Atonal Music (Forte Allen)(Paperback)

'For some years now, a group of American composers and theorists including Babbitt, Teitelbaum, Martino, and Lewin, have been elaborating mathematically based procedures for the analysis of pitch structures in atonal music. In this book, Allen Forte expands the results of their work into a

Homeward Bound - The Life of Paul Simon (Carlin Peter Ames)(Paperback / softback)

A revelatory account of the life of beloved American music icon, Paul Simon, by the bestselling rock biographer Peter Ames

The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (Williams William Appleman)(Paperback)

This incisive interpretation of American foreign policy ranks as a classic in American thought. First published in 1959, the book offered an analysis of the wellsprings of American foreign policy that shed light on the tensions of the Cold War and the deeper impulses leading to the American

The Armageddon Rag (Martin George R. R.)(Paperback)

'The best novel concerning the American pop music culture of the sixties I've ever read.'--Stephen King From #1 New York Times bestselling author George R. R. Martin comes the ultimate novel of revolution, rock 'n' roll, and apocalyptic murder--a stunning work of fiction that portrays not just the

Darkly: Black History and America's Gothic Soul (Taylor Leila)(Paperback)

A fascinating journey into the dark heart of the American gothic that analyzes its connections to race and racism in 21st-century America Haunted houses, bitter revenants and muffled heartbeats under floorboards--the American gothic is a macabre tale based on a true story. Part memoir and part