Music: styles & genres
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Music: styles & genres
Paperback. Celebrates hip-hop and confronts the cult of authenticity that defines its essential character. Deftly balancing an insider's love of the culture with a scholar's detached critique, the author traces hip-hop's rise as a cultural juggernaut and challenges widely held notions that hip-hop is socially dangerous - to black youth in particular. Series: CultureAmerica. Num Pages: 248 pages, 20 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGR; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Edition
- 60219th
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700616510
- ISBN
- 9780700616510
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.78
€ 38.78
Paperback. This text explains why Elvis Presley is an enduring image in American popular culture. It demonstrates the power of pictures in visual culture and reveals much about American attitudes toward religion, sex, race and celebrity, and the construction of American identity in the late 20th century. Num Pages: 304 pages, 67 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGP; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Univ Pr of Kansas
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700613373
- ISBN
- 9780700613373
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.88
€ 41.88
Hardcover. Tells the story of African American musicians in Chicago during the mid-20th century. While depicting the segregated city before World War II, Amy Absher traces the migration of black musicians, both men and women and both classical and vernacular performers, from the American South to Chicago during the 1930s-50s. Num Pages: 216 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; 3JJ; AVG; HBJK; HBLW; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472119172
- ISBN
- 9780472119172
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.58
€ 62.58
Hardcover. The first book-length study of one of the most essential elements of hip-hop: musical borrowing Series: Tracking Pop S. Num Pages: 280 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 169 x 26. Weight in Grams: 574.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472118922
- ISBN
- 9780472118922
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 91.62
€ 91.62
Hardcover. An ethnography of music and dance exploring the economic, social, and ideological constraints under which social classes and racial groups interact Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: ASD; AVA; AVGP; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472118489
- ISBN
- 9780472118489
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 102.43
€ 102.43
Hardcover. The first scholarly account of the music and culture of collegiate a cappella Num Pages: 280 pages, 4 musical examples, 7 halftones, 3 figures. BIC Classification: AVGP; AVS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 157 x 28. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472118250
- ISBN
- 9780472118250
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.46
€ 97.46
Paperback. In 1969 and 1970, the first Ann Arbor Blues Festivals brought together the greatest-ever selection of blues performers - an enormous blues party that seemed to feature every big name in the world of blues. Featuring thousands of photographs from these festivals, this title captures these legendary performances onstage and the goings-on backstage. Num Pages: 144 pages, 125 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBNG; ASZP; AVGK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 260 x 260 x 15. Weight in Grams: 816.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN REGIONAL
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472116959
- ISBN
- 9780472116959
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 28.94
€ 30.99
€ 28.94
Hardcover. Studies the development of New Orleans jazz and its effect on jazz history. This title provides the story of how New Orleans jazz came to be recognizable as a discrete style and how that recognition affected the writing of American jazz history. It traces the conceptualization of jazz history derived from "Jazzmen" to its refuge in New Orleans. Series: Jazz Perspectives. Num Pages: 336 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; AVGJ. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472116751
- ISBN
- 9780472116751
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.99
€ 108.99
Hardcover. A definitive study of the most important decade in post-World War II popular music history Series: Tracking Pop. Num Pages: 328 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 162 x 27. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472116379
- ISBN
- 9780472116379
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 57.97
€ 57.97
Hardcover. The Broadway tomboys, rebel nuns, and funny girls, who upset the 1950s gender norms: Mary Martin, Ethel Merman, Julie Andrews, and Barbra Streisand Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance. Num Pages: 312 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGM; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 237 x 31. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- The University of Michigan Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472097722
- ISBN
- 9780472097722
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.65
€ 114.65
Paperback. A full-scale examination of the amazing range of works resulting from the creative collaboration of George and Ira Gershwin. Num Pages: 560 pages, facsimiles, music, portraits. BIC Classification: AVGF; AVGM; AVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 216 x 32. Weight in Grams: 750.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Edition
- n
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472084692
- ISBN
- 9780472084692
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.17
€ 37.17
Hardcover. Scholarly arguments about the blues have failed to acknowledge that in the post-war era the blues had spread far beyond the borders of the United States. As Christian O'Connell shows in Blues, How Do You Do? Paul Oliver's largely neglected scholarship - and the unique transatlantic cultural context it provides - is vital to understanding the blues. Num Pages: 296 pages, 39 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; AVGK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472072675
- ISBN
- 9780472072675
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.96
€ 113.96
Hardcover. The first study to focus on jazz in postwar France, this book explores the ways that French musicians and critics received and remade an American music according to their own cultural concerns Num Pages: 308 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 157 x 30. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472072422
- ISBN
- 9780472072422
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.65
€ 114.65
Hardcover. The first book to tell the story of country music in Detroit Num Pages: 338 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBNG; AVGL; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 717.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472072019
- ISBN
- 9780472072019
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.49
€ 92.49
Hardcover. A groundbreaking study of Louis Armstrong s autobiographical practices" Series: Jazz Perspectives. Num Pages: 360 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGJ; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472071807
- ISBN
- 9780472071807
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.83
€ 114.83
Hardcover. Black popular music and offbeat performance, from Eartha Kitt to Meshell Ndegeocello Num Pages: 266 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGQ; JFSK1; JFSK2; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Michigan Press United States
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472071791
- ISBN
- 9780472071791
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.96
€ 113.96
Hardcover. Fluid by design, the term Alt Country has forced even the genre's own mouthpiece, the magazine/website "No Depression", to declare its terrain to be 'alternative-country music (whatever that is)'. This book explores the influences, meanings, and identity of this significant contemporary music form. Editor(s): Fox, Pamela; Ching, Barbara. Num Pages: 264 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGL; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472070534
- ISBN
- 9780472070534
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.45
€ 108.45
Paperback. Collects pieces from Andre Hodeir's three books of jazz writings. This book introduces Hodeir to a different generation of jazz enthusiasts and scholars alike. Editor(s): Pautrot, Jean-Louis J. Num Pages: 320 pages, 27 musical examples. BIC Classification: AVGJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The University of Michigan Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472068838
- ISBN
- 9780472068838
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.27
€ 40.27
Paperback. A guide for rock aficionados, this book surveys the Detroit music scene of the 1960s and 70s - a pivotal era in rock music history, producing such legendary bands as The MC5, Iggy Pop and the Stooges, Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, SRC, the Bob Seger System, Ted Nugent and the Amboy Dukes, and Grand Funk Railroad. Num Pages: 416 pages, 68 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBNG; AVGP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 171 x 29. Weight in Grams: 670.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- The University of Michigan Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472031900
- ISBN
- 9780472031900
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.68
€ 20.68
Paperback. A biography and critical investigation of Alec Wilder's music. Series: American Composers. Num Pages: 176 pages, 11 black and white photographs, 18 musical examples, discography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGC6; BGF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 164 x 16. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252079139
- ISBN
- 9780252079139
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.50
€ 30.50