David Blum 
QUARTET PLAYING, ART OF 

This book presents a varied and nuanced analysis of the dynamics of the printing, publication, and trade of music in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries across Western and Northern Europe. …

What does it mean, in a polarized political climate, that feminism was popular in mainstream popular music of the 2010s? Engaging with feminist theory and previous research about gender and music, …

How does popular music influence the culture and reputation of a city, and what does a city do to popular music? Interrogating Popular Music and the City examines the ways in which urban environments …

______________________________________ ”Engaging, entertaining, brilliantly recounted” Mirror ”Captivating . . . an incredible story” i paper __________________________________ MUSIC, FAME AND A …

This is an approachable, easy-to-use guide to improving one”s singing voice. It takes a similar approach used in other Idiot”s Guide music books to guide the reader step-by-step through the process …

This book provides an interdisciplinary focus on music, memory, and ageing by examining how they intersect outside of a formal therapeutic context or framework and by offering a counter-narrative to …

Finding the Beat explores humankind”s ability, propensity, and enjoyment in finding the beat in live and recorded experiences of music-making through the lens of entrainment, the human capacity to …

Alastair Riddell’s band Space Waltz was a short-lived one-album New Zealand rock act who hit gold with a #1 hit single in October 1974 with the song ‘Out On The Street’ but thereafter failed to …

Every lover of music finds themselves, at privileged moments, in ecstasy certain that what they are hearing has captured, somehow, an incontrovertible truth. In Bach s Architecture of Gratitude James …

A lively, subversive history of the new UK jazz wave, encapsulating its revolutionary spirit and tracing its foundations to birth of the genre itself. By the end of the last century, jazz music was …