Best Selling Music Genre - April 2024

Banding Together: How Communities Create Genres in Popular Music

Why do some music styles gain mass popularity while others thrive in small niches? Banding Together explores this question and reveals the attributes that together explain the growth of twentieth-century American popular music. Drawing on a vast array of examples from sixty musical styles--ranging from rap and bluegrass to death metal and South Texas polka, and including several created outside the United States--Jennifer Lena uncovers the shared grammar that allows us to understand the cultural language and evolution of popular music. What are the common economic, organizational, ideological,... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0691163383
• ASIN: 0691163383
• ISBN: 0691163383
• Manufacturer: Princeton University Press

American Popular Music

This text provides an overview of the four major areas of American contemporary music: jazz, rock, country, and musical theater. Each genre is approached chronologically with the emphasis on the socio-cultural aspects of the music. Readers will appreciate Joyner's engaging writing style and come away with the fundamental skills needed to listen critically to a variety of popular music styles.

• ASIN: 0073526576
• ASIN: 0073526576
• ISBN: 0073526576
• Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Education

Terror Tracks: Music, Sound and Horror Cinema (GENRE, MUSIC AND SOUND)

Commissioned and edited to appeal to a crossover Film and Music Studies readership, Terror Tracks is an anthology that analyses the use of music and sound in the popular genre of Horror cinema. Focusing on the post-War period, contributors analyse the role of music and sound in establishing and enhancing the senses of unease, suspense and shock crucial to the genre. The anthology shows the various patterns of use an inflection in a range of scores - orchestral, popular, rock and electronic - and how these relate to non-musical sound. Lively and accessible, Terror Tracks is an important contrib... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1845532023
• ASIN: 1845532023
• ISBN: 1845532023
• Brand: Brand: Equinox Publishing
• Manufacturer: Equinox Publishing Limited

Music Genre Demystified: An easy guide to understanding genre types

Have you ever heard a song and wondered what genre it falls under or do you sometimes get lost when with friends who are talking about their favorite styles of music and make use of words like pop music, Electronic dance music, etc. and you have no idea what those are? The book "Music Genre Demystified" is an easy guide to understanding music genre and its types.In this book, we'll be looking at:→Why music classification is important→Various genres of popular music which includes pop, EDM, classical, rock, soul and R&B, blues, etc.→A brief history, characteristics, music artists, songs, ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07SCNFTLV
• ASIN: B07SCNFTLV
• Manufacturer: J.ET-music

Heeey Baby Days of Beach Music: Stories and Remembrances of a Southern Music Genre by Greg Haynes (2007-05-03)

Will be shipped from US. Used books may not include companion materials, may have some shelf wear, may contain highlighting/notes, may not include CDs or access codes. 100% money back guarantee.

• ASIN: B01FELM0ES
• ASIN: B01FELM0ES
• ISBN: 0978604709
• Brand: Brand:
• Manufacturer: Example Product Manufacturer

A History of Western Music (Ninth Edition)

The definitive history of Western music, now with Total Access. Combining current scholarship with cutting-edge pedagogy, the Ninth Edition of A History of Western Music is the text that students and professors have trusted for generations. Because listening is central to music history, the new Total Access program provides a full suite of media resources―including an ebook and premium streaming recordings of the entire Norton Anthology of Western Music repertoire―with every new text. Combining thoughtful revisions―particularly to chapters on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries―wi... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0393918297
• ASIN: 0393918297
• ISBN: 0393918297
• Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

Nineteenth-Century Choral Music (Routledge Studies in Musical Genres)

Nineteenth-Century Choral Music is an in-depth examination of the rich repertoire of choral music and the cultural phenomenon of choral music making throughout the period. The book is divided into three main sections. The first details the attraction to choral singing and the ways it was linked to different parts of society, and to the role of choral voices in the two principal large-scale genres of the period: the symphony and opera. A second section highlights ten choral-orchestral masterworks that are a central part of the repertoire. The final section presents overview and focus chapters c... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0415988535
• ASIN: 0415988535
• ISBN: 0415988535
• Brand: Brand: Routledge
• Manufacturer: Routledge

When Genres Collide: Down Beat, Rolling Stone, and the Struggle between Jazz and Rock (Alternate Takes: Critical Responses to Popular Music)

When Genres Collide is a provocative history that rethinks the relationship between jazz and rock through the lens of the two oldest surviving and most influential American popular music periodicals: Down Beat and Rolling Stone. Writing in 1955, Duke Ellington argued that the new music called rock 'n' roll “is the most raucous form of jazz, beyond a doubt.” So why did jazz and rock subsequently become treated as separate genres?The rift between jazz and rock (and jazz and rock scholarship) is based on a set of received assumptions about their fundamental differences, but there are other wa... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1501326147
• ASIN: 1501326147
• ISBN: 1501326147
• Manufacturer: Bloomsbury Academic

Music Theory for the Music Professional

Written as a music theory text that not only addresses the important fundamental syntax of music in the classical sense but also relates this syntax to current practices and styles, this book should be particularly well-suited to musicians focusing on aspects of the music business and of popular culture.

• ASIN: 1880157209
• ASIN: 1880157209
• ISBN: 1880157209
• Brand: Brand: Scarecrow Press
• Manufacturer: Scarecrow Press

The Giant Classic Rock Piano Sheet Music Collection: Piano/Vocal/Guitar (The Giant Book of Sheet Music)

Play everybody's favorite songs! The 300 pages of piano/vocal/guitar sheet music in this collection allow music makers to bring dozens of the most memorable songs of the 1960s, '70s, and early '80s to life. Classic rock fans who love to play will have a blast applying their talent to more than 40 enduring songs made famous by legendary artists like The Beatles, David Bowie, Journey, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, Rush, The Who, and many more. The arrangements feature piano parts that accurately reflect each song's familiar original recording. Basic chord fingering grids are prov... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0739094238
• UPC: 038081455211
• ASIN: 0739094238
• ISBN: 0739094238
• Brand: Alfred Music
• Manufacturer: Alfred Music

Like a Knife: Ideology and Genre in Contemporary Chinese Popular Music (Cornell East Asia Series)

The first comprehensive study of Chinese popular music in a Western language. Drawing on extensive interviews with singers, songwriters and critics, as well as cultural, sociological, musical, and textual analysis, the book portrays the disparate ways in which China's state-run popular music industry and burgeoning underground rock music subculture represented by Cui Jian have been instrumental to the cultural and political struggles that culminated in the Tienanmen democracy movement of 1989. It also examines the links between popular music and contemporary debates about cultural identity and... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0939657570
• ASIN: 0939657570
• ISBN: 0939657570
• Brand: Cornell University - Cornell East Asia Series
• Manufacturer: Cornell University - Cornell East Asia Series

Connect Access Card for Music: An Appreciation, Brief

• ASIN: 1259966194
• ASIN: 1259966194
• ISBN: 1259966194
• Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Education

Hearing the Movies: Music and Sound in Film History

Hearing the Movies, Second Edition, combines a historical and chronological approach to the study of film music and sound with an emphasis on building listening skills. Through engaging, accessible analyses and exercises, the book covers all aspects of the subject, including how a soundtrack is assembled to accompany the visual content, how music enhances the form and style of key film genres, and how technology has influenced the changing landscape of film music.

• ASIN: 0199987718
• ASIN: 0199987718
• ISBN: 0199987718
• Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

Women, Music, Culture: An Introduction

Women, Music, Culture: An Introduction, Second Edition is the first undergraduate textbook on the history and contribution of women in a variety of musical genres and professions, ideal for students in courses in both music and women's studies. A compelling narrative, accompanied by over 50 guided listening examples, brings the world of women in music to life, examining a community of female musicians, including composers, producers, consumers, performers, technicians, mothers, and educators in art music and popular music. The book features a wide array of pedagogical aids, including a ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1138814652
• ASIN: 1138814652
• ISBN: 1138814652
• Brand: Routledge
• Manufacturer: Routledge

Focus On: 100 Most Popular 20Th-century Music Genres: Trap Music, Hip hop Music, Rock Music, Alternative Rock, Emo, Black Metal, Nu Metal, Death Metal, Metalcore, Post-punk, etc.

This carefully crafted ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Focus On books are made out of collections of Wikipedia articles regrouping the most informative and popular articles about a specific subject. The Focus On books are a result of a substantial editorial work of selecting and grouping relevant articles together in order to create a valuable source of information about specific subjects. This book does not contain tables, illustrations or illustration descriptions. Focus On (an imprint of OK Publishing) charges for the convenience se... [Read More]

• ASIN: B079H1Z1DC
• ASIN: B079H1Z1DC
• Manufacturer: Focus On

BEST OF KANSAS (Music)

The Best of Kansas (1999)

• UPC: 928993
• Rating: 4.857

The Best Of Everything - The Definitive Career Spanning Hits Collection (CD)

Two CDs. This collection of personal favorites and important milestones is the first anthology to span Pettys entire career, from the first album to Mudcrutch 2. The album contains 38 tracks including the hits quot;Free

• UPC: 136928324
• Rating: 5.0

Boyz II Men - 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best Of Boyz II Men (CD)

20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection - The Best Of Boyz II

• UPC: 2408411
• Rating: 4.444

The Best Of The Doobies (CD)

The Best Of The Doobies

• UPC: 5765407
• Rating: 5.0

BEST OF SIMON & GARFUNKEL (CD)

The Best Of Simon & Garfunkel

• UPC: 1022280
• Rating: 4.571

Boom Boom Rock N Roll: The Best of Freddy Cannon

Freddys long overdue, first comprehensive collection includes his hits Tallahassee Lassie; Way Down Yonder in New Orleans; Palisades Park; Action; Abigail Beecher; Jump Over; Transistor Sister 24

• UPC: 29499906
• Rating: 5.0

The Best Of The 60s Music and Trivia (CD)

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• UPC: 115110373

Mountain Music: Best of

Mountain Music: Best Of

• UPC: 28571231
• Rating: 4.0

Deitrick Haddon - Best of Deitrick Haddon (CD)

Best Of Deitrick Haddon

• UPC: 38551039
• Rating: 5.0

Great Gonzos: The Best Of Ted Nugent (CD)

Great Gonzos! The Best of Ted

• UPC: 928995