MusicHound Swing!

MusicHound Swing!

Author: Steve Knopper

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 502

ISBN-13:

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Rates, reviews, and analyzes the works of over 300 artists from yesterday and today, including Louis Armstrong, Harry Connick Jr., Bing Crosby, Glenn Miller, Jelly Roll Morton, and Lester Young.


The Swing Book

The Swing Book

Author: Degen Pener

Publisher: Back Bay Books

Published: 2009-06-27

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9780316076678

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Ten years ago a revival of swing took place, originating in San Francisco, snowballing into today's international resurgence. This book presents the complete history of swing music and dancing, then and now.


MusicHound Jazz

MusicHound Jazz

Author: Music Hound

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 1418

ISBN-13:

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You've probably seen other jazz guides, but you haven't run across anything quite like MusicHound Jazz. It delivers sound advice on what to buy and what not to buy. Explore the rich world of jazz, from the soulful vocals of Bessie Smith to the groundbreaking explorations of John Coltrane. This comprehensive guide has it all - page after page of interesting facts, opinions, recording reviews and biographies on nearly 1,300 artists. But that's not all. Enjoy more than 100 stunning photos of jazz greats. Learn who influenced each artist and why. Discover what makes each one unique. Then sample some smokin' jazz with the CD sampler from the legendary jazz label Blue Note.


The Popular Music Teaching Handbook

The Popular Music Teaching Handbook

Author: B. Lee Cooper

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2004-04-30

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 0313072728

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The function of print resources as instructional guides and descriptors of popular music pedagogy are addressed in this concise volume. Increasingly, public school teachers and college-level faculty members are introducing and utilizing music-related educational approaches in their classrooms. This book lists reports dealing with popular music resources as classroom teaching materials, and will stimulate further thought among students and teachers. It focuses on the growing spectrum of published scholarship available to instructors in specific teaching fields (art, geography, social studies, urban studies, and so on) as well as on the multitude of general resources (including biographical directories and encyclopedias of artist profiles). Building on two recent publications: Teaching with Popular Music Resources: A Bibliography of Interdisciplinary Instructional Approaches, Popular Music and Society, XXII, no. 2 (Summer 1998), and American Culture Interpreted through Popular Music: Interdisciplinary Teaching Approaches (Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 2000), this volume focuses on the growing spectrum of published scholarship that is available to instructors in specific teaching fields (art, geography, social studies, urban studies, and so on) as well as on the multitude of general resources (including biographical directories and encyclopedias of artist profiles).


MusicHound Folk

MusicHound Folk

Author: Neal Walters

Publisher: Visible Ink Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 1110

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Offers discographies and reviews of recordings by hundreds of folk artists, with suggestions on what to buy and what to avoid.


The Later Swing Era, 1942 to 1955

The Later Swing Era, 1942 to 1955

Author: Lawrence McClellan

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2004-08-30

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 0313058121

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Today's Retro Swing bands, like the Squirrel Nut Zippers and the Brian Setzer Orchestra, all owe their inspiration to the original masters of Swing. This rich reference details the oeuvre of the leading Swing musicians from the WWII and post-WWII years. Chapters on the masters of Swing (Ella Fitzgerald, Woody Herman, Billy Strayhorn), the legendary Big Band leaders (such as Les Brown, Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Kenton, Buddy Rich, Vaughan Monroe, etc.), vocalists (including Cab Calloway, Billie Holiday, Peggy Lee, Frank Sinatra, Sarah Vaughn, Dinah Washington), and Small Groups (Louis Jordan, Art Tatum, Charlie Ventura, etc.) introduce these timeless musicians to a new generation of musicians and music fans. An opening chapter recounts how the cultural changes during the war and postwar years affected performers-especially women and African-Americans-and an A-to-Z appendix provides synopses of almost 700 entrants, including related musicians and famous venues. A bibliography and subject index provide additional tools for those researching Swing music and its many roles in mid-century American culture. This volume is a perfect sequel to Dave Oliphant's The Early Swing Era: 1930 to 1941. Together, these books provide the perfect reference guide to an enduring form of American music.


MusicHound Country

MusicHound Country

Author: Brian Mansfield

Publisher: Visible Ink Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 678

ISBN-13:

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"Country", a buyer's guide which helps consumers build their CD collections, profiles and reviews the work of 1,000 individual artists and groups, from Patsy Cline and Bill Monroe to Garth Brooks and Allison Krause and Union Station. The bonus CD is a sampler of some of the hottest country music out there. 125 photos.


Jazz Books in the 1990s

Jazz Books in the 1990s

Author: Janice Leslie Hochstat Greenberg

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2010-03-18

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 0810869861

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This annotated bibliography contains over 700 entries covering adult non-fiction books on jazz published from 1990 through 1999. Entries are organized by category, including biographies, history, individual instruments, essays and criticism, musicology, regional studies, discographies, and reference works. Three indexes—by title, author, and subject—are included.


MusicHound Rock

MusicHound Rock

Author: Gary Graff

Publisher: Gale Cengage

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 970

ISBN-13: 9780787610371

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Profiles prominent performers with discographies and reviews.


Jazz

Jazz

Author: Eddie S. Meadows

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-23

Total Pages: 782

ISBN-13: 1136776028

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Jazz: Research and Pedagogy is the third edition of an annotated bibliography to books, recordings, videos, and websites in the field of jazz. Since the publication of the 2nd edition in 1995, the quantity and quality of books on jazz research, performance, and teaching materials have increased. Although the 1995 book was the most comprehensive annotated jazz bibliography published to that date, several books on research, performance, and teaching materials were omitted. In addition, given the proliferation of new books in all jazz areas since 1995, the need for a new, comprehensive, and annotated reference book on jazz is apparent. Multiply indexed, this book will serve as an excellent tool for librarians, researchers, and scholars in sorting through the massive amount of new material that has appeared in the field over the last decade.