Diary Of A Mad Band Director

Author : T. D. Hollins
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781984538307

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Diary of a Mad Band Director by T. D. Hollins Pdf

This might be my last yearnot because I let it beat me but because I have finally found the happiness that Ive been searching for all my life. Ironically, I found it in a place that has nothing to do with music. You see, happiness is the single life essential for which we all long for. We feel happiness when we perform. We feel happiness when we have successful lessons that indicate student learning. We feel happiness when our peers, our colleagues, and our communities love what we have provided. This happiness is what I now refer to as sound living. It has been a journey to finally live soundly. The reason why it is difficult for a music educator to find that true happiness is because we often end up having a conflicting relationship with our passion. We love music, but we hate that we have to validate our existence.

Author : Colin Larkin
Publisher : Omnibus Press
Page : 1600 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780857125958

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The Encyclopedia of Popular Music by Colin Larkin Pdf

This text presents a comprehensive and up-to-date reference work on popular music, from the early 20th century to the present day.

Author : Alexander Ghedi Weheliye
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781478027294

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Feenin by Alexander Ghedi Weheliye Pdf

In Feenin, Alexander Ghedi Weheliye traces R&B music’s continuing centrality in Black life since the late 1970s. Focusing on various musical production and reproduction technologies such as auto-tune and the materiality of the BlackFem singing voice, Weheliye counteracts the widespread popular and scholarly narratives of the genre’s decline and death. He shows how R&B remains a thriving venue for the expression of Black thought and life and a primary archive of the contemporary moment. Among other topics, Weheliye discusses the postdisco evolution of house music in Chicago and techno in Detroit, Prince and David Bowie in relation to appropriations of Blackness and Euro-whiteness in the 1980s, how the BlackFem voice functions as a repository of Black knowledge, the methods contemporary R&B musicians use to bring attention to Black Lives Matter, and the ways vocal distortion technologies such as the vocoder demonstrate Black music’s relevance to discussions of humanism and posthumanism. Ultimately, Feenin represents Weheliye’s capacious thinking about R&B as the site through which to consider questions of Blackness, technology, history, humanity, community, diaspora, and nationhood.

Author : Emma Kowalski
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-29
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781422294697

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The Story of Mosley Music Group by Emma Kowalski Pdf

Since the mid-1990s, Tim Mosley—better known as Timbaland—has been one of the most in-demand and critically respected producers in the music industry. His credits include numerous hits in hip-hop, as well as dance, R&B, pop, and rock. But that isn't the only contribution Timbaland has made to the music scene. In 2006, he became the CEO of his own record label, Mosley Music Group. Open to all kinds of acts, the label is part of, and distributed by, Interscope Records. Mosley Music Group has released several star-studded albums. The label has given new creative outlets to experienced artists like Nelly Furtado and Chris Cornell, and helped launch the careers of artists like OneRepublic, Keri Hilson, D.O.E., and MC Hayes. This book profiles all of Mosley Music Group's past and present artists and their releases, as well as the fascinating story of Timbaland's long and influential career.

Author : Thomas Harrison
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780313379437

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Music of the 1990s by Thomas Harrison Pdf

Red Hot Chili Peppers, Goo Goo Dolls, Nirvana, Green Day, Mariah Carey, Notorious B.I.G., Billy Ray Cyrus, Backstreet Boys... the list goes on. Meet all the 1990s' essential musical artists in one insightful volume. During the 1990s, musical genres became more commercialized than ever—and that was just one of the many changes that characterized the decade. Music of the 1990s offers a detailed and wide-ranging view of the important music of the '90s, identifying the artists and the important compositions—popular, classical, and jazz—that helped shape the period. The book focuses on key artists in specific genres in popular music, including pop, hard rock/heavy metal, rock, and country. Specialized genres are examined as well, in a chapter that discusses prominent artists and composers in musical theater, jazz, popular Christian music, and classical music. Among other topics, the book looks at the growth of urban-based rap and other popular music in the context of the rise of music television. Hard rock and heavy metal are also examined within the music video idiom. New trends in mainstream rock and country music are explored as well.

Author : Stephen Budiansky
Publisher : ForeEdge
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781611685145

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Mad Music by Stephen Budiansky Pdf

Mad Music is the story of Charles Edward Ives (1874Ð1954), the innovative American composer who achieved international recognition, but only after he'd stopped making music. While many of his best works received little attention in his lifetime, Ives is now appreciated as perhaps the most important American composer of the twentieth century and father of the diverse lines of Aaron Copland and John Cage. Ives was also a famously wealthy crank who made millions in the insurance business and tried hard to establish a reputation as a crusty New Englander. To Stephen Budiansky, Ives's life story is a personification of America emerging as a world power: confident and successful, yet unsure of the role of art and culture in a modernizing nation. Though Ives steadfastly remained an outsider in many ways, his life and times inform us of subjects beyond music, including the mystic movement, progressive anticapitalism, and the initial hesitancy of turn-of-the-century-America modernist intellectuals. Deeply researched and elegantly written, this accessible biography tells a uniquely American story of a hidden genius, disparaged as a dilettante, who would shape the history of music in a profound way. Making use of newly published lettersÑand previously undiscovered archival sources bearing on the longstanding mystery of Ives's health and creative declineÑthis absorbing volume provides a definitive look at the life and times of a true American original.

Author : Vladimir Bogdanov
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 4139 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003-08-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781617134968

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All Music Guide to Soul by Vladimir Bogdanov Pdf

This comprehensive guide is a must-have for the legions of fans of the beloved and perennially popular music known as soul and rhythm & blues. The latest in the definitive All Music Guide series, the All Music Guide to Soul offers nearly 8 500 entertaining and informative reviews that lead readers to the best recordings by more than 1 500 artists and help them find new music to explore. Informative biographies, essays and “music maps” trace R&B's growth from its roots in blues and gospel through its flowering in Memphis and Motown, to its many branches today. Complete discographies note bootlegs, important out-of-print albums, and import-only releases. “Extremely valuable and exhaustive.” – The Christian Science Monitor

Author : Kenneth Attaway
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781425971069

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In the Arms of Baby Hop by Kenneth Attaway Pdf

Many times in my adult life, I have had what I would call an "awake out-of-body experience." During these times, I was peeking in at my life in a dream state; thinking this cannot be my life. I found myself asking the questions of what happened to the child who outsmarted the world and what happened to the teen who had all the answers and confidence to boot, and the young adult who never settled for can't. Well, somewhere along the way, the only thing left of who I was once was, were just shreds of an almost non-existent life. Now, don't get me wrong, there were some good times along the way, but it certainly was not always smooth sailing. But what came later in life was no comparison to the early years. Not that long ago, my life was filled with disappointment, brokenness, worry, anxiety, and fear. I survived breakups and breakdowns, sadness and pain, grief and loss beyond description, all of which led to a one-way ticket to Depression Central. Getting off the road to depression was very difficult for me, but there is no job too hard for God. If you can relate to the paralyzing despair that I went through, then please know that I fellowship with you and understand the grip depression and anxiety can have on your life. However, I want you to know that your destination does not have to be a one-way ticket to the land of despair, instead, your journey can bring you to a place of joy and peace if you simply trust and believe in God.

Author : Nathan Brackett,Christian David Hoard
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 948 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : POPULAR MUSIC--DISCOGRAPHY.
ISBN : 9780743201698

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The New Rolling Stone Album Guide by Nathan Brackett,Christian David Hoard Pdf

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Author : Scott Poulson-Bryant,Smokey Fontaine
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002-05-21
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780743229555

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What's Your Hi-Fi Q? by Scott Poulson-Bryant,Smokey Fontaine Pdf

Two veteran music journalists provide the ultimate trivia test, quizzing on every black music genre from the funk and soul of the '70s to the rap and R&B of today. Two-color throughout. 60 photos.

Author : Frank Hoffmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2569 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004-11-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135949501

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Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound by Frank Hoffmann Pdf

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Gerri Hirshey
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2002-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 0802138993

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We Gotta Get Out of This Place by Gerri Hirshey Pdf

Called "a kind of female Cameron Crowe" by the "Chicago Tribune, " Hirshey's narrative is based on original interviews, as she serves up a tasty platter of girl groups and soul queens, acoustic goddesses and priestesses of the avant-garde, punk grrrls, glamazons, and innovators of hip-hop and neo-soul. Photos.

Author : Keith Spera
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 1429962070

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Groove Interrupted by Keith Spera Pdf

The recent history of New Orleans is fraught with tragedy and triumph. Both are reflected in the city's vibrant, idiosyncratic music community. In Keith Spera's intimately reported Groove Interrupted, Aaron Neville returns to New Orleans for the first time after Hurricane Katrina to bury his wife. Fats Domino improbably rambles around Manhattan to promote a post-Katrina tribute CD. Alex Chilton lives anonymously in a battered cottage in the Treme neighborhood. Platinum-selling rapper Mystikal rekindles his career after six years in prison. Jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard struggles to translate Katrina into music. The spotlight also shines on Allen Toussaint, Pete Fountain, Gatemouth Brown, the Rebirth Brass Band, Phil Anselmo, Juvenile, Jeremy Davenport and the 2006 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. With heartache, hope, humor and resolve, each of these contemporary narratives stands on its own. Together, they convey that the funky, syncopated spirit of New Orleans music is unbreakable, in spite of Katrina's interruption.

Author : Dan Kimpel
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Music
ISBN : 0634076426

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How They Made It by Dan Kimpel Pdf

Everyone comes from somewhere: How They Made It is a savvy insider's tale that traces the career trajectories of a cross section of top selling recording artists, puncturing the mythologies of the music business to reveal the truths within. Hard work and persistence are the common themes, dispelling the notion of "overnight success." Artists covered include Jim Brickman, Green Day, Norah Jones, Maroon5, John Mayer, Alanis Morissette, OutKast, Rufus Wainright and Lee Ann Womack. * Author is well-known writer for Music Connection magazine, the best source for music business news published from Los Angeles.

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1398 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Law
ISBN : OSU:32437123226595

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Congressional Record by United States. Congress Pdf