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The Cambridge Companion to the Singer-Songwriter

Author : Katherine Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316495345
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Singer-Songwriter written by Katherine Williams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most often associated with modern artists such as Bob Dylan, Elton John, Don McLean, Neil Diamond, and Carole King, the singer-songwriter tradition in fact has a long and complex history dating back to the medieval troubadour and earlier. This Companion explains the historical contexts, musical analyses, and theoretical frameworks of the singer-songwriter tradition. Divided into five parts, the book explores the tradition in the context of issues including authenticity, gender, queer studies, musical analysis, and performance. The contributors reveal how the tradition has been expressed around the world and throughout its history to the present day. Essential reading for enthusiasts, practitioners, students, and scholars, this book features case studies of a wide range of both well and lesser-known singer-songwriters, from Thomas d'Urfey through to Carole King and Kanye West.

The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan

Author : Kevin J. H. Dettmar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781139828437
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (284 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan written by Kevin J. H. Dettmar and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-19 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A towering figure in American culture and a global twentieth-century icon, Bob Dylan has been at the centre of American life for over forty years. The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan brings fresh insights into the imposing range of Dylan's creative output. The first Part approaches Dylan's output thematically, tracing the evolution of Dylan's writing and his engagement with American popular music, religion, politics, fame, and his work as a songwriter and performer. Essays in Part II analyse his landmark albums to examine the consummate artistry of Dylan's most accomplished studio releases. As a writer Dylan has courageously chronicled and interpreted many of the cultural upheavals in America since World War II. This book will be invaluable both as a guide for students of Dylan and twentieth-century culture, and for his fans, providing a set of new perspectives on a much-loved writer and composer.

The Singer-Songwriter Handbook

Author : Justin Williams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1628920297
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book The Singer-Songwriter Handbook written by Justin Williams and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The singer-songwriter, someone who writes and performs their own music, is an ever-present and increasingly complex figure in popular music worlds. The Singer-Songwriter Handbook provides a useful resource for student songwriters, active musicians, fans and scholars alike. This handbook is divided into four main sections: Songwriting (acoustic and digital), Performance, Music Industry and Case Studies. Section I focuses on the 'how to' elements of popular song composition, embracing a range of perspectives and methods, in addition to chapters on the teaching of songwriting to students. Section II deals with the nature of performance: stagecraft, open mic nights, and a number of case studies that engage with performing in a range of contexts. Section III is devoted to aspects of the music industry and the business of music including sales, contract negotiations, copyright, social media and marketing. Section IV provides specific examples of singer-songwriter personae and global open mic scenes. The Singer-Songwriter Handbook is a much-needed single resource for budding singer-songwriters as well as songwriting pedagogues.

The Cambridge Companion to Hip-Hop

Author : Justin A. Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107037468
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Hip-Hop written by Justin A. Williams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion covers the hip-hop elements, methods of studying hip-hop, and case studies from Nerdcore to Turkish-German and Japanese hip-hop.

Nilsson

Author : Alyn Shipton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199330697
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Nilsson written by Alyn Shipton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-19 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul McCartney and John Lennon described him as the Beatles' "favorite group," he won Grammy awards, wrote and recorded hit songs, and yet no figure in popular music is as much of a paradox, or as underrated, as Harry Nilsson. In this first ever full-length biography, Alyn Shipton traces Nilsson's life from his Brooklyn childhood to his Los Angeles adolescence and his gradual emergence as a uniquely talented singer-songwriter. With interviews from friends, family, and associates, and material drawn from an unfinished autobiography, Shipton probes beneath the enigma to discover the real Harry Nilsson. A major celebrity at a time when huge concerts and festivals were becoming the norm, Nilsson shunned live performance. His venue was the studio, his stage the dubbing booth, his greatest triumphs masterful examples of studio craft. He was a gifted composer of songs for a wide variety of performers, including the Ronettes, the Yardbirds, and the Monkees, yet Nilsson's own biggest hits were almost all written by other songwriters. He won two Grammy awards, in 1969 for "Everybody's Talkin'" (the theme song for Midnight Cowboy), and in 1972 for "Without You," had two top ten singles, numerous album successes, and wrote a number of songs--"Coconut" and "Jump into the Fire," to name just two--that still sound remarkably fresh and original today. He was once described by his producer Richard Perry as "the finest white male singer on the planet," but near the end of his life, Nilsson's career was marked by voice-damaging substance abuse and the infamous deaths of both Keith Moon and Mama Cass in his London flat. Drawing on exclusive access to Nilsson's papers, Alyn Shipton's biography offers readers an intimate portrait of a man who has seemed both famous and unknowable--until now.

Dylan, Lennon, Marx and God

Author : Jon Stewart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108489818
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Dylan, Lennon, Marx and God written by Jon Stewart and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-09 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ground-breaking dual biography that explores pop music's two most influential songwriters, offering new insights into their creative thinking.

The Music of Joni Mitchell

Author : Lloyd Whitesell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019988577X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book The Music of Joni Mitchell written by Lloyd Whitesell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-08-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joni Mitchell is one of the foremost singer-songwriters of the late twentieth century. Yet despite her reputation, influence, and cultural importance, a detailed appraisal of her musical achievement is still lacking. Whitesell presents a through exploration of Mitchell's musical style, sound, and structure in order to evaluate her songs from a musicological perspective. His analyses are conceived within a holistic framework that takes account of poetic nuance, cultural reference, and stylistic evolution over a long, adventurous career. Mitchell's songs represent a complex, meticulously crafted body of work. The Music of Joni Mitchell offers a comprehensive survey of her output, with many discussions of individual songs, organized by topic rather than chronology. Individual chapters each explore a different aspect of her craft, such as poetic voice, harmony, melody, and large-scale form. A separate chapter is devoted to the central theme of personal freedom, as expressed through diverse symbolic registers of the journey quest, bohemianism, creative license, and spiritual liberation. Previous accounts of Mitchell's songwriting have tended to favor her poetic vision, expansive verse structures, and riveting vocal delivery. Whitesell fills out this account with special attention to musical technique, showing how such traits as complex or conflicting sonorities, dualities of harmonic mode, dialectical tensions of texture and register, intricately layered instrumental figuration, and a variable vocal persona are all essential to her distinctive identity as a songwriter. The Music of Joni Mitchell develops a set of conceptual tools geared specifically to Mitchell's songs, in order to demonstrate the extent of her technical innovation in the pop song genre, to give an account of the formal sophistication and rhetorical power characterizing her work as a whole, and to provide grounds for the recognition of her intellectual stature as a composer within her chosen field.

The Cambridge Companion to the Lied

Author : James Parsons
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521804714
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Lied written by James Parsons and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-07 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan

Author : Kevin J. H. Dettmar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521886945
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan written by Kevin J. H. Dettmar and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-19 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively set of new essays on Dylan's work as a writer and composer and on his place in American culture.

Remembered for a While

Author : Nick Drake
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 9780316340625
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Remembered for a While written by Nick Drake and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2014-12-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid portrait of the English singer-songwriter and musician Nick Drake Nicholas Rodney "Nick" Drake was an English singer-songwriter and musician, known for his acoustic guitar-based songs. Drake released only three complete albums -- Five Leaves Left (1969), Bryter Layter (1970), Pink Moon (1972) -- and was not well known before his death in 1974. Yet he gained a massive posthumous following, inspiring leading musicians such as R.E.M.'s Peter Buck and Robert Smith of The Cure and bands such as Coldplay and The Black Crowes. Forty years after Nick's death, Remembered for a While peels back some of the mystery surrounding his life. The book will feature gorgeous color photographs, as well as original letters and interviews with family and friends. As Nick's sister writes in the introduction, Remembered for a While will reveal "the poet, the musician, the friend, the son, the brother, who was also more than all of these together, and as indefinable as the morning mist." At long last, Remembered for a While paints a portrait of a visionary musician who inspired a fanatical following and whose legacy continues to inspire future generations of musicians -- and the lives of his fans.

The Cambridge Companion to the Singer-Songwriter

Author : Katherine Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107063647
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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The Cambridge Companion to the Drum Kit

Author : Matt Brennan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108489834
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Drum Kit written by Matt Brennan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-17 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An approachable introduction to the drum kit, drummers, and drumming, and the key debates surrounding the instrument and its players.

The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis

Author : Ciro Scotto
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134830858
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis written by Ciro Scotto and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-28 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis: Expanding Approaches widens the scope of analytical approaches for popular music by incorporating methods developed for analyzing contemporary art music. This study endeavors to create a new analytical paradigm for examining popular music from the perspective of developments in contemporary art music. "Expanded approaches" for popular music analysis is broadly defined as as exploring the pitch-class structures, form, timbre, rhythm, or aesthetics of various forms of popular music in a conceptual space not limited to the domain of common practice tonality but broadened to include any applicable compositional, analytical, or theoretical concept that illuminates the music. The essays in this collection investigate a variety of analytical, theoretical, historical, and aesthetic commonalities popular music shares with 20th and 21st century art music. From rock and pop to hip hop and rap, dance and electronica, from the 1930s to present day, this companion explores these connections in five parts: Establishing and Expanding Analytical Frameworks Technology and Timbre Rhythm, Pitch, and Harmony Form and Structure Critical Frameworks: Analytical, Formal, Structural, and Political With contributions by established scholars and promising emerging scholars in music theory and historical musicology from North America, Europe, and Australia, The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis: Expanding Approaches offers nuanced and detailed perspectives that address the relationships between concert and popular music.

The Cambridge Companion to the Musical

Author : William A. Everett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107114748
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Musical written by William A. Everett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expanded and updated edition of this acclaimed, wide-ranging survey of musical theatre in New York, London, and elsewhere.

The Cambridge Companion to Duke Ellington

Author : Edward Green
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316194132
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Duke Ellington written by Edward Green and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-08 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Duke Ellington is widely held to be the greatest jazz composer and one of the most significant cultural icons of the twentieth century. This comprehensive and accessible Companion is the first collection of essays to survey, in depth, Ellington's career, music, and place in popular culture. An international cast of authors includes renowned scholars, critics, composers, and jazz musicians. Organized in three parts, the Companion first sets Ellington's life and work in context, providing new information about his formative years, method of composing, interactions with other musicians, and activities abroad; its second part gives a complete artistic biography of Ellington; and the final section is a series of specific musical studies, including chapters on Ellington and song-writing, the jazz piano, descriptive music, and the blues. Featuring a chronology of the composer's life and major recordings, this book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in Ellington's enduring artistic legacy.

The Cambridge Companion to Jewish Music

Author : Joshua S. Walden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107023459
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Jewish Music written by Joshua S. Walden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A global history of Jewish music from the biblical era to the present day, with chapters by leading international scholars.

The Cambridge Companion to Singing

Author : John Potter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139825771
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Singing written by John Potter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-04-13 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranging from medieval music to Madonna and beyond, this book covers in detail the many aspects of the voice. The volume is divided into four broad areas. Popular Traditions begins with an overview of singing traditions in world music and continues with aspects of rock, rap and jazz. The Voice in the Theatre includes both opera singing from the beginnings to the present day and twentieth-century stage and screen entertainers. Choral Music and Song features a history of the art song, essential hints on singing in a larger choir, the English cathedral tradition and a history of the choral movement in the United States. The final substantial section on performance practices ranges from the voice in the Middle Ages and the interpretation of early singing treatises to contemporary vocal techniques, ensemble singing, the teaching of singing, children's choirs, and a comprehensive exposition of vocal acoustics.