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The Wall Street gospel / by Magliato, Joe

If Beale Street could talk music, community, culture / by Cantwell, Robert, 1945-

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Off the record 25 years of music street press /

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Tonality as drama closure and interruption in four twentieth-century American operas / by Latham, Edward David

Table of Contents: “…Tonality as drama: an introduction -- Dramatic closure: the Stanislavsky system and the attainment of character objectives -- Tonal closure: a Schenkerian approach to tonal drama -- The completed background line with open-ended coda: Scott Joplin's grand opera Treemonisha (1911) -- The multi-movement Anstieg or initial ascent: George Gershwin's folk opera Porgy and Bess (1935) -- The multi-movement initial arpeggiation: Kurt Weill's Broadway opera Street scene (1947) -- The prolonged permanent interruption: Aaron Copland's operatic tone poem The tender land (1954).…”
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Tonality as Drama Closure and Interruption in Four Twentieth-Century American Operas / by Latham, Edward David

Table of Contents: “…Tonality as drama: an introduction -- Dramatic closure: the Stanislavsky system and the attainment of character objectives -- Tonal closure: a Schenkerian approach to tonal drama -- The completed background line with open-ended coda: Scott Joplin's grand opera Treemonisha (1911) -- The multi-movement Anstieg or initial ascent: George Gershwin's folk opera Porgy and Bess (1935) -- The multi-movement initial arpeggiation: Kurt Weill's Broadway opera Street scene (1947) -- The prolonged permanent interruption: Aaron Copland's operatic tone poem The tender land (1954).…”
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Tonality as Drama : Closure and Interruption in Four Twentieth-Century American Operas / by Latham, Edward David

Table of Contents: “…Tonality as drama: an introduction -- Dramatic closure: the Stanislavsky system and the attainment of character objectives -- Tonal closure: a Schenkerian approach to tonal drama -- The completed background line with open-ended coda: Scott Joplin's grand opera Treemonisha (1911) -- The multi-movement Anstieg or initial ascent: George Gershwin's folk opera Porgy and Bess (1935) -- The multi-movement initial arpeggiation: Kurt Weill's Broadway opera Street scene (1947) -- The prolonged permanent interruption: Aaron Copland's operatic tone poem The tender land (1954).…”
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Pearl Harbor jazz change in popular music in the early 1940s / by Townsend, Peter, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Louis -- The war -- The alley -- The road -- Disorder at the border -- The avenue -- The street -- Postscript : Black, Brown, and Beige.…”
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New Atlantis musicians battle for the survival of New Orleans / by Swenson, John

Table of Contents: “…Voice of the wetlands -- African Americans and Indians -- The Constantinople of the New World -- Sad night in Jackson Square -- Return of the spirits -- Let it go -- Don't let them wash us away -- Reality check -- Don't take my picture -- Musicians strike back at violence -- I am New Orleans -- Shorty on the block -- The Armstrong legacy -- Cold in the trailer -- If I can help somebody -- Baghdad on the Mississippi -- Brown baby dead in the water -- On the fringes -- City that care forgot -- Wild and free -- Saving at the bank of soul -- It ain't just the suit -- Bourbon Street blues -- Snooks flies away -- Ghosts of traditional jazz -- New blood -- Jazz fest turns 40 -- New Atlantis -- Mcdermott's duets -- Cyril's nightmare -- The wizard of Piety Street -- Blues come down like rain -- Cyril comes full circle -- Marching in.…”
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In the heart of the beat the poetry of rap / by Pate, Alexs D., 1950-

Table of Contents: “…-- A matter of life : a brief discussion -- From the streets : coloring the multicultural black -- Defining rap/poetry -- Where you from? …”
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One man's music the life and times of Texas songwriter Vince Bell / by Bell, Vince

Table of Contents: “…Foreword by Kathleen Hudson -- Sorcerers' apprentice -- Look of the loner looking at it -- Sweat like a boxer -- Sinbad and the silver tooth -- Music where the words are the important part -- I'm not this way because I'm a musician, I'm a musician because I'm this way -- Secret mountain laboratory -- Six strings, no kick -- Three-day ride to the kitchen -- The songwriter -- Elastic plastic fork and pitiable paper plate -- Bermuda triangle -- Name unknown -- Rumor of my demise -- Room 933 -- If it was time for the musicians to call, it was time to go home and fix it -- Providence Street -- Even up on Misery Ave., they sometimes dance and sing -- Path of least regret -- Music school -- Edge of the world -- Monday for two years -- Keep your eyes in the sky -- Second Street -- Fate worse than death -- Wizard of odds -- Adrift in paradise -- Give chance a chance -- Prize for not working hard enough -- Phoenix -- Album of a lifetime -- The poetry in the prose -- Play like you practice -- Texas plates -- Say in your owndamnway -- The bottom line -- Live in Texas -- Rough old Texas hands.…”
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Jazz religion, the second line, and Black New Orleans by Turner, Richard Brent

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Follow the second line -- The Haiti-New Orleans vodou connection : Zora Neale Hurston as initiate observer -- Mardi Gras Indians and second lines, sequin artists and rara bands : street festivals and performances in New Orleans and Haiti -- Interlude: The healing arts of African diasporic religion -- In rhythm with the spirit : New Orleans jazz funerals and the African diaspora -- Epilogue : A jazz funeral for "a city that care forgot" : the New Orleans diaspora after Hurricane Katrina.…”
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Old-time music and dance community and folk revival / by Bealle, John

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : conjuring history -- An apocryphal story -- Old-time music revival -- Banjo pedagogy -- Back to the land -- The green house -- The old-time community -- The jukebox -- The orange sheet -- Anne's a bride tonight -- Opening up -- Gardening and dumpstering -- The Bean King -- The Indiana contra dancers' lament -- The Gang of Four -- Easy Street -- Dance camps -- The sovereign self -- Bloomington Quarry Morris -- May Day -- Dare to be square -- The Shuffle Creek Cloggers -- The old library -- Sugar Hill -- Young audiences -- Little Bloomington -- Eight miles from town -- The piano controversy -- The book -- Collection time! …”
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The Rolling Stones sociological perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…The Spider and the Fly : authenticity, dualism, and the Rolling Stones / by Andrea Cossu and Matteo Bortolini -- The anti-Beatles : the Beatles versus Stones debate during the "British invasion"/ by Andre Millard -- Exile on main street and the end of the counterculture / by Barry J. …”
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Dwight Yoakam a thousand miles from nowhere / by McLeese, Don

Table of Contents: “…-- Honky-tonk man -- "It's jes' ol' hillbilly stuff" -- Hillbilly deluxe -- Streets of Bakersfield -- Bonus cut -- "Well, i'm back again ..." -- Wild ride -- Gone, real gone -- Act naturally -- The same fool -- Playing out the string -- South of heaven, west of hell (and off the charts) -- Splitsville -- Produced by Dwight Yoakam -- The buck stops here -- "I wanna love again, feel young again" -- The Dwight dozen : a selected discography.…”
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If these halls could talk a historical tour through San Francisco recording studios / by Johnson, Heather

Table of Contents: “…The Record Plant : magical seeds ; Concord Records : past and future ; Different Fur ; Wally Heider Recording hits its stride ; The Automatt : the next cycle ; The Record Plant : new roots ; Recording in and out of the city -- The eighties : excess goes high tech. From Heider to Hyde Street ; A public Fantasy ; Eighties outposts ; San Francisco hills and valleys -- The nineties : from digital boom to dotcom bust. …”
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Enchanted evenings the Broadway musical from Show boat to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber / by Block, Geoffrey Holden, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Sweeney Todd, the demon barber of Fleet Street and Sunday in the park with George : happily ever after West side story with Sondheim ; The Phantom of the opera : the reigning champion of Broadway.…”
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Freedom and the arts essays on music and literature / by Rosen, Charles, 1927-2012

Table of Contents: “…-- Frédéric Chopin, reactionary and revolutionary -- Robert Schumann, a vision of the future -- Long perspectives -- The New Grove's dictionary returns -- Western music : the view from California -- Theodore Adorno : criticism as cultural nostalgia -- Resuscitating opera : Alessandro Scarlatti -- Operatic paradoxes : the ridiculous and sublime -- Lost chords and the golden age of pianism -- Montaigne : philosophy as process -- La Fontaine : the ethical power of style -- The anatomy lesson : melancholy and the invention of boredom -- Mallarmé and the transfiguration of poetry -- Hoffmansthal and radical modernism -- The private obsessions of Wystan Auden -- Old wisdom and newfangled theory : two one-way streets to disaster.…”
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Fire in the water, earth in the air legends of West Texas music / by Oglesby, Christopher J. (Christopher Joseph), 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Terry Allen : going back to the dirt -- Richard Bowden : underground Lubbock -- Lloyd Maines : it's amazing how much gets done -- Jay Boy Adams : chicken-fried memories -- Don Caldwell : selling the family farm for a song -- Bobby Keys : like a rolling stone -- Tom X Hancock : the supernatural family band -- Butch Hancock : the universe in a grain of sand -- Angela Strehli : blues in a Texas town -- Jesse "Guitar" Taylor : a bad loud place -- Ponty Bone : illumination on the streets of Lubbock -- Bruce Jaggers : the greatest show on earth -- Joe Ely : lord of the highway -- Sharon Ely : living on dreams -- Kimmie Rhodes : West Texas angel -- Jo Harvey Allen : take me back to Paradox City -- Jo Carol Pierce : bad girl upset by the truth -- Guy Juke : life imitates art -- David Halley : hitchhiking to nirvana -- Cary Swinney : desperate searcher -- Doug Smith : music ordained by God -- Downé Burns : back to the basics of love -- Bob Livingston : gonzo compadre -- Wade Parks : nothing else to do -- Colin Gilmore : living in dichotomy -- Jimmie Dale Gilmore : Hub City mover -- Mac Davis : happiness is Lubbock, Texas.…”
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This note's for you : popular music + advertising = marketing excellence / by Allan, David

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