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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Heavy metal Islam	Mark LeVine	"We play heavy metal because our lives are heavy metal."--Reda Zine, one of the founders of the Moroccan heavy-metal scene"Music is the weapon of the future."--Fela KutiAn eighteen-year-old Moroccan …	OL12376852W
A story of New Orleans	Ned Sublette	Spending 2004–2005 in New Orleans investigating the city’s legendary past both in the archives and its living culture in the street, this account combines personal memoir, historical research, and on…	OL13633384W
Bad vibes	Luke Haines	A blackly comic memoir from inside the British music scene in the 90s, by singer songwriter and Auteurs front man Luke Haines First, you fail. After four years of gigs no-one attends, songs no-one he…	OL13816549W
Can't stop, won't stop	Jeff Chang,D.J. Kool Herc	Forged in the fires of the Bronx and Kingston, Jamaica, hip-hop has been a generation-defining global movement. In a post-civil rights era rapidly transformed by deindustrialization and globalization…	OL15835141W
Music and the Renaissance	Philippe Vendrix	This volume unites a collection of articles which illustrate brilliantly the complexity of European cultural history in the Renaissance. On the one hand, scholars of this period were inspired by clas…	OL16093469W
Musical creativities in practice	Pamela Burnard	xv, 308 p. : 25 cm	OL16690819W
How Music Works	David Byrne	The Rock-and-Roll Hall of Fame inductee and co-founder of Talking Heads presents a celebration of music that offers insight into the roles of time, place, and recording technology, discussing how evo…	OL17068219W
Island musics	Kevin Dawe	"There are a number of problems common to all island societies that vary in significance depending on an island's size, demographics and its proximity to the mainland. Problems include remoteness and…	OL18462839W
Music and Marx	Regula Qureshi,Karl Marx	"Music and Marx represents the first time a distinctly diverse set of Marxist-directed approaches to the study of music can be found in a single volume. Widely varied in their topics, each chapter il…	OL19123467W
Foundations of musical grammar	Lawrence Michael Zbikowski	"How is it that humans are able to organize seemingly random sounds into the captivating sonic structures we call music? In this volume, Lawrence M. Zbikowski aruges that humans' unique ability to co…	OL19746676W
Music and Human-Computer Interaction	Simon Holland	This agenda-setting book presents state of the art research in Music and Human-Computer Interaction (also known as ‘Music Interaction’). Music Interaction research is at an exciting and formative sta…	OL19889712W
Houston bound	Tyina L. Steptoe	"From World War I through the 1960s, Houston was transformed into one of the most ethnically and racially diverse urban areas in the United States. Houston Bound draws on social and cultural history …	OL20055835W
The mammoth book of sex, drugs & rock 'n' roll	Jim Driver	Over 60 gripping accounts tracking the dark side of rock 'n' roll from the early days of the drugs-and-drink culture, and the birth of rock 'n' roll, through The Beatles, Stones, Sex Pistols, Madonna…	OL20511720W
Music and history	Jeffrey H. Jackson,Stanley C. Pelkey	This book begins with a simple question: Why haven't historians and musicologists been talking to one another? Historians frequently look to all aspects of human activity, including music, in order t…	OL20520628W
Parallels and Paradoxes	Edward W. Said	These free-wheeling, often exhilarating dialogues--which grew out of the acclaimed Carnegie Hall Talks--are an exchange between two of the most prominent figures in contemporary culture: Daniel Baren…	OL27387W
The voice of Egypt	Virginia Danielson	Umm Kulthum, the "voice of Egypt," was the most celebrated musical performer of the century in the Arab world. More than twenty years after her death, her devoted audience, drawn from all strata of A…	OL3346590W
Music in Everyday Life	Tia DeNora	The power of music to influence mood, create scenes, routines and occasions is widely recognised and this is reflected in a strand of social theory from Plato to Adorno that portrays music as an infl…	OL3505052W
Estrada	David MacFadyen	"In Estrada?!, the second volume of a three-part series on Russian popular song, David MacFadyen extends his overview of Russian culture and society into the post-Soviet period. Having dispelled seve…	OL5657386W
The World in Six Songs	Daniel J. Levitin	The author of the New York Times bestseller and Los Angeles Times Book Award Finalist This Is Your Brain on Music tunes us in to six evolutionary musical forms that brought about the evolution of hum…	OL7952953W
The Triumph of Pleasure	Georgia J. Cowart	"Prominent components of Louis XIV's propaganda, the arts of spectacle also became sources of a potent resistance to the monarchy in late seventeenth-century France. With a particular focus on the co…	OL9347795W