History and Tradition of Jazz

Author(s): Thomas E Larson

History and Tradition of Jazz is not just a story of jazz music and musicians, but the struggle to achieve, create, and invent for the sake of this musical art form.  The publication features stories and legends of important events and people who shaped jazz history, while addressing how the music h...

The Musical Experience

Author(s): John Chiego, Joel S. Schnackel

The Musical Experience is a seamlessly integrated enhanced learning package that features a thematic approach to music appreciation— each theme is described along a historical timeline.Whether it is music to Celebrate, Music from the Stage, or Music for Mourning, the reader will associate the music ...

History of Rock and Roll

Author(s): Thomas E Larson

Here’s your backstage pass to the history of rock and roll.Thomas Larson’s History of Rock & Roll connects music and the culture in which it interacted. Designed for the college non-music major, History of Rock & Roll fuses a text, website, and online music library to cover the music’s story of cont...

Living the Dream, The Morning After Music School: A DIY Guide to the Music Business

Author(s): Brian Horner

Based on parallels drawn between fundamental areas of music performance and their counterparts in the business world, Living The Dream...The Morning After Music School – a DIY guide to the music business offers insights and tools to help current or former music majors navigate life as highly capable...

Our World, Our Music

Author(s): Robert Elliott

Our World, Our Music relates historical and discipline-specific concepts to students’ existing knowledge gained through cultural participation. It addresses past and present, Western and non-Western societies and cultures, examining music in particular, the arts in general, and the societies that su...

African American Music for Everyone: Including Theater, Film, and Dance

Author(s): Stan L Breckenridge

African American Music for Everyone: Including Theater, Film, and Dance begins with an exploration of specific music and dance activities among Africans, in Africa, which is followed by a comparative analysis of their musical activities during the African Diaspora. Following this is a study of Colon...

African American Pioneers in Art, Film and Music

Author(s): Naurice Frank Woods

African American Pioneers in Art, Film and Music celebrates the lives and imaginative work of black pioneers who dared venture into fields where many whites staked a claim of almost complete exclusivity. This publication attests to the determination, resiliency, and that talent that many African Ame...

Music Publicity: A Practical Approach

Author(s): Sarita M Stewart, Maria Ivey, DORREN ROBINSON

New Publication Now Available! Music Publicity: A Practical Approach serves as guide to better understand music public relations for both aspiring music professionals and artists. The authors provide discussion of the different components of music publicity from a theoretical standpoint. The book...

Music Theory for Singers Level One

Author(s): Sarah Sandvig

The Music Theory for Singers Series is geared specifically for voice students and singers. The series helps students understand the fundamentals of theory related to voice, apply it to the varied repertoire they learn throughout the year and become not only better singers, but also educated musician...

Music Industry Strategies

Author(s): Kenneth Womack, Joseph Rapolla, Russ Crupnick

Music Industry Strategies: Background and Resources provides students and teachers alike with an introductory guidebook to contemporary media studies, with a particular focus on the music industry. With Music Industry and Media Studies courses flowering across colleges and universities, Music Indust...