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 has been an important lightning rod for race issues.
History and Tradition of Jazz:
- Curated Spotify playlists containing songs mentioned in the textbook. In addition, the text contains written synopses on over 60 important…
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 controversy, tragedy, and self-indulgence; and also of love, peace, and the triumph of the human spirit.
To meet the needs of today’s instructors and students in the information world, …
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In the long history of American musical genres, few resonate as deeply and authentically as country music. The songs of country music tell stories of hardship, joy, love, and the timeless struggles of human experience. Alongside its rich history, country music is experiencing growth. It was one of 2023's fastest growing streaming genres in the U.S. (a 23.7% increase over the prior year) - Luminate.
The History and Tradition of Country Music delves into the…
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The world is hungry for original music content.
Film Scoring in the Digital Age discusses the art of writing music that is written for and synced to fixed media. Specifically, it includes music written for dramatic films, documentaries, industrial sales films, video advertising, radio ads, games, podcasts, modern dance, and more….
Based on the author, Thomas Larson’s 40+ years in the business, Film Scoring in the Digital Age:
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The world of sound recording is fast and ever-changing.
With the multi-billion-dollar podcast industry and the growth of the home recording industry over the last 20 years, more and more people are writing, playing, and recording their own music outside of the traditional recording studio.
Thomas E. Larson’s Sound Recording in the 21st Century provides the reader with the most direct and comprehensive path to learning the basic facts, figures, and tools to get their sound recording game on.
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Modern Sounds: The Artistry of Contemporary Jazz is a storybook approach on the journey, the musicians, and the music that has been created in the pursuit of artistic achievement over the half century. Modern Sounds picks up where most jazz textbooks leave off. This is a complete documentation of contemporary jazz.
- Suitable for a semester course at the college level, either for music majors or non-majors.
- A four-month access to an online music library. With this exclusive access, students and instructors can…
