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Music 2014 TABLE OF CONTENTS Highlights ................................................................................ 1 Classical............................................................................. 11 Jazz, Pop, Folk & Rock ...................................................16 Film & Theatre ............................................................24 Resources for Performers Conductors ...............................................28 Vocalists .....................................................31 Instrumentalists .........................................34 Education Resources ........................................37 Ethnomusicology ...............................................40 Classic Books .......................................................42 Index ...................................................................47 Ordering Information ..............................................48 e Are Available from Ebooks Rowman & Littlefield is proud to provide most of its frontlist and selected backlist—a stable of over 10,000 titles—as ebooks, through its partnership with over fifty vendors, including • Amazon Kindle • Ingram Digital Retail • Amazon Look Inside Books The Book • Kobo • Apple iBooks • MyiLibrary • Barnes & Noble Nook • NetLibrary • Barnes & Noble See Inside • OverDrive • Baker & Taylor Blio • Questia • Chegg • Scribd • Ebooks Ltd. • Shortcovers • Ebrary • Skiff • Folletts/CafeScribe • Sony Reader • Google BookSearch • Zinio • Google Editions NEW! Purchase individual ebooks directly from our website. Ordering is simple, just look for the Buy ebooks Now button next to all available titles and begin the ordering process. Or you can still order from your favorite ebooks vendor. For more information, visit www.rowman.com/ ebooks HIGHLIGHTS NEW NEW BLACKS IN BLACKFACE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREAT POPULAR SONG A Sourcebook on Early Black Musical Shows RECORDINGS Second Edition 2 Volumes 2 Volumes By Steve Sullivan By Henry T. Sampson Library Journal Best Reference In Blacks in Blackface: A Sourcebook on Early Black Musical Shows, Henry T. “Highly recommended for most Sampson provides an unprecedented academic and public libraries.” wealth of information on African —BOOKLIST American musical comedies, including show synopses, casts, songs, and From John Philip Sousa to Green production credits. Sampson also Day, from Scott Joplin to Kanye recounts the struggles of African West, from Stephen Foster to American performers and producers Coldplay, The Encyclopedia to overcome the racial prejudice of of Great Popular Song white show owners, music publishers, Recordings covers the vast theatre managers, and booking scope of its subject with virtually agents to achieve adequate financial unprecedented breadth and compensation for their talents and depth. Approximately 1,000 managerial expertise. Black producers key song recordings from 1889 and artists competed with white to the present are explored in managers who were producing all- full, unveiling the stories behind Black shows and also with some white the songs, the recordings, the entertainers who were performing performers, and the songwriters. Black-developed music and dances, often in blackface. Beginning the journey in the era The chapters in this volume include of Victorian parlor balladry, brass bands, and ragtime with the advent of the record industry, readers • An overview of African American musical shows from the end of the witness the birth of the blues and the dawn of jazz in the 1910s Civil War through the golden years of the 1920s and ’30s and the emergence of country music on record and the shift from • New and expanded biographical sketches of performers acoustic to electrical recording in the 1920s. The odyssey continues • Detailed information about the first producers and owners of Black through the Swing Era of the 1930s; rhythm & blues, bluegrass, and minstrel and musical comedy shows bebop in the 1940s; the rock & roll revolution of the 1950s; modern • Origins and backgrounds of several famous Black theatres soul, the British invasion, and the folk-rock movement of the 1960s; • Profiles of African American entrepreneurs and businessmen who and finally into the modern era through the musical streams of disco, provided financial resources to build and own many of the Black punk, grunge, hip-hop, and contemporary dance-pop. Sullivan, theatres where these shows were performed however, also takes critical detours by extending the coverage • A chronicle of booking agencies and organized Black theatrical to genres neglected in pop music histories, from ethnic and world circuits, music publishing houses, and phonograph recording music, the gospel recording of both black and white artists, and businesses lesser-known traditional folk tunes that reach back hundreds of years. • Critical commentary from African American newspapers and show business publications This book is ideal for anyone who truly loves popular music in all of its • More than 500 hundred rare photographs glorious variety, and anyone wishing to learn more about the roots of virtually all the music we hear today. Popular music fans, as well More than double the size of the previous edition, this useful resource will as scholars of recording history and technology and students of the also appeal to the casual reader who is interested in learning more about intersections between music and cultural history will all find this book early Black entertainment. to be informative and interesting. Henry T. Sampson is the author of several books on African-American Steve Sullivan is editor and owner of LDI Publications. He ghost-wrote culture, including Blacks in Black and White: A Source Book on Black of Pop Memories: The History of Popular Music, 1890-1954. Films, Second Edition (1995), That’s Enough Folks: Black Images in Animated Cartoons, 1900-1960 (1998), and Swingin’ on the Ether Waves: Scarecrow Press A Chronological History of African Americans in Radio and Television 2014 • 1030 pages Programming, 1925-1955 (2005), all published by Scarecrow Press. 978-0-8108-8295-9 • $200.00 (£125.00) • Cloth • 2 volume set 978-0-8108-8296-6 • $199.99 (£125.00) • eEBOOK Scarecrow Press 2014 • 1576 pages 978-0-8108-8350-5 • $250.00 (£155.00) • Cloth • 2 volume set 978-0-8108-8351-2 • $249.99 (£155.00) • eEBOOK Order online at www.rowman.com 1 HIGHLIGHTS LISTENEr’S COMPANIONS FORTHCOMING FORTHCOMING NEW EXPERIENCING LED ZEPPELIN EXPERIENCING RUSH EXPERIENCING JAZZ A Listener’s Companion A Listener’s Companion A Listener’s Companion By Gregg Akkerman By Durrell Bowman By Michael Stephans It’s possible that no other band has had as great Few rock bands have proven as long-standing “This groundbreaking book reframes the ever- an influence on rock music as Led Zeppelin. and experimental as the Canadian rock act evolving, distinctly human, art of jazz and invites Experiencing Led Zeppelin: A Listener’s Rush. Rush bridged its progressive rock style readers to relearn how to listen.” Companion is a guided listening experience of with heavy metal in the 1970s, new wave and —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY the recorded music of Led Zeppelin drawn from synth rock in the 1980s, and alternative rock in their nine studio albums released between 1968 the 1990s. The many albums produced over “Recommended as a supplementary source for and 1981, providing a much needed addition their four decades—with 45 million sold—and jazz collections.” —BOOKLIST to the academic offerings about the band and major concert tours have come to appeal not their music. Starting with a brief history of the just to run-of-the-mill rock fans but any number In Experiencing Jazz: A Listener’s Companion, band’s origins, the book traces Led Zeppelin’s of musicians who have come to admire the writer, teacher, and prominent jazz drummer history as they moved through distinct phases structural complexity of their music. Michael Stephans offers a much-needed of compositional and performance styles over survey in the art of listening to and enjoying their nine albums. In Experiencing Rush: A Listener’s Companion, this dynamic, ever-changing art form. As music scholar Durrell Bowman guides readers Stephans illustrates, listeners and jazz artists Led Zeppelin’s influence in the music world through Rush’s long career, explaining through often experience the essence of the music is ubiquitous. In each chapter, author Gregg an artful combination of biography, history, together—an experience unique in the world of Akkerman highlights different songs and and musical exegesis how to listen to this music. Experiencing Jazz demonstrates how the recordings that represent a different aspect of unique act. From Rush’s emergence as an act of listening to jazz takes place on a deeply Led Zeppelin and its impact, both enlightening early power trio of guitar, bass, and drums and personal level and takes readers on a whirlwind readers to these specific songs and heightening heavy blues-rock act into the fathers of British tour of the genre, instrument by instrument— awareness of other bands that followed in Led progressive hard rock, Bowman highlights the offering not only brief portraits of key musicians Zeppelin’s footsteps. band’s big breakthroughs with its landmark like Joe Lovano and John Scofield, but also their album 2112 and its most successful album own commentaries on how best to experience Moving Pictures. their music. Written for anyone curious about Gregg Akkerman is a performer, educator, and the musical genre, this book encourages further writer. After 12