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This book offers a comprehensive overview of how video game sound and music represent cultures, spaces and personal identifications. Focusing on the concept of identity, the volume …

The 1950s and early '60s were a period of unprecedented change on the British music scene, witnessing the emergence of trad jazz, skiffle, folk and rock'n'roll, a renaissance of …

This book highlights how the diverse nature of spiritual practices are experienced and manifest through the medium of popular music. At first glance, chapters on Krishnacore, the …

पंजाबी गीतों की धुन सुनते ही मन में उल्लास और खुशी की उमंग उठने लगती है। ढोलक की थाप पर हाथ-पांव भांगड़ा और गिद्दा करने को मचलने लगते हैं। दरअसल पंजाबी भाषा बहुत सरल, सहज और मीठी …

Featuring lyrics, chord boxes and melody line, text, as well as black and white photos, these handy books may look deceptively compact from the outside, but glance inside and …

The stage musical constitutes a major industry not only in the US and the UK, but in many regions of the world. Over the last four decades many countries have developed their own …

When he emerged from the nightclubs of Greenwich Village, Bob Dylan was often identified as a "e;protest"e; singer. As early as 1962, however, Dylan was already protesting …

Triple Entendre discusses the rise and spread of background music in contexts as diverse as office workplaces, shopping malls, and musical performance. Hervé Vanel examines …

The Gerry Mulligan Quartet, founded in Los Angeles in 1952, was widely acclaimed as the first small ensemble in jazz that did not include a chordal instrument such as a piano or …

Streisand: A Biography is much more than the story of the worlds greatest living performer, how she got there, and why she remains at the top after three decades, it is also, in …