Music Fall 2018 Title Catalog by Cognella, Inc

MUSIC TITLE CATALOG

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2018

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COMMUNICATION AND MUSIC IN SOCIAL INTERACTION Jake Harwood

ÂŠ 2018

This book gives readers an accessible entry point into music as a form of communication and its impact on daily life. Dedicated to giving communication students, educators, and researchers insight into an often overlooked communicative form, it can be used in communication studies courses, as well as courses in ethnomusicology and the psychology of music.

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THE GARIFUNA MUSIC READER Oliver N. Greene

ÂŠ 2018

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This reader is the first text to provide scholarly research of all the principal genres of music and music-related rituals of the Garifuna people of Belize. This anthology explores how the Garifuna interpret their identity, experiences, and existence through traditional songs and dances, contemporary popular music, world music, ancestor rituals, a Christmas processional, and a creolized version of the Catholic mass.

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AFRICAN ROOTS OF THE JAZZ EVOLUTION Karlton E. Hester, Ph.D.

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This text explores how jazz style evolved from its original source – traditional African music. Reflecting the continental interaction and cultural development that took place over centuries, the book explores how melodic, structural, rhythmic, and other musical elements from Africa are manifested in African-American spirituals, the blues, and various jazz forms.

LIVING THE LIFE I SING Gospel Music from the Dorsey Era to the Millennium Alphonso Simpson Jr. and Thomas A. Dorsey, III

This book compiles an outstanding selection of resources to chronicle Gospel music from its blues-based foundation to its role in the lives of a post-millennial generation. It discusses the foundations of gospel music and how the form has developed across time to create a genre that reaches far beyond its geographical borders. It also addresses the future of the genre and considers its place in the general music industry.

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ROCK Postmodernism in Action Michael Barnett

ÂŠ 2017

This text examines the impact of rock music as an art form and its ongoing effect on society and culture. It introduces the defining features and historical development of rock, and then explores rock from the 1960s through the 1990s. With an accompanying active learning component and curated playlist, the book gives non-music majors insight into the world of rock music while also providing meaningful content for music majors seeking a deeper appreciation of rock.

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TEACHING MUSIC IN THE MULTICULTURAL EARLY CHILDHOOD CLASSROOM Gilberto D. Soto

ÂŠ 2017

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This text discusses principles and strategies for integrating music into early childhood and early elementary school education. Readers learn how music education meets the expressive and developmental needs of young children, and how integrating music into curricula enhances enactive, iconic, and symbolic learning experiences.

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THE EDUCATED LISTENER A New Approach to Music Appreciation Jaren S. Hinckley

ÂŠ 2017

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This text inspires students to engage deeply with classical music ranging from the Middle Ages to present day. Students become conversant with music terminology, enabling them to talk intelligently about music with colleagues, family members, and friends. Professors select the topics that are most important for their students, then pair the written material with musical selections from vast online options, thus creating their own custom playlists.

JAZZ JOURNEY A Guide For Listening John Valerio

ÂŠ 2015

This text covers jazz from its 19th Century forerunners to 1970s Fusion. All of the major styles of jazz, including the forerunners of jazz, Ragtime and Blues, are covered; they include: New Orleans style, Chicago style, Stride piano, Swing, Bebop, Cool, Hard Bop, modal, Free jazz, freer jazz, and Fusion. For easy access to music described in the text, the book includes links to audio and video recordings along with listening guides.

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WORKBOOK FOR THE FUNDAMENTALS OF SOUND SCIENCE Elena Borovitskaya

Designed to accompany the textbook of the same name, this workbook is filled with engaging activities that enable students to find and experience the common ground between physics and music. Using music as the vehicle for exploring sound, students uncover common principles of the everyday, physical world through a variety of activities such as comprehension questions, multiple choice and cloze exercises, and responding to charts.

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THE FUNDAMENTALS OF SOUND SCIENCE Elena Borovitskaya

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This text teaches the principles of the physics of sound by linking them to music and musical instruments. Finding common ground between physics and music strengthens students’ understanding of both and reveals that many principles of the physical world are part of our common, daily experiences. All we have to do is listen.

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ONE HIT WONDERS

One Hit Wonders is a complete introduction to the music industry from the initiation of production to distribution of the final product. Each chapter is related to a popular film about the industry, making the content student-friendly and highly accessible and creating a cycle of fictional rock cinema linked to informative text.

Filled with fascinating information and insight into theatrical history, this text teaches students about the performance genres that came to America with European immigrants and evolved over time to become the unique American form of entertainment known as musical theatre. The book includes quizzes, tests, biographies, and essay assignments, as well as extensive lists of viewing and listening recommendations.

MIRROR OF THE MUSES

This book teaches students to appreciate music as both art form and cultural artifact. It helps students understand musical works in their historical, geographical, and conceptual contexts. Students will learn to think about music rather than merely hearing it, and to understand it as culturally significant.

From Timbuktu To The Mississippi Delta explores how West African standards of aesthetics and sociocultural traits have moved into mainstream American culture and become social norms.

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RHYTHM REVOLUTION

A CHRONOLOGICAL ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN POPULAR MUSIC - 1960S TO 1980S

This anthology provides a compact but detailed analysis of significant genres, artists, and trends characterizing popular music’s evolution after the emergence of rock & roll. It addresses the creative, economic, social, and political contexts of key creative and commercial transitions in the recording industry.

WHERE THE MUSIC TAKES YOU

Today’s students access a variety of media to keep abreast of new and up-andcoming musical artists. This book turns this interest into a successful vehicle for educating readers about some of the most fundamental sociological and methodological concepts, including rituals, symbols, ethnography, participant observation, and symbolic interactionist theory.

This book surveys issues involving the development of traditional and modern African music from antiquity into the modern era. It examines some of the historical context in which African music evolved throughout the entire continent, and connects to African life and culture through discussing stylistic elements of African music and its musicians.

EMPIRE OF FUNK

This anthology features the voices of artists, scholars, and activists to begin a dialogue on Filipina/o American youth culture and its relationship to race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class. Chapters explore Filipina/o American Hip Hop aesthetics, community-building, the geography of Hip Hop in Filipina/o America, sexuality and power, activism and praxis, visual culture, and navigating the Hip Hop industry.

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Incorporating articles from writers, critics, and songwriters working in a broad range of musical styles, this book covers Rock ‘n’ Roll from its roots in the 1940s through classic rock, garage bands, and thrash metal. Students will learn about the three major regional cultural centers that influenced the inception and development of Rock ‘n’ Roll, as well as how these influences were combined and recombined to create jump blues, rockabilly, and rhythm and blues.

This anthology explores the seminal contributions of a variety of great jazz artists. The book begins with Early New Orleans and Chicago jazz, then moves on to swing/big-band music, bebop, Latin, hard bop, cool, modal, fusion, and free form/avant-garde jazz. The numerous book excerpts provide a lively, engaging, narrative-oriented reading experience for students.

IN THE GROOVE

In the Groove gives students a clear, concise, accessible introduction to popular music, and the features of popular songs. Reading through the material makes it possible for students to approach all music from a more knowledgeable perspective. A song analysis template is included so students can apply what they have learned.

EXPLORATORY MUSICISM

This book shows students that music is part of an interdisciplinary collection of artistic modes of expression, and that these modes can be better understood in the context of what we observe in the real world. Using the book as a tool for extending the concept of music composition, students will discover new ways to connect music to more universal and organic constructions.

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This book examines the vital and fundamental concepts in “the business,” in addition to providing the know-how to navigate the basic legal, marketing, managerial and moneymaking skills used by industry insiders. Assignments incorporated throughout the book help readers develop real life problemsolving skills, including tour budgeting, venue booking and management, and merchandise creation and marketing.

BEYOND THE MUSIC

This book provides an inside look at the industry through the eyes of musicians who have been there—from the garage to the record deals and world tours. Covering aspects that students usually don’t learn about in typical courses of study, Beyond the Music is a comprehensive guide to the music industry, useful for both aspiring and experienced musicians.

This book tells the story of hip hop and its controversial past through a variety of sources. The chapters are arranged more or less chronologically and give a relatively comprehensive history of hip hop and its roots. The volume is also valuable as a study in different writing styles, or as a springboard to discussion and research about many socio-political problems.

This text is for guitar players. As guitarists know, an essential strength of the instrument is its grounding in folkloric culture and oral traditions. Learning to read music, write music, and peruse the infinite body of knowledge that constitutes music theory are adjunct to the instrument itself yet these capacities are helpful to the preservation of repertory and advancement of skills.

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