Supplying list prices for virtually all currently made piano brands and models, as well as advice on how to estimate actual street prices, this yearly complement to The Piano Book offers the...
This book is born out of two contradictions: first, it explores the making of meaning in a musical form that was made to lose its meaning at the turn of the nineteenth century; secondly, it is a...
Following the author's successful Acoustic Guitar Styles (Routledge, April 2002), this book introduces the readers to the basics of finger-style acoustic guitar blues. Most would-be blues...
The Stories Behind the Songs of Broadway, Hollywood, and Tin Pan Alley
Michael Lasser
America's Songs tells the "stories behind" the most beloved popular songs of the last century. We all have songs that have a special meaning in our lives; hearing them evokes a special time...
How do we 'know' music? We perform it, we compose it, we sing it in the shower, we cook, sleep and dance to it. Eventually we think and write about it. This book represents the culmination of such...
