Author: Edward M. KomaraPublisher: Taylor & Francis US
ISBN: 9780415927000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Encyclopedia of the Blues: A-J, index
Author: Edward M. KomaraPublisher: Taylor & Francis US
ISBN: 9780415927000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Blues Encyclopedia
Author: Edward KomaraPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135958319
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 1274
Book Description
The Blues Encyclopedia is the first full-length authoritative Encyclopedia on the Blues as a musical form. While other books have collected biographies of blues performers, none have taken a scholarly approach. A to Z in format, this Encyclopedia covers not only the performers, but also musical styles, regions, record labels and cultural aspects of the blues, including race and gender issues. Special attention is paid to discographies and bibliographies.
Encyclopedia of the Blues: A-J, index
Author: A Blues Bibliography
Author: Robert FordPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351398482
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 905
Book Description
This book provides a sequel to Robert Ford's comprehensive reference work A Blues Bibliography, the second edition of which was published in 2007. Bringing Ford's bibliography of resources up to date, this volume covers works published since 2005, complementing the first volume by extending coverage through twelve years of new publications. As in the previous volume, this work includes entries on the history and background of the blues, instruments, record labels, reference sources, regional variations, and lyric transcriptions and musical analysis. With extensive listings of print and online articles in scholarly and trade journals, books, and recordings, this bibliography offers the most thorough resource for all researchers studying the blues.
International encyclopedia of adolescence
Author: Jeffrey Jensen ArnettPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0415966671
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 1214
Book Description
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Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies: A-J
Author: Gaetana MarronePublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1579583903
Category : Italian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2258
Book Description
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Encyclopedia of the Blues
Author: Encyclopedia of the Blues
Author: Edward M. KomaraPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0415926998
Category : Blues
Languages : en
Pages : 1274
Book Description
This comprehensive two-volume set brings together all aspects of the blues from performers and musical styles to record labels and cultural issues, including regional evolution and history. Organized in an accessible A-to-Z format, the Encyclopedia of the Blues is an essential reference resource for information on this unique American music genre. For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Encyclopedia of the Blues website.
Global Popular Music
Author: Clarence Bernard HenryPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040151922
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 985
Book Description
Global Popular Music: A Research and Information Guide offers an essential annotated bibliography of scholarship on popular music around the world in a two-volume set. Featuring a broad range of subjects, people, cultures, and geographic areas, and spanning musical genres such as traditional, folk, jazz, rock, reggae, samba, rai, punk, hip-hop, and many more, this guide highlights different approaches and discussions within global popular music research. This research guide is comprehensive in scope, providing a vital resource for scholars and students approaching the vast amount of publications on popular music studies and popular music traditions around the world. Thorough cross-referencing and robust indexes of genres, places, names, and subjects make the guide easy to use. Volume 2, Transnational Discourses of Global Popular Music Studies, covers the geographical areas of North America: United States and Canada; Central America, Caribbean, and South America/Latin America; Europe; Africa and Middle East; Asia; and areas of Oceania: Aotearoa/New Zealand, Australia, and Pacific Islands. It provides over twenty-four hundred annotated bibliographic entries covering discourses of extensive research that extend beyond the borders of the United States and includes annotated entries to books, book series, book chapters, edited volumes, special documentaries and programming, scholarly journal essays, and other resources that focus on the creative and artistic flows of global popular music.
Encyclopedia of African American Actresses in Film and Television
Author: Bob McCannPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476691401
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
The first work of its kind, this encyclopedia provides 360 brief biographies of African American film and television acPER010000tresses from the silent era to 2009. It includes entries on well-known and nearly forgotten actresses, running the gamut from Academy Award and NAACP Image Award winners to B-film and blaxpoitation era stars. Each entry has a complete filmography of the actress's film, TV, music video or short film credits. The work also features more than 170 photographs, some of them rare images from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.