MUSIC: History
New Victor Records February, 1907 Catalogue
New York: Victor Records, 1907. Highlighting new records by Mischa Elman, Johana Gadski, and Caruso with brief descriptive bios.Background Information:The Victor Talking Machine Company was an American recording company and phonograph manufacturer that operated independently from 1901 until 1929 when the company was purchased by the Radio Corporation of America.....
On Stage Backstage Montreux Jazz Festival
Switzerland: Editions Illustre, 1986. Fine Hardcover in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Beginning in 1967 the small festival turned into one of the premier events in the Jazz World. To celebrate 20 years of music a series of original pictures, all shot in Montreux, musicians of all styles, stars and.....
Songs of the Yellowstone Park Camps
[Yellowstone Park, Wyo]: [Yellowstone Park Camps Co.], c1920. Stapled Wraps. The front cover shows a group of hikers on the Uncle Tom's Trail, the rear a 'begging' bear with Yellowstone lingo.
Out of Sight: The Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889–1895 (American Made Music Series)
Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2009. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. The acclaimed encyclopedic survey of black musical creation that marked the countdown to the explosion of ragtime.Drawing on hard-to-access archival sources and song collections, the book is of crucial importance for understanding the roots of.....
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There's A Rainbow 'round My Shoulder [Includes Ukulele Arrangement.]
New York: Irving Berlin Inc., 1928. [Includes Ukulele Arrangement.] Jazz/Dance Band. Al Jolson's Big Hit in "The Singing Fool". Other Titles: I'm happy, so happy walking on air / There's a rainbow 'round my shoulder, and a sky of blue above. OCLC Number: 861463179.
Chuck Berry: The Autobiography
New York: Harmony Books, 1989. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. The first African American rock-and-roll star to reach a mass audience discloses details of his intimate life and tells the story of his imprisonment at the peak of his career for violation of the.....
A Sailor's Songbag: An American Rebel in an English Prison, 1777-1779
Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1976. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. From a discovered manuscript of Revolutionary War era songs. They were assembled by an American privateer. Timothy Conner while he was held in England's Forton Prison. The manual contained coarse sailor songs, patriotic lyrics, lyrics about.....
Tennessee Strings: Story Country Music Tennessee (Tennessee Three Star Books)
Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1977. A Very Good Soft cover. Country music grew up in Tennessee, drawing from sources in the white rural music of East and Middle Tennessee, from the church music of country singing conventions, and from the black music of the Memphis area. The author traces.....
The Musical: From the Inside Out
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Examining musicals, this book discusses writing the libretto, adding songs, auditioning and rehearsals. It contains excerpts of interviews with Stephen Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd Webber. The author wrote the score for "One More Song" and "Laura"
Benny Goodman and the Swing Era
Oxford University Press, 1989. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good Hardcover in Very Good Dust Jacket.
Jazz Graphics: David Stone Martin (English and Japanese Edition)
First Edition, First Printing after a limited signed edition. A Fine Softcover in a Fine Dust Wrapper. David Stone Martin created more than two hundred album covers during the 1950s for the Norman Granz labels, Clef, Norgran and Verve.An encyclopedic compendium of album covers designed by David Stone Martin for.....
Folk-Songs of Virginia. A descriptive index and classification of material collected under the auspices of the Virginia Folklore Society
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1949. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good Hardcover. Differing from the 1925 publication not only in its abbreviated method of presentation but in that it covers the entire field of the folk-song, not just ballads.The following data is included: the local title, the first line.....
Computer Music: Synthesis, Composition, and Performance
USA: Schirmer Books, 1985. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. The authors offer clear, practical overviews of program languages, real-time synthesizers, digital filtering, artificial intelligence, and much more.
Lumbering Songs from the Northern Woods
Austin, TX and London: University of Texas Press, 1970. Near Fine Hardcover in a Near Fine Dust Jacket. Edith Fowke's collection of sixty-five songs, recorded from former shantyboys, is unique, being the first in this field to exclude the more general songs popular in the bunkhouse. Mrs. Fowke presents a......
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The Beggar’s Opera with Musical Score By Johann Christian Pepusch [bound with] The Second Part of the Beggars Opera (Polly)
London: John Watts & T. Read, 1749 & 1729. Background Information:The Beggar's Opera, written in 1728 by John Gay with music arranged by Johann Christoph Pepusch, is a notable ballad opera in three acts. This play holds great significance in the realm of Augustan drama and stands as the sole.....
Benny, King of Swing: a Pictorial Biography Based on Benny Goodman's Personal Archives
New York: William Morrow, 1979. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good Hardcover in a Very Good Dust Jacket.
Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine
New York: Knopf, 2017. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Enhanced by a trove of remarkable documents and correspondence sourced from Wenner's private archives, Sticky Fingers presents a portrait of an enterprising, unpredictable rock and roll enthusiast who celebrates the allure of youth and beauty.....
Fire And Rain: The James Taylor Story
New York: Citadel, 2000. Second Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Many musicians sing about heartache, despair, and confusion, but few have experienced those feelings more intensely than James Taylor, who rose from a childhood of privilege as the son of an affluent medical school dean to become a modern-day troubadour.....
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[Social Life and Customs] Past Titan Rock: Journeys into an Appalachian Valley
Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1984. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Authentic in detail, lyric in description Past Titan Rock will engage readers in Appalachian life, oral histories, and old-time music.
A Treasury of Stephen Foster
New York: Random House, 1946. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Fifty of Foster's best songs for singing and playing, tried and true favorites, melodies lovingly remembered by every American which belong forever to our national folklore.... '.
Bawdy Ballads And Lusty Lyrics
Indianapolis: Droke House, 1950. 18th Printing. Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket. "A curious collection of somewhat salty classics seldom sung in Sunday schools." from the dust jacket.
The Business Man and His Government
Washington, D.C. The United States Daily Publishing Company, 1929. First Edition, First Printing. David Leo Lawrence was an American politician who served as the 37th governor of Pennsylvania from 1959 to 1963. The first Catholic elected as Pennsylvania's governor, Lawrence is the only mayor of Pittsburgh to have also been.....
Native American Balladry. A Descriptive Study and a Bibliographical Syllabus [Folk Music]
Philadelphia: American Folklore Society, 1964. Revised Edition. A Good Hardcover. This text undertakes to sift out from the large body of folksong assembled by collectors the native American ballads, describe and group them. Sections are War Ballads; Cowboys and Pioneers; Lumberjacks and Shanty Men; Sailors; about Criminals and Outlaws; Murder.....
Mental Health Through Will Training: A System of Self-Help in Psychotherapy As Practiced by Recovery, Incorporated
USA: Willett Pub Co, 1997. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. A "concise outline of recovery self-help techniques," and four parts covering panel discussions by patients with summations by the author, methods of "sabotage" and group psychotherapy interviews. Low boldly rejects the psychoanalytic doctrine, both as philosophy and as a technique, since he.....