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  • Cultural Narratives of Old Age in the Lives, Work, and Reception of Old Musicians

    by Joseph Straus ...
    Operating largely within the world of European-American classical music, this book discusses the creative work of old musicians—composers, performers, listeners, and scholars—and how those forms of music- making are received and understood. Like everything else about old age, music-making is usually understood as a decline from a former height, a deficiency with respect to a youthful standard. ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Music and Disability Studies

    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Disability Studies represents a comprehensive state of current research for the field of Disability Studies and Music. The forty-two chapters in the book span a wide chronological and geographical range, from the biblical, the medieval, and the Elizabethan, through the canonical classics of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, up to modernist styles and contemporary ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Sounding Off: Theorizing Disability in Music

    Edited by Neil Lerner, Joseph Straus ...
    Disability, understood as culturally stigmatized bodily difference (including physical and mental impairments of all kinds), is a pervasive and permanent aspect of the human condition. While the biology of bodily difference is the proper study for science and medicine, the meaning that we attach to bodily difference is the proper study of humanists. The interdisciplinary field of Disability ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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    Teach Yourself How to Play Saxophone (Free Video Available)

    Series series Progressive Beginner
    Teach yourself how to play saxophone with our easy saxophone lessons for beginners.***Comes with online access to free sax videos and audio for all examples. See and hear how each one is played by a teacher, then play along. Also includes music score and saxophone animation for easy music learning.***"I spent a lot of time to find a good book for my alto saxophone lesson. This book let me know how ... Read more

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  • Chromatic Harmonica Lessons for Beginners

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    Teach yourself how to play harmonica with our easy harmonica lessons for beginners.***Comes with online access to free audio demonstrating all examples. Hear how each one is played by a teacher, then play along.***"An excellent introduction to the chromatic harp. Each song is a little more complex and involves new techniques. This book is a great buy if you are serious about learning the chromatic ... Read more

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  • Ultimate Slap Bass - Advanced Level

    Ultimate Slap Bass is one of the most popular books ever written on the slap bass technique. In this book, the third in the series of three, advanced techniques are covered. The book covers slapped shuffle grooves, double thumbing, open string hammer-ons, combining techniques and more. There are 91 exercises in this book and all have free backing tracks available to download from the publishers ... Read more

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  • The Boy Who Loved Too Much

    A True Story of Pathological Friendliness

    The acclaimed, poignant story of a boy with Williams syndrome, a condition that makes people biologically incapable of distrust, a “well-researched, perceptive exploration of a rare genetic disorder seen through the eyes of a mother and son” (Kirkus Reviews).What would it be like to see everyone as a friend? Twelve-year-old Eli D’Angelo has a genetic disorder that obliterates social inhibitions, ... Read more

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  • The Band's Music from Big Pink

    by John Niven ...
    Series series 33 1/3
    "Music From Big Pink is a moving book that succeeds not just in vividly evoking its time and place but in distilling one young man's cliched and minor destiny into something approaching tragedy....This well-written first novel captures not just some of the dreams of that bygone era, but the way those dreams died."-Greg Kamiya, The New York Times Book ReviewMusic From Big Pink is faction: real ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Nirvana's In Utero

    Series series 33 1/3
    Though Nevermind was Nirvana's most commercially successful album, and the record that broke them - and the grunge phenomenon - internationally, In Utero has increasingly become regarded as the band's best album, both by the critics and the band members themselves. Instead of sticking to the "grunge pop" formula that made Nevermind so palatable to the mainstream, Nirvana chose instead to challenge ... Read more

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  • Dear Marcus

    A Letter to the Man Who Shot Me

    by Jerry McGill ...
    The idea to write to you was not an easy one.The scar from where the bullet entered my back is still there.Jerry McGill was thirteen years old, walking home through the projects of Manhattan’s Lower East Side, when he was shot in the back by a stranger. Jerry survived, wheelchair-bound for life; his assailant was never caught. Thirty years later, Jerry wants to say something to the man who shot ... Read more

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  • Music Theory Field Manual

    The practical book that "doesn't exist." Simple answers to common questions about music theory and how to apply them. Practicing musicians of all styles will benefit from the "field-manual" approach to music theory in this book. Have you ever wondered which scale would work with a given chord but can't find a straight answer? Here it is in simple terms and without notation. No reading skills ... Read more

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  • Hal Leonard Harmony & Theory - Part 1: Diatonic

    (Music Instruction). George Heussenstamm, composer of more than 85 published works and author of The Norton Manual of Music Notation , taught college-level theory for several decades. Unable to find what he considered a suitable text, he wrote his own, honing it through practical classroom experience. It is now published for the first time as Hal Leonard Harmony & Theory . This book is designed ... Read more

    $23.99 USD