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  • The Gaseous State

    The Commonwealth and International Library: Chemistry Division

    by N. G. Parsonage ...
    The Gaseous State provides a comprehensive discussion on the various areas of concerns in gases. The main concern of the title is the interpretation of the properties of bulk gases in terms of the characteristics of the constituent molecules. The text first details the perfect gas equation, and then proceeds to tackling various gaseous properties. The coverage of the selection includes gas ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Equine Stretching for Mobility - An Illustrated Guide

    by Julie A Parsonage ...
    Equine Stretching for Mobility: An Illustrated Guide is aimed at horse owners of all skill levels and disciplines and is intended as an indispensable handbook for equine practitioners. Full of detailed illustrations of the muscular skeletal system—as well as photographs with step-by-step instructions—this guide is designed to get you working with your equine partner by initiating a regular ... Read more

    $18.38 USD

  • The Evolution of Jazz in Britain, 1880–1935

    by Catherine Tackley (née Parsonage) ...
    Series series Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
    As a popular music, the evolution of jazz is tied to the contemporary sociological situation. Jazz was brought from America into a very different environment in Britain and resulted in the establishment of parallel worlds of jazz by the end of the 1920s: within the realms of institutionalized culture and within the subversive underworld. Tackley (n Parsonage) demonstrates the importance of image ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

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  • Giant Steps

    Bebop and the Creators of Modern Jazz, 1945-65

    by Kenny Mathieson ...
    A music journalist offers a lively history of modern jazz through its formative and most vital decades—from Charlie Parker to John Coltrane.In Giant Steps, Kenny Mathieson examines the most important figures in the creation of modern jazz, detailing the emergence and evolution of bebop through the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Fats Navarro, Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis. Using this as ... Read more

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  • The History of Jazz

    by Ted Gioia ...
    Jazz is the most colorful and varied art form in the world and it was born in one of the most colorful and varied cities, New Orleans. From the seed first planted by slave dances held in Congo Square and nurtured by early ensembles led by Buddy Belden and Joe "King" Oliver, jazz began its long winding odyssey across America and around the world, giving flower to a thousand different forms--swing, ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll

    An Alternative History of American Popular Music

    by Elijah Wald ...
    "There are no definitive histories," writes Elijah Wald, in this provocative reassessment of American popular music, "because the past keeps looking different as the present changes." Earlier musical styles sound different to us today because we hear them through the musical filter of other styles that came after them, all the way through funk and hip hop. As its blasphemous title suggests, How ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • Jazz: From New Orleans to the New Generation

    by Richard Nelsson ...
    The Guardian and Observer newspapers have covered jazz in all its shapes and forms for almost a century. Jazz: From New Orleans to the new generation is a collection of reviews and profiles that charts the development of the music from its first appearance in London in 1917 right through to latter day arguments over fusion. Contributors including Kingsley Amis, Benny Green, Michael Frayn and John ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Blues:A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Elijah Wald ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Praised as "suave, soulful, ebullient" (Tom Waits) and "a meticulous researcher, a graceful writer, and a committed contrarian" (New York Times Book Review), Elijah Wald is one of the leading popular music critics of his generation. In The Blues, Wald surveys a genre at the heart of American culture. It is not an easy thing to pin down. As Howlin' Wolf once described it, "When you ain't got no ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings

    by Brian Harker ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Recorded Jazz
    For jazz historians, Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings mark the first revolution in the history of a music riven by upheaval. Yet few traces of this revolution can be found in the historical record of the late 1920s, when the discs were made. Even black newspapers covered Armstrong as just one name among many, and descriptions of his playing, while laudatory, bear little ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Jazz

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Stuart Nicholson ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    This definitive guide includes a unique chapter-by-chapter playlist for the reader.Jazz: A Beginner’s Guide is a lively and highly accessible introduction to a global musical phenomenon. Award-winning music journalist and author Stuart Nicholson takes the reader on an entertaining journey from jazz's early stirrings in America’s south through to the present day, when almost every country in the ... Read more

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  • Keith Jarrett's The Koln Concert

    by Peter Elsdon ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Recorded Jazz
    Keith Jarrett ranks among the most accomplished and influential pianists in jazz history. His The Köln Concert stands among the most important jazz recordings of the past four decades, not only because of the music on the record, but also because of the remarkable reception it has received from musicians and lay-listeners alike. Since the album's 1975 release, it has sold over three million copies ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • As Serious As Your Life

    Black Music and the Free Jazz Revolution, 1957–1977

    by Val Wilmer ...
    In this classic account of the new black music of the 1960s and 70s, celebrated photographer and jazz historian Val Wilmer tells the story of how a generation of revolutionary musicians established black music as the true vanguard of American culture.Placing the achievements of African-American artists such as Albert Ayler, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane and Sun Ra in their broader political and ... Read more

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