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Stomp and Shout

Stomp and Shout

R&B and the Origins of Northwest Rock and Roll

By Peter Blecha

Long before the world discovered grunge, the Pacific Northwest was already home to a singular music culture. In the late 1950s, locals had codified a distinct offshoot of rockin' R&B, and a surprising number...

ISBN: 9780295751252

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Emerald Street

Emerald Street

A History of Hip Hop in Seattle

By Daudi Abe. Foreword by Sir Mix-A-Lot

From the first rap battles in Seattle’s Central District to the Grammy stage, hip hop has shaped urban life and the music scene of the Pacific Northwest for more than four decades. In the early...

ISBN: 9780295747569

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Sailor Song

Sailor Song

The Shanties and Ballads of the High Seas

By Gerry Smyth. Illustrated by Jonny Hannah

Passed down in the oral tradition and sung as working songs, sea shanties tell the compelling human stories of life on the water: hard labor, battling the elements, pining for distant loves and far-away homes....

ISBN: 9780295747286

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American Sabor

American Sabor

Latinos and Latinas in US Popular Music / Latinos y latinas en la musica popular estadounidense

By Marisol Berríos-Miranda, Shannon Dudley, and Michelle Habell-Pallán. Translated by Angie Berríos Miranda

Evoking the pleasures of music as well as food, the word sabor signifies a rich essence that makes our mouths water or makes our bodies want to move. American Sabor traces the substantial musical contributions...

ISBN: 9780295742625

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Classical Seattle

Classical Seattle

Maestros, Impresarios, Virtuosi, and Other Music Makers

By Melinda Bargreen

The past 50 years have seen a tremendous arts boom in Seattle, which has given the city not only internationally recognized classical music institutions but also great performance halls to showcase their work and that...

ISBN: 9780295742779

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The Strachwitz Frontera Collection of Mexican and Mexican American Recordings

The Strachwitz Frontera Collection of Mexican and Mexican American Recordings

By Agustin Gurza. With Jonathan Clark

The Strachwitz Frontera Collection is the largest repository of commercially produced Mexican and Mexican American vernacular recordings in existence. More than 40,000 recordings, all produced during the first half of the 20th century, have been...

ISBN: 9780895511485

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The Tooth That Nibbles at the Soul

The Tooth That Nibbles at the Soul

Essays on Music and Poetry

By Marshall Brown

The Tooth that Nibbles at the Soul brings together Marshall Brown’s new and previously published writings on literature and music. These essays engage questions that are central to the development of literature, music, and the...

ISBN: 9780295990064

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Amelia

Amelia

The Libretto

By Gardner McFall

In the new opera Amelia, a first time mother-to-be, whose psyche has been scarred by the loss of her pilot father in Vietnam, must break free from anxiety to embrace healing and renewal for the...

ISBN: 9780295989396

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Joel-Francois Durand in the Mirror Land

Joel-Francois Durand in the Mirror Land

By Jonathan W. Bernard

The second part of this volume comprises four essays on Durand’s music, contributed by three of his former composition students -- Christian Asplund, Eric Flesher, and Ryan M. Hare -- and by his colleague, music...

ISBN: 9780295985756

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Seeing with Music

Seeing with Music

The Lives of Three Blind African Musicians

By Simon Ottenberg

In the course of his ongoing study of the aesthetic world of the Limba of Sierra Leone, anthropologist Simon Ottenberg met three men from Wara Wara Bafodea chiefdom who played an instrument called the kututeng,...

ISBN: 9780295975252

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