This is a book only Questlove could have written: a perceptive and personal reflection on the first half-century of hip-hop.
When hip-hop first emerged in the 1970s, it wasn't expected to become the cultural force it is today. But for a young Black kid growing up in a musical family in Philadelphia, it was everything. He stayed up late to hear the newest songs on the radio. He saved his money to buy vinyl as soon as it landed. He even

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This expanded version of the traditional singing rhyme shows what happens when a family of bears rows their boat down the stream. Includes music on the last page.

Calvin S. Brown wrote Music and Literature - A Comparison of the Arts with the hope that it might open up a field of thought which has not yet been systematically explored as there had been no survey of the entire field. This book attempts to supply such a survey.

Highlights everything needed to learn about classical music. Glossary of key words Index Reviewed Table of contents Music is the universal language! Kids will have fun learning about all kinds of music while they explore the history, instruments, rhythms, greats, production, collecting, and varied activities in this series. Each book contains cool activities that will inspire young people to appreciate the specific genre by making their own instruments,...

Katy Perry has officially launched an exciting new era with the long awaited seventh studio album. Katy set out to create a bold, exuberant, celebratory dance-pop album with the symbolic numerical expression of love as a throughline message. The result is a sexy, fearless, return to form for the multifaceted musician with an album jam packed with the empowering, sexy, and provocative pop anthems you've come to love. This is an album with a lot of...

Outstanding collection of musical examples - chants, motets, chansons, madrigals, more - illustrating the general course of musical style from the early Middle Ages to the mid-18th century. Works by Lassus, Josquin des Prez, Schutz, Handel, Bach, many others. Notes identify place of composition in history of music and suggest useful methods of analysis.

Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Lewis Capaldi follows up the success of his 2019 debut album with a new release. Includes the single Forget Me.

With the advent of recording technology, LGBT messages were for the first time brought to the forefront of popular music. Bullock covers the history of recorded music by and for the LGBT community, and shows how those records influenced the evolution of the music we listen to today. He discusses how gay, lesbian, and bisexual performers influenced jazz and blues; examines the almost forgotten Pansy Craze in the years between the two World Wars; chronicles...