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Musical Truth Volume 3 completes club and radio DJ-turned author/ researcher Mark Devlin’s trilogy of books, exposing the real nature of the corporate music industry and those that populate it.

More is at stake in the music we listen to or perform than most people are aware. In this vivacious and challenging work, Dr. Peter Kwasniewski—a philosopher, theologian, composer, conductor, and singer—explains why the great classical music of Western civilization is morally and intellectually good for us, as well as why certain other forms of music can actually be harmful.

In the third volume of his bestselling series, Pastor Robert Morgan expands his material to include the great history of worship, the first biblical hymns, biographical sketches of the most interesting composers, and almost 60 generations of hymn singing. In 2003, Robert Morgan released what...

A modern take on a classical icon: this “luminous book” (Susan Orlean, New York Times bestselling author of The Library Book) tells the story of when, where, and how Chopin composed his most famous work, uncovering many surprises along the way and showing how his innovative music still...

Radio doesn't play a lot of those oldies anymore, even though you would enjoy hearing them again. This audiobook offers you access to tales of more than 150 lost or forgotten oldies as well as history about the artists and their songs.

Die 90er-Jahre waren geprägt von musikalischen Highlights wie Alternative Rock, Eurodance, Boybands und Grunge. In diesem Album präsentieren die Hosts Falk und Ryll 18 Lieblingssongs der 90er und die sehr persönlichen Geschichten ihrer Gäste. Anke Loscheider wählte "Creep" von Radiohead – erst gehasst, dann geliebt, für sie ein ewiger Musikschatz. Bestsellerautor Arno Strobel favorisiert die Live-Version von 1994 von "Hotel California". Journalist Stephan Kaußen beschreibt "Civil War" von Guns N' Roses als Soundtrack einer Umbruchszeit 1991.

En estas páginas, la exploración de la música latinoamericana conduce hacia la historia más amplia de la conceptualización de la región. Tal como sostiene Palomino: "La música proporciona así un modelo para comprender ahora los mecanismos nacionales y transnacionales que siguen produciendo el lugar de América Latina en el marco de la cultura global conflictiva y fascinante que habitamos".

In Revolutions in American Music, award-winning author Michael Broyles shows the surprising ways in which three key decades—the 1840s, the 1920s, and the 1950s—shaped America's musical future. Drawing connections between new styles of music like the minstrel show, jazz, and rock 'n' roll, and emerging technologies like the locomotive, the first music recordings, and the transistor radio, Broyles argues that these decades fundamentally remade our cultural landscape in enduring ways.