Research Guides: Music: Books (Catalog)

Music Books

Virtual Music by Shara Rambarran
Call Number: ML 3916 .R36 2021
ISBN: 9781501336379
Publication Date: 2021-04-08
Technology has revolutionized music, especially in the 21st century where the traditional rules and conventions of music creation, consumption, distribution, promotion, and performance have been erased and substituted with unthinkable and exciting methods in which absolutely anyone can explore, enjoy, and participate in creating and listening to music. Virtual Music explores the interactive relationship of sound, music, and image, and its users.
Sweet Thing by Nicholas Stoia
Call Number: ML 3551 .S76 2021
ISBN: 9780190881979
Publication Date: 2021-01-28
As children, many of us learn to sing, "If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands." But despite the familiarity of this tune, few of us realize that what we're singing is actually part of a pervasive - and centuries-old - musical scheme. This particular scheme, dubbed the "Sweet Thing," has generated a large group of songs spanning a broad range of topics, genres, and time periods, but all related through a specific stanzaic form. Sweet Thing shows us how it has linked listeners and musicians alike across the boundaries of genre, race, and even time.
Gullah Spirituals by Eric Sean Crawford
Call Number: ML 3556 .C76 2021
ISBN: 9781643361895
Publication Date: 2021-07-30
In Gullah Spirituals musicologist Eric Crawford traces Gullah Geechee songs from their beginnings in West Africa to their height as songs for social change and Black identity in the twentieth century American South.
Changes by Sheldon Pearce
Call Number: 9781982170462
ISBN: 9781982170462
Publication Date: 2021-06-08
Tupac Shakur's life and legacy, timed to the fiftieth anniversary of his birth and twenty-fifth anniversary of his death.
Reflections on the Music of Ennio Morricone by Franco Sciannameo
Call Number: ML 410 .M79 S35 2020
ISBN: 9781498569002
Publication Date: 2020-01-23
Provides new contextualized perspectives on Ennio Morricone's position as a radical composer working at the cutting edge of music within the frame work of his cinematic compositions.
Women in Jamaican Music by Heather Augustyn
Call Number: ML 82 .A85 2020
ISBN: 9781476680958
Publication Date: 2020-05-26
As the ubiquitous Jamaican musician Bob Marley once famously sang, "half the story has never been told." This rings particularly true for the little-known women in Jamaican music who comprise Covers the female contribution to Jamaican music and its subgenres through dozens of interviews with vocalists, instrumentalists, bandleaders, producers, deejays and supporters of the arts.
Unlikely Angel by Lydia R. Hamessley; Steve Buckingham (Foreword by)
Call Number: ML 420 .P28 H36 2020
ISBN: 9780252043529
Publication Date: 2020-10-12
Comprehensive look at the process, influences, and themes that have shaped the superstar's songwriting artistry. Hamessley reveals how Parton's loving, hardscrabble childhood in the Smoky Mountains provided the musical language, rhythms, and memories of old-time music that resonate in so many of her songs.
The Singer's Audition and Career Handbook by Claudia Friedlander; Joyce DiDonato (Foreword by)
Call Number: MT 820 .F866 2019
ISBN: 9781538109885
Publication Date: 2019-11-08
Comprehensive guide to the training, audition technique, and professional development essential for launching and sustaining a rewarding career in classical singing.

Finding Books in the Library

Dallas College Libraries uses the Library of Congress (LC) Classification System to organize items in their collection. The following LC classifications are the most helpful for those studying Music:

M1-5000 Music

M1.A5-3.3 Collections
M5-1480 Instrumental Music
M1495-2199 Vocal Music
M5000 Unidentified Compositions

ML1-3930 Literature of Music

ML159-3785 History and Criticism
ML 385-429 Biography
ML459-1380 Instruments & Instrumental Music
ML1400-3275 Vocal Music
ML3800-3923 Philosophical & Social Aspects of Music

MT Instruction & Study

Music Ebooks

Sounding Together by Carol J. Oja; Charles Garrett
ISBN: 0472054333
Publication Date: 2021-09-30
Tackles key challenges facing scholars studying music of the United States in the early twenty-first century. This book encourages scholars in music circles and beyond to explore the intersections between social responsibility, community engagement, and academic practices through the simple act of working together.
Brought to Life by the Voice by Amanda Weidman
ISBN: 9780520976399
Publication Date: 2021-06-15
To produce the song sequences that are central to Indian popular cinema, singers' voices are first recorded in the studio and then played back on the set to be lip-synced and danced to by actors and actresses as the visuals are filmed. Since the 1950s, playback singers have become revered celebrities in their own right. Brought to Life by the Voice explores the distinctive aesthetics and affective power generated by this division of labor between onscreen body and offscreen voice in South Indian Tamil cinema.
Listening to the Lomax Archive by Jonathan W. Stone
ISBN: 9780472902446
Publication Date: 2021-11-29
In 1933, John A. Lomax and his son Alan set out as emissaries for the Library of Congress to record the folksong of the "American Negro" in several southern African American prisons. Listening to the Lomax Archive: The Sonic Rhetorics of African American Folksong in the 1930s asks how the Lomaxes' field recordings--including their prison recordings and a long-form oral history of jazz musician Jelly Roll Morton--contributed to a new mythology of Americana for a nation in the midst of financial, social, and identity crises.
Sounds from the Other Side by Elliott H. Powell
ISBN: 1517910048
Publication Date: 2020-11-03
A sixty-year history of Afro-South Asian musical collaborations From Beyoncé's South Asian music-inspired Super Bowl Halftime performance, to jazz artists like John and Alice Coltrane's use of Indian song structures and spirituality in their work, to Jay-Z and Missy Elliott's high-profile collaborations with diasporic South Asian artists such as the Panjabi MC and MIA, African American musicians have frequently engaged South Asian cultural productions in the development of Black music culture. Sounds from the Other Side traces such engagements through an interdisciplinary analysis of the political implications of African American musicians' South Asian influence since the 1960s.

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