music

Spine title: Easy keyboard tunes. Many types of easy-to-play tunes introduce the new musician to the electronic keyboard.

Presents a year-by-year account of events and developments that accompanied and influenced the rise of African-American popular music from January 1889 to December 1895.

A guide to the financial and legal aspects of the music industry that discusses how to hire advisors, how to land a record deal, how to copyright songs, how to schedule a tour, Internet concerns, and other related topics.

Surveys the history of black music in America, from early slave songs through jazz and the blues to soul, classical music, and current trends.

Offers over 100 tunes for the recorder, and helps beginners to read and understand music better.

Uses words, images, and songs to capture the range of emotions felt by slaves and those newly freed on their journey from enslavement to emancipation; includes a CD with song recordings, many sung by the author.

Traces the origins of jazz to the African-American musicians of New Orleans in the 1890s, and chronicles the history of the genre through the early twenty-first century.

An overview of Indian music and dance which includes a discussion of their instruments, the structure of their music, and the uses of music in Indian life.