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A Brief History of Books. Books have been a part of our daily lives since ancient times. They have been used for telling stories, archiving history, and sharing information about our world. Although the ways that books are made have evolved over time, whether handwritten, printed on pages, or digitized online, their need remains timeless.
- The Devil's Music. By Giles Oakley. In this sweeping account, Giles Oakley traces the origins of blues music from the honky-tonks of New Orleans and the plantations of the Mississippi Delta to blues legends such as John Lee Hooker and B. B. King.
- Becoming Belafonte. By Judith E. Smith. Harry Belafonte was the son of poor, Jamaican immigrants and grew up in Depression-era Harlem. Despite these challenges, Belafonte became an immensely popular singer and a champion of civil rights and Black power.
- Let's Do It. By Bob Stanley. Pop music was born long before you probably even realize. In this enlightening history of the genre, Bob Stanley traces the origins of pop all the way back to the late 1800s.
- Somebody to Love. By Matt Richards, Mark Langthorne. Freddie Mercury, the iconic frontman of Queen, took the world by storm with his impressive four-octave vocal range, genre-bending songwriting abilities, and flamboyant stage presence.
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The history of books became an acknowledged academic discipline in the 1980s. Contributions to the field have come from textual scholarship, codicology, bibliography, philology, palaeography, art history, social history and cultural history. Its key purpose is to demonstrate that the book as an object, not just the text contained within it, is ...
Nov 11, 2020 · Introduction. Welcome to our guide on the history of music. Here we’ve composed the historical origin of the musical genres we know and love today, along with how classical music is crucial to many music types through its establishment of musical theory. We’ve gone even deeper than composed music, however, as we’ve also had to explain how ...
The story of how humanity arrived at its current relationship with music is the subject of the Big Think interview with Spitzer above, in which he covers 40,000 years in 8 minutes: “from bone flutes to Beyoncé.”. We begin with his thesis that “we in the West” think of music history as the history of ...
The 20 best music history books recommended by Kirkus, Booklist, Ken Burns, Songlines, John Lewis, Jeff Weiss, Nico Muhly and Jeff Chang.
Dec 4, 2018 · From Gregorian Chants to Mozart’s sonatas, we’re going to give you a brief history of the 6 Musical Periods and how they’ve each contributed to music today. The 6 musical periods are classified as Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and 20th/21st Century, with each fitting into an approximate time frame.
