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Musicians and Composers of the 20th Century by Alfred William Cramer
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 1587655160
Publication Date: 2009-05-01
The Indispensable Composers by Anthony Tommasini
Call Number: CCC Stacks-Circulating ; ML390 .T608 2018
ISBN: 9781594205934
Publication Date: 2018-11-06
Sounds and Sweet Airs by Anna Beer
Call Number: Giles Stacks ML390 .S686 2016
ISBN: 1780748566
Publication Date: 2016-04-07

Language of the Spirit by Jan Swafford
Call Number: Giles Stacks-Circulating ; MT90 .S99 2017
ISBN: 9780465097548
Publication Date: 2017-04-11
The Classical Music Lover's Companion to Orchestral Music by Robert Philip
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 0300242727
Publication Date: 2018-12-04
Voices for Change in the Classical Music Profession by Anna Bull (Volume Editor); Christina Scharff (Volume Editor); Laudan Nooshin (Associate Editor)
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 9780197601211
Publication Date: 2023-03-13
Classical Music by Michael Beckerman (Editor); Paul Boghossian (Editor)
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 1800641133
Publication Date: 2021-02-19

The Story of African American Music by Andrew Pina
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 1534560734
Publication Date: 2017-07-30
Black Lives Matter and Music by Fernando Orejuela (Editor, Contribution by); Stephanie Shonekan (Editor, Contribution by); Portia K. Maultsby (Foreword by); Langston Collin Wilkins (Contribution by); Alison Martin (Contribution by); Denise Dalphond (Contribution by); Eileen M. Hayes (Contribution by)
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 0253038448
Publication Date: 2018-08-10
The Heart of a Woman by Rae Linda Brown; Guthrie Ramsey (Editor, Foreword by); Carlene J. Brown (Afterword by)
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 0252043235
Publication Date: 2020-06-22
The Transformation of Black Music by Sam Floyd; Melanie Zeck; Guthrie Ramsey
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 0195307240
Publication Date: 2017-03-28
Jazz Internationalism by John Lowney
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 0252082869
Publication Date: 2017-10-16

Country Music by Dayton Duncan; Ken Burns
Call Number: CCC Stacks-Circulating ; ML3524 .D85 201
ISBN: 9780525520542
Publication Date: 2019-09-10
The Sound of Navajo Country by Kristina M. Jacobsen
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 1469631865
Publication Date: 2017-03-13
Country Boys and Redneck Women by Diane Pecknold (Editor); Kristine M. McCusker (Editor)
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 1496804953
Publication Date: 2016-02-08
Nothing Has Been Done Before by Robert Loss; Matt Brennan (Series edited by); Simon Frith (Series edited by)
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 1501322028
Publication Date: 2017-11-02
Performance and Popular Music by Ian Inglis (Editor)
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 1351554735
Publication Date: 2017-07-05

Analysis of Jazz by Laurent Cugny
Call Number: Giles Stacks-Circulating ; MT146 .C8413 2019
ISBN: 9781496821898
Publication Date: 2019-01-30
After sound : toward a critical music by Barrett, G. Douglas
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 1501308130
Publication Date: 2020
Medievalism and Metal Music Studies by Ruth Barratt-Peacock (Editor); Ross Hagen (Editor)
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 1787563979
Publication Date: 2019-09-06
Contact High by Vikki Tobak; Questlove (Foreword by)
Call Number: Giles Stacks-Circulating ; ML3531 .T606 2018
ISBN: 9780525573883
Publication Date: 2018-10-16

Call Number Range:

M – Music
ML – Literature on music
MT – Instruction and study

Subject Headings:

Composers--Biography
Women composers--Biography
African Americans--Music
Music appreciation
Music--History and appreciation
Country music
Country musicians
Jazz
Film music
Popular music
World music

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