New Books Shelf (June 4 - 11, 2008) June 5, 2008
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New books to explore this week include another installment of the Global Music Series, Native American Music in Eastern North America (Diamond, Beverley. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008). Continuing the American music trend are two books exploring blues and jazz. Follow Your Heart, by Joe Evans and Christopher Brooks (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2008), follows Joe Evans through his experiences performing with the greatest names in jazz, swing, and blues from Louis Armstrong to Billie Holiday. Playing the Changes: Milt Hinton’s Life in Stories and Photographs, brings the glory days of jazz alive with vivid photographs and equally vivid anecdotes from the life of Milt Hinton and his fellow musicians (Hinton, Milt, David G. Beger, and Holly Maxson. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2008).
A significant new work on Beethoven on our shelf this week is The Beethoven Song Companion by Paul Reid (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007). Taking his inspiration from John Reed’s The Schubert Song Companion, Reid has provided performers and scholars alike with a valuable reference for studying Beethoven’s songs. Each entry includes a thematic incipit, date of composition, first and modern editions, and full text in both German and English, followed by an analysis and exploration of the song’s context.
These items will be available for circulation on June 11, 2008.
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