Customer Review: This fascinating book explores the powerful force music has played in shaping our common humanity. It's evolution, with a backbeat. Author Levitin makes the case that six basic types of songs have existed throughout the course of human history, all over the world. Mankind, apparently, shares a... more info
Customer Review: These anthologies are mostly used in music history courses to my knowledge and so I don't believe it's fair to say that this book fails to offer enough excerpts in this genre, or in this country, or during such and such years. I used this book during my first semester of music history at the... more info
Customer Review: I got the book in good time. I ended up having to mail it back just because I dropped the class, but there was nothing wrong with the book.
Customer Review: I gave this book four stars because while I have serious issues with the way the book is organized and the small type/font used, the book does list 1000 recordings and talks about each one in an effective manner. Writing a book like this is an almost impossible task. After actually deciding on... more info
Customer Review: I didn't know much about the crue before i read this book. But it's a riviting book with entertaining tales of crazy far-out rock n' roll lifestyles. A good read.
Customer Review: This book was a total disappointment. This was my third Stephen Davis book. Maybe he set the bar too high in the first two. The problem with this book is that it offers no more insight than the VH1 Behind the Music on Guns N Roses that aired a few years ago. As a matter of fact, he quotes that... more info
Customer Review: Mr. Chang has repeatedly denied that his book is definitive, but his subtitle says otherwise. The volume struck me as being comprised of two rather disjointed halves. The first is more about hip-hop and the latter more about violence, gangs, and race relations. It's the second half which falls apart... more info
Customer Review: The CDs in this set are not packaged in standard jewelboxes nor even in cheap sleeves, but are mounted directly atop a printed surface. As a result, when I purchased the set from my school bookstore, I found that several of the CDs had dried flecks of ink on the data side that made it impossible to... more info
Customer Review: I recommend this book to professors and students for its clarity, conciseness and simplicity. Russano-Hanning's "Concise History of Western Music" serves well as a stimulus to inspire questions, discussion, and interactive teaching which ultimately leads to the best learning. Her books on Music... more info
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