New Years Resolution #1

Appreciate More Music

True to the Roots: Americana Music Revealed
By Monte Dutton

Interviews and portraits of the folks who make Our Kind of Music (OKOM), or Alternative Country, including artists such as Jack Ingram, Brad Paisley, or bands such as Reckless Kelly.

When You Sing It Now, Just Like New: First Nations Poetics, Voices, and Representations
By Robin Ridington and Jillian Ridington

Essays about stories.  Essays about hearing these stories.  Robing Ridington and Jillian Ridington share their experiences with the Athapaskan-speaking Dane-zaa people, who live in Canada's Peace River area.  Check out the audio page for When You Sing it Now, Just Like New.

XX: Lyrics and Photographs of the Cowboy Junkies, with watercolors by Enrique Martínez Celaya
Lyrics and photographs of the Coywboy Junkies
Watercolors by Enrique Martínez Celaya

A celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the Cowboy Junkies with lyrics, photographs, and Enrique Martínez Celaya's work.

Bodily Charm: Living Opera
By Linda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon

Opera is alive in the performers and in itself.  Works such as Richard Strauss'  Salome are used for an interdisciplinary  exploration of the operatic body -- physical and represented.

The Musical Worlds of Lerner and Loewe
By Gene Lees

Because of Lerner, Eliza Doolittle was able to say, "I could have danced all night, I could have danced all night/ And still have begged for more."  Frederick Loewe wrote the music to "Thank Heaven For Little Girls."

You Can't Steal a Gift: Dizzy, Clark, Milt, and Nat
By Gene Lees
Foreword by Nat Hentoff

Journalist and music critic Gene Lees offers minibiographies of jazz greats Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, Milt Hinton and Nat King Cole and the impact of racism on jazz during the bebop and cool jazz eras.

If You Don't Go, Don't Hinder Me: The African American Sacred Song Tradition
By Bernice Johnson Reagon

Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon, founder of a cappella group Sweet Honey in the Rock, centers four essays on spiritual music with the theme of African American migration.

Bruno Walter: A World Elsewhere
By Erik Ryding and Rebecca Pechefsky
With a new introduction by the authors

A biography of conductor Bruno Walter, following his career in Germany and the United States, his friendships with people such as Gustav Mahler, and his essential recordings with the Columbia Symphony Orchestra.