The essential oral history of hip-hop, from its origins on the playgrounds of the Bronx to its reign as the most powerful force in pop culture—from the award-winning journalist behind All the Pieces Matter, the New York Times bestselling oral history of The Wire

“The Come Up is Abrams at his sharpest, at his most observant, at his most insightful.”—Shea Serrano, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hip-Hop (And Other Things)

The music that would come to be known as hip-hop was born...

This score is an invitation to create one's own movie while interpreting the music. Three of the compositions are for strings, six of them are for piano and strings, and one is for piano and trumpet.

The much-anticipated first book from Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler

Constant van de Wall, a European-Javanese composer

Constant van de Wall (Surabaya, 1871 – Nice, 1945) occupies a prominent place in the list of Indisch composers because of a number of uniquely European-Javanese compositions: songs, pieces for piano and for orchestra, chamber music, and the opera Attima. From this it is evident that his eyes and ears were open to the country where he was born and raised: the nature, Javanese antiquities, the shadow play, the Malay pantun, Javanese dance, g...

Two introductions to the life of composer Linda Bandara are presented in this booklet. The first one is written in by Dutch pianist Henk Mak van Dijk.

The second one is based on an article by the late Klaus Kuiper: ‘Linda Bandara and the gamelan. A musical soul between East and West’.

Linda Bandara (artist name for Linda Leber-Hofland) was an outstanding composer who succeeded in building a bridge between European and Javanese music. Not only did she study gamelan extensively, she was al...

This booklet gives an overview of Dutch composers in connection with the Dutch East Indies who have left a modest Indisch oeuvre or who have occasionally written an Indisch composition. It is a colourful collection, which is difficult to classify: the composers were either born in the Dutch East Indies or elsewhere, they lived in the east for a shorter or longer period of time or were just inspired in Holland by exotic art, stories and poetry. (photo cover: conductor/ composer Dirk Fock)

The 25 compositions in this book are invitations to play the piano in a free, personal way. The sheet music can be an inspiration to beginners of all ages who like to experiment and put their feelings into what they are playing.

Boek/Book/Buch: English + Nederlands + Deutsch.

With this book the experienced author has created a communis opinio, a standard work for the int. rock & roll scene, for finding songs in (and an overview of) movies containing vintage rock & roll. Songs and movies from: USA, UK, Germany (including GDR and Austria), Italy, France and The Netherlands. Although the focus is on vintage rock & roll songs, the intension is, with the help of snapshots (even when the quality might be dated due to the o...

What can music ‘move’ in a hospital setting? This intriguing research question is at the heart of this book. The project Meaningful Music in Healthcare, in short MiMiC, described here, emerged from a collaboration between the research group Lifelong Learning in Music at the Hanze University of Applied Sciences in Groningen and the department of Surgery at the University Medical Center in Groningen. There seemed to be interesting possibilities in bringing a ‘person-centred’ musical app...