Music Books

Hip Hop Ukraine: Music, Race, and African Migration, Helbig, Adriana N. ISBN: 9780253012043

In Hip Hop Ukraine, we enter a world of urban music and dance competitions, hip hop parties, and recording studio culture to explore unique sites of interracial encounters among African students, African immigrants, and local populations in eastern Ukraine. Adriana N. Helbig combines ethnographic research with music, media, and policy analysis to examine how localized forms of hip hop create social and political spaces where an interracial youth culture can speak to issues of human rights and racial equality. She maps the complex trajectories of musical influence African, Soviet, American to show how hip hop has become a site of social protest in post-socialist society and a vehicle for social change."

Polani: Fingerstyle Ukulele, Ho, Daniel ISBN: 9780984292837

In this songbook, six-time Grammy(R) award winner Daniel Ho documents the music of his solo 'ukulele album Polani (Pure) in tablature and notation. In 2010, it became the first 'ukulele album in music history to receive a Grammy(R) nomination. Also includes the music for his 'ukulele instrumental "Haiku."

AC/DC in the Studio: The Stories Behind Every Album, Brown, Jake ISBN: 9781782194262

This insightful and detailed look at AC/DC in the studio includes the making of the 'Iron Man 2' soundtrack, plus exclusive interviews with the band's drummer from the 80s and their engineer of the past 20 years and 6 albums, Mike Fraser.

Simply Bach: The Music of Johann Sebastian Bach: 25 of His Most Loved Masterpieces, Bach, Johann Sebastian ISBN: 9780739051825

Simply Bach is a collection of the most famous compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach. Phrase markings, articulations, fingering and dynamics have been included to aid with interpretation and a large print size makes the notation easy to read.