New Age Musicians Book
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| Rating | : | 4.67 (875 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0881889091 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 111 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
New Age Musicians demonstrates the high-seriousness of these musicians' art and craft, and why new age is the fastest-growing category of new musical expression today.. The book presents an historical overview, musical analysis, stylistic tips and techniques, an exclusive interview with such foremost new age artists as Pierre Bensusan, Brian Eno, Alex de Grassi, Michael Hedges, Jean-Luc Ponty, George Winston, and others. This first comprehensive book on new age music shows why some people think it's the first significant new musical genre since rock and roll
DATED, YES; BUT NOT "OUT OF DATE," AND DEFINITELY NOT "PASSE" Steven H Propp This book was published in January 1989, at the crest of the "New Age" movement in music; of course, within a few years after this, sales of New Age Music (NAM) dropped (significantly, at about the time that most "New Age" labels started getting more into "smooth jazz" and lost the original "spiritual/inspirational" focus of the music), so this book now inevitably seems more like "nostalgia" than "cutting edge."Still, a lot of