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Author
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Pub
Publication Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discusses the influence of people and events worldwide after World War I which led to a renewal of folk and national music, neo-classicism, the popularization of jazz, and political repression of musicians under communist and fascist regimes.
Author
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Pub
Publication Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discusses the influence of people and events worldwide when music served as World War II propaganda even as it blossomed into Broadway and Hollywood musicals, big bands, and bebop, then evolved into rock and roll.
Author
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Pub
Publication Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discusses the influence of people and events worldwide in the 1960s which led to electronic experimentation, the blues, hard bop, protest songs, soul, and radical modernism in classical music.
Author
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Pub
Publication Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discusses the influence of people and events worldwide in the late twentieth century which led to crossover between musical genres, stadium rock fund-raisers, hip-hop, rap, and the rise of world music.
Author
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Pub
Publication Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discusses the influence of people and events worldwide in the 1970s which led to developments in minimalism, modern opera and ballet, jazz-rock fusion, heavy metal, progressive rock, punk, and reggae.
Author
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Pub
Publication Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discusses the influence of people and events worldwide in the first decades of the twentieth century which led to experiments with dissonance, modern ballet, and the birth of jazz.