"Pop Music-USA" by Simon V. Anderson, 348 pages. Published by Clifton Hills Press, Inc., 2004

An entertaining look at popular music -- jazz, Broadway, country, and rock -- showing how these musical styles reveal the subterranean shifts in American cultural values and attitudes.

Crisp, clear, accurate information on popular music from 1620 to 2003. Anderson's forty years' experience as a college professor, nightclub pianist, and ten years of research add up to a very strong book. He offers, chapter after chapter, an insider's view of the real meaning of the raw historical evidence. It is a potent mixture, indeed!   More here...

"Pop Music-USA" in also available in loose-leaf format, Parts I and II, for semester structured courses.

Part I - Jazz to Country to Blues to Broadway. More here... Part II - R&B to MTV. More here...

"The Musical Imperative" 2nd Edition, by Simon V. Anderson. Published by Clifton Hills Press, 1992.

A bold innovation when it appeared in 1984, this book changed the manner and content of all music appreciation books thereafter. More than 40,000 copies have been sold to date.

In contrast to traditional musical appreciation books, "The Musical Imperative" treats all fields of music with equal respect, so the reader understands how classical music is different from - but grows out of the same human emotional needs and desires - as the pop and folk styles that make up the musical environment.  More here...

"The Musical Imperative" Third Edition, by Simon V. Anderson. Published by Clifton Hills Press, 2001.

For a one-semester class or for quick reference. Also suggested for high school and junior college courses. The book is a highly abbreviated version of Edition II, but contains the same basic historical and theoretical content. It has a greatly enlarged section of time-line biographical sketches of the most important composers in each historical period.  

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"Nelson Burton - My Life in Jazz" by Nelson Burton, transcribed, edited by Lisa Ledin and Simon V. Anderson. Published by Clifton Hills Press, 2000.

"This book gives an insider's view of the Cincinnati jazz scene from the 30's to the present. This is done so well that people and events bring waves of nostalgia for old-timers like me who were there." William Lawless Jones

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"Innocent Merriment: A Celebration of The Ohio Light Opera" by Charles H. Parsons

NEW from CHP! Look behind the curtain at one of the premiere professional repertory operetta companies in the world!

The delightful story of America's only professional repertory operetta theater, as told through personal memoirs of those who were there. Not only a national treasure, this is the only company to have performed the entire Gilbert and Sullivan canon.  

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"Walk of a Lifetime" by Alex Meacham with Sam Dunn and Mark Brown, Forward by University of Cincinnati basketball Coach Bob Huggins. Published by Clifton Hills Press, 2000.

An Inspirational journey from a shattered dream to the Cincinnati Bearcats and championship collegiate basketball. The story of U.C. Bearcats walk-on, Alex Meacham.  

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"Nutrition in Biblical Times" by Ruth Rosevear. Published by Clifton Hills Press, 2000.

" . . .a delightful exegetical study that throws light on puzzling scriptural texts, and weaves together some of the intricacies of the spirit and flesh of the major biblical characters. She also provides the additional bonus of insightful advice relevant to our health today." Rev. Dr. Harold G. Porter

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