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Biographic: ABBA Great Lives in Graphic Form
ISBN: HB: 9781781454084, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, September 2020
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, colour illus.
The Biographics series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits, and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey eac...
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Biographic: The Beatles Great Lives in Graphic Form
ISBN: HB: 9781781453698, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, October 2019
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, colour illus.
The Biographics series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits, and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey eac...
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Move On Up Chicago Soul Music and Black Cultural Power
ISBN: PB: 9780226653037, ISBN: HB: 9780226176079, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones
Curtis Mayfield. The Chi-Lites. Chaka Khan. Chicago's place in the history of soul music is rock solid. But for Chicagoans, soul music in its heyday from the 1960s to the 1980s was more than just a series of hits: it was a marker and a source of blac...
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£15,00
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£68,00
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Creolized Aurality Guadeloupean Gwoka and Postcolonial Politics
ISBN: PB: 9780226631776, ISBN: HB: 9780226631639, University of Chicago Press, June 2019
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 7 line drawings
In the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, the complex interplay between anticolonial resistance and accommodation resounds in its music. Guadeloupean gwoka music – a secular, drum-based tradition – captures the entangled histories of French colonization...
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£23,00
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£68,00
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Stories of Tonality in the Age of Francois-Joseph Fetis
ISBN: HB: 9780226626925, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 76 halftones
"Stories of Tonality in the Age of Francois-Joseph Fetis" explores the concept of musical tonality through the writings of the Belgian musicologist Francois-Joseph Fetis (1784-1867), who was singularly responsible for theorizing and popularizing the...
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£42,00
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Pick Up the Pieces Excursions in Seventies Music
ISBN: HB: 9780226604732, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Unless you lived through the 1970s, it seems impossible to understand it at all. Drug delirium, groovy fashion, religious cults, mega corporations, glitzy glam, hard rock, global unrest – from our 2018 perspective, the seventies are often remembered...
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£20,00
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Bela Bartok
ISBN: PB: 9780300234374, Yale University Press, April 2018
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.
<p>This deeply researched biography of Bela Bartok (1881-1945) provides a more comprehensive view of the innovative Hungarian musician than ever before. David Cooper traces Bartok's international career as an ardent ethno-musicologist and compose...
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£19,99
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Curious and Modern Inventions Instrumental Music as Discovery in Galileo's Italy
ISBN: HB: 9780226319445, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 colour plates, 17 halftones, 72 line drawings, 4 tables
Early seventeenth-century Italy saw a revolution in instrumental music. Large, varied, and experimental, the new instrumental repertoire was crucial for the Western tradition – but until now, the impulses that gave rise to it had yet to be fully expl...
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£44,00
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Listener's Guide to Free Improvisation
ISBN: PB: 9780226353807, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
112 pp., 15.8x10.7 cm
Improvisation rattles some listeners. Maybe they're even suspicious of it. John Coltrane's saxophonic flights of fancy, Jimi Hendrix's feedback drenched guitar solos, Ravi Shankar's sitar extrapolations – all these sounds seem like so much noodling o...
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£11,50
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Francesca Caccini at the Medici Court Music and the Circulation of Power
ISBN: PB: 9780226132136, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
488 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 6 halftones, 1 line drawing, 13 tables, 43 musical examples
A contemporary of Shakespeare and Monteverdi, and a colleague of Galileo and Artemisia Gentileschi at the Medici court, Francesca Caccini was a dominant musical figure there for thirty years. Dazzling listeners with the transformative power of her pe...
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£36,00
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