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Art of Music

Coleman Patrick, Shaw-Miller Simon, Leppert Richard, Benito Sandra, Brown Michael, Grebl James, Plotek Ariel, Rodrigues Gemma, Sardar Marika, Yu Yu Christina

ISBN: HB: 9780300215472, Yale University Press, October 2015
318 pp., 28x25.4 cm, 280 colour illus.

"The Art of Music" is a handsomely illustrated and rich interdisciplinary look at the mutual influence between music and the visual arts across cultures and eras. The book sheds new light on more familiar artists at the intersection of the visual and...

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Civic Jazz American Music and Kenneth Burke on the Art of Getting Along

Clark Gregory

ISBN: PB: 9780226218212, ISBN: HB: 9780226218182, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Jazz is born of collaboration, improvisation, and listening. In much the same way, the American democratic experience is rooted in the interaction of individuals. It is these two seemingly disparate, but ultimately thoroughly American, conceits that...

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Triumph of Pleasure Louis XIV and the Politics of Spectacle

Cowart Georgia J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226211558, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
324 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 8 halftones, 4 line drawings, 16 musical examples, 3 tables

Prominent components of Louis XIV's propaganda, the arts of spectacle also became sources of a potent resistance to the monarchy in late seventeenth-century France. With a particular focus on the court ballet, comedy-ballet, opera, and opera-ballet...

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Photography

Music

Blue Notes in Black and White Photography and Jazz

Cawthra Benjamin

ISBN: PB: 9780226100746, ISBN: HB: 9780226098753, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
392 pp., 25.5x18 cm, 65 halftones

Miles Davis, supremely cool behind his shades. Billie Holiday, eyes closed and head tilted back in full cry. John Coltrane, one hand behind his neck and a finger held pensively to his lips. These iconic images have captivated jazz fans nearly as much...

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Wagner and the Art of the Theatre

Carnegy Patrick

ISBN: PB: 9780300197150, Yale University Press, August 2013
352 pp., 24.4x16.8 cm, 100 black&white illus.

The production of Wagner's operas is fiercely debated. In this groundbreaking stage history Patrick Carnegy vividly evokes the – often scandalous – great productions that have left their mark not only on our understanding of Wagner but on modern thea...

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Musical Instrument

Saxophone

Cottrell Stephen

ISBN: HB: 9780300100419, Yale University Press, January 2013
352 pp., 23.4x19 cm

In the first fully comprehensive study of one of the world's most iconic musical instruments, Stephen Cottrell examines the saxophone's full social, historical and cultural trajectory, and considers how and why this instrument, with its idiosyncratic...

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Biography & Memoires

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Duke Ellington's America

Cohen Harvey G.

ISBN: PB: 9780226112640, ISBN: HB: 9780226112633, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
720 pp., 23x15 cm, 12 halftones

Few American artists in any medium have enjoyed the international and lasting cultural impact of Duke Ellington. From jazz standards such as "Mood Indigo" and "Don't Get Around Much Anymore", to his longer, more orchestral suites, to his leadership o...

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General

I Belong to This Band, Hallelujah! Community, Spirituality, and Tradition among Sacred Harp Singers

Clawson Laura

ISBN: PB: 9780226109596, ISBN: HB: 9780226109589, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
224 pp., 22.4x15 cm

The Sacred Harp choral singing tradition originated in the American South in the mid-nineteenth century, spread widely across the country, and continues to thrive today. Sacred Harp isn't performed but participated in, ideally in large gatherings whe...

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Military

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Windfall of Musicians Hitler's Emigres and Exiles in Southern California

Crawford Dorothy Lamb

ISBN: PB: 9780300171235, Yale University Press, May 2011
336 pp., 22.9x15.5 cm, 27 black&white illus.

This book is the first to examine the brilliant gathering of composers, conductors, and other musicians who fled Nazi Germany and arrived in the Los Angeles area. Musicologist Dorothy Lamb Crawford looks closely at the lives, creative work, and influ...

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Anthropology

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Remembered Rhythms Issues of Music and Diaspora in India

Chaudhuri Shubha, Seeger Anthony

ISBN: PB + CD: 9781905422500, Seagull Books, May 2011
282 pp., 24.4x17.2 cm, 1 map, 5 tables, 94 halftones

"Remembered Rhythms" explores the role of music and cultural memory in shaping and creating diasporic identities. With contributions from leading scholars in the fields of ethnomusicology, cultural studies, sociology, and anthropology, the essays ran...

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