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Flavor and Soul Italian America at Its African American Edge
ISBN: HB: 9780226428321, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
296 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 12 halftones
In the United States, African American and Italian cultures have been intertwined for more than a hundred years. From as early as nineteenth-century African American opera star Thomas Bowers – "The Colored Mario" – all the way to hip-hop entrepreneur...
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£22,50
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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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Cathedral of Music The Archivio Storico Ricordi
ISBN: HB: 9783791356235, Prestel Publishing, February 2017
224 pp., 27.5x21.5 cm, 280 colour illus.
This illustrated survey celebrates the panoramic holdings and colorful history of the Archivio Storico Ricordi, one of the world's most important musical archives. This comprehensive and captivating book follows the evolution of Milan's Ricordi arch...
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£45,00
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Sound Knowledge Music and Science in London, 1789-1851
ISBN: HB: 9780226402079, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 34 halftones, 4 line drawings, 1 table
What does it mean to hear scientifically? What does it mean to see musically? This volume uncovers a new side to the long nineteenth century in London, a hidden history in which virtuosic musical entertainment and scientific discovery intersected in...
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£41,50
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Catalogue of Carl Nielsen's Works
ISBN: HB: 9788763544054, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, February 2017
616 pp., 23.5x17.2 cm, 300 musical diagrams
"The Catalogue of Carl Nielsen's Works" is the first ever thematic-bibliographic inventory of composer Carl Nielsen's compositions of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It includes incipits (that is, the first couple of bars) for unam...
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£75,00
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Four Last Songs Aging and Creativity in Verdi, Strauss, Messiaen, and Britten
ISBN: PB: 9780226420684, ISBN: HB: 9780226255590, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 2 line drawings
Aging and creativity can seem a particularly fraught relationship for artists, who often face age-related difficulties as their audience's expectations are at a peak. In "Four Last Songs", Linda and Michael Hutcheon explore this issue via the late wo...
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£15,00
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£24,00
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Bob Marley
ISBN: PB: 9781904955412, Signal Books, February 2017
288 pp., 18.1x12.2 cm
For sale in CIS only! One of the twentieth century's most iconic cultural figures, Bob Marley was responsible for popularising reggae music throughout the world. His unique blend of politically conscious lyrics and melody won him legions of fans far...
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£7,99
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Real Life Rock The Complete Top Ten Columns, 1986-2014
ISBN: PB: 9780300223606, Yale University Press, January 2017
600 pp., 22.1x14.6 cm, 2 black&white illus.
<p>From the author of "The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs" comes his "Basement Tapes": the complete "Real Life Rock Top 10" columns For nearly thirty years, Greil Marcus has written a remarkable column cal...
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£14,99
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Exile's Song Edmond Dede and the Unfinished Revolutions of the Atlantic World
ISBN: HB: 9780300221367, Yale University Press, January 2017
272 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.
The extraordinary story of African American composer Edmond Dede, raised in antebellum New Orleans, and his remarkable career in France In 1855, Edmond Dede, a free black composer from New Orleans, emigrated to Paris. There he trained with France's b...
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£25,00
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Tigers of a Different Stripe Performing Gender in Dominican Music
ISBN: PB: 9780226405469, ISBN: HB: 9780226405322, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones, 14 line drawings, 6 tables
"Tigers of a Different Stripe" takes readers inside the unique world of merengue tipico, a traditional music of the Dominican Republic. While in most genres of Caribbean music women usually participate as dancers or vocalists, in merengue tipico they...
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£28,00
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£84,00
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