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Kwaito's Promise Music and the Aesthetics of Freedom in South Africa

Steingo Gavin

ISBN: PB: 9780226362540, ISBN: HB: 9780226362403, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 15 line drawings

In mid-1990s South Africa, apartheid ended, Nelson Mandela was elected president, and the country's urban black youth developed "kwaito" – a form of electronic music (redolent of North American house) that came to represent the post-struggle generati...

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Hatred of Music

Quignard Pascal, Amos Matthew, Ronnback Fredrik

ISBN: HB: 9780300211382, Yale University Press, May 2016
216 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

Throughout Pascal Quignard's distinguished literary career, music has been a recurring obsession. As a musician he organized the International Festival of Baroque Opera and Theatre at Versailles in the early 1990s, and thus was instrumental in the re...

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Leonard Bernstein

Shawn Allen

ISBN: PB: 9780300219852, ISBN: HB: 9780300144284, Yale University Press, May 2016
368 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

Leonard Bernstein stood at the epicentre of twentieth-century American musical life. His creative gifts knew no boundaries as he moved easily from the podium, to the piano, to television with his nationally celebrated Young People's Concerts, which i...

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Man Verdi

Walker Frank

ISBN: PB: 9780226871325, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
544 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 musical example

In this classic biography of composer Giuseppe Verdi, Frank Walker reveals Verdi the man through his connections with the individuals who knew him best".Walker focuses on some of the more significant people in Verdi's life and carefully scrutinizes h...

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Classics for the Masses Shaping Soviet Musical Identity Under Lenin and Stalin

Fairclough Pauline

ISBN: HB: 9780300217193, Yale University Press, April 2016
296 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Musicologist Pauline Fairclough explores the evolving role of music in shaping the cultural identity of the Soviet Union in a revelatory work that counters certain hitherto accepted views of an unbending, unchanging state policy of repression, censor...

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Say No to the Devil The Life and Musical Genius of Rev. Gary Davis

Zack Ian

ISBN: PB: 9780226380988, ISBN: HB: 9780226234106, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

Who was the greatest of all American guitarists? You probably didn't name Gary Davis, but many of his musical contemporaries considered him without peer. Bob Dylan called Davis "one of the wizards of modern music". Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead – who...

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Anthropology

Lost Paradise Andalusi Music in Urban North Africa

Glasser Jonathan

ISBN: PB: 9780226327235, ISBN: HB: 9780226327068, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 1 line drawing

For more than a century, urban North Africans have sought to protect and revive Andalusi music, a prestigious Arabic-language performance tradition said to originate in the "lost paradise" of medieval Islamic Spain. Yet despite the Andalusi repertoir...

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Stalin's Music Prize Soviet Culture and Politics

Frolova-Walker Marina

ISBN: HB: 9780300208849, Yale University Press, March 2016
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

Marina Frolova-Walker's fascinating history takes a new look at musical life in Stalin's Soviet Union. The author focuses on the musicians and composers who received Stalin Prizes, awarded annually to artists whose work was thought to represent the b...

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Listener's Guide to Free Improvisation

Corbett John

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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Blowin' Up Rap Dreams in South Central

Lee Jooyoung

ISBN: PB: 9780226348896, ISBN: HB: 9780226348759, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

Dr. Dre. Snoop Dogg. Ice Cube. Some of the biggest stars in hip hop made their careers in Los Angeles. And today there is a new generation of young, mostly black, men busting out rhymes and hoping to one day find themselves "blowin' up" – getting sig...

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