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Jazz Worlds/World Jazz

Bohlman Philip V., Plastino Goffredo

ISBN: PB + CD: 9780226236032, ISBN: HB + CD: 9780226158082, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
552 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 42 halftones, 11 line drawings

Many regard jazz as the soundtrack of America, born and raised in its cities and echoing throughout its tumultuous century of progress. So when Ernest Hemingway wrote about seeing jazz in 1920s Paris, and when British colonial officials danced to jaz...

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Bach's Major Vocal Works Music, Drama, Liturgy

Rathey Markus

ISBN: HB: 9780300217209, Yale University Press, February 2016
256 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Every year, Johann Sebastian Bach's major vocal works are performed to mark liturgical milestones in the Christian calendar. Written by a renowned Bach scholar, this concise and accessible book provides an introduction to the music and cultural conte...

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Music and Capitalism A History of the Present

Taylor Timothy D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226311975, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 1 line drawing, 3 tables

iTunes. Spotify. Pandora. With these brief words one can map the landscape of music today, but these aren't musicians, songs, or anything else actually musical – they are products and brands. In this book, Timothy D. Taylor explores just how pervasiv...

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Music/City American Festivals and Placemaking in Austin, Nashville, and Newport

Wynn Jonathan R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226305523, ISBN: HB: 9780226305493, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 29 halftones, 4 line drawings

Austin's famed South by Southwest is far more than a festival celebrating indie music. It's also a big networking party that sparks the imagination of hip, creative types and galvanizes countless pilgrimages to the city. Festivals like SXSW are a lot...

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Francesca Caccini at the Medici Court Music and the Circulation of Power

Cusick Suzanne G.

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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Musical Instruments Highlights from the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Moore J. Kenneth, Dobney Jayson, Strauchen-Scherer E. Bradley

ISBN: PB: 9781588395627, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2015
192 pp., 24.1x21.6 cm, 175 colour illus.

Featuring more than 100 extraordinary pieces from around the world and spanning thousands of years, this book displays the astounding diversity of musical instruments. Highlights include Bronze Age cymbals, the earliest known piano, violins made by S...

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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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Culture Studies

History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs

Marcus Greil

ISBN: PB: 9780300216929, Yale University Press, October 2015
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Unlike all previous versions of rock 'n' roll history, this book omits almost every iconic performer and ignores the storied events and turning points that everyone knows. Instead, in a daring stroke, Greil Marcus selects ten songs recorded between 1...

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Metaphor and Musical Thought

Spitzer Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226273136, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
392 pp., 23.3x16.5 cm, 1 colour plate, 7 halftones, 95 line drawings, 76 musical examples

"The scholarship of Michael Spitzer's new book is impressive and thorough. The writing is impeccable and the coverage extensive. The book treats the history of the use of metaphor in the field of classical music. It also covers a substantial part of...

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Verdi-Boito Correspondence

Verdi Giuseppe, Boito Arrigo

ISBN: PB: 9780226273891, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, musical examples throughout

These 301 letters between Giuseppe Verdi and his last, most gifted librettist, Arrigo Boito, document an extraordinary chapter in musical history. Now available for the first time in English, this correspondence records both a unique friendship and i...

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