ledochowicz.com

Anthropology

Music

Sailing on the Sea of Love The Music of the Bauls of Bengal

Capwell Charles

ISBN: PB + CD: 9780857420046, Seagull Books, March 2011
242 pp., 22.9x15.5 cm, 43 halftones

Based on fieldwork carried out in West Bengal, "Sailing on the Sea of Love" is a pioneering study of the songs of the Baul – a Bengali religious sect, widely beloved for its enchanting music. Charles Capwell describes the role Baul song plays in the...

PB + CD:

£19,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Music

No Such Thing as Silence

Gann Kyle

ISBN: PB: 9780300171297, Yale University Press, February 2011
272 pp., 20.3x13.7 cm, 14 black&white illus.

First performed at the midpoint of the twentieth century, John Cage's 4'33", a composition conceived of without a single musical note, is among the most celebrated and ballyhooed cultural gestures in the history of modern music. A meditation on the a...

PB:

£14,99

QTY:

add books to the list

Music

Culture Studies

Thug Life Race, Gender, and the Meaning of Hip-Hop

Jeffries Michael P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226395852, ISBN: HB: 9780226395845, University of Chicago Press, January 2011
280 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 2 tables, 3 halftones

Hip-hop has come a long way from its origins in the Bronx in the 1970s, when rapping and DJing were just part of a lively, decidedly local scene that also venerated b-boying and graffiti. Now hip-hop is a global phenomenon and, in the United States,...

PB:

£22,50

QTY:

HB:

£58,50

QTY:

add books to the list

Philosophy

Music

Music in German Philosophy An Introduction

Sorgner Stefan Lorenz, Furbeth Oliver

ISBN: PB: 9780226768380, ISBN: HB: 9780226768373, University of Chicago Press, January 2011
312 pp., 23x15 cm

Though many well-known German philosophers have devoted considerable attention to music and its aesthetics, surprisingly few of their writings on the subject have been translated into English. Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, a philosopher, and Oliver Furbeth,...

PB:

£37,00

QTY:

HB:

£88,50

QTY:

add books to the list

Music

Contemporary Art

Traveling the Spaceways Sun Ra, the Astro Black and other Solar Myths

Corbett John, Elms Anthony, Kapsalis Terri

ISBN: PB: 9780945323150, University of Chicago Press, WhiteWalls, December 2010
91 pp., 23.9x16.8 cm, 70 colour illus.

Sun Ra (1914-1993) – self-proclaimed visionary extraterrestrial of the "Angel Race", prophetic jazz band leader and composer, and lyrical proponent of Afro-futurism – was one of the most influential figures of twentieth-century music. Though many of...

PB:

£19,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Music

Performing Arts

Unsettling Opera Staging Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, and Zemlinsky

Levin David J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226475233, ISBN: HB: 9780226475226, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 musical examples, 26 halftones

What happens when operas that are comfortably ensconced in the canon are thoroughly rethought and radically recast on stage? What does a staging do to our understanding of an opera, and of opera generally? While a stage production can disrupt a work...

PB:

£25,00

QTY:

HB:

£37,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Music

Mozart and the Nazis How the Third Reich Abused a Cultural Icon

Levi Erik

ISBN: HB: 9780300123067, Yale University Press, November 2010
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Despite the apparent incompatibility between Mozart's humanitarian and cosmopolitan outlook and Nazi ideology, the Third Reich tenaciously promoted the great composer's music to further the goals of the fascist regime. In this revelatory book, Erik L...

HB:

£25,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Music

Anthropology

Theory of African Music, Volume II

Kubik Gerhard

ISBN: PB + CD: 9780226456942, ISBN: HB + CD: 9780226456935, University of Chicago Press, November 2010
408 pp., 20.9x13.4 cm, 32 line drawings, 35 figures, 60 halftones

Taken together, these comprehensive volumes offer an authoritative account of the music of Africa. One of the most prominent experts on the subject, Gerhard Kubik draws on his extensive travels and three decades of study in many parts of the continen...

PB + CD:

£25,50

QTY:

HB + CD:

£78,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Music

Anthropology

Theory of African Music, Volume I

Kubik Gerhard

ISBN: PB + CD: 9780226456911, ISBN: HB + CD: 9780226456904, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
464 pp., 20.9x13.4 cm, 113 musical examples, 9 maps, 32 line drawings, 14 figures, 13 tables, 64 halftones

Taken together, these comprehensive volumes offer an authoritative account of the music of Africa. One of the most prominent experts on the subject, Gerhard Kubik draws on his extensive travels and three decades of study in many parts of the continen...

PB + CD:

£25,50

QTY:

HB + CD:

£78,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Music

Harmonic Function in Chromatic Music A Renewed Dualist Theory and an Account of Its Precedents

Harrison Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9780226318097, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
352 pp., 24.1x17 cm, 107 musical examples, 1 halftone

The highly chromatic music of the late 1800s and early 1900s includes some of the best-known works by Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, Cesar Franck, and Hugo Wolf. In this book, Daniel Harrison builds on nineteenth-century music theory to provide an o...

PB:

£47,50

QTY:

add books to the list