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Opera and the Political Imaginary in Old Regime France
ISBN: HB: 9780226522753, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 31 line drawings, 1 table
From its origins in the 1670s through the French Revolution, serious opera in France was associated with the power of the absolute monarchy, and its ties to the crown remain at the heart of our understanding of this opera tradition (especially its fo...
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Miles Davis Lost Quintet and Other Revolutionary Ensembles
ISBN: PB: 9780226527000, ISBN: HB: 9780226180762, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones
Miles Davis's Bitches Brew is one of the most iconic albums in American music, the preeminent landmark and fertile seedbed of jazz-fusion. Fans have been fortunate in the past few years to gain access to Davis's live recordings from this time, when h...
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Flip the Script European Hip Hop and the Politics of Postcoloniality
ISBN: PB: 9780226496214, ISBN: HB: 9780226496184, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 11 line drawings
Hip hop has long been a vehicle for protest in the United States, used by its primarily African American creators to address issues of prejudice, repression, and exclusion. But the music is now a worldwide phenomenon, and outside the United States it...
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As I Walked Out Sabine Baring-Gould and the Search for the Folk Songs of Devon and Cornwall
ISBN: PB: 9781909930537, Signal Books, October 2017
426 pp., 21.8x14.1 cm
For sale in CIS only! Shortly before his death, the Devonshire-born cleric, writer and antiquarian, Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924) wrote: "To this day I consider that the recovery of our West Country melodies has been the principal achievement of m...
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Beethoven's Symphonies Nine Approaches to Art and Ideas
ISBN: HB: 9780226453880, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
192 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 18 halftones
In the years spanning from 1800 to 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven completed nine symphonies, now considered among the greatest masterpieces of Western music. Yet despite the fact that this time period, located in the wake of the Enlightenment and at the...
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In Concert! Musical Instruments in Art, 1860-1910
ISBN: HB: 9780300230093, Yale University Press, April 2017
180 pp., 29.2x23.5 cm, 150 colour and black&white illus.
The rise of democratic ideals and the burgeoning middle class of the late 19th and early 20th centuries precipitated an important surge in the prevalence of music in everyday life. Cafe concerts, dances, and operas all flourished in major cities acro...
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Guitar Makers The Endurance of Artisanal Values in North America
ISBN: PB: 9780226478678, ISBN: HB: 9780226095387, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 42 halftones, 3 line drawings
It whispers, it sings, it rocks, and it howls. It expresses the voice of the folk – the open road, freedom, protest and rebellion, youth and love. It is the acoustic guitar. And over the last five decades it has become a quintessential American icon....
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Blackface Nation Race, Reform, and Identity in American Popular Music, 1812-1925
ISBN: PB: 9780226451640, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 halftones
As the United States transitioned from a rural nation to an urbanized, industrial giant between the War of 1812 and the early twentieth century, ordinary people struggled over the question of what it meant to be American. As Brian Roberts shows in "B...
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Vaudeville Melodies Popular Musicians and Mass Entertainment in American Culture, 1870-1929
ISBN: PB: 9780226448695, ISBN: HB: 9780226448558, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
208 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
If you enjoy popular music and culture today, you have vaudeville to thank. From the 1870s until the 1920s, vaudeville was the dominant context for popular entertainment in the United States, laying the groundwork for the music industry we know today...
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Music in the World Selected Essays
ISBN: PB: 9780226442396, ISBN: HB: 9780226442259, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 13 halftones, 4 tables
In music studies, Timothy D. Taylor is known for his insightful essays on music, globalization, and capitalism".Music in the World" is a collection of some of Taylor's most recent writings – essays concerned with questions about music in capitalist c...
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