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Top 40 Democracy The Rival Mainstreams of American Music
ISBN: PB: 9780226896182, ISBN: HB: 9780226896168, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
312 pp., 25x15 cm, 30 halftones
If you drive into any American city with the car stereo blasting, you'll undoubtedly find radio stations representing R&B/hip-hop, country, Top 40, adult contemporary, rock, and Latin, each playing hit after hit within that musical format. American m...
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£22,00
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Leonard Bernstein Letters
ISBN: PB: 9780300205442, Yale University Press, October 2014
480 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
<p>Leonard Bernstein was a charismatic and versatile musician – a brilliant conductor who attained international super-star status, and a gifted composer of Broadway musicals ("West Side Story"), symphonies ("Age of Anxiety"...
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£14,99
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Triumph of Pleasure Louis XIV and the Politics of Spectacle
ISBN: PB: 9780226211558, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
324 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 8 halftones, 4 line drawings, 16 musical examples, 3 tables
Prominent components of Louis XIV's propaganda, the arts of spectacle also became sources of a potent resistance to the monarchy in late seventeenth-century France. With a particular focus on the court ballet, comedy-ballet, opera, and opera-ballet...
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£36,00
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Prague Soundscapes
ISBN: PB: 9788024625157, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, September 2014
340 pp., 24.1x17.2 cm, 64 colour plates
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Dvorak's opera Rusalka at the National Theatre. A punk concert in an underground club. The hypnotic chanting of Hare Krishnas joyfully dancing through the streets. These are the sounds of...
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£15,00
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Stambeli Music, Trance, and Alterity in Tunisia
ISBN: PB + CD: 9780226392196, University of Chicago Press, July 2014
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 map, 7 tables, 7 halftones, 12 line illus.
In "Stambeli", Richard C. Jankowsky presents a vivid ethnographic account of the healing trance music created by the descendants of sub-Saharan slaves brought to Tunisia during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Stambeli music calls upon an ela...
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£24,00
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Forbidden Music The Jewish Composers Banned by the Nazis
ISBN: PB: 9780300205350, Yale University Press, June 2014
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.
When National Socialism arrived in Germany in 1933, Jews were dominating music more than virtually any other sector, making it the most important cultural front in the Nazi fight for German identity. The party's policy on music brought about a cultur...
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£16,99
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Tainted Glory in Handel's Messiah The Unsettling History of the World's Most Beloved Choral Work
ISBN: HB: 9780300194586, Yale University Press, June 2014
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
Every Easter, audiences across the globe thrill to performances of Handel's "Hallelujah Chorus", but they would probably be appalled to learn the full extent of the oratorio's anti-Judaic message. In this pioneering study, respected musicologist Mich...
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£44,00
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Paris Blues African American Music and French Popular Culture, 1920-1960
ISBN: PB: 9780226138817, ISBN: HB: 9780226138787, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 39 halftones, 17 line drawings
The Jazz Age. The phrase conjures images of Louis Armstrong holding court at the Sunset Cafe in Chicago, Duke Ellington dazzling crowds at the Cotton Club in Harlem, and star singers like Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey. But the Jazz Age was every bit as...
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You'll Know When You Get There Herbie Hancock and the Mwandishi Band
ISBN: PB: 9780226142715, ISBN: HB: 9780226300047, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 10 halftones, 22 line illus.
As the 1960s ended, Herbie Hancock embarked on a grand creative experiment. Having just been dismissed from the celebrated Miles Davis Quintet, he set out on the road, playing with his first touring group as a leader until he eventually formed what w...
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Music between Us Is Music a Universal Language?
ISBN: PB: 9780226142852, ISBN: HB: 9780226333281, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
296 pp., 23x15 cm
From our first social bonding as infants to the funeral rites that mark our passing, music plays an important role in our lives, bringing us closer to one another. In "The Music between Us", philosopher Kathleen Marie Higgins investigates this role,...
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