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Disco Files 1973-78 New York's Underground, Week by Week
ISBN: PB: 9781942884309, DAP, November 2018
474 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm, 400 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! In 1973, Vince Aletti became the first person to write about the emerging disco scene. His engagement with disco nightlife continued throughout the decade as he wrote his weekly column for Record World magazine, which incor...
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£30,00
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Drum Thing
ISBN: HB: 9783791382692, Prestel Publishing, October 2016
256 pp., 28x24 cm, 200 colour illus.
The drummer is usually the least well-known member of any band. Yet behind every frontman is the person keeping the beat, and often acting as the music's driving force. In these incredible portraits, Deirdre O'Callaghan places drummers squarely in th...
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Divas in the Convent Nuns, Music, and Defiance in Seventeenth-Century Italy
ISBN: PB: 9780226535197, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
280 pp., 23x15 cm, 32 halftones, 4 line illus.
When eight-year-old Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana (1590-1662) entered one of the preeminent convents in Bologna in 1598, she had no idea what cloistered life had in store for her. Thanks to clandestine instruction from a local maestro di cappella – and des...
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£25,00
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Duke Ellington's America
ISBN: PB: 9780226112640, ISBN: HB: 9780226112633, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
720 pp., 23x15 cm, 12 halftones
Few American artists in any medium have enjoyed the international and lasting cultural impact of Duke Ellington. From jazz standards such as "Mood Indigo" and "Don't Get Around Much Anymore", to his longer, more orchestral suites, to his leadership o...
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Darker Side of Genius Richard Wagner's Anti-Semitism
ISBN: PB: 9781584652403, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2002
172 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
For some, Richard Wagner is infamous as the favorite composer of Hitler, who seems to have admired Wagner as an early exponent of his own racist ideology and worldview. Impressed by this assumption victims of Hitler have also associated Wagner and hi...
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£18,00
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