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Jazz Worlds/World Jazz
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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£26,50
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£84,00
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Jazz on the River
ISBN: PB: 9780226102672, ISBN: HB: 9780226437330, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 halftones, 1 map
Just after World War I, the musical style called jazz began a waterborne journey outward from that quintessential haven of romance and decadence, New Orleans. For the first time in any organized way, steam-driven boats left town during the summer mon...
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£14,00
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£20,50
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John Cage Book of Days 2010 Calendar
ISBN: PB: 9781935202011, DAP, The John Cage Trust, August 2009
120 pp., 15.2x11.4 cm, 52 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Few twentieth-century artists have been as quotable as the ever-pithy composer, writer, philosopher and artist John Cage, and his aphorisms have become the mantras of fans the world over. "I have nothing to say/and I am say...
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£22,00
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Jewish Musical Modernism, Old and New
ISBN: HB + CD: 9780226063263, University of Chicago Press, March 2009
240 pp., 23.5x21.3 cm, 4 musical examples, 9 halftones illus., 19 colour illus.
Tackling the myriad issues raised by Sander Gilman's provocative opening salvo – "Are Jews Musical?" – this volume's distinguished contributors present a series of essays that trace the intersections of Jewish history and music from the late nineteen...
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£37,00
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