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Mueller Adeline

ISBN: HB: 9780226629667, University of Chicago Press, June 2021
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 36 halftones, 9 line drawings

The story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's precocity is so familiar as to be taken for granted. In scholarship and popular culture, Mozart the Wunderkind is often seen as belonging to a category of childhood all by himself. But treating the young compose...

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Mbira's Restless Dance An Archive of Improvisation

Berliner Paul F., Magaya Cosmas

ISBN: spiral: 9780226626277, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
912 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 597 musical examples

Growing out of the collaborative research of an American ethnomusicologist and Zimbabwean musician, Paul F. Berliner and Cosmas Magaya's "Mbira's Restless Dance" documents the repertory for a keyboard instrument known generally as mbira. At the heart...

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Mirror Sound The People and Processes behind Self-Recorded Music

Tweedy Spencer, Azerrad Lawrence, Brownstein Carrie

ISBN: HB: 9783791386539, Prestel Publishing, October 2020
192 pp., 29.2x23.5 cm, 100 colour illus.

Everywhere you look, musicians are creating, recording, and selling their music without the help of big-name studios, producers, or labels. This book offers tangible – and visually stunning – proof that self-recording is a path to artistic freedom. E...

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Making of Handel's Messiah

Gant Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9781851245062, Bodleian Library Publishing, August 2020
144 pp., 21x17 cm, 54 colour illus.

The first performance of Handel's Messiah in Dublin in 1742 is now legendary. Gentlemen were asked to leave their swords at home and ladies to come without hoops in their skirts in order to fit more people into the audience. Why then, did this now fa...

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Making It Up Together The Art of Collective Improvisation in Balinese Music and Beyond

Tilley Leslie A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226667607, ISBN: HB: 9780226661131, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
336 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 16 halftones, 165 musical exam

Most studies of musical improvisation focus on individual musicians. But that is not the whole story. From jazz to flamenco, Shona mbira to Javanese gamelan, improvised practices thrive on group creativity, relying on the close interaction of multipl...

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Music in the Present Tense Rossini's Italian Operas in Their Time

Senici Emanuele

ISBN: HB: 9780226663548, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 45 line drawings, 2 tables

In the early 1800s, Rossini's operas permeated Italy, from the opera house to myriad arrangements heard in public and private. But after Rossini stopped composing, a sharp decline in popularity drove most of his works out of the repertory. In the pas...

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Move On Up Chicago Soul Music and Black Cultural Power

Cohen Aaron

ISBN: PB: 9780226653037, ISBN: HB: 9780226176079, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones

Curtis Mayfield. The Chi-Lites. Chaka Khan. Chicago's place in the history of soul music is rock solid. But for Chicagoans, soul music in its heyday from the 1960s to the 1980s was more than just a series of hits: it was a marker and a source of blac...

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Music and the New Global Culture From the Great Exhibitions to the Jazz Age

Liebersohn Harry

ISBN: PB: 9780226649276, ISBN: HB: 9780226621265, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 3 tables

Music listeners today can effortlessly flip from K-pop to Ravi Shankar to Amadou & Mariam with a few quick clicks of a mouse. While contemporary globalized musical culture has become ubiquitous and unremarkable, its fascinating origins long predate t...

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Marred for Life! Defaced Record Covers from the Collection of Greg Wooten

Fulford Jason

ISBN: HB: 9780999365526, DAP, J&L Books, April 2019
160 pp., 22.2x15.2 cm, 275 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! "Marred for Life!" presents over 250 record covers, lovingly and mischievously vandalized by anonymous music lovers. The LP covers were selected from the collection of Greg Wooten, a Los Angeles – based collector, musician...

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Making Music Indigenous Popular Music in the Peruvian Andes

Tucker Joshua

ISBN: PB: 9780226607337, ISBN: HB: 9780226607160, University of Chicago Press, February 2019
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones

When thinking of indigenous music, many people may imagine acoustic instruments and pastoral settings far removed from the whirl of modern life. But, in contemporary Peru, indigenous chimaycha music has become a wildly popular genre that is even hear...

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