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Mozart and the Mediation of Childhood
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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£44,00
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Guitar Tracing the Grain Back to the Tree
ISBN: PB: 9780226763965, ISBN: HB: 9780226763828, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 44 halftones, 1 table
Guitars inspire cult-like devotion: an aficionado can tell you precisely when and where their favorite instrument was made, the wood it is made from, and that wood's unique effect on the instrument's sound. In The Guitar, Chris Gibson and Andrew Warr...
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£16,00
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£76,00
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Sound and Affect Voice, Music, World
ISBN: PB: 9780226758015, ISBN: HB: 9780226751832, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones
There is no place on earth that does not echo with the near or distant sounds of human activity. More than half of humanity lives in cities, meaning the daily soundtrack of our lives is filled with sound – whether it be sonorous, harmonious, melodic,...
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£28,00
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£84,00
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Unnatural Attitude Phenomenology in Weimar Musical Thought
ISBN: HB: 9780226762982, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 line drawings
An Unnatural Attitude traces a style of musical thought that coalesced in the intellectual milieu of the Weimar Republic – a phenomenological style, which sought a renewed contact with music as a worldly circumstance. Deeply critical of the influence...
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Mbira's Restless Dance An Archive of Improvisation
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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£65,00
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