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Franz Liszt Musician, Celebrity, Superstar

Hilmes Oliver, Spencer Mr. Stewart

ISBN: PB: 9780300228755, Yale University Press, April 2018
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

Hungarian composer Franz Liszt (1811-1886) was an anomaly. A virtuoso pianist and electrifying showman, he toured extensively throughout the European continent, bringing sold-out audiences to states of ecstasy while courting scandal with his frequent...

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Flip the Script European Hip Hop and the Politics of Postcoloniality

Rollefson J. Griffith

ISBN: PB: 9780226496214, ISBN: HB: 9780226496184, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 11 line drawings

Hip hop has long been a vehicle for protest in the United States, used by its primarily African American creators to address issues of prejudice, repression, and exclusion. But the music is now a worldwide phenomenon, and outside the United States it...

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America

Flavor and Soul Italian America at Its African American Edge

Gennari John

ISBN: HB: 9780226428321, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
296 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

In the United States, African American and Italian cultures have been intertwined for more than a hundred years. From as early as nineteenth-century African American opera star Thomas Bowers – "The Colored Mario" – all the way to hip-hop entrepreneur...

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Four Last Songs Aging and Creativity in Verdi, Strauss, Messiaen, and Britten

Hutcheon Linda, Hutcheon Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226420684, ISBN: HB: 9780226255590, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 2 line drawings

Aging and creativity can seem a particularly fraught relationship for artists, who often face age-related difficulties as their audience's expectations are at a peak. In "Four Last Songs", Linda and Michael Hutcheon explore this issue via the late wo...

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Europe

Francesca Caccini at the Medici Court Music and the Circulation of Power

Cusick Suzanne G.

ISBN: PB: 9780226132136, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
488 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 6 halftones, 1 line drawing, 13 tables, 43 musical examples

A contemporary of Shakespeare and Monteverdi, and a colleague of Galileo and Artemisia Gentileschi at the Medici court, Francesca Caccini was a dominant musical figure there for thirty years. Dazzling listeners with the transformative power of her pe...

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History of Art

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Freedom Principle Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now

Beckwith Naomi, Roelstraete Dieter

ISBN: PB: 9780226319308, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
320 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 300 colour plates

On the South Side of Chicago in the 1960s, African American artists and musicians grappled with new language and forms inspired by the black nationalist turn in the Civil Rights movement. "The Freedom Principle", which accompanies an exhibition on t...

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Jewish Studies

Forbidden Music The Jewish Composers Banned by the Nazis

Haas Michael

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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Franz Schubert The Complete Songs

Johnson Graham

ISBN: HB: 9780300112672, Yale University Press, April 2014
3000 pp., 24.6x16.5 cm, 600 black&white illus.

This three-volume boxed set is the definitive work on Franz Schubert's vocal music with piano. A richly illustrated encyclopaedia, these substantial volumes contain more than seven hundred song commentaries with parallel text and translations (by Ric...

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From the Score to the Stage An Illustrated History of Continental Opera Production and Staging

Baker Evan

ISBN: HB: 9780226035086, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
416 pp., 30.4x25.4 cm, 2 tables, 189 colour illus.

Without scenery, costumes, and stage action, an opera would be little more than a concert. But in the audience, we know little (and think less) about the enormous efforts of those involved in bringing an opera to life – by the stagehands who shift sc...

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Performing Arts

French Opera A Short History

Giroud Vincent

ISBN: HB: 9780300117653, Yale University Press, April 2010
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

French opera is second only to Italian opera in the length, breadth and diversity of its history. Yet most people, if asked to come up with titles, could mention only a handful of titles – Carmen, Faust, Pelleas et Melisande, Samson et Dalila – a sma...

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