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Everyone Loves Live Music A Theory of Performance Institutions
ISBN: PB: 9780226738543, ISBN: HB: 9780226738406, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 5 tables
Every year, millions of music fans come from far and wide to swarm parks and arenas to hear their favorite bands at festivals such as Lollapalooza, Coachella, and Glastonbury. How did these and countless other festivals across the globe evolve into g...
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£26,00
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Pynchon's Sound of Music
ISBN: PB: 9783035802320, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, May 2020
448 pp., 21.5x13.3 cm, 18 halftones
"Pynchon's Sound of Music" is dedicated to cataloging, exploring, and interpreting the manifold manifestations of music in Thomas Pynchon's work. An original mix of close and distant readings, this monograph employs a variety of disciplines – from li...
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£32,00
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Franz Liszt Musician, Celebrity, Superstar
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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£14,99
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Four Last Songs Aging and Creativity in Verdi, Strauss, Messiaen, and Britten
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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Tigers of a Different Stripe Performing Gender in Dominican Music
ISBN: PB: 9780226405469, ISBN: HB: 9780226405322, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones, 14 line drawings, 6 tables
"Tigers of a Different Stripe" takes readers inside the unique world of merengue tipico, a traditional music of the Dominican Republic. While in most genres of Caribbean music women usually participate as dancers or vocalists, in merengue tipico they...
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£28,00
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£84,00
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Forbidden Music The Jewish Composers Banned by the Nazis
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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£16,99
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Music between Us Is Music a Universal Language?
ISBN: PB: 9780226142852, ISBN: HB: 9780226333281, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
296 pp., 23x15 cm
From our first social bonding as infants to the funeral rites that mark our passing, music plays an important role in our lives, bringing us closer to one another. In "The Music between Us", philosopher Kathleen Marie Higgins investigates this role,...
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£42,00
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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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Osiris, Volume 28 Music, Sound, and the Laboratory from 1750-1980
ISBN: PB: 9780226053752, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
352 pp., 25.5x17.5 cm
The understanding of sound underwent profound changes with the advent of laboratory science in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. New techniques of sound visualization and detection, the use of electricity to generate sound, and the emergence of...
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SamulNori Contemporary Korean Drumming and the Rebirth of Itinerant Performance Culture
ISBN: PB + CD: 9780226330976, ISBN: HB + CD: 9780226330969, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
224 pp., 23x15 cm, 6 tables, 21 halftones, 11 line illus.
In 1978, four musicians crowded into a cramped basement theater in downtown Seoul, where they, for the first time, brought the rural percussive art of p'ungmul to a burgeoning urban audience. In doing so, they began a decades-long reinvention of trad...
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