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Composing Capital Classical Music in the Neoliberal Era

Ritchey Marianna

ISBN: PB: 9780226640235, ISBN: HB: 9780226640068, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 musical examples

The familiar old world of classical music, with its wealthy donors and ornate concert halls, is changing. The patronage of a wealthy few is being replaced by that of corporations, leading to new unions of classical music and contemporary capitalism....

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Nightingales in Berlin Searching for the Perfect Sound

Rothenberg David

ISBN: HB: 9780226467184, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
184 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 colour plates, 14 halftones, 1 line drawing

A celebrated figure in myth, song, and story, the nightingale has captivated the imagination for millennia, its complex song evoking a prism of human emotions – from melancholy to joy, from the fear of death to the immortality of art. But have you ev...

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Wherever the Sound Takes You Heroics and Heartbreak in Music Making

Rowell David

ISBN: HB: 9780226477558, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

David Rowell is a professional journalist and an impassioned amateur musician. He's spent decades behind a drum kit, pondering the musical relationship between equipment and emotion. In "Wherever the Sound Takes You", he explores the essence of music...

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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

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Blackface Nation Race, Reform, and Identity in American Popular Music, 1812-1925

Roberts Brian

ISBN: PB: 9780226451640, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 halftones

As the United States transitioned from a rural nation to an urbanized, industrial giant between the War of 1812 and the early twentieth century, ordinary people struggled over the question of what it meant to be American. As Brian Roberts shows in "B...

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Women Studies

Season of Singing Creating Feminist Jewish Music in the United States

Ross Sarah M.

ISBN: PB: 9781611689600, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, August 2016
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In the 1960s, Jewish music in America began to evolve. Traditional liturgical tunes developed into a blend of secular and sacred sound that became known in the 1980s as "American Nusach". Chief among these developments was the growth of feminist Jewi...

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Bach's Major Vocal Works Music, Drama, Liturgy

Rathey Markus

ISBN: HB: 9780300217209, Yale University Press, February 2016
256 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Every year, Johann Sebastian Bach's major vocal works are performed to mark liturgical milestones in the Christian calendar. Written by a renowned Bach scholar, this concise and accessible book provides an introduction to the music and cultural conte...

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Biography & Memoires

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I Feel So Good The Life and Times of Big Bill Broonzy

Riesman Bob

ISBN: PB: 9780226007090, ISBN: HB: 9780226717456, University of Chicago Press, September 2012
366 pp., 23x15 cm, 31 halftones

A major figure in American blues and folk music, Big Bill Broonzy (1903-1958) left his Arkansas Delta home after World War I, headed north, and became the leading Chicago bluesman of the 1930s. His success came as he fused traditional rural blues wit...

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Music and Sentiment

Rosen Charles

ISBN: PB: 9780300178036, Yale University Press, October 2011
160 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm, music examples

How does a work of music stir the senses, creating feelings of joy, sadness, elation, or nostalgia? Though sentiment and emotion play a vital role in the composition, performance, and appreciation of music, rarely have these elements been fully obser...

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