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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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Voice as Something More Essays toward Materiality

Feldman Martha H., Zeitlin Judith T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226647173, ISBN: HB: 9780226656397, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones, 2 line drawings,

In the contemporary world, voices are caught up in fundamentally different realms of discourse, practice, and culture: between sounding and nonsounding, material and nonmaterial, literal and metaphorical. In "The Voice as Something Mor"e, Martha Feld...

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Philosophy

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Night Music Essays on Music 1928-1962

Adorno Theodor W.

ISBN: PB: 9780857427090, Seagull Books, September 2019
328 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Although Theodor W. Adorno is best known for his association with the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, he began his career as a composer and successful music critic. "Night Music" presents the first complete English translations of two collection...

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Biography & Memoires

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Biographic: Marley Great Lives in Graphic Form

Gogerly Liz

ISBN: HB: 9781781453728, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, September 2019
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, colour illus.

The Biographics series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits, and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey eac...

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Sex, Death, and Minuets Anna Magdalena Bach and Her Musical Notebooks

Yearsley David

ISBN: HB: 9780226617701, University of Chicago Press, July 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 29 halftones, 35 line drawings, 2 tables

At one time a star in her own right as a singer, Anna Magdalena (1701-1760) would go on to become, through her marriage to the older Johann Sebastian Bach, history's most famous musical wife and mother. The two musical notebooks belonging to her cont...

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Anthropology

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Creolized Aurality Guadeloupean Gwoka and Postcolonial Politics

Camal Jerome

ISBN: PB: 9780226631776, ISBN: HB: 9780226631639, University of Chicago Press, June 2019
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 7 line drawings

In the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, the complex interplay between anticolonial resistance and accommodation resounds in its music. Guadeloupean gwoka music – a secular, drum-based tradition – captures the entangled histories of French colonization...

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Stories of Tonality in the Age of Francois-Joseph Fetis

Christensen Thomas

ISBN: HB: 9780226626925, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 76 halftones

"Stories of Tonality in the Age of Francois-Joseph Fetis" explores the concept of musical tonality through the writings of the Belgian musicologist Francois-Joseph Fetis (1784-1867), who was singularly responsible for theorizing and popularizing the...

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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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Learn to Play Piano in Six Weeks or Less Intermediate Level

Delaney Dan, Chotkowski William

ISBN: PB: 9781454932314, GMC Group, Sterling, May 2019
128 pp., 25.2x20.9 cm, illus.

In this book, Dan Delaney – hailed by Keyboard magazine as a pioneer in music teaching – and William Chotkowski walk readers through the next set of skills they need to play at the intermediate level. Featuring Dan Delaney s innovative chord method –...

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