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Duke Ellington's America

Cohen Harvey G.

ISBN: PB: 9780226112640, ISBN: HB: 9780226112633, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
720 pp., 23x15 cm, 12 halftones

Few American artists in any medium have enjoyed the international and lasting cultural impact of Duke Ellington. From jazz standards such as "Mood Indigo" and "Don't Get Around Much Anymore", to his longer, more orchestral suites, to his leadership o...

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Europe

Opera and Sovereignty Transforming Myths in Eighteenth-Century Italy

Feldman Marian H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226241135, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
584 pp., 25.5x18.7 cm, 26 musical examples, 10 tables, 46 halftones, 4 colour illus.

Performed throughout Europe during the 1700s, Italian heroic opera, or opera seria, was the century's most significant musical art form, profoundly engaging such figures as Handel, Haydn, and Mozart".Opera and Sovereignty" is the first book to addres...

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Law

Pop Song Piracy Disobedient Music Distribution since 1929

Kernfeld Barry

ISBN: PB: 9780226431833, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 11 halftones, 7 line illus.

The music industry's ongoing battle against digital piracy is just the latest skirmish in a long conflict over who has the right to distribute music. Starting with music publishers' efforts to stamp out bootleg compilations of lyric sheets in 1929, B...

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General

I Belong to This Band, Hallelujah! Community, Spirituality, and Tradition among Sacred Harp Singers

Clawson Laura

ISBN: PB: 9780226109596, ISBN: HB: 9780226109589, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
224 pp., 22.4x15 cm

The Sacred Harp choral singing tradition originated in the American South in the mid-nineteenth century, spread widely across the country, and continues to thrive today. Sacred Harp isn't performed but participated in, ideally in large gatherings whe...

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Opera Fanatic Ethnography of an Obsession

Benzecry Claudio E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226043425, ISBN: HB: 9780226043401, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
256 pp., 25x15 cm, 3 tables, 17 halftones

Though some dismiss opera as old-fashioned, it shows no sign of disappearing from the world's stage. So why do audiences continue to flock to it? Given its association with wealth, one might imagine that opera tickets function as a status symbol. But...

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Culture Studies

Thug Life Race, Gender, and the Meaning of Hip-Hop

Jeffries Michael P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226395852, ISBN: HB: 9780226395845, University of Chicago Press, January 2011
280 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 2 tables, 3 halftones

Hip-hop has come a long way from its origins in the Bronx in the 1970s, when rapping and DJing were just part of a lively, decidedly local scene that also venerated b-boying and graffiti. Now hip-hop is a global phenomenon and, in the United States,...

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Philosophy

Music

Music in German Philosophy An Introduction

Sorgner Stefan Lorenz, Furbeth Oliver

ISBN: PB: 9780226768380, ISBN: HB: 9780226768373, University of Chicago Press, January 2011
312 pp., 23x15 cm

Though many well-known German philosophers have devoted considerable attention to music and its aesthetics, surprisingly few of their writings on the subject have been translated into English. Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, a philosopher, and Oliver Furbeth,...

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Contemporary Art

Traveling the Spaceways Sun Ra, the Astro Black and other Solar Myths

Corbett John, Elms Anthony, Kapsalis Terri

ISBN: PB: 9780945323150, University of Chicago Press, WhiteWalls, December 2010
91 pp., 23.9x16.8 cm, 70 colour illus.

Sun Ra (1914-1993) – self-proclaimed visionary extraterrestrial of the "Angel Race", prophetic jazz band leader and composer, and lyrical proponent of Afro-futurism – was one of the most influential figures of twentieth-century music. Though many of...

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Performing Arts

Unsettling Opera Staging Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, and Zemlinsky

Levin David J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226475233, ISBN: HB: 9780226475226, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 musical examples, 26 halftones

What happens when operas that are comfortably ensconced in the canon are thoroughly rethought and radically recast on stage? What does a staging do to our understanding of an opera, and of opera generally? While a stage production can disrupt a work...

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Anthropology

Theory of African Music, Volume II

Kubik Gerhard

ISBN: PB + CD: 9780226456942, ISBN: HB + CD: 9780226456935, University of Chicago Press, November 2010
408 pp., 20.9x13.4 cm, 32 line drawings, 35 figures, 60 halftones

Taken together, these comprehensive volumes offer an authoritative account of the music of Africa. One of the most prominent experts on the subject, Gerhard Kubik draws on his extensive travels and three decades of study in many parts of the continen...

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