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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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Cherubino's Leap In Search of the Enlightenment Moment
ISBN: HB: 9780226377896, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones, 51 line drawings
For the Enlightenment mind, from Moses Mendelssohn's focus on the moment of surprise at the heart of the work of art to Herder's imagining of the seismic moment at which language was discovered, it is the flash of recognition that nails the essence o...
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£36,00
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Blowin' Hot and Cool Jazz and Its Critics
ISBN: PB: 9780226289236, ISBN: HB: 9780226289229, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
494 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In the illustrious and richly documented history of American jazz, no figure has been more controversial than the jazz critic. Jazz critics can be revered or reviled – often both – but they should not be ignored. And while the tradition of jazz has b...
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£20,00
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£28,00
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Everyday Creativity Singing Goddesses in the Himalayan Foothills
ISBN: PB: 9780226407562, ISBN: HB: 9780226407425, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones
Kirin Narayan's imagination was captured the very first time that, as a girl visiting the Himalayas, she heard Kangra women join their voices together in song. Returning as an anthropologist, she became fascinated by how they spoke of singing as a fo...
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£19,00
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£56,50
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Seventeenth-Century Opera and the Sound of the Commedia dell'Arte
ISBN: HB: 9780226401577, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 37 line drawings, 4 tables
In this book, Emily Wilbourne boldly traces the roots of early opera back to the sounds of the commedia dell'arte. Along the way, she forges a new history of Italian opera, from the court pieces of the early seventeenth century to the public stages o...
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£44,00
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Drum Thing
ISBN: HB: 9783791382692, Prestel Publishing, October 2016
256 pp., 28x24 cm, 200 colour illus.
The drummer is usually the least well-known member of any band. Yet behind every frontman is the person keeping the beat, and often acting as the music's driving force. In these incredible portraits, Deirdre O'Callaghan places drummers squarely in th...
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£35,00
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Tango Machine Musical Culture in the Age of Expediency
ISBN: PB: 9780226385549, ISBN: HB: 9780226385402, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings
In Argentina, tango isn't just the national music – it's a national brand. But ask any contemporary Argentine if they ever really listen to it and chances are the answer is no: tango hasn't been popular for more than fifty years. In this book, Morgan...
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£24,00
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£72,00
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Art of the Blues A Visual Treasury of Black Music's Golden Age
ISBN: HB: 9780226396699, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
224 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 350 colour plates
This stunning book charts the rich history of the blues, through the dazzling array of posters, album covers, and advertisements that have shaped its identity over the past hundred years. The blues have been one of the most ubiquitous but diverse ele...
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£26,50
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Haydn's Sunrise, Beethoven's Shadow Audiovisual Culture and the Emergence of Musical Romanticism
ISBN: HB: 9780226337098, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 colour plates, 33 halftones, 68 musical examples, 4 tables
The years between roughly 1760 and 1810, a period stretching from the rise of Joseph Haydn's career to the height of Ludwig van Beethoven's, are often viewed as a golden age for musical culture, as audiences started to revel in the pure sounds of the...
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£44,00
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Season of Singing Creating Feminist Jewish Music in the United States
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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£32,00
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