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Guitar Tracing the Grain Back to the Tree
ISBN: PB: 9780226763965, ISBN: HB: 9780226763828, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 44 halftones, 1 table
Guitars inspire cult-like devotion: an aficionado can tell you precisely when and where their favorite instrument was made, the wood it is made from, and that wood's unique effect on the instrument's sound. In The Guitar, Chris Gibson and Andrew Warr...
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£16,00
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£76,00
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Guitar in Georgian England A Social and Musical History
ISBN: HB: 9780300212471, Yale University Press, October 2020
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 20 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.
This book is the first to explore the popularity and novelty of the guitar in Georgian England, noting its impact on the social, cultural, and musical history of the period. The instrument possessed an imagery as rich as its uses were varied; it emer...
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Good Music What It Is and Who Gets to Decide
ISBN: PB: 9780226593388, ISBN: HB: 9780226593241, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 25 line drawings, 8 tables
Over the past two centuries Western culture has largely valorized a particular kind of "good" music – highly serious, wondrously deep, stylistically authentic, heroically created, and strikingly original – and, at the same time, has marginalized musi...
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£68,00
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Guitar Makers The Endurance of Artisanal Values in North America
ISBN: PB: 9780226478678, ISBN: HB: 9780226095387, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 42 halftones, 3 line drawings
It whispers, it sings, it rocks, and it howls. It expresses the voice of the folk – the open road, freedom, protest and rebellion, youth and love. It is the acoustic guitar. And over the last five decades it has become a quintessential American icon....
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Gentleman Troubadours and Andean Pop Stars Huayno Music, Media Work, and Ethnic Imaginaries in Urban Peru
ISBN: PB: 9780226923963, ISBN: HB: 9780226923956, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
240 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 map, 18 line illus.
Exploring Peru's lively music industry and the studio producers, radio DJs, and program directors that drive it, "Gentleman Troubadours and Andean Pop Stars" is a fascinating account of the deliberate development of artistic taste. Focusing on popula...
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£26,00
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£78,00
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George Gershwin
ISBN: PB: 9780300192384, ISBN: HB: 9780300111842, Yale University Press, March 2013
215 pp., 23.6x15.5 cm, 43 black&white illus.
In this welcome addition to the immensely popular "Yale Broadway Masters" series, Larry Starr focuses fresh attention on George Gershwin's Broadway contributions and examines their centrality to the composer's entire career. Starr presents Gershwin a...
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