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Revolution's Echoes Music, Politics, and Pleasure in Guinea
ISBN: PB: 9780226654638, ISBN: HB: 9780226654461, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 2 line drawings
Music has long been an avenue for protest, seen as a way to promote freedom and equality, instill hope, and fight for change. Popular music, in particular, is considered to be an effective form of subversion and resistance under oppressive circumstan...
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£22,00
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£62,00
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Rock-and-Roll Woman The 50 Fiercest Female Rockers
ISBN: HB: 9781454930624, GMC Group, Sterling, October 2018
224 pp., 25.7x21.8 cm, colour illus.
Award-winning radio personality Meredith Ochs takes an insightful look at 50 rock icons who indelibly shook up the music scene, whether solo or in a band. Profiling women from the 1950s to today, and from multiple genres, Ochs tells the dramatic stor...
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£21,99
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Real Life Rock The Complete Top Ten Columns, 1986-2014
ISBN: PB: 9780300223606, Yale University Press, January 2017
600 pp., 22.1x14.6 cm, 2 black&white illus.
<p>From the author of "The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs" comes his "Basement Tapes": the complete "Real Life Rock Top 10" columns For nearly thirty years, Greil Marcus has written a remarkable column cal...
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£14,99
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Richard Wagner A Life in Music
ISBN: HB: 9780226924618, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 43 halftones, 37 line drawings
Best known for the challenging four-opera cycle "The Ring of the Nibelung", Richard Wagner (1813-1883) was a conductor, librettist, theater director, and essayist, in addition to being the composer of some of the most enduring operatic works in histo...
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£26,50
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Ravel
ISBN: PB: 9780300187762, Yale University Press, November 2012
420 pp., 23.6x16.2 cm, 16 black&white illus.
This new biography of Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), by one of the leading scholars of nineteenth- and twentieth-century French music, is based on a wealth of written and oral evidence, some newly translated and some derived from interviews with the comp...
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£18,99
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Robert Schumann The Life and Work of a Romantic Composer
ISBN: HB: 9780226284699, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
320 pp., 25x15 cm, 23 halftones, 8 line illus.
Robert Schumann (1810-1856) is one of the most important and representative composers of the Romantic era. Born in Zwickau, Germany, Schumann began piano instruction at age seven and immediately developed a passion for music. When a permanent injury...
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£26,50
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Remembered Rhythms Issues of Music and Diaspora in India
ISBN: PB + CD: 9781905422500, Seagull Books, May 2011
282 pp., 24.4x17.2 cm, 1 map, 5 tables, 94 halftones
"Remembered Rhythms" explores the role of music and cultural memory in shaping and creating diasporic identities. With contributions from leading scholars in the fields of ethnomusicology, cultural studies, sociology, and anthropology, the essays ran...
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£22,00
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Republic of Love Cultural Intimacy in Turkish Popular Music
ISBN: PB: 9780226775067, ISBN: HB: 9780226775050, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 map, 20 line drawings, 1 table, 7 halftones
At the heart of "The Republic of Love" are the voices of three musicians – queer nightclub star Zeki Muren, arabesk originator Orhan Gencebay, and pop diva Sezen Aksu – who collectively have dominated mass media in Turkey since the early 1950s. Their...
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£28,00
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£84,00
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Robert Schumann Life and Death of a Musician
ISBN: PB: 9780300163988, Yale University Press, March 2010
496 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 30 black&white illus.
This candid, intimate, and compellingly written new biography offers a completely fresh account of Robert Schumann's life. It confronts the traditional perception of the doom-laden Romantic, forced by depression into a life of helpless, poignant sadn...
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£16,99
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