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Music
Culture Studies
Paris Blues African American Music and French Popular Culture, 1920-1960
Fry Andy
ISBN: PB: 9780226138817, ISBN: HB: 9780226138787, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 39 halftones, 17 line drawings
The Jazz Age. The phrase conjures images of Louis Armstrong holding court at the Sunset Cafe in Chicago, Duke Ellington dazzling crowds at the Cotton Club in Harlem, and star singers like Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey. But the Jazz Age was every bit as...
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Playing for the Benefit of the Band New Orleans Music Culture
Friedlander Lee
ISBN: HB: 9780300204407, Yale University Press, April 2014
207 pp., 22.9x27.9 cm, 202 tritone illus.
Lee Friedlander first visited the birthplace of jazz in 1957 and immediately set about photographing the aging pioneers of the art form. His love of the music and the people of New Orleans drew him back to the city, and the relationships he formed ov...
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Perilous Life of Symphony Orchestras Artistic Triumphs and Economic Challenges
Flanagan Robert J.
ISBN: HB: 9780300171938, Yale University Press, February 2012
224 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 14 black&white illus.
This book analyzes the economic challenges facing symphony orchestras and contrasts the experience of orchestras in the United States (where there is little direct government support) and abroad (where governments typically provide large direct subsi...
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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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