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Sound and Affect Voice, Music, World

Lochhead Judith, Mendieta Eduardo, Decatur Smith Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9780226758015, ISBN: HB: 9780226751832, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

There is no place on earth that does not echo with the near or distant sounds of human activity. More than half of humanity lives in cities, meaning the daily soundtrack of our lives is filled with sound – whether it be sonorous, harmonious, melodic,...

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I'd Fight the World A Political History of Old-Time, Hillbilly, and Country Music

La Chapelle Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780226923000, ISBN: HB: 9780226922997, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones

Long before the United States had presidents from the world of movies and reality TV, we had scores of politicians with connections to country music. In "I'd Fight the World", Peter La Chapelle traces the deep bonds between country music and politics...

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Music and the New Global Culture From the Great Exhibitions to the Jazz Age

Liebersohn Harry

ISBN: PB: 9780226649276, ISBN: HB: 9780226621265, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 3 tables

Music listeners today can effortlessly flip from K-pop to Ravi Shankar to Amadou & Mariam with a few quick clicks of a mouse. While contemporary globalized musical culture has become ubiquitous and unremarkable, its fascinating origins long predate t...

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Cathedral of Music The Archivio Storico Ricordi

Luderssen Caroline

ISBN: HB: 9783791356235, Prestel Publishing, February 2017
224 pp., 27.5x21.5 cm, 280 colour illus.

This illustrated survey celebrates the panoramic holdings and colorful history of the Archivio Storico Ricordi, one of the world's most important musical archives. This comprehensive and captivating book follows the evolution of Milan's Ricordi arch...

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Anthropology

Music

Tango Machine Musical Culture in the Age of Expediency

Luker Morgan James

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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Haydn's Sunrise, Beethoven's Shadow Audiovisual Culture and the Emergence of Musical Romanticism

Loughridge Deirdre

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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Blowin' Up Rap Dreams in South Central

Lee Jooyoung

ISBN: PB: 9780226348896, ISBN: HB: 9780226348759, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

Dr. Dre. Snoop Dogg. Ice Cube. Some of the biggest stars in hip hop made their careers in Los Angeles. And today there is a new generation of young, mostly black, men busting out rhymes and hoping to one day find themselves "blowin' up" – getting sig...

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Jewish Studies

Music

Most Musical Nation Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire

Loeffler James

ISBN: PB: 9780300198300, Yale University Press, October 2013
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 25 black&white illus.

No image of prerevolutionary Russian Jewish life is more iconic than the fiddler on the roof. But in the half century before 1917, Jewish musicians were actually descending from their shtetl roofs and streaming in dazzling numbers to Russia's new cla...

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Music for Silenced Voices Shostakovitch and His Fifteen Quartets

Lesser Wendy

ISBN: PB: 9780300181593, Yale University Press, April 2012
368 pp., 21x14 cm

Most previous books about Dmitri Shostakovich have focused on either his symphonies and operas, or his relationship to the regime under which he lived, or both, since these large-scale works were the ones that attracted the interest and sometimes the...

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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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