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Unnatural Attitude Phenomenology in Weimar Musical Thought
ISBN: HB: 9780226762982, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 line drawings
An Unnatural Attitude traces a style of musical thought that coalesced in the intellectual milieu of the Weimar Republic – a phenomenological style, which sought a renewed contact with music as a worldly circumstance. Deeply critical of the influence...
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American Orchestras in the Nineteenth Century
ISBN: PB: 9780226756059, ISBN: HB: 9780226769769, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
504 pp., 25x22 cm, 28 halftones, 14 tables
Studies of concert life in nineteenth-century America have generally been limited to large orchestras and the programs we are familiar with today. But as this book reveals, audiences of that era enjoyed far more diverse musical experiences than this...
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£56,00
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Spirit of This Place How Music Illuminates the Human Spirit
ISBN: PB: 9780226756196, ISBN: HB: 9780226095103, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Artists today are at a crossroads. With funding for the arts and humanities endowments perpetually under attack, and school districts all over the United States scrapping their art curricula altogether, the place of the arts in our civic future is un...
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Sun Ra's Chicago Afrofuturism and the City
ISBN: PB: 9780226732107, ISBN: HB: 9780226732077, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones
Sun Ra (1914-93) was one of the most wildly prolific and unfailingly eccentric figures in the history of music. Renowned for extravagant performances in which his Arkestra appeared in neo-Egyptian garb, the keyboardist and bandleader also espoused an...
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£24,00
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£76,00
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Music in the Present Tense Rossini's Italian Operas in Their Time
ISBN: HB: 9780226663548, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 45 line drawings, 2 tables
In the early 1800s, Rossini's operas permeated Italy, from the opera house to myriad arrangements heard in public and private. But after Rossini stopped composing, a sharp decline in popularity drove most of his works out of the repertory. In the pas...
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£42,00
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Let's Make a Better World Stories and Songs by Jane Sapp
ISBN: PB: 9781512603552, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, March 2019
152 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Jane Sapp is a nationally admired cultural worker, musician, educator, and activist whose approach to social transformation is rooted in African American musical traditions and made available here as a resource for communities around the world. Jane...
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£24,00
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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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£22,50
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£68,00
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Trouble with Wagner
ISBN: HB: 9780226594194, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 12 halftones
In this unique and hybrid book, cultural and music historian Michael P. Steinberg combines a close analysis of Wagnerian music drama with a personal account of his work as a dramaturg on the bicentennial production of "The Ring of the Nibelung" for t...
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Message to Our Folks The Art Ensemble of Chicago
ISBN: PB: 9780226418094, ISBN: HB: 9780226375960, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 85 line drawings
This year marks the golden anniversary of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, the flagship band of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. Formed in 1966 and flourishing until 2010, the Art Ensemble distinguished itself by its unique perf...
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Bob Marley
ISBN: PB: 9781904955412, Signal Books, February 2017
288 pp., 18.1x12.2 cm
For sale in CIS only! One of the twentieth century's most iconic cultural figures, Bob Marley was responsible for popularising reggae music throughout the world. His unique blend of politically conscious lyrics and melody won him legions of fans far...
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