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Spirit of This Place How Music Illuminates the Human Spirit

Summers Patrick

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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Ambient Sufism Ritual Niches and the Social Work of Musical Form

Jankowsky Richard C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226723471, ISBN: HB: 9780226723334, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 20 musical examples, 9 tables

Ambient Sufism is a study of the intertwined musical lives of several ritual communities in Tunisia that invoke the healing powers of long-deceased Muslim saints through music-driven trance rituals. Richard C. Jankowsky illuminates the virtually undo...

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Mirror Sound The People and Processes behind Self-Recorded Music

Tweedy Spencer, Azerrad Lawrence, Brownstein Carrie

ISBN: HB: 9783791386539, Prestel Publishing, October 2020
192 pp., 29.2x23.5 cm, 100 colour illus.

Everywhere you look, musicians are creating, recording, and selling their music without the help of big-name studios, producers, or labels. This book offers tangible – and visually stunning – proof that self-recording is a path to artistic freedom. E...

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Conversations in Jazz The Ralph J. Gleason Interviews

Gleason Ralph J., Gleason Toby

ISBN: PB: 9780300255232, Yale University Press, October 2020
296 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

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Guitar in Georgian England A Social and Musical History

Page Christopher

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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Anthropology

Search for Medieval Music in Africa and Germany, 1891-1961 Scholars, Singers, Missionaries

Busse Berger Anna Maria

ISBN: HB: 9780226740348, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones, 12 musical examples, 2 tables

This innovative book reassesses the history of musicology, unearthing the field's twentieth-century German and global roots. In the process, Anna Maria Busse Berger exposes previously unseen historical relationships such as those between the modern r...

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Sun Ra's Chicago Afrofuturism and the City

Sites William

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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Beethoven A Political Artist in Revolutionary Times

Kinderman William

ISBN: HB: 9780226669052, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 colour plates, 20 halftones, 26 line drawings

We have long regarded Beethoven as a great composer, but we rarely appreciate that he was also an eminently political artist. This book unveils the role of politics in his oeuvre, elucidating how the inherently political nature of Beethoven's music e...

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Classical Music Lover's Companion to Orchestral Music

Philip Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780300254822, ISBN: HB: 9780300120691, Yale University Press, September 2020
968 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm

Robert Philip, scholar, broadcaster, and musician, has compiled an essential handbook for lovers of classical music, designed to enhance their listening experience to the full. Covering four hundred works by sixty-eight composers from Corelli to Shos...

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Biographic: ABBA Great Lives in Graphic Form

Croot Viv

ISBN: HB: 9781781454084, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, September 2020
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, colour illus.

The Biographics series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits, and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey eac...

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