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Aretha The Queen of Soul: A Life in Photographs
ISBN: HB: 9781454934585, GMC Group, Sterling, December 2018
144 pp., 27.3x22.9 cm, colour illus.
Aretha Franklin's voice was legendary, unforgettable: deeply rooted in gospel, yet versatile enough to brilliantly interpret R&B, rock, soul, pop, and jazz standards, it fueled a six-decade career. Her vocal wallop was a mix of preaching, rebuke, and...
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£20,00
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Song Walking Women, Music, and Environmental Justice in an African Borderland
ISBN: PB: 9780226538013, ISBN: HB: 9780226537962, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones
"Song Walking" explores the politics of land, its position in memories, and its foundation in changing land-use practices in western Maputaland, a borderland region situated at the juncture of South Africa, Mozambique, and Swaziland. Angela Impey inv...
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£25,00
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£74,00
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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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£29,00
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Musical Vitalities Ventures in a Biotic Aesthetics of Music
ISBN: HB: 9780226594705, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 21 line drawings
Does it make sense to refer to bird song – a complex vocalization, full of repetitive and transformative patterns that are carefully calculated to woo a mate – as art? What about a pack of wolves howling in unison or the cacophony made by an entire r...
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£30,00
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Disco Files 1973-78 New York's Underground, Week by Week
ISBN: PB: 9781942884309, DAP, November 2018
474 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm, 400 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! In 1973, Vince Aletti became the first person to write about the emerging disco scene. His engagement with disco nightlife continued throughout the decade as he wrote his weekly column for Record World magazine, which incor...
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£30,00
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Hearing Beethoven A Story of Musical Loss and Discovery
ISBN: HB: 9780226429755, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
288 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 28 halftones
We're all familiar with the image of a fierce and scowling Beethoven, struggling doggedly to overcome his rapidly progressing deafness. That Beethoven continued to play and compose for more than a decade after he lost his hearing is often seen as an...
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£19,00
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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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Stolen Time Black Fad Performance and the Calypso Craze
ISBN: PB: 9780226568447, ISBN: HB: 9780226568300, University of Chicago Press, September 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones
In 1956, Harry Belafonte's "Calypso" established a historic landmark in becoming the first LP to sell more than a million copies. For a few fleeting months, calypso music was the top selling genre in the US – it even threatened to supplant rock and r...
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£22,50
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£67,50
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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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£25,00
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£32,00
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