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Book of Liszts Variations on the Theme of Franz Liszt

Spurling John

ISBN: HB: 9781906497941, Seagull Books, June 2011
460 pp., 24.3x16.3 cm

The extraordinary career of Franz Liszt (1811-1886) as a composer, conductor, and virtuoso pianist – whose incomparable skill and personal charisma dazzled audiences all over Europe, from London and Paris to Berlin, Moscow, and even Constantinople –...

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Military

Music

Windfall of Musicians Hitler's Emigres and Exiles in Southern California

Crawford Dorothy Lamb

ISBN: PB: 9780300171235, Yale University Press, May 2011
336 pp., 22.9x15.5 cm, 27 black&white illus.

This book is the first to examine the brilliant gathering of composers, conductors, and other musicians who fled Nazi Germany and arrived in the Los Angeles area. Musicologist Dorothy Lamb Crawford looks closely at the lives, creative work, and influ...

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Anthropology

Music

Remembered Rhythms Issues of Music and Diaspora in India

Chaudhuri Shubha, Seeger Anthony

ISBN: PB + CD: 9781905422500, Seagull Books, May 2011
282 pp., 24.4x17.2 cm, 1 map, 5 tables, 94 halftones

"Remembered Rhythms" explores the role of music and cultural memory in shaping and creating diasporic identities. With contributions from leading scholars in the fields of ethnomusicology, cultural studies, sociology, and anthropology, the essays ran...

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Biography & Memoires

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Cosima Wagner The Lady of Bayreuth

Hilmes Oliver

ISBN: PB: 9780300170900, Yale University Press, March 2011
354 pp., 19.8x13 cm, 30 black&white illus.

In this meticulously researched book, Oliver Hilmes paints a fascinating and revealing picture of the extraordinary Cosima Wagner – illegitimate daughter of Franz Liszt, wife of the conductor Hans von Bulow, then mistress and subsequently wife of Ric...

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Anthropology

Music

Sailing on the Sea of Love The Music of the Bauls of Bengal

Capwell Charles

ISBN: PB + CD: 9780857420046, Seagull Books, March 2011
242 pp., 22.9x15.5 cm, 43 halftones

Based on fieldwork carried out in West Bengal, "Sailing on the Sea of Love" is a pioneering study of the songs of the Baul – a Bengali religious sect, widely beloved for its enchanting music. Charles Capwell describes the role Baul song plays in the...

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No Such Thing as Silence

Gann Kyle

ISBN: PB: 9780300171297, Yale University Press, February 2011
272 pp., 20.3x13.7 cm, 14 black&white illus.

First performed at the midpoint of the twentieth century, John Cage's 4'33", a composition conceived of without a single musical note, is among the most celebrated and ballyhooed cultural gestures in the history of modern music. A meditation on the a...

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Culture Studies

Thug Life Race, Gender, and the Meaning of Hip-Hop

Jeffries Michael P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226395852, ISBN: HB: 9780226395845, University of Chicago Press, January 2011
280 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 2 tables, 3 halftones

Hip-hop has come a long way from its origins in the Bronx in the 1970s, when rapping and DJing were just part of a lively, decidedly local scene that also venerated b-boying and graffiti. Now hip-hop is a global phenomenon and, in the United States,...

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Philosophy

Music

Music in German Philosophy An Introduction

Sorgner Stefan Lorenz, Furbeth Oliver

ISBN: PB: 9780226768380, ISBN: HB: 9780226768373, University of Chicago Press, January 2011
312 pp., 23x15 cm

Though many well-known German philosophers have devoted considerable attention to music and its aesthetics, surprisingly few of their writings on the subject have been translated into English. Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, a philosopher, and Oliver Furbeth,...

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