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Music
Voice as Something More Essays toward Materiality
Feldman Martha H., Zeitlin Judith T.
ISBN: PB: 9780226647173, ISBN: HB: 9780226656397, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones, 2 line drawings,
In the contemporary world, voices are caught up in fundamentally different realms of discourse, practice, and culture: between sounding and nonsounding, material and nonmaterial, literal and metaphorical. In "The Voice as Something Mor"e, Martha Feld...
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Philosophy
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Night Music Essays on Music 1928-1962
Adorno Theodor W.
ISBN: PB: 9780857427090, Seagull Books, September 2019
328 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Although Theodor W. Adorno is best known for his association with the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, he began his career as a composer and successful music critic. "Night Music" presents the first complete English translations of two collection...
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Biography & Memoires
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Biographic: Marley Great Lives in Graphic Form
Gogerly Liz
ISBN: HB: 9781781453728, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, September 2019
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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Sex, Death, and Minuets Anna Magdalena Bach and Her Musical Notebooks
Yearsley David
ISBN: HB: 9780226617701, University of Chicago Press, July 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 29 halftones, 35 line drawings, 2 tables
At one time a star in her own right as a singer, Anna Magdalena (1701-1760) would go on to become, through her marriage to the older Johann Sebastian Bach, history's most famous musical wife and mother. The two musical notebooks belonging to her cont...
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Anthropology
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Creolized Aurality Guadeloupean Gwoka and Postcolonial Politics
Camal Jerome
ISBN: PB: 9780226631776, ISBN: HB: 9780226631639, University of Chicago Press, June 2019
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 7 line drawings
In the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, the complex interplay between anticolonial resistance and accommodation resounds in its music. Guadeloupean gwoka music – a secular, drum-based tradition – captures the entangled histories of French colonization...
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Stories of Tonality in the Age of Francois-Joseph Fetis
Christensen Thomas
ISBN: HB: 9780226626925, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 76 halftones
"Stories of Tonality in the Age of Francois-Joseph Fetis" explores the concept of musical tonality through the writings of the Belgian musicologist Francois-Joseph Fetis (1784-1867), who was singularly responsible for theorizing and popularizing the...
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Nightingales in Berlin Searching for the Perfect Sound
Rothenberg David
ISBN: HB: 9780226467184, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
184 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 colour plates, 14 halftones, 1 line drawing
A celebrated figure in myth, song, and story, the nightingale has captivated the imagination for millennia, its complex song evoking a prism of human emotions – from melancholy to joy, from the fear of death to the immortality of art. But have you ev...
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Learn to Play Piano in Six Weeks or Less Intermediate Level
Delaney Dan, Chotkowski William
ISBN: PB: 9781454932314, GMC Group, Sterling, May 2019
128 pp., 25.2x20.9 cm, illus.
In this book, Dan Delaney – hailed by Keyboard magazine as a pioneer in music teaching – and William Chotkowski walk readers through the next set of skills they need to play at the intermediate level. Featuring Dan Delaney s innovative chord method –...
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On Track… The Rolling Stones 1963-1980 Every Album, Every Song
Pilkington Steve
ISBN: PB: 9781789520170, Bookport, Sonicbond Publishing, April 2019
144 pp., 21.1x14.7 cm
The Rolling Stones: Still going strong and defying the doubters, over 55 years since their formation, they possess a longevity almost unheard of in popular music – especially with three of the five original members still present. The majority of peop...
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Play It Loud Instruments of Rock & Roll
Dobney Jayson, Inciardi Craig, DeCurtis Anthony, DiPerna Alan, Fricke David, George-Warren Holly, Hill Matthew
ISBN: HB: 9781588396662, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2019
236 pp., 26.7x22.9 cm, 127 colour illus., 51 black&white illus.
Play It Loud celebrates the musical instruments that gave rock and roll its signature sound – from Louis Jordan's alto saxophone and John Lennon's Rickenbacker to the drum set owned by Metallica's Lars Ulrich, Lady Gaga's keytar, and beyond. Seven en...
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