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American Orchestras in the Nineteenth Century

Spitzer John

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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Comedians of the King "Opera-Comique" and the Bourbon Monarchy on the Eve of Revolution

Doe Julia

ISBN: HB: 9780226743257, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 colour plates, 16 halftones, 28 line drawings, 5 tables

Opera in ancien regime France was an eminently political art, tied to the demands of court spectacle. This was true not only of tragic opera (tragedie lyrique) but also its comic counterpart, opera comique, a theatrical form tracing its roots to the...

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Political Orchestra The Vienna and Berlin Philharmonics during the Third Reich

Trumpi Fritz

ISBN: PB: 9780226760261, ISBN: HB: 9780226251394, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 17 line drawings, 5 tables

This is a groundbreaking study of the prestigious Berlin and Vienna Philharmonics during the Third Reich. Making extensive use of archival material, including some discussed here for the first time, Fritz Trumpi offers new insight into the orchestras...

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Everyone Loves Live Music A Theory of Performance Institutions

Holt Fabian

ISBN: PB: 9780226738543, ISBN: HB: 9780226738406, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 5 tables

Every year, millions of music fans come from far and wide to swarm parks and arenas to hear their favorite bands at festivals such as Lollapalooza, Coachella, and Glastonbury. How did these and countless other festivals across the globe evolve into g...

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Singing Sappho Improvisation and Authority in Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera

Esse Melina

ISBN: HB: 9780226741772, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones, 38 line drawings

From the theatrical stage to the literary salon, the figure of Sappho – the ancient poet and inspiring icon of feminine creativity – played a major role in the intertwining histories of improvisation, text, and performance throughout the nineteenth c...

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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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