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American Orchestras in the Nineteenth Century
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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£44,00
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£56,00
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Ambient Sufism Ritual Niches and the Social Work of Musical Form
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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£22,00
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£76,00
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Art of Mbira Musical Inheritance and Legacy
ISBN: PB: 9780226628684, ISBN: HB: 9780226628547, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
608 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 302 musical examples
Growing out of the collaborative research of an American ethnomusicologist and Zimbabwean musician, Paul F. Berliner's The Art of Mbira documents the repertory for a keyboard instrument known generally as mbira. At the heart of this work lies the ana...
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£36,00
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£102,00
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Anton Corbijn: 1-2-3-4 New Edition
ISBN: HB: 9783791384016, Prestel Publishing, February 2019
400 pp., 29x24 cm, 60 colour illus., 380 black&white illus.
Corbijn's interest in music has been the engine of an illustrious decades-long career that has most recently involved the making of feature length films such as The American, A Most Wanted Man, and Life. This gloriously illustrated, oversized book pa...
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£55,00
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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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Art & Vinyl
ISBN: HB: 9782912794291, DAP, Fraenkel Gallery, April 2018
450 pp., 27.9x27.9 cm, 250 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! "Art & Vinyl" is an exhilarating new look into the history of the vinyl record as a medium for modern and contemporary visual art. This beautifully designed and printed publication is the first book to focus in-depth on wor...
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£65,00
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As I Walked Out Sabine Baring-Gould and the Search for the Folk Songs of Devon and Cornwall
ISBN: PB: 9781909930537, Signal Books, October 2017
426 pp., 21.8x14.1 cm
For sale in CIS only! Shortly before his death, the Devonshire-born cleric, writer and antiquarian, Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924) wrote: "To this day I consider that the recovery of our West Country melodies has been the principal achievement of m...
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£16,99
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Art of the Blues A Visual Treasury of Black Music's Golden Age
ISBN: HB: 9780226396699, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
224 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 350 colour plates
This stunning book charts the rich history of the blues, through the dazzling array of posters, album covers, and advertisements that have shaped its identity over the past hundred years. The blues have been one of the most ubiquitous but diverse ele...
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£26,50
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Art of Music
ISBN: HB: 9780300215472, Yale University Press, October 2015
318 pp., 28x25.4 cm, 280 colour illus.
"The Art of Music" is a handsomely illustrated and rich interdisciplinary look at the mutual influence between music and the visual arts across cultures and eras. The book sheds new light on more familiar artists at the intersection of the visual and...
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£40,00
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Andy Warhol The Complete Commissioned Record Covers
ISBN: HB: 9783791354248, Prestel Publishing, March 2015
264 pp., 30.5x30.5 cm, 287 colour illus.
Now available in an expanded edition, this landmark collection presents all of the record covers designed by Andy Warhol between 1949 and 1987, charting the Pop icon's lifelong engagement with music and casting a new light on his enormously diverse o...
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£35,00
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