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Political Orchestra The Vienna and Berlin Philharmonics during the Third Reich
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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£33,00
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£37,50
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Pynchon's Sound of Music
ISBN: PB: 9783035802320, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, May 2020
448 pp., 21.5x13.3 cm, 18 halftones
"Pynchon's Sound of Music" is dedicated to cataloging, exploring, and interpreting the manifold manifestations of music in Thomas Pynchon's work. An original mix of close and distant readings, this monograph employs a variety of disciplines – from li...
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£32,00
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Poulenc A Biography
ISBN: HB: 9780300226508, Yale University Press, April 2020
352 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 30 colour illus.
Francis Poulenc is a key figure in twentieth-century classical music, as well as an unorthodox and striking individual. Roger Nichols draws upon Poulenc's music and other primary sources to write an authoritative life of this great artist. Although...
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£25,00
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Poetry of Pop
ISBN: PB: 9780300248326, Yale University Press, September 2019
424 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 13 black&white illus.
<p>A trailblazing exploration of the poetic power of popular songs, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles to Beyonce and beyond. Encompassing a century of recorded music, this pathbreaking book reveals the poetic artistry of popular songs. Pop songs are...
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£16,99
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Play It Loud Instruments of Rock & Roll
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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£35,00
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Portrait in Four Movements The Chicago Symphony under Barenboim, Boulez, Haitink, and Muti
ISBN: HB: 9780226609911, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones
"Playing in an orchestra in an intelligent way is the best school for democracy" – Daniel Barenboim The Chicago Symphony Orchestra has been led by a storied group of conductors. And from 1994 to 2015, through the best work of Daniel Barenboim, Pierr...
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£21,00
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Pick Up the Pieces Excursions in Seventies Music
ISBN: HB: 9780226604732, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Unless you lived through the 1970s, it seems impossible to understand it at all. Drug delirium, groovy fashion, religious cults, mega corporations, glitzy glam, hard rock, global unrest – from our 2018 perspective, the seventies are often remembered...
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£20,00
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Prague Soundscapes
ISBN: PB: 9788024625157, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, September 2014
340 pp., 24.1x17.2 cm, 64 colour plates
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Dvorak's opera Rusalka at the National Theatre. A punk concert in an underground club. The hypnotic chanting of Hare Krishnas joyfully dancing through the streets. These are the sounds of...
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£15,00
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Paris Blues African American Music and French Popular Culture, 1920-1960
ISBN: PB: 9780226138817, ISBN: HB: 9780226138787, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 39 halftones, 17 line drawings
The Jazz Age. The phrase conjures images of Louis Armstrong holding court at the Sunset Cafe in Chicago, Duke Ellington dazzling crowds at the Cotton Club in Harlem, and star singers like Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey. But the Jazz Age was every bit as...
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£24,00
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£67,50
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Playing for the Benefit of the Band New Orleans Music Culture
ISBN: HB: 9780300204407, Yale University Press, April 2014
207 pp., 22.9x27.9 cm, 202 tritone illus.
Lee Friedlander first visited the birthplace of jazz in 1957 and immediately set about photographing the aging pioneers of the art form. His love of the music and the people of New Orleans drew him back to the city, and the relationships he formed ov...
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£40,00
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