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Sound and Affect Voice, Music, World
ISBN: PB: 9780226758015, ISBN: HB: 9780226751832, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones
There is no place on earth that does not echo with the near or distant sounds of human activity. More than half of humanity lives in cities, meaning the daily soundtrack of our lives is filled with sound – whether it be sonorous, harmonious, melodic,...
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£28,00
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£84,00
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Singing Sappho Improvisation and Authority in Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera
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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£36,00
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Spirit of This Place How Music Illuminates the Human Spirit
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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£16,00
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£19,00
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Search for Medieval Music in Africa and Germany, 1891-1961 Scholars, Singers, Missionaries
ISBN: HB: 9780226740348, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones, 12 musical examples, 2 tables
This innovative book reassesses the history of musicology, unearthing the field's twentieth-century German and global roots. In the process, Anna Maria Busse Berger exposes previously unseen historical relationships such as those between the modern r...
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£44,00
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Sun Ra's Chicago Afrofuturism and the City
ISBN: PB: 9780226732107, ISBN: HB: 9780226732077, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones
Sun Ra (1914-93) was one of the most wildly prolific and unfailingly eccentric figures in the history of music. Renowned for extravagant performances in which his Arkestra appeared in neo-Egyptian garb, the keyboardist and bandleader also espoused an...
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£24,00
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£76,00
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Sex, Death, and Minuets Anna Magdalena Bach and Her Musical Notebooks
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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£34,00
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Stories of Tonality in the Age of Francois-Joseph Fetis
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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£42,00
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Song Walking Women, Music, and Environmental Justice in an African Borderland
ISBN: PB: 9780226538013, ISBN: HB: 9780226537962, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones
"Song Walking" explores the politics of land, its position in memories, and its foundation in changing land-use practices in western Maputaland, a borderland region situated at the juncture of South Africa, Mozambique, and Swaziland. Angela Impey inv...
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£25,00
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£74,00
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Stolen Time Black Fad Performance and the Calypso Craze
ISBN: PB: 9780226568447, ISBN: HB: 9780226568300, University of Chicago Press, September 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones
In 1956, Harry Belafonte's "Calypso" established a historic landmark in becoming the first LP to sell more than a million copies. For a few fleeting months, calypso music was the top selling genre in the US – it even threatened to supplant rock and r...
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£22,50
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£67,50
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Singing in the Age of Anxiety Lieder Performances in New York and London between the World Wars
ISBN: HB: 9780226563572, University of Chicago Press, July 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones
In New York and London during World War I, the performance of lieder – German art songs – was roundly prohibited, representing as they did the music and language of the enemy. But as German musicians returned to the transatlantic circuit in the 1920s...
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