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Sound Knowledge Music and Science in London, 1789-1851

Davies James Q., Lockhart Ellen

ISBN: HB: 9780226402079, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 34 halftones, 4 line drawings, 1 table

What does it mean to hear scientifically? What does it mean to see musically? This volume uncovers a new side to the long nineteenth century in London, a hidden history in which virtuosic musical entertainment and scientific discovery intersected in...

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Seventeenth-Century Opera and the Sound of the Commedia dell'Arte

Wilbourne Emily

ISBN: HB: 9780226401577, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 37 line drawings, 4 tables

In this book, Emily Wilbourne boldly traces the roots of early opera back to the sounds of the commedia dell'arte. Along the way, she forges a new history of Italian opera, from the court pieces of the early seventeenth century to the public stages o...

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Women Studies

Season of Singing Creating Feminist Jewish Music in the United States

Ross Sarah M.

ISBN: PB: 9781611689600, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, August 2016
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In the 1960s, Jewish music in America began to evolve. Traditional liturgical tunes developed into a blend of secular and sacred sound that became known in the 1980s as "American Nusach". Chief among these developments was the growth of feminist Jewi...

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Say No to the Devil The Life and Musical Genius of Rev. Gary Davis

Zack Ian

ISBN: PB: 9780226380988, ISBN: HB: 9780226234106, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

Who was the greatest of all American guitarists? You probably didn't name Gary Davis, but many of his musical contemporaries considered him without peer. Bob Dylan called Davis "one of the wizards of modern music". Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead – who...

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Stalin's Music Prize Soviet Culture and Politics

Frolova-Walker Marina

ISBN: HB: 9780300208849, Yale University Press, March 2016
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

Marina Frolova-Walker's fascinating history takes a new look at musical life in Stalin's Soviet Union. The author focuses on the musicians and composers who received Stalin Prizes, awarded annually to artists whose work was thought to represent the b...

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Anthropology

Stambeli Music, Trance, and Alterity in Tunisia

Jankowsky Richard C.

ISBN: PB + CD: 9780226392196, University of Chicago Press, July 2014
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 map, 7 tables, 7 halftones, 12 line illus.

In "Stambeli", Richard C. Jankowsky presents a vivid ethnographic account of the healing trance music created by the descendants of sub-Saharan slaves brought to Tunisia during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Stambeli music calls upon an ela...

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School for Cool The Academic Jazz Program and the Paradox of Institutionalized Creativity

Wilf Eitan Y.

ISBN: PB: 9780226125190, ISBN: HB: 9780226125053, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing

Jazz was born on the streets, grew up in the clubs, and will die – so some fear – at the university. Facing dwindling commercial demand and the gradual disappearance of venues, many aspiring jazz musicians today learn their craft, and find their care...

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Musical Instrument

Saxophone

Cottrell Stephen

ISBN: HB: 9780300100419, Yale University Press, January 2013
352 pp., 23.4x19 cm

In the first fully comprehensive study of one of the world's most iconic musical instruments, Stephen Cottrell examines the saxophone's full social, historical and cultural trajectory, and considers how and why this instrument, with its idiosyncratic...

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Sibelius A Composer's Life and the Awakening of Finland

Dawn Goss Glenda

ISBN: PB: 9780226005478, ISBN: HB: 9780226304779, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
549 pp., 25x17.8 cm, 47 musical examples, 36 halftones, 12 colour illus.

One of the twentieth century's greatest composers, Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) virtually stopped writing music during the last thirty years of his life. Recasting his mysterious musical silence and his undeniably influential life against the backdrop o...

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SamulNori Contemporary Korean Drumming and the Rebirth of Itinerant Performance Culture

Hesselink Nathan

ISBN: PB + CD: 9780226330976, ISBN: HB + CD: 9780226330969, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
224 pp., 23x15 cm, 6 tables, 21 halftones, 11 line illus.

In 1978, four musicians crowded into a cramped basement theater in downtown Seoul, where they, for the first time, brought the rural percussive art of p'ungmul to a burgeoning urban audience. In doing so, they began a decades-long reinvention of trad...

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