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Trouble with Wagner
ISBN: HB: 9780226594194, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 12 halftones
In this unique and hybrid book, cultural and music historian Michael P. Steinberg combines a close analysis of Wagnerian music drama with a personal account of his work as a dramaturg on the bicentennial production of "The Ring of the Nibelung" for t...
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£29,00
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Tchaikovsky Papers Unlocking the Family Archive
ISBN: HB: 9780300191363, Yale University Press, April 2018
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 22 black&white illus.
This fascinating collection of letters, notes, and miscellanea from the archives of the Tchaikovsky State House-Museum sheds new light on the world of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Most of these documents have never before been available in English, and...
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£35,00
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Tigers of a Different Stripe Performing Gender in Dominican Music
ISBN: PB: 9780226405469, ISBN: HB: 9780226405322, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones, 14 line drawings, 6 tables
"Tigers of a Different Stripe" takes readers inside the unique world of merengue tipico, a traditional music of the Dominican Republic. While in most genres of Caribbean music women usually participate as dancers or vocalists, in merengue tipico they...
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£28,00
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£84,00
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Tango Machine Musical Culture in the Age of Expediency
ISBN: PB: 9780226385549, ISBN: HB: 9780226385402, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings
In Argentina, tango isn't just the national music – it's a national brand. But ask any contemporary Argentine if they ever really listen to it and chances are the answer is no: tango hasn't been popular for more than fifty years. In this book, Morgan...
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£24,00
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£72,00
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Top 40 Democracy The Rival Mainstreams of American Music
ISBN: PB: 9780226896182, ISBN: HB: 9780226896168, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
312 pp., 25x15 cm, 30 halftones
If you drive into any American city with the car stereo blasting, you'll undoubtedly find radio stations representing R&B/hip-hop, country, Top 40, adult contemporary, rock, and Latin, each playing hit after hit within that musical format. American m...
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£22,00
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£67,50
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Triumph of Pleasure Louis XIV and the Politics of Spectacle
ISBN: PB: 9780226211558, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
324 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 8 halftones, 4 line drawings, 16 musical examples, 3 tables
Prominent components of Louis XIV's propaganda, the arts of spectacle also became sources of a potent resistance to the monarchy in late seventeenth-century France. With a particular focus on the court ballet, comedy-ballet, opera, and opera-ballet...
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£36,00
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Tainted Glory in Handel's Messiah The Unsettling History of the World's Most Beloved Choral Work
ISBN: HB: 9780300194586, Yale University Press, June 2014
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
Every Easter, audiences across the globe thrill to performances of Handel's "Hallelujah Chorus", but they would probably be appalled to learn the full extent of the oratorio's anti-Judaic message. In this pioneering study, respected musicologist Mich...
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£44,00
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Trumpet
ISBN: HB: 9780300112306, Yale University Press, February 2012
352 pp., 23.4x19 cm, musical examples throughout, 45 black&white illus.
In the first major book devoted to the trumpet in more than two decades, John Wallace and Alexander McGrattan trace the surprising evolution and colourful performance history of one of the world's oldest instruments. They chart the introduction of th...
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£30,00
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Thug Life Race, Gender, and the Meaning of Hip-Hop
ISBN: PB: 9780226395852, ISBN: HB: 9780226395845, University of Chicago Press, January 2011
280 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 2 tables, 3 halftones
Hip-hop has come a long way from its origins in the Bronx in the 1970s, when rapping and DJing were just part of a lively, decidedly local scene that also venerated b-boying and graffiti. Now hip-hop is a global phenomenon and, in the United States,...
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£22,50
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£58,50
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Traveling the Spaceways Sun Ra, the Astro Black and other Solar Myths
ISBN: PB: 9780945323150, University of Chicago Press, WhiteWalls, December 2010
91 pp., 23.9x16.8 cm, 70 colour illus.
Sun Ra (1914-1993) – self-proclaimed visionary extraterrestrial of the "Angel Race", prophetic jazz band leader and composer, and lyrical proponent of Afro-futurism – was one of the most influential figures of twentieth-century music. Though many of...
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£19,00
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