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You'll Know When You Get There Herbie Hancock and the Mwandishi Band

Gluck Bob

ISBN: PB: 9780226142715, ISBN: HB: 9780226300047, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 10 halftones, 22 line illus.

As the 1960s ended, Herbie Hancock embarked on a grand creative experiment. Having just been dismissed from the celebrated Miles Davis Quintet, he set out on the road, playing with his first touring group as a leader until he eventually formed what w...

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Music between Us Is Music a Universal Language?

Higgins Kathleen Marie

ISBN: PB: 9780226142852, ISBN: HB: 9780226333281, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
296 pp., 23x15 cm

From our first social bonding as infants to the funeral rites that mark our passing, music plays an important role in our lives, bringing us closer to one another. In "The Music between Us", philosopher Kathleen Marie Higgins investigates this role,...

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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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Operas of Giuseppe Verdi

Basevi Abramo

ISBN: HB: 9780226094915, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 table

Abramo Basevi published his study of Verdi's operas in Florence in 1859, in the middle of the composer's career. The first thorough, systematic examination of Verdi's operas, it covered the twenty works produced between 1842 and 1857 – from "Nabucco"...

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Composing Japanese Musical Modernity

Wade Bonnie C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226085357, ISBN: HB: 9780226085210, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

When we think of composers, we usually envision an isolated artist separate from the orchestra – someone alone in a study, surround by staff paper – and in Europe and America this image generally has been accurate. For most of Japan's musical history...

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Language of Its Own Sense and Meaning in the Making of Western Art Music

Katz Ruth

ISBN: PB: 9780226425979, ISBN: HB: 9780226425962, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 7 line drawings

The Western musical tradition has produced not only music, but also countless writings about music that remain in continuous – and enormously influential – dialogue with their subject. With sweeping scope and philosophical depth, "A Language of Its O...

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Blue Notes in Black and White Photography and Jazz

Cawthra Benjamin

ISBN: PB: 9780226100746, ISBN: HB: 9780226098753, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
392 pp., 25.5x18 cm, 65 halftones

Miles Davis, supremely cool behind his shades. Billie Holiday, eyes closed and head tilted back in full cry. John Coltrane, one hand behind his neck and a finger held pensively to his lips. These iconic images have captivated jazz fans nearly as much...

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Jazz on the River

Howland Kenney William

ISBN: PB: 9780226102672, ISBN: HB: 9780226437330, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 halftones, 1 map

Just after World War I, the musical style called jazz began a waterborne journey outward from that quintessential haven of romance and decadence, New Orleans. For the first time in any organized way, steam-driven boats left town during the summer mon...

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More Important Than the Music A History of Jazz Discography

Epperson Bruce D.

ISBN: HB: 9780226067537, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

Today, jazz is considered high art, America's national music, and the catalog of its recordings – its discography – is often taken for granted. But behind jazz discography is a fraught and highly colorful history of research, fanaticism, and the inte...

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From the Score to the Stage An Illustrated History of Continental Opera Production and Staging

Baker Evan

ISBN: HB: 9780226035086, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
416 pp., 30.4x25.4 cm, 2 tables, 189 colour illus.

Without scenery, costumes, and stage action, an opera would be little more than a concert. But in the audience, we know little (and think less) about the enormous efforts of those involved in bringing an opera to life – by the stagehands who shift sc...

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