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Richard Wagner A Life in Music

Geck Martin

ISBN: HB: 9780226924618, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 43 halftones, 37 line drawings

Best known for the challenging four-opera cycle "The Ring of the Nibelung", Richard Wagner (1813-1883) was a conductor, librettist, theater director, and essayist, in addition to being the composer of some of the most enduring operatic works in histo...

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Osiris, Volume 28 Music, Sound, and the Laboratory from 1750-1980

Hui Alexandra, Kursell Julia, Jackson Myles W.

ISBN: PB: 9780226053752, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
352 pp., 25.5x17.5 cm

The understanding of sound underwent profound changes with the advent of laboratory science in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. New techniques of sound visualization and detection, the use of electricity to generate sound, and the emergence of...

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Gentleman Troubadours and Andean Pop Stars Huayno Music, Media Work, and Ethnic Imaginaries in Urban Peru

Tucker Joshua

ISBN: PB: 9780226923963, ISBN: HB: 9780226923956, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
240 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 map, 18 line illus.

Exploring Peru's lively music industry and the studio producers, radio DJs, and program directors that drive it, "Gentleman Troubadours and Andean Pop Stars" is a fascinating account of the deliberate development of artistic taste. Focusing on popula...

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Biography & Memoires

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Robert Schumann The Life and Work of a Romantic Composer

Geck Martin

ISBN: HB: 9780226284699, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
320 pp., 25x15 cm, 23 halftones, 8 line illus.

Robert Schumann (1810-1856) is one of the most important and representative composers of the Romantic era. Born in Zwickau, Germany, Schumann began piano instruction at age seven and immediately developed a passion for music. When a permanent injury...

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Not without Madness Perspectives on Opera

Della Seta Fabrizio

ISBN: HB: 9780226749143, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 37 musical examples, 8 tables

Opera often seems to arouse either irrational enthusiasm or visceral dislike. Such madness, as Goethe wrote, is indispensable in all theater, and yet in practice, sentiment and passion must be balanced by sense and reason. Exploring this tension betw...

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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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Biography & Memoires

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I Feel So Good The Life and Times of Big Bill Broonzy

Riesman Bob

ISBN: PB: 9780226007090, ISBN: HB: 9780226717456, University of Chicago Press, September 2012
366 pp., 23x15 cm, 31 halftones

A major figure in American blues and folk music, Big Bill Broonzy (1903-1958) left his Arkansas Delta home after World War I, headed north, and became the leading Chicago bluesman of the 1930s. His success came as he fused traditional rural blues wit...

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Medieval

Christianity

Divas in the Convent Nuns, Music, and Defiance in Seventeenth-Century Italy

Monson Craig A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226535197, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
280 pp., 23x15 cm, 32 halftones, 4 line illus.

When eight-year-old Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana (1590-1662) entered one of the preeminent convents in Bologna in 1598, she had no idea what cloistered life had in store for her. Thanks to clandestine instruction from a local maestro di cappella – and des...

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Culture Studies

Lonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams Place, Mobility, and Race in Jazz of the 1930s and '40s

Berish Andrew S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226044958, ISBN: HB: 9780226044941, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
312 pp., 23x15 cm, 10 musical examples, 8 halftones, 11 line illus.

Any listener knows the power of music to define a place, but few can describe the how or why of this phenomenon. In "Lonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams: Place, Mobility, and Race in Jazz of the 1930s and '40s", Andrew Berish attempts to right this...

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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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