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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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Ambient Sufism Ritual Niches and the Social Work of Musical Form
ISBN: PB: 9780226723471, ISBN: HB: 9780226723334, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 20 musical examples, 9 tables
Ambient Sufism is a study of the intertwined musical lives of several ritual communities in Tunisia that invoke the healing powers of long-deceased Muslim saints through music-driven trance rituals. Richard C. Jankowsky illuminates the virtually undo...
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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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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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Beethoven A Political Artist in Revolutionary Times
ISBN: HB: 9780226669052, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 colour plates, 20 halftones, 26 line drawings
We have long regarded Beethoven as a great composer, but we rarely appreciate that he was also an eminently political artist. This book unveils the role of politics in his oeuvre, elucidating how the inherently political nature of Beethoven's music e...
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Nadia Boulanger and Her World
ISBN: PB: 9780226750712, ISBN: HB: 9780226750682, University of Chicago Press, July 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 45 halftones
Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979) was arguably one of the most iconic figures in twentieth-century music, and certainly among the most prominent musicians of her time. For many composers – especially Americans from Aaron Copland to Philip Glass – studying...
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£84,00
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Pynchon's Sound of Music
ISBN: PB: 9783035802320, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, May 2020
448 pp., 21.5x13.3 cm, 18 halftones
"Pynchon's Sound of Music" is dedicated to cataloging, exploring, and interpreting the manifold manifestations of music in Thomas Pynchon's work. An original mix of close and distant readings, this monograph employs a variety of disciplines – from li...
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Both from the Ears and Mind Thinking about Music in Early Modern England
ISBN: HB: 9780226701592, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 colour plates, 25 halftones
"Both from the Ears and Mind" offers a bold new understanding of the intellectual and cultural position of music in Tudor and Stuart England. Linda Phyllis Austern brings to life the kinds of educated writings and debates that surrounded musical perf...
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Listening to China Sound and the Sino-Western Encounter, 1770-1839
ISBN: HB: 9780226667126, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 4 line drawings
From bell ringing to fireworks, gongs to cannon salutes, a dazzling variety of sounds and soundscapes marked the China encountered by the West around 1800. These sounds were gathered by diplomats, trade officials, missionaries, and other travelers an...
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London Voices, 1820-1840 Vocal Performers, Practices, Histories
ISBN: HB: 9780226670188, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones, 5 line drawings
London, 1820. The British capital is a metropolis that overwhelms dwellers and visitors alike with constant exposure to all kinds of sensory stimulation. Over the next two decades, the city's tumult will reach new heights: as population expansion pla...
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