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Making It Up Together The Art of Collective Improvisation in Balinese Music and Beyond

Tilley Leslie A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226667607, ISBN: HB: 9780226661131, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
336 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 16 halftones, 165 musical exam

Most studies of musical improvisation focus on individual musicians. But that is not the whole story. From jazz to flamenco, Shona mbira to Javanese gamelan, improvised practices thrive on group creativity, relying on the close interaction of multipl...

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Music in the Present Tense Rossini's Italian Operas in Their Time

Senici Emanuele

ISBN: HB: 9780226663548, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 45 line drawings, 2 tables

In the early 1800s, Rossini's operas permeated Italy, from the opera house to myriad arrangements heard in public and private. But after Rossini stopped composing, a sharp decline in popularity drove most of his works out of the repertory. In the pas...

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Anthropology

Art of Mbira Musical Inheritance and Legacy

Berliner Paul F.

ISBN: PB: 9780226628684, ISBN: HB: 9780226628547, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
608 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 302 musical examples

Growing out of the collaborative research of an American ethnomusicologist and Zimbabwean musician, Paul F. Berliner's The Art of Mbira documents the repertory for a keyboard instrument known generally as mbira. At the heart of this work lies the ana...

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Bitten by the Blues The Alligator Records Story

Iglauer Bruce, Roberts Patrick A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226681986, ISBN: HB: 9780226129907, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

It started with the searing sound of a slide careening up the neck of an electric guitar. In 1970, twenty-three-year-old Bruce Iglauer walked into Florence's Lounge, in the heart of Chicago's South Side, and was overwhelmed by the joyous, raw Chicago...

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Revolution's Echoes Music, Politics, and Pleasure in Guinea

Dave Nomi

ISBN: PB: 9780226654638, ISBN: HB: 9780226654461, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 2 line drawings

Music has long been an avenue for protest, seen as a way to promote freedom and equality, instill hope, and fight for change. Popular music, in particular, is considered to be an effective form of subversion and resistance under oppressive circumstan...

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Composing Capital Classical Music in the Neoliberal Era

Ritchey Marianna

ISBN: PB: 9780226640235, ISBN: HB: 9780226640068, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 musical examples

The familiar old world of classical music, with its wealthy donors and ornate concert halls, is changing. The patronage of a wealthy few is being replaced by that of corporations, leading to new unions of classical music and contemporary capitalism....

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I'd Fight the World A Political History of Old-Time, Hillbilly, and Country Music

La Chapelle Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780226923000, ISBN: HB: 9780226922997, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones

Long before the United States had presidents from the world of movies and reality TV, we had scores of politicians with connections to country music. In "I'd Fight the World", Peter La Chapelle traces the deep bonds between country music and politics...

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Move On Up Chicago Soul Music and Black Cultural Power

Cohen Aaron

ISBN: PB: 9780226653037, ISBN: HB: 9780226176079, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones

Curtis Mayfield. The Chi-Lites. Chaka Khan. Chicago's place in the history of soul music is rock solid. But for Chicagoans, soul music in its heyday from the 1960s to the 1980s was more than just a series of hits: it was a marker and a source of blac...

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Music and the New Global Culture From the Great Exhibitions to the Jazz Age

Liebersohn Harry

ISBN: PB: 9780226649276, ISBN: HB: 9780226621265, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 3 tables

Music listeners today can effortlessly flip from K-pop to Ravi Shankar to Amadou & Mariam with a few quick clicks of a mouse. While contemporary globalized musical culture has become ubiquitous and unremarkable, its fascinating origins long predate t...

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Voice as Something More Essays toward Materiality

Feldman Martha H., Zeitlin Judith T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226647173, ISBN: HB: 9780226656397, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones, 2 line drawings,

In the contemporary world, voices are caught up in fundamentally different realms of discourse, practice, and culture: between sounding and nonsounding, material and nonmaterial, literal and metaphorical. In "The Voice as Something Mor"e, Martha Feld...

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