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Good Music What It Is and Who Gets to Decide

Sheinbaum John J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226593388, ISBN: HB: 9780226593241, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 25 line drawings, 8 tables

Over the past two centuries Western culture has largely valorized a particular kind of "good" music – highly serious, wondrously deep, stylistically authentic, heroically created, and strikingly original – and, at the same time, has marginalized musi...

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Trouble with Wagner

Steinberg Michael P.

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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Musical Vitalities Ventures in a Biotic Aesthetics of Music

Watkins Holly

ISBN: HB: 9780226594705, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 21 line drawings

Does it make sense to refer to bird song – a complex vocalization, full of repetitive and transformative patterns that are carefully calculated to woo a mate – as art? What about a pack of wolves howling in unison or the cacophony made by an entire r...

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Biography & Memoires

Hearing Beethoven A Story of Musical Loss and Discovery

Wallace Robin

ISBN: HB: 9780226429755, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
288 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 28 halftones

We're all familiar with the image of a fierce and scowling Beethoven, struggling doggedly to overcome his rapidly progressing deafness. That Beethoven continued to play and compose for more than a decade after he lost his hearing is often seen as an...

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Stolen Time Black Fad Performance and the Calypso Craze

Vogel Shane

ISBN: PB: 9780226568447, ISBN: HB: 9780226568300, University of Chicago Press, September 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones

In 1956, Harry Belafonte's "Calypso" established a historic landmark in becoming the first LP to sell more than a million copies. For a few fleeting months, calypso music was the top selling genre in the US – it even threatened to supplant rock and r...

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Message to Our Folks The Art Ensemble of Chicago

Steinbeck Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780226418094, ISBN: HB: 9780226375960, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 85 line drawings

This year marks the golden anniversary of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, the flagship band of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. Formed in 1966 and flourishing until 2010, the Art Ensemble distinguished itself by its unique perf...

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Singing in the Age of Anxiety Lieder Performances in New York and London between the World Wars

Tunbridge Laura

ISBN: HB: 9780226563572, University of Chicago Press, July 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones

In New York and London during World War I, the performance of lieder – German art songs – was roundly prohibited, representing as they did the music and language of the enemy. But as German musicians returned to the transatlantic circuit in the 1920s...

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I due Foscari Tragedia lirica in Three Acts by Francesco Maria Piave

Verdi Giuseppe

ISBN: SET: 9780226074511, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
670 pp., 36.8x26.7 cm, 8 halftones, 28 tables

"I due Foscari" enjoys pride of place among Verdi's early operas for its commanding music and striking use of recurring themes to identify the principal characters. Here, the young composer can be seen experimenting with new means of musical and dram...

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Opera and the Political Imaginary in Old Regime France

Bloechl Olivia

ISBN: HB: 9780226522753, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 31 line drawings, 1 table

From its origins in the 1670s through the French Revolution, serious opera in France was associated with the power of the absolute monarchy, and its ties to the crown remain at the heart of our understanding of this opera tradition (especially its fo...

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Miles Davis Lost Quintet and Other Revolutionary Ensembles

Gluck Bob

ISBN: PB: 9780226527000, ISBN: HB: 9780226180762, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones

Miles Davis's Bitches Brew is one of the most iconic albums in American music, the preeminent landmark and fertile seedbed of jazz-fusion. Fans have been fortunate in the past few years to gain access to Davis's live recordings from this time, when h...

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