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Flip the Script European Hip Hop and the Politics of Postcoloniality

Rollefson J. Griffith

ISBN: PB: 9780226496214, ISBN: HB: 9780226496184, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 11 line drawings

Hip hop has long been a vehicle for protest in the United States, used by its primarily African American creators to address issues of prejudice, repression, and exclusion. But the music is now a worldwide phenomenon, and outside the United States it...

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Beethoven's Symphonies Nine Approaches to Art and Ideas

Geck Martin

ISBN: HB: 9780226453880, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
192 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 18 halftones

In the years spanning from 1800 to 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven completed nine symphonies, now considered among the greatest masterpieces of Western music. Yet despite the fact that this time period, located in the wake of the Enlightenment and at the...

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Guitar Makers The Endurance of Artisanal Values in North America

Dudley Kathryn Marie

ISBN: PB: 9780226478678, ISBN: HB: 9780226095387, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 42 halftones, 3 line drawings

It whispers, it sings, it rocks, and it howls. It expresses the voice of the folk – the open road, freedom, protest and rebellion, youth and love. It is the acoustic guitar. And over the last five decades it has become a quintessential American icon....

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Blackface Nation Race, Reform, and Identity in American Popular Music, 1812-1925

Roberts Brian

ISBN: PB: 9780226451640, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 halftones

As the United States transitioned from a rural nation to an urbanized, industrial giant between the War of 1812 and the early twentieth century, ordinary people struggled over the question of what it meant to be American. As Brian Roberts shows in "B...

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Vaudeville Melodies Popular Musicians and Mass Entertainment in American Culture, 1870-1929

Gebhardt Nicholas

ISBN: PB: 9780226448695, ISBN: HB: 9780226448558, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
208 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

If you enjoy popular music and culture today, you have vaudeville to thank. From the 1870s until the 1920s, vaudeville was the dominant context for popular entertainment in the United States, laying the groundwork for the music industry we know today...

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Music in the World Selected Essays

Taylor Timothy D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226442396, ISBN: HB: 9780226442259, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 13 halftones, 4 tables

In music studies, Timothy D. Taylor is known for his insightful essays on music, globalization, and capitalism".Music in the World" is a collection of some of Taylor's most recent writings – essays concerned with questions about music in capitalist c...

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Flavor and Soul Italian America at Its African American Edge

Gennari John

ISBN: HB: 9780226428321, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
296 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

In the United States, African American and Italian cultures have been intertwined for more than a hundred years. From as early as nineteenth-century African American opera star Thomas Bowers – "The Colored Mario" – all the way to hip-hop entrepreneur...

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Curious and Modern Inventions Instrumental Music as Discovery in Galileo's Italy

Cypess Rebecca

ISBN: HB: 9780226319445, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 colour plates, 17 halftones, 72 line drawings, 4 tables

Early seventeenth-century Italy saw a revolution in instrumental music. Large, varied, and experimental, the new instrumental repertoire was crucial for the Western tradition – but until now, the impulses that gave rise to it had yet to be fully expl...

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Sound Knowledge Music and Science in London, 1789-1851

Davies James Q., Lockhart Ellen

ISBN: HB: 9780226402079, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 34 halftones, 4 line drawings, 1 table

What does it mean to hear scientifically? What does it mean to see musically? This volume uncovers a new side to the long nineteenth century in London, a hidden history in which virtuosic musical entertainment and scientific discovery intersected in...

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Catalogue of Carl Nielsen's Works

Foltmann Niels Bo, Teich Geertinger Axel, Hauge Peter, Krabbe Niels, Moe Bjarke, Bruunshuus Petersen Elly

ISBN: HB: 9788763544054, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, February 2017
616 pp., 23.5x17.2 cm, 300 musical diagrams

"The Catalogue of Carl Nielsen's Works" is the first ever thematic-bibliographic inventory of composer Carl Nielsen's compositions of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It includes incipits (that is, the first couple of bars) for unam...

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