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The Centro Latinoamericano de Altos Estudios Musicales (CLAEM) in Buenos Aires operated for less than a decade, but by the time of its closure in 1971 it had become the undeniable epicenter of Latin American avant-garde music. Providing the first in-depth study of...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-09-01
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Testing Hearing: The Making of Modern Aurality argues that the modern cultural practices of hearing and testing have emerged from a long interrelationship. Since the early nineteenth century, auditory test tools (whether organ pipes or electronic tone generators) and...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-08-31
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'Arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music,' says Jimi Hendrix's citation in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. James Marshall Hendrix remains unique as an African American who broke out of the traditional 'Black' genres of blues, r&b and soul to...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2020-08-20
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A new and groundbreaking approach to the history of grand opera, Grand Illusion: Phantasmagoria in Nineteenth-Century Opera explores the illusion and illumination behind the form's rise to cultural eminence. Renowned opera scholar Gabriela Cruz argues that grand opera...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-08-19
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Building on the long-established success of Ethan Mordden's Opera Anecdotes, The New Book Of Opera Anecdotes continues where the original left off, bringing into view the new corps of major singers that arose after the first book's publication in 1985 -- artists such as...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-08-04
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The term 'world music' encompasses both folk and popular music across the globe, as well as the sounds of cultural encounter and diversity, sacred voices raised in worship, local sounds, and universal values. It emerged as an invention of the West from encounters with...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-07-23
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The term 'world music' encompasses both folk and popular music across the globe, as well as the sounds of cultural encounter and diversity, sacred voices raised in worship, local sounds, and universal values. It emerged as an invention of the West from encounters with...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-07-23
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Bach has remained a figure of continuous fascination and interest to scholars and readers since the original Master MusiciansBach volume's publication in 1983 - even since its revision in 2000, understanding ofBach and his music's historical and cultural context has...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-07-10
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Despite the ups and downs of his personal life and professional career-even in the face of deafness-Beethoven remained remarkably consistent in his most basic convictions about his art. This inner consistency, the music historian Mark Evan Bonds argues, provides the key...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-07-01
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"A literary phenomenon" The Times"Despentes' writing is intelligent, outspoken, witty, shocking, propulsive and streetwise" Times Literary SupplementTHE FINAL VOLUME IN THE EPIC ROCK AND ROLL TRILOGY BY CULT AUTHOR VIRGINIE DESPENTESAlthough it means leaving behind the...
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Maclehose Press
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2020-06-25
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The first edition of Albert R. Rice'sThe Baroque Clarinet is widely considered the authoritative text on the European clarinet during the first half of the eighteenth century. Since its publication in 1992, its conclusions have influenced the approaches of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-06-05
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One of the most popular and memorable American musicians of the 20th century, Nat King Cole (1919-65) is remembered today as both a pianist and a singer, a feat rarely accomplished in the world of popular music. Now, in this complete life and times biography, author...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-06-03
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Although hip hop culture has widely been acknowledged as a global cultural movement, little attention has been given to women’s participation in hip hop culture in various parts of the world or how this participation interacts with and impacts the lives of other women....
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-05-20
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A superbly insightful and moving exploration of Wagner's last opera, by one of Britain's leading intellectuals Wagner's last music-drama tells the story of Parsifal, the 'pure fool, knowing through compassion', who has been called to rescue the Kingdom of the Grail from...
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Penguin
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2020-05-07
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The ethnically and geographically heterogeneous countries that comprise Latin America have each produced music in unique styles and genres - but how and why have these disparate musical streams come to fall under the single category of "Latin American music"?...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-04-29
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Jazz has always been a genre built on the blending of disparate musical cultures. Latin jazz illustrates this perhaps better than any other style in this rich tradition, yet its cultural heritage has been all but erased from narratives of jazz history. Told from the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-04-28
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Il convegno di studi, che si è tenuto all’Università di Bonn e all’Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Colonia l’11 e il 12 dicembre 2015, per celebrare i 750 anni dalla nascita di Dante, ha tracciato, coralmente, il disegno dell’universo dantesco. Ogni intervento, quasi...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-04-27
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As a founding father of bebop and brilliant jazz improviser, Charlie Parker has secured a reputation and legacy second to none since his birth nearly 100 years ago. Because of his excellence as an improviser, however, his compositions - while admired and still played -...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-04-16
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It was as if American television audiences discovered the musical in the early 21st century. In 2009 Glee took the Fox Network and American television by storm with the unexpected unification of primetime programming, awkward teens, and powerful voices spontaneously...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-04-01
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Overturning the inherited belief that popular music is unrefined, Form as Harmony in Rock Music brings the process-based approach of classical theorists to popular music scholarship. Author Drew Nobile offers the first comprehensive theory of form for 1960s, 70s, and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-04-01
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