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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
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2020-04-29
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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
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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
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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
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2020-04-01
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The Pet Shop Boys are one of the most successful and unusual bands of the last five decades. They are the pop duo that proves pop music can be modern, ecstatic and playful as well as serious and intelligent, winning them legions of devoted fans throughout the world.In...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2020-03-19
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No other pop group in recent history has faced fame with such intelligence, humour and shrewdness as the Pet Shop Boys. In 1991, the band toured North America for the first time shadowed by journalist Chris Heath and legendary rock photographer Pennie Smith. They...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2020-03-19
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While she is best remembered today as founder of the Philadelphia Ballet and the director and driving force behind the famous Littlefield School of Ballet, from which Balanchine drew the nucleus for his School of American Ballet, Catherine Littlefield (1905-51) and her...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-03-03
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The Oxford Handbook of Music and Medievalism provides a snapshot of the diverse ways in which medievalism--the retrospective immersion in the images, sounds, narratives, and ideologies of the European Middle Ages--powerfully transforms many of the varied musical...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-03-02
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With the onset of modernity in twentieth-century India, new social arrangements gave rise to new forms of music-making. The musicians were no longer performing exclusively in the princely courts or in the private homes of the wealthy. Not only did the act of listening...
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OUP India
Parution :
2020-02-14
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Musical Solidarities: Political Action and Music in Late Twentieth-Century Poland is a music history of Solidarity, the social movement opposing state socialism in 1980s Poland. The story unfolds along crucial sites of political action under state socialism: underground...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-12-24
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With its rich but underappreciated musical heritage, Washington, D.C. is often overlooked as a cradle for punk, the birthplace of go go, and as the urban center for bluegrass in the Untied States. Capital Bluegrass: Hillbilly Music Meets Washington, D.C. richly...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-12-11
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The Evolution of Music by Culture and Science aims to recognise the impact of science on music, why it occurs, how we respond, and even to tentatively see if we can predict future developments. Technology has played an immense role in the development of music as it has...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-11-25
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A Rough Trade Book of the Year 'From lists to experiences and stories, there are no rules.A good song is a good song whoever writes it and however the writing happens.'Tim Burgess is a musical maverick and legend. Over the past three decades, he has cultivated a lyrical...
Editeur :
Constable
Parution :
2019-11-14
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Jimmy was a down-at-heel guitarist in New York, relying on his latest lovers to support him while he tried to emulate his hero Bob Dylan. A black guy playing white rock music, he wanted to be all things to all people.But whenJimmy arrived in England and became Jimi,...
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Trapeze
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2019-11-14
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Flea, the iconic bassist and co-founder, alongside Anthony Kiedis, of the immortal Red Hot Chili Peppers finally tells his fascinating origin story, complete with all the dizzying highs and the gutter lows you'd expect from an LA street rat turned world-famous rock...
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Headline
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2019-11-05
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The Age of Anxiety is a great rock novel, but that is one of the less important things about it.The narrator is a brilliant creation - cultured, witty and unreliable.The novel captures the craziness of the music business and displays Pete Townshend's sly sense of humour...
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Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2019-11-05
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA BOOK OFTHE YEAR PICK INTHE TIMES: 'Captivating'A ROUGH TRADE BOOK OFTHE YEAR: 'In-depth and inspiring''Beautifully compiled ... the perfect festival experience' SUNDAY TIMESGlastonbury 50 is the authorised, behind-the-scenes, inside story of...
Editeur :
Trapeze
Parution :
2019-10-31
Collection :
The Legacy Trilogy
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The perfect gift for any music lover . . . 'Hepworth has more insider knowledge and knows more rock anecdotes than any man alive'The Herald'Unmissable for music enthusiasts' Woman & HomeThe Rock and Roll A Level is here to rescue the pop quiz from the grip of bores who...
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Transworld Digital
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2019-10-17
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'The book is filled with that most distinctive of all her qualities: her voice' The TimesHome Work, the second instalment of Julie Andrews' internationally bestselling memoirs, begins with her arrival in Hollywood to make her screen debut in Walt Disney's Mary Poppins....
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2019-10-15
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