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The Politics of Appropriation uncovers a largely forgotten chapter in music history by considering the intersection of music and Hellenism in nineteenth-century Germany. While the influence of Greece on the literature, art, architecture, and philosophy of this period...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-01-03
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The volume includes detailed studies concerning various aspects of the musical culture of Silesia from the fifteenth to mid-eighteenth centuries.The authors, who represent academic centres in Poland, Czech Republic, Germany, Slovakia, Holland, France and Great Britain,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-19
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Die Musikgeschichten von Hawkins, Burney und Forkel nehmen in der breitenwirksamen Vermittlung musikästhetischer Kategorien in der Aufklärungszeit einen zentralen Platz ein, da ihre Bücher explizit auf eine weite Leserschaft abzielen. Ziel des Buches ist es, Strömungen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-15
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February, 1940: After a decade of worldwide depression, World War II had begun in Europe and Asia. With Germany on the march, and Japan at war with China, the global crisis was in a crescendo. America's top songwriter, Irving Berlin, had captured the nation's mood a...
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PublicAffairs
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2013-11-05
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In diesem Buch werden die aserbaidschanische Musikkultur im 20. Jahrhundert und die Rezeption westlicher Musik aus dem Kontext des aserbaidschanischen Bewusstseins heraus untersucht. Unter anderem wird den historisch tief verankerten musikalischen Formen und Inhalten...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-05
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Do you enjoy listening to music while driving?Do you find radio traffic information indispensable?Do you like to sing along with whatever you like as you drive?
This book tells the fascinating story of how, over the course of the twentieth century, we turned...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-11-01
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This is the second of a two-volume study of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Taking into account the vast increase in our knowledge of the composer due to the Bach scholarship of the last sixty years, Richard Jones presents a vivid and in some respects radically new...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-10-17
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Unruly Media argues that we are the crest of a new international style in which sonic and visual parameters become heightened and accelerated. This audiovisual turn calls for new forms of attention. Post-classical cinema, with its multi-plot narratives and flashy style,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-09-19
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Winner of the 2015 Robert M. Stevenson Award from the American Musicological Society
In Representing the Good Neighbor: Music, Difference, and the Pan American Dream, Carol A. Hess investigates the reception of Latin American art music in the US during the twentieth...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-09-16
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Details of Consequence examines a trait that is taken for granted and rarely investigated in fin-de-siècle French music: ornamental extravagance. Considering why such composers as Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Gabriel Fauré, Igor Stravinsky, and Erik Satie, turned...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-09-11
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The future of modern music began in Dusseldorf in 1970, when an avant-garde German band, the Organisation re-invented themselves as Kraftwerk and set in motion a train of events which introduced a whole new language into popular culture. By pre-dating electro, house,...
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Ebury Digital
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2013-08-31
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Rethinking Britten offers a fresh portrait of one of the most widely performed composers of the 20th century. In twelve essays, a diverse group of contributors--both established authorities and leading younger voices--explore a significant portion of Benjamin Britten's...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-07-30
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Typically regarded as reflecting on a culture in social, political, or psychological crisis, the arts in fin-de-siècle Vienna had another side: they were means by which creative individuals imagined better futures and perfected worlds dawning with the turn of the...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-07-30
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Hipness has been an indelible part of America's intellectual and cultural landscape since the 1940s. But the question What is hip? remains a kind of cultural koan, equally intriguing and elusive.
In Dig, Phil Ford argues that while hipsters have always used clothing,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-07-16
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The 1960s saw the emergence in the Netherlands of a generation of avant-garde musicians (including figures such as Louis Andriessen, Willem Breuker, Reinbert de Leeuw and Misha Mengelberg) who were to gain international standing and influence as composers, performers...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-07-15
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Although military music was among the most widespread forms of music making during the nineteenth-century, it has been almost totally overlooked by music historians. Music & the British Military in the Long Nineteenth Century however, shows that military bands...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-07-05
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William Kinderman's detailed study of Parsifal, described by the composer as his "last card," explores the evolution of the text and music of this inexhaustible yet highly controversial music drama across Wagner's entire career, and offers a reassessment of the...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-07-02
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Listen to David Hesmondhalgh discuss the arguments at the core of 'Why Music Matters' with Laurie Taylor on BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed here: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03q9q2n/Thinking_Allowed_Why_Music_Matters_Bhangra_and_Belonging/ In what ways might music...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-06-25
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When people hear the name "Clooney," they automatically think of George Clooney, one of Hollywood's biggest stars. But it was his aunt Rosemary who first catapulted the name into bright lights with a string of hit songs in the 1950s and a starring role alongside Bing...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-06-17
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"God Bless America" is a song most Americans know well. It is taught in American schools and regularly performed at sporting events. After the attacks on September 11th, it was sung on the steps of the Capitol, at spontaneous memorial sites, and during the seventh...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-06-11
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