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The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies offers a full overview of the histories, practices, and critical and theoretical foundations of the rapidly changing landscape of screendance. Drawing on their practices, technologies, theories, and philosophies, scholars from...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-06-03
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In Shapes of American Ballet: Teachers and Training before Balanchine, Jessica Zeller introduces the first few decades of the twentieth century as an often overlooked, yet critical period for ballet's growth in America. While George Balanchine is often considered the...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-06-01
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Istanbul is home to a multimillion dollar transnational music industry, which every year produces thousands of digital music recordings, including widely distributed film and television show soundtracks. Today, this centralized industry is responding to a growing global...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-06-01
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Singing God's Words is the first in-depth study of the experience and meaning of chanting or "reading" Torah among contemporary American Jews. This experience has been transformed dramatically in recent years by the impact of digital technology, feminism, the...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-06-01
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Watching Jazz: Encounters with Jazz Performance on Screen is the first systematic study of jazz on screen media. Where earlier studies have focused almost entirely on the role and portrayal of jazz in Hollywood film, the present book engages with a plethora of...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-05-31
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The bestselling guide now updated with video demonstrations and audio tracks onlineThe guitar is one of the most versatile instruments in the world, which is why it's so appealing to musicians. Guitar For Dummies, 4th Edition gives you everything a beginning or...
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For Dummies
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2016-05-27
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A "radiantly accomplished" (Wall Street Journal) music scholar presents an accessible introduction to the art of listening to jazz In How to Listen to Jazz, award-winning music scholar Ted Gioia presents a lively introduction to one of America's premier...
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Basic Books
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2016-05-17
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Rich Cohen enters the Stones epic as a young journalist on the road with the band and quickly falls under their sway - privy to the jokes, the camaraderie, the bitchiness, the hard living. Inspired by a lifelong appreciation of the music that borders on obsession,...
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Headline
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2016-05-10
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'A thorough, objective telling of McCartney's story - in and out of the most famous band ever.' ESQUIREThe first biography written with McCartney's approval and with access to family members and friends closest to him.In 2013, Sir Paul McCartney granted Philip Norman...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2016-05-05
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This book is about how music "in a key" is composed. Further, it is about how such music was composed when it was no longer compulsory to do so, starting a few years before the First World War. In an eclectic journey through the history of compositional technique,...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-05-02
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After their military defeat by the Florentines in the mid-sixteenth century, the citizens of Siena turned from politics to celebratory, social occasions to express their civic identity and show their capacity for collective action. In the first major work of its kind,...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-05-02
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A spectacular musical and scientific journey from the Bronx to the cosmic horizon that reveals the astonishing links between jazz, science, Einstein, and Coltrane “I’ll forever be grateful to musician/physicist Stephon...
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Basic Books
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2016-04-26
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Was verbindet Wolframs von Eschenbach Versepos Parzival, Richard Wagners Oper Parsifal und Mozarts/da Pontes Oper Don Giovanni? Alle drei Werke sind wichtige Prätexte für Julian Schuttings Gralslicht, ein idealtypisches Beispiel für gekonntes postmodernes Spiel mit...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-04-22
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Bach & God explores the religious character of Bach's vocal and instrumental music in seven interrelated essays. Noted musicologist Michael Marissen offers wide-ranging interpretive insights from careful biblical and theological scrutiny of the librettos. Yet he...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-04-20
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Dance intersects with ethnicity in a powerful variety of ways and at a broad set of venues.Dance practices and attitudes about ethnicity have sometimes been the source of outright discord, as when African Americans were - and sometimes still are - told that their bodies...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-04-20
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The Gesamtkunstwerk ('total work of art'), once a key concept in Wagner studies, has become problematic. This book sheds light on this conundrum by first tracing the development of the concept in the 19th century through selected examples, some of which include...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-04-15
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'Unflinching, forthright and full of wry humour as the man himself, and there's little praise greater than that' CLASSIC ROCK'Wall's vision of Lemmy as a Rock'n'Roll stalwart who made no concessions is vivid to the last' GUARDIANIn 'The Ace of Spades', Motörhead's most...
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Orion
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2016-04-14
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Die vorliegende Lebenschronik Richard Wagners, die erste seit Jahrzehnten, zeichnet Leben und Schaffen umfangreich Tag für Tag, Monat für Monat, Jahr für Jahr in seinem wechselvollen Gang mit allen Höhen und Tiefen auf.Die Datenfolgen werden angereichert durch...
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J.B. Metzler
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2016-04-11
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Der Band thematisiert die konfliktbeladenen Entwicklungen in der argentinischen Erinnerungskultur und vergangenheitspolitische Debatten über die letzte Militärdiktatur (1976–1983). Er enthält disziplinenübergreifende Beiträge aus Deutschland und Argentinien.
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-04-08
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