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Signifying Rappers is a fun and quirky discovery for any fan of David Foster Wallace or Hip-hop.Signifying Rappers is an old-school classic from David Foster Wallace and his friend and room-mate Mark Costello, first published in 1990, long out of print, and previously...
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Penguin
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2013-08-01
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The Art of Music Production is the first book to comprehensively analyze and describe the role of the music producer in creating successful music recordings. Now in its fourth edition, it is the definitive guide to the art and business of music production.
Author and...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-08-01
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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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David Foster Wallace and Mark Costello's exuberant exploration of rap music and culture. Living together in Cambridge in 1989,David Foster Wallace and longtime friend Mark Costello discovered that they shared "an uncomfortable, somewhat furtive, and distinctively white...
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Little, Brown and Company
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2013-07-23
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Wie haben sich Naturwissenschaftler des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts – darunter Newton, Leibniz und Euler – mit musikalischen Fragen beschäftigt? Die junge Physik tritt damals neben die Mathematik, welche seit der Antike eng mit der musikalischen Elementarlehre verbunden...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-07-19
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Singers must equip themselves with enough knowledge to clearly convey specific sensations and difficulties with their instrument. Understanding of potential dangers and disorders, familiarity with a variety of medical procedures, and comprehension in various facets of...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-07-18
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Edward MacDowell was born on the eve of the Civil War into a Quaker family in lower Manhattan, where music was a forbidden pleasure. With the help of Latin-American émigré teachers, he became a formidable pianist and composer, spending twelve years in France and Germany...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-07-17
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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
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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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Trotz der umfangreichen Spezialliteratur, die in den letzten 160 Jahren über das Werk der Dichterin Annette von Droste-Hülshoff entstanden ist, findet man eher wenige Titel die ihre Verskunst und ihre Kompositionen sowie ihre Vertonungen von Gedichten behandeln und die...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-07-02
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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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You probably know Simon Napier-Bell as the manager of the Yardbirds. Or you may know him as the man who managed Marc Bolan, or Japan.You should definitely know him as the man who managed Wham! And if none of these rings a bell, maybe you'll remember him as the man who...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
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2013-06-30
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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...
Editeur :
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
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2013-06-17
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A musician's life is filled with many stressful situations: passing auditions, rehearsing and performing with difficult partners, sitting for long hours in uncomfortable chairs, going on stage to face audiences large and small, who may or may not be receptive to the...
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Oxford University Press
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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
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2013-06-11
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Mozart's Ghosts traces the many lives of this great composer that emerged following his early death in 1791. Crossing national boundaries and traversing two hundred years-worth of interpretation and reception, author Mark Everist investigates howMozart's past status can...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-06-11
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Anthony F. Jahn, MD, internationally acclaimed otolaryngologist and Director of Medical Services at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, offers a comprehensive guidebook on a wide range of health and disorders that affect the voice. A vital tool for singers, voice...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-06-11
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