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Throughout his life, German-Jewish composer Kurt Weill was fascinated by the idea of America. His European works depict America as a Capitalist dystopia. But in 1935, it became clear that Europe was no longer safe for Weill, and he set sail for New World, and his...
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Oxford University Press
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2021-03-27
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Before Antonín Dvo%rák's New World Symphony became one of the most universally beloved pieces of classical music, it exposed the deep wounds of racism at the dawn of the Jim Crow era while serving as a flashpoint in broader debates about the American ideals of freedom...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-03-12
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Drawing on the concept of hypermediacy from media studies, this book situates opera within the larger context of contemporary media practices, and particularly those that play up the multiplicity, awareness and enjoyment of media. It is driven by the underlying question...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-02-15
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There are many biographies and histories of early country music and its creators, but surprisingly little attention has been given to the actual songs at the heart of these narratives. In this groundbreaking book, music historian Tony Russell turns the spotlight on...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-02-01
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An updated new edition of Ted Gioia's universally acclaimed history of jazz, with a wealth of new insight on this music's past, present, and future.
Ted Gioia's The History of Jazz has been universally hailed as the most comprehensive and accessible history of the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-02-01
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In diesem Open-Access-Buch widmet sich Anna Maria Olivari der Forschungslücke der Vertonung von Thomas Manns Doktor Faustus. Sie untersucht ein Korpus von 13 unterschiedlichen Kompositionen aus dem Bereich der Neuen Musik (Opern, Monodramen, instrumentale Werke), die...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2021-01-22
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„Wo die Sprache aufhört, fängt die Musik an.“ Was der Dichterkomponist E. T. A. Hoffmann aussprach, verfolgen die in diesem Band versammelten Essays zunächst an literarischen Beispielen: Schiller, Tieck, Hölderlin, Balzac, Jahnn und anderen. Die Perspektive ist...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2021-01-15
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As children, many of us learn to sing, "If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands." But despite the familiarity of this tune, few of us realize that what we're singing is actually part of a pervasive - and centuries-old - musical scheme. This particular pattern,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-01-14
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Iconic drummer Stephen Morris presses play once more to the tune of the long-awaited second volume of memoirs . . .Poised on the brink of success, the dizzying heights of the unknown lying ahead, Ian Curtis had taken his own life. Grieving yet determined, Stephen Morris...
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Constable
Parution :
2020-12-03
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Ignaz Franz von Beecke (1733–1803), von den Zeitgenossen gefeierter Pianist und Komponist, diente zeitlebens dem fürstlichen Haus Oettingen-Wallerstein. Geboren in Wimpfen/Neckar, formierte Beecke als Intendant der Hofmusik die Wallersteiner Hofkapelle zu einem der...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2020-11-30
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Musik in Baden-Württemberg | Quellen und Studien
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Der vorliegende Doppeljahrgang ist ein Abbild der reichen und vielfältigen Musikkultur Baden-Württembergs. Die geschichtliche Bandbreite reicht vom 17. Jahrhundert bis in die Gegenwart. Insgesamt 29 Autorinnen und Autoren haben zur mehrhundertjährigen Musikgeschichte...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2020-11-03
Collection :
Musik in Baden-Württemberg. Jahrbuch
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By the bestselling author of Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock ‘n’ Roll and Last Train the Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley, this dazzling new book of profiles is a culmination of Peter Guralnick’s remarkable work, which from the...
Editeur :
Little, Brown and Company
Parution :
2020-10-27
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Please note: this edition is text only and does not contain images.The most in-depth exploration of Springsteen's songs ever written.Spanning nearly 50 years of albums, EPs, B-sides, and more, this is the full story behind every single song that The Boss has ever...
Editeur :
Mitchell Beazley
Parution :
2020-10-06
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'I see my story as a suite of songs that have a magical connection. I never understood that connection until I sat down to write. It was then that the magic started to flow.'Let Love Rule is a work of deep reflection. Lenny Kravitz looks back at his life with candor,...
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Sphere
Parution :
2020-10-06
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Most priests take confessions. This one is giving his.'The most hotly anticipated hard-rock autobiography of the year''Rob Halford has written one of the most candid and surprising memoirs of the year. . . Confess is a riproaring tale, a funny, often shocking and...
Editeur :
Headline
Parution :
2020-09-29
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Opera has always been a vital and complex mixture of commercial and aesthetic concerns, of bourgeois politics and elite privilege. In its long heyday in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it came to occupy a special place not only among the arts but in urban...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-09-18
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The Panama Canal is a world-famous site central to the global economy, but the social, cultural, and political history of the country along this waterway is little known outside its borders. In Música Típica, author Sean Bellaviti sheds light on a key element...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-09-17
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**THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**'Astonishing... precisely crafted, emotionally-sucker-punching prose.' Daily Telegraph'Dangerous, immediate and lyrical from the jump.' Wall Street JournalHOLLYWOOD PARK is a remarkable memoir of a tumultuous life. Mikel Jollett...
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Sceptre
Parution :
2020-09-17
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The Beatles landing in New York in February 1964 was the opening shot in a cultural revolution nobody predicted. Suddenly the youth of the richest, most powerful nation on earth was trying to emulate the music, manners and the modes of a rainy island that had recently...
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Transworld Digital
Parution :
2020-09-17
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Updated for paperback with a brand new chapter on Parrot Cay Island. Legendary Iron Maiden guitarist takes you to the final frontier of fishing. Welcome to the world of Adrian Smith, playing onstage to millions of fans - while behind the scenes he explores far-flung...
Editeur :
Virgin Digital
Parution :
2020-09-03
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