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Headline
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2024-05-14
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Music and Cosmopolitanism is a musical portrait of a city-Rio de Janeiro. Award-winning author Cristina Magaldi takes readers on an auditory tour through the city's early post-Imperial years, a period of crucial transition, as she surveys the city's variegated...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-05-14
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The Groovology of White Affect theorizes white aesthetics and race formation in South Africa from a position immersed in the sonic. Mining boeremusiek’s “heart-speech” across two centuries of reception, the book offers a theory of race formation...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-05-13
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The Oxford Handbook of Community Singing embraces an open-ended interpretation of socio-musical practices that can be described with the term community singing.The volume exemplifies community singing as an interdisciplinary field of study that encompasses diverse...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-05-10
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Fearlessly jump and fall into the world of Taylor Swift with this illustrated appreciation of her music by Swiftian Theory co-founder Satu Hämeenaho-Fox.This is the book for all Swifties of every era, and the perfect gift for the Taylor Swift fan in your life.Get ready...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2024-05-09
ePub
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Giving Satan Tinnitus Since 1973. Jacked up to the max with plenty of juice left to squeeze, AC/DC can still ignite their excitable audiences with their supercharged, power-cord hungry rock, even in 2023. This Little Guide to AC/DC is the ultimate,...
Editeur :
OH
Parution :
2024-05-09
ePub
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"The author's love for her mother burns beneath every sentence, illuminating the story from within. An overdue tribute to an underappreciated icon."--Oprah Daily A long-awaited, myth-busting, and deeply affecting memoir by the daughter of legendary...
Editeur :
Da Capo
Parution :
2024-05-07
ePub
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With flashing lights, bright colors, and big money, game shows have been an integral part of American culture since the days of radio. While the music that accompanies game shows is charming and catchy, it presents two unique, opposing challenges: first, it must exhibit...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-04-30
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Insurgent Fandom offers a behind-the-scenes look at a transnational subculture known to few--ultra. As the most dedicated soccer fans, ultras support their team through collective singing, jumping, flag-waving, and lighting marine flares. While some characterize ultras...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-04-30
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When we talk about a jazz "standard" we usually mean one of the many songs that jazz musicians repeatedly play as part of their core repertoire. But unlike musical works in the tradition of so-called classical music, standards--whether plucked from the "Great American...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-04-26
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Since the 1990s, migrant musicians have become increasingly prominent in New York City's jazz scene. Challenging norms about who can be a jazz musician and what immigrant music should sound like, these musicians create mobile and diverse notions of jazz while...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-04-23
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Alfonso X (1221-84) ruled over the Crown of Castile from 1252 until his death. Known as "the Wise," he oversaw the production of a wealth of literature in his scriptorium. One of the most impressive of these literary outputs is the collection of songs known as the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-04-23
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In today's technological and globalised world, music remains a basic dimension of society. Music, Encounter, Togetherness outlines a relational approach to music that creates space for both human agency and social relationship. Throughout the book, author Nicholas Cook...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-04-23
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You don't have to be a jazz expert to give your students a great introduction to improvisation.
The Classroom Guide to Jazz Improvisation provides what music educators have sought for decades: an easy, step-by-step guide to teaching jazz improvisation in the music...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-04-23
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In this valuable resource guide for both beginners and professionals, veteran songwriter, producer, arranger, vocalist, music director, and educator Larry D. Batiste shares practical advice and tips from his decades of experience in ways that are bound to help all...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-04-23
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Searching for the Origins of the Portuguese Waltzes is a collection of narratives depicting a six-year quest to discover the roots of a piece of traditional music played in St. John’s, Newfoundland: the Portuguese Waltzes. Through interviews, research, and observations,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-04-16
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Surveying the impact of Cuba's economic crisis after the demise of the eastern socialist block, this book documents a relatively unexplored transnational network of collaborations among Cuban musicians that migrated to many different countries from the 1990s forward....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-04-12
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Simon Reynolds's first book in eight years is a celebration of music that feels like a taste of tomorrow. Sounds that prefigure pop music's future - the vanguard genres and heroic innovators whose discoveries eventually get accepted by the wider mass audience. But it's...
Editeur :
White Rabbit
Parution :
2024-04-11
ePub
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***A FINALIST FOR THE 2025 SOUTHERN BOOK PRIZE*** THE FIRST BIOGRAPHY OF THE THRIVING AND INFLUENTIAL ROCK SCENE IN CHAPEL HILL, WHICH GAVE THE WORLD ARTISTS LIKE BEN FOLDS FIVE, SUPERCHUNK, AND SQUIRREL NUT ZIPPERS North Carolina has always produced extraordinary music...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2024-04-09
ePub
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A transporting voyage of archaeological discovery: Sound Tracks unearths instruments from around the world and across time, releasing the past's musical secrets for the first time.**SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE 2025**‘A thrilling journey into the...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2024-04-04
ePub
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