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Acoustic Profiles: An Acoustic Ecology of the Cinema

Acoustic Profiles: An Acoustic Ecology of the Cinema...

Author: Randolph Jordan (Lecturer in the Humanities, Lecturer in the Humanities, Champlain College St-Lambert, Montreal)
ISBN: 9780190226077
Format: Hardback
$209.00

In Acoustic Profiles, author Randolph Jordan proposes a new model for image-sound analysis that incorporates the...  Read More >>

Avant-Garde on Record: Musical Responses to Stereos

Avant-Garde on Record: Musical Responses to Stereos...

Author: Jonathan Goldman (Université de Montréal)
ISBN: 9781009363396
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Largely focusing on avant-garde composers active in the 1950s and 60s, this book highlights their engagement with...  Read More >>

Lieder in America: On Stages and In Parlors

Lieder in America: On Stages and In Parlors

Author: Heather Platt
ISBN: 9780252087592
Format: Paperback
$68.99

Lieder and the rise of song recital in the United States, 1850–1914 Though viewed as quintessentially German, lieder...  Read More >>

Fanfare for a City: Music and the Urban Imagination in Haussmann’s Paris

Fanfare for a City: Music and the Urban Imagination...

Author: Jacek Blaszkiewicz
ISBN: 9780520393479
Format: Hardback
$107.95

"Fanfare for a City invites us to listen to the sounds of Paris during the Second Empire (1852–1870), a regime that...  Read More >>

Fortune and Folly: The Weird and Wonderful Life of the South's Most Eccentric Millionaire

Fortune and Folly: The Weird and Wonderful Life of the...

Author: Sara A H Butler ,  Tiffany Morgan
ISBN: 9798874682347
Format: Audio
$176.85

"Briarcliff Mansion and the land it occupies are owned by Emory University, which refers to it as its ""Briarcliff...  Read More >>

Schubert: A Musical Wayfarer

Schubert: A Musical Wayfarer

Author: Lorraine Byrne Bodley ,  Christa Lewis
ISBN: 9798212961004
Format: Audio
$269.25

An insightful biography of the great composer, revealing Schubert’s complex and fascinating private life alongside...  Read More >>

Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song

Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed...

Author: Judith Tick ,  Carmen Jewel Jones
ISBN: 9798874637446
Format: Audio
$269.25

A landmark biography that reclaims Ella Fitzgerald as a major American artist and modernist innovator  Read More >>

Lieder in America: On Stages and In Parlors

Lieder in America: On Stages and In Parlors

Author: Heather Platt
ISBN: 9780252045486
Format: Hardback
$285.00

Lieder and the rise of song recital in the United States, 1850–1914 Though viewed as quintessentially German, lieder...  Read More >>

Zitate der Musik: Aphorismen und Gedankeng�nge der ber�hmtesten Musiker aller Zeiten In englischer & deutscher Sprache

Zitate der Musik: Aphorismen und Gedankeng�nge der ber�hmtesten...

Author: Philipp A Schwarz
ISBN: 9798376363393
Format: Paperback
$52.56

Entdecken Sie die Weisheiten der bekanntesten Musiker! Sie m�chten sich weiterbilden oder interessieren sich f�r...  Read More >>

Musik Und Ihre Gesellschaftliche Bedeutung in Den Staats- Und Postsozialistischen Landern Mittel- Und Osteuropas Seit 1945

Musik Und Ihre Gesellschaftliche Bedeutung in Den Staats-...

Author: Rudiger Ritter
ISBN: 9783447121132
Format: Paperback
$295.68

Fur die Kulturpolitiker der Ostblockstaaten war Musik in herrschaftspolitischer Hinsicht viel zu bedeutend, als...  Read More >>

The Management of Opera (1861-1918): Theatres of the Eastern Adriatic

The Management of Opera (1861-1918): Theatres of the...

Author: Dr. Cristina Scuderi ,  Hugh Ward-Perkins
ISBN: 9783205216520
Format: Hardback
$240.24

The Management of Opera. Eastern Adriatic Theatres (1861-1918) reconstructs the complex system of operatic production...  Read More >>

Little Richard's Here's Little Richard

Little Richard's Here's Little Richard

Author: Jordan Bassett (NME, UK)
ISBN: 9781501389115
Format: Paperback
$19.99

From male bisexuality to religion in pop, Little Richard spent the 1950s pioneering ideas that are still too challenging...  Read More >>

k.d. lang's Ingénue

k.d. lang's Ingénue

Author: Joanna McNaney Stein (CUNY, Kingsborough Community College, USA)
ISBN: 9781501389191
Format: Paperback
$21.99

"""The story of the album that finally brought the spirited, talented Canadian vocalist out and into the spotlight""--"...  Read More >>

The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music

The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal...

Author: Tom Breihan
ISBN: 9780306826542
Format: Paperback
$32.99

Beloved music critic Tom Breihan's fascinating narrative of the history of popular music through the lens of game-changing...  Read More >>

Fusion Jazz-Juwelen: 25 Musikreisen im Jazzrock

Fusion Jazz-Juwelen: 25 Musikreisen im Jazzrock

Author: L C Wizard
ISBN: 9783757845551
Format: Paperback
$60.46

Fusion Jazz - auch Jazzrock oder kurz Fusion genannt - ist eine aufregende und zeitlose Musikrichtung, in der sich...  Read More >>

Kiss at 50

Kiss at 50

Author: Martin Popoff
ISBN: 9780760381823
Format: Hardback
$69.99

With this beautifully produced book, relive the extraordinary history of the of the hottest band in the land through...  Read More >>

Haunted Soundtracks: Audiovisual Cultures of Memory, Landscape, and Sound

Haunted Soundtracks: Audiovisual Cultures of Memory,...

Author: Professor Kevin J. Donnelly (Staffordshire University, UK) ,  Dr. Aimee Mollaghan (subject lead for Film, Queen's University, Belfast, UK)
ISBN: 9781501389559
Format: Hardback
$180.00

"""An examination of the relationship between audiovisual soundtracks and the ""sonic haunting"" of trauma, anxiety,...  Read More >>

The Jam: Every Album, Every Song

The Jam: Every Album, Every Song

Author: Stan Jeffries
ISBN: 9781789522990
Format: Paperback
$41.37

From the band’s first single, ‘In The City’ in April 1977, to their last, ‘Beat Surrender’ in November 1982, The...  Read More >>

Il Mio Amico Per La Pelle: Autobiograa dello storico paroliere, autore, manager e produttore discografico di Celentano

Il Mio Amico Per La Pelle: Autobiograa dello storico...

Author: Percy Balzuniga ,  Mgcreative Communication
ISBN: 9788894773231
Format: Paperback
$54.30

Un libro di memorie che � la storia di una grande amicizia. Miki Del Prete � l'autore delle pi� famose canzoni di...  Read More >>

Amazing Grace: A Cultural History of the Beloved Hymn

Amazing Grace: A Cultural History of the Beloved Hymn...

Author: James Walvin
ISBN: 9780520391826
Format: Hardback
$32.95

"A fascinating journey through the history of ""Amazing Grace,"" one of the transatlantic world's most popular hymns...  Read More >>

Bernstein and Robbins: The Early Ballets

Bernstein and Robbins: The Early Ballets

Author: Sophie Redfern
ISBN: 9781648250804
Format: Paperback
$92.27

The formative early ballets of West Side Story creators Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbins explored in detail...  Read More >>

Political Dreams and Musical Themes in the 1848–1922 Formation of Czechoslovakia: Interaction of National and Global Forces

Political Dreams and Musical Themes in the 1848–1922...

Author: James W. Peterson ,  William J. Peterson
ISBN: 9781666925197
Format: Hardback
$169.00

This book characterizes the 1918-22 formation of Czechoslovakia as an effect of political and musical expressions....  Read More >>

The Tremeloes - Even The Bad Times Are Good!

The Tremeloes - Even The Bad Times Are Good!

Author: Peter Checksfield
ISBN: 9798868316814
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Famously signed to Decca instead of The Beatles, Brian Poole and The Tremeloes spent four years topping the charts,...  Read More >>

The Materiality of Sound in Chant Manuscripts in the West: Scriptor, Cantor & Notator (Volume I)

The Materiality of Sound in Chant Manuscripts in the...

Author: Elsa de Luca ,  Ivan Moody
ISBN: 9782503606149
Format: Paperback
$327.36

Scriptor, Cantor & Notator is an innovative multi-author project dealing with the complex interconnections between...  Read More >>

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