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Just Beyond Listening: Essays of Sonic Encounter

Just Beyond Listening: Essays of Sonic Encounter

Author: Michael C. Heller
ISBN: 9780520350786
Format: Paperback
$49.95

Just Beyond Listening asks how we might think about encounters with sound that complicate standard accounts of aurality....  Read More >>

What a Difference a Day Makes: Women Who Conquered 1950s Music

What a Difference a Day Makes: Women Who Conquered 1950s...

Author: Steve Bergsman ,  Lillian Walker-Moss
ISBN: 9781496844965
Format: Hardback
$185.90

Highlights the Black female artists of the 1950s, a time that predated the chart-topping girl groups of the early...  Read More >>

All I Want Is Loving You: Popular Female Singers of the 1950s

All I Want Is Loving You: Popular Female Singers of...

Author: Steve Bergsman ,  Carol Connors
ISBN: 9781496840974
Format: Hardback
$185.90

Focuses on the white, female artists of the 1950s, a time that predated the chart-topping girl groups of the early...  Read More >>

Roots Punk: A Visual and Oral History

Roots Punk: A Visual and Oral History

Author: David A. Ensminger
ISBN: 9781496848413
Format: Hardback
$185.90

Punk rock evokes dissent and disruption, abrasive and anarchic musicality, and a host of countercultural aesthetics....  Read More >>

Blackbird: How Black Musicians Sang the Beatles into Being—and Sang Back to Them Ever After

Blackbird: How Black Musicians Sang the Beatles into...

Author: Katie Kapurch (Assistant Professor of English) ,  Jon Marc Smith (Senior Lecturer)
ISBN: 9780271095615
Format: Hardback
$228.00

Presents a history of the influence of Black musicians on the Beatles, exploring musical and storytelling legacies...  Read More >>

Transfigured New York: Interviews with Experimental Artists and Musicians, 1980-1990

Transfigured New York: Interviews with Experimental...

Author: Brooke Wentz
ISBN: 9780231210881
Format: Hardback
$65.95

Transfigured New York presents conversations with iconic, genre-bending artists who shaped the sounds of experimental...  Read More >>

Just Beyond Listening: Essays of Sonic Encounter

Just Beyond Listening: Essays of Sonic Encounter

Author: Michael C. Heller
ISBN: 9780520350779
Format: Hardback
$140.95

Just Beyond Listening asks how we might think about encounters with sound that complicate standard accounts of aurality....  Read More >>

Gesangsausbildung in Der Belcanto-Tradition

Gesangsausbildung in Der Belcanto-Tradition

Author: Carlos López Galarza
ISBN: 9786206673347
Format: Paperback
$124.08

Die Aufführung der Werke, die die italienische Belcanto-Tradition des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts ausmachen, beruhte...  Read More >>

Formação Vocal Na Tradição Do Bel Canto

Formação Vocal Na Tradição Do Bel Canto

Author: Carlos López Galarza
ISBN: 9786206673361
Format: Paperback
$124.08

A execução das obras que constituem a tradição do bel canto italiano durante os séculos XVIII e XIX baseava-se num...  Read More >>

Formazione Vocale Nella Tradizione del Bel Canto

Formazione Vocale Nella Tradizione del Bel Canto

Author: Carlos López Galarza
ISBN: 9786206673385
Format: Paperback
$124.08

L'esecuzione delle opere che costituiscono la tradizione del bel canto italiano durante il XVIII e il XIX secolo...  Read More >>

Migrations of Concepts: From Philosophical Text to Scene

Migrations of Concepts: From Philosophical Text to Scene...

Author: Rosario Diana
ISBN: 9782503605623
Format: Hardback
$282.48

Migrations of Concepts brings together the results of an experimental research on the migration of philosophical...  Read More >>

Between Centres and Peripheries: Music in Europe from the French Revolution to Wwi

Between Centres and Peripheries: Music in Europe from...

Author: Maria Encina Cortizo ,  Ivan Nommick
ISBN: 9782503608488
Format: Hardback
$446.16

This volume revisits the artificial and enormously limiting historiographical concepts of centre and periphery in...  Read More >>

The Pipe Organ: A Composer's Guide

The Pipe Organ: A Composer's Guide

Author: James Mitchell (Sub-Organist, Sub-Organist, Gloucester Cathedral)
ISBN: 9780197645284
Format: Hardback
$264.00

The organ is one of the oldest instruments in Western music, and its sound has inspired many of the greatest composers...  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 >>

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 >>

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