Music
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Antonio Vivaldi: A Life in Documents [Paperback]
Micky White (Author)
£30.00ISBN: 9788822262219
Published by : Olschki
Styling the biography of a major composer as a chronological series of original documents accompanied by ample commentaries, an idea pioneered in O.E. Deutsch’s Documentary Biography of Handel (1955), has the advantage of revealing with clarity an... .... Learn More -
Resonances of Chindon-ya: Sounding Space and Sociality in Contemporary Japan [Hardback]
Marié Abe (Author)
£80.00ISBN: 9780819577788
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Music/Culture
In this first book-length study of chindon-ya, Marié Abe investigates the intersection of sound, public space, and sociality in contemporary Japan. Chindon-ya, dating back to the 1840s, are ostentatiously costumed street musicians who publicize a ... .... Learn More -
Resonances of Chindon-ya: Sounding Space and Sociality in Contemporary Japan [Paperback]
Marié Abe (Author)
£26.00ISBN: 9780819577795
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Music/Culture
In this first book-length study of chindon-ya, Marié Abe investigates the intersection of sound, public space, and sociality in contemporary Japan. Chindon-ya, dating back to the 1840s, are ostentatiously costumed street musicians who publicize a ... .... Learn More -
Eight Lectures on Experimental Music [Hardback]
Alvin Lucier (Editor)
£23.00ISBN: 9780819577634
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
In this brilliant collection, path-breaking figures of American experimental music discuss the meaning of their work at the turn of the twenty-first century. Presented between 1989 and 2002 at Wesleyan University, these captivating lectures provid... .... Learn More -
Lineage of Loss: Counternarratives of North Indian Music [Paperback]
Max Katz (Author)
£23.00ISBN: 9780819577597
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Music/Culture
In the middle of the nineteenth century a new family of hereditary musicians emerged in the royal court of Lucknow and subsequently rose to the heights of renown throughout North India. Today this musical lineage, or ghar n , lives on in the music... .... Learn More -
Musical Ontology: A Guide for the Perplexed [Paperback]
Lisa Giombini (Author)
£14.00ISBN: 9788869771064
Published by : Mimesis International
This book introduces to the reader the subject of musical ontology by presenting it through different philosophical theories on the subject. By comparing these existing positions (such as mainstream ontological views, empirical stances, meta-ontol... .... Learn More -
The Kind of Man I Am: Jazzmasculinity and the World of Charles Mingus Jr. [Paperback]
Nichole Rustin-Paschal (Author)
£23.00ISBN: 9780819577566
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Music/Culture
Nearly four decades after his death, Charles Mingus Jr. remains one of the least understood and most recognized jazz composers and musicians of our time. Mingus’s ideas about music, racial identity, and masculinity—as well as those of other indivi... .... Learn More -
I Got a Song: A History of the Newport Folk Festival [Hardback]
Rick Massimo (Author)
£75.00ISBN: 9780819577023
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Music/Interview
The first-ever book exclusively devoted to the history of the Newport Folk Festival, I Got a Song documents the trajectory of an American musical institution that began more than a half-century ago and continues to influence our understanding of f... .... Learn More -
I Got a Song: A History of the Newport Folk Festival [Paperback]
Rick Massimo (Author)
£23.00ISBN: 9780819577030
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Music/Interview
The first-ever book exclusively devoted to the history of the Newport Folk Festival, I Got a Song documents the trajectory of an American musical institution that began more than a half-century ago and continues to influence our understanding of f... .... Learn More -
Theorizing Sound Writing [Paperback]
Deborah Kapchan (Author)
£27.00ISBN: 9780819576651
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Music/Culture
The study of listening—aurality—and its relation to writing is the subject of this eclectic edited volume. Theorizing Sound Writing explores the relationship between sound, theory, language, and inscription. This volume contains an impres... .... Learn More
