Music
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Jarmila Novotná: My Life in Song [Hardback]
Jarmila Novotná (Author); William V. Madison (Editor); Brian Kellow (Author)
£30.50ISBN: 9780813176116
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
A legendary beauty, hailed as one of the greatest singing actors of her time, Jarmila Novotná (1907-1994) was an internationally known opera soprano from the former Czechoslovakia. Best known for her performances in Der Rosenkavalier, The Marriag... .... Learn More -
American Music Documentary: Five Case Studies of Ciné-Ethnomusicology [Paperback]
Benjamin J. Harbert (Author)
£20.50ISBN: 9780819578013
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Music/Interview
Documentary filmmakers have been making films about music for a half-century. American Music Documentary looks at five key films to begin to imagine how we might produce, edit, and watch films from an ethnomusicological point of view. Reconsiderin... .... Learn More -
Animal Musicalities: Birds, Beasts, and Evolutionary Listening [Hardback]
Rachel Mundy (Author)
£21.95ISBN: 9780819578068
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Music/Culture
Over the past century and a half, the voices and bodies of animals have been used by scientists and music experts as a benchmark for measures of natural difference. Animal Musicalities traces music’s taxonomies from Darwin to digital bird guides t... .... Learn More -
American Music Documentary: Five Case Studies of Ciné-Ethnomusicology [Hardback]
Benjamin J. Harbert (Author)
£62.95ISBN: 9780819578006
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Music/Interview
Documentary filmmakers have been making films about music for a half-century. American Music Documentary looks at five key films to begin to imagine how we might produce, edit, and watch films from an ethnomusicological point of view. Reconsiderin... .... Learn More -
Music & Camp [Hardback]
Christopher Moore (Editor); Philip Purvis (Editor)
£62.95ISBN: 9780819577818
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Music/Culture
This collection of essays provides the first in-depth examination of camp as it relates to a wide variety of twentieth and twenty-first century music and musical performances. Located at the convergence of popular and queer musicology, the book p... .... Learn More -
Music & Camp [Paperback]
Christopher Moore (Editor); Philip Purvis (Editor)
£20.50ISBN: 9780819577825
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Music/Culture
This collection of essays provides the first in-depth examination of camp as it relates to a wide variety of twentieth and twenty-first century music and musical performances. Located at the convergence of popular and queer musicology, the book p... .... Learn More -
Puccini's Soundscapes: Realism and Modernity in Italian Opera [Paperback]
Arman Schwartz (Author)
£22.00ISBN: 9788822264473
Published by : Olschki
From the bells in Tosca and the birdcalls in Madame Butterfly to the horns and sirens in Il tabarro and the music box melodies that inspired Turandot, Puccini’s operas rely to an unprecedented degree on realistic and seemingly unmediated acoustic ... .... Learn More -
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)
£62.95ISBN: 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)
£20.50ISBN: 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
