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 Marria... .... 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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Eight Lectures on Experimental Music [Hardback]
Alvin Lucier (Editor)
£18.50ISBN: 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)
£18.50ISBN: 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
