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Architecture books onlineIntroducing… our broad range of books on Architecture, Photography, Art Forms, Film TV & Radio, Dance and Performing Arts, Music and History of Art. In our Film TV & Radio section, we have many other sub-genres such as Books That Inspired Movies including Gone Girl, The Enigma, Fifty Shades of Grey and Foxcatcher. Our Music section includes biographies and sheet music of famous musicians past and present, international and Irish – Elvis, Taylor Swift, David Bowie, Bob Geldof, Ed Sheeran, One Direction, Bono and many more.

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paperback. In this book the author argues that human musical understanding is rooted in the traditions of culture and that experience of music depends crucially on what the individual brings to it. Series: Swansea Studies in Philosophy. Num Pages: 168 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AV; HPK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 227.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 1990
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349117383
ISBN
9781349117383
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 62.63

Paperback. Bringing together the most recent research on the Cultural Revolution in China, musicologists, historians, literary scholars, and others discuss the music and its political implications. Combined, these chapters, paint a vibrant picture of the long-lasting impact that the musical revolution had on ordinary citizens, as well as political leaders. Editor(s): Pang, Laikwan; Clark, Paul; Tsai, Tsan-Huang. Series: Chinese Literature and Culture in the World. Num Pages: 289 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AV; HBJF; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 374.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349565085
ISBN
9781349565085
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 111.99

Paperback. Listening through the Noise considers how the experience of listening to electronic music constitutes a departure from the expectations that have long governed music listening in the West. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGV; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 312.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Number of pages
248
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195387667
ISBN
9780195387667
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 60.93

Paperback. Using classical, popular, and avant-garde music as texts, this title addresses such questions as: why do bodies develop goose bumps when listening to music and why does music sound so good when heard 'all around'. It shows how the historical conditions under which music is created affect the listening experience. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1 b&w photograph, 65 musical examples. BIC Classification: AVA; JFC; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 17. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822319221
ISBN
9780822319221
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.48

paperback. Num Pages: 448 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APW; JFCA; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 222 x 146 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816644230
ISBN
9780816644230
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 22.94

Hardback. .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474411264
ISBN
9781474411264
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.58
€ 102.99

Hardback. With roots in popular music traditions, improvisation, and the avant-garde, this book provides a lens through which we can better understand the meaning and creation of the counterculture community. It examines the wider significance and impact of its politics of improvisation. Editor(s): Meriwether, Nicholas. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 3JM; AVC; AVGP; AVH; HBLX; HPCF; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520286641
ISBN
9780520286641
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.74
€ 73.01

Paperback. With roots in popular music traditions, improvisation, and the avant-garde, this title helps to understand the meaning and creation of the counter-culture community. It examines the wider significance and impact of its politics of improvisation. Editor(s): Meriwether, Nicholas. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 3JM; AVC; AVGP; AVH; HBLX; HPCF; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520286658
ISBN
9780520286658
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.74

Hardback. Links ideas about cultivated listening with other intellectual trends of the early seventeenth century: humanistic learning, contemplative listening (or watching) as an active spiritual practice, and musical mysticism as an ideal promoted by the Church as part of the Catholic Reformation. Num Pages: 235 pages, 2 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JD; AVGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458. 235 pages, Illustrations. Links ideas about cultivated listening with other intellectual trends of the early seventeenth century: humanistic learning, contemplative listening (or watching) as an active spiritual practice, and musical mysticism as an ideal promoted by the Church as part of the Catholic Reformation. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JD; AVGC. Dimension: 235 x 153 x 20. Weight: 458.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
235
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520269293
ISBN
9780520269293
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.08
€ 64.45

Paperback. Examines what the role of the listener is, and has been, through the centuries. The author explains his love of musical arrangement (since arrangements allow him to listen to someone listening to music), and wonders whether it is possible in other ways to convey to others how we ourselves listen to music. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 157 x 12. Weight in Grams: 292.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823228003
ISBN
9780823228003
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.21

Hardcover. This interdisciplinary collection, which brings together new research on a range of patristic and medieval texts and visual materials, sets the cultural transformation of early medieval Ireland and Britain in the context of these islands' inheritance from late antiquity and their engagement with the wider medieval world. Editor(s): Scully, Diarmuid; Mullins, Elizabeth. Num Pages: 486 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DBR; 3H; ACK; HBJD1; HBLC1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 237 x 163 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1002.
Edition
Illustrated
Publisher
Cork University Press Cork
Number of pages
486
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781859184660
ISBN
9781859184660
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.00
€ 38.37

Paperback. Includes a new chapter on John Cage. Alex Ross's award-winning international best-seller, 'The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century', has become a contemporary classic, establishing him as one of our most popular and acclaimed cultural historians; this is his much anticipated next book on the subject of music. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: AVC; AVGW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 144 x 26. Weight in Grams: 288.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007319077
ISBN
9780007319077
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.88

Paperback. Now in Paperback! Legendary music manager, Ron Weisner, finally shares his story of what it was like to work with Michael Jackson, Madonna, and Paul McCartney, among others, while also witnessing huge changes in the music industry Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: AVGP; BGFA; KNTF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 20.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781493008568
ISBN
9781493008568
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.26

Hardback. A high-powered music manager reflects on his forty-year career, working with Michael Jackson, Paul McCartney, and Madonna, his friendships with Gladys Knight, Quincy Jones, and Curtis Mayfield, and the huge, often detrimental changes he witnessed within the industry. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APB; AV; BGF; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 484.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780762791446
ISBN
9780762791446
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.88

Paperback. Arguing that pop music turns on moments rather than movements, this title includes essays that pinpoint magic moments from a century of pop eclecticism, looking at artists who fall between genre lines, songs that sponge up influences from everywhere, and studio accidents with unforeseen consequences. Editor(s): Weisbard, Eric. Num Pages: 336 pages, 13 photographs, 13 illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJ; AVGP; HBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 481.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822340416
ISBN
9780822340416
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.42

Hardback. Examines what the role of the listener is, and has been, through the centuries. The author explains his love of musical arrangement (since arrangements allow him to listen to someone listening to music), and wonders whether it is possible in other ways to convey to others how we ourselves listen to music. Translator(s): Mandell, Charlotte. Num Pages: 176 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 219 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 349.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823227990
ISBN
9780823227990
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.58

Hardback. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: AJB; AJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 347 x 307. .
Publisher
Steidl Publishers
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2018
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9783958291126
ISBN
9783958291126
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.48
€ 49.19

Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrated in colour. BIC Classification: AJB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 281 x 19. Weight in Grams: 950.
Publisher
GOST Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780957427297
ISBN
9780957427297
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 39.21

Hardcover.
Publisher
Gost Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780957427204
ISBN
9780957427204
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.91

Hardback. Num Pages: 160 pages, 200 colour photos. BIC Classification: AJCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 610.
Publisher
Edition Skylight Switzerland
Number of pages
195
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Bilingual
Condition
New
SKU
V9783037666258
ISBN
9783037666258
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 22.82

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