Art & Architecture
Introducing… 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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Art & Architecture
Hardback. Appearing here in English for the first time, Michel Chion's Sound addresses the philosophical questions that inform our encounters with sound, stimulating our thinking about being open to new sounds and to explore the links between language, technology, culture, and hearing. Translator(s): Steintrager, James A. Num Pages: 309 pages, 25 illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA; AVX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 238 x 23. Weight in Grams: 584.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 309
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822360223
- ISBN
- 9780822360223
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.89
€ 114.89
Paperback. Demonstrating the transformative power of sound in film Editor(s): Kalinak, Kathryn. Series: Behind the Silver Screen. Num Pages: 232 pages, 13 bw integrated. BIC Classification: APFX; AVX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784534059
- ISBN
- 9781784534059
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 29.93
€ 34.99
€ 29.93
Book. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: AVRL1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 303 x 229 x 8. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Publisher
- Hal Leonard Corporation United States
- Number of pages
- 120
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781423433255
- ISBN
- 9781423433255
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 27.07
€ 31.99
€ 27.07
Hardcover. This volume covers all aspects of sound (including dialogue) and music as they have been utilised in comedy film. The volume looks at various subsets of the 'comedy film' from the post-War period, including black comedy, romantic comedy, slapstick, dialogue comedy, parody and spoofs. Editor(s): Evans, Mark; Hayward, Philip. Series: Genre, Music & Sound. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJP; APFN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 852.
- Publisher
- Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781790991
- ISBN
- 9781781790991
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 42.34
€ 42.34
Paperback. This volume covers all aspects of sound (including dialogue) and music as they have been utilised in comedy film. The volume looks at various subsets of the 'comedy film' from the post-War period, including black comedy, romantic comedy, slapstick, dialogue comedy, parody and spoofs. Editor(s): Evans, Mark; Hayward, Philip. Series: Genre, Music & Sound. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: APF; AV. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 852.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845536749
- ISBN
- 9781845536749
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.34
€ 42.34
Hardback. This individual studies ask what specific sonorous qualities are capable of being registered by different modern media, and how sonic transpositions and transferences across media affect the ways in which human subjects attend to modern soundscapes. Editor(s): Murphet, Julian; Groth, Helen; Hone, Penelope. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: AP; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474416368
- ISBN
- 9781474416368
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.09€ 102.41
€ 106.09
€ 102.41
Paperback. Examines the role of sound and audio in the development of media theory and practice, including technologies and performance art events, with particular emphasis on sound, embodiment, art, and technological interactions. This book takes an historical approach, focusing on technologies that became available in the mid-twentieth century-electronics. Num Pages: 262 pages, 8 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: AB; AV; JFD; TTA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 368. Immersion and Embodiment in the Arts and Culture. 262 pages, illustrations. Examines the role of sound and audio in the development of media theory and practice, including technologies and performance art events, with particular emphasis on sound, embodiment, art, and technological interactions. This book takes an historical approach, focusing on technologies that became available in the mid-twentieth century-electronics. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: AB; AV; JFD; TTA. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 18. Weight: 368.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520258990
- ISBN
- 9780520258990
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.06
€ 40.99
€ 29.06
Paperback. Editor(s): Straus, Joseph; Lerner, Neil. Num Pages: 312 pages, 15 black & white halftones, 43 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: AV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780415979078
- ISBN
- 9780415979078
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 74.04
€ 74.04
Paperback. Traces the changing sounds of race across some of the best-known rap songs of the past thirty-five years, combining song-level analysis with historical contextualization to show how these representations of identity depend on specific artistic decisions, such as those related to how producers make beats. Num Pages: 224 pages, 5 tables, 5 examples, 27 figures. BIC Classification: AVGR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 151 x 16. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520283992
- ISBN
- 9780520283992
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.82
€ 33.99
€ 24.82
Paperback. Takes you on an ethnographic journey into the New York salsa scene of the 1990s. Written by a musical insider and from the perspective of salsa musicians, this study offers detailed accounts of these musicians grappling with intercultural tensions and commercial pressures. It addresses a range of issues, musical and social. Series: Studies in Latin America & Caribbean Music. Num Pages: 272 pages, 7 line art, 19 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; AVGH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 149 x 15. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781592133161
- ISBN
- 9781592133161
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.70
€ 34.99
€ 31.70
Paperback. This work investigates the power behind classical music and dance in Bangkok, the capital and sacred center of Buddhist Thailand. Focusing on the ritual of honouring teachers of music and dance, Deborah Wong reveals a complex network of connections among kings, teachers, knowledge and performance. Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology. Num Pages: 378 pages, 63 halftones, 1 line drawing, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1FMT; AS; AVGD; AVGW; HRE; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 378
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226905860
- ISBN
- 9780226905860
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 41.09
€ 52.99
€ 41.09
Paperback. Series: The New Southern Studies. Num Pages: 232 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; 1KBBS; AVGH; JFCA; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820347370
- ISBN
- 9780820347370
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.37
€ 38.37
Paperback. Sounding the Gallery argues that early video art is an audiovisual genre. The new video technology not only enabled artists to sound their visual work and composers to visualise their music during the 1960s: it also initiated a spatial form of engagement that encouraged new relationships between art / music practices and their audiences. Series: Oxford Music/Media Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, 32 photographs. BIC Classification: AFKV; APF; AVGC6. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199861422
- ISBN
- 9780199861422
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.23
€ 62.23
Paperback. The hidden history of the women who dared to write music in a man's world Num Pages: 384 pages, 8 greyscale images. BIC Classification: AVGC; AVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 27. .
- Publisher
- Oneworld Publications
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781786070678
- ISBN
- 9781786070678
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.39
€ 17.99
€ 13.39
Paperback. Explores the influence of immigrant cultures on the capital's music scene. This title tells the story of the music and the larger-than-life characters making it, journeying from Soho jazz clubs to Brixton blues parties to King's Cross warehouse raves to the streets of Notting Hill - and onto sound systems everywhere. Num Pages: 432 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JJP; 3JMC; AVG; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 144 x 39. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Publisher
- Serpent's Tail United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846687617
- ISBN
- 9781846687617
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.68
€ 19.99
€ 14.68
Paperback. The first full and focused guide to music's contribution to popular tv drama. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: APT; AV. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
- Publisher
- I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784530297
- ISBN
- 9781784530297
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 27.79
€ 32.99
€ 27.79
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719082740
- ISBN
- 9780719082740
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.62€ 28.83
€ 76.62
€ 28.83
Num Pages: 384 pages, 26 illustrations, 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGC6. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 764.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199948031
- ISBN
- 9780199948031
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 89.39
€ 89.39
paperback. Series: SOAS Musicology Series. Num Pages: 210 pages. BIC Classification: AVG; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138062542
- ISBN
- 9781138062542
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.65
€ 63.65
Paperback. Editor(s): Bijsterveld, Karin. Num Pages: 230 pages, 15 b/w illus. BIC Classification: AVC; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Publisher
- Transcript Verlag
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783837621792
- ISBN
- 9783837621792
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 32.61
€ 45.99
€ 32.61
Paperback. From the silent era to the present day, popular music has been a key component of the film experience. This title aims to fill this gap, as its contributors provide detailed analyses of individual films as well as historical overviews of genres, styles of music, and approaches to film scoring. Editor(s): Knight, Arthur; Wojcik, Pamela Robertson. Num Pages: 504 pages, 36 b&w photos. BIC Classification: APF; AVG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 33. Weight in Grams: 757.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 504
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822327974
- ISBN
- 9780822327974
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 32.80
€ 35.99
€ 32.80
Paperback. The definitive collection of great writings on music of the nineteenth century. Editor(s): Solie, Ruth A.; Strunk, W. Oliver. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; AVGC4; AVGC5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- 2nd
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393966992
- ISBN
- 9780393966992
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.40
€ 42.40
Paperback. This book began as an attempt to carry out a suggestion made in 1929 by Carl Engel in his "Views and Reviews"-to fulfill his wish for " a living record of musical personalities, events, conditions, tastes ..a history of music faithfully and entirely carved from contemporary accounts. Editor(s): Morgan, Robert P.; Strunk, W. Oliver. Num Pages: 264 pages, music. BIC Classification: 3JJ; AVGC6. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- Revised Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393967005
- ISBN
- 9780393967005
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.03
€ 42.03
Paperback. Documents crucial changes in performance practice and live electronics, computer music, notation and event scores, theater and installations, intermedia and technology, politics and the social roles of composers and performers, and innovations in the sound of music. Editor(s): Austin, Larry; Kahn, Douglas; Gurusinghe, Nilendra. Num Pages: 396 pages, 68 b/w photographs, 128 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJPK; 3JJPL; AVGC6. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 254 x 203 x 26. Weight in Grams: 988. Music of the Avant-Garde, 1966-1973. 396 pages, illustrations. Editor(s): Austin, Larry; Kahn, Douglas; Gurusinghe, Nilendra. Documents crucial changes in performance practice and live electronics, computer music, notation and event scores, theater and installations, intermedia and technology, politics and the social roles of composers and performers, and innovations in the sound of music. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 3JJPK; 3JJPL; AVGC6. Dimension: 254 x 203 x 26. Weight: 950.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520267459
- ISBN
- 9780520267459
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 29.91
€ 41.99
€ 29.91