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Paperback. * A sympathetic and critical study of one of the enduring stars of popular music: a global superstar. * This culturally sensitive re-reading of the life, image and music of David Bowie offers a detailed understanding of his importance to modern times. Series: Polity Celebrities Series. Num Pages: 232 pages, 0. BIC Classification: AVGP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745629407
ISBN
9780745629407
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.08

Paperback. Beethoven is a classic study of the composer's music, written by one of the most important thinkers of our time. Throughout his life, Adorno wrote extensive notes, essay fragments and aides-memoires on the subject of Beethoven's music. This book brings together all of Beethoven's music in relation to the society in which he lived. Num Pages: 284 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGC4; AVH; BGF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 406.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745630458
ISBN
9780745630458
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.35

Paperback. Is Bob Marley the only third world superstar? How did he achieve this unique status? This study sheds fresh light on issues such as Marley's contribution as a musician and public intellectual, how he was granted access to the global media system, and what his music means in cultural and political terms. Series: Polity Celebrities Series. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: AVGS; BGF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 207 x 142 x 20. Weight in Grams: 338.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745630892
ISBN
9780745630892
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.59

Hardback. Frank Sinatra was only one of a handful of popular entertainers who dominated Western popular culture for six decades. Series: Polity Celebrities Series. Num Pages: 200 pages, 0. BIC Classification: AVG; BGF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 158 x 20. Weight in Grams: 434.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745630908
ISBN
9780745630908
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.24

Paperback. Frank Sinatra was only one of a handful of popular entertainers who dominated Western popular culture for six decades. Series: Polity Celebrities Series. Num Pages: 200 pages, 0. BIC Classification: AVG; BGF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 310.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745630915
ISBN
9780745630915
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.53

Hardback. This book collects together Adornos manifold implications for musical interpretation. His reflections lead to a fundamental study of the nature of notation and musical sense. However, it is the quality of uncertainty in his reflections that indicates the scope of the discourse and its continuing relevance to musical thought today. Editor(s): Lonitz, Henri. Translator(s): Honban, Weiland. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations, music. BIC Classification: AVX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 532.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745631981
ISBN
9780745631981
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 79.61

Paperback. Bob Dylan's contribution to popular music is immeasurable. Venerated as rock's one true genius, Dylan is considered responsible for introducing a new range of topics and new lyrical complexity into popular music. Without Bob Dylan, rock critic Dave Marsh once claimed, there would be no popular music as we understand it today. Series: Polity Celebrities Series. Num Pages: 300 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 141 x 23. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745636429
ISBN
9780745636429
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.71

Hardback. A major new book in the Polity series of publications which make available Adorno's previously unpublished writings. This volume comprises some of Adorno's most important writings on music and radio and deals with themes for which he is particularly well known, such as the critique of the culture industry. Editor(s): Adorno, Theodor W. Num Pages: 480 pages, black & white illustrations, recorded music items. BIC Classification: AV; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 161 x 43. Weight in Grams: 908.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745642857
ISBN
9780745642857
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 85.98

Paperback. A major new book in the Polity series of publications which make available Adorno's previously unpublished writings. This volume comprises some of Adorno's most important writings on music and radio and deals with themes for which he is particularly well known, such as the critique of the culture industry. Editor(s): Adorno, Theodor W. Num Pages: 480 pages, black & white illustrations, recorded music items. BIC Classification: APW; AVA; JFCA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 158 x 37. Weight in Grams: 768.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745642864
ISBN
9780745642864
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 33.81

Hardcover. Pop music and rock music are often treated as separate genres but the distinction has always been blurred. Motti Regev argues that pop-rock is best understood as a single musical form defined by the use of electric and electronic instruments, amplification and related techniques. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJP; 3JM; AVGP; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745661728
ISBN
9780745661728
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.24

Paperback. Pop music and rock music are often treated as separate genres but the distinction has always been blurred. Motti Regev argues that pop-rock is best understood as a single musical form defined by the use of electric and electronic instruments, amplification and related techniques. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJP; 3JM; AVGP; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 346.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745661735
ISBN
9780745661735
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.08

Paperback. Most people who sing or play a musical instrument get nervous when having to perform in public, whether in school, at a church recital, before friends or guests, or before a paying public. This text discusses how to overcome these often debilitating jitters. Num Pages: 232 pages, index. BIC Classification: AS; AV; VFJS; VSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 17. Weight in Grams: 388.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780787943783
ISBN
9780787943783
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.27

Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AV; JNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 278 x 211 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780787966898
ISBN
9780787966898
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 28.95

Hardback. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVG; HBJD; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 19. Weight in Grams: 571.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801432330
ISBN
9780801432330
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 103.82

Hardback. Num Pages: 352 pages, 12. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJPG; AVH; HBJD; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 165 x 26. Weight in Grams: 620.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801444111
ISBN
9780801444111
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.74

Paperback. Series: Culture and Society After Socialism. Num Pages: 200 pages, 10. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; AV; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Cornell University Press New York
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801489006
ISBN
9780801489006
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.45

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803244757
ISBN
9780803244757
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Paperback. Presents a collection of non-Occidental music, all from a single tribe. This book divides the songs into three categories: religious ones, sung by a certain class; social ones, involving dances and games; and ones to be sung singly, including dream songs, love songs, captive songs, prayer songs, death songs, sweat lodge songs, and songs of thanks. Num Pages: 152 pages, Songs. BIC Classification: 1KB; AVGH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 16. Weight in Grams: 278.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press Lincoln
Number of pages
152
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803268876
ISBN
9780803268876
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.57

Paperback. This is a pioneering attempt to rearticulate the relationship between music and the problem of mimesis, of presentation and re-presentation. Four "scenes" compose this book, all four of them responses to Wagner: two by French poets (Baudelaire and Mallarme), two by German philosophers (Heidegger and Adorno). Translator(s): McCarren, Felicia. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 188 pages. BIC Classification: AVA; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5499 x 3564 x 12. Weight in Grams: 230.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804723855
ISBN
9780804723855
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.91

Paperback. Adorno is one of this century's most influential thinkers in the areas of social theory, philosophy, aesthetics, and music. Throughout the essays in this book, all of which concern musical matters, he displays an astonishing range of cultural reference, demonstrating that music is invariably social, political, even ethical. Translator(s): Livingstone, Rodney. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 349.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804735582
ISBN
9780804735582
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.56

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