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Paperback. Addressing a diverse set of improvised art and music forms-from jazz and cinema to dance and literature-this volume traces how the social, political, and the aesthetic relate within the context of improvisation. Editor(s): Born, Georgina; Lewis, Eric; Straw, Will. Series: Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice. Num Pages: 360 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: AN; AVC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822361947
ISBN
9780822361947
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.82

Hardback. Addressing a diverse set of improvised art and music forms-from jazz and cinema to dance and literature-this volume traces how the social, political, and the aesthetic relate within the context of improvisation. Editor(s): Born, Georgina; Lewis, Eric; Straw, Will. Series: Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice. Num Pages: 360 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: AN; AVC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822361787
ISBN
9780822361787
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.55

Paperback. Num Pages: 420 pages, 30 b/w illus. BIC Classification: AVC. Dimension: 225 x 150. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Transcript Verlag Germany
Number of pages
420
Condition
New
SKU
V9783837631883
ISBN
9783837631883
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.50
€ 42.31

Hardback. Num Pages: 180 pages, 150 color + b/w illus. BIC Classification: AGHF; AVC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 292 x 235. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Yale University Press France
Number of pages
180
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780300230093
ISBN
9780300230093
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.81

Paperback. Num Pages: 333 pages. BIC Classification: AVC; AVGR; HRC. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Edition
First
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520293540
ISBN
9780520293540
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.92

Hardcover. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPK; AVC; AVGP; AVH; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 435.
Publisher
Blue Rider Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780735210691
ISBN
9780735210691
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 21.09

Paperback. Tracing a diffuse network of cultural agents who shared the belief that a truly modern music could be attained only through a radical challenge to the technological foundations of the art, this book combines an artifact-oriented history of music with an astute revisiting of still-relevant debates about the relationship between technology and arts. Num Pages: 252 pages, 27 illustrations. BIC Classification: AVC; AVR; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
252
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520288027
ISBN
9780520288027
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 32.85

Hardcover. Num Pages: 120 pages, color illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: AVC; AVGE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 307 x 16. Weight in Grams: 1014.
Publisher
Tulika Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9789382381778
ISBN
9789382381778
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.99
€ 36.34

Paperback. Series: Beginner's Guides. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: AVC; AVGJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 18. Weight in Grams: 202.
Publisher
Oneworld Publications
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780749983
ISBN
9781780749983
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.36

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
€ 12.92

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
€ 24.92

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

€ 95.14
€ 73.01

Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages, 14 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; AVC; HBJH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 418.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816669844
ISBN
9780816669844
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.51

Hardback. Series: Publications of the Early Music Institute. Num Pages: 320 pages, 84 b&w illus., 76 music exx., 42 tables. BIC Classification: AVC; AVRL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 23. Weight in Grams: 613.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253021236
ISBN
9780253021236
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.03

Paperback. Series: 33 1/3. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: AVGP; AVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 134 x 11. Weight in Grams: 162.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781623566319
ISBN
9781623566319
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.68

Paperback. Microgroove continues John Corbett's exploration of diverse musics, with essays, interviews, and musician profiles that focus on jazz, improvised music, contemporary classical, rock, folk, blues, post-punk, and cartoon music, as well as painting, design, dance, and poetry. Num Pages: 496 pages, 60 illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXJ5; AVC; AVGJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 228 x 31. Weight in Grams: 726.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822358701
ISBN
9780822358701
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 32.04

Paperback. A survey of contemporary Western art music within the transformed political, cultural, and technological environment of the post-Cold War era. It considers musical composition against this changed backdrop, placing it in the context of globalization, digitization, and new media. Num Pages: 368 pages, 35 b/w. BIC Classification: 3JJ; AVC; HBLW; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 229 x 23. Weight in Grams: 500.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520283152
ISBN
9780520283152
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.98

Paperback. How does a work of music stir the senses, creating feelings of joy, sadness, elation, or nostalgia? This title details the array of stylistic devices and techniques used to represent or convey sentiment. It traces the use of radically changing intensities in the Romantic works of the nineteenth century. Num Pages: 160 pages, music examples throughout. BIC Classification: AVC; JMQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 180.
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300178036
ISBN
9780300178036
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.57

Paperback. With a foreword by Daniel Barenboim Music at the Limits is the first book to bring together three decades of Edward Said's essays and articles on music. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: AVC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 127 x 23. Weight in Grams: 284. 352 pages. With a foreword by Daniel Barenboim Music at the Limits is the first book to bring together three decades of Edward Said's essays and articles on music. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: AVC. Dimension: 199 x 127 x 23. Weight: 250.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780747598749
ISBN
9780747598749
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.31

Paperback. Series: Music in American Life. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: AVC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 229 x 26. Weight in Grams: 464.
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252081569
ISBN
9780252081569
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.66

Hardback. Series: Music in American Life. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: AVC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 238 x 24. Weight in Grams: 600.
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252040078
ISBN
9780252040078
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.81

Hardback. Series: Ethnomusicology Multimedia. Num Pages: 360 pages, 91 music exx., 27 b&w illus., 2 maps, 33 video, 30 audio. BIC Classification: AVA; AVC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 160 x 26. Weight in Grams: 660.
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253019370
ISBN
9780253019370
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.69

Paperback. Series: Ethnomusicology Multimedia. Num Pages: 360 pages, 91 music exx., 27 b&w illus., 2 maps, 33 video, 30 audio. BIC Classification: AVA; AVC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 532.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253019455
ISBN
9780253019455
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 38.60

Multiple-component retail product. A "you are there" guide to masterpieces of Western music. Num Pages: 624 pages, Illustrations (some col.). BIC Classification: AVC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 277 x 214 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1258.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393929881
ISBN
9780393929881
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 132.00
€ 126.09

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