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Music: styles & genres

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
€ 30.14

Paperback. Kyra Vayne was born in Petrograd in 1916. Her White Russian parents fled to London when she was a small child, amid scenes of great chaos. She became a singer and at the height of her career Kyra appeared with some of the greats of the era including Gigli, Gobbi, Bergonzi and the young Janet Baker. Num Pages: 189 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGC9; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 272. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Arcadia Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
SKU
KRA0010848
ISBN
9781900850278
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Presents the author's diaries, which were found after his death in 1994. This title provides an account of the rise and fall of a great popular artist and icon. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustration. BIC Classification: AVGP; BGFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 271 x 213 x 28. Weight in Grams: 866.
Publisher
Penguin
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141011462
ISBN
9780141011462
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 22.99

Hardcover. Num Pages: 832 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 151 x 33. Weight in Grams: 862.
Publisher
powerHouse Books,U.S. United States
Number of pages
648
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9781576874974
ISBN
9781576874974
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 27.88

Hardback. Explores the female roles in Mozart's four most frequently performed operas, "Le nozze di Figaro", "Don Giovanni", "Cosi fan tutte", and "Die Zauberflote". Each chapter looks at the music, libretto text, literary sources, and historical factors that give shape to a character, re-evaluating common assumptions and proposing fresh interpretations. Num Pages: 352 pages, 37 music examples. BIC Classification: AVGC9; AVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 27. Weight in Grams: 628.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
341
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520248021
ISBN
9780520248021
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.99
€ 64.94

Hardcover. The first in-depth biography of one of music's most fascinating, colourful and innovative characters. The definitive history of the last of the black music pioneers. Num Pages: 376 pages, colour photos. BIC Classification: AVGQ; AVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 166 x 34. Weight in Grams: 772.
Publisher
Omnibus Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781783051540
ISBN
9781783051540
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.55

Paperback. Employing modes of criticism and theory that have transformed study in the humanities, this title addresses questions seldom if ever raised in jazz writing: What are the implications of building jazz history around the medium of the phonograph record? Why did jazz writers first make the claim that jazz is an art? Editor(s): Gabbard, Krin. Num Pages: 304 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGJ; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Edition
2nd ed.
SKU
V9780822315964
ISBN
9780822315964
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.62

Paperback. Arguing that jazz films create images of racial and sexual identity, many of which have become inseparable from popular notions of the music itself, this study explores the fundamental obsessions that American culture has brought to jazz in the cinema. Num Pages: 362 pages, 20 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFA; AVGJ; AVGK; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 592.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
y First edition
Number of pages
362
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226277899
ISBN
9780226277899
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.66

Hardback. Charles Mingus is one of the most important - and most mythologized-composers and performers in jazz history. Classically trained and of mixed race, he was an outspoken innovator as well as a bandleader, composer, producer, and record-label owner. This book tells his story. Num Pages: 336 pages, 13 b/w. BIC Classification: AVGJ; AVH; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 237 x 27. Weight in Grams: 592.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520260375
ISBN
9780520260375
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.27

Hardback. The prevailing essentialist assumptions about 'Jewish music,' maintain that ethnic groups, nations, or religious communities possess an essence that must manifest itself in art created by members of that group. This book scrutinizes concepts of Jewish identity and reorders ideas about twentieth-century 'Jewish music' in three case studies. Series: California Studies in 20th-Century Music. Num Pages: 468 pages, 7 b/w photographs, 3 tables, 115 music examples. BIC Classification: AVGC6; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 749.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
468
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520250888
ISBN
9780520250888
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.99
€ 64.94

hardcover. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; AVG; JFC; JFFJ; JPFQ. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 417.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813574714
ISBN
9780813574714
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 159.74

Paperback. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813574707
ISBN
9780813574707
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.15

Paperback. Series: 33 1/3. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: AVA; AVGP; AVGR; AVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 168 x 9. Weight in Grams: 148.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781623565428
ISBN
9781623565428
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.69

Paperback. Series: Big Issues in Music. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKAH; AVGH; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226407562
ISBN
9780226407562
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.94

Hardback. Deals with Bob Marley's career and the history of reggae and dub music. This title features portraits, performance and personal photography of Marley and many of his contemporaries. Num Pages: 160 pages, colour & black & white photos. BIC Classification: AVGS; AVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 315 x 267 x 15. Weight in Grams: 1318.
Publisher
Titan Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848566972
ISBN
9781848566972
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 29.50

Paperback. Filled with the sights and sounds of a changing world and a remarkable life, this book offers a chronicle of Kim Gordon. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: AVGP; AVH; BGFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 230.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571309351
ISBN
9780571309351
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.48

Paperback. A surrealist text loosely based on the life, suffering and reincarnation of Anne Frank, with guest appearances from a pair of Siamese twins menaced by the cold and carnivores, a two-headed boy bobbing in a jar, anthropomorphic vegetables and a variety of immature erotic horrors. Series: 33 1/3. Num Pages: 144 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJPR; AVGP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 121 x 33. Weight in Grams: 124.
Publisher
Continuum
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
Illustrated
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826416902
ISBN
9780826416902
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.66

Paperback. An encyclopaedia on Wexford Festival Opera that offers an A to Z of the festival's history from its foundation in 1951 onwards. It includes entries for the 154 operas staged since the founding of the event. Num Pages: 128 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1DBR; AVGC9; GBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 172 x 10. Weight in Grams: 780.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845885977
ISBN
9781845885977
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.00
€ 19.69

Paperback. Series: 33 1/3. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: AVGU; AVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 123 x 10. Weight in Grams: 156.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781623560652
ISBN
9781623560652
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.72

Paperback. This edited collection will look at the breadth and diversity of recent film musicals, including adaptations from the stage such as Mamma Mia! (2008), Tim Burton's Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) and Rock of Ages (2012). Editor(s): Donnelly, Kevin J.; Carroll, Beth. Series: Music and the Moving Image. Num Pages: 224 pages, 12 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA; APFN; AVGM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474413121
ISBN
9781474413121
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 106.47
€ 102.41

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822350477
ISBN
9780822350477
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.62

Paperback. Series: Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: AVA; AVGP; AVRL1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 495 x 16. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9781138253261
ISBN
9781138253261
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 71.31

Hardback. The author captured in photographs James, Sean, Richey and Nicky in their most uncompromising, glam-fixated early years. This is a unique record of a band on a mission to reclaim rock and roll through literature, image and thrilling guitar pop. Num Pages: 192 pages, chiefly illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGP; AVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 261 x 207 x 18. Weight in Grams: 864.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
9780571312139
ISBN
9780571312139
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 6.75

paperback. Manchester, its bands, its fashions, its attitude, has defined pop culture for the best part of four decades. Whether it be on a rain-soaked stage in Brazil, a rented room in Whalley Range, or on the dancefloor of the legendary Hacienda, the author's photographs capture the anarchic energy of the Manchester pop moment. Num Pages: 400 pages, chiefly Illustrations (some col.). BIC Classification: 1DBKENL; AVGP; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 286 x 253 x 63. Weight in Grams: 1386.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571283385
ISBN
9780571283385
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 26.02

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