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Paperback. Powered by a driving beat, clever lyrics, and assertive attitudes, rap music and hip hop culture have engrossed American youth since the mid-1980s. This title looks at how Chicano/a youth have adopted and adapted rap music and hip hop culture to express their views on gender and violence, and on how Chicano/a youth fit into a globalizing world. Num Pages: 216 pages, 13 color photos in section. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; AVGR; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 362.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292718036
ISBN
9780292718036
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.33

Paperback. Includes essays that engage questions that are central to the development of literature, music, and the arts in the period from Romanticism at the end of the eighteenth century to the avant-garde movements of the early twentieth, a period in which modern evolution of the arts is coupled with a rise in the significance of music as artistic form. Series: Literary Conjugations. Num Pages: 384 pages, 5 illus., musical examples. BIC Classification: AV; DNF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 153 x 24. Weight in Grams: 538.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780295990064
ISBN
9780295990064
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.25

Paperback. Personal anecdotes and memories from many of Seattle's most beloved musicians Num Pages: 384 pages, 50 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBWS; 3JH; 3JJ; AV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 26. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780295991139
ISBN
9780295991139
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 24.22

Paperback. Michael Friedmann's Ear Training for Twentieth-Century Music is a skills text; using non-tonal materials, students are asked to improvise at the keyboard, sing at sight, take dictation, memorize melodies by rote, and identify selected set classes by eye and ear. Num Pages: 238 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGC6; AVS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 355.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
238
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300045376
ISBN
9780300045376
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.36

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. The Norton Critical Score of Brahm's Fourth Symphony is the latest volume in this highly-regarded series, in which an authoritative score--here the first edition as corrected by the composer--is combined with illuminating essays and documents for an in-depth study of the work. Editor(s): Hull, Kenneth. Num Pages: 336 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: AVH; AVQ; AVRB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 208 x 160 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780393966770
ISBN
9780393966770
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.38

plastic_comb. Young musicians today are faced with a rapidly expanding and complex repertory of styles, tonal as well as pre- and post-tonal. Num Pages: 336 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: AVG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 271 x 235 x 29. Weight in Grams: 974.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393970722
ISBN
9780393970722
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.25
€ 65.40

Hardback. The musical practices of the early church are considered in this examination of the history of Christian chant from the years A.D. 200 to 800. Num Pages: 480 pages, 1 b/w photograph, 37 tables, 33 music examples. BIC Classification: 3D; 3F; AVGC1; AVGD; HRAX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 163 x 39. Weight in Grams: 886.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520221987
ISBN
9780520221987
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.35
€ 56.86

Paperback. "Imagine a pianist playing concerts with Benny Goodman and Cecil Taylor in successive years (1977-78). That pianist was Mary Lou Williams. In a career which spanned over fifty years, Mary was always on the cutting edge."--Bob Jacobsen, www.allaboutjazz Num Pages: 471 pages, 43 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: AVGJ; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 230 x 29. Weight in Grams: 766.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of California Press Berkeley
Number of pages
471
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520228726
ISBN
9780520228726
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.15

Paperback. Considers the diverse musics and related identities that jazz communities have shaped over the course of the twentieth century. This book explores the many ways in which jazz musicians and audiences experience and understand themselves, their music, their communities, and the world at large. Num Pages: 236 pages, 8 figures, 6 tables. BIC Classification: AVGJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 356.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520228894
ISBN
9780520228894
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.92

paperback. A collection that represents the cream of the more than five hundred articles written for the "Village Voice" by Kyle Gann, a leading authority on experimental American music of the late twentieth century. It also includes interviews with Yoko Ono, Philip Glass, Glenn Branca, and other leading musical figures. Num Pages: 333 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
333
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780520229822
ISBN
9780520229822
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.15

Paperback. A interdisciplinary sociocultural account of music as a feature and a force in the shaping of Israeliness. Maps not only the complex field of Israeli popular music but also Israeli culture in general. Num Pages: 308 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBH; AVG; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 68.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
308
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520236547
ISBN
9780520236547
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 35.36

Paperback. An ethnographic study of Trinidadian gospel music that engages the multiple musical styles circulating in the nation's Full Gospel community and illustrates the carefully negotiated and contested spaces that they occupy in relationship to questions of identity. It explores gospelypso, jamoo ('Jehovah's music'), and gospel dancehall. Series: Music of the African Diaspora. Num Pages: 230 pages, 4 b/w photographs, 5 line illustrations, 6 music examples. BIC Classification: 1KJWWT; AVGQ; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 230 x 14. Weight in Grams: 330.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520250680
ISBN
9780520250680
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.98

paperback. Explores the ways in which 'classical' music made its way into late twentieth-century American mainstream culture - in pop songs, movie scores, and print media. This book proposes a holistic musicology in which disparate musical elements might be brought together in dynamic and humane conversation. Series: California Studies in 20th-Century Music. Num Pages: 328 pages, 2 b/w photographs, 11 music examples. BIC Classification: AV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780520257207
ISBN
9780520257207
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.27

Hardback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 11 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: AVA; CF; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520276529
ISBN
9780520276529
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.64
€ 73.01

Hardback. Suitable for students and scholars of American music, gender and sexuality, class, and pop culture, this book looks at how class and gender identity play out in one of America's most culturally and politically charged forms of popular music. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGL; JFSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 467.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780520280656
ISBN
9780520280656
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.15
€ 46.81

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

€ 94.64
€ 73.01

Hardback. In our divided, post-Cold War, and now post-9/11 world, Russian music, formerly a quiet corner on the margins of musicology, has become a site of noisy contention. The author assesses the political and cultural stakes that attach to it in the era of Pussy Riot and renewed international tensions. Num Pages: 560 pages, 23 music examples, 15 halftones, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; AVG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 238 x 39. Weight in Grams: 884.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
560
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520288089
ISBN
9780520288089
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.64
€ 73.01

Hardback. The "Treatise on Musical Objects" by Pierre Schaeffer is regarded as his most important work on music and its relationship with technology. Drawing on acoustics, physics, and physiology, but also philosophy and the relationship between subject and object, this book summarizes his theoretical and practical work in music composition. Translator(s): North, Christine; Dack, John. Series: California Studies in 20th-Century Music. Num Pages: 543 pages, 6 music ex, 7 b/w halftones, 55 line art. BIC Classification: AVC; AVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
543
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520294295
ISBN
9780520294295
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.64
€ 73.01

Paperback. In this text, Allen Shawn puts aside ultimate judgements about Arnold Schoenberg's place in music history to explore the composer's world in a series of linked essays that are searching and suggestive. Num Pages: 368 pages, 22 halftones, 2 line illustrations, 124 musical examples. BIC Classification: AVH; BGF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 143 x 27. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780674011014
ISBN
9780674011014
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 31.90

Paperback. Enka, a sentimental ballad genre, epitomizes for many the nihonjin no kokoro (heart/soul of Japanese), and to older members of the Japanese public this music evokes a direct connection to the traditional roots of "Japaneseness". Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 250 pages, 7 halftones, 8 musical examples, 8 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; AVGJ; GTB; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 378.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
New
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674012769
ISBN
9780674012769
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 24.78

Paperback. Shows Charles Ives in the context of his world in a number of ways. This volume features essays which examine Ives' relationships to European music and to American music, politics, business, and landscape. It also shows Ives as a composer well versed in four distinctive musical traditions who blended them in his mature music. Editor(s): Burkholder, Peter J. Series: The Bard Music Festival. Num Pages: 464 pages, 13 halftones 3 b&w illus 1 map 50+ music exs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVA; AVGC6; AVH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 158 x 29. Weight in Grams: 686.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
Edition
Annotated
SKU
V9780691011639
ISBN
9780691011639
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.24
€ 42.32

Paperback. Reveals the pivotal role of music - musical works and musical culture - in debates about society, self, and culture that forged European modernity through the 'long nineteenth century'. This book argues that from the late 1700s to the early 1900s, music not only reflected but also embodied modern subjectivity. Num Pages: 264 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 3JH; AVA; AVGC4; AVGC5; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691126166
ISBN
9780691126166
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.61

Paperback. Num Pages: 482 pages. BIC Classification: AV. Dimension: 233 x 160. Weight in Grams: 702.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Number of pages
482
Condition
New
Publisher
Princeton University Press
SKU
V9780691600604
ISBN
9780691600604
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 82.81
€ 63.74

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