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Paperback. Offers a comprehensive essay on understanding musical meaning and performing music meaningfully - 'interpreting music' in both senses of the term. This book argues that music, far from being closed to interpretation, is ideally open to it, and that musical interpretation is the paradigm of interpretation in general. Num Pages: 336 pages, 20 music examples. BIC Classification: AVA; AVGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 150 x 21. Weight in Grams: 456.
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520267060
ISBN
9780520267060
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.24

Paperback. What, exactly, is knowledge of music? And what does it tell us about humanistic knowledge in general? In this book, the author assesses musical scholarship in the aftermath of critical musicology and musical hermeneutics and in view of concerns with embodiment, affect, and performance. Num Pages: 224 pages, 17 music examples. BIC Classification: AVGC; DSA; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520288805
ISBN
9780520288805
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.35

Paperback. Editor(s): Ciment, Michel; Kardish, Laurence. Num Pages: 288 pages, 42 illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 248 x 164 x 25. Weight in Grams: 744.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
The Museum of Modern Art, New York New York
Number of pages
288
Condition
Used, Like New
Edition
01st Edition
SKU
KEX0212737
ISBN
9780870706882
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 17.95

Paperback. Editor(s): Ciment, Michel; Kardish, Laurence. Num Pages: 288 pages, 42 illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 248 x 164 x 25. Weight in Grams: 744.
Condition
Used, Like New
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
The Museum of Modern Art, New York New York
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
SKU
KEX0212736
ISBN
9780870706882
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 17.95

Paperback. The Creole Band, which existed from 1914-1918, was the first important jazz band, bringing jazz to the wider American public, from California to Massachusetts. This is the first history of the important group, written by a renowned scholar of early jazz. Num Pages: 400 pages, 47 halftones & line illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGJ; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 566.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199732333
ISBN
9780199732333
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.17

hardcover. Provides an overview of the current state of research on Machaut (ca. 1300-1377), a major figure in 14th century French music and poetry, with fair representation of the many areas of Machaut research that are pursued outside of music. The volume begins with a biography and a section covering his l Series: Composer Resource Manuals. Num Pages: 696 pages, maps, photographs, illustrations, glossary, indexes. BIC Classification: AVGC6; AVH; GBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 140 x 43. Weight in Grams: 953.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Routledge United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
696
Condition
New
SKU
V9780824023232
ISBN
9780824023232
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 249.53

Paperback. Features essays by scholars and organists that examine the music of Franck and other nineteenth-century French organist-composers through stylistic analysis, study of compositional process, and exploration of how ideas about organ technique and performance-practice traditions developed and became codified. Editor(s): Archbold, Lawrence; Peterson, William J. Series: Eastman Studies in Music. Num Pages: 340 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JH; AVA; AVGC; AVRG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 181 x 232 x 20. Weight in Grams: 522.
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
Number of pages
340
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
SKU
V9781580460712
ISBN
9781580460712
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 37.01

Paperback. If I had not kissed anyone, or danced with anyone, or had a reason to cry, the music made me feel as if I had gone through all that anyway. This book tells the story of the adventures that music leads us into: getting drunk, falling in love, dying of boredom, cutting our hair, terrifying our parents, wanting to change the world. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: AVGP; BGFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 169.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571332274
ISBN
9780571332274
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.75

Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: APFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 18. Weight in Grams: 284.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Route Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
V9781901927610
ISBN
9781901927610
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.47

Paperback. International in scope and more comprehensive than existing collections, A Companion to Reality Television presents a complete guide to the study of reality, factual and nonfiction television entertainment, encompassing a wide range of formats and incorporating cutting-edge work in critical, social and political theory. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: APT; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 171 x 27. Weight in Grams: 896.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
Number of pages
592
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9781119325192
ISBN
9781119325192
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.85

Paperback. Combining cutting-edge theories of culture and government with programming examples--including Todd TV, Survivor, and American Idol--Better Living through Reality TV moves beyond the established concerns of political economy and cultural studies to conceptualize television's evolving role in the contemporary period. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: APT; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 382.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405134415
ISBN
9781405134415
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 44.67

Hardback. Combining cutting-edge theories of culture and government with programming examples--including Todd TV, Survivor, and American Idol--Better Living through Reality TV moves beyond the established concerns of political economy and cultural studies to conceptualize television's evolving role in the contemporary period. Num Pages: 264 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: APT; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 166 x 20. Weight in Grams: 552.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405134408
ISBN
9781405134408
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.06

Paperback. Addresses the economic, visual, cultural, audience, and new media dimensions of reality television Editor(s): Murray, Susan; Ouellette, Laurie. Num Pages: 400 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APT; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Edition
2nd
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814757345
ISBN
9780814757345
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.83

Hardcover. International in scope and more comprehensive than existing collections, A Companion to Reality Television presents a complete guide to the study of reality, factual and nonfiction television entertainment, encompassing a wide range of formats and incorporating cutting-edge work in critical, social and political theory. Num Pages: 592 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: APT; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 180 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1054.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
592
Condition
New
SKU
V9780470659274
ISBN
9780470659274
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 230.92

Hardback. A history of public broadcasting, the book questions public television's common-sense priorities and argues that its tendency to reject popular culture has undermined its capacity to serve the people it claims to represent. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APT; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 21. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231119429
ISBN
9780231119429
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.08
€ 83.22

Paperback. Offers a comprehensive historical survey of British art direction. This book takes a chronological journey through British film design, starting with the efforts of the film 'primitives' of the silent era and ending with the modern day purveyors of part built/part computer generated 'blended design'. Num Pages: 256 pages, 20 integrated bw illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; APF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 424.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848851085
ISBN
9781848851085
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 27.71

Paperback. Cinematic Illuminations offers medievalists, literary and cultural theorists, and film theorists and buffs a fresh approach to understanding how popular culture interprets and makes use of the past through the medium of film. Num Pages: 464 pages, 20, 20 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 644.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801893452
ISBN
9780801893452
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 34.64

Hardback. American slaves drew on memories of African musical traditions to construct instruments from carved-out gourds covered with animal skin. Providing a sense of rootedness, solidarity, and consolation, banjo picking became an essential part of black plantation life, and its unmistakable sound remains versatile and enduring today, Laurent Dubois shows. Num Pages: 342 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVRL; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674047846
ISBN
9780674047846
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.85

Paperback. Editor(s): Guido, Professor Laurent (University of Lausanne); Lugon, Professor Olivier (University of Lausanne). Num Pages: 400 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: AC; AJ; APFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 932.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
JOHN LIBBEY PUBLISHING PB
Condition
New
SKU
V9780861967070
ISBN
9780861967070
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.93

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 62 b&w photos. BIC Classification: APFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816653317
ISBN
9780816653317
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.32

Paperback. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: APFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 233 x 15. Weight in Grams: 370.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231181136
ISBN
9780231181136
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.30

Paperback. By interrogating the most basic ideas of narrative and reality and rejecting classical cinematic ideals, Dutch artist Aernout Miks creates works that are rich in allusion but subversive of codes. This title explores Miks work and process. It discusses the creative aspects of Miks installations that extend the traditional boundaries of media. Editor(s): Kardish, Laurence; Sidley, Kelly; Taussiq, Michael. Num Pages: 96 pages, 57 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: APF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 250 x 202 x 11. Weight in Grams: 400.
Publisher
Museum of Modern Art United States
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780870707421
ISBN
9780870707421
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 20.65

Paperback. Considers the broad spectrum of influential German films made between the world wars. This title investigates important themes in films from this period, including the portrayal of women and the role of sound. Num Pages: 224 pages, 130 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; APF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 255 x 203 x 22. Weight in Grams: 988.
Publisher
Museum of Modern Art United States
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780870707612
ISBN
9780870707612
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 25.74

Paperback. In this new interpretation of the music of J.S. Bach, we gain a striking picture of the composer as a unique critic of his age. By reading Bach's music 'against the grain' of contemporaries such as Vivaldi and Telemann, Dreyfus explains how Bach's approach to musical invention in a variety of genres. Num Pages: 288 pages, 6 halftones, 5 line illustrations, 73 musical examples, 15 tables. BIC Classification: AVGC3; AVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 251 x 175 x 18. Weight in Grams: 506.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674013568
ISBN
9780674013568
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 34.07

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