Musical Encounters at the 1889 Paris World's Fair explores the ways in which music was used, appropriated, exhibited, listened to, and written about during the six months of the 1889 Exposition Universelle in Paris, therebyrevealing the role and the sociopolitical uses of music in France and, more generally, Europe during the late nineteenth century.
Letha Dawson Scanzoni changed the landscape of American evangelicalism through her groundbreaking work on the gospel-based intersection of gender and LGBTQ justice.
For nearly 25 years, Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune has been reviewing all parts of the popular music world: from indie up-and-comers and underground hip-hop artists to arena-filling rock-and-rollers and celebrity pop superstars.
Vancouver's Commodore Ballroom is, like New York's CBGB's and Los Angeles's Whiskey a Go-Go, one of the most venerated rock clubs in the world; originally built in 1930, it's hosted a who's-who of music greats before they made it big: The Police, The Clash, Blondie, Talking Heads, Nirvana, New York Dolls, U2, and, more recently, Lady Gaga and the White Stripes.
In the tradition of classic essayists from Virginia Woolf to Annie Dillard, Meghan Florian combines personal narrative with careful analysis, taking the ordinary material of undramatic daily life and distilling it into moments of clarity and revelation.
This collection of new interviews with twenty-five accomplished female composers substantially advances our knowledge of the work, experiences, compositional approaches, and musical intentions of a diverse group of creative individuals.
Exploring and celebrating individual lives in diverse situations, Women Singers in Global Contexts is a new departure in the study of women's worldwide music-making.
Hinton's latest book takes readers on an enthralling journey to explain the diverse music that has come to be known as country, starting with Celtic myth and mystery, traveling to the Appalachian mountains, and taking a few unexpected turns along the way with such disparate personalities as Bob Dylan, Hank Williams, and Elvis Presley.
Innerhalb einer akustisch konfigurierten Architektur sind Audiotechnologien im Tonstudio zu einem komplexen Medienverbund verschaltet und bilden die apparative Struktur eines sound-ästhetischen Dispositivs.
In When Rock Met Reggae, Steven Blush takes a spirited, cross-genre perspective in this illuminating chronicle (Booklist) of the crossover of Jamaican, British, and American sounds that changed the face of popular music.
This book analyses how three artists - Adrian Piper, Nancy Spero and Mary Kelly - worked with the visual dimensions of language in the 1960s and 1970s.
This is the first book-length account of the women's liberation movement in Scotland, which, using documentary evidence and oral testimony, charts the origins and development of this important social movement of the post-1945 period.
Whether you're a lifelong collector or have only just gotten hip to the vinyl revival, navigating the vast landscape of rock albums can be a daunting prospect.
In 1959, Belgian singer-songwriter Jacques Brel wrote and performed "e;Ne me quitte pas"e; (Don't leave me), a visceral and haunting plea for his lover to come back.
The American musical has long provided an important vehicle through which writers, performers, and audiences reimagine who they are and how they might best interact with the world around them.
Perhaps the best musical encapsulation of the Cold War as experienced in the walled city of West-Berlin, Kollaps is a product of its time while remaining as vital, exhilarating and surprising as the day it was released.
Between present and past, visible and invisible, and sensation and idea, there is resonance-so philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty argued and so Jessica Wiskus explores in The Rhythm of Thought.
Innerhalb einer akustisch konfigurierten Architektur sind Audiotechnologien im Tonstudio zu einem komplexen Medienverbund verschaltet und bilden die apparative Struktur eines sound-ästhetischen Dispositivs.
This book charts the emergence of Kate Bush in the early-to-mid-1980s as a courageous experimentalist, a singularly expressive recording artist and a visionary music producer.
Steel Drums and Steelbands: A History is a vivid account of the events that led to the ';accidental' invention of the steel drum: the only acoustic musical instrument invented in the 20th century.
Making New Music in Cold War Poland presents a social analysis of new music dissemination at the Warsaw Autumn International Festival of Contemporary Music, one of the most important venues for East-West cultural contact during the Cold War.
Stravinsky in the Americas explores the ';pre-Craft' period of Igor Stravinsky's life, from when he first landed on American shores in 1925 to the end of World War II in 1945.
Este libro consagrado a las relaciones entre el tango, la subjetividad y la sociedad aborda particularmente el análisis entre la singularidad artística del género como síntesis sociocultural prefiguradora de relaciones sociales y políticas.
A través de 22 entrevistas a primeras figuras de la balada romántica argentina, el autor construye una memoria -una perspectiva a través de la cual se mira al pasado- que no solo caracteriza la industria discográfica de la época, sino que interpreta su contexto social, cultural y político.
El autor es Licenciado en Psicología egresado en la Universidad de Buenos Aires, magíster en Metodología de Investigación de la Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral y Perito Oficial en el Poder Judicial de la Provincia de Santa Cruz, además de poseer una amplia experiencia tanto en el Área Clínica como en el Área Forense.
Down On The Corner is the story of music performed on the streets, in subways, in parks, in schoolyards, on the back of flatbed trucks, and beyond, from the 1920s to the present day.
As we begin the third decade of the twenty-first century, women have entered the workplace in unprecedented numbers, are now outperforming men in terms of educational qualifications, and are excelling across a range of professional fields.
Este libro presenta una etnografía construida a partir del trabajo de campo con personas trans, desde las teorías feministas acerca del poder, la identidad, así como la construcción del sexo, el género y la sexualidad.
En Chicas Cerdas Machistas, Ariel Levy nos lleva a través de una investigación impulsada por su propia curiosidad ante la creciente cantidad de piel que se ve a nuestros alrededores.
Marta Cecilia Vélez Saldarriaga nos deja una tarea para que la continuemos: abrir la imaginación y la creatividad más allá de la muerte y de la destrucción; construir y reconstruir, las veces que sea necesario, las urdimbres de la solidaridad y la generosidad.
A partir de la premisa de que el cuidado es un modo de respuestaante el desmantelamiento de lo público y lo social, Fabienne Brugèrereivindica desde una perspectiva feminista la labor quehistóricamente han tenido las mujeres y reformula ese quehacer másallá del determinismo histórico que acusa las profundasdesigualdades entre hombres y mujeres.
