WILDE NOWreads Oscar Wilde through our now, through a contemporary sensibility (and approach), in which literature and popular culture interrogate and are interrogated by critical concepts and categories such as performance, celebrity, intermediality, and consumerism.
A study of the 1974 album Kogun by the Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band, this book assesses not just its importance in jazz history but also its part in public remembrance of World War II in Japan.
This second selection of essays by David Fallows draws the focus towards individual composers of the 'long' fifteenth century and what we can learn about their songs.
El pianista y difusor del jazz Alberto Zuckermann reconstruye, desde sus propios recuerdos y vivencias como joven musico, una cartografia cultural del incipiente mundo sonoro del jazz durante la decada de 1960 en la Ciudad de Mexico y nos ofrece una ventana a los compositores e interpretes mas emblematicos, sus presentaciones mas relevantes, los recintos que albergaron su florecimiento y los promotores que impulsaron el desarrollo de una comunidad musical que permitio acercar la esencia del genero a un publico mas amplio y diverso.
"rando la tradición teórico-crítica, la filosofía de Nancy Fraser no se puede entender sin su estrecha cercanía con las luchas emancipatorias del presente, cuyas agendas, procesos, avances y retrocesos ha ido sometiendo a riguroso análisis crítico.
Una conexión inspiradora entre personajes y eventos históricos con grandes artistas y canciones del rock¿Qué sorprendente vínculo existe entre determinadas historias y algunas canciones y artistas muy populares como "Losing my Religion" de R.
Reimagining Sample-based Hip Hop: Making Records within Records presents the poetics of hip-hop record production and the significance of sample material in record making, providing analysis of key releases in hip-hop discography and interviews with experts from the world of Hip Hop and beyond.
WILDE NOWreads Oscar Wilde through our now, through a contemporary sensibility (and approach), in which literature and popular culture interrogate and are interrogated by critical concepts and categories such as performance, celebrity, intermediality, and consumerism.
Un viaje fascinante por la turbulenta historia del rock en su lucha contra la injusticia y el poder establecido"Rebeldes del rock" rastrea la turbulenta relación entre la música popular y la política a través de las más de siete décadas que van desde las primeras expresiones, rudas e individualistas, de rebeldía contra el orden establecido, encarnadas por figuras como Woody Guthrie, Ralph Chaplin o T-Bone Slim, hasta la grabación del álbum "American Idiot", de Green Day, grabado en la época de descontento con la intervención de los Estados Unidos en la Guerra de Irak.
Una de las óperas más aclamadas del compositor italiano Giacomo Puccini: Madame Butterfly, nos cuenta en este libro de amor y desengaño, de esperanzas y decepciones, de morir y trascender, temas que los niños interpretarán de acuerdo a sus conocimientos y sentimientos.
Basado en el ballet de Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky, este cuento reúne todos los elementos para que una historia de amor sea inolvidable: engaño, traición, alguien que se interpone entre los amantes y, finalmente, un sacrificio trágico pero esperanzador.
In Search of Soul explores the meaning of ';soul' in sacred and profane incarnations, from its biblical origins to its central place in the rich traditions of black and Latin history.
Breaking down walls between genres that are usually discussed separately-classical, jazz, and popular-this highly engaging book offers a compelling new integrated view of twentieth-century music.
As one of the most influential and popular genres of the last three decades, rap has cultivated a mainstream audience and become a multimillion-dollar industry by promoting highly visible and often controversial representations of blackness.
A pioneer of Chicano rock, Ruben Funkahuatl Guevara performed with Frank Zappa, Johnny Otis, Bo Diddley, Tina Turner, and Celia Cruz, though he is best known as the front man of the 1970s experimental rock band Ruben And The Jets.
The first of its sort, I Want You Around: The Ramones and the Making of Rock 'n' Roll High School provides readers with a detailed production history of this beloved film that draws upon extensive interviews the author has conducted with many of the people who contributed to the movie's creation, including lead actress P.
Race, politics, and opera production during apartheid South Africa intersect in this historiographic work on the Eoan Group, a ';coloured' cultural organization that performed opera in the Cape.
This pathbreaking study links two traditionally separate genres as their stars crossed to explore the emergence of multiple selves in early modern Italian culture and society.
In the first musicological study of Kurt Weill's complete stage works, Stephen Hinton charts the full range of theatrical achievements by one of twentieth-century musical theater's key figures.
Listening for the Secret is a critical assessment of the Grateful Dead and the distinct culture that grew out of the group's music, politics, and performance.
This lively history immerses the reader in San Francisco's musical life during the first half of the twentieth century, showing how a fractious community overcame virulent partisanship to establish cultural monuments such as the San Francisco Symphony (1911) and Opera (1923).
In a tour de force of lyrical theory, Joshua Clover boldly reimagines how we understand both pop music and its social context in a vibrant exploration of a year famously described as "e;the end of history.
The ability to bring meaning to music notation without the assistance of an accompanist playing choral parts is a requisite skill on a musician's journey to self-reliance and full artistic expression.
Originally published in 1991, Rodger Lyle Brown's Party Out of Bounds is a cult classic that offers an insider's look at the underground rock music culture that sprang from a lazy Georgia college town.
The Lombardo Story, Guy Lombardo and The Royal Canadians, the bands life and times, by Beverly Fink Cline, is an eBook re-issue of a 1979 book published by Musson Book Co.
While European powers were at war with the Ottoman Empire for much of the eighteenth century, European opera houses were staging operas featuring singing sultans and pashas surrounded by their musical courts and harems.
Few bands in the past three decades have proven as affecting or exciting as the Misfits, the ferocious horror punk outfit that lurked in the shadows of suburban New Jersey and released a handful of pivotal underground recordings during their brief, tumultuous time together.
Originally a euphemism for Princeton University's Female Literary Tradition course in the 1980s, "e;chick lit"e; mutated from a movement in American women's avant-garde fiction in the 1990s to become, by the turn of the century, a humorous subset of women's literature, journalism, and advice manuals.
