Music: styles and genres

In this groundbreaking, historically-informed semiotic study of late eighteenth-century music, Stephen Rumph focuses on Mozart to explore musical meaning within the context of Enlightenment sign and language theory.

Where previous accounts of the Renaissance have not fully acknowledged the role that music played in this decisive period of cultural history, Laurenz Lutteken merges historical music analysis with the analysis of the other arts to provide a richer context for the emergence and evolution of creative cultures across civilizations.

This book examines the role music has played in the formation of the political and national identity of the Bahamas.

Expression and truth are traditional opposites in Western thought: expression supposedly refers to states of mind, truth to states of affairs.

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Wye Jamison Allanbrook's The Secular Commedia is a stimulating and original rethinking of the music of the late eighteenth century.

';Daniel Bedrosian has done a wonderful job of a seemingly impossible task of reconstructing this historyfinding everybody whos been a part of, involved with, or in any way left their fingerprint on what has become the P-Funk.

The Castrato is a nuanced exploration of why innumerable boys were castrated for singing between the mid-sixteenth and late-nineteenth centuries.

Frontier Figures is a tour-de-force exploration of how the American West, both as physical space and inspiration, animated American music.

Bringing together reception history, music analysis and criticism, the history of music theory, and the philosophy of music, Beethoven Hero explores the nature and persistence of Beethoven's heroic style.

Dreaming with Open Eyes examines visual symbolism in late seventeenth-century Italian opera, contextualizing the genre amid the broad ocularcentric debates emerging at the crossroads of the early modern period and the Enlightenment.

K-Pop: Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South Korea seeks at once to describe and explain the emergence of export-oriented South Korean popular music and to make sense of larger South Korean economic and cultural transformations.

In this book, Susan McClary examines the mechanisms through which seventeenth-century musicians simulated extreme affective states-desire, divine rapture, and ecstatic pleasure.

At the close of the Second World War, waves of African American musicians migrated to Paris, eager to thrive in its reinvigorated jazz scene.

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Recordings are now the primary way we hear classical music, especially the more abstract styles of "e;absolute"e; instrumental music.

In this first detailed study of seventeenth-century sepolcrisacred operas written for court performance on Holy Thursday and Good FridayRobert L.

New York City has always been a mecca in the history of jazz, and in many ways the city's jazz scene is more important now than ever before.

What, exactly, is knowledge of music?

In the German states in the late eighteenth century, women flourished as musical performers and composers, their achievements measuring the progress of culture and society from barbarism to civilization.

Over the past four decades, Richard Taruskin's publications have redefined the field of Russian-music study.

Nostalgia for the Future is the first collection in English of the writings and interviews of Luigi Nono (19241990).

How does the constant presence of music in modern life-on iPods, in shops and elevators, on television-affect the way we listen?

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In Experimental Otherwise, Benjamin Piekut takes the reader into the heart of what we mean by "e;experimental"e; in avant-garde music.

Beyond Reasonrelates Wagner's works to the philosophical and cultural ideas of his time, centering on the four music dramas he created in the second half of his career:Der Ring des Nibelungen,Tristan und Isolde,Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, andParsifal.

In Spaces of Conflict, Sounds of Solidarity, Gaye Theresa Johnson examines interracial anti-racist alliances, divisions among aggrieved minority communities, and the cultural expressions and spatial politics that emerge from the mutual struggles of Blacks and Chicanos in Los Angeles from the 1940s to the present.

How can we account for the persistent appeal of glossy commercial pop music?

Bud Powell was not only one of the greatest bebop pianists of all time, he stands as one of the twentieth century's most dynamic and fiercely adventurous musical minds.

What does it mean to author a piece of music?

Charles Mingus is one of the most importantand most mythologizedcomposers and performers in jazz history.

Fred Astaire: one of the great jazz artists of the twentieth century?

Celluloid Symphonies is a unique sourcebook of writings on music for film, bringing together fifty-three critical documents, many previously inaccessible.

Interpreting Music is a comprehensive essay on understanding musical meaning and performing music meaningfully-"e;interpreting music"e; in both senses of the term.

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Affect has become something of a buzzword in cultural and feminist theory during the past decade.

Compelling from cover to cover, this is the story of one of the most recorded and beloved jazz trumpeters of all time.

Two decades after the fall of communism in Eastern Europe and one decade into the twenty-first century, European music remains one of the most powerful forces for shaping nationalism.

In this innovative book, Gundula Kreuzer argues for the foundational role of technologies in the conception, production, and study of nineteenth-century opera.

This lively textual symposium offers a collection of formative research on the culture of global psytrance (psychedelic trance).

This handbook provides an original, comprehensive and unparalleled overview of feminist scholarship in sport, leisure and physical education.

Within both feminist theory and popular culture, establishing similarities between embodied practices rooted in different cultural and geo-political contexts (e.

In this book, feminist scholar Nina Lykke highlights current issues in feminist theory, epistemology and methodology.

Richard Wagner: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography concerning both the nature of primary sources related to the composer and the scope and significance of the secondary sources which deal with him, his compositions, and his influence as a composer and performer.

Over the past decade, democratization and civil society promotion became key variables in preserving global security and the liberal economic market.

Edgework brings together seven of Wendy Brown's most provocative recent essays in political and cultural theory.

'Elegant and multi-focal.

The page-turning, never-before-told story of Kim Campbell's roller-coaster thirty-four-year marriage to music legend Glen Campbell, including how Kim helped Glen finally conquer his addictions only to face their greatest challenge when he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.

In the third volume of his bestselling series, Pastor Robert Morgan expands his material to include the great history of worship, the first biblical hymns, biographical sketches of the most interesting composers, and almost 60 generations of hymn singing.

A riveting tale ofunfathomable successgreat joydeep pain, and redemption that can come only from above.