Exploring the unintentional production of seemingly feminist outcomes In India, elite law firms offer a surprising oasis for women within a hostile, predominantly male industry.
The Routledge Companion to Women and Musical Leadership: The Nineteenth Century and Beyond provides a comprehensive exploration of women's participation in musical leadership from the nineteenth century to the present.
Ornaments play an enormous role in the music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and ambiguities in their notation (as well as their frequent omission in the score) have left doubt as to how composers intended them to be interpreted.
A world-renowned scholar of plainchant, Kenneth Levy has spent a portion of his career investigating the nature and ramifications of this repertory's shift from an oral tradition to the written versions dating to the tenth century.
In Gender, Class, and Freedom in Modern Political Theory, Nancy Hirschmann demonstrates not merely that modern theories of freedom are susceptible to gender and class analysis but that they must be analyzed in terms of gender and class in order to be understood at all.
The Real Singing Cowboys profiles contemporary cowboy--and cowgirl--singers and musicians who are, or have been, authentic working cowboys or ranchers, or involved in related occupations tied to ranching and cowboy culture.
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) is the world's most frequently performed operatic composer, yet he is only beginning to receive serious scholarly attention.
A new look at one of the most important composers of the twentith centuryStravinsky and His World brings together an international roster of scholars to explore fresh perspectives on the life and music of Igor Stravinsky.
A revealing look at French composer and virtuoso Camille Saint-SaensCamille Saint-Saens-perhaps the foremost French musical figure of the late nineteenth century and a composer who wrote in nearly every musical genre, from opera and the symphony to film music-is now being rediscovered after a century of modernism overshadowed his earlier importance.
When Don Rhodes took his seat not far behind Michael Jackson at the funeral of the ';Godfather of Soul' on December 30, 2006, it marked the close of a forty-year friendship.
This book provides rare insights into the difficult and complex dialogues between stakeholders within and outside the music industries in a time of transition.
This ground-breaking new book provides a unique, in-depth analysis of the BBC Asian Network, the BBC's national ethnic-specific digital radio station in the UK.
Performed throughout Europe during the 1700s, Italian heroic opera, or opera seria, was the century's most significant musical art form, profoundly engaging such figures as Handel, Haydn, and Mozart.
For more than a century, urban North Africans have sought to protect and revive Andalusi music, a prestigious Arabic-language performance tradition said to originate in the "e;lost paradise"e; of medieval Islamic Spain.
A groundbreaking study of the Jewish composers and musicians banned by the Third Reich—and the consequences for music worldwide With National Socialism's arrival in Germany in 1933, Jews dominated music more than virtually any other sector, making it the most important cultural front in the Nazi fight for German identity.
Richard Rodgers was an icon of the musical theater, a prolific composer whose career spanned six decades and who wrote more than a thousand songs and forty shows for the American stage.
Igor Stravinsky and George Balanchine, among the most influential artists of the twentieth century, together created the music and movement for many ballet masterpieces.
An engrossing new biography of the musical revolutionary who was the world’s first international megastar Hungarian composer Franz Liszt (1811–1886) was an anomaly.
This book is the first to examine the brilliant gathering of composers, conductors, and other musicians who fled Nazi Germany and arrived in the Los Angeles area.
Programming the Absolute discusses the notorious opposition between absolute and program music as a true dialectic that lies at the heart of nineteenth-century German music.
How a legendary woman from classical antiquity has come to embody the threat of transcendent beauty in movies and TVHelen of Troy in Hollywood examines the figure of the mythic Helen in film and television, showing how storytellers from different Hollywood eras have used Helen to grapple with the problems and dynamics of gender and idealized femininity.
La musica popular americana, argentina y del mundo compuesta por grandes poetas y compositores, tan rica en su esencia, desde siempre nos inspiro y motivo a nosotros, los arregladores, a escribir nuestras propias versiones, siempre con el objetivo de servir a sus creadores y de ofrecer un cancionero, enriqueciendo asi el repertorio de nuestros coros y grupos vocales.
Die Oral History einer Subkultur»Ich bin neu in der Hamburger Schule und vielleicht komm' ich hier nie wieder raus«, sangen Tocotronic 1995 und betonten damit – wenn auch mit kritischem Unterton – ihre Zugehörigkeit zu einer Szene, die damals zum popkulturellen Kanon gehörte.
- Durante casi treinta años, Caetano Veloso y Carlos Galilea se han ido encontrando en Río de Janeiro, Salvador de Bahía, París, Londres, Madrid o Barcelona para conversar sin tapujos y con una gran complicidad sobre la canción, el cine, la política, el periodismo, el sexo, la vejez.
- 456 temas de leyenda en la obra de uno de los artistas más significativos de la historia del pop, desde su primer single "Liza Jane" bajo el nombre de Davie Jones with The King Bees en 1964, hasta su álbum testamento [Blackstar], publicado el 8 de enero de 2016, dos días antes de su muerte.
La historia detrás de sus 188 canciones* Quince álbumes míticos: este libro desentraña las 188 canciones de culto de la banda que cambiaron la historia del rock.
* 94 canciones en 608 páginas: un libro que vuelve a poner bajo los focos de la actualidad a uno de los grupos estrella de la historia del rock, cuyas melodías, ritmos y solos de guitarra han pervivido a lo largo de las décadas para inspirar y cautivar tanto en el presente como en el pasado.
