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Music and Manners in France and Germany: A Series of Travelling Sketches of Art and Society
ISBN: 9781108001915 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A fascinating eyewitness account from 1841 of the state of musical culture in France and Germany.
A fascinating eyewitness account from 1841 of the state of musical culture in France and Germany.
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237,60 |
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Modern German Music: Recollections and Criticisms
ISBN: 9781108001595 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lively descriptions of the musical life of German cities, and extended essays on Spohr, Beethoven, Schubert and Mendelssohn.
Lively descriptions of the musical life of German cities, and extended essays on Spohr, Beethoven, Schubert and Mendelssohn.
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252,77 |
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Modern German Music: Recollections and Criticisms
ISBN: 9781108001601 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lively descriptions of the musical life of German cities, and extended essays on Spohr, Beethoven, Schubert and Mendelssohn.
Lively descriptions of the musical life of German cities, and extended essays on Spohr, Beethoven, Schubert and Mendelssohn.
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288,15 |
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Music in the Third Reich
ISBN: 9780333646939 / Angielski / Miękka / 303 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this authoritative study, one of the first to appear in English, Erik Levi explores the ambiguous relationship between music and politics during one of the darkest periods of recent cultural history. Utilising material drawn from contemporary documents, journals and newspapers, he traces the evolution of reactionary musical attitudes which were exploited by the Nazis in the final years of the Weimar Republic, chronicles the mechanisms that were established after 1933 to regiment musical life throughout Germany and the occupied territories, and examines the degree to which the climate of...
In this authoritative study, one of the first to appear in English, Erik Levi explores the ambiguous relationship between music and politics during on...
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562,23 |
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Music for the Revolution: Musicians and Power in Early Soviet Russia
ISBN: 9780271031064 / Angielski / Miękka / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mention twentieth-century Russian music, and the names of three "giants"--Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Prokofiev, and Dmitrii Shostakovich--immediately come to mind. Yet during the turbulent decade following the Bolshevik Revolution, Stravinsky and Prokofiev lived abroad and Shostakovich was just finishing his conservatory training. While the fame of these great musicians is widely recognized, little is known about the creative challenges and political struggles that engrossed musicians in Soviet Russia during the crucial years after 1917. Music for the Revolution examines musicians'... Mention twentieth-century Russian music, and the names of three "giants"--Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Prokofiev, and Dmitrii Shostakovich--immediately ... |
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154,89 |
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Words and Music
ISBN: 9781907322082 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The chronological range covered by the individual essays is more than two hundred years, from the Classical Enlightenment to the early twenty-first century. Some of the studies encompassed by this volume undertake the analysis of one composer's settings of a particular poet's work - albeit with rather more critical rigour. Others trace the ways in which a literary text is modified and adapted before and as it develops as one of the principal components of an opera. Several share new insights into the complex relationships of individual works with the literary and musical traditions out of...
The chronological range covered by the individual essays is more than two hundred years, from the Classical Enlightenment to the early twenty-first ce...
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76,59 |
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Music in the Third Reich
ISBN: 9780333471166 / Angielski / Twarda / 303 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this authoritative study, one of the first to appear in English, Erik Levi explores the ambiguous relationship between music and politics during one of the darkest periods of recent cultural history. Utilising material drawn from contemporary documents, journals and newspapers, he traces the evolution of reactionary musical attitudes which were exploited by the Nazis in the final years of the Weimar Republic, chronicles the mechanisms that were established after 1933 to regiment musical life throughout Germany and the occupied territories, and examines the degree to which the climate of...
In this authoritative study, one of the first to appear in English, Erik Levi explores the ambiguous relationship between music and politics during on...
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602,40 |
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Harmony and Discord: Music and the Transformation of Russian Cultural Life
ISBN: 9780199735266 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Harmony and Discord: Music and the Transformation of Russian Cultural Life explores the complex development of Russian musical life during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. At the heart of this cultural history lies the Russian Musical Society, as both a unique driving force behind the institutionalization of music and a representative of the growing importance of voluntary associations in public life. Sustained simultaneously by private initiative and cooperative relationships with the state, the Russian Musical Society played a key role in the creation of Russia's...
Harmony and Discord: Music and the Transformation of Russian Cultural Life explores the complex development of Russian musical life during th...
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332,38 |
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Deutsche Frauen, deutscher Sang
ISBN: 9783869060262 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Wie Italien sein Neapel hat, der Franzose seine Revolution, der Englander seine Schiffahrt usw., so der Deutsche seine Beethovenschen Sinfonien ..." - diese Formulierung von Robert Schumann wirft ein Licht auf die Bedeutung der Musik fur die Idee einer deutschen Kulturnation. Die in diesem Buch vorgelegten Vortrage einer Ringvorlesung am Musikwissenschaftlichen Seminar Detmold/Paderborn behandeln verschiedene Facetten dieses bislang erst sporadisch untersuchten Gegenstandes. Ihre Themen spannen sich von Opern Webers, Lortzings, Verdis und Humperdincks uber die Beziehungen zwischen...
"Wie Italien sein Neapel hat, der Franzose seine Revolution, der Englander seine Schiffahrt usw., so der Deutsche seine Beethovenschen Sinfonien ..." ...
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127,67 |
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Historical Dictionary of English Music: Ca. 1400-1958
ISBN: 9780810857506 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Historical Dictionary of English Music seeks to identify and briefly annotate a wide range of subjects relating to English musical culture, largely from the early 15th century through 1958, dates that reflect the coalescence of an identifiable English style in the early Renaissance and the death of the iconic Ralph Vaughan Williams in the mid-20th century. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about English music.
The Historical Dictionary of English Music seeks to identify and briefly annotate a wide range of subjects relating to English musical culture, largel...
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547,81 |
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Music and the Elusive Revolution: Cultural Politics and Political Culture in France, 1968-1981volume 12
ISBN: 9780520268975 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In May 1968, France teetered on the brink of revolution as a series of student protests spiraled into the largest general strike the country has ever known. In the forty years since, May 68 has come to occupy a singular place in the modern political imagination, not just in France but across the world. Eric Drott examines the social, political, and cultural effects of May 68 on a wide variety of music in France, from the initial shock of 1968 through the long 1970s and the election of Mitterrand and the socialists in 1981. Drott s detailed account of how diverse music communities developed in...
In May 1968, France teetered on the brink of revolution as a series of student protests spiraled into the largest general strike the country has ever ...
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153,09 |
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The Popular Music and Entertainment Culture of Barbados: Pathways to Digital Culture
ISBN: 9780810877498 / Angielski / Twarda / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the second half of the 20th century, the Caribbean island of Barbados emerged as a key player in the creation and nurturing of Caribbean popular music. And, yet, despite its vital role in the popularization of tuk music, the rise of spouge, and the Barbadian contribution to and transformation of other Carribean music traditions, there is still relatively little sustained critical literature that discusses the various strands of the island's music culture. Curwen Best's The Popular Music and Entertainment Culture of Barbados provides this long overdue survey of the development of...
During the second half of the 20th century, the Caribbean island of Barbados emerged as a key player in the creation and nurturing of Caribbean popula...
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475,09 |
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Vocal Music and Contemporary Identities: Unlimited Voices in East Asia and the West
ISBN: 9780415502245 / Angielski / Twarda / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Looking at musical globalization and vocal music, this collection of essays studies the complex relationship between the human voice and cultural identity in 20th- and 21st-century music in both East Asian and Western music. The authors approach musical meaning in specific case studies against the background of general trends of cultural globalization and the construction/deconstruction of identity produced by human (and artificial) voices. The essays proceed from different angles, notably sociocultural and historical contexts, philosophical and literary aesthetics, vocal technique,... Looking at musical globalization and vocal music, this collection of essays studies the complex relationship between the human voice and cultural i... |
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775,66 |
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The Berimbau: Soul of Brazilian Music
ISBN: 9781617031953 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Brazilian berimbau, a musical bow, is most commonly associated with the energetic martial art/dance/game of capoeira. This study explores the berimbau's stature from the 1950s to the present in diverse musical genres including bossa nova, samba-reggae, MPB (Popular Brazilian Music), electronic dance music, Brazilian art music, and more. Berimbau music spans oral and recorded historical traditions, connects Latin America to Africa, juxtaposes the sacred and profane, and unites nationally constructed notions of Brazilian identity across seemingly impenetrable... The Brazilian berimbau, a musical bow, is most commonly associated with the energetic martial art/dance/game of capoeira. This study ... |
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135,69 |
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Music in Eighteenth-Century Britain
ISBN: 9781840146882 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of essays by some of the leading scholars in the field looks at various aspects of musical life in eighteenth-century Britain. The significant roles played by institutions such as the Freemasons and foreign embassy chapels in promoting music making and introducing foreign styles to English music are examined, as well as the influence exerted by individuals, both foreign and British. The book covers the spectrum of British music, both sacred and secular, and both cosmopolitan and provincial. In doing so it helps to redress the picture of eighteenth-century British music which...
This collection of essays by some of the leading scholars in the field looks at various aspects of musical life in eighteenth-century Britain. The sig...
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702,94 |
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Russian Ã0/00migrã(c) Culture: Conservatism or Evolution?
ISBN: 9781443851527 / Angielski / Twarda / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Offers a collection of critical articles that resulted from the international interdisciplinary symposium which was held at Saarland University in November 2011 as part of a one-week festival, Russian Music in Exile."
Offers a collection of critical articles that resulted from the international interdisciplinary symposium which was held at Saarland University in Nov...
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255,10 |
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Music and Ultra-Modernism in France: A Fragile Consensus, 1913-1939
ISBN: 9781843838104 / Angielski / Twarda / 269 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Music and Ultra-Modernism in France examines the priorities of three generational groupings: the pre-war Societe Musicale Independente of Ravel and his circle, Les Six in the 1920s and Jeune France in 1936. Exploring the ideas of consensus, resistance and rupture, the book contributes an important and nuanced reflection to the current debate on modernism in music. It considers the roles composers, critics and biographers played in shaping debates about contemporary music, showing how composers including Ravel, Poulenc, Milhaud, Jolivet and Messiaen and critics such as Paul Landormy, Andre...
Music and Ultra-Modernism in France examines the priorities of three generational groupings: the pre-war Societe Musicale Independente of Ravel and hi...
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193,91 |
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Archipelagos of Sound: Transnational Caribbeanities, Women and Music
ISBN: 9789766402662 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The global reach and influence of Caribbean musics are remarkable, given the size of the island territories, populations and economies that comprise the region. The chapters in the collection span the Caribbean and its diasporas, accenting both relation and diversity, to include writing on artists from Guadeloupe, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, and the United States.The
The global reach and influence of Caribbean musics are remarkable, given the size of the island territories, populations and economies that comprise t...
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164,83 |
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Music and Society in Early Modern England
ISBN: 9781107610248 / Angielski / Miękka / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Music and Society in Early Modern England is the first comprehensive survey of English popular music during the early modern period to be published in over one hundred and fifty years. Christopher Marsh offers a fascinating and broad-ranging account of musicians, the power of music, broadside ballads, dancing, psalm-singing and bell-ringing. Drawing on sources ranging from ballads, plays, musical manuscripts and diaries to wills, inventories, speeches and court records, he investigates the part played by music in the negotiation of social relations, revealing its capacity both to unify and to...
Music and Society in Early Modern England is the first comprehensive survey of English popular music during the early modern period to be published in...
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231,35 |
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Tony Allen: An Autobiography of the Master Drummer of Afrobeat
ISBN: 9780822355779 / Angielski / Twarda / 199 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tony Allen is the autobiography of legendary Nigerian drummer Tony Allen, the rhythmic engine of Fela Kuti's Afrobeat. Conversational, inviting, and packed with telling anecdotes, Allen's memoir is based on hundreds of hours of interviews with the musician and scholar Michael E. Veal. It spans Allen's early years and career playing highlife music in Lagos; his fifteen years with Fela, from 1964 until 1979; his struggles to form his own bands in Nigeria; and his emigration to France.
Allen embraced the drum set, rather than African handheld drums, early in his career, when drum... Tony Allen is the autobiography of legendary Nigerian drummer Tony Allen, the rhythmic engine of Fela Kuti's Afrobeat. Conversational, inviting...
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455,70 |
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