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Let's Make Some Noise: Axé and the African Roots of Brazilian Popular Music
ISBN: 9781617033278 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Clarence Bernard Henry's book is a culmination of several years of field research on sacred and secular influences of ase, the West African Yoruba concept that spread to Brazil and throughout the African Diaspora. Ase is imagined as power and creative energy bestowed upon human beings by ancestral spirits acting as guardians. In Brazil, the West African Yoruba concept of ase is known as axe and has been reinvented, transmitted, and nurtured in Candomble, an Afro-Brazilian religion that is practiced in Salvador, Bahia. The author examines how the concepts of axe and Candomble religion... Clarence Bernard Henry's book is a culmination of several years of field research on sacred and secular influences of ase, the West African Yoruba ... |
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219,30 zł |
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Whose Spain?: Negotiating Spanish Music in Paris, 1908-1929
ISBN: 9780199858460 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the very beginning of the nineteenth century, many elements of Spanish culture carried an air of 'exoticism' for the French-and nothing played more important of a role in shaping the French idea of Spain than the country's musical tradition. However, as Samuel Llano argues in Whose Spain?, perceptions and representations of Spanish musical identities changed in the early twentieth century, due to the emergence of the hispanistes. These specialists on Spanish music and culture, who wrote encyclopedic and 'scientific' articles on 'Spanish music, ' strived to endow the...
From the very beginning of the nineteenth century, many elements of Spanish culture carried an air of 'exoticism' for the French-and nothing played mo...
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306,05 zł |
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Tripping the World Fantastic: A Journey Through the Music of Our Planet
ISBN: 9781459706545 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A fascinating journey through the world s musical cultures. Every culture on Earth has music. Every culture that s ever existed has had it, but we don t exactly know why. Music is not like food, shelter, or having opposable thumbs. We don t need it to live, and yet we can t seem to live without it. Glenn Dixon travels the globe exploring how and why people make music.From a tour of Bob Marley s house to sitar lessons in India, he experiences music around the world and infuses the stories with the latest in brain research, genetics, and evolutionary psychology. Why does music... A fascinating journey through the world s musical cultures. Every culture on Earth has music. Every culture that s ever existed has ha... |
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117,33 zł |
![Music in Mexico: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture [With CD (Audio)] [With CD (Audio)] Madrid, Alejandro L. 9780199812806 Oxford University Press, USA](/9780199812806_music_in_mexico_experiencing_music_expressing_culture_with_cd_audio_with_cd_audio.jpg "Music in Mexico: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture [With CD (Audio)] [With CD (Audio)]") |
Music in Mexico: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture [With CD (Audio)] [With CD (Audio)]
ISBN: 9780199812806 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The complex legacy of Mexico's ethnic past and geographic location have shaped the country and its culture. In Music in Mexico, Alejandro L. Madrid uses extensive fieldwork, interviews with performers, eyewitness accounts of performances, and vivid illustrations to guide students through modern-day music practices. Applying three themes-ethnic identity, migration, and media influences-the text explores the music that Mexicans grow up listening to and shows how these traditions are the result of long-standing transnational dialogues. Packaged with a 40-minute audio CD containing...
The complex legacy of Mexico's ethnic past and geographic location have shaped the country and its culture. In Music in Mexico, Alejandro L. ...
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633,08 zł |
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Von Den «Juryfreien» Zur «Musica Viva»: Karl Amadeus Hartmann Und Die Neue Musik in Muenchen
ISBN: 9783631603086 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Der Komponist Karl Amadeus Hartmann war im Munchner Kulturleben der Nachkriegszeit eine Personlichkeit der ersten Stunde. Bereits im Sommer 1945 begann er im Auftrag der Bayerischen Staatsoper und spater des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Konzerte mit zeitgenossischer Musik und mit Werken noch kurz zuvor verfemter Komponisten zu organisieren.Vielfaltige Hindernisse waren dabei im von schweren Kriegsschaden gezeichneten Munchen zu uberwinden, um die Konzertreihe musica viva zu dem zu machen, was sie innerhalb nur weniger Jahre unter seiner Leitung wurde: ein weltweit anerkanntes Forum fur neue...
Der Komponist Karl Amadeus Hartmann war im Munchner Kulturleben der Nachkriegszeit eine Personlichkeit der ersten Stunde. Bereits im Sommer 1945 began...
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407,95 zł |
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Composing the Party Line: Music and Politics in Early Cold War Poland and East Germany
ISBN: 9781557536471 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the exercise of power in the Stalinist music world as well as the ways in which composers and ordinary people responded to it. It presents a comparative inquiry into the relationship between music and politics in the German Democratic Republic and Poland from the aftermath of World War II through Stalin's death in 1953, concluding with the slow process of de-Stalinization in the mid-to late-1950s. The author explores how the Communist parties in both countries expressed their attitudes to music of all kinds, and how composers, performers, and audiences cooperated with,...
This book examines the exercise of power in the Stalinist music world as well as the ways in which composers and ordinary people responded to it. It p...
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249,43 zł |
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Flowing Tides: History and Memory in an Irish Soundscape
ISBN: 9780199380084 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Despite its isolation on the western edge of Europe, Ireland occupies vast amounts of space on the music maps of the world. Although deeply rooted in time and place, Irish songs, dances and instrumental traditions have a history of global travel that span the centuries. Whether carried by exiles, or distributed by commercial networks, Irish traditional music is one of the most popular World Music genres, while Clare, on Ireland's Atlantic seaboard, enjoys unrivaled status as a "Home of the Music," a mecca for tourists and aficionados eager to enjoy the authentic sounds of Ireland. For the...
Despite its isolation on the western edge of Europe, Ireland occupies vast amounts of space on the music maps of the world. Although deeply rooted in ...
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281,48 zł |
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Music in Germany Since 1968
ISBN: 9780521877596 / Angielski / Twarda / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Alastair Williams argues that the social transformations of 1968 led to a new phase of art music in Germany.
Alastair Williams argues that the social transformations of 1968 led to a new phase of art music in Germany.
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276,57 zł |
![Yorb Music in the Twentieth Century: Identity, Agency, and Performance Practice [With CD (Audio)] Bode Omojola 9781580464093 0](/9781580464093_yorb_music_in_the_twentieth_century_identity_agency_and_performance_practice_with_cd_audio.jpg "Yorb Music in the Twentieth Century: Identity, Agency, and Performance Practice [With CD (Audio)]") |
Yorb Music in the Twentieth Century: Identity, Agency, and Performance Practice [With CD (Audio)]
ISBN: 9781580464093 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the primeval age of Ayanagalu (the Yoruba pioneer-drummer-turned-deity-of-drumming) to the modern era, Yoruba musical traditions have been shaped by individual performers: drummers, dancers, singers, and chanters, who express self-mediated visions of their social and cultural environment. Yoruba Music in the Twentieth Century explores the role of the performer and the performing group in creating these traditions, contributing to the ongoing reorientation of scholarship on African music toward individual creativity within a larger social network. Drawing on extensive field research...
From the primeval age of Ayanagalu (the Yoruba pioneer-drummer-turned-deity-of-drumming) to the modern era, Yoruba musical traditions have been shaped...
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389,03 zł |
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Making New Zealand's Pop Renaissance: State, Markets, Musicians
ISBN: 9781409443353 / Angielski / Twarda / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the early 2000s New Zealand has undergone a pop renaissance. Domestic artists' sales, airplay and concert attendance have all grown dramatically while new avenues for 'kiwi' pop exports emerged. Concurrent with these trends was a new collective sentiment that embraced and celebrated domestic musicians. In Making New Zealand's Pop Renaissance, Michael Scott argues that this revival arose from state policies and shows how the state built market opportunities for popular musicians through publica "private partnerships and organizational affinity with existing music industry institutions....
Since the early 2000s New Zealand has undergone a pop renaissance. Domestic artists' sales, airplay and concert attendance have all grown dramatically...
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752,12 zł |
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Music, Travel, and Imperial Encounter in 19th-Century France: Musical Apprehensions
ISBN: 9781138777996 / Angielski / Twarda / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book considers the activities and writings of early song collectors and proto-ethnomusicologists, memoirists, and other musical travelers in 19th-century France. Each of the book's discrete but interrelated chapters is devoted to a different geographic and discursive site of empire, examining French representations of musical encounters in North America, the Middle East, as well as in contested areas within the borders of metropolitan France. Rosenberg highlights intersections between an emergent ethnographie musicale in France and narratives of musical encounter found in French travel...
This book considers the activities and writings of early song collectors and proto-ethnomusicologists, memoirists, and other musical travelers in 19th...
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778,05 zł |
![Yorùbá Music in the Twentieth Century: Identity, Agency, and Performance Practice [With CD (Audio)] Omojola, Bode 9781580464932 University of Rochester Press](/9781580464932_yorb_music_in_the_twentieth_century_identity_agency_and_performance_practice_with_cd_audio.jpg "Yorùbá Music in the Twentieth Century: Identity, Agency, and Performance Practice [With CD (Audio)]") |
Yorùbá Music in the Twentieth Century: Identity, Agency, and Performance Practice [With CD (Audio)]
ISBN: 9781580464932 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the primeval age of Ayanagalu (the Yoruba pioneer-drummer-turned-deity-of-drumming) to the modern era, Yoruba musical traditions have been shaped by individual performers: drummers, dancers, singers, and chanters, who express self-mediated visions of their social and cultural environment. Yoruba Music in the Twentieth Century explores the role of the performer and the performing group in creating these traditions, contributing to the ongoing reorientation of scholarship on African music toward individual creativity within a larger social network. Drawing on extensive field research...
From the primeval age of Ayanagalu (the Yoruba pioneer-drummer-turned-deity-of-drumming) to the modern era, Yoruba musical traditions have been shaped...
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171,12 zł |
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The Music of the Netherlands Antilles: Why Eleven Antilleans Knelt Before Chopin's Heart
ISBN: 9781628461855 / Angielski / Twarda / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Music of the Netherlands Antilles: Why Eleven Antilleans Knelt before Chopin's Heart is not your usual musical scholarship. In October 1999, eleven Antilleans attended the service held to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Frederic Chopin's death. This service, held in the Warsaw church where the composer's heart is kept in an urn, was an opportunity for these Antilleans to express their debt of gratitude to Chopin, whose influence is central to Antillean music history. Press coverage of this event caused Dutch novelist and author Jan Brokken (b. 1949) to start writing this... The Music of the Netherlands Antilles: Why Eleven Antilleans Knelt before Chopin's Heart is not your usual musical scholarship. In October 1... |
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675,74 zł |
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Composing the Canon in the German Democratic Republic: Narratives of Nineteenth-Century Music
ISBN: 9780199998098 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When the German Democratic Republic (GDR) was founded in 1949, its leaders did not position it as a new state. Instead, they represented East German socialism as the culmination of all that was positive in Germany's past. The GDR was heralded as the second German Enlightenment, a society in which the rational ideals of progress, Bildung, and revolution that had first come to fruition with Goethe and Beethoven would finally achieve their apotheosis. Central to this founding myth was the Germanic musical heritage. Just as the canon had defined the idea of the German nation in the...
When the German Democratic Republic (GDR) was founded in 1949, its leaders did not position it as a new state. Instead, they represented East German s...
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416,27 zł |
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Bach in Berlin: Nation and Culture in Mendelssohn's Revival of the St. Matthew Passion
ISBN: 9780801479724 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bach's St. Matthew Passion is universally acknowledged to be one of the world's supreme musical masterpieces, yet in the years after Bach's death it was forgotten by all but a small number of his pupils and admirers. The public rediscovered it in 1829, when Felix Mendelssohn conducted the work before a glittering audience of Berlin artists and intellectuals, Prussian royals, and civic notables. The concert soon became the stuff of legend, sparking a revival of interest in and performance of Bach that has continued to this day. Mendelssohn's performance gave rise to the... Bach's St. Matthew Passion is universally acknowledged to be one of the world's supreme musical masterpieces, yet in the years after Bach'... |
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155,56 zł |
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The Advancement of Music in Enlightenment England: Benjamin Cooke and the Academy of Ancient Music
ISBN: 9781843839064 / Angielski / Twarda / 319 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'This is a book guaranteed to make waves. It skilfully weaves the story of one key musical figure into the story of one key institution, which it then weaves into the general story of music in eighteenth-century England. Anyone reading it will come away with fresh knowledge and perceptions - plus a great urge to hear Cooke's music.' Michael Talbot, Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of Liverpool and Fellow of the British Academy. Amidst the cosmopolitan, fashion obsessed concert life of later eighteenth century London there existed a discrete musical counterculture centred round a...
'This is a book guaranteed to make waves. It skilfully weaves the story of one key musical figure into the story of one key institution, which it then...
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492,77 zł |
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The Last Love of Edith Piaf
ISBN: 9782809815924 / Francuski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At the age of 26, ThA(c)ophanis Lamboukas meets Edith Piaf, in January 1962. He is to become her second husband and the duo will perform her last big hit, a A quoi Aa sert la (TM)amour?a (TM)
When the stara (TM)s secretary, Claude Figus, introduces them to each other, ThA(c)o is so dazzled by a the Little Sparrowa (TM) that he is speechless with emotion. Smitten, Edith confides to Figus, a I want to see your friend again so I can find out whether hea (TM)s as smart as he is good-looking, because he hasna (TM)t said a word all evening.a (TM) They are driven to see each other again... At the age of 26, ThA(c)ophanis Lamboukas meets Edith Piaf, in January 1962. He is to become her second husband and the duo will perform her last big ...
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121,66 zł |
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Performing Gender, Place, and Emotion in Music: Global Perspectives
ISBN: 9781580465434 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While ethnomusicologists and anthropologists have long recognized the theoretical connections between gender, place, and emotion in musical performance, these concepts are seldom analyzed together. I>Performing Gender, Place, and Emotion in Music is the first book-length study to examine the interweaving of these three concepts from a cross-cultural perspective. Contributors show how a theoretical focus one dimension implicates the others, creating a nexus of performative engagement. This process is examined across different regions around the globe, through two key questions: How are...
While ethnomusicologists and anthropologists have long recognized the theoretical connections between gender, place, and emotion in musical performanc...
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145,18 zł |
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British Musical Modernism: The Manchester Group and Their Contemporaries
ISBN: 9780521844482 / Angielski / Twarda / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. British Musical Modernism explores the works of eleven key composers to reveal the rapid shifts of expression and technique that transformed British art music in the post-war period. Responding to radical avant-garde developments in post-war Europe, the Manchester Group composers - Alexander Goehr, Peter Maxwell Davies, and Harrison Birtwistle - and their contemporaries assimilated the serial-structuralist preoccupations of mid-century internationalism to an art grounded in resurgent local traditions. In close readings of some thirty-five scores, Philip Rupprecht traces a modernism suffused...
British Musical Modernism explores the works of eleven key composers to reveal the rapid shifts of expression and technique that transformed British a...
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389,59 zł |
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War, Exile and the Music of Afghanistan: The Ethnographer's Tale
ISBN: 9781472415820 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the 1970s John Baily conducted extensive ethnomusicological research in Afghanistan, principally in the city of Herat but also in Kabul. Then, with Taraki s coup in 1978, came conflict, war, and the dispersal of many musicians to locations far and wide. This new publication is the culmination of Baily s further research on Afghan music over the 35 years that followed. This took him to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, the USA, Australia and parts of Europe - London, Hamburg and Dublin. Arranged chronologically, the narrative traces the sequence of political events - from 1978, through the...
In the 1970s John Baily conducted extensive ethnomusicological research in Afghanistan, principally in the city of Herat but also in Kabul. Then, with...
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700,25 zł |
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