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Japanese Popular Music: Culture, Authenticity, and Power
ISBN: 9780415380577 / Angielski / Twarda / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Japanese popular culture has been steadily increasing in visibility both in Asia and beyond in recent years. This book examines Japanese popular music, exploring its historical development, technology, business and production aspects, audiences, and language and culture. Based both on extensive textual and aural analysis, and on anthropological fieldwork, it provides a wealth of detail, finding differences as well as similarities between the Japanese and Western pop music scenes. Carolyn Stevens shows how Japanese popular music has responded over time to Japan's relationship to the... Japanese popular culture has been steadily increasing in visibility both in Asia and beyond in recent years. This book examines Japanese popular mu... |
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752,12 zł |
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Honoring God and the City: Music at the Venetian Confraternities 1260-1806
ISBN: 9780195342987 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Honoring God and the City presents the first detailed history of musical activities at Venetian lay confraternities, societies that were crucial to the cultural and ceremonial life of Venice. Based on over two decades of research in Venetian archives, musicologist Jonathan Glixon traces musical practices from the origins of the earliest confraternities in the mid-thirteenth century to their suppression under the French and Austrian governments in the early nineteenth century. Glixon first discusses the scole grandi, the largest and most important of the Venetian confraternities....
Honoring God and the City presents the first detailed history of musical activities at Venetian lay confraternities, societies that were cruc...
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175,78 zł |
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Interpreting the Musical Past: Early Music in Nineteenth-Century France
ISBN: 9780195365856 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In an era of heightened patriotic fervor following France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, Parisians packed concert halls to hear performances of Handel's oratorios and Bach's organ works. At the same time, both royalists and republicans called for the re-evaluation of the once detested musique francaise of the ancien regime. Musicologist Katharine Ellis examines these unlikely aspects of cultural life in the new Republic as part of a broader study of the early music revival in nineteenth-century France. This revival gives us a vivid sense of how music's cultural meanings were...
In an era of heightened patriotic fervor following France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, Parisians packed concert halls to hear performances of ...
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217,55 zł |
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French Music Since Berlioz
ISBN: 9780754602828 / Angielski / Twarda / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. French Music Since Berlioz explores key developments in French classical music during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This volume draws on the expertise of a range of French music scholars who provide their own perspectives on particular aspects of the subject. Deirdre Donnellon's introduction discusses important issues and debates in French classical music of the period, highlights key figures and institutions, and provides a context for the chapters that follow. The first two of these are concerned with opera in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries respectively, addressed by...
French Music Since Berlioz explores key developments in French classical music during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This volume draws on the...
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752,12 zł |
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World Musics in Context
ISBN: 9780198166368 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume contains a wide-ranging survey of musics of the world in historical and social contexts, from ancient times to the present day. It begins by describing aspects of musical style and function in relation to the early developments of civilizations, as background to a study of later transformations. It then describes, in some detail, musical traditions of Africa and Asia, in relation to history/geography and to other aspects of culture. A compendium of information currently available as well as a dialectical examination of musical causation and function, this book aims to lead...
This volume contains a wide-ranging survey of musics of the world in historical and social contexts, from ancient times to the present day. It begins ...
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2242,17 zł |
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Eighteenth-Century Russian Music
ISBN: 9780754634669 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Starting from an examination of the rich legacy of Russian music up to 1700, this book explores the development of music over the course of the eighteenth century. It focuses on what is characteristic and crucial to Russian music, and the musical culture o
Starting from an examination of the rich legacy of Russian music up to 1700, this book explores the development of music over the course of the eighte...
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752,12 zł |
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The Proms and Natural Justice
ISBN: 9780907689003 / Angielski / Miękka / 66 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dr Robert Simpson, one of Britain's finest composers and for nearly thirty years a BBC music producer, scrutinises the methods by which the BBC plans the annual Promenade Concerts. Basing his argument on long experience inside the BBC, Dr Simpson argues the only logical way to give the Proms the flair that a single imagination can provide - without those otherwise inevitable long-term imbalances - is to limit the tenure of the Controller to four or five years. Dr Simpson further examines the artistic gains and financial savings to be made from more extensive use of the BBC's own orchestra. He...
Dr Robert Simpson, one of Britain's finest composers and for nearly thirty years a BBC music producer, scrutinises the methods by which the BBC plans ...
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51,82 zł |
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Secular Devotion : Afro-Latin Music and Imperial Jazz
ISBN: 9781844672912 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Popular music in the Americas, from jazz, Cuban and Latin salsa to disco and rap, is overwhelmingly neo-African. Created in the midst of war and military invasion, and filtered through a Western worldview, these musical forms are completely modern in their sensibilities: they are in fact the very sound of modern life. But the African religious philosophy at their core involved a longing for earlier eras ones that pre-dated the technological discipline of labor forced on captive populations by the European occupiers. In this groundbreaking new book, Timothy Brennan shows how the popular... Popular music in the Americas, from jazz, Cuban and Latin salsa to disco and rap, is overwhelmingly neo-African. Created in the midst of war and mi... |
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151,56 zł |
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Music at the Aragonese Court of Naples
ISBN: 9780521088305 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book deals with various aspects of musical life at the Aragonese court of Naples, from its establishment in 1442 to its demise in the opening years of the sixteenth century. An opening chapter gives a general historical-cultural background of the court. The author then discusses the royal chapel and its most important members, as well as other important musicians who were in Naples but who had no known ties with the court in an official sense. He goes on to describe the various types of secular music at the court and the music manuscripts compiled in and around Naples. The importance of...
This book deals with various aspects of musical life at the Aragonese court of Naples, from its establishment in 1442 to its demise in the opening yea...
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247,65 zł |
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Musical References in the Gazzetta di Napoli, 1681-1725
ISBN: 9780914913184 / Włoski / Twarda / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contains 547 extracts from the news journal Gazzetta di Napoli relating to music. The rarely studied sources provide information on the activity of Alessandro Scarlatti, and confirm the importance of seasonal dynastic and religious celebrations for the era's music. Includes a 5.25 diskette with all
Contains 547 extracts from the news journal Gazzetta di Napoli relating to music. The rarely studied sources provide information on the activity of Al...
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540,56 zł |
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Music in Renaissance Ferrara 1400-1505: The Creation of a Musical Center in the Fifteenth Century
ISBN: 9780195378276 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on extensive documentary and archival research, Music in Renaissance Ferrarais a study of the rise of music at a vital center of Italian Renaissance culture, focusing on the patrons and musicians whose efforts gave Ferrara a primary role in European music during the fifteenth century. The successive rulers of the Italian city-state, members of the Este dynasty, brought to Ferrara some of the most important composers of the period, including Guillaume Dufay, Johannes Martini, Jacob Obrecht, and Josquin Desprez. Moreover, Ferrara has long been famous as the seat of activity of...
Based on extensive documentary and archival research, Music in Renaissance Ferrarais a study of the rise of music at a vital center of Italia...
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301,14 zł |
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Music in Eighteenth-Century England: Essays in Memory of Charles Cudworth
ISBN: 9780521090087 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. English eighteenth-century music is comparatively neglected as an academic topic despite its increasing popularity with listeners, both on record and in the concert hall. Yet England in the eighteenth century was the scene of the liveliest and most various musical activity. The essays in this book, by leading English and American scholars, are devoted to the social and intellectual background, and to the composers who dominated the period, including Handel and Haydn.
English eighteenth-century music is comparatively neglected as an academic topic despite its increasing popularity with listeners, both on record and ...
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242,49 zł |
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His Master's Voice/de Stem Van Zijn Meester: The Dutch Catalogue, a Complete Numerical Catalogue of Dutch and Belgian Gramophone Recordings Made from
ISBN: 9780313298837 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This survey of sound recordings made in Europe by The Gramophone Company (1900-1929) covers the Dutch area and includes Belgian material also. Classical music together with popular and comic songs and social comment dealing with the era are featured.
This survey of sound recordings made in Europe by The Gramophone Company (1900-1929) covers the Dutch area and includes Belgian material also. Classic...
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409,50 zł |
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Singing the Classical, Voicing the Modern: The Postcolonial Politics of Music in South India
ISBN: 9780822336310 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An ethnographic history and critique of the emergence of South Indian carnatic music as a "classical" music in the 20th century.
An ethnographic history and critique of the emergence of South Indian carnatic music as a "classical" music in the 20th century.
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461,64 zł |
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Great Spirits: Portraits of Life-Changing World Music Artists
ISBN: 9781604732399 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What do such artists as Bob Marley, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, Nina Simone, and Sun Ra have in common? All created uniquely powerful musical art that had a profound effect on their audiences. Through their music and their lives they became forces for liberation, challenging the established order and inspiring people around the world to look at life in new ways. So great was their originality that to a large extent they created their own musical genres, and listeners claim the music leads them to a higher state of being. Great Spirits: Portraits of Life-Changing World Music Artists... What do such artists as Bob Marley, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, Nina Simone, and Sun Ra have in common? All created uniquely powerful musical art that had... |
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674,12 zł |
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The Irishness of Irish Music
ISBN: 9780754657149 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book brings together important material from a range of sources and highlights how government organizations, musicians, academics and commercial companies are concerned with, and seek to use, a particular notion of Irish musical identity. Rooting the study in the context of the recent history of popular, traditional and classical music in Ireland, as well as providing an overview of aspects of the national field of music production and consumption, O'Flynn goes on to argue that the relationship between Irish identity and Irish music emerges as a contested site of meaning. His analysis...
This book brings together important material from a range of sources and highlights how government organizations, musicians, academics and commercial ...
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752,12 zł |
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The Ceremonial Musicians of Late Medieval Florence
ISBN: 9780253353047 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Ceremonial Musicians of Late Medieval Florence follows the development of Florentine musical ensembles, describing their duties and repertories, placing them in their political and social context, and tracing their changes through the years of the Florentine Republic. From the 13th through the 16th centuries, the city of Florence was the most powerful in Europe. It was a center of finance and trade, as well as art and music. The Republic employed musicians to perform for the enormous number of ceremonial events each year. These musicians were the most visible (and audible) symbols of... The Ceremonial Musicians of Late Medieval Florence follows the development of Florentine musical ensembles, describing their duties and repertories... |
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169,26 zł |
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Musical Life in Biedermeier Vienna
ISBN: 9780521104845 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the impact of the daily life, political climate and artistic institutions of Vienna on its musicians and musical tastes between 1815 and 1830.
This book examines the impact of the daily life, political climate and artistic institutions of Vienna on its musicians and musical tastes between 181...
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221,84 zł |
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Music and the Myth of Arcadia in Renaissance Italy
ISBN: 9780521899567 / Angielski / Twarda / 445 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The idea that there was a time when men and women lived in perfect harmony with nature and with themselves, though rooted in classical antiquity, was one of the most fertile products of the Renaissance literary and artistic imagination. This book explores one specific aspect of this idea: the musical representation and stylization of the myth of Arcadia in sixteenth-century Italy. Giuseppe Gerbino outlines how Renaissance culture strove to keep this utopia alive and demonstrates how music played a fundamental role in the construction and preservation of this collective illusion. Covering a...
The idea that there was a time when men and women lived in perfect harmony with nature and with themselves, though rooted in classical antiquity, was ...
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595,98 zł |
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Music and Poetry in the Early Tudor Court
ISBN: 9780521294171 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. John Stevens' book examines the complex interplay between lyrical and musical compositions in the courts of Henry VII and VIII.
John Stevens' book examines the complex interplay between lyrical and musical compositions in the courts of Henry VII and VIII.
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294,09 zł |
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