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The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Africa [With Audio CD and Map]
ISBN: 9780824060350 / Angielski / Twarda / 868 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The premiere volume of the " Garland Encyclopedia of World Music " series offers a comprehensive view of African music as a vital part of the social and cultural life of it peoples. The 34 expert contributors have all conducted fieldwork in Africa and their firsthand experience is reflected in the immediacy of their observations. In 39 articles, this encyclopedia explores key themes in African music that have emerged in recent years - a subject usually neglected in country-by-country coverage; emphasizes the contexts of musical performance-unlike studies that offer static interpretations...
The premiere volume of the " Garland Encyclopedia of World Music " series offers a comprehensive view of African music as a vital part of the social a...
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2287,87 |
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The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Australia and the Pacific Islands [With Audio CD]
ISBN: 9780824060381 / Angielski / Twarda / 1116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recognizing music as a vital social and cultural force, each volume of this set of book on geographical areas of world music focuses on a single region and examines the role of music in the lives, arts and culture of its people. This volume describes the essential fabric of Australia and the Pacific Islands and then explores the traditions, performance practices, and themes that bind the music together into a dynamic tapestry of art and daily life. The coverage provides an overview of the region, reviews its music heritage and scholarship, and describes specific musical cultures, genres, and...
Recognizing music as a vital social and cultural force, each volume of this set of book on geographical areas of world music focuses on a single regio...
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2677,29 |
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The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Southeast Asia [With Audio CD]
ISBN: 9780824060404 / Angielski / Twarda / 1046 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recognizing music as a vital social and cultural force, each volume of this set of book on geographical areas of world music focuses on a single region and examines the role of music in the lives, arts and culture of its people. This volume describes the essential fabric of Southeast Asia's and then explores the traditions, performance practices, and themes that bind the music together into a dynamic tapestry of art and daily life. The coverage provides an overview of the region, reviews its music heritage and scholarship, and describes specific musical cultures, genres, and traditions. The...
Recognizing music as a vital social and cultural force, each volume of this set of book on geographical areas of world music focuses on a single regio...
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2068,82 |
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The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: East Asia: China, Japan, and Korea [With Audio CD]
ISBN: 9780824060411 / Angielski / Twarda / 1190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recognizing music as a vital social and cultural force, each volume of this set of book on geographical areas of world music focuses on a single region and examines the role of music in the lives, arts and culture of its people. This volume describes the essential fabric of East Asia and then explores the traditions, performance practices, and themes that bind the music together into a dynamic tapestry of art and daily life. The coverage provides an overview of the region, reviews its music heritage and scholarship, and describes specific musical cultures, genres, and traditions. The entire...
Recognizing music as a vital social and cultural force, each volume of this set of book on geographical areas of world music focuses on a single regio...
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2287,87 |
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The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: The Middle East [With Audio CD]
ISBN: 9780824060428 / Angielski / Twarda / 1212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recognizing music as a vital social and cultural force, each volume of this set of book on geographical areas of world music focuses on a single region and examines the role of music in the lives, arts and culture of its people. This volume describes the essential fabric of Middle East and then explores the traditions, performance practices, and themes that bind the music together into a dynamic tapestry of art and daily life. The coverage provides an overview of the region, reviews its music heritage and scholarship, and describes specific musical cultures, genres, and traditions. The entire...
Recognizing music as a vital social and cultural force, each volume of this set of book on geographical areas of world music focuses on a single regio...
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2287,87 |
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Television Opera: The Fall of Opera Commissioned for Television
ISBN: 9780851159126 / Angielski / Twarda / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Television opera - that is, opera commissioned for television - was one of the earliest attempts by television to bridge the distinction between high culture and popular culture: between 1951 and 2002, in Britain and the United States, over fifty operas were commissioned for television. This book discusses three case studies, the first a live broadcast, the second a video recording, and the third a filmed opera made for television: Gian Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors (NBC, 1951); Benjamin Britten's Owen Wingrave (BBC, 1971), taking into account Britten's earlier television...
Television opera - that is, opera commissioned for television - was one of the earliest attempts by television to bridge the distinction between high ...
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316,41 |
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Perception and Cognition of Music
ISBN: 9780863774522 / Angielski / Twarda / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text comprises of reviews of work relating to music and mind. It presents a range of approaches from the psychological through the computational, to the musicological. The reviews were selected from papers submitted at the Third International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (Liege 1994) to illustrate the wide range of perspectives now being adopted in studying how humans make and respond to music.
This text comprises of reviews of work relating to music and mind. It presents a range of approaches from the psychological through the computational,...
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924,88 |
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The Guide to Classic Recorded Jazz
ISBN: 9780877454892 / Angielski / Miękka / 410 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A solid introductory guide to classical jazz naming the greats, their influences, and providing neophyte listeners with keys to listening and appreciating this musical genre. Free-lance music critic Piazza explains the science of riffing and the development of bebop and harmonic ensemble thinking.
A solid introductory guide to classical jazz naming the greats, their influences, and providing neophyte listeners with keys to listening and apprecia...
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117,60 |
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The Modern Amazons: Warrior Women On-Screen
ISBN: 9780879103279 / Angielski / Miękka / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Modern Amazons: Warrior Women on Screen documents the public's seemingly insatiable fascination with the warrior woman archetype in film and on television. The book examines the cautious beginnings of new roles for women in the late fifties, the rapid development of female action leads during the burgeoning second-wave feminist movement in the late sixties and seventies, and the present-day onslaught of female action characters now leaping from page to screen. The book itself is organized into chapters that group women warriors into sub-genres, e.g., classic Amazons like Xena Warrior...
The Modern Amazons: Warrior Women on Screen documents the public's seemingly insatiable fascination with the warrior woman archetype in film and on te...
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121,00 |
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Why Is That So Funny?: A Practical Exploration of Physical Comedy
ISBN: 9780879103439 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. (Book). This unique exploration of the principles and practice of physical comedy starts with a discussion of the various types of laughter that can be provoked by performance. It then presents graduated sequences of over a hundred games and exercises devised to demonstrate and investigate the whole range of comic possibilities open to a performer. The result is an intensely practical and thoroughly stimulating investigation of how comedy works in physical terms.
(Book). This unique exploration of the principles and practice of physical comedy starts with a discussion of the various types of laughter that can b...
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121,00 |
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In Cold Sweat: Interviews with Really Scary Musicians
ISBN: 9780879109561 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. (Limelight). From the chaotic world of music journalism comes this collection of unabridged, unexpurgated interviews with four of the brightest, most influential and complex pop and rock musicians alive: Gene Simmons of Kiss, Peter Hook of New Order, Jerry Casale of Devo, and Scott Thunes of Frank Zappa fame. They are all bass players and they are all plainspoken, profane, stressed out, caustic, antagonistic and on occasion so belligerent they are prepared to engage in psychological warfare with their interviewer. Each interview is illustrated with striking, often candid photographs, and...
(Limelight). From the chaotic world of music journalism comes this collection of unabridged, unexpurgated interviews with four of the brightest, most ...
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96,80 |
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jambands: the complete guide to the players, music, & scene
ISBN: 9780879307455 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Offers a look at a wide array of bands in this expanding musical and cultural phenomenon, covering over 170 groups such as Phish, Widespread Panic, and Ten Ton Chicken.
Offers a look at a wide array of bands in this expanding musical and cultural phenomenon, covering over 170 groups such as Phish, Widespread Panic, an...
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121,00 |
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Harmonic Experience: Tonal Harmony from Its Natural Origins to Its Modern Expression
ISBN: 9780892815609 / Angielski / Miękka / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An exploration of musical harmony from its ancient fundamentals to its most complex modern progressions, addressing how and why it resonates emotionally and spiritually in the individual. W. A. Mathieu, an accomplished author and recording artist, presents a way of learning music that reconnects modern-day musicians with the source from which music was originally generated. As the author states, "The rules of music--including counterpoint and harmony--were not formed in our brains but in the resonance chambers of our bodies." His theory of music reconciles the ancient harmonic system of...
An exploration of musical harmony from its ancient fundamentals to its most complex modern progressions, addressing how and why it resonates emotional...
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192,15 |
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101 More Music Games for Children: More Fun and Learning with Rhythm and Song
ISBN: 9780897932981 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection offers parents, teachers, and anyone else who works with kids a wide array of ingenious sound and dance activities from a variety of cultures to get kids singing, dancing, listening, interacting, and involved. 30 B&W illustrations. 16 charts.
This collection offers parents, teachers, and anyone else who works with kids a wide array of ingenious sound and dance activities from a variety of c...
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76,82 |
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Chords For Mandolin, Irish Banjo, Bouzouki: Tenor Mandola and Mandocello
ISBN: 9780946005475 / Angielski / Miękka / 20 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the perfect reference for chords for mandolin, banjo and bouzouki. The book contains easy chords in all keys, with sections on tunings, capos and chord relations. John Loesberg has created another intelligible and intuitive didactic book which will be invaluable for all players of Irish traditional music.
This is the perfect reference for chords for mandolin, banjo and bouzouki. The book contains easy chords in all keys, with sections on tunings, capos ...
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40,31 |
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Tube Guitar Amplifier Essentials Bk
ISBN: 9780964106024 / Angielski / Miękka / 529 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the amp guru, and columnist for Vintage Guitar magazine, comes a future classic that features more than 60 easy-reading chapters de-mystifying the complex world of tube amplifiers. Over eight years in the making, it covers the basic knowledge and the practical steps to work on this type of amplifier, the preferred type of amp for millions of guitarists and technicians.
From the amp guru, and columnist for Vintage Guitar magazine, comes a future classic that features more than 60 easy-reading chapters de-mystifying th...
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134,32 |
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The James Taylor Encyclopedia
ISBN: 9781411634770 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An exhaustive reference that offers just about everything a James Taylor fan could want to know. From the webmaster of James Taylor Online, the net's oldest and most popular web site about singer-songwriter James Taylor.
An exhaustive reference that offers just about everything a James Taylor fan could want to know. From the webmaster of James Taylor Online, the net's ...
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68,60 |
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The Pocket DJ
ISBN: 9781416907237 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With more than two thousand songs handpicked and organized by former Spin magazine writer and editor Sarah Lewitinn (aka Ultragrrrl), The Pocket DJ is the ultimate insider's reference guide for selecting music, downloading MP3s, and making all-purpose mixes for every occasion imaginable. Playlists include:
- Essential genres: with crowd-pleasing dance mixes for indie rockers, headbangers, and hip-hop lovers alike - Essential artists: with the best songs by all the greats from the Beatles to Bjork - Celebrity playlists: featuring Duran Duran, Smahing Pumpkins,... With more than two thousand songs handpicked and organized by former Spin magazine writer and editor Sarah Lewitinn (aka Ultragrrrl), The Po...
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103,57 |
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The Wall of Fame: New York City's Legendary Manny's Music
ISBN: 9781423405559 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Before the popularity of the electric guitar and before every teenager with a rock 'n' roll dream had a band in their garage, Manny's Music in New York City was providing the hardware for swing stars and big bands, and establishing itself as the place to go for the musician in the know. Besides being a garden of delight for musicians looking for the latest gear, Manny's became a center of activity where stories and tips were swapped among superstars and budding musicians alike. The Wall of Fame is not only for anyone who has ever bought a guitar or played in a band, but for fans and music...
Before the popularity of the electric guitar and before every teenager with a rock 'n' roll dream had a band in their garage, Manny's Music in New Yor...
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cena:
154,95 |
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The Place of Music
ISBN: 9781572303140 / Angielski / Miękka / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Music is omnipresent in human society, but its language can no longer be regarded as transcendent or universal. Like other art forms, music is produced and consumed within complex economic, cultural, and political frameworks in different places and at different historical moments. Taking an explicitly spatial approach, this unique interdisciplinary text explores the role played by music in the formation and articulation of geographical imaginations--local, regional, national, and global. Contributors show how music's facility to be recorded, stored, and broadcast; to be performed and received...
Music is omnipresent in human society, but its language can no longer be regarded as transcendent or universal. Like other art forms, music is produce...
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cena:
209,27 |