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  • Dead (Spoiler Alert): A Psychotherapist's Journey with Cancer

    by Derek Scott ...
    A psychotherapist with terminal cancer approaches the end of his life with the understanding that he is being called home and that cancer is the body's response to the call to facilitate the journey.How he comes to this realization is documented as a journey starting when he discovered Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy and psychedelic medicine work in the same year, 20 years before his ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Revisiting the Popular in Music History

    by Derek B. Scott ...
    This book brings together a significant part of Derek B. Scott’s diverse academic work, showing that the cultural history of music matters not only for the understanding it can bring to the meaning and purpose of music-making, but also because it can play a role in the development of social justice and a democratic culture. Where music history is concerned, Scott argues that we should offer ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • Picnic Pigs

    by Derek Fridolfs ...
    Illustrated by Scott Gross ...
    Series series Looney Tunes Wordless Graphic Novels
    As Porky and Petunia settle in for a picnic in the park, nature crashes their party. Can Porky overcome the elements in time to get some cake and eat it too? Get ready to giggle with a hilarious Looney Tunes wordless graphic novel! ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • German Operetta on Broadway and in the West End, 1900–1940

    by Derek B. Scott ...
    Academic attention has focused on America's influence on European stage works, and yet dozens of operettas from Austria and Germany were produced on Broadway and in the West End, and their impact on the musical life of the early twentieth century is undeniable. In this ground breaking book, Derek B. Scott examines the cultural transfer of operetta from the German stage to Britain and the USA and ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • The Singing Bourgeois

    Songs of the Victorian Drawing Room and Parlour

    by Derek B. Scott ...
    Series series Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain
    First published in 1989, The Singing Bourgeois challenges the myth that the 'Victorian parlour song' was a clear-cut genre. Derek Scott reveals the huge diversity of musical forms and styles that influenced the songs performed in middle class homes during the nineteenth century, from the assimilation of Celtic and Afro-American culture by songwriters, to the emergence of forms of sacred song ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • From the Erotic to the Demonic

    On Critical Musicology

    by Derek B. Scott ...
    From the Erotic to the Demonic demonstrates how different musical styles construct ideas of class, sexuality, and ethnic identity. This book will serve as a model for musicologists who want to take a postmodern approach to their inquiries. The clear and lively arguments are supported by ninety musical examples taken from such diverse sources as opera, symphonic music, jazz, and nineteenth- and ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • Sounds of the Metropolis

    The 19th Century Popular Music Revolution in London, New York, Paris and Vienna

    by Derek B. Scott ...
    The phrase "popular music revolution" may instantly bring to mind such twentieth-century musical movements as jazz and rock 'n' roll. In Sounds of the Metropolis, however, Derek Scott argues that the first popular music revolution actually occurred in the nineteenth century, illustrating how a distinct group of popular styles first began to assert their independence and values. He explains the ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Musical Style and Social Meaning

    Selected Essays

    by Derek B. Scott ...
    Series series Ashgate Contemporary Thinkers on Critical Musicology Series
    Why do we feel justified in using adjectives such as romantic, erotic, heroic, melancholic, and a hundred others when speaking about music? How do we locate these meanings within particular musical styles? These are questions that have occupied Derek Scott's thoughts and driven his critical musicological research for many years. In this selection of essays, dating from 1995-2010, he returns time ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • Music History and Cosmopolitanism

    Edited by Anastasia Belina, Kaarina Kilpiö, Derek B. Scott ...
    This collection of essays is the first book-length study of music history and cosmopolitanism, and is informed by arguments that culture and identity do not have to be viewed as primarily located in the context of nationalist narratives. Rather than trying to distinguish between a true cosmopolitanism and a false cosmopolitanism, the book presents studies that deepen understanding of the heritage ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • The Rise of the Great Powers 1648 - 1815

    by Derek Mckay, H.M. Scott, D Mckay ...
    Series series The Modern European State System
    The heyday of the European states system was in the century before the First World War. How the system of five great powers in conscious equilibrium came into being is the central theme of this book. ... Read more

    $116.99 CAD

  • Confronting the National in the Musical Past

    Edited by Elaine Kelly, Markus Mantere, Derek Scott ...
    This significant volume moves music-historical research in the direction of deconstructing the national grand narratives in music history, of challenging the national paradigm in methodology, and thinking anew about cultural traffic, cultural transfer and cosmopolitanism in the musical past. The chapters of this book confront, or subject to some kind of critique, assumptions about the importance ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Cheap Print and Popular Song in the Nineteenth Century

    A Cultural History of the Songster

    Edited by Paul Watt, Derek B. Scott, Patrick Spedding ...
    This book is a cultural history of the nineteenth-century songster: pocket-sized anthologies of song texts, usually without musical notation. It examines the musical, social, commercial and aesthetic functions songsters served and the processes by which they were produced and disseminated, the repertory they included, and the singers, printers and entrepreneurs that both inspired their manufacture ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD