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  • Xenakis

    His Life in Music

    by James Harley ...
    Xenakis: His Life in Music is a full-length study of the influential contemporary composer Iannis Xenakis. Following the trajectory of Xenakis’s compositional development, James Harley, who studied with Xenakis, presents the works together with clear explanations of the technical and conceptual innovations that shaped them.Harley examines the relationship between the composer and two early ... Read more

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  • A Geometry of Music

    Harmony and Counterpoint in the Extended Common Practice

    by Dmitri Tymoczko ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Music Theory
    How is the Beatles' "Help!" similar to Stravinsky's "Dance of the Adolescents?" How does Radiohead's "Just" relate to the improvisations of Bill Evans? And how do Chopin's works exploit the non-Euclidean geometry of musical chords? In this groundbreaking work, author Dmitri Tymoczko describes a new framework for thinking about music that emphasizes the commonalities among styles from medieval ... Read more

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  • Walls Come Tumbling Down

    The Music and Politics of Rock Against Racism, 2 Tone and Red Wedge

    by Daniel Rachel ...
    Walls Come Tumbling Down charts the pivotal period between 1976 and 1992 that saw politics and pop music come together for the first time in Britain's musical history; musicians and their fans suddenly became instigators of social change, and 'the political persuasion of musicians was as important as the songs they sang'. Through the voices of campaigners, musicians, artists and politicians, ... Read more

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  • Coldplay

    the secret history

    by Alan Cross ...
    Series series The Secret History of Rock
    Alan Cross is the preeminent chronicler of popular music.Here he provides a history of Chris Martin and Coldplay.This look at the "rock band that doesn’t rock in the traditional sense" is adapted from the audiobook. ... Read more

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  • Tom Waits' Swordfishtrombones

    by David Smay ...
    Series series 33 1/3
    Two entwined narratives run through the creation of Swordfishtrombones and form the backbone of this book. As the 1970s ended, Waits felt increasingly constrained and trapped by his persona and career. Bitter and desperately unhappy, he moved to New York in 1979 to change his life. It wasn't working. But at his low point, he got the phone call that changed everything: Francis Ford Coppola tapped ... Read more

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  • Light Come Shining

    The Transformations of Bob Dylan

    by Andrew McCarron, PhD ...
    Series series Inner Lives
    Bob Dylan is the prince of self-reinvention and deflection. Whether it's the folkies of Greenwich Village, the student movement of the 1960s and 1970s, Born Again Christians, the Chabad Lubavitch community, or English Department postmodernists, specific intellectual and sociopolitical groups have repeatedly claimed Bob Dylan as their spokesperson. But in the words of filmmaker Todd Haynes, who ... Read more

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  • Elliott Smith's XO

    by Matthew LeMay ...
    Series series 33 1/3
    Many albums could be cited to support the claim that great suffering yields great art. Elliott Smith's XO should not be one of them. Smith's 1998 major label debut defies the "tortured singer-songwriter" stereotype, and takes up this defiance as a central theme. At a time when Smith was being groomed for a particular (and particularly condescending) brand of stardom, he produced a record that ... Read more

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  • A Song For The Season

    by Mark Steyn ...
    Ever since Mark began his Monday morning Song Of The Week feature, some of his most popular essays have been those that mark the turning of the calendar - a song for Christmas or Easter, Spring or Fall... So here, in response to reader demand, is a handsome, illustrated collection of Steyn's songs for the season, a musical calendar beginning at the stroke of midnight at New Year with "Auld Lang ... Read more

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  • A History of the Oratorio

    Vol. 4: The Oratorio in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

    by Howard E. Smither ...
    With this volume, Howard Smither completes his monumental History of the Oratorio. Volumes 1 and 2, published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1977, treated the oratorio in the Baroque era, while Volume 3, published in 1987, explored the genre in the Classical era. Here, Smither surveys the history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century oratorio, stressing the main geographic areas of ... Read more

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  • Sound, Speech, Music in Soviet and Post-Soviet Cinema

    Edited by Lilya Kaganovsky, Masha Salazkina ...
    This innovative volume challenges the ways we look at both cinema and cultural history by shifting the focus from the centrality of the visual and the literary toward the recognition of acoustic culture as formative of the Soviet and post-Soviet experience. Leading experts and emerging scholars from film studies, musicology, music theory, history, and cultural studies examine the importance of ... Read more

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  • The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Popular Standards

    by Max Morath ...
    Every major singer from Frank Sinatra to Christina Aguilera. Every major composer from Irving Berlin to Stephen Sondheim. Every major song from a century of favorites. Every major musician and lyricist. Every major styling from blues, jazz, and country to folk, big band, and rock and rollThe most recorded songs of all time. A guide to understanding the "standard" lingo. The evolution of popular ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD