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  • Surinamese Music in the Netherlands and Suriname

    by Marcel Weltak ...
    Translated by Scott Rollins ...
    Series series Caribbean Studies Series
    Contributions by Herman Dijo, J. Ketwaru, Guilly Koster, Lou Lichtveld, Pondo O’Bryan, and Marcel WeltakWhen Marcel Weltak’s Surinamese Music in the Netherlands and Suriname was published in Dutch in 1990, it was the first book to provide an overview of the music styles originating from the land that had recently gained its independence from the Netherlands. Up until the 1990s, little had been ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Music of the Netherlands Antilles

    Why Eleven Antilleans Knelt before Chopin's Heart

    by Jan Brokken ...
    Translated by Scott Rollins ...
    Series series Caribbean Studies Series
    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 Frédéric 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 ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Boom's Blues

    Music, Journalism, and Friendship in Wartime

    Translated by Scott Rollins ...
    by Wim Verbei ...
    Series series American Made Music Series
    Boom's Blues stands as both a remarkable biography of J. Frank G. Boom (1920–1953) and a recovery of his incredible contribution to blues scholarship originally titled The Blues: Satirical Songs of the North American Negro. Wim Verbei tells how and when the Netherlands was introduced to African American blues music and describes the equally dramatic and peculiar friendship that existed between ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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    $19.99 CAD

  • A Natural History of the Piano

    The Instrument, the Music, the Musicians--from Mozart to Modern Jazz and Everything in Between

    by Stuart Isacoff ...
    A beautifully illustrated, totally engrossing celebration of the piano, and the composers and performers who have made it their own.With honed sensitivity and unquestioned expertise, Stuart Isacoff—pianist, critic, teacher, and author of Temperament: How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization—unfolds the ongoing history and evolution of the piano and all its myriad ... Read more

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  • Do Not Sell At Any Price

    The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World's Rarest 78rpm Records

    by Amanda Petrusich ...
    “A thoughtful, entertaining history of obsessed music collectors and their quest for rare early 78 rpm records” (Los Angeles Times), Do Not Sell at Any Price is a fascinating, complex story of preservation, loss, obsession, and art.Before MP3s, CDs, and cassette tapes, even before LPs or 45s, the world listened to music on fragile, 10-inch shellac discs that spun at 78 revolutions per minute. ... Read more

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  • Tearing Down The Wall

    The Contemporary Guide to Decoding Pink Floyd - The Wall One Brick at a Time

    by Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff ...
    SECRETS OF THE WALL REVEALED! Imagine dusting off a beloved album, comfortable as an old pair of jeans, and one day discovering that it goes much deeper down the rabbit hole than you ever envisioned. The thematic intention of every note…The nuance behind every veiled reference…Until you finally recognize that hidden deep inside is a distinctly powerful message you never knew was there. It's like ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD

  • The First Four Notes

    Beethoven's Fifth and the Human Imagination

    by Matthew Guerrieri ...
    A TIME Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2012A New Yorker Best Book of the YearLos Angeles Magazine's #1 Music Book of the YearA unique and revelatory book of music history that examines in great depth what is perhaps the best-known and most-popular symphony ever written and its four-note opening, which has fascinated musicians, historians, and philosophers for the last two hundred years.Music ... 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

    $70.99 CAD

  • The Ultimate Pirate Collection: Blackbeard, Francis Drake, Captain Kidd, Captain Morgan, Grace O'Malley, Black Bart, Calico Jack, Anne Bonny, Mary Read, Henry Every and Howell Davis

    by Charles River Editors ...
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  • Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings

    by Brian Harker ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Recorded Jazz
    For jazz historians, Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings mark the first revolution in the history of a music riven by upheaval. Yet few traces of this revolution can be found in the historical record of the late 1920s, when the discs were made. Even black newspapers covered Armstrong as just one name among many, and descriptions of his playing, while laudatory, bear little ... Read more

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  • Finding an Ending

    Reflections on Wagner's Ring

    by Philip Kitcher, Richard Schacht ...
    Few musical works loom as large in Western culture as Richard Wagner's four-part Ring of the Nibelung. In Finding an Ending, two eminent philosophers, Philip Kitcher and Richard Schacht, offer an illuminating look at this greatest of Wagner's achievements, focusing on its far-reaching and subtle exploration of problems of meanings and endings in this life and world. Kitcher and Schacht plunge the ... Read more

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