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  • The Political Force of Musical Beauty

    par Barry Shank ...
    Collections series Refiguring american music
    In The Political Force of Musical Beauty, Barry Shank shows how musical acts and performances generate their own aesthetic and political force, creating, however fleetingly, a shared sense of the world among otherwise diverse listeners. Rather than focusing on the ways in which music enables the circulation of political messages, he argues that communities grounded in the act and experience of ... En savoir plus

    $38.49 CAD

  • Postnational Musical Identities

    Cultural Production, Distribution, and Consumption in a Globalized Scenario

    par Arved Ashby, Chris Dennis, Vanessa Knights, Denilson Lopes, Steven Loza, Cristina Magaldi, Daniel Party, Greg Schelonka, Barry Shank, Helena Simonett ...
    Postnational Musical Identities gathers interdisciplinary essays that explore how music audiences and markets are imagined in a globalized scenario, how music reflects and reflects upon new understandings of citizenship beyond the nation-state, and how music works as a site of resistance against globalization."Hybridity," "postnationalism," "transnationalism," "globalization," "diaspora," and ... En savoir plus

    $62.99 CAD

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  • Mozart

    A Life

    par Paul Johnson ...
    Eminent historian Paul Johnson dazzles with a rich, succinct portrait of Mozart and his musicAs he’s done in Napoleon, Churchill, Jesus, and Darwin, acclaimed historian and author Paul Johnson here offers a concise, illuminating biography of Mozart. Johnson’s focus is on the music—Mozart’s wondrous output of composition and his uncanny gift for instrumentation.Liszt once said that Mozart composed ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

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  • The First Four Notes

    Beethoven's Fifth and the Human Imagination

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $9.99 CAD Maintenant $6.99 CAD

  • The Kingdom of Zydeco

    par Michael Tisserand ...
    An important book for anyone with an interest in life, American music, Southern culture, dancing, accordions, the recording industry, folklore, old dance clubs in the weeds, fortune tellers, hoodoos or shotguns.” -Annie ProulxThere’s a musical kingdom in the American South that’s not marked on any map. Stretching from the prairies of Louisiana to the oil towns of East Texas, it is ruled over ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • Corn Flakes with John Lennon

    And Other Tales from a Rock 'n' Roll Life

    par Robert Hilburn ...
    Robert Hilburn's storied career as a rock critic has allowed him a behind-the-scenes look at the lives of some of the most iconic figures of our time. He was the only music critic to visit Folsom Prison with Johnny Cash. He met John Lennon during his lost weekend period in Los Angeles and they became friends. Bob Dylan granted him his only interviews during his "born-again" period and the occasion ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD

  • Gimme Something Better

    The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk from Dead Kennedys to Green Day

    par Jack Boulware, Silke Tudor ...
    **" [An] endlessly fascinating and frankly addictive masterpiece of safety-pin journalism." -- Austin ChronicleAn oral history of the modern punk-revival's West Coast Birthplace**Outside of New York and London, California?s Bay Area claims the oldest continuous punk-rock scene in the world. Gimme Something Better brings this outrageous and influential punk scene to life, from the notorious final ... En savoir plus

    $6.99 CAD

  • The Music of Joni Mitchell

    par Lloyd Whitesell ...
    Joni Mitchell is one of the foremost singer-songwriters of the late twentieth century. Yet despite her reputation, influence, and cultural importance, a detailed appraisal of her musical achievement is still lacking. Whitesell presents a through exploration of Mitchell's musical style, sound, and structure in order to evaluate her songs from a musicological perspective. His analyses are conceived ... En savoir plus

    $33.59 CAD

  • Bel Canto

    A Performer's Guide

    par Robert Toft ...
    Bel canto, or 'beautiful singing,' remains one of the most elusive performance styles vocalists strive to master. During the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, composers routinely left the final shaping of recitatives, arias, and songs to performers, and singers treated scores freely so that inexpressively notated music could be turned into passionate declamation. In other words, vocalists ... En savoir plus

    $47.99 CAD

  • Britten's Peter Grimes

    A Short Guide to a Great Opera

    par Michael Steen ...
    Collections series Great Operas
    Britten's opera Peter Grimes is based on George Crabbe's horrifying poem The Borough about early 19th century Aldeburgh, a North Sea fishing town in East Anglia. Its premiere at Sadlers Wells in 1945, shortly after VE Day, was a landmark moment in British operatic history. Britten's partner Peter Pears – like Britten a pacifist and conscientious objector – was in the title role. Britten and Pears, ... En savoir plus

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Debussy

    Modifié par Simon Trezise ...
    Collections series Cambridge Companions to Music
    Often considered the father of twentieth-century music, Debussy was a visionary whose influence is still felt. This book offers a wide-ranging series of essays on Debussy the man, the musician and composer. It contains insights into his character, his relationship to his Parisian environment and his musical works across all genres, with challenging views on the roles of nature and eroticism in his ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • Live at the Commodore

    The Story of Vancouver's Historic Commodore Ballroom

    par Aaron Chapman ...
    Vancouver's Commodore Ballroom is, like New York's CBGB's and Los Angeles's Whiskey a Go-Go, one of the most venerated rock clubs in the world; originally built in 1930, it's hosted a who's-who of music greats before they made it big: The Police, The Clash, Blondie, Talking Heads, Nirvana, New York Dolls, U2, and, more recently, Lady Gaga and the White Stripes. Filled with never-before-published ... En savoir plus

    $23.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus