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  • A Pure Solar World

    Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism

    par Paul Youngquist ...
    Collections series Discovering America
    "Youngquist brings considerable skills to the life and work of the legendary but underappreciated and often misunderstood composer, keyboardist, and poet." — PopMattersSun Ra said he came from Saturn. Known on earth for his inventive music and extravagant stage shows, he pioneered free-form improvisation in an ensemble setting with the devoted band he called the "Arkestra." Sun Ra took jazz from ... En savoir plus

    $2.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Madness and Blake's Myth

    par Paul Youngquist ...
    This book offers the first systematic study of madness and its significance for the poetry of William Blake. Blake's reputation as an artist was long clouded by suspicions of madness. Although the great victory of his modern critics has been to see his work clearly, unobstructed by this prejudice, criticism now runs the risk of vindicating Blake the poet at the expense of understanding certain ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

  • The Time Machine / The Invisible Man

    par Paul Youngquist, H. G. Wells ...
    Together in one indispensable volume, The Time Machine and The Invisible Man are masterpieces of irony and imaginative vision from H. G. Wells, the father of science fiction.The Time Machine conveys the Time Traveller into the distant future and an extraordinary world. There, stranded on a slowly dying Earth, he discovers two bizarre races: the effete Eloi and the subterranean Morlocks—a haunting ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD

  • Race, Romanticism, and the Atlantic

    Modifié par Paul Youngquist ...
    In highlighting the crucial contributions of diasporic people to British cultural production, this important collection defamiliarizes prevailing descriptions of Romanticism as the expression of a national character or culture. The contributors approach the period from the perspective of the Atlantic maritime economy, making a strong case for viewing British Romanticism as the effect of myriad ... En savoir plus

    $107.17 CAD

  • An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti

    par Marcus Rainsford ...
    As the first complete narrative in English of the Haitian Revolution, Marcus Rainsford's An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti was highly influential in establishing nineteenth-century world opinion of this momentous event. This new edition is the first to appear since the original publication in 1805. Rainsford, a career officer in the British army, went to Haiti to recruit black ... En savoir plus

    $34.99 CAD

  • Gorgeous Beasts

    Animal Bodies in Historical Perspective

    Modifié par Joan B. Landes, Paula Young Lee, Paul Youngquist ...
    Collections series Animalibus
    Gorgeous Beasts takes a fresh look at the place of animals in history and art. Refusing the traditional subordination of animals to humans, the essays gathered here examine a rich variety of ways animals contribute to culture: as living things, as scientific specimens, as food, weapons, tropes, and occasions for thought and creativity. History and culture set the terms for this inquiry. As history ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

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  • How Music Works

    par David Byrne ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • David Byrne’s incisive and enthusiastic look at the musical art form, from its very inceptions to the influences that shape it, whether acoustical, economic, social, or technological—now updated with a new chapter on digital curation.“How Music Works is a buoyant hybrid of social history, anthropological survey, autobiography, personal philosophy, and business manual” ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Every Song Ever

    Twenty Ways to Listen in an Age of Musical Plenty

    par Ben Ratliff ...
    What is music in the age of the cloud? Today, we can listen to nearly anything, at any time. It is possible to flit instantly across genres and generations, from 1980s Detroit techno to 1890s Viennese neo-romanticism. This new age of listening brings with it astonishing new possibilities--as well as dangers.In Every Song Ever, the veteran New York Times music critic Ben Ratliff reimagines the very ... En savoir plus

    $19.19 CAD

  • Perfecting Sound Forever

    An Aural History of Recorded Music

    par Greg Milner ...
    In 1915, Thomas Edison proclaimed that he could record a live performance and reproduce it perfectly, shocking audiences who found themselves unable to tell whether what they were hearing was an Edison Diamond Disc or a flesh-and-blood musician. Today, the equation is reversed. Whereas Edison proposed that a real performance could be rebuilt with absolute perfection, Pro Tools and digital samplers ... En savoir plus

    $23.19 CAD

  • Ocean of Sound

    Ambient sound and radical listening in the age of communication

    par David Toop ...
    David Toop's extraordinary work of sonic history travels from the rainforests of Amazonas to the megalopolis of Tokyo via the work of artists as diverse as Brian Eno, Sun Ra, Erik Satie, Kate Bush, Kraftwerk and Brian Wilson.Beginning in 1889 at the Paris exposition when Debussy first heard Javanese music performed, Ocean of Sound channels the competing instincts of 20th century music into an ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • Film Music

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Kathryn Kalinak ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    Film music is as old as cinema itself. Years before synchronized sound became the norm, projected moving images were shown to musical accompaniment, whether performed by a lone piano player or a hundred-piece orchestra. Today film music has become its own industry, indispensable to the marketability of movies around the world. Film Music: A Very Short Introduction is a compact, lucid, and ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

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    Aussi disponible en : Livre audio

  • Hip

    The History

    par John Leland ...
    Hip: The History is the story of how American pop culture has evolved throughout the twentieth century to its current position as world cultural touchstone. How did hip become such an obsession? From sex and music to fashion and commerce, John Leland tracks the arc of ideas as they move from subterranean Bohemia to Madison Avenue and back again. Hip: The History examines how hip has helped shape - ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus