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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

    $14.95 USD 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

    $64.99 USD

  • 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

    $64.99 USD

  • 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

    $63.99 USD

  • 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

    $39.99 USD

  • 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

    $48.99 USD

  • 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

    $30.99 USD

  • 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

    $64.99 USD

  • Human Being Human

    How to emerge from the illusory grasp of hero culture

    by Derek Strokon, Kia Scott, Katy McFee ...
    How is it that we have so incorrectly defined how we become a hero in our own lives?In his book, Human Being Human, Human Resilience Researcher, Derek Strokon, explores the importance of just being yourself, and how we can work back to a life of contentment, emerging from the illusory grasp of Hero Culture, avoiding chaos and crisis as the catalyst for change.In this honest and authentic, eye ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • 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

    $84.99 USD

  • Bawdy Songbooks of the Romantic Period, Volume 4

    by Patrick Spedding, Paul Watt, Ed Cray, David Gregory, Derek B Scott ...
    The songbooks of the 1830-40s were printed in tiny numbers, and small format so they could be hidden in a pocket, passed round or thrown away.Collectors have sought ‘these priceless chapbooks’, but only recently a collection of 49 songbooks has come to light. This collection represents almost all of the known songbooks from the period. ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Bawdy Songbooks of the Romantic Period, Volume 2

    by Patrick Spedding, Paul Watt, Ed Cray, David Gregory, Derek B Scott ...
    The songbooks of the 1830-40s were printed in tiny numbers, and small format so they could be hidden in a pocket, passed round or thrown away.Collectors have sought ‘these priceless chapbooks’, but only recently a collection of 49 songbooks has come to light. This collection represents almost all of the known songbooks from the period. ... Read more

    $233.99 USD