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Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Musical Boxes in Prague and Vienna
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Austrian Academy of Sciences Press International Forum on Audio-Visual Research -
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Austrian Academy of Sciences Press International Forum on Audio-Visual Research:
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£41.80
Schwabe Verlagsgruppe AG Schwabe Verlag Gross Geigen Um 1500 - Orazio Michi Und Die Harfe
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£81.70
Tectum Musik Im Fruhen Deutschen Stummfilmkino: Eine
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Logos Verlag Berlin Was Heisst Kosmische Harmonie?: Der Begriff in
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Taschen GmbH Art Record Covers
Book SynopsisSince the dawn of modernism, visual and music production have had a particularly intimate relationship. From Luigi Russolo’s 1913 Futurist manifesto L’Arte dei Rumori (The Art of Noise) to Marcel Duchamp’s 1925 double-sided discs Rotoreliefs, the 20th century saw ever more fertile exchange between sounds and shapes, marks and melodies, and different fields of composition and performance. In Francesco Spampinato’s unique anthology of artists’ record covers, we discover the rhythm of this particular cultural history. The book presents 500 covers and records by visual artists from the 1950s through to today, exploring how modernism, Pop Art, Conceptual Art, postmodernism, and various forms of contemporary art practice have all informed this collateral field of visual production and supported the mass distribution of music with defining imagery that swiftly and suggestively evokes an aural encounter. Along the way, we find Jean-Michel Basquiat’s urban hieroglyphs for his own Tartown record label, Banksy’s stenciled graffiti for Blur, Damien Hirst’s symbolic skull for the Hours, and a skewered Salvador Dalí butterfly on Jackie Gleason’s Lonesome Echo. There are insightful analyses and fact sheets alongside the covers listing the artist, performer, album name, label, year of release, and information on the original artwork. Interviews with Tauba Auerbach, Shepard Fairey, Kim Gordon, Christian Marclay, Albert Oehlen, and Raymond Pettibon add personal accounts on the collaborative relationship between artists and musicians.Trade Review“Celebrates the records and artworks we’ve loved and re-loved over the decades.” * itsnicethat.com *“A comprehensive look at some of the most memorable artworks in music history.” * The Independent *“Art Record Covers is like the physical, 450-page incarnation of whiling away an afternoon browsing sticky shelves of album sleeves: occasionally letting a record reveal itself thanks to a pop of colour, or a weird design quirk, all the while coming into direct contact with some of pop culture’s greatest artists.” * anothermag.com *
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Taschen GmbH Rock Covers
Book SynopsisAlbum art is indelibly linked to our collective musical memories; when you think of your favorite albums, you picture the covers. Many photographers, illustrators, and art directors have become celebrities from their album artworks—the best examples of which will go down in history as permanent fixtures in popular culture. Paying tribute to this art form, Rock Covers brings you a compilation of more than 750 remarkable album covers, from legendary to rare record releases. Artists as varied as Elvis Presley, The Beatles, The Sex Pistols, Pink Floyd, The Cure, Iron Maiden, and Sonic Youth are gathered together in celebration of the cover art that defined their albums and their cult status. Each cover is accompanied by a fact sheet listing the art director, photographer or illustrator, year, label, and more, while nearly 250 records that marked particular turning points for a band, an artist, or the music genre, are highlighted with short descriptions. This far-reaching catalog of visualized rock is contextualized with insider interviews with five professionals who shaped the history of rock, and by top-10 record lists from ten leading rock collectors.Trade Review“The material is wonderful. The subject merits so thorough and authoritative an account and caption details are good.” * The Spectator *“A lovingly and illuminatingly annotated journey.” * Metal Hammer *“The ultimate rock’n’roll art book.” * instyle.co.uk *“…as is the case with any TASCHEN book, you can rest assured it will look as good on display as it will when you’re flipping through the pages and listening to some Pink Floyd.” * coolmaterial.com *“A full anthology of familiar – and wonderfully obscure – rock albums.” * Nylon Magazine *“For hardcore record collectors or appreciators of physical media, it’s a great tribute to an art form that we hope remains relevant for a long time.” * uncrate.com *
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Taschen GmbH Rock Covers. 40th Ed.
Book SynopsisAlbum art is indelibly linked to our collective musical memories; when you think of your favorite albums, you picture the covers. Many photographers, illustrators, and art directors have become celebrities from their album artworks—the best examples of which will go down in history as permanent fixtures in popular culture. Paying tribute to this art form, Rock Covers brings you a compilation of more than 750 remarkable album covers, from legendary to rare record releases. Artists as varied as Elvis Presley, The Beatles, The Sex Pistols, Pink Floyd, The Cure, Iron Maiden, and Sonic Youth are presented in celebration of the cover art that defined their albums and their cult status. Each cover is accompanied by a fact sheet listing the art director, photographer or illustrator, year, label, and more, while nearly 250 records that marked particular turning points for a band, an artist, or the music genre, are highlighted with short descriptions. This far-reaching catalog of visualized rock is contextualized with insider interviews with professionals who shaped the history of rock, and by top-10 record lists from ten leading rock collectors.Trade Review“The material is wonderful. The subject merits so thorough and authoritative an account and caption details are good.” * The Spectator *“A lovingly and illuminatingly annotated journey.” * Metal Hammer *“A full anthology of familiar – and wonderfully obscure – rock albums.” * Nylon Magazine *
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Taschen GmbH Art Record Covers. 40th Ed.
Book SynopsisSince the dawn of modernism, visual and music production have had a particularly intimate relationship. From Luigi Russolo’s 1913 Futurist manifesto L’Arte dei Rumori (The Art of Noise) to Marcel Duchamp’s 1925 double-sided discs Rotoreliefs, the 20th century saw ever more fertile exchange between sounds and shapes, marks and melodies, and different fields of composition and performance. In Francesco Spampinato’s unique anthology of artists’ record covers, we discover the rhythm of this particular cultural history. The book presents 450 covers and records by visual artists from the 1950s through to today, exploring how modernism, Pop Art, Conceptual Art, postmodernism, and various forms of contemporary art practice have all informed this collateral field of visual production and supported the mass distribution of music with defining imagery that swiftly and suggestively evokes an aural encounter. Along the way, we find Jean-Michel Basquiat’s urban hieroglyphs for his own Tartown record label, Banksy’s stenciled graffiti for Blur, and a skewered Salvador Dalí butterfly on Jackie Gleason’s Lonesome Echo. There are insightful analyses and fact sheets alongside the covers listing the artist, performer, album name, label, year of release, and information on the original artwork. Interviews with Tauba Auerbach, Shepard Fairey, Kim Gordon, Christian Marclay, Albert Oehlen, and Raymond Pettibon add personal accounts on the collaborative relationship between artists and musicians.Trade Review“Celebrates the records and artworks we’ve loved and re-loved over the decades.” * itsnicethat.com *“A comprehensive look at some of the most memorable artworks in music history.” * The Independent *
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V&R unipress GmbH Nichts nützt dem Staat so wie die Musik: Die
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Dr Ludwig Reichert Musik Im Marchen
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University of the West Indies Press King Yellowman: Meaningful Bodies in Jamaican
Book SynopsisJamaican deejay Yellowman divided a country with his bawdy songs and his very body: he has been wildly popular among dancehall fans, yet widely despised by polite society. Even though his contribution to Jamaican musical culture is immense, scholars have ignored him and reggae histories have largely misunderstood him. King Yellowman: Meaningful Bodies in Jamaican Dancehall Culture is the first serious study of one Jamaica's most significant artists and dancehall’s first major international star. It is a critical biography designed to satisfy fans while furthering academic discourse on dancehall by offering a new perspective on the way Yellowman negotiates the slackness/culture binary in Jamaican music. Based on years of ethnographic fieldwork, Brent Hagerman begins with the compelling story of Winston Foster’s early life as an abandoned ghetto outcast and his hard-fought journey to become the King of Dancehall, then goes on to a critical exploration of the marginalization of people with albinism in Jamaica and the use of slackness in Caribbean music. Through slackness and his mobilization of Rastafarian symbols, Yellowman subverts embedded Jamaican cultural notions of sexuality, gender, and race to overcome his cultural displacement, promote his yellow body as sexually appealing and forge a place for himself among the Jamaican body politic.Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgements xiii Introduction 1Part 1. The Life and Times of Yellowman1 Abandoned: The Early Life of Winston “Yellowman” Foster, 1957–1971 192 From Alpha to Eventide: The Teenage Years, 1971–1976 303 Ranking Dundus: Breaking into the Music Business, 1977–1978 464 Mad over Me: Tastee Talent Competition to Aces International, 1979–1981 745 Ram Jam Master, 1981 946 Jamaica Proud of Me, 1982 1277 King Yellowman, 1983–1984 1508 Can’t Hide from Jah: Encounters with Religion 1789 Sufferation, That’s All I Know: Cancer, 1985 19210 Message to the World: Prayer and More Slackness 200Part 2. Meaningful Bodies in Jamaican Dancehall Culture11 Yellowman, Race, Sex and Masculinity 22512 Yellowman in Reggae Histories and Scholarship 24813 Yellowman, Slackness and Social Critique 28614 Yellowman as Moral Regulator 29615 Yellowman, Sex and Religion 313Conclusion 335Appendix 1: “Galong Galong Galong” 339Appendix 2: Selected Album Covers 341Notes 347References 357Index 369
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Academic Studies Press Singing a Different Tune : The Slavic Film
Book SynopsisA beneficiary of the pioneering incorporation of sound and synchronicity into cinema, the Hollywood musical became the most popular film genre in America’s thirties and forties. Its eastward migration resulted in a barrage of Polish screen musicals that relied on the country’s famous cabaret stars, while in the Soviet Union it inspired the audience-pleasing kolkhoz musicals of Ivan Pyr’ev and their urban counterpart, directed by Grigorii Aleksandrov. Like Stalin, Slavic moviegoers delectated tuneful melodies, mobile bodies in choreographed dance numbers, colorful costumes, and the notion that “all’s well that ends well.” Yet Slavic versions of the musical elaborated scenarios that differed from the Hollywood model. This volume examines the vagaries of this genre in both countries, from its early instantiations to its contemporary variations almost a century after its dramatic birth.Trade Review"This volume will excite scholars looking for novel scholarly work on the history, aesthetics, and culture of the film musical in general and Polish-Russian-Soviet film in particular." — A. J. DeBlasio, Dickinson College, CHOICE“In Singing a Different Tune: The Slavic Film Musical in a Transnational Context, Goscilo as editor works the magic that only the best directors can achieve: all her contributors give outstanding performances, covering material from two different countries and multiple time periods while never missing a step. The essays in this volume confirm what Busby Berkeley showed his audiences in Gold Diggers of 1933: tough times can make for great musicals.” — Eliot Borenstein, Professor & Chair, Russian & Slavic Studies, New York University “Singing a Different Tune brings Polish and Soviet film musicals into conversation with each other and with their well-known American counterparts. The result is an engaging, interesting, and uniformly excellent collection of essays. Written by leading film scholars, the chapters explore the popular Polish film musicals of the interwar era, reinterpret the Stalinist kolkhoz musicals of Ivan Py'rev and the carnivalesque Thaw-era films that followed, analyze the seminal 1967 Polish musical A Marriage of Convenience, and situate the rise of pop divas such as Alla Pugacheva within late Soviet celebrity culture. Three chapters take the story up to the present day in order to understand the continued popularity of the genre in contemporary Poland and Russia. Singing a Different Tune succeeds in showing how Slavic filmmakers have adapted the film musical in creative ways.”— Stephen M. Norris, Miami University (OH)“Rich with historical detail and cinematic examples, this collection traces unusual biographies of Polish and Russian musicals over the last hundred years. While being inspired by Hollywood classics, Slavic musicals managed to retain their own specifics by rooting their narratives and performances in the local traditions of cabaret, operetta, vaudeville, circus, and even balagan. Prominently focusing on the relationships between genre and gender, Singing a Different Tune is a welcome addition to the critical studies of entertainment and popular culture.”— Serguei Alex. Oushakine, Princeton UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionPart One—Polish Musical Films1. Early Polish Language Musicals: The Tug of War between Genre Film and CabaretBeth Holmgren2. Between the Market and the Mirror: Stanisław Bareja’s Marriage of ConvenienceHelena Goscilo3. Paweł Pawlikowski’s Cold War: Music, Space, and IdentityElżbieta Ostrowska4. The Allure of Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s Lure (2015) as an Intrepid Feminist HybridHelena GosciloPart Two—Russian Musical Films5. Perplexing Popularity: Ivan Pyr′ev’s Kolkhoz Musical Comedy FilmsRimgaila Salys 6. The Thaw as Carnival: Soviet Musical Comedy after StalinLilya Kaganovsky7. Constructing the Pop Diva: Alla Pugacheva, Sofia Rotaru, and the Celebrity Musical of the 1970s–1980sAlexander Prokhorov and Elena Prokhorov8. Postmodernity, Freedom, and Authenticity in Kirill Serebrennikov’s Leto (2018)Justin WilmesFilmography
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Academic Studies Press The DJ Who “Brought Down” the USSR: The Life and
Book SynopsisOf the many Cold War radio DJs who broadcast to the USSR, Seva Novgorodsev must be near the top of the list. A masterful BBC presenter, Seva was considered a sage of rock ‘n’ roll. His programs introduced forbidden western popular music and culture into the USSR, rendering him an “enemy voice” and ideological saboteur to the Central Committee of the Communist Party. Despite KGB threats and constant media pillorying, Seva remained on the air for 38 years, acquiring millions of listeners all across the breadth of the USSR and beyond. He became a cult phenomenon, dismantling the Soviet way of life in the hearts and minds of youth. This is the story of Russia’s first and best-known DJ.Trade Review"Michelle Daniel's book is more than a biography of the legendary DJ who brought western musical culture to the Soviet Union via BBC radio. It is, by turns, insightful political, cultural, and social history. Compelling features include testimony from Seva's listeners and Daniel’s speculation on just why he became so central a feature of Soviet life. A fascinating read for all interested in understanding the final years of the Cold War, the power of radio, or the role of what has been termed Soft Power in international relations."— Nicholas J. Cull, Professor of Public Diplomacy, University of Southern California“With the creation of any new medium—newsprint, radio, television—propagandists learn first how to exploit it for their own purposes. In our own era of ‘fake news,’ disinformation, and the ongoing political assault on truth, we’ve seen this play out over the Internet. But be careful: because the ‘soft power’ of popular familiarity with any new technology often undermines the clunky, cloying voice of the ideologue, in favor of the cool, revolutionary voice of popular culture. In this engaging tale of the life of Seva Novgorodsev—and how his popular BBC broadcasts helped lead to the downfall of the Soviet empire—Michelle Daniel weaves a narrative tale that is compelling and instructive, full of lessons about how the human need for truth and authenticity triumphs. While this book will surely appeal to Russia scholars and historians alike, it deserves a wide audience, for it reads like a novel and tells a story that is especially important in our own cultural moment. What can we learn from the early ‘weaponization’ of radio to amplify propagandistic falsehoods—then seeing this turned back on itself as young people discovered the pleasure of listening to rock ‘n’ roll music—that can be applied to today's disinformation war? Plenty, for we now face an age-old beast in new clothing: the human desire to lie for political profit, up against the indomitable spirit of today's young people, whose heroes are still emerging in this digital era.”— Lee McIntyre, author of Post-Truth“Rock 'n' roll was a revolutionary movement in the West. Behind the Iron Curtain, however, it also played an inordinate role in helping to change culture, politics, and society. Michelle Daniel's book is a welcome volume that adds to our understanding of how music and radio waves—amplified by Seva Novgorodsev—were able to work their way through the semi-permeable membranes of otherwise seemingly impenetrable Cold War borders and mindsets.”— Markos Kounalakis, Ph.D., former Radio Sweden International shortwave radio producerTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Radio, Rock ‘n’ “Role” Part One: 1917-761. The Great Wireless Experiment2. The Sounds of War3. Big Waves4. Birth of the Cool5. Rocket Around the Clock6. Between Jazz and a Hard Rock Place7. After ‘While, KrokodilPart Two: 1976-918. Smoke on the Water9. Round Midnight10. It’s a Hard Rock Life11. The Barbarossa of Rock ‘n’ Roll12. Red Waves on the “Cinderella Hour” 13. (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction14. Highway to Hell15. Welcome to the Jungle16. It’s the End of the World as We Know ItConclusionAcknowledgementsBibliography
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Academic Studies Press Music, Society, Agency
Book SynopsisMusicologists have increasingly taken a wide-angled lens on the study of music in society, to explore how it can be intertwined with issues of politics, gender, religion, race, psychology, memory, and space. Recent studies of music in connection with society take in a variety of musical phenomena from diverse periods and genres—medieval, classical, opera, rock, etc. This ten-chapter book not only asks how music and society are, and have been, intertwined and mutually influential, but it also examines the agents behind these connections: who determines musical cultures in society? Which social groups are represented in particular musical contexts? Which social groups are silenced or less well represented in music’s histories, and why?Table of ContentsIntroductionNancy NovemberPart One: Cultural and Cross-Cultural AgenciesThe Year the Music Died: Agency in the Context of Demise on Takū, Papua New GuineaRichard Moyle“One of the finest and best-appointed theatres in the colonies”: His Majesty’s Theatre and the Evolution of Entertainment in Dunedin, New ZealandSandra Crawshaw“In the Tiki Tiki Tiki Tiki Tiki Room”: Musicalizing the South Pacific in Disney’s Theme ParksGregory CampPart Two: Vocal Music’s AgenciesFigaro Transmuted through the Agency of Neapolitan Social and Political Creatives: Niccolò Piccinni’s La serva onorataLawrence MaysJosephinism and Leopold Koželuh’s Masonic Cantata Joseph der Menschheit Segen Allan BadleyAgency, Politics, and Opera Arrangements in Fanny von Arnstein’s SalonsNancy NovemberPart Three: Performance and AgencyReflections on Aladdin’s Lamp: Developing a Framework for Creative Practice Research in-and-through Historically Informed PerformanceImogen MorrisWhen Your Heart Is Set on Both Broadway and the Met: An Exploration of Vocal Technique in Contemporary Musical TheatreChristopher McRaePart Four: Composition and Agency“Brows betwixt and between”: The Agents of the Cultural Middlebrow and the Use of Topoi in Benjamin Britten’s First Suite for Cello Eliana DunfordProvincializing Practice: Parsing Historical Influences on Contemporary Cross-Cultural Music in Aotearoa/New ZealandCeleste OramContributorsIndex
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