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Penguin Books Ltd This is Your Brain on Music
Book SynopsisFrom the author of The Changing Mind and The Organized Mind comes The New York Times bestseller which unravels the mystery of our perennial love affair with music*****''What do the music of Bach, Depeche Mode and John Cage fundamentally have in common?'' Music is an obsession at the heart of human nature, even more fundamental to our species than language. From Mozart to the Beatles, neuroscientist, psychologist and internationally-bestselling author Daniel Levitin reveals the role of music in human evolution, shows how our musical preferences begin to form even before we are born and explains why music can offer such an emotional experience.In This Is Your Brain On Music Levitin offers nothing less than a new way to understand music, and what it can teach us about ourselves. *****''Music seems to have an almost wilful, evasive quality, defying simple explanation, so that the more we find out, the more there is to know . . . Daniel Levitin''s book is an eloquent and poetic exploration of this paradox'' Sting''You''ll never hear music in the same way again'' Classic FM magazine''Music, Levitin argues, is not a decadent modern diversion but something of fundamental importance to the history of human development'' Literary ReviewTrade ReviewFluent and readable... [Levitin] rightly insists that we are all better equipped to perform and appreciate music than we think... We are, he says, hard-wired for music. * Observer *Consistently interesting... Music, Levitin argues, is not a decadent modern diversion but something of fundamental importance to the history of human development * Literary Review *Endlessly stimulating -- Oliver SacksMusic seems to have an almost willful, evasive quality, defying simple explanation, so that the more we find out, the more there is to know... Daniel Levitin's book is an eloquent and poetic exploration of this paradox -- StingYou'll never hear music in the same way again * Classic FM magazine *
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Hachette Books This Isnt Happening
Book SynopsisTHE MAKING AND MEANING OF RADIOHEAD''S GROUNDBREAKING, CONTROVERSIAL, EPOCHDEFINING ALBUM, KID A.In 1999, as the end of an old century loomed, five musicians entered a recording studio in Paris without a deadline. Their band was widely recognized as the best and most forward-thinking in rock, a rarefied status granting them the time, money, and space to make a masterpiece. But Radiohead didn''t want to make another rock record. Instead, they set out to create the future.For more than a year, they battled writer''s block, intra-band disagreements, and crippling self-doubt. In the end, however, they produced an album that was not only a complete departure from their prior guitar-based rock sound, it was the sound of a new era-and it embodied widespread changes catalyzed by emerging technologies just beginning to take hold of the culture. What they created was Kid A.Upon its release in 2000, Radiohead''s fourth album divided critics. Some called it an instant classic; others, such as the UK music magazine Melody Maker, deemed it tubby, ostentatious, self-congratulatory... whiny old rubbish. But two decades later, Kid A sounds like nothing less than an overture for the chaos and confusion of the twenty-first century.Acclaimed rock critic Steven Hyden digs deep into the songs, history, legacy, and mystique of Kid A, outlining the album''s pervasive influence and impact on culture in time for its twentieth anniversary in 2020. Deploying a mix of criticism, journalism, and personal memoir, Hyden skillfully revisits this enigmatic, alluring LP and investigates the many ways in which Kid A shaped and foreshadowed our world.
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Hachette Books This Isnt Happening
Book SynopsisA Rolling Stone-Kirkus Best Music Book of 2020'In this brilliant book, Steven Hyden goes deep into why Kid A matters—it's the fascinating saga of how the music turned into the symbol of a new cultural era.' — Rolling StoneTHE MAKING AND MEANING OF RADIOHEAD'S GROUNDBREAKING, CONTROVERSIAL, EPOCHDEFINING ALBUM, KID A.In 1999, as the end of an old century loomed, five musicians entered a recording studio in Paris without a deadline. Their band was widely recognized as the best and most forward-thinking in rock, a rarefied status granting them the time, money, and space to make a masterpiece. But Radiohead didn't want to make another rock record. Instead, they set out to create the future.For more than a year, they battled writer's block, intra-band disagreements, and crippling self-doubt. In the end, however, they produced an album that was not only a complete departure from their prior guitar-based rock sound, it was the sound of a new era-and it embodied widespread changes catalyzed by emerging technologies just beginning to take hold of the culture. What they created was Kid A.Upon its release in 2000, Radiohead's fourth album divided critics. Some called it an instant classic; others, such as the UK music magazine Melody Maker, deemed it 'tubby, ostentatious, self-congratulatory... whiny old rubbish.' But two decades later, Kid A sounds like nothing less than an overture for the chaos and confusion of the twenty-first century.Acclaimed rock critic Steven Hyden digs deep into the songs, history, legacy, and mystique of Kid A, outlining the album's pervasive influence and impact on culture in time for its twentieth anniversary in 2020. Deploying a mix of criticism, journalism, and personal memoir, Hyden skillfully revisits this enigmatic, alluring LP and investigates the many ways in which Kid A shaped and foreshadowed our world.
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Hachette Books Fallopian Rhapsody
Book SynopsisDive into this no-holds-barred group autobiography of the critically acclaimed feminist punk-rock group, The Lunachicks—featuring never-before-seen materials from the band's private archive.Fallopian Rhapsody: The Story of the Lunachicks is a coming-of-age tale about a band of NYC teenagers who forged a sisterhood, found salvation, and fervently crashed the gates of punk rock during the '90s, accidentally becoming feminist icons along the way. More than that, this is a story about the enduring friendship among the book's three central voices: Theo Kogan, Sydney Silver, and Gina Volpe. They formed the Lunachicks at LaGuardia High School (of 'Fame' fame) in the late '80s and had a record deal with Blast First Records as teenagers, whisked into the studio by Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore.Over the course of thirteen-ish years, the Lunachicks brought their brand of outrageous hard-rockin' rebelliousness around the world countless times, simultaneously scaring conservative onlookers and rescuing the souls of wayward freaks, queers, and outcasts.Their unforgettable costume-critiques of pop culture were as loud as their 'Marsha[ll]' amps, their ferocious tenacity as lasting as their pre-internet mythology. They toured with bands like the Go-Go's, Marilyn Manson, No Doubt, Rancid, and The Offspring; played the Reading Festival with Nirvana; and rocked the main stage at the Warped tour twice.Yet beneath all the makeup, wigs, and hilarious outfits were three women struggling to grow into adulthood under the most unorthodox of conditions. Together onstage they were invincible B-movie superheroes who kicked heaps of ass—but apart, not so much. Depression, addiction, and identity crises loomed overhead, not to mention the barrage of sexist nonsense they faced from the music industry.Filled with never-before-seen photos, illustrations, and ephemera from the band's private archive, and featuring contributions from Lunachicks drummer Chip English, founding member Sindi B., and former bandmate Becky Wreck, Fallopian Rhapsody is a bawdy, gripping, warts-and-all account of how these city kids relied on their cosmic creative connection to overcome internal strife and external killjoys, all the while empowering legions of fans to shoot for the moon.For readers of Carrie Brownstein's Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl, Kim Gordon's Girl in a Band, and Chrissie Hynde's Reckless, Fallopian Rhapsody is the literary equivalent of diving headfirst into a moshpit and slowly but surely venturing up to the front of the stage.
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Hachette Books Corporate Rock Sucks
Book SynopsisA no-holds-barred narrative history of the iconic label that brought the world Black Flag, Hüsker Dü, Sonic Youth, Soundgarden, and more, by the co-author of Do What You Want and My Damage.Greg Ginn started SST Records in the sleepy beach town of Hermosa Beach, CA, to supply ham radio enthusiasts with tuners and transmitters. But when Ginn wanted to launch his band, Black Flag, no one was willing to take them on. Determined to bring his music to the masses, Ginn turned SST into a record label. On the back of Black Flag’s relentless touring, guerilla marketing, and refusal to back down, SST became the sound of the underground.In Corporate Rock Sucks, music journalist Jim Ruland relays the unvarnished story of SST Records, from its remarkable rise in notoriety to its infamous downfall. With records by Black Flag, Minutemen, Hüsker Dü, Bad Brains, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr, Screaming Trees, Soundgarden, and scores of obscure yet influential bands, SST was the most popular indie label by the mid-80s--until a tsunami of legal jeopardy, financial peril, and dysfunctional management brought the empire tumbling down. Throughout this investigative deep-dive, Ruland leads readers through SST’s tumultuous history and epic catalog.Featuring never-before-seen interviews with the label's former employees, as well as musicians, managers, producers, photographers, video directors, and label heads, Corporate Rock Sucks presents a definitive narrative history of the ’80s punk and alternative rock scenes, and shows how the music industry was changed forever.
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Faber & Faber Singing from the Floor A History of British Folk
Book SynopsisIn smoky rooms above pubs, bare rooms with battered stools and beer-stained tables, where the stage was little more than a scrap of carpet and sound systems were unheard of, an acoustic revolution took place in Britain in the 1950s and ''60s. This was the folk revival, where a generation of musicians, among much drink and raucous cheer, would rediscover the native songs of their own tradition, as well as the folk and blues coming from across the Atlantic by artists such as Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie and Big Bill Broonzy. Singing from the Floor is the story of this remarkable movement, faithfully captured in the voices of those who formed it by JP Bean. We hear from luminaries such as Shirley Collins, Martin Carthy, Peggy Seeger and Ralph McTell, alongside figures such as Billy Connolly, Jasper Carrott and Mike Harding, who all started their careers on the folk circuit. The book charts the revival''s improvised beginnings and its ties to the CND movement, through the he
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Faber & Faber The Creation Records Story
Book Synopsis''The greatest book ever written on British independent music'' Guardian''One of the best British music books of the last ten years'' MojoFounded by Alan McGee in 1983, Creation Records achieved notoriety as the home of Primal Scream, the Jesus and Mary Chain and other anti-Establishment acts. During the Britpop boom of the mid-90s, the astonishing success of Oasis brought Creation fame on the world stage. In 1999, however, McGee announced his shock departure as his label''s influence over a generation of British music came to a confusing and disappointing end. Containing interviews with Creation musicians, employees, supporters and detractors, this is the inside story of Creation Records - and of British music since the 1980s.
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Faber & Faber Where We Come From
Book SynopsisA stunning social history of British rap and grime by one of the nation's foremost cultural chroniclers.''A stunning exploration of a genre, a movement and a world. It's every bit as lyrical as the rap Ekpoudom has documented.''CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS, author of Queenie''Illuminating and intimate. Ekpoudom's prose is rhythmic and deft but also crackles with joy. I know I''ll be reading it for years to come.''CALEB AZUMAH NELSON, author of Small Worlds''[An] engaging, erudite, sweeping social history of grime in Britain . . . The writing is sublime.''GARY YOUNGE, NEW STATESMAN''Brims with life and reverberates, long after you have closed its pages, with a quiet, lasting power.'' EVENING STANDARD''Ekpoudom is, hands down, one of Britain's best music writers, as attested by his new book, Where We Come From, a kaleidoscopic, state-of-the-nation social and cultural
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Faber & Faber Dance Your Way Home
Book SynopsisA landmark social history of the dancefloor that gets tothe heart of what it is that makes us moveTrade Review'This books makes us feel like we can do it too.' - Gilles Peterson, on MAKE SOME SPACE'Warren makes a strong argument for the preservation of cultural spaces that foster "genuine connections" in a city where individualism and isolation are on the increase.' - Guardian, on MAKE SOME SPACE
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Faber & Faber Why Patti Smith Matters
Book SynopsisPatti Smith arrived in New York City at the end of the Age of Aquarius in search of work and purpose. Through her poetry, her songs, her unapologetic vocal power, and her very presence as a woman fronting a rock band, she kicked open a door that countless others walked through. No other musician has better embodied the nothing-to-hide rawness of punk, nor has any other done more to nurture a place in society for misfits of every stripe.Why Patti Smith Matters is the first book about the iconic artist written by a woman. The veteran music journalist Caryn Rose contextualizes Smith's creative work, her influence, and her wide-ranging and still- evolving impact on rock and roll, visual art, and the written word. Rose goes deep into Smith's oeuvre, from her first album, Horses, to acclaimed memoirs operating at a surprising remove from her music. The portrait of a ceaseless inventor, Why Patti Smith Matters rescues punk's poet laureate from strong woman clic
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Princeton University Press Bart243k and His World
Book SynopsisBela Bartok, who died in New York, is one of the most frequently performed twentieth-century composers. He is also the subject of a growing critical and analytical literature. Divided into three parts, this volume aims to provide insights into the life and reception of this musician, especially in Hungary.Trade Review"Adds important material to the slim library of English-language studies of Bartok's achievements."--The New York TimesTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsOut of Hungary: Bartok, Modernism, and the Cultural Politics of Twentieth-Century Music3Why Is a Bartok Thematic Catalog Sorely Needed?64The Gallows and the Altar: Poetic Criticism and Critical Poetry about Bartok in Hungary79Bartok's Reception in America, 1940-1945101Bluebeard as Theater: The Influence of Maeterlinck and Hebbel on Balazs's Bluebeard Drama119The Miraculous Mandarin: Melchior Lengyel, His Pantomime, and His Connections to Bela Bartok149Bartok and Stravinsky: Respect, Competition, Influence, and the Hungarian Reaction to Modernism in the 1920s172Travel Reports from Three Continents: A Selection of Letters from Bela Bartok203Bela Bartok: An Interview by Dezso Kosztolanyi228A Conversation with Bela Bartok235Recollections of Bela Bartok243A Change in Style276Bartok's Third String Quartet278Bartok's Foreign Tour282Two Bartok Obituaries290A Selection of Poems Inspired by Bela Bartok296Index of Names and Compositions307List of Contributors313
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Princeton University Press Defining Russia Musically
Book SynopsisShows how enlightened aristocrats, reactionary romantics, and the theorists and victims of totalitarianism have variously fashioned their vision of Russian society in musical terms. This book focuses on four individual composers, each characterized both as a self-consciously Russian creator and as a European.Trade ReviewOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1997 "A passionate vision of what Russian music has meant both as an expression and as a shaping force of the country's character... [Taruskin is] an exceptionally gifted critic... [T]he connections between technique and expression are formidably argued, and it is the capacity to do this, with patience and depth of understanding and with a vast knowledge of the literature, that gives Taruskin's criticism its quality."--John Warrack, Time Literary Supplement "Taruskin's work is far too rich and multi-layered, steeped in Russian intellectual history, literature, and culture, even to synopsize in a short review... His newest book is essential for musicologists wishing to understand Russia's place in music, and for Slavists wishing to understand music's place in Russia."--Robert W. Oldani, The Russian Review "More than a musicologist, Richard Taruskin is a cultural critic who deserves non-scholarly readers. His brilliant and alarmingly timely book Defining Russia Musically is about the battle for a nation's soul--fought between Europe and Asia, modernity and primitivism--in the music of Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich."--Peter Conrad, The Observer "Taruskin's hallmarks are evident throughout: research of almost astonishing breadth, impatience with facile views and those who propound them, and contempt for formalist modes of analysis that ignore the extramusical. This is an important, challenging book; no other book in English covers this ground with equal depth or brilliance."--Choice "When this controversial book first appeared in hardback, it sparked a debate ... both because of and despite the way it tore into big names in the musicological world. Now it seems like a landmark... Richard Taruskin raises important questions about how cultural and artistic judgements are made."--Literary ReviewTable of ContentsOthers: A Mythology and a Demurrer (By Way of Preface)Pt. IDefining Russia Musically (Seven Mini-Essays)11N. A. Lvov and the Folk32M. I. Glinka and the State253P. I. Chaikovsky and the Ghetto484Who Am I? (And Who Are You?)615Safe Harbors816After Everything997Objectives105Pt. IISelf and Other1118How the Acorn Took Root1139"Entoiling the Falconet"15210Ital'yanshchina186Pt. IIIHermeneutics of Russian Music: Four Cruxes23711Chaikovsky and the Human: A Centennial Essay23912Scriabin and the Superhuman: A Millennial Essay30813Stravinsky and the Subhuman36014Shostakovich and the Inhuman468Index545
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Princeton University Press The American Musical and the Formation of
Book SynopsisThe American musical has achieved and maintained relevance to more people in America than any other performance-based art. This history of the genre, intended for readers of all stripes, offers discussions of how American musicals, especially through their musical numbers, advance themes related to American national identity.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2004-2005 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism Finalist for the 2004 George Freedley Memorial Award, The Theatre Library Association "Knapp does an excellent job of tracing the roots of the musical, avoiding much of the received wisdom... When Knapp focuses on the structure of musicals, and how it works to move us and persuade us, he is very effective... "--Michael Friedman, London Review of Books "The breadth of Knapp's reading is astonishing, and his discussion of the historical background of the musical is admirable... Knapp writes extremely well, and not only his thoughts but also his suggestions for further study are well organized. So, too, is his consideration of the growth of the American union in the context of Oklahoma!, Guys and Dolls, and The Music Man."--Andrew Lamb, BBC Music Magazine "Knapp's well-researched and comprehensive presentation transcends the purely musical point of view. In his exploration of the underlying sociocultural fabric of a number of works, he puts the American musical theater on a par with its contemporary arts of jazz and film."--Ken McCoy, History "This is an intelligent, extremely well-written study which ... is as valuable for its demonstration of how musicals may be read as for its own insightful readings."--Charles Hamm, Kurt Weil Newsletter "This close musical analysis, combined with broad cultural comments about the power of the American musical, is highly original and much needed, especially as a teaching textbook."--Alisa Clapp-Itnyre, The Historian "This is an intelligent, extremely well-written study which ... is as valuable for its demonstration of how musicals may be read as for its own insightful readings."--Charles Hamm, Kurt Weill Newsletter "Raymond Knapp shows that while some musicals have served to reinforce the way people feel about America, many others have helped to challenge aspects of our culture that needed to be changed."--Stephen Peithman, Stage Directions "[Knapp] offers new insights on each work and writes in an accessible, engaging style... Knapp is ... most effective ... at negotiating the tensions ... between work and context, and between part and whole."--Walter Frisch, Current Musicology "Raymond Knapp has an extraordinarily perceptive ear. As he surveys the history of the American musical, he hears things--important things, revelatory things--that earlier writers who have attempted, systematically, to traverse this vast territory have missed. Hardly a page goes by without a 'Gee, I didn't realize that' moment... One of the loveliest features of these books is the generosity of the musical examples. Coordinated with the text are hundreds of musical excerpts which Princeton University Press has made available to readers through easy downloading from the Internet... It is clear that there is much to praise about Raymond Knapp's work, beginning with his vast knowledge of the subject and his infectious enthusiasm for it."--Edward Green, Popular Music and SocietyTable of ContentsList of Figures xi Explanatory Note about Audio Examples xiii Preface xv Part One INTRODUCTIONS 1 Chapter 1: Contexts and Strategies 3 Chapter 2: Nineteenth-Century European Roots: Models and Topics 19 Paris (and Berlin) 20 The Black Crook (1866) 20 London: W.S. Gilbert (1836-1911) and Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900) 29 H.M.S. Pinafore; or,The Lass That Loved a Sailor (1878) 34 Chapter 3: Early American Developments: Minstrelsy, Extravaganza, Pantomime, Burlesque, Vaudeville 47 Minstrelsy 49 Extravaganza 59 Pantomime 60 Burlesque 61 Vaudeville 62 A Gilbert and Sullivan Postscript on American Minstrelsy 63 Chapter 4: American Song through Tin Pan Alley 67 Minstrel Songs 67 The Early Tin Pan Alley Era 70 Classic Tin Pan Alley 77 Anything Goes (1934) 88 Part Two DEFINING AMERICA 101 Chapter 5: Whose (Who's) America? 103 Little Johnny Jones (1904) 104 The Cradle Will Rock (1938) 110 Chapter 6: American Mythologies 119 Oklahoma!(1943) 122 Guys and Dolls (1950) 134 The Music Man (1957) 144 Chapter 7: Counter-mythologies 153 Hair (1967-68) 154 Assassins (1991) 162 Part Three MANAGING AMERICA'S OTHERS 179 Chapter 8: Race and Ethnicity 181 Show Boat (1927) 185 Porgy and Bess (1935) 194 West Side Story (1957) 204 Fiddler on the Roof (1964) 215 Chapter 9: Dealing with the Second World War 228 The Sound of Music (1959) 230 Cabaret (1966) 239 Chapter 10: Exoticism 249 The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu (1885) 250 The King and I (1951) 261 Pacific Overtures (1976) 268 Chapter 11: Afterword: Other Directions, Other Identities 282 Appendix A: Art and Commerce: The Business of Making Musicals 285 Appendix B: Additional Resources 289 Notes 319 Bibliography 341 Index 351
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Princeton University Press The American Musical and the Performance of
Book SynopsisAddresses a variety of specific themes in musicals that serve this general function: fairy tale and fantasy, idealism and inspiration, gender and sexuality, and relationships, among others. This work considers three overlapping genres that are central to the projection of personal identity: operetta, movie musicals, and operatic musicals.Trade Review"Brainy [and] meticulous... The bedrock idea in The American Musical and the Performance of Personal Identity is that the self is, on some level, a performance--and isn't a performance incomplete when there's no audience? Other people provide the receptivity and feedback that allow one to become a certain person, rather than another. Character is--to revert to that inspiring buzzword--collaboration."--Celia Wren, American Theatre "The American Musical and the Performance of Personal Identity is an insightful contribution to current scholarship on musical theatre. It integrates theoretical approaches based in both musicology and audience reception, and applies these approaches across the media of film and theatre. In so doing, it offers a transferable, revealing methodology for similarly sophisticated analyses of the role of musical theatre in American culture."--Diana Calderazzo, Theatre Journal "With an engaging and accessible style, Knapp examines the ways American national and personal identity are revealed and defined through the evolving twentieth-century genres of stage and film musicals."--Arthur Pritchard, Studies in Musical Theater "Raymond Knapp has an extraordinarily perceptive ear. As he surveys the history of the American musical, he hears things--important things, revelatory things--that earlier writers ... have missed."--Edward Green, Popular Music and Society "Knapp's writing is lively and elegant, his knowledge and research are exceedingly wide-ranging, and his observations are incisive and on-the-mark, often very funny, and frequently astonishing in their acuity."--Stacy Wolf, Modern Drama "The author offers excellent in-depth treatments of 31 shows, including stage, film, and television musicals."--Choice "Raymond Knapp has an extraordinarily perceptive ear. As he surveys the history of the American musical, he hears things--important things, revelatory things--that earlier writers who have attempted, systematically, to traverse this vast territory have missed. Hardly a page goes by without a 'Gee, I didn't realize that' moment... One of the loveliest features of these books is the generosity of the musical examples. Coordinated with the text are hundreds of musical excerpts which Princeton University Press has made available to readers through easy downloading from the Internet... It is clear that there is much to praise about Raymond Knapp's work, beginning with his vast knowledge of the subject and his infectious enthusiasm for it."--Edward Green, Popular Music and SocietyTable of ContentsList of Figures ix Explanatory Note about Audio Examples xi Acknowledgments xiii Entr'acte 1 Part One: PERSONAL GENRES 15 Chapter 1: The Viennese Connection: Franz Leharand American Operetta 17 The Merry Widow (1907) 20 Naughty Marietta (1910) 31 Little Mary Sunshine (1959) 40 A Little Night Music (1973) 50 Chapter 2: The Movie Musical 65 Singin' in the Rain (film, 1952) 70 Stormy Weather (film, 1943) and Bamboozled (film, 2000) 79 Meet Me in St. Louis (film, 1944) 94 Moulin Rouge (film, 2001) and Chicago (film, 2002) 102 Part Two: PERSONAL THEMES 119 Chapter 3: Fairy Tales and Fantasy 121 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (animated film, 1937) 125 The Wizard of Oz (film, 1939) 131 Mary Poppins (film, 1964) 141 Into the Woods (1987) 150 Chapter 4: Idealism and Inspiration 164 Camelot (1960) 170 Man of La Mancha (1965) 180 The Scarlet Pimpernel (1997) 189 Once More, with Feeling (television, 2001) 196 Chapter 5: Gender and Sexuality 205 Annie Get Your Gun (1946) 209 Gypsy (1959) 215 Sweet Charity (1966) 228 The Rocky Horror Picture Show (film, 1975) 240 Hedwig and the Angry Inch (1998; film, 2001) 252 Chapter 6: Relationships 264 Lady in the Dark (1941) 266 Kiss Me, Kate (1948) 273 My Fair Lady (1956) 284 Company (1970) 293 Passion (1994) 303 Epilogue 311 Chapter 7: Operatic Ambitions and Beyond 313 Candide (1956) 317 Sweeney Todd (1979) 331 Evita (1979) 342 Appendix: Additional Resources 357 Notes 377 Bibliography 433 Index 449
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Princeton University Press The Musical as Drama
Book SynopsisDerived from the colorful traditions of vaudeville, burlesque, revue, and operetta, the musical has blossomed into America's most popular form of theater. Scott McMillin has developed a fresh aesthetic theory of this underrated art form, exploring the musical as a type of drama deserving the kind of critical and theoretical regard given to ChekhovTrade ReviewWinner of the 2007 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism "A scholarly work, with good supporting bibliographic footnotes, this book merits serious study... Highly recommended."--Choice "Scott McMillin is giving musicals the respect they deserve. If you want to know how a car is constructed, you might consult a Chilton's vehicle manual. If you want to know how a pie is constructed, you might consult the Fanny Farmer Cookbook. If you want to know how a musical is constructed, you might consult The Musical as Drama by Scott McMillin. This adoring yet studious book dissects familiar musicals as if they were biology frogs and academically discusses their skeletal and muscular systems."--Eve Lichtgarn, Westside Chronicle "Rarely does a book come along that seems to elegantly summarize what has come before while taking its subject to the next level. The Musical as Drama is just such a book. ...This volume encapsulates an entire career's reflection on the nature and structure of musical theater...This well-written, lucid, and effective book should serve as a fine addition to the expanding scholarship on America's musical theater."--Elizabeth A. Wells, Notes "Staunchly defending a much-maligned genre, McMillin sets his sights high... Even if one disagrees with some of his tastes and arguments, his defense of the musicals of the last half-century is convincing and, appropriately, an entertaining one."--Heather Heckman, Screening the Past "McMillin's specific examples are at once astute and persuasive and somehow obvious (and I mean this as the highest compliment). Anyone who reads this book (and all with even a passing interest in musical theatre should) will constantly be struck with a 'Why didn't I think of that?' feeling."--Stacy Wolf, Text & PresentationTable of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Preface ix CHAPTER ONE: Integration and Difference 1 CHAPTER TWO: The Book and the Numbers 31 CHAPTER THREE:Character and the Voice of the Musical 54 CHAPTER FOUR: The Ensemble Effect 78 CHAPTER FIVE: The Drama of Numbers 102 CHAPTER SIX: The Orchestra 126 CHAPTER SEVEN: Narration and Technology: Systems of Omniscience 149 CHAPTER EIGHT: What Kind of Drama Is This? 179 Bibliography 213 Index 221
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Princeton University Press Music as Thought
Book SynopsisBefore the nineteenth century, instrumental music was considered inferior to vocal music. Kant described wordless music as "more pleasure than culture," and Rousseau dismissed it for its inability to convey concepts. But by the early 1800s, a dramatic shift was under way. Purely instrumental music was now being hailed as a means to knowledge and emTrade Review"A fascinating new book."--Alex Ross, The New Yorker "This is a cogent and well-illustrated account of the theoretical basis for the changes in how instrumental music was listened to in the early decades of the 19th century. Bonds clarifies complex material and piles up evidence to make a convincing case for a 'revolution in listening.'"--Patricia Howard, Currents "Philosophical discussion of music can easily become dense, but Bonds presents his arguments and evidence in a clear, discernible manner such that readers with little exposure to the philosophical issues of the time period can follow his reasoning and come away illuminated by a first-hand account concerning the reception of the symphony in the first quarter of the nineteenth century."--John Stine, Music Research ForumTable of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction xiii List of Abbreviations xxi PROLOGUE: An Unlikely Genre: The Rise of the Symphony 1 CHAPTER ONE: Listening with Imagination: The Revolution in Aesthetics 5 From Kant to Hoffmann 6 Idealism and the Changing Perception of Perception 10 Idealism and the New Aesthetics of Listening 22 CHAPTER TWO: Listening as Thinking: From Rhetoric to Philosophy 29 Listening in a Rhetorical Framework 30 Listening in a Philosophical Framework 33 Art as Philosophy 37 CHAPTER THREE: Listening to Truth: Beethoven's Fifth Symphony 44 The Infinite Sublime 45 History as Knowing 50 The Synthesis of Conscious and Unconscious 53 Organic Coherence 55 Beyond the Sublime 57 CHAPTER FOUR: Listening to the Aesthetic State: Cosmopolitanism 63 The Communal Voice of the Symphony 63 The Imperatives of Individual and Social Synthesis 68 The State as Organism 71 Schiller's Idea of the Aesthetic State 73 Goethe's Pedagogical Province 75 CHAPTER FIVE: Listening to the German State: Nationalism 79 German Nationalism 79 The Symphony as a "German" Genre 88 The Performance Politics of the Music Festival 92 The Symphony as Democracy 99 EPILOGUE: Listening to Form: The Refuge of Absolute Music 104 Notes 117 Bibliography 153 Index 167
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Princeton University Press The Politics of Opera A History from Monteverdi
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Shortlisted for the Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies, Nanovic Institute, University of Notre Dame""Winner of the 2018 PROSE Award in Music & the Performing Arts, Association of American Publishers""Winner of the 2018 Presidential Excellence Award for Distinguished Scholarship, Baruch College, City University of New York""One of the Evening Standard Best Books of 2017 (chosen by Anne McElvoy)""The Politics of Opera: A History from Monteverdi to Mozart has boldly placed Machiavelli and early modern political theory at the center of the early history of opera, reflecting creatively on the ways in which the reverberations of the great Florentine realist reached even into the musical realm. . . . Cohen has demonstrated that the history of opera is connected to the history of political theory, but operatic masterpieces also acquire new layers of political meaning as they encounter new generations and newly fraught political circumstances."---Larry Wolff, New York Review of Books"This subtly insightful book helps readers experience these timeless masterpieces anew." * Foreign Affairs *"Surprises await even the well-informed operaphile." * Opera News *"A fascinating study of opera's musicology, performance history, and the political operatives who were pulling the artistic strings." * New York Journal of Books *"Delving into the world of composers such as Monteverdi, Lully, Rameau and Mozart, the author reveals how operas, through story lines, symbols, harmonies and musical motifs, have spoken of politics--sometimes loudly, sometimes sotto voce." * Opera America *"[A] first-rate scholarly work . . . that is both instructive in itself and methodologically and conceptually valuable for other periods and, indeed, media."---Jeremy Black, Foreign Policy Research Institute"Mitchell Cohen has written a very erudite book that takes us down the highways and, especially, the byways of European political thought in the early modern period. . . . The persevering reader will find much instruction and new insight into some old favourites."---Tim Blanning, Literary Review"Operas, the author argues, change their political meanings according to their setting, and the deep research and clear prose here hit a high C."---Anne McElvoy, The Evening Standard"Suffice it to say, when Mitchell Cohen sees and hears an opera, he sees and hears a lot. To you, it may seem primarily a piece of music or a piece of lyric theater. For him, it reveals layer upon layer, politically, socially, and historically. . . . Cohen is very good at getting under the skin of a piece and gauging the environment in which it was created. At the same time, he realizes that a really good work of art transcends time and space. . . . A book such as Cohen’s may not be for everyone--whose is?--but it is certainly for some."---Jay Nordlinger, The Weekly Standard"How should the history of political thought be written? . . . [A bold] step has been taken by Mitchell Cohen in his new book. Cohen, a political scientist who is also a music lover, is equally interested in the place of music in politics (metaphors of harmony, for instance) and the place of politics in music. . . . [His book] discusses not only the political context of operas and what is said openly in their librettos but, more unusually, the music as well—changing keys, recurrent motifs, and their emotional associations. . . . He often impresses."---Peter Burke, Common Knowledge
£31.50
Princeton University Press The Politics of Opera
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Shortlisted for the Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies, Nanovic Institute, University of Notre Dame""Winner of the 2018 PROSE Award in Music & the Performing Arts, Association of American Publishers""Winner of the 2018 Presidential Excellence Award for Distinguished Scholarship, Baruch College, City University of New York""One of the Evening Standard Best Books of 2017 (chosen by Anne McElvoy)"
£21.25
University of Wales Press Welsh Ballads of the French Revolution
Book SynopsisWelsh Ballads of the French Revolution (1793 - 1815) is an edition of ballads composed in the Welsh language during a momentous period in the history of Western civilization. The texts respond to the upheavals of the Revolutionary decade and its afermath, as people in Britain began to react to the violent deaths of the French monarchs.Trade ReviewThe vibrancy and colour of the Welsh ballads of the French Revolution are brought to life in this ground-breaking anthology edited and translated by Ffion Mair Jones. Offering a detailed analysis of ballads responding to the upheavals of the French Revolution, this volume reveals how the traumatic events of the period were interpreted and presented to Welsh audiences at the time. Ffion Mair Jones argues that despite being overwhelmingly loyal to the British crown, these ballads are far from being monotonous in their conservatism and she uncovers the historical and contemporary impulses that encouraged loyalty and discouraged dissent among the popular poets of the day. By making these ballads accessible to a wider audience, this volume will shed new light on Welsh popular responses to the most dramatic and important event in eighteenth-century Europe. Dr Siwan Rosser, School of Welsh, Cardiff UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction Responding to Revolution The Voices of Dissent: The ballads of south-west Wales (1793) 'Faithful Britons': The loyalist response (1793 - 4) The Fishguard Invasion (1797): Loyalty, identity and the hand of God Taking up Arms: Militia, volunteers and the army (1793 - 1815) War-reporting (1794 - 1815) The Duke of York (1793, 1794) The Glorious First of June and Cape St Vincent (1794, 1797) Nelson ballads (1805) Napoleon ballads (1812 - 15) Conclusion
£8.24
Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc The Who Quadrophenia
Book SynopsisThe Who & Quadrophenia offers a generously illustrated deep dive into all aspects of one of the most popular rock albums of all time.Trade Review“Everything about the writing, recording, and touring of Quadrophenia—as well as its lengthy afterlife and how it fits into the Greater Who History—is explored in Martin Popoff’s The Who & Quadrophenia. The ultra-prolific Popoff, as usual, leaves no detail unexplored in his latest in a series of high-quality coffee table books.” -- Bob Ruggiero * Houston Press *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: “Remember when stars were in reach:” The Context: The Who as of 1972 Sidebar 1: Mods Sidebar 2: Chris Stamp and Kit Lambert Chapter 2: “You only see what we show you:” The Sessions Sidebar 1: Concept Albums versus Rock Operas Chapter 3: “Can you see the real me, can you?:” Side One Sidebar 1: The Graphics Sidebar 2: Pete Townshend Chapter 4: “I hear the music of a heartbeat:” Side Two Sidebar 1: Roger Daltrey Chapter 5: “Let me flow into the ocean:” Side Three Sidebar 1: Keith Moon Chapter 6: “Oh God, I need a drink of cool, cool rain:” Side Four Sidebar 1: John Entwistle Chapter 7: “You fight computers and receipts:” The Tour Sidebar 1: Charts, Sales and Rankings Chapter 8: “I’m dressed right for a beachfight:” Quadrophenia: The Movie Sidebar 1: Quadrophenia: The Soundtrack Album Sidebar 2: The Mod Revival Chapter 9: “I pick up phones and hear my history:” The Who Post-Quadrophenia Sidebar 1: Performances of Quadrophenia in the Modern Day Sidebar 2: Quadrophenia Collectibles Tour Dates Discography Image Credits About the Author Index
£33.25
Running Press,U.S. Larger Than Life
Book SynopsisThe music, the fans, the choreography, the clothes, the merch, the hysteria... the hair. The pop phenomenon that dominated the 1990s and 2000s has left a long-lasting mark on culture, yet no book has fully celebrated them. Maria Sherman has a deep love of boy bands and has written extensively on them for Jezebel, where she currently works, as well as in Rolling Stone, Vulture, and more. In this book, her first, she celebrates the boy band revolution with a mix of serious fandom and a tongue-in-cheek attitude. Larger Than Life begins with a brief look at the history of boy bands starting with The Beatles and touching on groups from the 1970s and early 1980s like the Jackson 5 and Menudo. Sherman then moves on the heart of the book -- the boy bands of the 80s, 90s, 2000s, and 2010s. Bands including NKOTB, Backstreet Boys, *NSYNC, One Direction, and K-Pop bands like BTS are given a capsule biography with spreads on solo careers (the good and the bad), one hit wonders, dating, in-fighting,
£19.00
Running Press,U.S. A Booze Vinyl Christmas
Book SynopsisCelebrate the holidays with this merry collection of beloved Christmas albums paired with mood-setting cocktails—a companion to the bestselling listening party guide, Booze & Vinyl. Whether you're planning your finest Ugly Christmas Sweater Party or spending a quiet evening by the stocking-lined fireside at home, make the season bright with this guide to 40 favorite holiday albums from the 1940s to the present. Each entry features liner notes on the album and accompanying boozy beverage recipes that complement the music or connect the drink to the artist. Select holiday food recipes throughout complete the experience. Among the artist albums featured are: Johnny Mathis, the Beach Boys, Elvis, the Jackson 5, Mariah Carey, Bob Dylan, Justin Bieber, Gwen Stefani, Sia, Dolly Parton, Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole, Vince Guaraldi, Barbara Streisand, Willie Nelson, Boyz II Men, Celine Dion, Carrie Underwood, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fi
£18.70
Running Press,U.S. Ode to HipHop
Book SynopsisCelebrate the music that has shaped the culture and given us some of the greatest hits of all time with this vibrantly illustrated anthology, featuring 50 of the most lauded, controversial, and iconic hip-hop albums! From underground roots to mainstream popularity, hip-hop's influence on music and entertainment around the world has been nothing short of extraordinary. Ode to Hip-Hop chronicles the journey with profiles of fifty albums that have defined, expanded, and ultimately transformed the genre into what it is today. From 2 Live Crew's groundbreaking As Nasty As They Wanna Be in 1989 to Cardi B's similarly provocative Invasion of Privacy almost thirty years later, and more, Ode to Hip-Hop covers hip-hop from coast to coast. Organized by decade and with sidebars on fashion, mixtapes, and key players throughout, the result is a comprehensive homage to hip-hop, published just in time for the fiftieth anniversary. Enjoyed in the club, at a party, through speakers or headphones--the albums in this book deserve to be listened to again and again, for the next fifty years and beyond. Albums featured: Kurtis Blow (self-titled, 1980); The Message (Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, 1982); Run-D.M.C (self-titled, 1984), Hot, Cool & Vicious (Salt-N-Pepa, 1986); Paid in Full (Eric B. & Rakim, 1987); Straight Outta Compton (N.W.A, 1988); Lyte as a Rock (MC Lyte, 1988); As Nasty as They Wanna Be (2 Live Crew, 1989); Mama Said Knock You Out (LL Cool J, 1990); People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm (A Tribe Called Quest, 1990); The Chronic (Dr. Dre, 1992); Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) (Wu-Tang Clan, 1993); Black Reign (Queen Latifah, 1993); Doggystyle (Snoop Dogg, 1993); Illmatic (Nas, 1994); Ready to Die (The Notorious B.I.G., 1994); The Diary (Scarface, 1994); Funkdafied (Da Brat, 1994); Mystic Stylez (Three 6 Mafia, 1995); Hard Core (Lil' Kim, 1996); Ridin' Dirty (UGK, 1996); All Eyez On Me (2Pac, 1996); Supa Dupa Fly (Missy Elliott, 1997); Aquemini (Outkast, 1998); The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (Lauryn Hill, 1998); It's Dark and Hell Is Hot (DMX, 1998); Things Fall Apart (The Roots, 1999); Da Baddest B***h (Trina, 2000); The Marshall Mathers LP (Eminem, 2000); The Blueprint (JAY-Z, 2001); Lord Willin' (Clipse, 2002); Get Rich or Die Tryin' (50 Cent, 2003); The College Dropout (Kanye West, 2004); Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 101 (Young Jeezy, 2005); King (T.I., 2006); Lupe Fiasco's the Cool (Lupe Fiasco, 2007); The Carter III (Lil Wayne, 2008); The State vs. Radric Davis (Gucci Mane, 2009); Pink Friday (Nicki Minaj, 2010); Watch the Throne (JAY-Z & Kanye West, 2011); Nothing Was the Same (Drake, 2013); To Pimp a Butterfly (Kendrick Lamar, 2015); DS2 (Future, 2015); Culture (Migos, 2017); Invasion of Privacy (Cardi B., 2018); Whack World (Tierra Whack, 2018); Eve (Rapsody, 2019); City on Lock (City Girls, 2020); Montero (Lil Nas X, 2021); Traumazine (Megan Thee Stallion, 2022)
£22.50
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Tommy at 50
Book SynopsisThe definitive illustrated history of "Tommy," the album that made the Who one of the greatest and most influential bands of all time.
£23.79
Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc Legendary Guitars
Book SynopsisLegendary Guitars offers an illustrated tour of the electric guitars of the 1950s and ’60s, illuminated by the concurrent world events that influenced their style.
£17.09
Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc The Who
Book SynopsisThe Who: The History of My Generation is the complete unofficial illustrated history of the legendary classic rock band, starting from their debut album in 1965.
£18.99
Octopus Publishing Group Scala Radios A Soundtrack for Life
Book SynopsisA listener’s guide to classical music to take you through the day, from getting up and getting dressed, to running, reading, walking the dog, cooking and eating, taking a bath, going to sleep and everything in betweenFrom the world’s most romantic music and the greatest Christmas choral music, to more ordinary but no less important situations such as music to listen to when taking a shower, A Soundtrack for Life is for anyone who has ever wanted to discover more about classical music but doesn’t know where to begin.Organized by Occasion and Themes, such as upbeat, contemplative or perfect for a celebration, along with key facts and fascinating details about each piece, the book also includes music from film, TV, videos and musicals. It also offers an entry point into what is, for many people, an unfamiliar world with suggestions of classical covers of such artists and genres as Nirvana, Garage, Ed Sheeran and Hip Hop. Each Entry p
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City Lights Books Blues and the Poetic Spirit Roots of Jazz
Book Synopsis While much has been written about the sociological significance of the blues, this is a unique inquiry into the blues and the mind, a study of the blues as thought. Here, the subconscious power of the blues is examined from a poetic and psychological perspective, illuminating the blues’ deepest creative sources and exploring its far-reaching influence and appeal. Like Surrealist poetry in particular, blues communicate through highly charged symbols of aggression and desireeros, crime, magic, night, and drugs, among others. A close analysis of classic blues lyrics, along with a wealth of source material from Freud and James Frazer, to Breton and Marcuse, conveys the blues’ major poetic function of spiritual revolt against repression. First published in 1975, Blues and the Poetic Spirit is a blues literature classic. This long-awaited new edition assesses developments in the blues since that time and outlines the social and political forces thTrade Review"Blues is explored from a psychological and literary perspective in a classic title which was out of print for nearly ten years and which now reappears in an updated, enlarged edition. Use this to replace a tattered older copy or to gain fresh insights into the purposes and meaning of blues music."—Midwest Book Review
£14.24
Undena Publications,U.S. A Hurrian Musical Score from Ugarit
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£11.00
Cambridge University Press Hensel String Quartet in E flat
Book SynopsisFanny Hensel's String Quartet in E flat major (1834) is one of her most ambitious and individual compositions. Contextualising it within wider scholarly discussion about female composers' music, Benedict Taylor explores the unique qualities of Hensel's piece and shows how it responded to the most progressive works of the time.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Background; 3. Genesis and private reception; 4. First movement: Adagio ma non troppo; 5. Second movement: Allegretto; 6. Third movement: Romanza; 7. Finale: Allegro molto vivace; 8. Responding to the Quartet.
£17.99
Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to The Magic Flute
Book SynopsisSince its premiere in 1791, The Magic Flute has been staged continuously and remains, to this day, Mozart''s most-performed opera worldwide. This comprehensive, user-friendly, up-to-date critical guide considers the opera in a variety of contexts to provide a fresh look at a work that has continued to fascinate audiences from Mozart''s time to ours. It serves both as an introduction for those encountering the opera for the first time and as a treasury of recent scholarship for those who know it very well. Containing twenty-one essays by leading scholars, and drawing on recent research and commentary, this Companion presents original insights on music, dialogue, and spectacle, and offers a range of new perspectives on key issues, including the opera''s representation of exoticism, race, and gender. Organized in four sections ? historical context, musical analysis, critical approaches, and reception ? it provides an essential framework for understanding The Magic Flute and its extraordinary afterlife.Table of ContentsIntroduction Jessica Waldoff; Part I. Conception and Context: 1. German Opera in Mozart's Vienna Estelle Joubert; 2. 'The Magic Flute's' Libretto and German Enlightenment Theater Reform Martin Nedbal; 3. Emanuel Schikaneder and the Theater auf der Wieden Lisa de Alwis; 4. 'The Magic Flute' in 1791 Austin Glatthorn; Part II. Music, Text, and Action: 5. Music as Stage-Craft Julian Rushton; 6. Enduring Portraits: The Arias Laurel E. Zeiss; 7. 'All Together, Now'? Ensembles and Choruses in 'The Magic Flute' Nicholas Marston; 8. Musical Topics, Quotations, and References Mark Ferraguto; 9. Instrumentation, Magical and Mundane Emily I. Dolan and Hayley Fenn; 10. The Dialogue as Indispensable Catherine Coppola; 11. Music, Drama and Spectacle in the Finales John Platoff; III. Approaches and Perspectives: 12. Seeking Enlightenment in Mozart's 'Magic Flute' Richard Kramer; 13. Birdsong and Hieroglyphs: Exoticism and Enlightened Orientalism in 'The Magic Flute' Matthew Head; 14. Partial Derivatives: Sources, Types, and Tropes in 'The Magic Flute' Thomas Bauman; 15. Pamina, the Queen, and the Representation of Women Jessica Waldoff; 16. Blackness and Whiteness in 'The Magic Flute' – Reflections from Shakespeare Studies Adeline Mueller; IV. Reception, Interpretation, and Influence: 17. Zauberflöte: A Cultural Phenomenon in an Age of Revolution Ian Woodfield; 18. 'The Magic Flute' in Biography, Criticism, and Literature Simon P. Keefe; 19. The Elusive Compositional History of 'The Magic Flute' Daniel R. Melamed; 20. Staging 'The Magic Flute' Kate Hopkins; 21. Ingmar Bergman's Film Version of 'The Magic Flute' Dean Duncan.
£22.99
Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Amy Beach
Book SynopsisIn recent decades, the music of Amy Beach has made an impressive return to concerts, recordings, and the academy. This book introduces Beach's compelling music and life story to those as yet unfamiliar with her work. Drawing on recently uncovered archival sources, it will expand the resources available to students, scholars and listeners.Table of ContentsPart I. Historical Context: 1. Between composer's desk and piano bench: Amy beach's life and works E. Douglas Bomberger; 2. Amy beach and the women's club movement Marian Wilson Kimber; 3. 'A reality of glorious attainment': Amy beach's Macdowell colony Robin Rausch; 4. Amy beach and her publishers Bill F. Faucett; Part II. Profiles of the Music: 5. Amy beach's keyboard music Kirsten Johnson; 6. Songs of Amy beach Katherine Kelton; 7. 'Worthy of serious attention': the chamber music of Amy beach R. Larry Todd; 8. The power of song in beach's orchestral works Douglas W. Shadle; 9. Choral music Matthew Phelps; 10. Beach's dramatic works Nicole Powlison; Part III. Reception: 11. Phoenix redivivus: Beach's posthumous reception E. Douglas Bomberger.
£22.99
Cambridge University Press Urban Spectacle in Republican Milan
Book SynopsisThis Element aims at reconstructing and describing the main features of the French republican festivals in Milan, and their impact on the city's landscape, soundscape and self-representation. It offers some reflections on these events' consequences on the following century's patriotism/nationalism and cultural production.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Republican festivals in northern Italy: historical and ideological background; 2. The festivals and the city; Epilogue; Bibliography.
£17.00
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Beatlemania in America
Book SynopsisWhen The Beatles arrived in postwar America, Beatlemania swept the nation as hysterical girls flocked to the band and young men grew out their hair. In this book Andrew Hunt explores this wildly enthusiastic fandom from the bottom-up. Showcasing oral histories, fan magazines, club newsletters, newspapers and personal memoirs, he uncovers The Beatles'' fan culture from the perspective of Beatlemaniacs, Beatlephobes and ordinary Americans to understand the impact it had on society at large. Offering a cultural history from below, Beatlemania in America highlights previously neglected voices of fans, critics, parents, teachers and politicians. It contextualises the Beatles fandom against a wider, global perspective of changing cultures and shows how this band was part of a wider shift of social change. It delves into who Beatles fans were and shows how their collective voice gave them power. Exploring themes of gender and race in this turbulent and tumultuous era of American histoTrade ReviewA fascinating account of the youth craze known as Beatlemania. While explaining the screaming crowds that the Beatles garnered as they toured the U.S., Hunt documents important themes, like how the civil rights movement related to the craze and how merchandising and commodification of the band mattered as much as the music itself. Fans did what they wanted to squeeze meaning out of it all. And before reading this book, I had never heard of anti-Beatles clubs! And just how polarized American audiences were. Just something more to add to an already fascinating treatment of Beatlemania. * Kevin Mattson Connor, Study Professor of Contemporary History, Ohio University, USA *Beatlemania in America offers a nuanced look at one of the most consequential cultural phenomena of the twentieth century. The challenge in writing about Beatlemania today is to not only offer new insights, but to communicate the band's ubiquity and disruptiveness. Andrew Hunt has met this challenge. * Candy Leonard, author of Beatleness: How the Beatles and Their Fans Remade the World *Andrew Hunt’s Beatlemania in America: Fan Culture from Below affords readers with a fascinating study of the fan communities that made the Beatles’ pop-cultural explosion a reality for the ages. Drawing on fanzines and oral histories, Hunt brings the contours of Beatlemania to life in new and innovative ways. * Kenneth Womack, author of Long and Winding Roads: The Evolving Artistry of the Beatles *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Early Stirrings: The Origins of American Beatlemania 2. Hysterical Girls and Long-Haired Boys: Beatlemania through a Gendered Lens 3. Blurring the Colour Line: Beatlemania, Race and the African American Experience 4. Beatlemania’s Discontents: Beatlephobia and Culture Wars in the Mid-sixties 5. The Beatles for Sale: Marketing, Merchandizing and Beatlemania 6. Coming Apart: Later Beatlemania in a Time of Torment 7. The Legacies of Beatlemania Conclusion
£20.89
Orion Publishing Co Industry of Magic Light
Book SynopsisIndustry of Magic & Light is a love letter to the counterculture of the 1960s and a requiem for its passing. The much-anticipated prequel to Keenan''s cult classic debut, This is Memorial Device, Industry of Magic & Light is set in the same mythical Airdrie in the 1960s and early 70s and centres on a group of hippies running their own psychedelic light show. Told in two halves - the first in the form of an inventory of the contents of a caravan abandoned by one of the hippies, the second in the form of a tarot card reading - it is not so much a book about the 1960s as a direct channelling of the decade''s energies, bringing to life how even the smallest and dreariest of working class towns felt so full of possibility in the wake of the psychedelic moment. Via artefacts from the time - everything from poetry chapbooks, record reviews and musical instruments through bubblegum wrappers, bicycle repair kits and mysterious cassette recordings - the book openTrade ReviewKeenan makes serious magic with this kaleidoscopic crowd of shamen and showmen, this host of flawed, unexpected, brilliant characters. Industry of Magic & Light is a spell-binding inventory of 1960s culture and a glorious, thrilling, funny reading experience. It's Keenan in excelsis: transcendent, violent in intensity, full of joy and utter wonder. * Wendy Erskine *Brilliant - pure undiluted Keenan in crystalised form. Less a book and more of a passport, INDUSTRY OF MAGIC & LIGHT is nothing like you expected but everything you hoped for. * John Higgs *Keenan threads these votive objects into a tapestry as delirious and hallucinogenic as a John Cippolina guitar solo... This is Memorial Device was searing and brilliant and totally made up. Don't tell me Keenan has done it again... Keenan is showing us how even in Airdrie - perhaps especially in Airdrie - the possibilities were infinite. And maybe, just maybe, he's written another classic. * The Scotsman *There are some writers whose books disrupt you so profoundly that to encounter them is to survive a life event. David Keenan is one of these beasts. Read him. * Lara Pawson *The only thing I didn't love about INDUSTRY OF MAGIC & LIGHT was the nagging feeling you'd been born with an enfeebled imagination when putting it down. HAIL KEENAN. * Lias Saoudi, Fat White Family *I cracked open my copy of INDUSTRY OF MAGIC & LIGHT and within TWO pages had laughed out loud twice, nodded furiously once and was totally ensnared. Keenan captures the literal magic of your local scene's hidden reverse. * John Doran, editor of The Quietus *INDUSTRY OF MAGIC & LIGHT does something that is depressingly rare... it cracks open the majesty, the poetry and the strange high magic that is present in working class communities, if only we could be bothered to look. * Keiran Goddard *This is Memorial Device was my favourite book of the last decade, an imagined history of a local music scene that I found more genuinely evocative of growing up in and around bands than most reality-based histories. With INDUSTRY OF MAGIC & LIGHT David has spread this hallucinated universe out, and back in time, to create a prequel that fills out and colours in the edges of his characters in a way I found beautiful and life affirming. * Andy Bell, Ride *
£17.09
Orion Publishing Co I Thought I Heard You Speak
Book SynopsisFactory Records has become the stuff of legend. The histories of the label have been told from many perspectives, from visual catalogues and memoirs to exhibitions. Yet no in-depth history has ever been told from the perspectives of the women who were integral to Factory''s cultural significance. The untold history of Factory Records is one of women''s work at nearly every turn: recording music, playing live gigs, running the label behind the scenes, managing and promoting bands, designing record sleeves, making films and music videos, pioneering sound technology, DJing, and running one of the most chaotic clubs on the planet, The Haçienda. Told entirely in their voices and featuring contributions from Gillian Gilbert, Gina Birch, Cath Carroll, Penny Henry and over fifty more interviewees, I THOUGHT I HEARD YOU SPEAK is an oral history that reveals the true cultural reach of the label and its staying power in the twenty-first century.Trade ReviewThe book I've been waiting for my entire adult life. A wonderful and fresh retelling of a time and a place that has never been significantly seen or heard from the perspective of women. Unfolding like a detective story bringing forth all the complex evidence, these fascinating, insightful, fun testimonies of what it was like to be connected to Factory are beautifully woven together. The range and power of the unleashed individual voices takes on a collective strength, becoming a fantastic roar: we were there all along and we will not be forgotten -- Carol MorelyI Thought I Heard You Speak is not simply an essential addition to Factory Records' archive of books, films, and exhibitions, it is recommended reading. Period -- DJ PauletteI was really pleased to talk to Audrey about my memories of working with New Order and Factory Records. I think it's really important that the story of Factory Records includes and recognises the contribution of several women right from the start to the legacy that continues today' -- Rebecca Boulton, Manager of New OrderAn important book on the women pivoting around the Factory/Manchester scene -- Sinéad GleesonIn an industry that primarily dismisses or conveniently forgets the vast contributions of women, I am delighted that this book exists. Bravo Audrey Golden. Thank you for bearing witness -- Shirley MansonIn the past, the mantra has often been to mythologise, printing the legend rather than the truth. This is why Audrey Golden's I Thought I Heard You Speak: Women At Factory Records had to be written to readdresses the imbalance. In years to come, it will be looked upon as one of the most important books written about the Factory organisation, maybe even the final word -- Iain Key * Louder Than War *
£21.25
London Chamber Orchestra London Chamber Orchestra
Book SynopsisThe London Chamber Orchestra is the longest standing professional chamber orchestra in Britain. Encompassing over a century of music, its roller coaster story is told for the first time in this beautiful, illustrated book.
£21.25
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Patti Smith Collected Lyrics 19702015
Book SynopsisA revised and updated version of the artist's collected lyricsAn American original, Patti Smith is a multi-disciplined artist and performer. Her work is rooted in poetry, which infused her 1975 landmark album, Horses. A declaration of existence, Horses was described as three chords merged with the power of the word'; it was graced with the now iconic portrait by Robert Mapplethorpe, the subject of her award-winning memoir Just Kids. Initially published in 1998, Patti Smith's Complete Lyrics was a testimony to her uncompromising poetic power. Now, on the fortieth anniversary of the release of Smith's groundbreaking album, Collected Lyrics has been revised and expanded with more than thirty-five additional songs, including her first, ''Work Song'', written for Janis Joplin in 1970, and her most current, ''Writer's Song'', to be recorded in 2015. The collection is liberally illustrated with original manuscripts of lyrics from Smith's extensTrade ReviewThis book is so honest and pure as to count as a true rapture Joan Didion Patti Smith has graced us with a poetic masterpiece, a rare and privileged invitation to unlatch a treasure chest never before breached Johnny Depp A tender, harrowing, often hilarious portrait of young lovers forging their paths in an eccentric milieu of Beat poets, Warhol socialites, and transvestites, rock stars and artists Vogue The most beautiful, incredible autobiography - it will make you ache for a time and a place that you probably never knew, New York in the 1970s Nick Hornby She was once our savage Rimbaud, but suffering has turned her into our St John of the Cross, a mystic full of compassion Edmund White
£21.25
Orion Publishing Co No Regrets
Book SynopsisA colourful collection of pieces on the enigmatic genius of Scott Walker from THE WIRE.
£9.49
Johns Hopkins University Press StarSpangled Banner
Book SynopsisThis entertaining book will appeal to patriots of all persuasions, along with sports fans, musicians, veterans, history buffs, and anyone who has ever struggled to hit the high notes in the land of the free and the home of the brave.Trade ReviewWith its in-depth details not only about the making of the song but its incorporation into American history and lives, this is a powerful pick for any interested in American or musical history. Midwest Book ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrologue1. Anthem before a Nation, 1814–18602. American Dischord, 1860–18653. Striving to Reunify, 1865–19004. Duties and Customs, 1880–19105. Stars and Stripes Forever, 1890–19206. Marching under the Banner, 1898–19317. Trials and Triumphs, 1931–19548. Star-Spangled Conflict, 1954–19639. Postmodern Patriotism, 1964–2014EpilogueAppendix: The Original Words of The Star-Spangled BannerNotesFurther ReadingIndex
£27.94
Peter Lang Publishing Inc Dachau Song
Book SynopsisHerbert Zipper was born in 1904 in Hapsburg, Vienna. He was educated in the finest academies, studying under Richard Strauss and Maurice Ravel, among others, and became a conductor-composer in Germany in the early 1930s. When Hitler became Chancellor, he hastened back to Vienna, composing music for underground cabarets. In 1938, after the Anschluss, he was sent to Dachau and transferred to Buchenwald (1939). In Dachau, he organized clandestine concerts in an abandoned latrine. He and prisonmate Jura Soyfer also composed a song, The Dachau Lied, which was to have an extraordinary history. He was released from Buchenwald and journeyed to Manila to marry the love of his life and to conduct the Manila Symphony Orchestra. When the Japanese invaded (1942), he was put in prison again. A few weeks after the liberation of Manila, out of the rubble of the city he created an extraordinary concert. After the war he came to America, was responsible for the founding of over a dozen community arts scTrade Review«Zipper, you didn’t omit a chance to be killed.» (Otto Klemperer, Conductor) «Don’t forget, Zipper, this whole civilization of man has been built by very few people, and I’m talking to one.» (John D. Rockefeller III To Herbert Zipper) «I read the book with growing suspense. It is written with crystal clarity and with a knowledge of European dimensions rarely found among Americans! » (Sebastian Feldman, Writer for the Rheinische Post, Dusseldorf, Germany) «In Dachau, Herbert Zipper secretly led an orchestra. He survived the Nazis to champion his beloved art.» (Patricia Ward Biederman, Los Angeles Times)Table of ContentsContents: Dachau Song is the biography of Herbert Zipper (born 1904 in Vienna, Austria) and covers his life from 1904 to 1990. From his education in Vienna to imprisonment in Dachau, Buchenwald, and Manila in World War II to his work in America from 1946 to the present as a composer, conductor, and educator, Zipper's odyssey has been remarkable and inspiring.
£23.75
Peter Lang Publishing Inc Celebrating Twenty Years of Black Girlhood
Book SynopsisThe album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill sold over 420,000 copies in its first week, received ten Grammy nominations (winning five). Celebrating Twenty Years of Black Girlhood: The Lauryn Hill Reader critically engages the work of Ms. Hill, highlighting the interdisciplinary nature of the album. Beyond the album's commercial success, Ms. Hill's radical self-consciousness and exuberance for life led listeners through her Black girl journey of love, motherhood, admonition, redemption, spirituality, sexuality, politics, and nostalgia that affirmed the power of creativity, resistance, and the tradition of African storytelling. Ms. Hill's album provides inspirational energies that serve as a foundational text for Black girlhood. In many ways it is the definitive work of Black girlhood for the Hip Hop generation and beyond because it opened our eyes to a holistic narrative of woman and mother. Twenty years after the release of the album, we pay tribute to this Trade Review“Celebrating Twenty Years of Black Girlhood: The Lauryn Hill Reader is poised to reverberate the vibrations Lauryn Hill shot from her groundbreaking and still arguably unmatched album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. Sankofa Waters, Evans-Winters, and Love have assembled a transdisciplinary group of boundary breaking scholar-artist-activist-educators. Drawing upon fields of study, including rhetoric, composition, critical pedagogy, Hiphop feminism, ethnomusicology, linguistics, Hiphop/education, literacy, literature and more, this text exemplifies culturally sustaining pedagogy, as it focuses upon the liberatory work achieved through Lauryn Hill’s music: Sista scholars in the academy deliver the theory and praxis of rhetoric from the womb; Hiphop scholars develop reciprocity of critical consciousness in community with their students; and Blackgirl scholars of education juxtapose the stories of Ntozake Shange with the songs of Lauryn Hill illuminating their autoethnographical commonalities, how they strike chords in the lives of Blackgirls through soulful Black language and culture, strumming our pain and healing our wounds sonically, lyrically, and spiritually with the power of vulnerability. In her introduction, Sankofa Waters proclaims The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill as ‘the Combahee soundtrack for the Blackgirl shaped by Hip Hop.…’ Whereas the authors represented in this text are carving out free spaces for all Black lives, in the same spirit as Sankofa Waters, I declare Celebrating Twenty Years of Black Girlhood a project of liberation that creates a type of space where all Black voices are hoisted by the voice of Lauryn Hill from Newark to Israel and beyond.”—Elaine Richardson, Artist, Advocate, Academic, Survivor, The Ohio State University“Celebrating Twenty Years of Black Girlhood: The Lauryn Hill Reader is an education not to be missed! Each track is powerful on its own, but together, offer a collective portal for recalling just how hard we danced, loved, and decided differently, once The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill dropped. A critical care-informed community-inspired approach coupled with a loud love for Ms. Hill’s artistry, this reader exemplifies how devastatingly profound is Ms. Hill’s creative genius and impact. Just as it had to be, the editors curated deep truths and intimate knowledges about Hip Hop, healing, Black women’s artistry, Black girls’ lived experience, sacred wisdom, and critical pedagogy. Celebrating Twenty Years of Black Girlhood orchestrates a necessary intellectual beat drop, a pause from which to remember our memories, shape the present, and anticipate better tomorrows with all of our children telling us what is love and authoring more readers such as this that are absolutely worth the wait!”—Dr. Ruth Nicole Brown, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Gender and Women’s Studies and Education Policy, Organization and LeadershipTable of ContentsM. Billye Sankofa Waters: Liner Notes: Introducing a 20-Year Reflection – Grisel Y. Acosta: Hard Rock (The Truth about Jezebel) – Adrienne R. Washington/Diana A. Burnett: Examining Linguistic Continuity and the Richness and Multidimensionality of Black Atlantic Communicative Practices through the Lyricism of Lauryn Hill – Qiana M. Cutts: Blackgirl Praxis through Rhetorical Architecture: An Ethnopoetic Reading of Miseducation – Alexis McGee: Black Feminist Rhetorical Praxis: The Agency of Holistic Black Women in Lauryn Hill’s The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill and Contemporary Works – Aja D. Reynolds: Give Me My Crooked Crown Momma – Grisel Y. Acosta: Nothing but Us – Dawn N. Hicks Tafari/Nwachi G.E. Tafari: Care for Me: One Black Girl’s Road to Acknowledging the Ex-Factor – Grisel Y. Acosta: Revolution Mami – Raven Jones Stanbrough/Ashley Newby: The Rhetoric of the Womb: (Academic) Mothering in Trying Times on the Road to Zion – Geneva L. Sarcedo/Cheryl E. Matias: Forgive Them Father for They Know Not What They Do… But What If They Do Know?!: The Impact of Unforgivable Whiteness on Black and Brown Women – Sherell A. McArthur: My Sister, Myself: Why the Miseducation of Black Girls Requires Spaces and Places for Their Healing – Nazera Sadiq Wright: Saving Me Softly: A Black Girl in Japan – Sarah Abdelaziz: Father, You Saved Me – Robin M. Boylorn: "Somebody/anybody, sing a black girl’s song": The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill as Blackgirl Autoethnography – Torie Weiston-Serdan: Tell Me Who I Can Be: Mentoring Queer Black Girls in Hostile Educational Spaces – Nadrea R. Njoku/Shawna M. Patterson-Stephens/Lori D. Patton/Maurisa Li-A-Ping/Ellise Smith: Fantasy, Reality, and What Is Needed: Debunking Fantasy and Centering Truth in Black Women College Students’ Experiences – Jessica Edwards: Lauryn Hill and the Power of Digital Storytelling in Writing Classrooms – David Green: Lauryn Hill and Pedagogies of Critical Hip-Hop – Tara Betts: The Miseducation Was Ms. Lauryn Hill’s Education: The Inspiration and Activism of an Emcee – Shanyce L. Campbell: Forgive Them: The Silencing of Black Women in Graduate School – ReAnna S. Roby/Elizabeth J. Cook: A Re-Storying of the Academy by the Lost Ones – Tanja Burkhard/Valerie Kinloch: Black Feminist Auto-Ethnography on Black Womanhood across Space – Stephanie Troutman/Eric A. House: Wrecking Patriarchy and Capitalism in Lauryn Hill’s Hip Hop – Conā S.M. Marshall: The Hill from Whence My Help Comes: Black Women Rapping and Preaching Activism and Liberation – Marta Mack-Washington/Magaela C. Bethune/Ahmad R. Washington: Negotiating Complicated Relationships with Misogynoir in Hip Hop – Lauren Leigh Kelly: Lessons from a Black Feminist Critical Scholar – Stephanie Latty/Sefanit Habtom/Eve Tuck: Practice Extending across the Atlas: Black Girls’ Geographies in Settler Societies – Contributors.
£35.24
Peter Lang Publishing Inc Celebrating Twenty Years of Black Girlhood
Book SynopsisThe album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill sold over 420,000 copies in its first week, received ten Grammy nominations (winning five). Celebrating Twenty Years of Black Girlhood: The Lauryn Hill Reader critically engages the work of Ms. Hill, highlighting the interdisciplinary nature of the album. Beyond the album's commercial success, Ms. Hill's radical self-consciousness and exuberance for life led listeners through her Black girl journey of love, motherhood, admonition, redemption, spirituality, sexuality, politics, and nostalgia that affirmed the power of creativity, resistance, and the tradition of African storytelling. Ms. Hill's album provides inspirational energies that serve as a foundational text for Black girlhood. In many ways it is the definitive work of Black girlhood for the Hip Hop generation and beyond because it opened our eyes to a holistic narrative of woman and mother. Twenty years after the release of the album, we pay tribute to this Trade Review“Celebrating Twenty Years of Black Girlhood: The Lauryn Hill Reader is an education not to be missed! Each track is powerful on its own, but together, offer a collective portal for recalling just how hard we danced, loved, and decided differently, once The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill dropped. A critical care-informed community-inspired approach coupled with a loud love for Ms. Hill’s artistry, this reader exemplifies how devastatingly profound is Ms. Hill’s creative genius and impact. Just as it had to be, the editors curated deep truths and intimate knowledges about Hip Hop, healing, Black women’s artistry, Black girls’ lived experience, sacred wisdom, and critical pedagogy. Celebrating Twenty Years of Black Girlhood orchestrates a necessary intellectual beat drop, a pause from which to remember our memories, shape the present, and anticipate better tomorrows with all of our children telling us what is love and authoring more readers such as this that are absolutely worth the wait!”—Dr. Ruth Nicole Brown, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Gender and Women’s Studies and Education Policy, Organization and Leadership“Celebrating Twenty Years of Black Girlhood: The Lauryn Hill Reader is poised to reverberate the vibrations Lauryn Hill shot from her groundbreaking and still arguably unmatched album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. Sankofa Waters, Evans-Winters, and Love have assembled a transdisciplinary group of boundary breaking scholar-artist-activist-educators. Drawing upon fields of study, including rhetoric, composition, critical pedagogy, Hiphop feminism, ethnomusicology, linguistics, Hiphop/education, literacy, literature and more, this text exemplifies culturally sustaining pedagogy, as it focuses upon the liberatory work achieved through Lauryn Hill’s music: Sista scholars in the academy deliver the theory and praxis of rhetoric from the womb; Hiphop scholars develop reciprocity of critical consciousness in community with their students; and Blackgirl scholars of education juxtapose the stories of Ntozake Shange with the songs of Lauryn Hill illuminating their autoethnographical commonalities, how they strike chords in the lives of Blackgirls through soulful Black language and culture, strumming our pain and healing our wounds sonically, lyrically, and spiritually with the power of vulnerability. In her introduction, Sankofa Waters proclaims The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill as ‘the Combahee soundtrack for the Blackgirl shaped by Hip Hop.…’ Whereas the authors represented in this text are carving out free spaces for all Black lives, in the same spirit as Sankofa Waters, I declare Celebrating Twenty Years of Black Girlhood a project of liberation that creates a type of space where all Black voices are hoisted by the voice of Lauryn Hill from Newark to Israel and beyond.”—Elaine Richardson, Artist, Advocate, Academic, Survivor, The Ohio State UniversityTable of ContentsM. Billye Sankofa Waters: Liner Notes: Introducing a 20-Year Reflection – Grisel Y. Acosta: Hard Rock (The Truth about Jezebel) – Adrienne R. Washington/Diana A. Burnett: Examining Linguistic Continuity and the Richness and Multidimensionality of Black Atlantic Communicative Practices through the Lyricism of Lauryn Hill – Qiana M. Cutts: Blackgirl Praxis through Rhetorical Architecture: An Ethnopoetic Reading of Miseducation – Alexis McGee: Black Feminist Rhetorical Praxis: The Agency of Holistic Black Women in Lauryn Hill’s The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill and Contemporary Works – Aja D. Reynolds: Give Me My Crooked Crown Momma – Grisel Y. Acosta: Nothing but Us – Dawn N. Hicks Tafari/Nwachi G.E. Tafari: Care for Me: One Black Girl’s Road to Acknowledging the Ex-Factor – Grisel Y. Acosta: Revolution Mami – Raven Jones Stanbrough/Ashley Newby: The Rhetoric of the Womb: (Academic) Mothering in Trying Times on the Road to Zion – Geneva L. Sarcedo/Cheryl E. Matias: Forgive Them Father for They Know Not What They Do… But What If They Do Know?!: The Impact of Unforgivable Whiteness on Black and Brown Women – Sherell A. McArthur: My Sister, Myself: Why the Miseducation of Black Girls Requires Spaces and Places for Their Healing – Nazera Sadiq Wright: Saving Me Softly: A Black Girl in Japan – Sarah Abdelaziz: Father, You Saved Me – Robin M. Boylorn: "Somebody/anybody, sing a black girl’s song": The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill as Blackgirl Autoethnography – Torie Weiston-Serdan: Tell Me Who I Can Be: Mentoring Queer Black Girls in Hostile Educational Spaces – Nadrea R. Njoku/Shawna M. Patterson-Stephens/Lori D. Patton/Maurisa Li-A-Ping/Ellise Smith: Fantasy, Reality, and What Is Needed: Debunking Fantasy and Centering Truth in Black Women College Students’ Experiences – Jessica Edwards: Lauryn Hill and the Power of Digital Storytelling in Writing Classrooms – David Green: Lauryn Hill and Pedagogies of Critical Hip-Hop – Tara Betts: The Miseducation Was Ms. Lauryn Hill’s Education: The Inspiration and Activism of an Emcee – Shanyce L. Campbell: Forgive Them: The Silencing of Black Women in Graduate School – ReAnna S. Roby/Elizabeth J. Cook: A Re-Storying of the Academy by the Lost Ones – Tanja Burkhard/Valerie Kinloch: Black Feminist Auto-Ethnography on Black Womanhood across Space – Stephanie Troutman/Eric A. House: Wrecking Patriarchy and Capitalism in Lauryn Hill’s Hip Hop – Conā S.M. Marshall: The Hill from Whence My Help Comes: Black Women Rapping and Preaching Activism and Liberation – Marta Mack-Washington/Magaela C. Bethune/Ahmad R. Washington: Negotiating Complicated Relationships with Misogynoir in Hip Hop – Lauren Leigh Kelly: Lessons from a Black Feminist Critical Scholar – Stephanie Latty/Sefanit Habtom/Eve Tuck: Practice Extending across the Atlas: Black Girls’ Geographies in Settler Societies – Contributors.
£92.48
Peter Lang Publishing Inc Read Write Rhyme Institute
Book SynopsisRead, Write, Rhyme Institute describes how individuals participating in the Read, Write, Rhyme Institute examine today's youth, hip-hop, and social responsibility. The institute provides a forum to engage in hip-hop Discourse (with a capital D) that includes a worldview and ways of doing, being, and knowing that are used in rap music, graffiti, spoken word poetry, and daily conversation. This book seeks to capitalize on the diversity within the hip-hop community by including successful individuals that grew up not only listening to hip-hop but also living it. Participants include educators, entertainers, and entrepreneurs.Trade Review“Crystal LaVoulle has produced an incredibly thoughtful, sophisticated, and well-crafted explo-ration of the intersection of hip-hop, education, and cultural studies. The scope and depth of this study will impress scholars of hip-hop, as well as aficionados of the art. It is a welcome addition to a robust body of hip-hop scholarship.” Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar, Professor of History and Director of the Center for the Study of Popular Music, University of Connecticut“Some of the most productive intellectual spaces are carved when two or more seeming disparate intellectual fields intersect. What happens when Discourse analysis, pedagogy, digital literacies, critical entrepreneurship, and critical youth studies meet by the grace of hip-hop? The answer is «Read, Write, Rhyme Institute». It is methodologically innovative, scholarly grounded, and poeti-cally hopeful. For those who are interested in language hip-hop pedagogy, this is a must-read, especially for those invested in that critical intersection of race, class, and public education. Hip-hop studies is a growing field, and «Read, Write, Rhyme Institute» is a beautiful addition to it.” Awad Ibrahim, Professor at the University of Ottawa“Crystal LaVoulle facilitates authentic conversation between hip-hop artists and hip-hop scholars. Multiple generations of hip-hop lovers can relate to the adversity, joy, pain, commercialism and authenticity that this book attempts to address. The Read, Write, Rhyme Institute addresses un-comfortable issues within hip-hop and the African American community as well as celebrating the value of hip-hop culture.” Joel Roper, a.k.a. Rapper Joe Ski Love“In «Read, Write, Rhyme Institute», diverse members of the hip-hop community share candid and reflective opinions about the public school system and treatment of children of the current hip-hop generation. Crystal LaVoulle offers educators practical suggestions for teaching critical thinking and educating for social justice.” Eleanor Renée Rodríguez, author of «What Is It About Me That You Can’t Teach?»Table of ContentsIntroduction – Defining Hip-Hop – Members of the Hip-Hop Community – Viewing Hip-Hop through a Social, Economic, and Political Lens – Technology’s Influence on Hip-Hop Music – Women in Hip-Hop – Hip-Hop and Education.
£65.34
State University Press of New York (SUNY) Trendy Fascism White Power Music and the Future
Book SynopsisExplores how white supremacist groups use popular music and culture to teach hate and promote violence. Popular music plays a major role in mobilizing citizens, especially youth, to fight for political causes. Yet the presence of music in politics receives relatively little attention from scholars, politicians, and citizens. White power music is no exception, despite its role in recent high-profile hate crimes.Trendy Fascism is the first book to explore how contemporary white supremacists use popular music to teach hate and promote violence. Nancy S. Love focuses on how white power music supports "trendy fascism," a neo-fascist aesthetic politics. Unlike classical fascism, trendy fascism involves a hyper-modern cultural politics that exploits social media to create a global white supremacist community. Three case studies examine different facets of the white power music scene: racist skinhead, neo-Nazi folk, and goth/metal. Together these cases illustrate how music has replaced traditional forms of public discourse to become the primary medium for conveying white supremacist ideology today. Written from the interdisciplinary perspective on culture, economics, and politics best described as critical theory, this book is crucial reading for everyone concerned about the future of democracy.
£65.04
State University of New York Press Rock on Record
Book SynopsisShows students how to listen to and enjoy the rich repertory of rock records made between the 1950s and 1980s.An introductory textbook for Rock Music Appreciation and History courses, Rock on Record traces the story of rock from the late 1940s through the pre-rock styles of the 1950s to rock in its heyday in the 1960s and, then follows its continued growth in the 1970s and early 1980s. Rock on Record puts listening first, teaching students how to listen to key recordings in the rock repertoire. The book opens with general guidance on how to listen to a recording as well as an overview of the song structures commonly used by rock songwriters. Then, in twenty-two chronological sections, Albin J. Zak provides historical context for each new genre or style, discussing its key recordings and performers and its impact on the artists who followed. Zak analyzes seventy-three recordings using easy-to-follow listening guides, giving students the tools they will need to enhance their enjoyment and understanding while also highlighting a wide range of examples that illustrate the richness of the rock repertory. Rock on Record examines how rock changed American culture and encourages students to explore further on their own.
£22.30
State University of New York Press Punk Rock
Book SynopsisShows how punk rock shaped modern culture around the world.Punk Rock examines the history of punk rock in its totality. Punk became a way of thinking about the role of culture and community in modern life. Punks forged real alternatives to producing popular music and built community around their music. This punk counterpublic, forged in the late Cold War period, spanned the globe and has provided a viable cultural alternative to alienated young people over the years. This book starts with the rise of modernity and places the emergence of punk as a musical subculture into that longer historical narrative. It also reveals how punk itself became a contested terrain, as participants sought to imbue the production of music with greater meaning. It highlights all styles of punk and its wide variety of creators around the world, including from the LGBTQ+, feminist, and alternative communities. Punk was and remains a transnational phenomenon that influences music production and shapes our understanding of culture''s role in community building.
£65.04
State University of New York Press Punk Rock
Book SynopsisShows how punk rock shaped modern culture around the world.Punk Rock examines the history of punk rock in its totality. Punk became a way of thinking about the role of culture and community in modern life. Punks forged real alternatives to producing popular music and built community around their music. This punk counterpublic, forged in the late Cold War period, spanned the globe and has provided a viable cultural alternative to alienated young people over the years. This book starts with the rise of modernity and places the emergence of punk as a musical subculture into that longer historical narrative. It also reveals how punk itself became a contested terrain, as participants sought to imbue the production of music with greater meaning. It highlights all styles of punk and its wide variety of creators around the world, including from the LGBTQ+, feminist, and alternative communities. Punk was and remains a transnational phenomenon that influences music production and shapes our understanding of culture''s role in community building.
£19.67
