Music Books
Urbanomic Media Ltd Social Dissonance
Book SynopsisAn argument that by amplifying alienation in performance, we can shift the emphasis from the sonic to the social.Works in sound studies continue to seek out sound “itself”—but, today, when the aesthetic can claim no autonomy and the agency of both artist and audience is socially constituted, why not explore the social mediation already present within our experience of the sonorous? In this work, artist, musician, performer, and theorist Mattin sets out an understanding of alienation as a constitutive part of subjectivity and as an enabling condition for exploring social dissonance—the discrepancy between our individual narcissism and our social capacity.Mattin''s theoretical investigation is intertwined with documentation of a concrete experiment in the form of an instructional score (performed at documenta 14, 2017, in Athens and Kassel) which explores these conceptual connotations in practice, as players use members of the audience as instruments, who then hear themselves and reflect on their own conception and self-presentation. Social Dissonance claims that, by amplifying alienation in performance and participation in order to understand how we are constructed through various forms of mediation, we can shift the emphasis from the sonic to the social, and in doing so, discover for ourselves that social dissonance is the territory within which we already find ourselves, the condition we inhabit.
£15.29
MIT Press Fusion
£14.25
Brookside Press The Piano Book: Buying & Owning a New or Used
Book SynopsisThis bible of the piano marketplace is indispensable to buyers and owners of pianos, amateur and professional players alike. Hundreds of thousands of pianos are bought and sold each year, yet most people buy a piano with only the vaguest idea of what to look for as they make this major purchase. The Piano Book evaluates and compares every brand and style of piano sold in the United States. There is information on piano moving and storage, inspecting individual new and used pianos, the special market for Steinways, and sales gimmicks to watch out for. An annual supplement, sold separately, lists current prices for more than 2,500 new piano models.Trade Review"If there is to be a piano in your future, the single indispensable reference is The Piano Book by Larry Fine." --Noah Adams, host of NPR's All Things Considered" The Piano Book is a must-have resource, no matter what kind of music you play, or what kind of piano you own or intend to buy." --Robert Moog, inventor of the Moog Synthesizer"It is a book that I never thought I would see in print and a book that will be of great service to the piano world." --Robert Silverman, former editor of The Piano Quarterly"Clearly and directly written. . . . An excellent source book." --Library Journal
£19.76
Hal Leonard Corporation Blues Scatitudes
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£22.09
Hal Leonard Corporation You Can Ta Ka Di Mi This!: Improve & Expand Your
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£20.79
For Beginners History Of Opera For Beginners
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£13.29
Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S. Peter Paul and Mary: Fifty Years in Music and
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£30.40
Square Halo Books Sacred Hmmms
£22.08
Square Halo Books Sacred Hmmms
£22.08
Tin House Books The Book of Atlantis Black The Search for a
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£21.56
Terra Nova Press The Shrine Thief
Book SynopsisA renowned musician in his 85th year explores the nature of wisdom, how we learn to recognize it, and how we pass it forward.In this entrancing memoir, timeless questions about music and life are explored by a master musician in his 85th year. The stern father who built an empire of words; the solipsistic uncle whose hypnotic voice calmed millions: these are just early glimpses of Mathieu''s memory. Soon he is crimped into an overhead baggage rack in Stan Kenton''s tour bus as scenes of scotch-soaked melancholy play out below; he is sharing late-night quarts of ice cream with Duke Ellington in his hotel room; he is co-inventing improvisational theater at Chicago''s Second City with Alan Arkin and Mike Nichols; he is receiving the title of Sufi sheikh from an heir of Inayat Khan; and he is gleaning wisdom from a woman bundling firewood in Bali.In prose at once wry and lyrical, Mathieu carries the reader through the adventures and misadventures of a scintillat
£22.10
Tin House Books The Book of Atlantis Black
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£15.26
Random House USA Inc A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of
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£21.60
Random House USA Inc The Come Up
Book SynopsisThe essential oral history of hip-hop, from its origins on the playgrounds of the Bronx to its reign as the most powerful force in pop culture—from the award-winning journalist behind All the Pieces Matter, the New York Times bestselling oral history of The Wire “The Come Up is Abrams at his sharpest, at his most observant, at his most insightful.”—Shea Serrano, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hip-Hop (And Other Things) ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Boston Globe, The Guardian, SpinThe music that would come to be known as hip-hop was born at a party in the Bronx in the summer of 1973. Now, fifty years later, it’s the most popular music genre in America. Just as jazz did in the first half of the twentieth century, hip-hop and its groundbreaking DJs and artists—nearly all of them people of color from some of America’s most overlooked communities—pushed the boundaries of music to new frontiers, while transfixing the country’s youth and reshaping fashion, art, and even language.And yet, the stories of many hip-hop pioneers and their individual contributions in the pre-Internet days of mixtapes and word of mouth are rarely heard—and some are at risk of being lost forever. Now, in The Come Up, the New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Abrams offers the most comprehensive account so far of hip-hop’s rise, a multi-decade chronicle told in the voices of the people who made it happen. In more than three hundred interviews conducted over three years, Abrams has captured the stories of the DJs, executives, producers, and artists who both witnessed and themselves forged the history of hip-hop. Masterfully combining these voices into a seamless symphonic narrative, Abrams traces how the genre grew out of the resourcefulness of a neglected population in the South Bronx, and from there how it flowed into New York City’s other boroughs, and beyond—from electrifying live gatherings, then on to radio and vinyl, below to the Mason-Dixon Line, west to Los Angeles through gangster rap and G-funk, and then across generations. Abrams has on record Grandmaster Caz detailing hip-hop’s infancy, Edward “Duke Bootee” Fletcher describing the origins of “The Message,” DMC narrating his role in introducing hip-hop to the mainstream, Ice Cube recounting N.W.A’s breakthrough and breakup, Kool Moe Dee recalling his Grammys boycott, and countless more key players. Throughout, Abrams conveys with singular vividness the drive, the stakes, and the relentless creativity that ignited one of the greatest revolutions in modern music. The Come Up is an exhilarating behind-the-scenes account of how hip-hop came to rule the world—and an essential contribution to music history.
£24.70
Les Belles Lettres Rock Star: 48 Heures d'Une Vie Revee
£18.00
Klincksieck Dictionnaire Musical Des Villes de Province
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£999.99
Klincksieck La Musique de Film
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£999.99
Klincksieck Adorno Et La Nouvelle Musique: Art Et Modernite
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£28.00
Encre Marine L'Inexpressif Musical: Suivi de Question Sans
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£31.30
Classiques Garnier La Musique Hors d'Elle-Meme: Le Paradigme Musical
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£42.00
Classiques Garnier Synesthesies Sonores: Du Son Au(x) Sens
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£999.99
Classiques Garnier Francois d'Assise, Un Poete Dans La Cite:
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£36.00
Classiques Garnier I Drammi Eroici Veneziani: Scipione Affricano,
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£999.99
Classiques Garnier Plurivocalite Et Polyphonies: Une Voie Vers La
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£999.99
Brepols N.V. Eighteenth-Century Diaspora Ita Mus
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£95.32
Brepols N.V. Mogens Pederson (Magno Petreo): Madrigali E
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£59.85
Brepols N.V. The Compendium Musicae of Rene Descartes: Early
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£131.10
Brepols N.V. Staging Verdi and Wagner
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£142.50
Brepols N.V. Music and the Figurative Arts in the Twentieth
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£154.85
Brepols N.V. Music Criticism 1900-1950
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£166.25
Brepols N.V. Renaissance Music in the Slavic World
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£101.65
Brepols N.V. Nineteenth-Century Programme Music: Creation,
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£166.25
Brepols N.V. Opera and Parody in Paris, 1860-1900
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£999.99
Brepols N.V. Ludwig Senfl (C.1490-1543): A Catalogue Raisonne
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£66.50
Brepols N.V. Music Criticism 1950-2000
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£154.85
Brepols N.V. Cinema Changes: Incorporations of Jazz in the
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£142.50
Brepols N.V. Gaspar Van Weerbeke: New Perspectives on His Life
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£66.50
Brepols N.V. Twentieth-Century Music and Mathematics
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£142.50
Brepols N.V. Music and the Second Industrial Revolution
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£149.15
Brepols N.V. For Town and Country: The Civic Music System in
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£83.60
Brepols N.V. Tragedy and Lieto Fine in Romantic Opera Seria
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£131.10
Brepols N.V. Symphonism in Nineteenth-Century Europe
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£149.15
Brepols N.V. Poetry, Art, and Music in Guillaume de Machaut's
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£101.65
Brepols N.V. Music Publishing and Composers (1750-1850)
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£137.75
Brepols N.V. Sounding the Past: Music as History and Memory
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£66.50
Brepols N.V. Music and the Identity Process: The National
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£101.65
Brepols N.V. Music and the Figurative Arts in the Nineteenth
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£142.50
Brepols N.V. Ars Antiqua: Music and Culture in Europe C.
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£131.10
