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University of California Press Treatise on Musical Objects Essays Across
Book SynopsisThe "Treatise on Musical Objects" by Pierre Schaeffer is regarded as his most important work on music and its relationship with technology. Drawing on acoustics, physics, and physiology, but also philosophy and the relationship between subject and object, this book summarizes his theoretical and practical work in music composition.Trade Review"[Christine North and John Dack's] English translation is as effective as Schaeffer’s text, which in turn exercises its full correlative power to English readers to the extent that the translators have rendered it." * Association for Recorded Sound Collections Journal *Table of ContentsThe Treatise on Musical Objects and the GRM, by Daniel TeruggiTranslators’ Introduction, by Christine NorthPierre Schaeffer’s Treatise on Musical Objects and Music Theory, by John Dack Acknowledgments Preface Introductory Remarks: The Historical Situation of Music Book One. Making Music 1. The Instrumental Prerequisite 2. Playing an Instrument 3. Capturing Sounds 4. Acousmatics Book Two. Hearing 5. "What Can Be Heard" 6. The Four Listening Modes 7. Scientific Prejudice 8. The Hearing Intention Book Three. Correlations Between the Physical Signal and the Musical Object 9. Ambiguities in Musical Acoustics 10. Correlation between Spectra and Pitches 11. Threshold and Transients 12. Temporal Anamorphoses I: Timbres and Dynamics 13. Temporal Anamorphoses II: Timbre and Instrument 14. Time and Duration Book Four. Objects and Structures 15. Reduction to the Object 16. Perceptual Structures 17. Comparative Structures: Music and Language 18. The Conventional Musical System: Musicality and Sonority 19. Natural Sound Structures: Musicianly Listening 20. The Reduced Listening System: Musical Dualism 21. Musical Research Book Five. Morphology and Typology of Sound Objects 22. Morphology of Sound Objects 23. The Laboratory 24. Typology of Musical Objects (I): Classification Criteria 25. Typology of Musical Objects (II): Balanced and Redundant Objects 26. Typology of Musical Objects (III): Eccentric Sounds 27. Working at Our Instrument Book Six. Theory of Musical Objects 28. Musical Experience 29. Generalizing Music Theory 30. Theory of Homogenous Sounds: Criterion of Mass 31. Theory of Fixed Masses: Dynamic Criterion 32. Theory of Sustainment 33. Theory of Variations 34. Analysis of the Musical Object as It Generally Appears Book Seven. Music as a Discipline 35. Implementation 36. The Meaning of Music Penultimate Chapter: In the Search of Music Itself Postscript Index
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University of California Press Confessions of a Radical Chicano DooWop Singer 51
Book SynopsisTrade Review"...a fresh and intriguing, heartfelt and insightful cruise through the main thoroughfares, side streets, and alleyways of Chicano rock ’n’ roll, performance art, and Los Angeles cultures, past, present, and beyond, seamlessly written by this first-time author." * Los Angeles Review of Books *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction: The Fire and Flames of Funkahuatl, by Josh Kun and George Lipsitz 1 Prologue 16 La Veinte: A Santa Monica Barrio 17 Rubén Ladrón de Guevara Sr., 1914–2006 21 Superman in Ese Eme 26 Music and Movie Moments 32 Miss Las Vegas 36 La Gatita 38 Las Vegas and the Breakup of Our Family 43 Sue Dean 49 Miss Hollywood 52Shindig! with Tina Turner and Bo Diddley 56 The Sunset Strip Riots and My Second Marriage 62 The Southern Belle 64 LACC and the New Revelations Gospel Choir 68 Miss Santa Barbara and the Summer of 1971 75 Frank Zappa and Ruben and the Jets, 1972–1974 80 Miss Pamela and the GTOs 85 Miss Claremont 87 Miss Chino 89 The Mutiny 91 The Movie Star and Miss Blue Eyes 94 Opening for Zappa at San Francisco’s Winterland 97Con Safos: The Album 99 Pilgrimage to Mexico 105 La Gypsy 114 From “The Star Spangled Banner” to Punk 116 The Whisky and a New Band: Con Safos 120 Miss Aztlán 124Gotcha! 126 Zyanya Records 128 Cristina, Día de Los Muertos, and Chicano Heaven 130Born in East L.A.: The Movie 138Caliente y Picante 147 Performance Art 152 To France with Aztlán, Babylon, Rhythm & Blues 154 Validation Crisis 170 Jammin’ with John Valadez 174 Arts 4 City Youth and Trying Again 180 UCLA 182 Journey to New Aztlán 187 The Enchantress 196América Tropical 200 Miss Mongolia 203 Teaching Poetry 207 Inner City Lessons 212 Teaching at UCLA 217 The Neo-Chicano Tantrik Funk Monk 220 Lust to Art: Mexamérica and Performing at the Getty 223The Eastside Revue: 1932–2002, A Musical Homage to Boyle Heights 228L.A. Times Profile of Boyle Heights 231 Funkahuatl’s Absurd Chronicles 234 The Iraq War 236 Cross-cultural Friendships and Protests 238 Manzanar Pilgrimage 246Yellow Pearl Remix 253 Saving the Toypurina Monument 257Rock ’n’ Rights for the Mentally Disabled 260 Resistance and Respect: Los Angeles Muralism and Graff Art 262 Miss Bogotá and the X Festival Ibéroamericano del Teatro 264Word Up! A Word, Performance, and Theater Summit 267 Meeting My Brothers from the Westbank First Nation, British Columbia 270 Epiphany at Joshua Tree 274 Miss Altar in the Sky 276 Rubén Guevara & The Eastside Luvers 289The Tao of Funkahuatl 292 Release of the Tao of Funkahuatl CD in L.A. and Japan 294MEX/LA 296 Rockin’ the House of Dues and Grand Performances 299 Fifty Years in Show Biz 303 Miss Beijing 306 Miss Monterey Park 309 End of the Ten-Year Sex Drought 313 Seventy and Still Running 315 Platonic Homegirls 317 Joseph Trotter 318 A Boyle Heights Cultural Treasure 320 Boyle Heights Por Vida 322¡Angelin@s Presente! 325 Sara Casillas-Gutiérrez Guevara, 1923–2015 327 Staged Confessions 329 The Fall 332 Take Me Higher, Mi Reina 334
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University of California Press Confessions of a Radical Chicano DooWop Singer
Book SynopsisTrade Review"...a fresh and intriguing, heartfelt and insightful cruise through the main thoroughfares, side streets, and alleyways of Chicano rock ’n’ roll, performance art, and Los Angeles cultures, past, present, and beyond, seamlessly written by this first-time author." * Los Angeles Review of Books *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction: The Fire and Flames of Funkahuatl, by Josh Kun and George Lipsitz 1 Prologue 16 La Veinte: A Santa Monica Barrio 17 Rubén Ladrón de Guevara Sr., 1914–2006 21 Superman in Ese Eme 26 Music and Movie Moments 32 Miss Las Vegas 36 La Gatita 38 Las Vegas and the Breakup of Our Family 43 Sue Dean 49 Miss Hollywood 52Shindig! with Tina Turner and Bo Diddley 56 The Sunset Strip Riots and My Second Marriage 62 The Southern Belle 64 LACC and the New Revelations Gospel Choir 68 Miss Santa Barbara and the Summer of 1971 75 Frank Zappa and Ruben and the Jets, 1972–1974 80 Miss Pamela and the GTOs 85 Miss Claremont 87 Miss Chino 89 The Mutiny 91 The Movie Star and Miss Blue Eyes 94 Opening for Zappa at San Francisco’s Winterland 97Con Safos: The Album 99 Pilgrimage to Mexico 105 La Gypsy 114 From “The Star Spangled Banner” to Punk 116 The Whisky and a New Band: Con Safos 120 Miss Aztlán 124Gotcha! 126 Zyanya Records 128 Cristina, Día de Los Muertos, and Chicano Heaven 130Born in East L.A.: The Movie 138Caliente y Picante 147 Performance Art 152 To France with Aztlán, Babylon, Rhythm & Blues 154 Validation Crisis 170 Jammin’ with John Valadez 174 Arts 4 City Youth and Trying Again 180 UCLA 182 Journey to New Aztlán 187 The Enchantress 196América Tropical 200 Miss Mongolia 203 Teaching Poetry 207 Inner City Lessons 212 Teaching at UCLA 217 The Neo-Chicano Tantrik Funk Monk 220 Lust to Art: Mexamérica and Performing at the Getty 223The Eastside Revue: 1932–2002, A Musical Homage to Boyle Heights 228L.A. Times Profile of Boyle Heights 231 Funkahuatl’s Absurd Chronicles 234 The Iraq War 236 Cross-cultural Friendships and Protests 238 Manzanar Pilgrimage 246Yellow Pearl Remix 253 Saving the Toypurina Monument 257Rock ’n’ Rights for the Mentally Disabled 260 Resistance and Respect: Los Angeles Muralism and Graff Art 262 Miss Bogotá and the X Festival Ibéroamericano del Teatro 264Word Up! A Word, Performance, and Theater Summit 267 Meeting My Brothers from the Westbank First Nation, British Columbia 270 Epiphany at Joshua Tree 274 Miss Altar in the Sky 276 Rubén Guevara & The Eastside Luvers 289The Tao of Funkahuatl 292 Release of the Tao of Funkahuatl CD in L.A. and Japan 294MEX/LA 296 Rockin’ the House of Dues and Grand Performances 299 Fifty Years in Show Biz 303 Miss Beijing 306 Miss Monterey Park 309 End of the Ten-Year Sex Drought 313 Seventy and Still Running 315 Platonic Homegirls 317 Joseph Trotter 318 A Boyle Heights Cultural Treasure 320 Boyle Heights Por Vida 322¡Angelin@s Presente! 325 Sara Casillas-Gutiérrez Guevara, 1923–2015 327 Staged Confessions 329 The Fall 332 Take Me Higher, Mi Reina 334
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University of California Press The Faure Song Cycles Poetry and Music 18611921
Book SynopsisGabriel Fauré's mélodies offer an inexhaustible variety of style and expression that havemade them the foundation of the French art song repertoire. During the second half of his long career, Fauré composed all but a handful of his songs within six carefully integrated cycles. Fauré moved systematically through his poetic contemporaries, exhausting Baudelaire's Les fleurs du mal before immersing himself in the Parnassian poets. He would set nine poems by Armand Silvestre in swift succession (1878-84), seventeen by Paul Verlaine (1887-94), and eighteen by Charles Van Lerberghe (1906-14). As an artist deeply engaged with some of the most important cultural issues of the period, Fauré reimagined his musical idiom with each new poet and school, and his song cycles show the same sensitivity to the poetic material. Far more than Debussy, Ravel, or Poulenc, he crafted his song cycles as integrated works, reordering poems freely and using narratives, key schemes, and even leitmotifs to unify the individual songs. The Fauré Song Cycles explores the peculiar vision behind each synthesis of music and verse, revealing the astonishing imagination and insight of Fauré's musical readings. This book offers not only close readings of Fauré's musical works but an interdisciplinary study of how he responded to the changing schools and aesthetic currents of French poetry.Table of ContentsList of Music Examples Preface Acknowledgments 1. Romancing the mélodie A Hugo Cycle? 2. Ascending Parnassus Poème d’un jour, op. 21 3. The Discovery of MusicCinq mélodies "de Venise," op. 58 4. Wagnerian correspondancesLa bonne chanson, op. 61 5. Theatrical SongLa chanson d’Ève, op. 95 6. Writing in the SandLe jardin clos, op. 106 7. Neoclassical VoyagesMirages, op. 113 and L’horizon chimérique, op. 118 Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Middlebrow Modernism
Book SynopsisA free ebook version of this title is available throughLuminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visitwww.luminosoa.orgto learn more. Situated at the intersections of twentieth-century music history, historiography, and aesthetics,Middlebrow Modernismuses Benjamin Britten's operas to illustrate the ways in which composers, critics, and audiences mediated the great divide between modernism and mass culture. Reviving mid-century discussions of the middlebrow, Christopher Chowrimootoo demonstrates how Britten's works allowed audiences to have their modernist cake and eat it: to revel in the pleasures of consonance, lyricism, and theatrical spectacle even while enjoying the prestige that came from rejecting them. By focusing on moments when reigning aesthetic oppositions and hierarchies threatened to collapse, this study offers a powerful model for recovering shades of grey in the traditionally black-and-white historiographies of twentieth-century music.Trade Review“…an insightful study on the elusive concept of the middlebrow in the critical reception of Benjamin Britten’s stage works. … Importantly, Chowrimootoo confronts the ambiguities inherent in conceptions of the middlebrow, yet he does not seek to resolve them. Instead, he accepts that Britten identified as both a composer who valued accessibility and public service, and as one who advocated for the serious study and interpretation of his music.” * North American British Music Studies Association Reviews *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Middlebrow Modernism 2. Sentimentality under Erasure in Peter Grimes 3. The Timely Traditions of Albert Herring 4. The Turn of the Screw, or: The Gothic Melodrama of Modernism 5. The Burning Fiery Furnace and the Redemption of Religious Kitsch 6. Death in Venice and the Aesthetics of SublimationNotes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Stravinsky in the Americas
Book SynopsisStravinsky in the Americas explores the pre-Craft period of Igor Stravinsky's life, from when he first landed on American shores in 1925 to the end of World War II in 1945. Through a rich archival trove of ephemera, correspondence, photographs, and other documents, eminent musicologist H. Colin Slim examines the twenty-year period that began with Stravinsky as a radical European art-music composer and ended with him as a popular figure in American culture. This collection traces Stravinsky's rise to famecatapulted in large part by his collaborations with Hollywood and Disney and marked by his extra-marital affairs, his grappling with feelings of anti-Semitism, and his encounters with contemporary musicians as the music industry was emerging and taking shape in midcentury America. Slim's lively narrative records the composer's larger-than-life persona through a close look at his transatlantic tours and domestic excursions, where Stravinsky's personal and professional life collided in often-dramatic ways.Trade Review"This meticulously documented book sheds new light on the first two decades of Stravinsky's association with America, from the time of his first concert tour in 1925 to the premiere of the Symphony in Three Movements at Carnegie Hall in Janunary 1946. . . . This is not only a book to delight lovers of Stravinskian minutiae but also one that provides a richly documented study of a period in Stravinsky's life that has received relatively little attention." * Gramophone *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword by Richard Taruskin Preface Acknowledgments Introduction PART I: FIVE TRANSATLANTIC TOURS (1925–1940) 1. Tour I (1925) 2. Tour II (1935) 3. Tour III (1936) 4. Tour IV (1937) 5. Tour V (October 1939–Late May 1940) PART II: DOMESTIC EXCURSIONS FROM WARTIME LOS ANGELES (1940–1946) 6. Excursions (1940–1941) 7. Excursions (1942) 8. Excursions (1943) 9. Excursions (1944) 10. Excursions (1945–Early 1946) Appendix: Stravinsky and “Neoclassicism” Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Zoltan Kodalys World of Music 27 California
Book SynopsisHungarian composer and musician Zoltán Kodály (18821967)is best known for his pedagogical system, the Kodály Method, which has been influential in the development of music education around the world. Author Anna Dalos considers, for the first time in publication, Kodály's career beyond the classroom and provides a comprehensive assessment of his works as a composer. A noted collector of Hungarian folk music, Kodály adapted thetraditional heritage musics inhis own compositions, greatly influencing the work of his contemporary, Béla Bartók. Highlighting Kodály's major music experiences, Dalos shows how his musical works were also inspired by Brahms, Wagner, Debussy, Palestrina, and Bach. Set against the backdrop of various oppressive regimes of twentieth-century Europe, this study of Kodály's careeralso explores decisive, extramusical impulses,such as hisbitter experiences of World War I, Kodály's reception of classical antiquity, and his interpretation of the male and female roles in his music. Written by the leading Kodály expert, this impressive work of historical and musical insight provides a timely and much-needed English-language treatment of the twentieth-century composer.Trade Review"This book is a major contribution to the growing English-language literature on Hungarian music-history . . . Dalos, with her excellent command of English and expansive knowledge of Kodály’s role in Hungarian music-history, is an ideal scholar to re-introduce Kodály to the English-speaking world as one of the great classical composers and minds of the twentieth century." * Hungarian Cultural Studies *"The great merit of Dalos’s extremely informative and readable book is to bring Kodály out of his shadowy existence as 'Bartók’s little-known, almost mysterious companion'... Since the book not only represents an enormous scholarly gain but is also eminently suitable for pedagogical purposes, it is certain to be widely received." * Studia Musicologica *"This book will be of particular interest to musicologists and those interested in aspects of Kodály’s life that are not yet as celebrated internationally, but which remained a major impetus for his commitment to a better music education in Hungary." * Journal of the History of Music Education *Table of ContentsIllustrations and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Zoltán Kodály's Path 2. Kodály the Brahmin: The Beginning of the Composer's Career 3. A Paradigm Shift: The Reinterpretation of the Folk Song Concept 4. Finding the Voice of His "Deepest Inner Self": The Case of String Quartet No. 1 5. Commentaries on Debussy: Kodály's Turn toward Western Modernity 6. Nausicaa, Sappho, and Other Women in Love: Women and Modernism in Kodály's Songs 7. "From These Times of War": The Case of String Quartet No. 2 8. Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man: Kodály after the Trianon Treaty (1920) 9. An Encounter with a Young Man: The Peacock Variations 10. Palestrina in Budapest: Kodály's Views on Church Music 11. Why Jeppesen?: Kodály's Readings on Counterpoint 12. Hungarian Counterpoint: Contrapuntal Technique in Kodály's Works 13. The Art of Fugue: About Kodály's Concerto 14. A Symphonic Self-Portrait: The Last Years Epilogue Chronology of the Life of Zoltán Kodály Notes Bibliography General Index Index of Kodály's Works
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University of California Press Composition and Cognition Reflections on
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Fred Lerdahl’s engaging new book is an example of something music theory might do more of: letting composers to talk seriously and personally about the ideas animating their music." * Music Theory Online *
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University of California Press Terrible Freedom
Book SynopsisFrom her childhood in Detroit to her professional career in New York City, American composer Lucia Dlugoszewski (19252000) lived a life of relentless creativity as a poet and writer, composer for dance, theater, and film, and, eventually, choreographer. Forging her own path after briefly studying with John Cage and Edgard Varèse, Dlugoszewski tackled the musical issues of her time. She expanded sonic resources, invented instruments, brought new focus to timbre and texture, collaborated with artists across disciplines, and incorporated spiritual, psychological, and philosophical influences into her work. Remembered today almost solely as the musical director for the Erick Hawkins Dance Company, Dlugoszewski's compositional output, writings on aesthetics, creative relationships, and graphic poetry deserve careful examination on their own terms within the history of American experimental music.Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Margins, Shadows, and Footnotes: An Introduction 1 • Lucille in Detroit (1925–48) 2 • Letters from New York (1949–51) 3 • New York Beginnings: A Broader View (1950–53) 4 • Expanding Creativity and Collaboration (1953–60) 5 • The Disparate Element (1960–70) 6 • Aesthetic Immediacy (1970–80) 7 • Rage (1980–87) 8 • Losses (1988–2000) Out from the Shadows: A Conclusion Appendix 1: Selected Works List Appendix 2: Lucia Dlugoszewski–Erick Hawkins Collaborations Appendix 3: Discography Notes Sources and Bibliography Index
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MP-MEL Melbourne University Inner Song A Biography of Margaret Sutherland
Book SynopsisMargaret Sutherland was one of the most innovative and influential Australian composers. In the first half of the twentieth century, her desire to be both serious composer and mother was atypical, and she faced significant challenges. This book tells her remarkable story, laying bare something of Sutherland’s inspiring ‘inner song’.
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Harvard University Press Orpheus in the Marketplace Jacopo Peri and the
Book SynopsisThis record of Florentine musician Jacopo Peri's wide-ranging investments and activities in the marketplace enables the first detailed account of the Florentine economy in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, and opens a completely new perspective on one of Europe's principal centers of capitalism.Trade ReviewHow did Renaissance musicians balance their creative and practical lives? Drawing on Peri's many unpublished account books and letters, this exemplary collaborative study explores how one famous Florentine composer-performer successfully combined business, finance, and family management with a musical career at the Medici court. Fascinating and original, it will delight social and cultural historians as well as those of music and the economy. -- Suzanne B. Butters, University of ManchesterQuietly thrilling…[Carter and Goldthwaite] offer a sustained analysis of a recently discovered trove of account books belonging to Jacopo Peri (1561-1633), one of the earliest opera composers. What they reveal has implications for both music history and our understanding of an economy and society in transition, and is a model of interdisciplinary collaboration in the humanities…Even ordinary music lovers will find the exploration of the still underrated Peri intriguing. -- Zachary Woolfe * New York Times *In this bravura example of interdisciplinary history at its finest, two scholars of matchless erudition use the remarkably well-preserved traces of one man's life to provide a fascinating account of economic and musical practice in Florence at the turn of the seventeenth century. Through Jacopo Peri's story, Carter and Goldthwaite indispensably show how social status and wealth might contribute to a musician's aesthetic stance, reputation, and, eventually, canonicity. -- Suzanne G. Cusick, New York UniversityWhat is known about the circumstances of composers living and working in Italy during this period is often disarmingly skeletal. Through their detailed exploration of the 'Peri Archive' from different historical perspectives--musical, social, and, above all, economic--the authors have fascinatingly illuminated the interlocking spheres of the complex existence of one of the most significant composers of the time. -- Iain Fenlon, University of Cambridge
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Princeton University Press Aaron Copland and His World
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Princeton University Press Jean Sibelius and His World
Book SynopsisPerhaps no twentieth-century composer has provoked a varied reaction among the music-loving public than Jean Sibelius (1865-1957). This book focuses on the position occupied by Sibelius in the Western musical tradition.Trade Review"The connection between Sibelius and the Russian tradition--an influence that went in both directions--is the subject of an excellent essay by Philip Ross Bullock in the book accompanying the festival, Jean Sibelius and His World, from Princeton University Press."--Zachary Woolfe, New York Times "As this collection shows, there is a resurgence of interest in the music of Jean Sibelius... [T]he book is full of useful information."--Choice "Jean Sibelius and His World ends with English translations of a number of important primary documents... Perhaps the most important document is Theodor Adorno's critique 'Goss on Sibelius.' I have read about these documents in many Sibelius essays, here and elsewhere, so we owe a debt of gratitude to Daniel Grimley for making them available in translation. This book represents the high level of current Sibelius scholarship and should be a welcome addition to academic music libraries."--Carl Rafikonen, Notes "[T]his is a fine collection of essays that advances Sibelius research significantly. It bears the title Sibelius and his World, but it also does an excellent job of alerting the reader to Sibelius's relevance to our world."--Derek B. Scott, Music and LettersTable of ContentsAcknowledgments and Permissions vii Sibelius, Finland, and the Idea of Landscape ix PART I: ESSAYS Sibelius and the Russian Traditions by PHILIP ROSS BULLOCK 3 From Heaven's Floor to the Composer's Desk: Sibelius's Musical Manuscripts and Compositional Process by TIMO VIRTANEN 58 Theatrical Sibelius: The Melodramatic Lizard by JEFFREY KALLBERG 74 The Wings of a Butterfly: Sibelius and the Problems of Musical Modernity by TOMI MAKELA 89 "Thor's Hammer": Sibelius and British Music Critics, 1905-1957 by BYRON ADAMS 125 Jean Sibelius and His American Connections by GLENDA DAWN GOSS 158 Art and the Ideology of Nature: Sibelius, Hamsun, Adorno by MAX PADDISON 173 Storms, Symphonies, Silence: Sibelius's Tempest Music 186 and the Invention of Late Style by DANIEL M. GRIMLEY 186 Waving from the Periphery: Sibelius, Aalto, and the Finnish Pavilions SARAH MENIN 227 Old Masters: Jean Sibelius and Richard Strauss in the Twentieth Century by LEON BOTSTEIN PART II: DOCUMENTS 256 Selections from Adolf Paul's A Book About a Human Being 307 TRANSLATED BY ANNIKA LINDSKOG INTRODUCED BY DANIEL M. GRIMLEY Some Viewpoints Concerning Folk Music and Its Influence on the Musical Arts by JEAN SIBELIUS 315 TRANSLATED FROM THE SWEDISH BY MARGARETA MARTIN INTRODUCED BY DANIEL M. GRIMLEY Selection from Erik Furuhjelm's Jean Sibelius: A Survey of His Life and Music 326 TRANSLATED BY MARGARETA MARTIN INTRODUCED BY DANIEL M. GRIMLEY Adorno on Sibelius 331 TRANSLATED BY SUSAN H. GILLESPIE INTRODUCED BY DANIEL M. GRIMLEY Monumentalizing Sibelius: Eila Hiltunen and the Sibelius Memorial Controversy 338 INTRODUCED AND TRANSLATED BY DANIEL M. GRIMLEY Index 355 Notes on the Contributors 368
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Princeton University Press Stravinsky and His World
Book SynopsisBrings together an international roster of scholars to explore fresh perspectives on the life and music of Igor Stravinsky. Situating Stravinsky in intellectual and musical contexts, this title includes essays that focuses on one of the important composers of the twentieth century.Trade Review"Framed by Jonathan Cross's stylish response to the theme 'Stravinsky in exile', and Leon Botstein's thoughts on the rewards of considering the composer alongside fellow Russian exile Vladimir Nabokov, the book seeks new angles on Stravinsky and Russia in the years after 1912, and on the role of Russians ... during Stravinsky's time in France... [L]evitz herself can be unsparing in drawing a detailed, warts-and-all portrait of the great composer."--Arnold Whittall, Musical TimesTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments vii A Note on Transliteration and Titles of Works xiv Credits and Permissions xv Stravinsky in Exile JONATHAN CROSS 3 Who Owns Mavra? A Transnational Dispute INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY TAMARA LEVITZ; TRANSLATIONS BY BRIDGET BEHRMANN, KATYA ERMOLAEV, LAUREL E. FAY, ALEXANDRA GRABARCHUK, AND TAMARA LEVITZ 21 Stravinsky's Russian Library TATIANA BARANOVA MONIGHETTI 61 The Futility of Exhortation: Pleading in Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex and Orpheus GRETCHEN HORLACHER 79 Symphonies and Funeral Games: Lourie's Critique of Stravinsky's Neoclassicism KLARA MORICZ 105 Arthur Lourie's Eurasianist and Neo-Thomist Responses to the Crisis of Art INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY KLARA MORICZ; TRANSLATION BY BRIDGET BEHRMANN, KATYA ERMOLAEV, YASHA KLOTS, TAMARA LEVITZ, KLARA MORICZ, AND BORIS WOLFSON 127 Igor the Angeleno: The Mexican Connection TAMARA LEVITZ 141 Stravinsky Speaks to the Spanish-Speaking World INTRODUCTION BY LEONORA SAAVEDRA; INTERVIEWS TRANSLATED BY MARIEL FIORI IN COLLABORATION WITH TAMARA LEVITZ; DOCUMENT NOTES BY TAMARA LEVITZ 177 The Poetique musicale: A Counterpoint in Three Voices VALERIE DUFOUR; TRANSLATED BY BRIDGET BEHRMANN AND TAMARA LEVITZ225 Stravinsky: The View from Russia SVETLANA SAVENKO; TRANSLATED BY PHILIPP PENKA 255 Stravinsky's Cold War: Letters About the Composer's Return to Russia, 1960-1963 LETTERS TRANSLATED BY PHILIPP PENKA WITH ALEXANDRA GRABARCHUK; INTRODUCTION, COMMENTARY, AND NOTES BY TAMARA LEVITZ 273 "The Precision of Poetry and the Exactness of Pure Science": The Parallel Lives of Vladimir Nabokov and Igor Stravinsky LEON BOTSTEIN 319 Index 349 Notes on Contributors 365
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Princeton University Press Franz Schubert and His World
Book SynopsisDuring his short lifetime, Franz Schubert (1797-1828) contributed to a wide variety of musical genres, from intimate songs and dances to ambitious chamber pieces, symphonies, and operas. The essays and translated documents in Franz Schubert and His World examine his compositions and ties to the Viennese cultural context, revealing surprising and ovTrade Review"The historical background provided by these essays often sheds light on the music. A thorough index makes this a valuable reference work as well as a good read."--Stephen Matthews, The SchubertianTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments vii Permissions and Credits xvii Schubert: The Nonsense Society Revisited 1 RITA STEBLIN Excerpts from Beytrage zur Bildung fur Junglinge, 1817-1818 39 ANTON VON SPAUN AND JOHANN MAYRHOFER TRANSLATED, INTRODUCED, AND ANNOTATED BY DAVID GRAMIT "Those of us who found our life in art": The Second-Generation 67 Romanticism of the Schubert-Schober Circle, 1820-1825 JOHN M. GINGERICH Schubert's Kosegarten Settings of 1815: A Forgotten Liederspiel 115 MORTEN SOLVIK The Queen of Golconda, the Ashman, and the Shepherd on a Rock: Schubert and the Vienna Volkstheater 157 LISA FEURZEIG Liszt on Schubert's Alfonso und Estrella 183 INTRODUCED AND TRANSLATED BY ALLAN KEILER Schubert's Freedom of Song, If Not Speech 201 KRISTINA MUXFELDT Schubert's Tombeau de Beethoven: Decrypting the Piano Trio in E-flat Major, Op. 100 241 CHRISTOPHER H. GIBBS Schubert in History 299 LEON BOTSTEIN Index 349 Notes on Contributors 363
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Princeton University Press Schumann and His World
Book SynopsisWe know Robert Schumann in many ways: as a visionary composer, a seasoned journalist, a cultured man of letters, and a genius who, having passed his mantle on to the young Brahms, succumbed to mental illness in 1856. Drawing on recent pathbreaking research, this collection offers new perspectives on this seminal nineteenth-century figure. In PartTrade Review"The seven studies of [Robert Schumann] and his music cover the composer's inspirations, his sources, and his relations with numerous interesting people... [a] well-rounded and interesting picture of the composer and his times."--Library Journal "This volume ... edited by the American scholar Larry R. Todd, contains a substantial essay on the composer's cultural background, ... a comparably comprehensive piece ... linking sociological to psychological motives, ... and a fascinating account by the editor of Schumann's use of quotation and self-quotation... Parts 2 and 3 of the book reprint letters, memoirs and critical commentaries by Schumann's contemporaries and successors."--Times Literary Supplement "Rich in new ideas."--ChoiceTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsHistory, Rhetoric, and the Self: Robert Schumann and Music Making in German-Speaking Europe, 1800-18603Schumann's Homelessness47On Quotation in Schumann's Music80Schumann's Symphonic Finales113Schumann's "New Genre for the Concert Hall": Das Paradies und die Peri in the Eyes of a Contemporary129The Intentional Tourist: Romantic Irony in the Eichendorff Liederkreis of Robert Schumann156"Actually, Taken Directly from Family Life": Robert Schumann's Album fur die Jugend171The Correspondence between Clara Wieck Schumann and Felix and Paul Mendelssohn205Reminiscences of Robert Schumann (1878)233Robert Schumann in Endenich (1899)268Schumanniana (1925)288On Robert Schumann's Piano Compositions (1844)303Robert Schumann with Reference to Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and the Development of Modern Music in General (1845)317Robert Schumann (1855)338Schumanniana No. 4: The Present Musical Epoch and Robert Schumann's Position in Music History (1861)362On Schumann as Symphonist (1904-1906)375Index of Names and Compositions385List of Contributors395
£49.30
MB - Cornell University Press The Death of Franz Liszt Based on the Unpublished
Book Synopsis"If only I do not die here." After falling ill during a visit to Bayreuth, Franz Liszt uttered this melancholy refrain throughout his final days, which were spent in rented rooms in a house opposite Wahnfried, the home of his daughter Cosima and his...Trade ReviewA macabre little classic. -- Alex Ross * The New Yorker *The Death of Franz Liszt brings you into the closest possible proximity to this much idolized pianist, thanks to a detailed diary kept by his pupil and caregiver, one Lina Schmalhausen. The closer you get to Liszt, the more you admire him as a singular example of one whose talent and fame spawned generosity and wisdom in a world ruled by self-serving pettiness. -- David Patrick Stearns * Philadelphia Inquirer *
£22.79
MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma Mapping Woody Guthrie
Book SynopsisTo map Woody Guthrie’s movements across space and time, the author draws not only on the artist’s considerable recorded and published output but on a wealth of unpublished sources housed in the Woody Guthrie Archives. This trove of primary documents deepens Kaufman’s intriguing portrait of a unique American artist.
£15.26
Louisiana State University Press Encyclopedia of Louisiana Musicians
Book SynopsisLouisiana's unique multicultural history has led to the development of more styles of American music than anywhere else in the country. Encyclopedia of Louisiana Musicians compiles over 1,600 native creators, performers, and recorders of the state's indigenous musical genres.
£40.80
Louisiana State University Press Slim Harpo
Book SynopsisAs Louis Armstrong forever tethered jazz to New Orleans and Clifton Chenier fixed Lafayette as home to zydeco, Slim Harpo established Baton Rouge as a base for the blues. In this biography of the renowned blues singer and musician, Martin Hawkins traces Harpo’s rural upbringing, his professional development, and his national success.
£31.89
University of Pennsylvania Press Closure and Mahlers Music Role of Secondary
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£67.15
University Press of Florida Good Day Sunshine State How the Beatles Rocked
Book SynopsisIn 1964 The Beatles appeared live on the Ed Sullivan Show and embarked on their first tour of North America - and they spent more time in Florida than anywhere else. Good Day Sunshine State dives into this momentous time and place, exploring the band’s seismic influence on the people and culture of the state.Trade Review“[Kealing’s] sources come from outside the Beatles camp, adjacent observers offering reflective testimony on a moment when The Beatles were not yet fully draped in myth.”—Uncut Magazine
£21.56
University Press of Florida The Life and Music of Graham Jackson
Book SynopsisThe first biography of Graham Jackson (1903-1983), a musician whose life story displays the complexities of being a Black professional in the segregated South. David Cason discusses how Jackson navigated a web of racial and social negotiations throughout his long career and highlights his little-known role in events of the twentieth century.
£60.35
University Press of Florida The Life and Music of Graham Jackson
Book SynopsisThe first biography of Graham Jackson (1903-1983), a musician whose life story displays the complexities of being a Black professional in the segregated South. David Cason discusses how Jackson navigated a web of racial and social negotiations throughout his long career and highlights his little-known role in events of the twentieth century.
£22.46
Rutgers University Press Black Pearls Blues Queens of the 1920s
Book SynopsisA contribution to the history of the blues and of Afro-American culture in general. Writing from a black/feminist standpoint, Harrison shows the joys, trials, heartbreaks and enduring influence of such singers as Victoria Spivey and Alberta Hunter.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Riding "Toby" to the Big Time 2. "Crazy Blues" Starts a New Craze 3. "Wild Women Don't Have the Blues": Blues from the Black Woman's Perspective 4. "Up the Country..." and Still Singing the Blues: Sippie Wallace 5. Blue Was Her Business: Victoria Spivey 6. "He Used to Be Your Man..." But He's Edith Wilson's Now 7. She's Got a Mind to Ramble: Alberta Hunter Conclusion Other Blues Singers Selected Blues Titles by Women Notes Glossary of Colloquialisms Selected Discography Bibliography Subject Index Index of Song Titles
£31.50
University of Minnesota Press Blue Guitar Highway
Book SynopsisTrade Review "Fans will appreciate Metsa's stories about the writing and reception of many of his songs."—Publishers Weekly "More than simply a title of regional interest to Midwesterners, this musical journey will resonate with readers who prefer their tell-alls spiced with a generous helping of conviction and a dash of humility."—Kirkus Reviews "Blue Guitar Highway is a convincing testament to the strength that a performer can draw on by remaining in touch with his or her roots, while remaining open to the trials and rewards along the road of an America steeped in song."—Discorder Magazine "You’ve got to admire Paul Metsa. He chased his dreams and became an accomplished Minneapolis-based guitarist and songwriter. Although he’s often lived gig to gig, you sense from this memoir that he’s loved the ride."—Lake Superior Magazine "Blue Guitar Highway has so many compelling stories that you can’t put it down."—Star Tribune "Metsa’s style is readable, sometimes funny, sometimes lyrical, and full of passion."—Northeaster and North News "Blue Guitar Highway is . . . Paul Metsa’s equivalent of Bob Dylan’s Chronicles, Vol. 1."—Hometown Focus "Metsa uses his talents as a songwriter and lyricist to full advantage. His prose sets us to laughing, crying, and remembering often within the same sentence. . . . This memoir belongs on any music fan’s bookshelf."—Mark Munger, Cloquet River Press "Reading the words of Paul Metsa as recorded in his memoir, Blue Guitar Highway, is a walk through the several decades of the local music scene with all of his and its connections with the ages and stages of American music writ large."—Twin Cities Daily Planet "While the 271-page work is full of telling, humorous anecdotes from Metsa’s life—including the time he slipped Grateful Dead front man Jerry Garcia some leftover, psychedelic mushrooms—the story’s primary message is one of perseverance and passion."—The Downtown Journal "Blue Guitar Highway conveys all the sweet absurdity, dry humor, and passion for the language of music that has made Metsa’s story sing."—Grand Rapids Herald-Review "For music-lovers who admire the 80s and 90s in the Twin Cities rock-and-roll scene, Metsa’s journey is worth delving into."—Woodbury-South Maplewood Review "Blue Guitar Highway, by Paul Metsa will certainly please music buffs who remember Metsaʼs days in the joints on Minneapolisʼs West Bank."—River Falls Journal "Packed with colorful details about music venues in Minneapolis and on the Range and with references to things uniquely Minnesotan, Blue Guitar Highway offers lots of local appeal. On a broader plane, Metsaʼs book is an anthem to professional musicians who live to play. His heartfelt tributes to those who influenced him in his musical pursuits are numerous. So belly up to the bar now and then, and get to know this gregarious Minnesotan, a born storyteller."—Duluth News Tribune "Metsa writes so well that he can even make a hangover seem beautiful. Compelling, gripping and laugh out loud funny even as he describes some far from funny happenstance, Metsa takes us on his lifelong ride, from the death of his mother on an operating table, to his bust for cocaine possession, through a personal quest to save a beloved local theatre, all told within the roller coaster ride of a musician from whom “quit” is definitely not an option. He is Minnesota’s other Dylan."—Sound Waves Magazine "The anecdotes are entertaining, the self-deprecating humor is often captivating, and the music trivia is mostly entertaining to those of us who know little about the music and the culture of Minnesota in the middle of the last century."—No Depression "Metsa is the other great folksinger from Minnesota's Mesabi Iron Range."—Huffington Post "Metsa is a mountain in Minnesota music."—Bobby VeeTable of ContentsContentsForeword by David CarrGuitar FoolsA Boy and His GuitarBuckshot in Short PantsThe Cry of the MuskratCats Under the StarsVaseline Machine GunOne More Saturday NightFranklin AvenueElectric High HeelsParty to a CrimeRobots on Death RowHouse of CardsWhistling Past the GraveyardFerris Wheels on the FarmCity of the AngelsMississippi FarewellNo Money DownSwing Low, Sweet ChariotGhosts of Woody GuthrieMartini GulchWhite Boys Lost in the BluesFrom Russia with LoveKey to the HighwaySisuTexas in the Twilight ZoneSlings and ArrowsBarbeque and BluesIko-IkoSlow JusticeStars Over the PrairieFireworks on the 4th of JulyAcknowledgmentsDiscographyConcert Appearances
£12.34
LUP - University of Georgia Press The Philosopher King T Bone Burnett and the
Book SynopsisTexas-born T Bone Burnett is an award-winning musician, songwriter, and producer with over forty years of experience in the entertainment industry. Heath Carpenter evaluates and positions Burnett as a major cultural catalyst by grounding his work, and that of others abiding by a similar ""roots"" ethic, in the American South.
£32.26
Duke University Press Hold On to Your Dreams
Book SynopsisWith the exception of a few dance recordings, including "Is It All Over My Face?" and "Go Bang! numbered 5", Arthur Russell's pioneering music was largely forgotten until the issue of two albums in 2004 triggered a revival of interest. This title presents the life Russell.Trade Review“[A] sensitive and thorough biography. . . . In a sense, Arthur Russell was so much a part of his times that he tended to disappear into them, blending in with so many different scenes that the camouflage seemed at times to have taken over. Lawrence notes, for example, how many previous accounts of the New York downtown scene fail to notice him at all. With Hold On to Your Dreams, the outline of an outstanding and prescient artist can now be more clearly made out.” - Ken Hollings, The Wire“[W]hat makes this book valuable is that Russell’s shadowy ubiquity turns an ostensible biography into a first draft of that elusive comprehensive history of the downtown performing arts. Hold On to Your Dreams has to go everywhere, because that’s where Russell went. . . . [E]ven if you didn’t know about Russell and are not yet persuaded to pursue him further, this is still a book worth reading. . . . Psychologically, Russell emerges as indeed fascinating, more fascinating than his music, as a maverick without, Lawrence notes, the feisty self-righteousness such figures often embody. . . . Russell has inspired a book that helps us understand a thrilling twenty-five years of American cultural history.” - John Rockwell, Bookforum“[An exhaustive, often spellbinding account of the life of one of music’s true maverick enigmas. . . . While the book provides many fresh insights into the 80s downtown hotbed, Russell emerges as a strange, fragile figure, in a monumental work. Hold On To Your Dreams is a captivating record of a true original’s all-too-brief life.” - Kris Needs, Record Collector“The passionate, revelatory anecdotes collected here follow Russell through those liminal downtown nightclubs, loft spaces, and recording studios that made his life and music possible.” - Carol Cooper, Village Voice“[A]n exemplary demonstration of exactly what a biography should do. In his rigorously researched investigation of musician and composer Arthur Russell, cultural theory lecturer Tim Lawrence effortlessly explores his subject and in so doing shines fresh light on the darkened recesses of both New York's downtown music scene and the popular cultural landscape of Russell's times. And despite Russell's relative obscurity, the book leaves you in no doubt as to how influential this maverick music figure has been.” - Martin James, Times Higher Education Supplement“Hold On to Your Dreams tells the story of an artist whose life becomes more intriguing with every turn. Inspiring and written with love, this book takes us to the roots of Arthur Russell’s music, from the streets of New York to the cornfields of Iowa.”—Jens Lekman, musician“Tim Lawrence has written a fascinating and insightful biography of a sensitive and searching soul. Arthur Russell was a personal artist whose musical vision led him to coexist in seemingly incompatible worlds. Through the lens of Arthur Russell’s life (never clouded with material success or celebrity), Tim Lawrence gives us a sharp and singular portrait of late-twentieth-century American life. A fine read, with a depth and detail that resonate with Arthur Russell’s sparkle and wit.”—Peter Gordon, Love of Life Orchestra“With rich and animated detail, Tim Lawrence tracks Arthur Russell’s insatiable drive to integrate so-called serious music and pop. This definitive biography is both an engrossing record of Russell’s musical ambitions and a compelling account of the fertile downtown scene that supported his admirable dreams.”—Matt Wolf, director of Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell“[A] sensitive and thorough biography. . . . In a sense, Arthur Russell was so much a part of his times that he tended to disappear into them, blending in with so many different scenes that the camouflage seemed at times to have taken over. Lawrence notes, for example, how many previous accounts of the New York downtown scene fail to notice him at all. With Hold On to Your Dreams, the outline of an outstanding and prescient artist can now be more clearly made out.” -- Ken Hollings * The Wire *“[A]n exemplary demonstration of exactly what a biography should do. In his rigorously researched investigation of musician and composer Arthur Russell, cultural theory lecturer Tim Lawrence effortlessly explores his subject and in so doing shines fresh light on the darkened recesses of both New York's downtown music scene and the popular cultural landscape of Russell's times. And despite Russell's relative obscurity, the book leaves you in no doubt as to how influential this maverick music figure has been.” -- Martin James * Times Higher Education *“[An exhaustive, often spellbinding account of the life of one of music’s true maverick enigmas. . . . While the book provides many fresh insights into the 80s downtown hotbed, Russell emerges as a strange, fragile figure, in a monumental work. Hold On To Your Dreams is a captivating record of a true original’s all-too-brief life.” -- Kris Needs * Record Collector *“[W]hat makes this book valuable is that Russell’s shadowy ubiquity turns an ostensible biography into a first draft of that elusive comprehensive history of the downtown performing arts. Hold On to Your Dreams has to go everywhere, because that’s where Russell went. . . . [E]ven if you didn’t know about Russell and are not yet persuaded to pursue him further, this is still a book worth reading. . . . Psychologically, Russell emerges as indeed fascinating, more fascinating than his music, as a maverick without, Lawrence notes, the feisty self-righteousness such figures often embody. . . . Russell has inspired a book that helps us understand a thrilling twenty-five years of American cultural history.” -- John Rockwell * Bookforum *“The passionate, revelatory anecdotes collected here follow Russell through those liminal downtown nightclubs, loft spaces, and recording studios that made his life and music possible.” -- Carol Cooper * Village Voice *Table of ContentsIllustrations xi Preface xv Acknowledgments xxiii Introduction 1 1. Formations (1951–1973) 11 2. Explorations (1973–1975) 47 3. Alternatives (1975–1977) 83 4. Intensities (1977–1980) 125 5. Variations (1980–1984) 179 6. Reverberations (1984–1987) 247 7. Tangents (1987–1992) 293 Epilogue 341 Notes 359 Discography 377 Bibliography 387 Index 393
£84.15
Duke University Press Tony Allen
Book SynopsisTony Allen is the autobiography of legendary Nigerian drummer Tony Allen, the rhythmic engine of Fela Kuti's Afrobeat.Trade Review“There’s a sentence in the introduction where Veal, a Yale professor, uses the phrase ‘indigenization of jazz drumming’, but don’t let that put you off. The academic is present primarily to transcribe and edit, while Allen reflects on 50 years at the coalface. . . One of the great sidemen, Allen here cuts mercilessly through the bullshit.” -- David Hutcheon * Mojo *“Allen bring us his inspirational biography. Written together with Michael Veal, author of Fela Kuti’s biography, this is the most accessible Afrobeat book of them all. . . . Highly recommended for anyone with an interest in the history of West-African popular music.” * AfrobeatMusic.net *“Tony Allen is a fascinating insider’s view of how a musician and a musical style developed over time. Allen is a compelling storyteller and sharp observer whose memories bring forth a stream of ideas, anecdotes, humor, and life lessons that add up to an insightful auto-ethnography. Well-organized and concise, the book flows as a story of one of the most important West African musicians of the past 50 years, a narrative of creativity in post-colonial African popular music, and sound advice on how to have a long and productive career in music.” -- Thomas Brett * Popular Music and Society *“This master drummer’s account is enriched by unstinting critical appraisal, whether evaluating Fela’s most loved recordings or his own subsequent solo efforts. Tony Allen, ever restless, retains the enthusiasm of an absolute beginner, tempered with a survivor’s wisdom. His life obviously a work in progress, one anticipates music yet to come and the stories that surface in its wake.” -- Richard Henderson * The Wire *“[D]rummers are going to love this book. With so few autobiographies of drummers in print, the publication of Tony Allen: An Autobiography of the Master Drummer of Afrobeat is a cause for celebration. . . . Most importantly, the book is a hell of a lot of fun to read, although Allen's first-hand accounts of his struggles with shamanistic bandleader and Nigeria's adopted ‘black president’ Fela Anikulapo-Kuti will piss off any musician who has had to fight to get paid for playing a gig." -- Chris Becker * All About Jazz *“After decades of being underpaid and underappreciated for his contributions with Kuti and beyond, it’s satisfying to see Tony Allen: An Autobiography of the Master Drummer of Afrobeat in print. Drummers, fans of African music, and lovers of music more generally will find a lot to love in this book.” -- Zachary Stockill * Popmatters *"There is much to enjoy from his account of growing up and becoming part of 'swinging Lagos' pre 1978, before it was unsafe to venture out at night. The part describing his musical influences and relationship with Fela Kuti is illuminating. Tony, one of the originators of Afrobeat, still plays to sellout crowds in his seventies . . . demonstrating that age is just a number. Allen's autobiography is a gem." * The Voice *“Anyone who knows their Afrobeat will tell you how pivotal the kit drummer Tony Allen was to the genre’s development. Indeed, as . . . Michael Veal points out in this important, deftly crafted book, the pairing of Allen and the late great Fela Anikulapo Kuti could be likened to partnerships between such jazz supernovas as Coltrane and Elvin Jones; Miles and Philly Joe Jones; Ornette and Billy Higgins.” -- Jane Cornwel * Jazzwise *“This is not a slice of dry academia, what we get in this incredibly fruitful collaboration is 160 pages of rich revealing narrative that is so engrossing that I missed my stop on the tube. . . . Basically, I couldn’t put the book down and it had me sifting through the records to provide a soundtrack to the narrative.” -- Paul Brad * Ancient to Future *“This is a much needed, truly fascinating book. . . . Allen spins the tale of his life, and of the evolution of one of the great popular musical styles of the 20th century, like the great storyteller he is. It’s a narrative filled with tasty anecdotes and twinkling details, which just add to its momentum. You can almost see the wry smile on his face as he challenges you to make up his own mind . . . Allen’s totally absorbing narrative was edited and shaped by Michael E. Veal. . . . In his introduction he treats us to an unbeatably succinct, lucidly accurate contextual analysis of Allen as a ‘Yoruba modernist’. He also gets to grips with how the Allen technique works. . . . This is highly readable and highly recommended.” -- Max Reinhardt * Songlines *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction / Michael E. Veal 1 1. Right in the Center of Lagos 21 2. Highlife Time 36 3. The Sky was the Limit 47 4. God's Own Country 68 5. Swinging Like Hell! 85 6. Everything Scatter 108 7. Progress 128 8. When One Road Closes . . . 146 9. Paris Blues 162 10. No End to Business 175 Selected References 187 Index 193
£76.50
Duke University Press Roy Cape
Book SynopsisPart ethnography, part biography, and part Caribbean music history, Roy Cape is about the making of reputation and circulation, and about the meaning of labor and work ethics. An experiment in storytelling, it joins Roy's voice with that of ethnomusicologist Jocelyne Guilbault.Trade Review“The book is rich in the details of Cape’s life and his times. . . .Recommended.” -- T. E. Miller * Choice *“This is a superb book on a much-neglected area of world music: the pivotal role played by the bandleader, who for too long has remained in the shadows.” -- Charles de Ledesma * Songlines *"The unique style of interweaving storytelling and anthropological research with the voices of Roy Cape, the subject of this work, and Jocelyne Guilbault, an astute ethnomusicologist, is both refreshing and exciting.... Roy Cape: A Life on the Calypso and Soca Bandstand is a mustread for all researchers, students, aspiring musicians, and aficionados of popular music in general and of Caribbean music and popular music culture in particular." -- Donna P. Hope * Journal of Anthropological Research *"Jocelyne Guilbault... is one of the few non-Caribbean ethnomusicologists who has researched Eastern Caribbean music as if she is an insider, particularly from the perspective of band members rather than headline singers. Together in unique collaboration, this matched pair has created a short book that both illuminates the career of a pivotal musician and constructs a refreshing approach to narrative, diologic ethnomusicology." -- Donald Hill * American Anthropologist *“Roy Cape: A Life on the Calypso and Soca Bandstand is a successful path finding experiment in terms of its content as well as of its form…. In departing from traditional or conventional biography towards the multivocal, multimodal presentation of Roy Cape, the book alters researchers to the fact that they, like Nobel-Prize winner Derek Walcott, need to create new metaphors for and forms of communicating our collective (musical) experience.” -- Louis Regis * World of Music *"[A]n admirable collaboration, both in producing new perspectives to existing Caribbean scholarship and in demonstrating that there is still much to learn from 'behind the scenes' of the West Indian carnival music industry." -- Amelia K. Ingram * Latin American Music Review *"[W]hile reading Roy Cape, readers may end up feeling as though they are sitting around a coffee table in Trinidad with Guilbault and Cape, passing around old pictures and telling school stories or reminiscing about bands, sometimes with friends dropping by to lime (laugh, joke, drink, and tell stories)." -- Gage Averill * Musicultures *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Notes on the Text xv Introduction 1 1. For the Love of Music: Up from the Panyards and at the Orphanage 23 2. Working as a Bandsman 42 3. Listening to Roy Sounding 76 4. Leading the Band 99 5. Remembering with Pictures 135 6. Working with Roy: Musicians and Friends Speak 183 7. Circulation: Summarizing a Career 207 Afterword. Writing Voices 229 Notes 233 Select Discography 259 References 261 About the Companion CD 277 Index 279
£80.10
Duke University Press Roy Cape
Book SynopsisPart ethnography, part biography, and part Caribbean music history, Roy Cape is about the making of reputation and circulation, and about the meaning of labor and work ethics. An experiment in storytelling, it joins Roy's voice with that of ethnomusicologist Jocelyne Guilbault.Trade Review“The book is rich in the details of Cape’s life and his times. . . .Recommended.” -- T. E. Miller * Choice *“This is a superb book on a much-neglected area of world music: the pivotal role played by the bandleader, who for too long has remained in the shadows.” -- Charles de Ledesma * Songlines *"The unique style of interweaving storytelling and anthropological research with the voices of Roy Cape, the subject of this work, and Jocelyne Guilbault, an astute ethnomusicologist, is both refreshing and exciting.... Roy Cape: A Life on the Calypso and Soca Bandstand is a mustread for all researchers, students, aspiring musicians, and aficionados of popular music in general and of Caribbean music and popular music culture in particular." -- Donna P. Hope * Journal of Anthropological Research *"Jocelyne Guilbault... is one of the few non-Caribbean ethnomusicologists who has researched Eastern Caribbean music as if she is an insider, particularly from the perspective of band members rather than headline singers. Together in unique collaboration, this matched pair has created a short book that both illuminates the career of a pivotal musician and constructs a refreshing approach to narrative, diologic ethnomusicology." -- Donald Hill * American Anthropologist *“Roy Cape: A Life on the Calypso and Soca Bandstand is a successful path finding experiment in terms of its content as well as of its form…. In departing from traditional or conventional biography towards the multivocal, multimodal presentation of Roy Cape, the book alters researchers to the fact that they, like Nobel-Prize winner Derek Walcott, need to create new metaphors for and forms of communicating our collective (musical) experience.” -- Louis Regis * World of Music *"[A]n admirable collaboration, both in producing new perspectives to existing Caribbean scholarship and in demonstrating that there is still much to learn from 'behind the scenes' of the West Indian carnival music industry." -- Amelia K. Ingram * Latin American Music Review *"[W]hile reading Roy Cape, readers may end up feeling as though they are sitting around a coffee table in Trinidad with Guilbault and Cape, passing around old pictures and telling school stories or reminiscing about bands, sometimes with friends dropping by to lime (laugh, joke, drink, and tell stories)." -- Gage Averill * Musicultures *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Notes on the Text xv Introduction 1 1. For the Love of Music: Up from the Panyards and at the Orphanage 23 2. Working as a Bandsman 42 3. Listening to Roy Sounding 76 4. Leading the Band 99 5. Remembering with Pictures 135 6. Working with Roy: Musicians and Friends Speak 183 7. Circulation: Summarizing a Career 207 Afterword. Writing Voices 229 Notes 233 Select Discography 259 References 261 About the Companion CD 277 Index 279
£25.19
Duke University Press Making Light
Book SynopsisRaymond Knapp traces the musical legacy of German Idealism as it led to the declining prestige of composers such as Haydn while influencing the development of American popular music in the nineteenth century, showing how the existence of camp in Haydn and American music offer ways of reassessing Haydn's oeuvre.Trade Review“Making Light will surely spark many fruitful and interesting discussions, and lead to ever clearer and more meaningful ways of looking at performance.” -- Michael E. Ruhling * Haydn *“As a writer and thinker, Raymond Knapp is a congenial musicologist—eschewing the obscurities of hard theoretical labor and preferring colorful insights. Highly recommended.” -- M. Dineen * Choice *"I recommend Making Light strongly; it is provocative, stimulating and overflowing in original and insightful argument. [Knapp] moves the study of Haydn in a new direction, while developing new ways of understanding how idealistic perspectives on music have shaped the values attached to different forms of music-making." -- Derek B. Scott * Popular Music *"A rich and timely study. . . . Readers interested in fresh approaches to Haydn’s catalogue or camp in American musical culture will find Making Light an intriguing study of marginalized musical features across canonic boundaries." -- Jon Churchill * Current Musicology *
£90.25
Duke University Press Making Light
Book SynopsisRaymond Knapp traces the musical legacy of German Idealism as it led to the declining prestige of composers such as Haydn while influencing the development of American popular music in the nineteenth century, showing how the existence of camp in Haydn and American music offer ways of reassessing Haydn's oeuvre.Trade Review“Making Light will surely spark many fruitful and interesting discussions, and lead to ever clearer and more meaningful ways of looking at performance.” -- Michael E. Ruhling * Haydn *“As a writer and thinker, Raymond Knapp is a congenial musicologist—eschewing the obscurities of hard theoretical labor and preferring colorful insights. Highly recommended.” -- M. Dineen * Choice *"I recommend Making Light strongly; it is provocative, stimulating and overflowing in original and insightful argument. [Knapp] moves the study of Haydn in a new direction, while developing new ways of understanding how idealistic perspectives on music have shaped the values attached to different forms of music-making." -- Derek B. Scott * Popular Music *"A rich and timely study. . . . Readers interested in fresh approaches to Haydn’s catalogue or camp in American musical culture will find Making Light an intriguing study of marginalized musical features across canonic boundaries." -- Jon Churchill * Current Musicology *
£23.99
ME - Fordham University Press Victor Herbert
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£71.10
Fordham University Press Arvo Pärt
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsI. Introduction 1. Arvo Pärt and the Art of Embodiment | 3 Peter C. Bouteneff, Jeffers Engelhardt, and Robert Saler 2. The Sound—and Hearing—of Arvo Pärt | 8 Peter C. Bouteneff II. History and Context 3. Sounding Structure, Structured Sound | 25 Toomas Siitan 4. Colorful Dreams: Exploring Pärt’s Soviet Film Music | 36 Christopher J. May 5. Arvo Pärt’s Tintinnabuli and the 1970s Soviet Underground | 68 Kevin C. Karnes III. Performance 6. The Pärt Sound | 89 Paul Hillier, in conversation with Peter Bouteneff 7. The Rest Is Silence | 107 Andrew Shenton IV. Materiality and Phenomenology 8. Vibrating, and Silent: Listening to the Material Acoustics of Tintinnabulation | 129 Jeffers Engelhardt 9. Medieval Pärt | 154 Andrew Albin 10. The Piano and the Performing Body in the Music of Arvo Pärt: Phenomenological Perspectives | 177 Maria Cizmic and Adriana Helbig V. Theology 11. Presence, Absence, and the Ambiguities of Ambiance: Theological Discourse and the Move to Sound in Pärt Studies | 197 Robert Saler 12. The Materiality of Sound and the Theology of the Incarnation in the Music of Arvo Pärt | 208 Ivan Moody 13. Christian Liturgical Chant and the Musical Reorientation of Arvo Pärt | 220 Alexander Lingas 14. In the Beginning There Was Sound: Hearing, Tintinnabuli, and Musical Meaning in Sufism | 232 Sevin Huriye Yaraman List of Contributors | 243 Index of Terms | 247 Index of Persons | 252 Works by Other Composers | 256 Works by Arvo Pärt | 257
£102.60
Getty Trust Publications Late Thoughts Reflections on Artists and
Book SynopsisChronically associates artistic maturity either with transcendence, degeneration, or irrelevance. This volume looks to the non-representational arts of music, abstract painting and sculpture, and architecture for fresh insight into the juncture of aesthetics and mortality.
£33.25
Getty Trust Publications The Life and the Work Art and Biography
Book SynopsisIt is often assumed that reading about the lives of artists enhances our understanding of their work. This book contains a collection of essays, by a number of respected art historians that attempt to address this relationship by looking at the life and works of such artists as Andy Warhol, Bob Dylan, Van Gogh, Cezanne, and Leonardo da Vinci.
£38.00
Toccata Press Richard Flury The Life and Music of a Swiss
Book SynopsisThe first extensive study of the life and music of the Swiss composer, Richard Flury (1896-1967).The late-Romantic composer Richard Flury (1896-1967) was born in Biberist, a tiny town outside the Baroque city of Solothurn in northern Switzerland. He went to school in Solothurn, later taught there, conducted its orchestra, andhad his operas and ballets performed at the local theatre by its semi-professional ensemble. But Flury was more than just another conservative composer stuck in the provinces. His teachers included Ernst Kurth and JosephMarx of Vienna, and his music was performed by conductors such as Felix Weingartner and Hermann Scherchen and star instrumentalists like Wilhelm Backhaus and Georg Kulenkampff. His first opera was conducted by a former student ofBerg and Schoenberg who became his staunch advocate, and during the Second World War Flury worked closely with several Jewish emigré writers and musicians from Germany and Czechoslovakia.In his music of the early 1930s, the influence of Berg and Hindemith became apparent as Flury dabbled in modernism and free tonality before moving back to a more traditionalist stance; but he was also a fine tunesmith who loved writing Viennese waltzes and violin miniatures after the manner of Kreisler. In both his aesthetic and his career, Flury offers a fascinating case of a man negotiating constantly between the centre and the periphery - and composing some very good music in the process.The book includes a 23 track CD of Flury's music. CHRIS WALTON teaches music history at the Basel University of Music in Switzerland. He is the author of Othmar Schoeck: Life and Works (2009) and Richard Wagner's Zurich: The Muse of Place (2007).Trade ReviewProfessor Walton, himself a most engaging writer, beautifully evokes the provincial musical life, rural culture and landscapes of the German-speaking part of Switzerland in the first half of the 20th century. * MUSICAL TIMES *
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Toccata Press A Musician Divided Andr233 Tchaikowsky in his
Book SynopsisThe Polish-born, British-based pianist André Tchaikowsky (1935-82) saw himself principally as a composer- one of several conflicting elements in his personality, charted by the diaries he kept between 1974 and 1982.André Tchaikowsky was only 46 when he died, internationally renowned as a pianist - and he made the headlines after his death when he left his skull to the Royal Shakespeare Company for use in performances of Hamlet. Yet for all his facility at the keyboard Tchaikowsky's real passion was composition. The internal conflict between pianist and composer compounded an already complex character. A Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor, Tchaikowsky was also a homosexual. The diaries he kept between 1974 and his death chronicle the struggles that ran through his life. Debt kept driving him back to the concert platform when his true wish was to find the time to compose. His spirited writing details the joys and vicissitudes of his life with striking candour. The diaries are introduced and annotated by Anastasia Belina-Johnson, who also provides a chronology of Tchaikowsky's life and a survey of his music. Includes a CDof the pianist in recital.Anastasia Belina-Johnson is Head of Classical Music at the Leeds College of Music.Trade ReviewAn absorbing read and a significant step in Tchaikowsky studies. * MUSIC & LETTERS *A valuable book in rediscovering a vital talent undeservedly overlooked for too long. * CLASSICAL MUSIC *This is a very well-researched 'biography'. The edited diaries [are] especially revealing, and I came away from them feeling I had really got under the skin of this fascinating character ... If [Belina-Johnson's] intentions were to reawaken an interest in this almost forgotten musician, she has truly succeeded. , January 2014 * MUSICWEB INTERNATIONAL, January 2014 *
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