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The Capacity Contract
Intellectual Disability and the Question of Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
In the first sustained examination of disability through the lens of political theory, The Capacity Contract shows how the exclusion of disabled people has shaped democratic politics. Stacy Clifford Simplican demonstrates how disability buttresses systems of domination based on race, sex, and gender....
The Nashville Sound
Bright Lights and Country Music
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
While on a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard, journalist and novelist Paul Hemphill wrote of that pivotal moment in the late sixties when traditional defenders of the hillbilly roots of country music were confronted by the new influences and business realities of pop music. The demimonde of the traditional...
by Margaret Eby
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
A literary travelogue into the heart of classic Southern literature.
What is it about the South that has inspired so much of America's greatest literature? And why, when we think of Flannery O'Connor or William Faulkner or Harper Lee, do we think of them not just as writers, but as Southern...
After Django
Making Jazz in Postwar France
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
How did French musicians and critics interpret jazz—that quintessentially American music—in the mid-twentieth century? How far did players reshape what they learned from records and visitors into more local jazz forms, and how did the music figure in those angry debates that so often suffused...
Singing Poets
Literature and Popular Music in France and Greece (1945-1975)
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
"Between 1945 and 1975, in both France and Greece, literature provided the aesthetic criteria, cultural prestige and institutional basis for what aspired to be a higher form of popular song and the authentic representative of a national popular music. Published poems were set to popular music,...
by Maureen Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Everything you need to know about musical theater in one handy guide by leading expert Maureen Hughes who has herself created 8 musicals and teaches musical theater. The Pocket Guide to Musicals covers everything from the composers and lyricists to a comprehensive A-Z listing of musicals from around...
The Story of Music
From Babylon to the Beatles: How Music Has Shaped Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Why did prehistoric people start making music? What does every postwar pop song have in common? A “masterful” tour of music through the ages (Booklist, starred review).
From Mozart to Motown and beyond, this “racily written, learned, and often shrewdly insightful” social history reveals...
Illegal Harmonies
Music in the Modern Age
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2011
Listen. What do you hear?
We are surrounded by sounds all the time, but we tend not to hear them; our brains are very good at editing what our ears pick up. If we stop for a moment to listen, there they are: the ticking clock, traffic noise, fragments of conversation, a passing plane. These...
by Brendan Ward
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
A fast-paced drama of frustration, envy, rivalry, struggle and success, this work tells the story of the intertwined lives of four people: Ludwig von Beethoven; a concert pianist who was a self-taught child prodigy; a fanatical inventor who disassembled pianos as a child; and a television cameraman...
by Robert Craft
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Robert Craft was co-conductor, companion and confidant to Igor Stravinsky for the last two decades of the composers life, an intimate working relationship that is unique in musical history. Now, in his ninetieth year, Craft has produced a book of astonishing freshness, warmth and wit as he surveys through...
Songs That Saved Your Life (Revised Edition)
The Art of The Smiths 1982-87
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
One of the seminal groups of the Eighties, The Smiths' career was as brilliant as it was brief. Now, drawing on interviews with band members, producers, and colleagues, music journalist Simon Goddard presents a meticulous chronological survey of the group's musical evolution, from their first demos...
Eye Mind
The Saga of Roky Erickson and The 13th Floor Elevators, The Pioneers of Psychedelic Sound
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
“One of the most exhilarating and important rock ’n’ roll stories ever told.”—Julian CopeThe trailblazing 13th Floor Elevators released the first “psychedelic” rock album in America, transforming culture throughout the 1960s and beyond. The Elevators followed their own spiritual...
by Bob Gendron
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2008
"In the absence of love, there is loneliness, sorrow and desperation. And that's where I come in." --Greg Dulli, introducing "When We Two Parted" onstage in San Francisco
Like no record before or since, Gentlemen is fraught with the psychological warfare, bedroom drama,...
by R.J. Stove
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
“Delightfully sophisticated . . . the only music history that can be savored, muscatel in hand, in the green shade of a beach umbrella” (John Simon, The Hudson Review).
R. J. Stove’s A Student’s Guide to Music History is a concise account, written for the intelligent lay reader,...