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Cover of Gender and Song in Early Modern England
by Leslie C. Dunn, Katherine R. Larson
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016

Song offers a vital case study for examining the rich interplay of music, gender, and representation in the early modern period. This collection engages with the question of how gender informed song within particular textual, social, and spatial contexts in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England....
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Unmasking Ravel

New Perspectives on the Music

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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011

Unmasking Ravel: New Perspectives on the Music fills a unique place in Ravel studies by combining critical interpretation and analytical focus. From the premiere of his works up to the present, Ravel has been associated with masks and the related notions of artifice and imposture. This has led scholars...
Cover of Wagner's Parsifal
by William Kinderman
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018

William Kinderman's detailed study of Parsifal, described by the composer as his "last card," explores the evolution of the text and music of this inexhaustible yet highly controversial music drama across Wagner's entire career. This book offers a reassessment of the ideological and political...
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Earth Dances

Music in Search of the Primitive

by Andrew Ford
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015

Minimalism, savagery, the raw and the cooked, the primal and the pre-verbal, Elvis’s hips, The Rite of Spring … Earth Dances is an original investigation of how music and primitivism intersect – a dazzling journey through music and culture. With alternating chapters of criticism and interviews,...
Cover of Patti Smith's Horses
by Dr. Philip Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2008

Described as the perfect fusion of poetry and garage band rock and roll (the original concept was "rock and Rimbaud"), Horses belongs as much to the world of literary and cultural criticism as it does to the realm of musicology. While Horses pays homage to the record's origins in the nascent...
Cover of No Repression

No Repression

Writings on Roots Music in the Post-Journalism Age

by Gillian Turnbull
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2016

No Repression: Writings on Roots Music in the Post-Journalism Age is a collection of Gillian Turnbull’s columns published on the website No Depression. Written between 2010-2015, these pieces captured Turnbull’s thoughts on music at a time when the industry was changing rapidly. Turnbull’s perspective...
Cover of Musical Meaning and Human Values
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Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009

Musical understanding has evolved dramatically in recent years, principally through a heightened appreciation of musical meaning in its social, cultural, and philosophical dimensions. This collection of essays by leading scholars addresses an aspect of meaning that has not yet received its due: the...
Cover of Opera As Drama
by Joseph Kerman
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013

Passionate, witty, and brilliant, Opera as Drama has been lauded as one of the most controversial, thought-provoking, and entertaining works of operatic criticism ever written. First published in 1956 and revised in 1988, Opera as Drama continues to be indispensable reading for all students and lovers of opera.
Cover of Equipment for Living

Equipment for Living

On Poetry and Pop Music

by Michael Robbins
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017

“Funny and smart” (The New Yorker) criticism of why we turn to art—specifically to poetry and popular music—and how it serves as an essential tool to understanding life. How can art help us make sense—or nonsense—of the world? If wrong life cannot be lived rightly, as Theodor Adorno...
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Art Chantry Speaks

A Heretic's History of 20th Century Graphic Design

by Art Chantry
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015

There used to be a time when designers were trained in the history of composition. Now you just buy a fuckin' piece of software and now you've become a designer. "Art Chantry . . . Is he a Luddite?" asks a Rhode Island School of Design poster promoting a Chantry lecture. "Or is he a graphic...
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Text and Act

Essays on Music and Performance

by Richard Taruskin
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 1995

Over the last dozen years, the writings of Richard Taruskin have transformed the debate about "early music" and "authenticity." Text and Act collects for the first time the most important of Taruskin's essays and reviews from this period, many of which now classics in the field....
Cover of South to a Very Old Place
by Albert Murray
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012

The highly acclaimed novelist and biographer Albert Murray tells his classic memoir of growing up in Alabama during the 1920s and 1930s in South to a Very Old Place. Intermingling remembrances of youth with engaging conversation, African-American folklore, and astute cultural criticism, it is at...
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On Late Style

Music and Literature Against the Grain

by Edward W. Said
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008

In this fascinating book, Edward Said looks at the creative contradictions that often mark the late works of literary and musical artists. Said shows how the approaching death of an artist can make its way into his work, examining essays, poems, novels, films, and operas by such artists as Beethoven,...
Cover of Mozart's Requiem

Mozart's Requiem

Reception, Work, Completion

by Simon P. Keefe
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012

Presenting a fresh interpretation of Mozart's Requiem, Simon P. Keefe redresses a longstanding scholarly imbalance whereby narrow consideration of the text of this famously incomplete work has taken precedence over consideration of context in the widest sense. Keefe details the reception of the Requiem...
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