Below is a list of all music & dance titles recently released or due shortly.
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Steve Roud, Julia Bishop :- The New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs |
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[ Penguin Books Ltd / Hardback - due 7/Jun/2012 ]
Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies. Farewell and adieu to you ladies of Spain, for we've received orders for to sail for old England but we hope in a short while to see you again . One of the great English popular art forms, the folk song... |
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Tom Service :- Music as Alchemy: Journeys with Great Conductors and Their Orchestras |
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[ Faber and Faber / Hardback - due 7/Jun/2012 ]
How are conductors' silent gestures magicked into sound by a group of more than a hundred brilliant but belligerent musicians? The mute choreography of great conductors has fascinated and frustrated musicians and music-lovers for centuries, from... |
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Simon Spence :- The Stone Roses: War and Peace |
$37.00
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[ Penguin Putnam Inc / Paperback - due 7/Jun/2012 ]
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Craig Schuftan :- Entertain Us: The Rise and Fall of Alternative Rock in the Nineties |
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[ ABC Books / Paperback - due 1/Jun/2012 ]
In recent years there has been a massive upsurge of interest in nineties music. Triple J's All Time Hottest 100 featured a disproportionate amount of nineties songs headed by Nirvana's classic song: Smells Like Teen Spirit, from which this book draws... |
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Kathleen Marie Higgins :- The Music Between Us: Is Music a Universal Language? |
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[ The University of Chicago Press / Hardback - due 1/Jun/2012 ]
From our first social bonding as infants to the funeral rites that mark our passing, music plays an important role in our lives, bringing us closer to one another. In The Music between Us , philosopher Kathleen Marie Higgins investigates this role,... |
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Kirk Blows :- Hammered: Heavy Tales from the Hard-Rock Highway |
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[ Plexus Publishing Ltd / Paperback - due 31/May/2012 ]
As a rock journalist and ex-editor of Metal Hammer magazine, Kirk Blows became absorbed into an environment in which hedonistic habits, exaggerated egos and backstage bust-ups are par for the course, while self-indulgence and excess are not just... |
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Mark Katz :- Groove Music: The Art and Culture of the Hip-hop DJ |
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[ Oxford University Press Inc / Paperback - due 31/May/2012 ]
It's all about the scratch in Groove Music, award-winning music historian Mark Katz's groundbreaking book about the figure that defined hip-hop: the DJ. Today hip-hop is a global phenomenon, and the sight and sound of DJs mixing and scratching is... |
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Francesco Galeazzi :- The Theoretical-Practical Elements of Music |
$138.00
$124.20
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[ University of Illinois Press / Hardback - due 25/May/2012 ]
A virtuoso violinist, conductor, composer, and a professor of mathematics and botany, Francesco Galeazzi (1758-1819) firmly believed that musical education should be clear, demonstrable, and practical. In 1791 and 1796, he published the two volumes... |
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Douglas Harrison :- Then Sings My Soul: The Culture of Southern Gospel Music |
$144.00
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[ University of Illinois Press / Hardback - due 25/May/2012 ]
In this ambitious book on southern gospel music, Douglas Harrison re-examines the music's historical emergence and its function as a modern cultural phenomenon. Rather than a single rhetoric focusing on the afterlife as compensation for worldly... |
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Margaret J. Kartomi :- Musical Journeys in Sumatra |
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[ University of Illinois Press / Hardback - due 25/May/2012 ]
Despite being the sixth largest island in the world and home to an estimated 44 million Indonesians, Sumatra's musical arts and cultures have not been the subject of a book-length study until now. Documenting and explaining the ethnographic,... |
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