Although the title makes it sound like a reference book, it is so much more than that The style of writing is engaging and informative The layout is attractive, with beautiful illustrations, photos, period paintings, quotes, and interes...Loe edasi...
Taylor Swift has become a peerless superstar, ceaselessly productive and internationally beloved. From her teen country debut to her world tour as the chair of the tortured poets department, Swifts career and her creations have captivated and bewit...Loe edasi...
The landmark international bestseller—The Beatles’ own story, in their own words—reissued on the 25th anniversary of its first publication.From their years growing up in Liverpool through their ride to fame to their ultimate breakup, h...Loe edasi...
Taylor Swift: Album by Album follows the megastar from her roots as a country artist to her transition into pop and finally into the cultural phenomenon touring today, covering both her music and her extraordinary life-- If you’re a pass...Loe edasi...
This book is dedicated to Gyorgy Kurtag, the last representative of a great generation of composers who emerged after World War II. Gyorgy Kurtag, who is still active at the age of 99, is the last representative of a great generation of compo...Loe edasi...
Gyorgy Kurtag, who is still active at the age of 99, is the last representative of a great generation of composers who emerged after World War II. A legendary chamber music coach and source of inspiration for composers and musicians around the world,...Loe edasi...
Sari: George L. Mosse Series in the History of European Culture, Sexuality, and Ideas
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Wisconsin Press, ISBN-13: 9780299353308)
In The Work of Music, Celia Applegate examines the cultural history of Austro-German music through the lens of labor from the 1648 Peace of Westphalia to the Third Reich. She explores the working world of music and musicians, the various jobs...Loe edasi...
Vaporwave is music as Internet meme, an ironic and difficult to classify microgenre born online at the turn of the 2010s in an explosion of millennial ambivalence. Vaporwave blends an unlikely spectrum of musical elements - from Muzak and the inci...Loe edasi...
Here is an in-depth exploration of Robert Forsters debut solo album, Danger in the Past (1990). Dublin, Ireland. That World Cup summer of 1990. A 21-year-old poet listens entranced when his friend puts on an LP, The Go-Betweens: 19...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Bloomsbury Publishing USA, ISBN-13: 9798765128084)
Dublin, Ireland. That World Cup summer of 1990. A 21-year-old poet is entranced by The Go-Betweens: 1978-1990. As the city outside goes football crazy, the poet discovers his new favorite band and learns that hell never see them live; they have rec...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197803639)
In Britain today, opera is routinely called elitist. But things were not always thus. Examining shifting cultural attitudes over the century from 1920 to 2020, Someone Elses Music recounts a hidden history of popular opera-going in Britain, which d...Loe edasi...
Donald Burrows, Helen Coffey, John Greenacombe, Anthony Hicks
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781107080249)
The life and career of George Frideric Handel, one of the most frequently performed Baroque composers, are thoroughly documented in a wide variety of contemporary sources. This multi-volume publication, the most up-to-date, fully annotated collection...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009337144)
Haydn scholarship has mirrored recent trends in musicological research with an increased interest in the cultural context and reception of his music, though he has not received the sustained consideration given to other canonical figures. Over the pa...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Sep-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478032496)
Kay Dickinson outlines how ABBA’s mega-hit song “Fernando” could express support with anti-capitalist and Third World liberation while simultaneously becoming an icon of global capital. Since its release in 1976, ABBA’s song “Fernando” has be...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478029120)
Kay Dickinson outlines how ABBA’s mega-hit song “Fernando” could express support with anti-capitalist and Third World liberation while simultaneously becoming an icon of global capital. Since its release in 1976, ABBA’s song “Fernando” has be...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197805763)
Eighteenth-century accounts of Vienna portray the city as one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse in Europe, yet most scholarship about Viennese music at that time has focused on Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, painting a disproportionately...Loe edasi...
In Rethinking Elvis, popular music scholars and historians look beyond Elvis iconography to shine a light on the branding, historical and geographic reception, heritage, and fan phenomenon that sustain his legacy. By engaging with recent di...Loe edasi...
