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| 1. |  | Title: The Advent project: the later-seventh-century creation of the Roman Mass proper Author: McKinnon, James W 1932- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Music | Musicology | Medieval Studies | Classical Religions | Christianity Publisher's Description: In his final accomplishment of an extraordinarily distinguished career, James W. McKinnon considers the musical practices of the early Church in this incisive examination of the history of Christian chant from the years a.d. 200 to 800. The result is an important book that is certain to have a long- . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: After the lovedeath: sexual violence and the making of culture Author: Kramer, Lawrence 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Gender Studies | Literature | Music Publisher's Description: This elegantly written book is a bold attempt to reinterpret the nature of sexual violence and to imagine the possibility of overcoming it. Lawrence Kramer traces today's sexual identities to their nineteenth-century sources, drawing on the music, literature, and thought of the period to show how no . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: All in sync: how music and art are revitalizing American religion Author: Wuthnow, Robert Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Religion | American Studies | Art | Music | Sociology Publisher's Description: Robert Wuthnow shows how music and art are revitalizing churches and religious life across the nation in this first-ever consideration of the relationship between religion and the arts. All in Sync draws on more than four hundred in-depth interviews with church members, clergy, and directors of lead . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: American Klezmer: its roots and offshoots Author: Slobin, Mark Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Music | Jewish Studies | American Music | Contemporary Music | Ethnomusicology Publisher's Description: Klezmer, the Yiddish word for a folk instrumental musician, has come to mean a person, a style, and a scene. This musical subculture came to the United States with the late-nineteenth-century Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. Although it had declined in popularity by the middle of the twentieth . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: The American musical landscape  Author: Crawford, Richard 1935- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Music | Musicology | American Studies | United States History Publisher's Description: In this refreshingly direct and engaging historical treatment of American music and musicology, Richard Crawford argues for the recognition of the distinct and vital character of American music. What is that character? How has musical life been supported in the United States and how have Americans u . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Beethoven and the construction of genius: musical politics in Vienna, 1792-1803 Author: DeNora, Tia 1958- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Music | History | Sociology | Composers | European History Publisher's Description: In this provocative account Tia DeNora reconceptualizes the notion of genius by placing the life and career of Ludwig van Beethoven in its social context. She explores the changing musical world of late eighteenth-century Vienna and follows the activities of the small circle of aristocratic patrons . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: California soul: music of African Americans in the West Author: DjeDje, Jacqueline Cogdell Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Music | African American Studies | American Studies | California and the West | Californian and Western History | United States History | Contemporary Music | Jazz Publisher's Description: This new series, co-sponsored with The Center for Black Music Research of Columbia College, seeks to increase our understanding of black music genres and their importance to the cultures of the Atlantic world, including their influence on African musical styles. Books in the series will examine the . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: China's new voices: popular music, ethnicity, gender, and politics, 1978-1997 Author: Baranovitch, Nimrod 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Music | China | Popular Music | Ethnomusicology | Politics | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: This is the most comprehensive study to date of the rich popular music scene in contemporary China. Focusing on the city of Beijing and drawing upon extensive fieldwork, China's New Voices shows that during the 1980s and 1990s, rock and pop music, combined with new technologies and the new market ec . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: City culture and the madrigal at Venice Author: Feldman, Martha Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Music | Musicology | European History Publisher's Description: Martha Feldman's exploration of sixteenth-century Venetian madrigals centers on the importance to the Venetians of Ciceronian rhetorical norms, which emphasized decorum through adherence to distinct stylistic levels. She shows that Venice easily adapted these norms to its long-standing mythologies o . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: Classical music and postmodern knowledge Author: Kramer, Lawrence 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Music | Musicology Publisher's Description: A leading cultural theorist and musicologist opens up new possibilities for understanding mainstream Western art music - the "classical" music composed between the eighteenth and early twentieth centuries that is, for many, losing both its prestige and its appeal. When this music is regarded esoteri . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: Constructive dissonance: Arnold Schoenberg and the transformations of twentieth-century culture Author: Brand, Juliane Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Music | Musicology | Composers | Intellectual History | Art History Publisher's Description: Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) is a pivotal figure of musical modernism. The "father of serialism" has influenced nearly every major composer of this century, and the idea of Schoenberg, now wild-eyed radical, now embattled moralist, now lonely prophet, is woven into the mythos of modern art. What is . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: Conventional wisdom: the content of musical form Author: McClary, Susan Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Music | Musicology Publisher's Description: With her usual combination of erudition, innovation, and spirited prose, Susan McClary reexamines the concept of musical convention in this fast-moving and refreshingly accessible book. Exploring the ways that shared musical practices transmit social knowledge, Conventional Wisdom offers an account . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Cultivating music in America: women patrons and activists since 1860 Author: Locke, Ralph P Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Music | Women's Studies | Popular Culture Publisher's Description: This wide-ranging collection brings together leading authorities on the social history of American art music to reveal the indispensable contribution that women have made to American musical life. Some chapters discuss collective endeavors, such as music clubs, Wagnerites, supporters of "modern musi . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: The dark mirror: German cinema between Hitler and Hollywood Author: Koepnick, Lutz P. (Lutz Peter) Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | German Studies | Music | Film Publisher's Description: Lutz Koepnick analyzes the complicated relationship between two cinemas - Hollywood's and Nazi Germany's - in this theoretically and politically incisive study. The Dark Mirror examines the split course of German popular film from the early 1930s until the mid 1950s, showing how Nazi filmmakers appr . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Decadent enchantments: the revival of Gregorian chant at Solesmes Author: Bergeron, Katherine Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Music | Musicology | French Studies | European History Publisher's Description: The oldest written tradition of European music, the art we know as Gregorian chant, is seen from an entirely new perspective in Katherine Bergeron's engaging and literate study. Bergeron traces the history of the Gregorian revival from its Romantic origins in a community of French monks at Solesmes, . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: Driven into paradise: the musical migration from Nazi Germany to the United States Author: Brinkmann, Reinhold 1934- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Music | American Music | Composers | Musicology | European History | United States History Publisher's Description: The forced migration of artists and scholars from Nazi Germany is a compelling and often wrenching story. The story is twofold, of impoverishment for the countries the musicians left behind and enrichment for the United States. The latter is the focus of this eminent collection, which approaches the . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: The early works of Arnold Schoenberg, 1893-1908 Author: Frisch, Walter Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Music | Composers | Contemporary Music | Musicology Publisher's Description: Here is the first full-scale account of Schoenberg's early tonal works, a rich repertory that music historians have tended to neglect or view as transitional to a mature atonal style.Between 1893 and 1908, Schoenberg created many genuine masterworks in the genres of Lieder, chamber music, and sympho . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: Echoes from Dharamsala: music in the life of a Tibetan refugee community Author: Diehl, Keila Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Music | Ethnomusicology | Tibet | Southeast Asia | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: In Echoes from Dharamsala, Keila Diehl uses music to understand the experiences of Tibetans living in Dharamsala, a town in the Indian Himalayas that for more than forty years has been home to Tibet's government-in-exile. The Dalai Lama's presence lends Dharamsala's Tibetans a feeling of being "in p . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: Emblems of eloquence: opera and women's voices in seventeenth-century Venice Author: Heller, Wendy Beth Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Music | European Studies | Opera | Classical Music | Women's Studies | Classical Literature and Language | Renaissance History Publisher's Description: Opera developed during a time when the position of women - their rights and freedoms, their virtues and vices, and even the most basic substance of their sexuality - was constantly debated. Many of these controversies manifested themselves in the representation of the historical and mythological wom . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: Gimme some truth: the John Lennon FBI files Author: Wiener, Jon Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: American Studies | Politics | Sociology | Social Problems | Music | Social Theory | Cultural Anthropology | Law Publisher's Description: When FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover reported to the Nixon White House in 1972 about the Bureau's surveillance of John Lennon, he began by explaining that Lennon was a "former member of the Beatles singing group." When a copy of this letter arrived in response to Jon Wiener's 1981 Freedom of Informatio . . . [more] Similar Items |