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1. | | Title: Revealing masks: exotic influences and ritualized performance in modernist music theaterAuthor: Sheppard, William Anthony 1969- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Music | American Music | Contemporary Music | Ethnomusicology | Opera | Musicology | Intellectual HistoryPublisher's Description: W. Anthony Sheppard considers a wide-ranging constellation of important musical works in this fascinating exploration of ritualized performance in twentieth-century music. Revealing Masks uncovers the range of political, didactic, and aesthetic intents that inspired the creators of modernist music t . . . [more]Similar Items | 2. | | Title: Writing about music: a style sheet from the editors of 19th-century musicAuthor: Holoman, D. Kern 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Music | MusicPublisher's Description: How do you spell Rachmaninov?Where do you place the hyphen in Hofmannsthal if it breaks across two lines? Is it premiere or première? The answers and much more can be found in a new, essential resource for authors, students, editors, concert producers - anyone who deals with music in print. An expan . . . [more]Similar Items | 3. | | Title: Western music and its others: difference, representation, and appropriation in musicAuthor: Born, Georgina Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Music | Ethnomusicology | Cultural Anthropology | Sociology | Postcolonial Studies | Popular CulturePublisher's Description: This innovative collection of articles offers a major comprehensive overview of new developments in cultural theory as applied to Western music. Addressing a broad range of primarily twentieth-century music, the authors examine two related phenomena: musical borrowings or appropriations, and how mus . . . [more]Similar Items | 4. | | Title: Paul Bowles on musicAuthor: Bowles, Paul 1910- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Music | American Music | Composers | Contemporary Music | American Literature | FilmPublisher's Description: "It's an easy enough job if one has something to say," Paul Bowles remarked in a letter to his mother about his first foray into music criticism. And Paul Bowles, indeed, had plenty to say about music. Though known chiefly as a writer of novels and stories, Paul Bowles (1910-99) thought of himself f . . . [more]Similar Items | 5. | | Title: Race music: black cultures from bebop to hip-hopAuthor: Ramsey, Guthrie P Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Music | American Music | American Studies | Popular Music | United States History | Ethnomusicology | African American StudiesPublisher's Description: This powerful book covers the vast and various terrain of African American music, from bebop to hip-hop. Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr., begins with an absorbing account of his own musical experiences with family and friends on the South Side of Chicago, evoking Sunday-morning worship services, family gathe . . . [more]Similar Items | 6. | | Title: China's new voices: popular music, ethnicity, gender, and politics, 1978-1997Author: Baranovitch, Nimrod 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Music | China | Popular Music | Ethnomusicology | Politics | Gender StudiesPublisher'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 | 7. | | Title: Italian music incunabula: printers and type Author: Duggan, Mary Kay Conyers Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Music | Musicology | Medieval StudiesPublisher's Description: Musical notation presented unusual challenges to the new craft of printing in the fifteenth century. Its demands were so difficult that the first impression of music from metal type was not made until a full twenty years after the first printed alphabetic texts. By the end of the century dozens of s . . . [more]Similar Items | 8. | | Title: In quest of spirit: thoughts on musicAuthor: Harvey, Jonathan 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Music | Composers | Contemporary Music | ReligionPublisher's Description: The interests of the British composer Jonathan Harvey are wide and varied, embracing Christianity, Buddhism, eastern and western philosophy, aesthetics, science, and mysticism. All affect his musical thinking and are a part of this unusual and personal book, which is accompanied by a compact disc fe . . . [more]Similar Items | 9. | | Title: Workin' man blues: country music in CaliforniaAuthor: Haslam, Gerald W Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Music | American Music | California and the WestPublisher's Description: California has been fertile ground for country music since the 1920s, nurturing a multitude of talents from Gene Autry to Glen Campbell, Rose Maddox to Barbara Mandrell, Buck Owens to Merle Haggard. In this affectionate homage to California's place in country music's history, Gerald Haslam surveys t . . . [more]Similar Items | 10. | | 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 CulturePublisher'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 | 11. | | Title: California soul: music of African Americans in the WestAuthor: 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 | JazzPublisher'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 | 12. | | Title: Classical music and postmodern knowledgeAuthor: Kramer, Lawrence 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Music | MusicologyPublisher'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 | 13. | | Title: Proof through the night: music and the great warAuthor: Watkins, Glenn 1927- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Music | Musicology | American Music | European History | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: Carols floating across no-man's-land on Christmas Eve 1914; solemn choruses, marches, and popular songs responding to the call of propaganda ministries and war charities; opera, keyboard suites, ragtime, and concertos for the left hand - all provided testimony to the unique power of music to chronic . . . [more]Similar Items | 14. | | Title: A passion for polka: old-time ethnic music in AmericaAuthor: Greene, Victor R Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | United States History | Music | American Studies | Ethnic StudiesPublisher's Description: In this delightful and engaging book, Greene uncovers a wonderful corner of American social history as he traces the popularization of old-time ethnic music from the turn of the century to the 1960s.Not so long ago, songs by the Andrews Sisters and Lawrence Welk blasted from phonographs, lilted over . . . [more]Similar Items | 15. | | Title: Papal patronage and the music of St. Peter's, 1380-1513 Author: Reynolds, Christopher A Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Music | Musicology | European HistoryPublisher's Description: A new picture of music at the basilica of St. Peter's in the fifteenth century emerges in Christopher A. Reynolds's fascinating chronicle of this rich period of Italian musical history. Reynolds examines archival documents, musical styles, and issues of artistic patronage and cultural context in a f . . . [more]Similar Items | 16. | | Title: Overtones and undertones: reading film musicAuthor: Brown, Royal S Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Film | MusicPublisher's Description: Since the days of silent films, music has been integral to the cinematic experience, serving, variously, to allay audiences' fears of the dark and to heighten a film's emotional impact. Yet viewers are often unaware of its presence. In this bold, insightful book, film and music scholar and critic Ro . . . [more]Similar Items | 17. | | Title: Music as cultural practice, 1800-1900 Author: Kramer, Lawrence 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Music | Musicology | European History | Literary Theory and CriticismPublisher's Description: In Music as Cultural Practice , Lawrence Kramer adapts the resources of contemporary literary theory to forge a genuinely new discourse about music. Rethinking fundamental questions of meaning and expression, he demonstrates how European music of the nineteenth century collaborates on equal terms wi . . . [more]Similar Items | 18. | | Title: Popular music and national culture in IsraelAuthor: Regev, Motti Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Music | Ethnomusicology | Middle Eastern Studies | Popular Culture | Jewish StudiesPublisher's Description: A unique Israeli national culture - indeed, the very nature of "Israeliness" - remains a matter of debate, a struggle to blend vying memories and backgrounds, ideologies and wills. Identifying popular music as an important site in this wider cultural endeavor, this book focuses on the three major po . . . [more]Similar Items | 19. | | Title: My music is my flag: Puerto Rican musicians and their New York communities, 1917-1940Author: Glasser, Ruth Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | American Studies | MusicPublisher's Description: Puerto Rican music in New York is given center stage in Ruth Glasser's original and lucid study. Exploring the relationship between the social history and forms of cultural expression of Puerto Ricans, she focuses on the years between the two world wars. Her material integrates the experiences of th . . . [more]Similar Items | 20. | | Title: The new German cinema: music, history, and the matter of style Author: Flinn, Caryl Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | German Studies | MusicPublisher's Description: When New German cinema directors like R. W. Fassbinder, Ulrike Ottinger, and Werner Schroeter explored issues of identity - national, political, personal, and sexual - music and film style played crucial roles. Most studies of the celebrated film movement, however, have sidestepped the role of music . . . [more]Similar Items |
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