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1. | | 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 | 2. | | Title: Musical meaning: toward a critical historyAuthor: Kramer, Lawrence 1946- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Music | MusicologyPublisher's Description: Lawrence Kramer has been a pivotal figure in the development of the controversial new musicology, integrating the study of music with social and cultural issues. This accessible and eloquently written book continues and deepens the trajectory of Kramer's thinking as it boldly argues that humanistic, . . . [more]Similar Items | 3. | | 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 | 4. | | Title: Ruth Harriet Louise and Hollywood glamour photographyAuthor: Dance, Robert 1955- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Photography | California and the WestPublisher's Description: When Ruth Harriet Louise joined Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the studio with "more stars than there are in heaven," she was twenty-two years old and the only woman working as a portrait photographer for the Hollywood studios. In a career that lasted from 1925 until 1930, Louise (born Ruth Goldstein) photogr . . . [more]Similar Items | 5. | | Title: The dark mirror: German cinema between Hitler and HollywoodAuthor: Koepnick, Lutz P. (Lutz Peter) Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | German Studies | Music | FilmPublisher'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 | 6. | | Title: The American musical landscape Author: Crawford, Richard 1935- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Music | Musicology | American Studies | United States HistoryPublisher'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 | 7. | | 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 | 8. | | 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 | 9. | | 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 | 10. | | 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 | 11. | | 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 | 12. | | 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 | 13. | | Title: Conventional wisdom: the content of musical formAuthor: McClary, Susan Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Music | MusicologyPublisher'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 | 14. | | 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 | 15. | | 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 | 16. | | 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 | 17. | | 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 | 18. | | Title: Music in other words: Victorian conversations Ruth A. SolieAuthor: Solie, Ruth A Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Music | Classical Music | Musicology | Women's Studies | Victorian HistoryPublisher's Description: Just as the preoccupations of any given cultural moment make their way into the language of music, the experience of music makes its way into other arenas of life. To unearth these overlapping meanings and vocabularies from the Victorian era, Ruth A. Solie examines sources as disparate as journalism . . . [more]Similar Items | 19. | | Title: Hollywood in Berlin: American cinema and Weimar Germany Author: Saunders, Thomas J Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | German Studies | Film | United States History | European HistoryPublisher's Description: The setting is 1920s Berlin, cultural heart of Europe and the era's only serious cinematic rival to Hollywood. In his engaging study, Thomas Saunders explores an outstanding example of one of the most important cultural developments of this century: global Americanization through the motion picture. . . . [more]Similar Items | 20. | | 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 |
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