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1. | | Title: Symptoms of modernity: Jews and queers in late-twentieth-century ViennaAuthor: Bunzl, Matti 1971- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Anthropology | Jewish Studies | European History | Sociology | GayLesbian and Bisexual StudiesPublisher's Description: In the 1990s, Vienna's Jews and queers abandoned their clandestine existence and emerged into the city's public sphere in unprecedented numbers. Symptoms of Modernity traces this development in the context of Central European history. Jews and homosexuals are signposts of an exclusionary process of . . . [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: Reflections of an American composer Author: Berger, Arthur 1912- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Music | American Music | Classical Music | Contemporary Music | Composers | MusicologyPublisher's Description: In this engrossing collection of essays, distinguished composer, theorist, journalist, and educator Arthur Berger invites us into the vibrant and ever-changing American music scene that has been his home for most of the twentieth century. Witty, urbane, and always entertaining, Berger describes the . . . [more]Similar Items | 5. | | 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 | 6. | | 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 | 7. | | 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 | 8. | | 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 | 9. | | Title: The listening composerAuthor: Perle, George 1915- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Music | Contemporary Music | ComposersPublisher's Description: George Perle takes us into the composer's workshop as he reevaluates what we call "twentieth-century music" - a term used to refer to new or modern or contemporary music that represents a radical break from the tonal tradition, or "common practice," of the preceding three centuries. He proposes that . . . [more]Similar Items | 10. | | Title: Musicology and difference: gender and sexuality in music scholarshipAuthor: Solie, Ruth A Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Music | Musicology | Women's Studies | Men and Masculinity | Gender StudiesPublisher's Description: Addressing Western and non-Western music, composers from Francesca Caccini to Charles Ives, and musical communities from twelfth-century monks to contemporary opera queens, these essays explore questions of gender and sexuality. Musicology and Difference brings together some of the freshest and most . . . [more]Similar Items | 11. | | 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 | 12. | | 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 | 13. | | 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 | 14. | | 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 | 15. | | 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 | 16. | | 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 | 17. | | Title: Driven into paradise: the musical migration from Nazi Germany to the United StatesAuthor: Brinkmann, Reinhold 1934- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Music | American Music | Composers | Musicology | European History | United States HistoryPublisher'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 | 18. | | 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 | 19. | | 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 | 20. | | Title: A heart at fire's center: the life and music of Bernard HerrmannAuthor: Smith, Steven C Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Film | Contemporary Music | ComposersPublisher's Description: No composer contributed more to film than Bernard Herrmann, who in over 40 scores enriched the work of such directors as Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, François Truffaut, and Martin Scorsese. In this first major biography of the composer, Steven C. Smith explores the interrelationships between Herr . . . [more]Similar Items |
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