Art & architecture

The Rest is Noise (Paperback)

Listening to the Twentieth Century

Alex Ross's sweeping history of twentieth-century classical music, winner of the Guardian First Book Award, is a gripping account of a musical revolution. portsPRIZES:Shortlisted for Guardian First Bo...
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The Imaginary Museum of Musical Works (Paperback)

An Essay in the Philosophy of Music

What is involved in the composition, performance, and reception of classical music? What are we doing when we listen to this music seriously? Why when playing a Beethoven sonata do performers begin wi...
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Musical Visitors to Britain (Paperback)

Useful for those with an interest in music history, this book paints a broad picture of musical life in Britain, charting the rise of the celebrity composer, the opening of public halls and growth of ...
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Musical Visitors to Britain (Hardback)

Useful for those with an interest in music history, this book paints a broad picture of musical life in Britain as seen by foreign musicians. It begins with the rise of the celebrity composer in the n...
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Music and the Making of a New South (Hardback)

23 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index...
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Frock Rock (Hardback)

Women Performing Popular Music

This is an ethnographic study of women's popular music-making. It is based on over 100 in-depth interviews as well as participant observation by the author, a sociologist, who has herself played in va...
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Present Tense (Paperback)

Rock & Roll and Culture

12 illustrations...
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Shaped by Japanese Music (Hardback)

Kikuoka Hiroaki and Nagauta Shamisen in Tokyo

This study situates musical analysis in the context of its creation, demonstrating that traditional Japanese music is an active socio- cultural system that has been reproduced in Japan from the sevent...
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