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Monumentale Erinnerung - ästhetische Erneuerung
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2012; US$ 38.47Hauptbeschreibung Die Musikkritik und die musikbezogenen Schriften der sogenannten Neudeutschen sind Thema dieser Studie. Als Neudeutsche Schule wird die lockere Gruppierung von deutschen und französischen bzw. französischsprachigen Komponisten des 19. Jahrhunderts bezeichnet, zu der vor allem Richard Wagner, Hector Berlioz, Franz Liszt und am Rande... more...
Das Judentum in Richard Wagners "Ring des Nibelungen": Eine kritische Diskussionsgeschichte
Diplomica Verlag 2012; US$ 38.56Hauptbeschreibung Richard Wagners Antisemitismus polarisiert bis heute. Dabei geht es nicht um die Frage, ob Wagner Antisemit war, denn dies lässt sich anhand seiner Schriften eindeutig belegen. Vielmehr wird die Diskussion von der Frage bestimmt, ob antisemitische Tendenzen auch den musikalischen Werken Wagners innewohnen. Spätestens seit Adornos... more...
"Words are flying out": Die Text-Geschichte der Beatles
Diplomica Verlag 2012; US$ 33.05Hauptbeschreibung Band-Biographien, die die Karriere-Umstände und die Erfolge der Beatles nachzeichnen, gibt es zur Genüge. Demgegenüber gibt es - nicht einmal im angelsächsischen Raum - keine auch nur im Ansatz detaillierte Darstellung zur Entwicklung der Song-Texte und der Beziehungen der Texte untereinander. Das ist um so erstaunlicher, als der... more...
Popular Music in Evangelical Youth Culture
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 125.00Christian churches and groups within Anglo-American contexts have increasingly used popular music as a way to connect with young people. This book investigates the relationships between evangelical Christianity and popular music, focusing particularly on electronic dance music in the last twenty years. Author Stella Lau illustrates how electronic... more...
Singer-Songwriters and Musical Open Mics
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 99.95Marcus Aldredge presents an ethnographic exploration of New York Citys live music events where musicians signup and perform short sets. Drawing from multiple qualitative methods, Aldredge describes how open mics have etched a vital organizational place in the Western and urban musical landscape. Important themes in the book include: the tension... more...
Out of Silence
Boydell & Brewer Group Ltd 2013; US$ 21.86Out of Silence' is a diary of a year in Susan Tomes's life as a performer. Taking as its inspiration Schumann's remark that 'I am affected by everything that goes on in the world, and I think it all over in my own way', it aims to show how a working musician mulls over and draws energy from the events of everyday life. We follow this internationally... more...
Unmasking Ravel
Boydell & Brewer Group Ltd 2013; US$ 80.21"Unmasking Ravel: New Perspectives on the Music" fills a unique place in Ravel studies by combining critical interpretation and analytical focus. From the premiere of his works up to the present, Ravel has been associated with masks and the related notions of artifice and imposture. This has led scholars to perceive a lack of depth in his music and,... more...
Richard Wagner and the Centrality of Love
Boydell & Brewer Group Ltd 2013; US$ 36.46Richard Wagner and the Centrality of Love' is a bold book which argues that Wagner's music dramas cannot be understood if treated separately from his essays, his life, the intellectual and artistic climate of his day, and the broader history of Germany. Wagner attempts a range of reconciliations that are radical in content and form and appear to succeed... more...
Dear Dorothy
Boydell & Brewer Group Ltd 2013; US$ 43.75In the mid-twentieth century renowned musicologist, conductor, and lexicographer Nicolas Slonimsky traveled to cities throughout the world to play and conduct music of the American avant-garde. From trips to Paris, Berlin, Havana, New York, Los Angeles, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, and Moscow, Slonimsky wrote letters to his wife, the art critic Dorothy... more...









