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Hollywood Musicals the Film Reader
Routledge 2002; US$ 75.00Articles examine the musical in relation to its generic form and conventions, the relationship between narrative and spectacle, gender and feminism, camp production and reception, stardom, and representations of race and ethnicity. more...
Eight Centuries of Troubadours and Trouvères
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 42.00This book traces the changing interpretation of troubadour and trouvère music, a repertoire of songs which have successfully maintained public interest for eight centuries, from the medieval chansonniers to contemporary rap renditions. A study of their reception therefore serves to illustrate the development of the modern concept of 'medieval music'. more...
Studies in Music with Text
Oxford University Press 2006; US$ 34.99Combining David Lewin's articles on song and opera with chapters on songs of Brahms, Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann, and Milton Babbitt, this collection constitutes a statement concerning the methodological problems associated with interpretation of texted music. more...
The Composer As Intellectual
Oxford University Press 2005; US$ 26.99As a follow-up to her book exploring musical and political cultures in France from the Dreyfus Affair to the First World War, the author here applies the same approach to the years from 1914-1940, arguing that French musical meanings are best explained not in terms of artistic movements, but rather in terms of the political culture. more...
Interpreting the Musical Past
Oxford University Press 2005; US$ 26.99Presenting a study of the French early music revival, this book gives us a sense of how music's cultural meanings were contested in the nineteenth century. It surveys the main patterns of revivalist activity while also providing studies of repertories stretching from Adam de la Halle to Rameau. more...
Crossing Confessional Boundaries
Oxford University Press 2006; US$ 34.99Examines the uneasy alliance of two confessions, Lutheran and Catholic, at the prominent seventeenth-century court of Dresden, and the implications of this alliance for the repertoire of sacred art music cultivated there, an influential repertoire that has received only scant attention from scholars. more...
The Twisted Muse
Oxford University Press 1999; US$ 49.99Under a totalitarian regime, can art and artists be innocent? This questions and its implications are explored in Michael Kater's broad survey of musicians, and the music they composed and performed during the Third Reich. more...
French Cultural Politics and Music
Oxford University Press 1998; US$ 124.99This work argues that French musical meanings and values in the years from 1898 to 1914 are best explained not in terms of artistic movements, but rather of the political culture, which was undergoing subtle but profound transformation as nationalist leagues enlarged the arena of political action. more...
Analyzing Bach Cantatas
Oxford University Press 2003; US$ 60.00Concentrating on a small number of representative cantatas, mostly from the Leipzig cycles of 1723-24 and 1724-25, and in particular on Cantata 77, Chafe illustrates how Bach strove to mirror both the dogma and the mystery of religious experience in musical allegory. more...
Musical Metropolis
Palgrave Macmillan 2004; US$ 34.00Decentralization and diversity characterized much of the performance of art music in Los Angeles. Decentralization defined the city's growth since the late-nineteenth century, and because the central city did not dominate music culture, as in the East and Midwest, a greater diversification of music emerged in the communities of Greater Los Angeles.... more...









