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Bartók, Hungary, and the Renewal of Tradition
University of California Press 2006; US$ 60.00It is well known that Béla Bartók had an extraordinary ability to synthesize Western art music with the folk music of Eastern Europe. What this rich and beautifully written study makes clear is that, contrary to much prevailing thought about the great twentieth-century Hungarian composer, Bartók was also strongly influenced by the art-music traditions... more...
Sizhu Instrumental Music of South China
BRILL 2008; US$ 130.00A study on Chinese music, based on the author's extensive fieldwork and a thorough knowledge of the scholarly literature. Itexamines the theoretical underpinnigs. more...
A Dull Roar
2.13.61 2009; US$ 9.00A Dull Roar chronicles a tumultuous five-month period in Henry Rollins? life. During April through September 2006, he reunited with the Rollins Band, prepared for and toured North America with them, wrapped up the second season of the The Henry Rollins Show, filmed Wrong Turn 2, and slaved over his radio show, Harmony in My Head. Although... more...
Precious Metal
Da Capo Press 2009; US$ 18.95The making of the 25 greatest extreme metal albums of all time, as told via exclusive band-member interviews, drawn and expanded from Decibel 's ?Hall of Fame? more...
Walking with Legends
LSU Press 2007; US$ 17.95Drummer, record producer, bandleader, jazz researcher, and cigar-chomping raconteur Barry Martyn is a New Orleans original who happens to have been born in England. Implausible though this may seem, it makes perfect sense to members of the New Orleans traditional jazz community, who view themselves as an extended family based on merit as much as nativity.... more...
I Am Ozzy
Grand Central Publishing 2010; US$ 12.99"They've said some crazy things about me over the years. I mean, okay: 'He bit the head off a bat.' Yes. 'He bit the head off a dove.' Yes. But then you hear things like, 'Ozzy went to the show last night, but he wouldn't perform until he'd killed fifteen puppies . . .' Now me , kill fifteen puppies? I love puppies. I've got eighteen of the... more...
Fortissimo
Crown Publishing Group 2010; US$ 13.95H. L. Mencken declared that ?the opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.? It was not meant as a compliment, but to William Murray, former New Yorker staff writer and aspiring opera singer, a bawdy house is an apt metaphor for the opera: a place of confusion, high and low drama, fleshly pleasures and raucous song. In Fortissimo , Murray... more...
Film Music
Oxford University Press, USA 2010; US$ 9.99Film music is as old as cinema itself. Years before synchronized sound became the norm, projected moving images were shown to musical accompaniment, whether performed by a lone piano player or a hundred-piece orchestra. Today film music has become its own industry, indispensable to the marketability of movies around the world. Film Music: A Very Short... more...
Wagner's Ring Cycle and the Greeks
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 79.00Foster explores how Wagner's political stance and his theories on Greek poetry and politics were combined to create the Ring. more...









