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Bach Fugues for Keyboard, 1715-1750 Music
Joseph Kerman
California University Press 2005 174 pages
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HB + Audio CD 0520243587
Published Price £20.95 Our Price £9.99
Joseph Kerman modestly describes this as 'a book of commentaries on selected Bach fugues', but it is much more inspiring and stimulating than such a description might suggest. The veteran musicologist playfully and wittily reveals the hidden riches of his favourite fugues, offering insights for both amateurs and students. The book includes a CD containing scores for all the works discussed, along with new recordings by Davitt Moroney and Karen Rosenak of Bach fugues played on organ, harpsichord, clavichord and piano.
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Lionel Dakers
Canterbury 1991 144 pages
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Paperback 1853110329
Published Price £6.50 Our Price £2.99
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African-american Blues and Gospel Songs, 1945-1960 Music
Guido Van Rijn Preface by
Thoemmes 2006 240 pages
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Paperback 0826490689
Published Price £11.99 Our Price £5.99
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Jazz, Popular Music and Politics in South Africa Music
Gwen Ansell
Continuum 2005 352 pages
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Paperback 0826417531
Published Price £16.99 Our Price £6.99
This highly acclaimed study of South African music and social history is based on a very successful radio series that used recorded interviews with musicians to explore the development of South African jazz under Apatheid and in exile.
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The Autobiography of George Shearing Music
George Shearing; Alyn Shipton
Continuum 2004 260 pages
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Hardback 0826460151
Published Price £30.00 Our Price £6.99
Despite being born blind, George Shearing became one of the most widely admired jazz musicians on both sides of the Atlantic. His witty and candid autobiography tells a remarkable story and, in particular, explores the consequences of his emigration to America in 1947 and the series of classic recordings he made during the 1950s with such jazz legends as Stephane Grappelli, Toots Thielemans, Mel Torme and Nancy Wilson.Off-mint
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Robin Holloway
Thoemmes 2007 288 pages
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Hardback 0826497284
Published Price £45.00 Our Price £25.00
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Michael Seed; John Shepherd
Thoemmes 2003 656 pages
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Hardback 0826463223
Published Price £160.00 Our Price £72.00
This second in a two-volume set deals with the performance and production aspects of music, with 450 extensive entries by 130 contributors worldwide, arranged in four parts: Performers and Performing, Musical Production and Transmission, Musical Instruments, and Musical Form and Practice.
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How the Beatles" and "U2" Changed the World" Music
Todd McFliker
Thoemmes 2007 176 pages
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Paperback 0826427766
Published Price £11.99 Our Price £4.99
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Performing Artist 1986-1990 and Beyond: Time Out of Mind Music
Paul Williams
Omnibus 2005 384 pages
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Paperback 184449831X
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In the third of his acclaimed critical studies on Dylan, Paul Williams gives his lively and personal account of the years from the mid-80s onwards - a period which saw the release of Hearts of Fire, a productive collaboration with The Grateful Dead ('That was a turning point for me, playing with the Dead...') and the release of two classic albums: Time Out of Mind (1997) and Love and Theft (2001).
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1745-1945 Music
John G Gibson
Birlinn 2005 406 pages
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Paperback 1841583324
Published Price £14.99 Our Price £5.99
'A must read for all piping aficionados', this study chronicles the decline of traditional Scottish Gaelic piping, celebrates the tradition's continuing survival among emigrants who moved to Nova Scotia, and reflects on what we can learn about the cultural problems faced by ethnic minorities in unitary multinational societies. Gibson also refutes the widely-held belief that piping was effectively banned following Culloden, arguing that its decline was actually the result of dramatic depopulation during the 19th century.
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Lewis Stevens
Vallentine Mitchell 2003 384 pages
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Paperback 0853036136
Published Price £19.95 Our Price £6.99
The contribution of Jewish composers to Western classical music over the past two centuries has been disproportionately significant. This book's first part gives a brief history of Jewish music and considers reasons, such as improvements in civil rights, which led to this flowering of talent; part two comprises brief biographies of over 250 composers with at least one Jewish grandparent, from the well-known Mendelssohn, Mahler and Kurt Weill to more obscure figures such as Castelnuovo-Tadesco and Carl Tausig.
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Hip Hop and the Gobalisation of Black Popular Culture Music
2006 320 pages
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Hardback 0745319416
Published Price £55.00 Our Price £30.00
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The Cultural and Political Life of Ewan MacColl Music
Ben Harker
Pluto 2007 348 pages
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Paperback 0745321658
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Sometimes described as 'the British Brecht', Ewan MacColl (1915-1989) was a major 20th century political artist. He became a communist at the age of 14 and spent six decades at the cultural forefront of numerous political struggles, producing plays, songs and radio programmes on subjects ranging from the Spanish Civil War to the Poll Tax. This first biography of MacColl was prepared with the co-operation of his collaborator and widow, Peggy Seeger.
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A John Sinclair Reader Music
John Sinclair
Headpress 2008 298 pages
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Paperback Illustrated 1900486687
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John Sinclair, the 'last of the beatnik warrior poets', presents his own selection from his journalism and poetry, covering his years as a cultural revolutionary, political prisoner and widely recognized authority on blues and modern jazz. It includes his 'underground' writings on such figures as Jack Kerouac, Iggy Pop, John Lennon, Sun Ra and the Mardi Gras Indians of New Orleans.
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Marybeth Hamilton
Basic 2008 310 pages
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Hardback 0465028586
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Marybeth Hamilton follows the motley collection of 20th century blues 'detectives' whose field recordings helped created the narrative of the Mississippi Delta blues - from humble origins to a world-changing force. Yet her researches reveal that conceptions of the blues as an 'authentic' black voice of rage are based on a myth created by those white folklorists, propagandists and obsessives whose attitudes reveal much about American culture, race relations and the music itself.
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