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  • Sonic Circulations

    Music, Modernism, and the Politics of Knowledge

    Edited by Emily I. Dolan, Emily MacGregor, Arman Schwartz ...
    Series series Sound in History
    The role music, sound, and voice played in modern knowledge production in the early twentieth centuryDerived from the Latin words circum (round) and ire (to go), a circuit can refer to any bounded area. For contemporary readers, it might evoke the course of an electric current, as well as the flow of global capital. Yet sound—an inherently temporal phenomenon—can only circulate in mediated forms. ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Giacomo Puccini and His World

    Edited by Arman Schwartz, Emanuele Senici ...
    Series series The Bard Music Festival
    Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924) is the world's most frequently performed operatic composer, yet he is only beginning to receive serious scholarly attention. In Giacomo Puccini and His World, an international roster of music specialists, several writing on Puccini for the first time, offers a variety of new critical perspectives on the composer and his works. Containing discussions of all of Puccini’s ... Read more

    $31.69 USD

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  • Modernism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Christopher Butler ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Is a tower block, your unmade bed, your lavatory basin, or the bicycle chained to the gate next door a work of art? Why should a novel have a beginning, a middle, and an end; or even a story? Whether we recognise it or not, virtually every aspect of our life today has been influenced in part by the aesthetic legacy of Modernism. In this Very Short Introduction Christopher Butler examines how and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Avant Garde

    A Very Short Introduction

    by David Cottington ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    'The avant-garde' is perhaps the most important and influential concept in the history of modern culture. For over a hundred years it has governed critical and historical assessment of the quality and significance of an artist or a work of art, in any medium-if these have been judged to be 'avant-garde', then they have been worthy of consideration. If not, then by and large they have not, and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • 19th Century Europe

    A Cultural History

    by Hannu Salmi ...
    Nineteenth-Century Europe offers a much-needed concise and fresh look at European culture between the Great Revolution in France and the First World War. It encompasses all major themes of the period, from the rising nationalism of the early nineteenth century to the pessimistic views of fin de siècle. It is a lucid, fluent presentation that appeals to both students of history and culture and the ... Read more

    $19.00 USD

  • An Introduction to Music Studies

    Edited by J. P. E. Harper-Scott, Jim Samson ...
    Why study music? How much practical use is it in the modern world? This introduction proves how studying music is of great value both in its own terms and also in the post-university careers marketplace. The book explains the basic concepts and issues involved in the academic study of music, draws attention to vital connections across the field and encourages critical thinking over a broad range ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Histories of the Immediate Present

    Inventing Architectural Modernism

    by Anthony Vidler ...
    Series series Writing Architecture
    How the different narratives of four historians of architectural modernism—Emil Kaufmann, Colin Rowe, Reyner Banham, and Manfredo Tafuri—advanced specific versions of modernism.Architecture, at least since the beginning of the twentieth century, has suspended historical references in favor of universalized abstraction. In the decades after the Second World War, when architectural historians began ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Dance History

    An Introduction

    Edited by Janet Adshead-Lansdale, June Layson ...
    Originally published in 1983 the first edition rapidly established itself as a core student text. Now fully revised and up-dated it remains the only book to address the rationale, process, techniques and methodologies specific to the study of dance history. For the main body of the text which covers historical studies of dance in its traditional and performance contexts, the editors have brought ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Improvisation in the Arts

    Edited by Alessandro Bertinetto, Marcello Ruta ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy
    Over the last few decades, the notion of improvisation has enriched and dynamized research on traditional philosophies of music, theatre, dance, poetry, and even visual art. This Handbook offers readers an authoritative collection of accessible articles on the philosophy of improvisation, synthesizing and explaining various subjects and issues from the growing wave of journal articles and ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Opera Studies

    Edited by Nicholas Till ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    With its powerful combination of music and theatre, opera is one of the most complex and yet immediate of all art forms. Once opera was studied only as 'a stepchild of musicology', but in the past two decades opera studies have experienced an explosion of energy with the introduction of new approaches drawn from disciplines such as social anthropology and performance studies to media theory, genre ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Opera in a Multicultural World

    Coloniality, Culture, Performance

    Edited by Mary Ingraham, Joseph So, Roy Moodley ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Music
    Through historical and contemporary examples, this book critically explores the relevance and expressions of multicultural representation in western European operatic genres in the modern world. It reveals their approaches to reflecting identity, transmitting meaning, and inspiring creation, as well as the ambiguities and contradictions that occur across the time and place(s) of their performance. ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • The Cambridge History of Modernism

    Edited by Vincent Sherry ...
    This Cambridge History of Modernism is the first comprehensive history of modernism in the distinguished Cambridge Histories series. It identifies a distinctive temperament of 'modernism' within the 'modern' period, establishing the circumstances of modernized life as the ground and warrant for an art that becomes 'modernist' by virtue of its demonstrably self-conscious involvement in this modern ... Read more

    $43.99 USD