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  • Henry Cow

    The World Is a Problem

    by Benjamin Piekut ...
    In its open improvisations, lapidary lyrics, errant melodies, and relentless pursuit of spontaneity, the British experimental band Henry Cow pushed rock music to its limits. Its rotating personnel, sprung from rock, free jazz, and orchestral worlds, synthesized a distinct sound that troubled genre lines, and with this musical diversity came a mixed politics, including Maoism, communism, feminism, ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies, Volume 1

    Edited by George E. Lewis, Benjamin Piekut ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Improvisation informs a vast array of human activity, from creative practices in art, dance, music, and literature to everyday conversation and the relationships to natural and built environments that surround and sustain us. The two volumes of The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies gather scholarship on improvisation from an immense range of perspectives, with contributions from ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Tomorrow Is the Question

    New Directions in Experimental Music Studies

    Edited by Benjamin Piekut ...
    In recent decades, experimental music has flourished outside of European and American concert halls. The principles of indeterminacy, improvisation, nonmusical sound, and noise, pioneered in concert and on paper by the likes of Henry Cowell, John Cage, and Ornette Coleman, can now be found in all kinds of new places: activist films, rock recordings, and public radio broadcasts, not to mention in ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies, Volume 2

    Edited by George E. Lewis, Benjamin Piekut ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Improvisation informs a vast array of human activity, from creative practices in art, dance, music, and literature to everyday conversation and the relationships to natural and built environments that surround and sustain us. The two volumes of The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies gather scholarship on improvisation from an immense range of perspectives, with contributions from ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Experimentalism Otherwise

    The New York Avant-Garde and Its Limits

    by Benjamin Piekut ...
    Series Book 11 - California Studies in 20th-Century Music
    In Experimental Otherwise, Benjamin Piekut takes the reader into the heart of what we mean by "experimental" in avant-garde music. Focusing on one place and time—New York City, 1964—Piekut examines five disparate events: the New York Philharmonic’s disastrous performance of John Cage’s Atlas Eclipticalis; Henry Flynt’s demonstrations against the downtown avant-garde; Charlotte Moorman’s Avant ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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  • Film Music

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Kathryn Kalinak ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Film 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 Introduction is a compact, lucid, and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Music

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Nicholas Cook ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The world teems with different kinds of music - traditional, folk, classical, jazz, rock, pop - and each type of music tends to come with its own way of thinking. Drawing on a wealth of accessible examples ranging from Beethoven to Chinese zither music, this Very Short Introduction considers the history of music and thinking about music, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Capturing Sound

    How Technology Has Changed Music

    by Mark Katz ...
    There is more to sound recording than just recording sound. Far from being simply a tool for the preservation of music, the technology is a catalyst. In this award-winning text, Mark Katz provides a wide-ranging, deeply informative, consistently entertaining history of recording's profound impact on the musical life of the past century, from Edison to the Internet. Fully revised and updated, this ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Well Met

    Renaissance Faires and the American Counterculture

    by Rachel Lee Rubin ...
    Rubin deftly reveals the impact the Faire has had on style, craft, performance, and pop culture over the past fifty years in a one-of-a-kind study." —David Ossman, member of the Firesign TheatreBeginning with the chaotic communal moment of the Renaissance Faire's founding and early development in the 1960s through its incorporation as a major "family friendly" leisure site in the 2000s, Well Met ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Counterculture Kaleidoscope

    Musical and Cultural Perspectives on Late Sixties San Francisco

    by Nadya Zimmerman ...
    Forty years after the fact, 1960s counterculture---personified by hippies, protest, and the Summer of Love---basks in a nostalgic glow in the popular imagination as a turning point in modern American history and the end of the age of innocence. Yet, while the era has come to be synonymous with rebellion and opposition, its truth is much more complex.In a bold reconsideration of the late sixties ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Freedom Sounds

    Civil Rights Call out to Jazz and Africa

    by Ingrid Monson ...
    An insightful examination of the impact of the Civil Rights Movement and African Independence on jazz in the 1950s and 60s, Freedom Sounds traces the complex relationships among music, politics, aesthetics, and activism through the lens of the hot button racial and economic issues of the time. Ingrid Monson illustrates how the contentious and soul-searching debates in the Civil Rights, African ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Leonard Bernstein and His Young People's Concerts

    by Alicia Kopfstein-Penk ...
    Leonard Bernstein touched millions of lives as composer, conductor, teacher, and activist. He frequently visited homes around the world through the medium of television, particularly through his fifty-three award-winning Young People’s Concerts (1958-1972), which at their height were seen by nearly ten million in over forty countries. Originally designed for young viewers but equally attractive to ... Read more

    $48.99 USD