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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “john michael cooper”
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  • Margaret Bonds

    by John Michael Cooper ...
    Series series Composers Across Cultures
    Composer, pianist, teacher, and social-justice activist Margaret Bonds fought against racism, sexism, and economic injustice throughout her career, amassing a portfolio of social-justice compositions unrivalled in eloquence and originality which challenged longstanding barriers between Black and White, male and female, popular and classical. During her lifetime the political economy of music ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of Romantic Music

    by John Michael Cooper ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
    Library Journal praises the book as "an excellent one-volume ready reference resource for students, researchers, and others interested in music history."Historical Dictionary of Romantic Music, Second Edition covers the persons, ideas, practices, and works that made up the worlds of Western music during the long 19th century (ca. 1780–1918). It’s the first book to recognize that Romantic music was ... Read more

    $275.39 USD

  • Margaret Bonds: The Montgomery Variations and Du Bois Credo

    by John Michael Cooper ...
    Series series New Cambridge Music Handbooks
    In her lifetime, African American composer Margaret Bonds was classical music's most intrepid social-justice activist. Furthermore, her Montgomery Variations (1964) and setting of W.E.B. Du Bois's iconic Civil Rights Credo (1965-67) were the musical summits of her activism. These works fell into obscurity after Bonds's death, but were recovered and published in 2020. Since widely performed, they ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of Romantic Music

    by John Michael Cooper ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
    This Historical Dictionary of Romantic Music provides detailed and authoritative articles for the most important composers, concepts, genres, music educators, performers, theorists, writings, and works of cultivated music in Europe and the Americas during the period 1789-1914. The roster of biographical entries includes not only canonical composers such as Beethoven, Berlioz, Brahms, Chopin, Fauré ... Read more

    $210.99 USD

  • Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy

    A Research and Information Guide

    by John Michael Cooper, Angela R. Mace ...
    Series series Routledge Music Bibliographies
    Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: A Research and Information Guide is a valuable tool for any scholar, performer, or music student interested in accessing the most pertinent resources on the life, works, and cultural context of the composer. It is an updated, annotated bibliography of resources on the biographical, musical, and religious aspects of Mendelssohn's life. ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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    Interpreting Its History from Africa to the United States

    by Samuel A. Floyd, Jr. ...
    When Jimi Hendrix transfixed the crowds of Woodstock with his gripping version of "The Star Spangled Banner," he was building on a foundation reaching back, in part, to the revolutionary guitar playing of Howlin' Wolf and the other great Chicago bluesmen, and to the Delta blues tradition before him. But in its unforgettable introduction, followed by his unaccompanied "talking" guitar passage and ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Dvorak's Prophecy

    And the Vexed Fate of Black Classical Music

    by Joseph Horowitz ...
    **A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2021A provocative interpretation of why classical music in America "stayed white"—how it got to be that way and what can be done about it.**In 1893 the composer Antonín Dvorák prophesied a “great and noble school” of American classical music based on the “negro melodies” he had excitedly discovered since arriving in the United States a year before. But ... Read more

    $20.59 USD

  • Highbrow/Lowbrow

    The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America

    by Lawrence W. Levine ...
    Series Book 3 - The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in American Studies
    In this unusually wide-ranging study, spanning more than a century and covering such diverse forms of expressive culture as Shakespeare, Central Park, symphonies, jazz, art museums, the Marx Brothers, opera, and vaudeville, a leading cultural historian demonstrates how variable and dynamic cultural boundaries have been and how fragile and recent the cultural categories we have learned to accept as ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • The Strange Career of Porgy and Bess

    Race, Culture, and America’s Most Famous Opera

    by Ellen Noonan ...
    Created by George Gershwin and DuBose Heyward and sung by generations of black performers, Porgy and Bess has been both embraced and reviled since its debut in 1935. In this comprehensive account, Ellen Noonan examines the opera’s long history of invention and reinvention as a barometer of twentieth-century American expectations about race, culture, and the struggle for equality. In its surprising ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • South Side Impresarios

    How Race Women Transformed Chicago's Classical Music Scene

    by Samantha Ege ...
    Series series Music in American Life
    Between the world wars, Chicago Race women nurtured a local yet widely resonant Black classical music community entwined with Black civic life. Samantha Ege tells the stories of the Black women whose acumen and energy transformed Chicago’s South Side into a wellspring of music making.Ege focuses on composers like Florence Price, Nora Holt, and Margaret Bonds not as anomalies but as artists within ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Product of Our Souls

    Ragtime, Race, and the Birth of the Manhattan Musical Marketplace

    by David Gilbert ...
    In 1912 James Reese Europe made history by conducting his 125–member Clef Club Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. The first concert by an African American ensemble at the esteemed venue was more than just a concert — it was a political act of desegregation, a defiant challenge to the status quo in American music. In this book, David Gilbert explores how Europe and other African American performers, at ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Antonín Dvo%rák's New World Symphony

    by Douglas W. Shadle ...
    Series series Oxford Keynotes
    Before Antonín Dvo%rák's New World Symphony became one of the most universally beloved pieces of classical music, it exposed the deep wounds of racism at the dawn of the Jim Crow era while serving as a flashpoint in broader debates about the American ideals of freedom and equality. Drawing from a diverse array of historical voices, author Douglas W. Shadle's richly textured account of the symphony ... Read more

    $18.09 USD