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  • Beyoncé

    At Work, On Screen, and Online

    by Martin Iddon, Melanie L Marshall ...
    A collection of writings examining the multitalented star's significance to music, culture, and society.Who runs the world? The Beyhive knows. From the Destiny's Child 2001 hit single "Survivor"to her 2019 jam "7/11," Beyoncé Knowles-Carter has confronted dominant issues around the world. Because her image is linked with debates on race, sexuality, and female empowerment, she has become a central ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hauntology, Nostalgia, and New Music

    by Martin Iddon ...
    Series series Elements in Music since 1945
    In the past quarter of a century, or longer, popular cultures and musics both popular and 'new' have become concerned, rather than with futurity, with their own pasts, in a world where, after Fukuyama's 'end of history' or Berardi's 'cancellation of the future', the idea of fundamental historical change has seemed increasingly incredible. This Element is a critical study of music in what Fisher ... Read more

    $18.89 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Serialism

    Edited by Martin Iddon ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    What is serialism? Defended by enthusiastic champions and decried by horrified detractors, serialism was central to twentieth-century art music, but riven, too, by inherent contradictions. The term can be a synonym for dodecaphony, Arnold Schoenberg's 'method of composing with twelve tones which are related only to one another'. It can be more expansive, describing ways of composing systematically ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • New Music at Darmstadt

    Nono, Stockhausen, Cage, and Boulez

    by Martin Iddon ...
    Series series Music since 1900
    New Music at Darmstadt explores the rise and fall of the so-called 'Darmstadt School', through a wealth of primary sources and analytical commentary. Martin Iddon's book examines the creation of the Darmstadt New Music Courses and the slow development and subsequent collapse of the idea of the Darmstadt School, showing how participants in the West German new music scene, including Herbert Eimert ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Mathias Spahlinger

    by Neil T. Smith, Martin Iddon ...
    The first book-length study in English of composer Mathias Spahlinger, one of Germany’s leading practitioners of contemporary music. One of the most stimulating and provocative figures on the new music scene on Germany, he has long been a touchstone for leftist, ‘critical’ composition there, yet his work has received very little attention in Anglophone scholarship until now.Born in 1944, ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • John Cage's Concert for Piano and Orchestra

    by Martin Iddon, Philip Thomas ...
    Series series Studies in Musical Genesis, Structure, and Interpretation
    John Cage's Concert for Piano and Orchestra is one of the seminal works of the second half of the twentieth century, and the centerpiece of the middle period of Cage's output. It is a culmination of Cage's work up to that point, incorporating notation techniques he had spent the past decade developing - techniques which remain radical to this day. But despite Cage's vitality to the musical ... Read more

    $84.59 USD

  • John Cage and Peter Yates

    Correspondence on Music Criticism and Aesthetics

    by Martin Iddon ...
    Series series Music since 1900
    The correspondence between composer John Cage and Peter Yates represents the third and final part of Cage's most significant exchanges of letters, following those with Pierre Boulez and with David Tudor. Martin Iddon's book is the first volume to collect the complete extant correspondence with his critical friend, thus completing the 'trilogy' of Cage correspondence published by Cambridge. By ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Lady Gaga and Popular Music

    Performing Gender, Fashion, and Culture

    Edited by Martin Iddon, Melanie Marshall ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Popular Music
    This book is a multi-faceted, interdisciplinary examination of the music and figure of Lady Gaga, combining approaches from scholars in cultural studies, art, fashion, and music. It represents one of the first scholarly volumes devoted to Lady Gaga, who has become, over a few short years, central to both popular (and, indeed, populist) as well as more scholarly thought in these areas and who, the ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Brian Ferneyhough

    by Lois Fitch, Martin Iddon ...
    One of contemporary music’s most significant and controversial figures, Brian Ferneyhough's complex and challenging music draws inspiration from painting, literature and philosophy, as well as music from the recent and distant past. His dense, multi-layered compositions intrigue musicians while pushing performer and instrument to the limits of their abilities. A wide-ranging survey of his life and ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • John Cage and David Tudor

    Correspondence on Interpretation and Performance

    by Martin Iddon ...
    Series series Music since 1900
    John Cage is best known for his indeterminate music, which leaves a significant level of creative decision-making in the hands of the performer. But how much licence did Cage allow? Martin Iddon's book is the first volume to collect the complete extant correspondence between the composer and pianist David Tudor, one of Cage's most provocative and significant musical collaborators. The book ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Arvo Pärt

    Edited by Andrew Shenton ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    Arvo Pärt is one of the most influential and widely performed contemporary composers. Around 1976 he developed an innovative new compositional technique called 'tintinnabuli' (Latin for 'sounding bells'), which has had an extraordinary degree of success. It is frequently performed around the world, has been used in award-winning films, and pieces such as Für Alina and Spiegel im Siegel have become ... Read more

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  • The Music of Mauricio Kagel

    by Bj�rn Heile ...
    Mauricio Kagel was undoubtedly one of the major figures in the new music of the last fifty years. Growing up in the rich cultural atmosphere of Buenos Aires in the 1940s and '50s, where the writer Jorge Luis Borges was one of his teachers, he became a member of avant-garde circles as well as receiving a rigorous musical education. By 1957 Kagel had acted on the advice of Pierre Boulez to move to ... Read more

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