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  • Beyond the Bandstand

    Paul Whiteman in American Musical Culture

    de W. Anthony Sheppard, Lisa Conathan, Stephanie Doktor, Christi J. Wells, John Howland, Ryan R. Bañagale, Sarah C. Provost, Catherine Tackley, Katherine M. Leo0, Elijah Wald1 ...
    Series series Music in American Life
    The most successful bandleader of the 1920s, Paul Whiteman was an entertainment icon who played a major role in the mainstreaming of jazz. Whiteman and his band premiered Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Duke Ellington acknowledged his achievements. His astonishing ear for talent vaulted a who’s who of artists toward prominence. But Whiteman’s oversized presence eclipsed Black jazz musicians while his ... Leer más

    $21.59 USD

  • Sondheim in Our Time and His

    Edición de W. Anthony Sheppard ...
    Sondheim in Our Time and His offers a wide-ranging historical investigation of the landmark works and extraordinary career of Stephen Sondheim, a career which has spanned much of the history of American musical theater. Each author uncovers those aspects of biography, collaborative process, and contemporary context that impacted the creation and reception of Sondheim's musicals. In addition, ... Leer más

    $37.79 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Extreme Exoticism

    Japan in the American Musical Imagination

    de W. Anthony Sheppard ...
    To what extent can music be employed to shape one culture's understanding of another? In the American imagination, Japan has represented the "most alien" nation for over 150 years. This perceived difference has inspired fantasies--of both desire and repulsion--through which Japanese culture has profoundly impacted the arts and industry of the U.S. While the influence of Japan on American and ... Leer más

    $36.89 USD

  • Audiolibro

    Sondheim in Our Time and His

    Narrado por Janet Metzger, Paul Boehmer ...

    Completo

    18 hora 27 minutos

    Sondheim in Our Time and His offers a wide-ranging historical investigation of the landmark works and extraordinary career of Stephen Sondheim, a career which has spanned much of the history of American musical theater. Each author uncovers those aspects of biography, collaborative process, and contemporary context that impacted the creation and reception of Sondheim's musicals. In addition, ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

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  • The History of Jazz

    de Ted Gioia ...
    Ted Gioia's History of Jazz has been universally hailed as a classic--acclaimed by jazz critics and fans around the world. Now Gioia brings his magnificent work completely up-to-date, drawing on the latest research and revisiting virtually every aspect of the music, past and present. Gioia tells the story of jazz as it had never been told before, in a book that brilliantly portrays the legendary ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • The Secret Life of the American Musical

    How Broadway Shows Are Built

    de Jack Viertel ...
    New York Times Bestseller: "Both revelatory and entertaining . . . Along the way, Viertel provides some fascinating Broadway history." — The New York Times Book ReviewAmericans invented musicals—and have a longstanding love affair with them. But what, exactly, is a musical? In this book, longtime theatrical producer and writer Jack Viertel takes them apart, puts them back together, sings their ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • The History of Jazz

    de Ted Gioia ...
    An updated new edition of Ted Gioia's universally acclaimed history of jazz, with a wealth of new insight on this music's past, present, and future. Ted Gioia's The History of Jazz has been universally hailed as the most comprehensive and accessible history of the genre of all time. Acclaimed by jazz critics and fans alike, this magnificent work is now available in an up-to-date third edition that ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Stephen Sondheim

    A Life

    de Meryle Secrest ...
    In the first full-scale life of the mostimportant composer-lyricist at work in musical theatre today, Meryle Secrest, the biographer of Frank Lloyd Wright and Leonard Bernstein, draws on her extended conversations with Stephen Sondheim as well as on her interviews with his friends, family, collaborators, and lovers to bring us not only the artist--as a master ofmodernist compositional style--but ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Giant Steps

    Bebop and the Creators of Modern Jazz, 1945-65

    de Kenny Mathieson ...
    A music journalist offers a lively history of modern jazz through its formative and most vital decades—from Charlie Parker to John Coltrane.In Giant Steps, Kenny Mathieson examines the most important figures in the creation of modern jazz, detailing the emergence and evolution of bebop through the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Fats Navarro, Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis. Using this as ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

    de Michael Y. Bennett ...
    Series series The Fourth Wall
    Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? shocked audiences and critics alike with its assault on decorum. At base though, the play is simply a love story: an examination of a long-wedded life, filled with the hopes, dreams, disappointments, and pain that accompany the passing of many years together.While the ethos of the play is tragicomic, it is the anachronistic, melodramatic secret object ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • The History of Jazz

    de Ted Gioia ...
    Jazz is the most colorful and varied art form in the world and it was born in one of the most colorful and varied cities, New Orleans. From the seed first planted by slave dances held in Congo Square and nurtured by early ensembles led by Buddy Belden and Joe "King" Oliver, jazz began its long winding odyssey across America and around the world, giving flower to a thousand different forms--swing, ... Leer más

    $13.29 USD

  • How Sondheim Found His Sound

    de Steve Swayne ...
    "The research is voluminous, as is the artistry and perceptiveness. Swayne has lived richly within the world of Sondheim's music."---Richard Crawford, author of America's Musical Life: A History"Sondheim's career and music have never been so skillfully dissected, examined, and put in context. With its focus on his work as composer, this book is surprising and welcome."---Theodore S. Chapin, ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD