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"The first academic engagement with "divas," including a discussion of their roots, evolutions, functions, and appropriations. Channelling the ideas and strategies of feminism, empowerment, intersectionality, identity politics, and more to create this key popular culture figure"--

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"The first academic engagement with "divas," including a discussion of their roots, evolutions, functions, and appropriations. Channelling the ideas and strategies of feminism, empowerment, intersectionality, identity politics, and more to create this key popular culture figure"--

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This key resource helps music educators develop a thorough understanding of important issues working with certain diverse student populations and provides pedagogical tools to help educators serve these students.

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In this thorough research guide to the career and music of Bill Dixon, the author has documented how Dixon refined a sonically unique non-tonal language of trumpet playing.

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"No European jazz musician has so enchanted the word as Django Reinhardt, the gypsy guitarist whose recording with Stephane Grappelly and the Hot Club of France have meant "The Thirties" to several gen"

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This is the first book in English about Domenico Cimarosa, his more than 65 operas and his sacred and secular vocal music, his keyboard music, and his various works for solo instruments and ensembles.

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Winner of the 2011 Olivier Award for Best Opera Production.

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"A book-length investigation of the album Sorriso Negro (1982) by Dona Ivone Lara, a pathbreaking black woman in the heavily masculine world of samba."--

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Scholar and singer Lawrence Pitilli explores doo-wop acapella groups as manifestations of urban change, mass migrations, ethnic acculturation and changing radio and recording industries. He reveals how groups displayed the dynamics of cultural change in the "sounds"-sonic and ...

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Richard Wagner continues to be the most controversial artist in history, a perpetually troubling figure in our cultural consciousness. This book presents an overall picture of his musical dramas from the standpoint of literary and theatrical history. It also examines Wagner in relation to political figures including King Ludwig II and Bismarck.

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With encouragement from Durufls editor and the foundation established in his name, Ronald Ebrecht has meticulously studied each of Durufls works and put together the first book to analyze in detail all of Durufls music.

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Comprising both interpretive essays and a selection of documents that bear on Dvorak's career and music, this volume addresses fundamental questions about the composer while presenting an argument for a radical reappraisal.

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Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen are widely acknowledged as the great pop poets of the 1960s, transforming the popular song into a medium for questioning the personal, social and political norms of their times.

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Bob Dylan's performance at Newport in 1965 changed the face of rock and roll and the face of folk music forever. He had to teach his audience how to hear sounds that had never before been heard. Dylan did the same for religion when he converted to Christianity in late 1978. This book focuses on Dylan's religious period.

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A discussion of all of Bob Dylan's lyrics composed during what many critics consider his most creative period: between 1965 and 1969 - placed in the context of Dylan's own life.

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Arranged alphabetically from Bryan Adams to Dottie West, Dynamic Duets gives the back stories on all of the pairings that cracked Billboard's Top 40 between 1955 and the end of the century. The book includes photographs of many of the records and/or the performers, chart and l...

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The essential book for any fan of the Boss, Bruce Springsteen.

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Focusing on the earliest and most extensive collection of tropes we now possess, those associated with the abbey of Saint Martial de Limoges in the tenth and early eleventh centuries, Professor Evans offers new conclusions about the nature and early development of the trope. Originally published in 1970. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the late