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Under the rubric spirituals are subsumed sorrow songs, jubilee songs, shout songs, chants, homilies, mantras, affirmations, and collective, personal, and historical allegories.

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Stephen Daviss brilliantly written personal account of criss-crossing America with Led Zeppelin on their 1975 tour. A warts-and-all snapshot of the worlds biggest hard-rock band at their peak.

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An exploration of Jacques Offenbach's "Les Contes d'Hoffmann". It investigates the political climate of the 1870's that influenced the composer's vision and the reception of his last work. Drawing upon insights, it considers how the opera's music and libretto took shape within a literary and theatrical tradition.

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Chronologically following Nicholas Tawa's The Coming of Age of American Art Music, this new study stands on its own in examining the music of the most prominent American composers active in the first three decades of the twentieth century.

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Manchester Beethoven studies presents ten original chapters by scholars with close ties to the University of Manchester. The volume contains new research on a range of biographical, analytical and cultural topics, and reflects the breadth of ongoing Beethoven scholarship in Manchester.

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Margaret Webster presided over many firsts in the American theater. She was the first woman to direct Shakespearean plays on Broadway, she was one of the founders of the American Repertory Theatre, she was active in the beginning of the Off-Broadway movement, and she wrote an assortment of articles, speeches, memoirs, and autobiographies.

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Never before in paperback: An intimate portrait of the private Callas.

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Marshal Royal was at the core of the Count Basie Orchestra for 20 years during its resurgence in the 1950s and 1960s. Before that he was a pioneer of jazz on the West Coast of the US. His memoirs provide a document of the history of jazz on the West Coast and the development of big band jazz.

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Commemorating the 30th anniversary of Elvis's death, an intimate memoir of a friendship with the King of Rock n' Roll - from late-night parties at Graceland to the bright lights of Hollywood sets and glittering stages of Vegas.

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Revealed in this relentlessly candid yet sympathetic study is Nellie Melba the drama queen, the monstrous prima donna, the canny businesswoman, the generous and kindly friend, the unique star who refused to fade.

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The book offers deep-seated explanations for opera's enduring fascination in European elite culture and suggests some of the profound difficulties that have unsettled this fascination since the time of Wagner.

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The acclaimed classic biography, fully revised, becomes the definitive.

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"It would be no exaggeration to call Charles Mingus the greatest bass player in the history of jazz; indeed, some might even regard it as understatement, for the hurricane power of his work as a compos"

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The first comprehensive guide to pre-1934 female popular vocal recordings sung in Englishfrom around the world and including all stylesthis discographical study includes solos, duets, trios, and quartets composed by the great songwriters of the early 1900s (from Irving Berlin to Victor Young).

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In addition to analyzing the music in the context of the British youth culture of the early 1960s, the author analyzes the reasons that the British bands came to so thoroughly dominate the record charts and airwaves in the United States. It also includes examines contributions of Cliff Richard, Tommy Steele, the Tornados, and Tony Sheridan.

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Saul Austerlitz's fascinating book tellsthe history of the music video, delving into its origins, function, stars, motifs, genres, conventions, and masterpieces

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One of the foremost composers of the French Baroque operatic tradition, Rameau is often cited for his struggle to steer lyric tragedy away from its strict Lullian form, inspired by spoken tragedy, and toward a more expressive musical style. In this fresh exploration of Rameau's compositional aesthetic, Charles Dill depicts a much more complicated f