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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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"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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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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This work details each recording session, as well as the records on which each song appeared, and includes 104 songs that were never released.

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In this collection, a group of distinguished composers and theorists who have actively worked in the field of electronic music, present detailed analyses of important electroacoustic works, while also demonstrating some recent approaches to the analysis of the music of this medium.

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This is a desk reference for academic and public library music reference collections as well as for music professionals. The more than 250 books discussed represent a core bibliography on this late 20th-century phenomenon of "electronic" and "computer" music.

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The influential rock musician Elvis Costello is recognized for the impressive breadth and scope of his music.

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"Meant to be a field guide for further research, it pitches to the most erudite echelons of Elvis fandom without going over the heads of the masses. It is also easily the coolest, most reasonable book about the Kink yet." Booklist

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Providing an overview of the music, fashion, films, and philosophies behind the movement, this encyclopedia chronicles the history and development of heavy metal, including sub-movements such as death metal, speed metal, grindcore, and hair metal. It includes coverage on heavy metal fashion; and, masculine and feminine images.

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Independent rock, known as indie rock (rock independent of the major label corporations), is music dedicated to the art of rock: it's adventurous, eclectic, defiant, inventive, and restlessly creative.

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The British punk movement is thought to have begun in the mid-1970s with bands such as the Clash and the Sex Pistols, and the American punk movement in the early 1970s with bands such as the Ramones, Patti Smith, and Television playing at CBGB's in New York City's Lower East Side.

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Hip Hop music is comprised of several art forms: 1) MC-ing or rapping 2)B-boying or breakdancing 3)Deejaying (music) and 4) Graffiti art (visual art).

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"Drawing equally from Viennese operetta, Parisian cabaret, vaudeville, and Tin Pan Alley, the American musical theatre has thrived in an unprecedented variety of forms and styles as our truest hybrid a"