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A study of how popular music became a medium for political communication and contested identification during and after... Læs mere
In nineteenth-century British society music and musicians were organized as they had never been before. This organization was manifested, in part, by... Læs mere
Daoist ritual in China is only a small part of Daoist studies. Most such work focuses on the southeast, with the vast area of north China often assumed to be a tabula rasa for local lay liturgical traditions. This book, based on fieldwork, intends to challenge this assumption.
Shostakovich's music is often described as being dynamic, energetic. But what is meant by 'energy' in music? After setting out a broad conceptual... Læs mere
Two crucial moments in the formation and disintegration of musical modernity and the musical canon occurred at the turn of the seventeenth and... Læs mere
Investigates the historical role of a deviant psalm-tone, the tonus peregrinus, focusing on its applications in polyphonic music within all major branches of Western liturgy.
Presents a fresh way of thinking about the absence of women's music. This title encourages us, with the assistance of Deleuze, and... Læs mere
The interrelationship of music and theology is a burgeoning area of scholarship in which conceptual issues have been explored by musicologists and... Læs mere
Investigates different ways in which music signifies. This title deals with the relationship between music and philosophy, literature, poetry, folk traditions and the theatre, with opera a genre that particularly lends itself to this mode of investigation.
This anthology addresses the modern musical culture of interwar Osaka and its surrounding Hanshin region. It is the first to draw together... Læs mere
Explains how the definitive British rock performers of this epoch aimed, not at the youthful rebellion for which they are legendary, but at a highly self-conscious project of commenting on the business in which they were engaged. This work focuses on the mid to late 1960s.
Francesco Cavalli is credited with inventing the opera genre as we know it. Readying Cavalli's Operas for the Stage considers, from... Læs mere