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The perfect companion to Baz Luhrmann's forthcoming biopic Elvis, a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks and Austin Butler.What was it like to be Elvis Presley? What did it feel like when impossible fame made him its prisoner? As the world's first rock star there was...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2016-11-03
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Joni Mitchell has only visited the U.S. Top 40 singles chart four times in her long recording career - and the Top 20 just once. So much for 'stoking the starmaker machinery behind the popular song', as she sang in her 1974 song 'Free Man in Paris'.WhatJoni has done, on...
Editeur :
Constable
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2016-11-03
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Popular music's gay DNA is inarguable, from Elvis in eye shadow and Little Richard's 'Tutti Frutti' to The Velvet Underground's subversive rock'n'roll and Bowie's ambisexual alien Ziggy Stardust; from kd lang's female Elvis to Kurt Cobain in a dress; from Noughties...
Editeur :
Constable
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2016-10-13
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Learn to play one of Bach's most exquisite preludes in just 6 weeks, even if you have never played the piano before.An accessible and inspiring book by the pianist and international bestselling writer James Rhodes, who promises that it gives anyone with two hands, a...
Editeur :
Quercus
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2016-10-06
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The Shubert name has been synonymous with Broadway for almost as long as Broadway entertainment itself. With seventeen Broadway theatres including the Ambassador, the Music Box, and the Winter Garden,The Shubert Organization perpetuates brothers Lee and Jacob Shubert's...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-10-04
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More than any rock artist since The Beatles, Radiohead's music inhabits the sweet spot between two extremes: on the one hand, music that is wholly conventional and conforms to all expectations of established rock styles, and, on the other hand, music so radically...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-10-03
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Since 1997, the war in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has taken more than 6 million lives and shapes the daily existence of the nation's residents. While the DRC is often portrayed in international media as an unproductive failed state, the Congolese...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-09-28
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Wie der Erstdruck vermerkt, vertonte Robert Schumann im Jahr 1849 die Ballade „Schön Hedwig" op. 106 „für Declamation mit Begleitung des Pianoforte". Unter derselben Besetzungsangabe wurden drei Jahre später die „Ballade von Haideknaben" und „Die Flüchtlinge" op. 122...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-09-22
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Did you know that Frank Sinatra was nearly considered for the original production of Fiddler on the Roof? Or that Jerome Robbins never choreographed the famous "Dance at the Gym" in West Side Story? Or that Lin-Manuel Miranda called out an audience member on Twitter for...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-09-02
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During the decades leading up to 1910, Portugal saw vast material improvements under the guise of modernization while in the midst of a significant political transformation - the establishment of the Portuguese First Republic. Urban planning, everyday life, and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-09-01
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Did you ever leave an opera performance wondering why the singers use so much vibrato? Or a symphony, wondering who decided where on stage the orchestra members should sit, or why they tune their instruments to an oboe rather than an electronic tuner? Why is...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-09-01
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Screenwriters and film directors have long been fascinated by the challenges of representing the listening experience on screen. While music has played a central role in film narrative since the conception of moving pictures, the representation of music listening has...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
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2016-09-01
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When the Second World War broke out, ballet in Britain was only a few decades old. Few had imagined that it would establish roots in a nation long thought to be unresponsive to dance. Nevertheless, the war proved to be a boon for ballet dancers, choreographers and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-08-01
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This book explores the Broadway legacy of choreographer Agnes de Mille, from the 1940s through the 1960s. Six musicals are discussed in depth - Oklahoma!, One Touch of Venus, Bloomer Girl, Carousel, Brigadoon, and Allegro. Oklahoma!, Carousel, and Brigadoon were de...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-07-13
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Functional Awareness: Anatomy in Action for Dancers is where anatomy meets artistry. Each chapter provides explorations in embodied anatomy in an engaging manner with the use of images, storytelling, and experiential exercises. It is an accessible introduction to the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-07-05
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Der Musik an den Welfenhöfen kam im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert eine überregionale Bedeutung zu, wie die in diesem Band vereinten Beiträge unterstreichen. Insbesondere in Wolfenbüttel und Hannover wirkten bedeutende Musiker, darunter Michael Praetorius, Heinrich Schütz,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-06-16
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Despite its isolation on the western edge of Europe, Ireland occupies vast amounts of space on the music maps of the world. Although deeply rooted in time and place, Irish songs, dances and instrumental traditions have a history of global travel that span the centuries....
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-06-07
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The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies offers a full overview of the histories, practices, and critical and theoretical foundations of the rapidly changing landscape of screendance. Drawing on their practices, technologies, theories, and philosophies, scholars from...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-06-03
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Rich Cohen enters the Stones epic as a young journalist on the road with the band and quickly falls under their sway - privy to the jokes, the camaraderie, the bitchiness, the hard living. Inspired by a lifelong appreciation of the music that borders on obsession,...
Editeur :
Headline
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2016-05-10
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'A thorough, objective telling of McCartney's story - in and out of the most famous band ever.' ESQUIREThe first biography written with McCartney's approval and with access to family members and friends closest to him.In 2013, Sir Paul McCartney granted Philip Norman...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2016-05-05
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