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After their military defeat by the Florentines in the mid-sixteenth century, the citizens of Siena turned from politics to celebratory, social occasions to express their civic identity and show their capacity for collective action. In the first major work of its kind,...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-05-02
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'Unflinching, forthright and full of wry humour as the man himself, and there's little praise greater than that' CLASSIC ROCK'Wall's vision of Lemmy as a Rock'n'Roll stalwart who made no concessions is vivid to the last' GUARDIANIn 'The Ace of Spades', Motörhead's most...
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Orion
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2016-04-14
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The candid, hilarious, shocking, occasionally horrifying, and surprisingly moving New York Times bestselling autobiography of punk legends NOFX, their own story in their own wordsNOFX:The Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories is the first tell-all autobiography from one...
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Da Capo
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2016-04-12
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We have grown accustomed to corporate influence in retail outlets, restaurants, and even higher education-but what happens when corporations take over desire? The Naked Result: How Exotic Dance Became Big Business explores the changing world of striptease, tracing its...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-01-04
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For two decades after the mid-1950s, biracial popular music played a fundamental role in progressive social movements on both sides of the Atlantic. Balancing rock's capacity for utopian popular cultural empowerment with its usefulness for the capitalist media...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-12-10
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The American Song Book, Volume I:The Tin Pan Alley Era is the first in a projected five-volume series of books that will reprint original sheet music, including covers, of songs that constitute the enduring standards of Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, the Gershwins, and...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-12-02
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In On Sondheim, renowned author Ethan Mordden takes the reader on a tour of Stephen Sondheim's work, arguing for the importance and appeal of the composer-lyricist in American theater and, even more, in American culture. Over the course of eighteen shows, Mordden...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-11-19
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The Real Traviata is the rags-to-riches story of a tragic young woman whose life inspired one of the most famous operas of all time, Verdi's masterpiece La traviata, as well as one of the most scandalous and successful French novels of the nineteenth century, La Dame...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-09-24
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The Real Traviata is the rags-to-riches story of a tragic young woman whose life inspired one of the most famous operas of all time, Verdi's masterpiece La traviata, as well as one of the most scandalous and successful French novels of the nineteenth century, La Dame...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-09-24
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Opera is often regarded as the pinnacle of high art. A "Western" genre with global reach, it is where music and drama come together in unique ways, supported by stellar singers and spectacular scenic effects. Yet it is also patently absurd -- why should anyone break...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-09-16
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Ministry is a memoir both ugly and captivating, revealing Al Jourgensen as a man who lived a hard life his own way without making compromises. He survived prolonged drug addiction -- twenty-two years of chronic heroin, cocaine, and alcohol abuse, to be more precise --...
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Da Capo
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2015-09-08
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Æneas i Carthago von Joseph Martin Kraus bildete das umfangreichste und langwierigste Opernprojekt am Hofe des schwedischen Königs Gustav III. Das Libretto verfaßte der Dichter Johan Henrik Kellgren nach einem Entwurf des Königs. Etwa ein Jahrzehnt, von 1781 bis 1792,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-07-31
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In Perséphone vereinten zu Beginn der 1930er Jahre mit André Gide und Igor Strawinsky zwei der bedeutendsten Kunstschaffenden ihrer Zeit ihr Können. Diese Studie zielt daher – neben der Nachzeichnung der Entstehungsgeschichte – auf eine Gegenüberstellung der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-06-26
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Il libro raccoglie gli atti del convegno internazionale Sopra il gusto moderno: Civiltà musicale napoletana nell’età di Pergolesi, tenutosi a Napoli nel Gennaio del 2010 nell’ambito delle celebrazioni per i 300 anni della nascita di Pergolesi.Il volume esplora l’epoca e...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-06-26
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'Packed with war stories from a golden age of rock, and insights into the stars that made that music' CLASSIC ROCK MAGAZINE'On reading Getcha Rocks Off you realise just how drastically things have changed in the rock industry but books like this perfectly evoke what...
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Orion
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2015-06-18
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Amazonen, die Kriegerinnen aus der antiken Mythologie, sind seit Jahrhunderten Gegenstand der Literatur. Jennifer Villarama untersucht erstmalig vertiefend die Rezeption und literarische Bearbeitung des Amazonen-Stoffes im deutschsprachigen Raum der Frühen Neuzeit. Sie...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-05-31
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Tips and ideas from transport to tents and style to scrimping Festivals come in every shape and size and cater for every type of music lover, but what unites them is that they are a wonderful opportunity to get away from daily life and have an awesome party! This savvy...
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Summersdale
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2015-05-14
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Five decades in the music industry, 100 albums, 10 Grammys, the Kennedy Center Honors, and the Country Music Hall of Fame. Add high-profile activism for the legalisation of marijuana, the foundation of a ground-breaking philanthropic organisation, and a much-publicised...
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Sphere
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2015-05-05
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In her bestselling autobiography Bedsit Disco Queen, Tracey Thorn recalled the highs and lows of a thirty-year career in pop music. But with the touring, recording and extraordinary anecdotes, there wasn't time for an in-depth look at what she actually did for all those...
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Virago
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2015-04-30
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In 1714, the 29 year-old Johann Sebastian Bach was promoted to the position of concertmaster at the ducal court of Weimar. This post required him for the first time in his already established career to produce a regular stream of church cantatas-one cantata every four...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-04-01
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