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 Reflections on Musical Meaning and Its Representations (Musical Meaning and Interpretation)Best Price: $16.75 How is it possible to talk or write about music? What is the link between graphic signs and... |  Hindi Action Cinema: Industries, Narratives, Bodies (South Asian Cinemas)Best Price: $13.26 Valentina Vitali presents the history of Bombay action films, posing new questions about the... |  The American Film Musical"... a model of genre criticism and probably the best overall analysis of the film musical... |  Making Music and Having a Blast!: A Guide for All Music Students (Music for Life)Best Price: $5.33 Bonnie Blanchard continues her stellar series (Music For Life) with this new book: "Making... |  New German Film: The Displaced ImageBest Price: $168.25 |
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 The Death of Character: Perspectives on Theater after Modernism (Drama and Performance Studies)Best Price: $13.04 "Extremely well written, and exceedingly well informed, this is a work that opens a variety... |  The History of Keyboard Music to 1700This classic work has served a generation of pianists, organists, and harpsichordists and... |  Choreography and Narrative: Ballet's Staging of Story and DesireBest Price: $17.95 "Undoubtedly, ¯Choreography and Narrative is an important contribution to dance... |  The Bassoon Reed Manual: Lou Skinner's TechniquesBest Price: $29.04 Each of us makes our reeds to our own specifications right down to the colour of the thread. ... |  Decomposition: Post-Disciplinary Performance (Unnatural Acts: Theorizing the Performative)Best Price: $16.90 The fluid nature of performance studies and the widening embrace of the idea of performativity... |
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 Sofia Gubaidulina: A Biography (Russian Music Studies)Best Price: $30.03 Michael Kurtz wrote his biography of Sofia Gubaidulina in German in 2001, ending with the... |  Making Music and Enriching Lives: A Guide for All Music Teachers (Music for Life)Best Price: $65.00 Making Music and Enriching Lives fills an important niche in the very large world of books about... |  John Zorn: Tradition and TransgressionBest Price: $60.99 Long story short - I own over 120 original Zorn recordings and was much looking forward to this... |  Il Trittico, Turandot, and Puccini's Late Style (Musical Meaning and Interpretation)Best Price: $29.89 Giacomo Puccini is one of the most frequently performed and best loved of all operatic... |  Making Music and Having a Blast!: A Guide for All Music Students (Music for Life)Best Price: $30.00 In her follow-up to Making Music and Enriching Lives: A Guide for All Music Teachers, Bonnie... |
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 I Hear a Voice Calling: A Bluegrass MemoirBest Price: $64.97 During the final years of Bill Monroe's life, bluegrass fiddler Gene Lowinger took a series... |  Restless Giant: The Life and Times of Jean Aberbach and Hill and Range Songs (Music in American Life)Best Price: $74.97 Restless Giant is a fascinating account of the life and times of Jean Aberbach, the elusive... |  Lars von Trier (Contemporary Film Directors)Best Price: $79.97 Scandinavia's foremost living auteur and the catalyst of the Dogme95 movement, Lars von... |  Doowop: THE CHICAGO SCENE (Music in American Life)Best Price: $15.00 A fascinating journey through the doowop era in Chicago. It's all here-singers, songwriters,... |  Behind the Burnt Cork Mask: Early Blackface Minstrelsy and Antebellum American Popular Culture (Music in American Life)Best Price: $26.93 The songs, dances, jokes, parodies, spoofs, and skits of blackface groups such as the Virginia... |
 Music and GenderBest Price: $27.84 Through the experiences of performers, composers, and ethnomusicologists working in Africa,... |  Come Hither to Go Yonder: PLAYING BLUEGRASS WITH BILL MONROE (Music in American Life)Best Price: $15.88 I've read a number of books about Bill Monroe over the years and this is the best. It is... |  The Bluegrass Reader (Music in American Life)Best Price: $6.50 I`ve never much enjoyed reading about music; far more fun to play or listen to it. Lately,... | Cinema's Conversion to Sound: Technology and Film Style in France and the U.S. Best Price: $40.99 The conversion to sound cinema is routinely portrayed as a homogenizing process that... | Sofia Gubaidulina: A Biography (Russian Music Studies) Best Price: $30.03 Michael Kurtz wrote his biography of Sofia Gubaidulina in German in 2001, ending with the... |
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 Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary"Representing Reality" is the first book to offer a conceptual overview of documentary... |  Animation in Asia and the PacificBest Price: $29.95 Animation has had a global renaissance during the 1990s, and nowhere is this more evident than... |  Sally Potter (Contemporary Film Directors)Best Price: $7.49 This survey of Sally Potter?s work documents and explores her cinematic development from the... |  Give 'Em Soul, Richard!: Race, Radio, and Rhythm and Blues in ChicagoBest Price: $15.61 I am so thrilled to have in my possession another radio project and on one of America's most... |  Life Flows On in Endless Song: Folk Songs and American History (Music in American Life)Best Price: $19.59 I've been playing, singing, and studying folk music for some years now. I enjoyed this book... |
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