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It's a London thing
How rare groove, acid house and jungle remapped the city
By Caspar Melville
This book is a record of the Black music culture that emerged in post-colonial London at the end of the twentieth century; the people who made it, the racial and spatial politics of its ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-3125-6
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£15.99
Buy NowThe end-of-the-century party
Youth, pop and the rise of Madchester
By Steve Redhead
Madchester may have been born at the Haçienda in the summer of 1988, but the city had been in creative ferment for almost a decade prior to the rise of acid house. The end-of-the-century party is ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4275-7
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£12.99
Buy NowPartners in suspense
Critical essays on Bernard Herrmann and Alfred Hitchcock
Edited by Steven Rawle and Kevin J. Donnelly
This volume of spellbinding essays explores the tense relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann, providing new perspectives on their collaboration. Featuring chapters by leading ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-3952-8
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£20.00
Buy NowJourneyman
An autobiography
By Ewan Maccoll
This new edition of Journeyman, Ewan MacColl's vivid and entertaining autobiography, has been re-edited from the original manuscript, and includes a new introduction by Peggy Seeger, for whom he ... More
ISBN: 978-0-7190-7936-8
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£19.99
Buy NowThe Beethoven song companion
By Paul Reid
This is the first full-length, published study of Beethoven's songs. All the composer's songs with piano are included, with full German texts and translations, together with comprehensive notes ... More
ISBN: 978-0-7190-7571-1
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£19.99
Buy NowLiszt's 'Chopin'
A new edition
By Meirion Hughes
Passionate and pioneering, Liszt's biography of Chopin flaunts its author's celebrity while straddling the divide between the scholarly and the popular. In this volume Meirion Hughes combines a ... More
ISBN: 978-0-7190-8351-8
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£15.99
Buy NowMusic, words and voice
A reader
Edited by Martin Clayton
Music, Words and Voice: A Reader is a new and exciting interdisciplinary resource which integrates the worlds of music and literature. It is the first primary and secondary source collection of ... More
ISBN: 978-0-7190-7788-3
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£15.99
Buy NowThe English musical Renaissance, 1840-1940
By Meirion Hughes and Robert Stradling
Second edition of a book which caused huge controversy in its first printing - now completely revised and updated. Argues that research into the cultural history of music can significantly help ... More
ISBN: 978-0-7190-5830-1
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£16.99
Buy NowPopular music in England 1840-1914
A social history
By David Russell
The only in-depth study of the wider field of popular music in this period. Scholarly, but accessible. This is an Open University Set Text. More
ISBN: 978-0-7190-5261-3
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£15.99
Buy NowSounds and Society
Themes in the sociology of music
By Peter J. Martin
In this introduction to the social analysis of music, the author argues that musical meaning must be understood as socially constructed, rather than inherent, and that the notion of a ... More
ISBN: 978-0-7190-3224-0
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£15.99
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