Twentieth-Century Music in the West. An Introduction, Paperback - ***

This is the first introductory survey of western twentieth-century music to address popular music, art music and jazz on equal terms. It highlights...

Reducere. (Yorktown). Exploration of the language, attitude, dissonance, and drama of the piano music of our century as in the works of Debussy, Bartok, Stra...

Reducere. Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Richard (Professor of musicology, Professor of musicology, University of California, Berkeley) Tar...

Sarbatoriti aniversarea a 50 de ani a celui mai iubit film de familie din toate timpurile! Comoara cinematografica produsa de Rodgers&Hammerstein s...

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A major new account of poetry in the twentieth century.

Drawing on extensive field research conducted over the course of two decades, Bode Omojola examines traditional and contemporary Yoruba genres of m...

With unique authority and unparalleled scholarship, Sassoon traces the fortunes of the political parties of the left in Western Europe across 14 co...

This widely acclaimed book, first published in 1974, was a classic from its first day in print. Written in a direct, inviting way by Harry Braverma...

The celebrated music writer looks back on how great British music has often had a connection with the landscape. Takes in the work of musicians div...

Publisher: Faber Music LtdNumber of pages: 48Collection: Real Repertoire SeriesPublication date: 2005Dimensions: 303 x 230 x 4Cover type: Sheet mus...

Reducere. With John Lee Hooker's death in June 2001 the world lost one of the last great Mississippi Delta bluesmen. Acclaimed writer Charles Schaar Murray's...

Reducere. A historical biography of a radical relationship at the dawn of the 20th Century The opening years of the twentieth century saw a grand cast of rad...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Micaela BaranelloIllustration(s): 39 music examples, 6 b-w photographs, 1 tableNumber of pages:...

A study of Communism and a history of the myth of Communism as perpetuated by its admirers. This book illuminates how the support for Communism and...

This is a unique and fascinating autobiography which tells the story of twentieth-century Germany and its black population through the eyes of a me...

A landmark in contemporary social science, this pioneering work by Thomas Piketty explains the facts and dynamics of income inequality in France in...

The West, the largest region in the United States, encompasses varied landscapes. It stretches across arid deserts, the Alaskan tundra, and the tro...

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Join Carole P. Roman and travel through time to visit the most interesting civilizations throughout history in her exciting new series. Learn what ...

First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Kenneth Morgan's Very Short Introduction to Twentieth-Centur...

"[This book] charts the transformation of one of the world's great religions during an age marked by world wars, genocide, nationalism, decolonizat...

Thomas A. Noble and Jason S. Sexton offer a thorough introduction to and appraisal of twelve leading British evangelical theologians of the twentie...

Reducere. English is often a primary literary language for Filipino writers--not only for those in the Philippines but for those resident in the US; both gro...

A new edition of this seminal survey on the history of graphic design in the twentieth century.Publisher: Thames & Hudson LtdAuthor(s): Richard Hol...

Reducere. The first comprehensive anthology of modern Italian poetry, in a beautiful bilingual editionMore than a century has passed since F. T. Marinetti's ...

Publisher: Mimesis InternationalAuthor(s): Cesereanu RuxandraNumber of pages: 204Collection: Speculum CivitatisPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 14...

English radicalism has been a persistent and important, though minority, strand in English political culture since at least the English Civil War. ...

The music of clarinetists Naftule Brandwein and Dave Tarras is iconic of American klezmer music. Their legacy has had an enduring impact on the dev...

Reducere. At the beginning of the twentieth century 'music' meant the 'art' tradition of Western Europe and North America; by the end of the century that was...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Andreas (Leuphana Universitat Luneburg) BroeckmannIllustration(s): 74 b&w illus., 16 color plates; 90 Illustrati...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCNumber of pages: 480Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 234 x 157 x 30Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): ...

Reducere. DescriptionBetween 1900 and 1950, Americans built the most powerful steam locomotives of all time--enormous engines that powered a colossal industr...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Claire ZimmermanNumber of pages: 416Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 256 x 179 x 26Cover type: ...

The definitive history of twentieth-century theatrical dance, enhanced with more than 200 exceptional photographs Winner of the 2005 Congress on Re...

DescriptionThis book discusses the architectural influence that Japan and the West have had on each other during the last 150 years. While the rece...

The history of the twentieth century is most often told through its world wars, the rise and fall of communism, or its economic upheavals. In his s...

Reducere. A rousing history of Ireland in its most tumultous century by one of the most well-known and beloved Irish writers of our time. Tim Pat Coogan's Ir...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Gavin (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) RaeNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2021Dimensions: ...

* A significant contribution to our understanding of how politics affects real people, and abrilliant blend of sweeping narrative and detailed anal...

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This book examines the array of financial crises, slumps, depressions and recessions that happened around the globe during the twentieth and early ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCNumber of pages: 480Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 163 x 240 x 36Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): Associate Pr...

Talking about race and sports almost always leads to trouble. They engage fascinating topics like race and cricket in the West Indies, how black cu...

Reducere. "An invaluable reminder of the purposes and possibilities of modern art. Exemplary." -- Kirkus ReviewsIn 1911, modernist painter Wassily Kandinsky ...

Reducere. In this "penetrating new analysis" (New York Times Book Review) Ira Katznelson fundamentally recasts our understanding of twentieth-century America...