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  • Opera in a Multicultural World

    Coloniality, Culture, Performance

    Edited by Mary Ingraham, Joseph So, Roy Moodley ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Music
    Through historical and contemporary examples, this book critically explores the relevance and expressions of multicultural representation in western European operatic genres in the modern world. It reveals their approaches to reflecting identity, transmitting meaning, and inspiring creation, as well as the ambiguities and contradictions that occur across the time and place(s) of their performance. ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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  • Opera 101

    A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Opera

    by Fred Plotkin ...
    A clear, friendly, and truly complete handbook to learning how to listen to opera, whether on the radio, on recordings, or live at the opera house.If you've decided that the time has finally come to learn about opera and discover for yourself what it is about opera that sends your normally reserved friends into states of ecstatic abandon, this is the book for you.Opera 101 is recognized as the ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • 100 Great Operas And Their Stories

    Act-By-Act Synopses

    by Henry W. Simon ...
    An invaluable guide for both casual opera fans and aficionados, 100 Great Operas is perhaps the most comprehensive and enjoyable volume of opera stories ever written.From La Traviata to Aïda, from Carmen to Don Giovanni, here are the plots of the world’s best-loved operas, told in an engaging, picturesque, and readable manner. Written by noted opera authority Henry W. Simon, this distinctive ... Read more

    Was $7.99 USD Now $5.99 USD

  • Verdi With a Vengeance

    An Energetic Guide to the Life and Complete Works of the King of Opera

    by William Berger ...
    Everything you could possibly know about Verdi and his operas, from the brilliant and humorous author of Wagner Without Fear.If you want to know why La traviata was actually a flop at its premiere in 1853, it's in here. If you want to know why claiming to have heard Bjorling's Chicago performance of Il trovatore is the classic opera fan faux pas, it's in here. Even if you just want to know how to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Journey of the Sitar in Indian Classical Music

    Origin, History, and Playing Styles

    by Dr. Swarn Lata ...
    Since the thirteenth century, the sitara stringed, plucked instrument of Indiahas transformed into an instrument beloved by millions in its country of origin as well as all over the world. The Journey of the Sitar in Indian Classical Music details the origin, history, and playing styles of this unique stringed instrument.Dr. Swarn Lata relies on more than thirty-five years of experience teaching ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Under The Afro

    Evan Silva

    by Evan Silva ...
    I was encouraged to write my story Under The Afro while being interviewed for my new 2005 album Out Of The Shadows as the journalist said I had a story to tell.So this book is about my childhood life in Auckland NZ in the beautiful suburb of Orakei surrounded by amazing beaches and landscape. It covers a wonderful era of the late 50s ...schooling ..playing on the streets and more then it goes on ... Read more

    $7.27 USD

  • How to Play Djembe

    West African Rhythms for Beginners

    by Alan Dworsky ...
    This book is a complete, step-by-step course for beginners on how to play djembe. Right from the start you'll be learning interlocking parts for some of the most popular West African rhythms: Kuku, Djole, Kassa, Madan, Suku, Sunguru Bani, and Tiriba. While you learn the patterns, you'll also learn how to make each of the basic strokes--bass, tone, and slap--with proper playing technique. We use ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Verdi and/or Wagner: Two Men, Two Worlds, Two Centuries

    by Peter Conrad ...
    An exploration of the lives and works of Verdi and Wagner as well as their respective legacies to the present day, written by a noted cultural critic.This is the first book to compare these two composers and cultural heroes, both of whom were born in 1813 and achieved huge national and inter- national renown in their lifetimes. Yet not only did they never meet, but the differences between them—in ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Opera's Second Death

    by Slavoj Zizek, Mladen Dolar ...
    Opera's Second Death is a passionate exploration of opera - the genre, its masterpieces, and the nature of death. Using a dazzling array of tools, Slavoj Zizek and coauthor Mladen Dolar explore the strange compulsions that overpower characters in Mozart and Wagner, as well as our own desires to die and to go to the opera. ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Jonas Kaufmann

    In Conversation With

    by Thomas Voigt ...
    Jonas Kaufmann is a phenomenon. With his musicality, his vocal technique and his expressive powers - to say nothing of his matinée-idol good looks - he is widely regarded as the greatest tenor of today. Thomas Voigt's intimate biography, written in collaboration with Kaufmann, reflects on the singer's artistic development in recent years; his work in the recording studio; his relationship to Verdi ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The African Imagination in Music

    by Kofi Agawu ...
    The world of Sub-Saharan African music is immensely rich and diverse, containing a plethora of repertoires and traditions. In The African Imagination in Music, renowned music scholar Kofi Agawu offers an introduction to the major dimensions of this music and the values upon which it rests. Agawu leads his readers through an exploration of the traditions, structural elements, instruments, and ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • "Venceremos"

    Víctor Jara and the New Chilean Song Movement

    by Gabriel San Román ...
    Series series PM Pamphlet
    When the socialist politician Salvador Allende dramatically won Chile’s presidential election in 1970, a powerful cultural movement accompanied him to power. Folk singers emerged at the forefront, proving that music could help forge the birth of a new society. As the CIA actively funded opposition media against Allende during his campaign, the New Chilean Song Movement rose to prominence, ... Read more

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