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Musical Solidarities - Political Action And Music In Late Twentieth-Century Poland

by Andrea F. Bohlman

34,44€ + 10% CARD

 A vibrant study of music and protest that focuses on the Solidarity movement in 1980s Poland, Musical Solidarities explores how and why sound mattered to the opposition to state socialism. Unfurling the rich soundscapes of political action at demonstrations, church services, meetings, and in detention, it offers a nuanced portrait of this pivotal decade of European and global history.
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Musical Solidarities - Political Action And Music In Late Twentieth-Century Poland

by Andrea F. Bohlman

34,44€ + 10% CARD

 A vibrant study of music and protest that focuses on the Solidarity movement in 1980s Poland, Musical Solidarities explores how and why sound mattered to the opposition to state socialism. Unfurling the rich soundscapes of political action at demonstrations, church services, meetings, and in detention, it offers a nuanced portrait of this pivotal decade of European and global history.
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Electronic Inspirations - Technologies Of The Cold War Musical Avant-Garde

by Jennifer Iverson

25,16€ + 10% CARD

 For a decimated post-war West Germany, the electronic music studio at the WDR radio in Cologne was a beacon of hope. Jennifer Iverson''s <em>Electronic Inspirations: Technologies of the Cold War Musical Avant-Garde</em> traces the reclamation and repurposing of wartime machines, spaces, and discourses into the new sounds of the mid-century studio. In the 1950s, when technologies were plentiful and the need for reconstruction was great, West Germany began to rebuild its cultural prestige via aesthetic and technical advances. The studio''s composers, collaborating with scientists and technicians, coaxed music from sine-tone oscillators, noise generators, band-pass filters, and magnetic tape. Together, they applied core tenets from information theory and phonetics, reclaiming military communication technologies as well as fascist propaganda broadcasting spaces. The electronic studio nurtured a revolutionary synthesis of science, technology, politics, and aesthetics. Its esoteric sounds transformed mid-century music and continue to reverberate today. Electronic music--echoing both cultural anxiety and promise--is a quintessential Cold War innovation.
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Electronic Inspirations - Technologies Of The Cold War Musical Avant-Garde

by Jennifer Iverson

25,16€ + 10% CARD

 For a decimated post-war West Germany, the electronic music studio at the WDR radio in Cologne was a beacon of hope. Jennifer Iverson''s <em>Electronic Inspirations: Technologies of the Cold War Musical Avant-Garde</em> traces the reclamation and repurposing of wartime machines, spaces, and discourses into the new sounds of the mid-century studio. In the 1950s, when technologies were plentiful and the need for reconstruction was great, West Germany began to rebuild its cultural prestige via aesthetic and technical advances. The studio''s composers, collaborating with scientists and technicians, coaxed music from sine-tone oscillators, noise generators, band-pass filters, and magnetic tape. Together, they applied core tenets from information theory and phonetics, reclaiming military communication technologies as well as fascist propaganda broadcasting spaces. The electronic studio nurtured a revolutionary synthesis of science, technology, politics, and aesthetics. Its esoteric sounds transformed mid-century music and continue to reverberate today. Electronic music--echoing both cultural anxiety and promise--is a quintessential Cold War innovation.
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Singing The Resurrection - Body, Community, And Belief In Reformation Europe

by Erin Lambert

59,61€ + 10% CARD

 Singing the Resurrection brings music to the foreground of Reformation studies, as author Erin Lambert explores song as a primary mode for the expression of belief among ordinary Europeans in the sixteenth century, for the embodiment of individual piety, and the creation of new communities of belief.
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Singing The Resurrection - Body, Community, And Belief In Reformation Europe

by Erin Lambert

59,61€ + 10% CARD

 Singing the Resurrection brings music to the foreground of Reformation studies, as author Erin Lambert explores song as a primary mode for the expression of belief among ordinary Europeans in the sixteenth century, for the embodiment of individual piety, and the creation of new communities of belief.
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Materialities - Books, Readers, And The Chanson In Sixteenth-Century Europe

by Kate Van Orden

56,96€ + 10% CARD

 Materialities is a cultural history of song on the page. Concentrating on print in the early modern period, it approaches its topic via the French chanson, arguably the most broadly disseminated genre of polyphony in the sixteenth century.
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Defining Deutschtum - Political Ideology, German Identity, And Music-Critical Discourse In Liberal Vienna

by David Brodbeck

29,67€ + 10% CARD

 Defining Deutschtum engages the political-cultural milieu of Liberal Vienna through the discourse of three generations of music critics. Author David Brodbeck argues that Vienna's music critics were important agents in the public sphere whose writings gave voice to distinct, sometimes competing ideological positions.
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Music, Piety, And Propaganda - The Soundscapes Of Counter-Reformation Bavaria

by Alexander J. Fisher

27,81€ + 10% CARD

 Music, Piety, and Propaganda: The Soundscapes of Counter-Reformation Bavaria explores the nature of sound as a powerful yet ambivalent force in the religious struggles that permeated Germany during the Counter-Reformation.
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Staging The French Revolution - Cultural Politics And The Paris Opera, 1789-1794

by Mark Darlow

74,19€ + 10% CARD

 In Staging the French Revolution, Mark Darlow offers an unprecedented opportunity to consider the material context of opera production, combining in-depth archival research with a study of the works themselves. He argues that a mixture of popular and State interventions created a repressive system in which cultural institutions retained agency, compelling individuals to follow and contribute to a shifting culture. Theatre thereby emerged as a locus forcompeting discourses on patriotism, society, the role of the arts in the Republic, and the articulation of the Revolution's relation with the 'Old Regime', and is thus an essential key to the understanding of public opinion and publicity at this crucial historical moment.
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Sense Of Sound - Musical Meaning In France, 1260-1330

by Emma Dillon

66,24€ + 10% CARD

 The Sense of Sound is a radical recontextualization of French song, 1260-1330. Situating musical sound against sonorities of the city, madness, charivari, and prayer, it argues that the effect of verbal confusion popular in music abounds with audible associations, and that there was meaning in what is often heard as nonsensical.
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Electronic Inspirations - Technologies Of The Cold War Musical Avant-Garde

by Jennifer (Assistant Professor Of Music, Assistant Professor Of Music, University Of Chicago) Iverson

39,19€ + 10% CARD

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Tree Of Pearls - The Extraordinary Architectural Patronage Of The 13th-Century Egyptian Slave-Queen Shajar Al-Durr

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 Tree of Pearls is a vivid exploration of the life of a singular woman who rose from slavery to become sultan of Egypt in the 13th century. Her achievements were the ending the Seventh Crusade, the inauguration of the Mamluk dynasty, and the building of innovative works of architecture that left an enduring mark on Cairo.
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Cultivated By Hand - Amateur Musicians In The Early American Republic

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 Cultivated by Hand aligns the overlooked history of amateur musicians in the early years of the United States with little-understood practices of music book making. It reveals the pervasiveness of these practices, particularly among women, and their importance for the construction of gender, class, race, and nation.
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Musical Solidarities - Political Action And Music In Late Twentieth-Century Poland

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 A vibrant study of music and protest that focuses on the Solidarity movement in 1980s Poland, Musical Solidarities explores how and why sound mattered to the opposition to state socialism. Unfurling the rich soundscapes of political action at demonstrations, church services, meetings, and in detention, it offers a nuanced portrait of this pivotal decade of European and global history.
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Movies, Modernism, And The Science Fiction Pulps

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 This book examines the impact that the new art of film had on another new form, science fiction, especially as it was embodied in the various pulp magazines where the genre first began to establish its identity and key themes. It argues that a film consciousness helped shape, even define 20th century science fiction.
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Between Heimat And Hatred - Jews And The Right In Germany, 1871-1935

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Electronic Inspirations - Technologies Of The Cold War Musical Avant-Garde

by Jennifer (Assistant Professor Of Music, Assistant Professor Of Music, University Of Chicago) Iverson

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Singing The Resurrection - Body, Community, And Belief In Reformation Europe

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 Singing the Resurrection brings music to the foreground of Reformation studies, as author Erin Lambert explores song as a primary mode for the expression of belief among ordinary Europeans in the sixteenth century, for the embodiment of individual piety, and the creation of new communities of belief.
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The Death Of Treaty Supremacy - An Invisible Constitutional Change

by David L. (Professor Of Law, Professor Of Law, Santa Clara University School Of Law) Sloss

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 This book provides the first detailed history of the Constitution's treaty supremacy rule, describing a process of invisible constitutional change. The traditional supremacy rule provided that all treaties supersede conflicting state laws, and precluded state governments from violating U.S. treaty obligations. The author discusses the implications of the U.S. ratified UN Charter that obligates nations to promote human rights "for all without distinction as to race"and covers the Bricker Amendment created to abolish the treaty supremacy rule.
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Diversity In The Early Years: Intercultural Learning And Teaching - Intercultural Learning And Teaching

by Ann Farrell e Ingrid Sameulsson

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 Diversity in the Early Years focuses on issues of intercultural significance in early childhood education and early childhood teacher education.
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Salsa Rising - New York Latin Music Of The Sixties Generation

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 Salsa Rising provides the first full-length historical account of Latin Music in this city guided by close critical attention to issues of tradition and experimentation, authenticity and dilution, and the often clashing roles of cultural communities and the commercial recording industry in the shaping of musical practices and tastes.
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Salsa Rising - New York Latin Music Of The Sixties Generation

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 Salsa Rising provides the first full-length historical account of Latin Music in this city guided by close critical attention to issues of tradition and experimentation, authenticity and dilution, and the often clashing roles of cultural communities and the commercial recording industry in the shaping of musical practices and tastes.
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Top Drugs - Their History, Pharmacology, And Syntheses

by Jie Jack Li

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 A thorough examination of the chemistry and history of ten prominent prescription drugs.
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