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Since the dawn of human history, dance has been a vital form of expression in...

A mesmerizing figure in concert, Charles Munch was celebrated for his electrifying public performances. He...

Grafting musicology and literary studies together in an unprecedented manner, Giving Voice to Love: Song...

Silent Music explores the importance of music and liturgy in an eighteenth-century vision of Spanish...

The biography of a fascinating cultural hero, René Blum and the Ballets Russes uncovers the...

In June of 1964, three young, white blues fans set out from New York City...

The only single-volume biography of Béla Bartók available in English, this fascinating book offers a...

Surveying the field since the mid-1990s, this book looks at Hindi cinema which lies beyond...

The history of American radio broadcasting has often been written as a lament for lost...

This paperback edition, with an Introduction by Imtiaz Ahmed, brings together three of Ashis Nandy's...

** Music in the Hispanic Caribbean is one of several case-study volumes that can be...

What does it take to make a great motion picture? What do we even mean...

In fourteen years of collaboration, composer Jerry Bock and lyricist Sheldon Harnick wrote seven of...

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921): A Thematic Catalogue of His Complete Works ensures an objective knowledge of...

Through the figure of Josephine Baker, Second Skin tells the story of an unexpected yet...

What was the first jazz record? Are jazz solos really improvised? How did jazz lay...

How is the Beatles' "Help!" similar to Stravinsky's "Dance of the Adolescents?" How does Radiohead's...

This long-awaited new edition of Music in the Primary School is for all those involved...

Assessment in schools has become a hotly debated issue in education. In the wake of...

This book looks at two years in the life of the UK's first Specialist Music...

What are instrumental lessons for? And why do so many students want to 'give up'...

** Music in Mainland Southeast Asia is one of several case-study volumes that can be...

Part history, part explanation of early music, this book also plays devil's advocate, criticizing current...

The Oxford Handbook of Computer Music offers a state-of-the-art cross-section of the most field-defining topics...

Take more than forty years of partnering celebrated soloists in concerts all over the world,...

Following Stalin's death in 1953, during the period now known as the Thaw, Nikita Khrushchev...

Medical Ethnomusicology is a new field of integrative and holistic research and applied practice that...

The Organ and Its Music in German-Jewish Culture examines the powerful but often overlooked presence...

From films ranging from An American in Paris and Flying Down to Rio to such...

The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, second edition is the largest, most comprehensive and accurate...

Handel's English church music spans the complete period of his active career in London: his...

The Tenth Muse explores writings on the cinema in the first decades of the twentieth...

The Oxford History of World Cinema is the most authoritative, up-to-date history of the Cinema...

The Oxford Companion to Music is one of the most famous music reference works of...

The Complete Annotated Gilbert & Sullivan provides the complete text of all the Gilbert &...

This book takes a radical approach to the study of traditional songs. Folk song scholarship...

China has over three hundred distinct styles of music drama, from exorcism theatre to farce,...

In a lively and engaging debate, Love, Power and Meaning outlines and challenges different critical...

The major choral works by Johann Sebastian Bach-the Christmas, Easter, and Ascension Oratorios, and the...

An exceptional text for undergraduate and graduate music students, Modal Counterpoint, Renaissance Style uses a...

Perhaps the most renowned writer in the field of vocal pedagogy, Richard Miller has delivered...

Each entry in this New Grove series of composers and their operas is based on...

First published in 1996 to great critical and popular acclaim, the Grove Book of Operas,...