The Rite of Spring: The Music of Modernity (Moore Gillian)(Paperback)

The Rite of Spring: The Music of Modernity (Moore Gillian)(Paperback)

The story behind the scandalous first performance of one of the most influential works in the history of music, as part of the stunning Landmark Library series.On 29 May 1913, at the Thtre des Champs-Elyses in Paris, a new ballet by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky,

A Million Years of Music: The Emergence of Human Modernity (Tomlinson Gary)(Paperback)

A new narrative for the emergence of human music, drawing from archaeology, cognitive science, linguistics, and evolutionary theory.What is the origin of music? In the last few decades this centuries-old puzzle has been reinvigorated by new archaeological evidence and developments in the fields of

The Epistemology of G. E. Moore (Klemke E. D.)(Paperback)

The Epistemology of G. E. Moore is an examination of the philosophy of G. E. Moore, one of the foremost Anglo-American, analytic philosophers of the twentieth century.This book, together with Reinhardt Grossmann's Reflections on Frege's Philosophy and Moltke Gram's Kant, Ontology, and the A Priori,

Dreamscapes of Modernity: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Fabrication of Power (Jasanoff Sheila)(Paperback)

Dreamscapes of Modernity offers the first book-length treatment of sociotechnical imaginaries, a concept originated by Sheila Jasanoff and developed in close collaboration with Sang-Hyun Kim to describe how visions of scientific and technological progress carry with them implicit ideas about public

Formations of Modernity (Gieben Bram)(Paperback)

Formations of Modernity is a major introductory textbook offering an account of the important historical processes, institutions and ideas that have shaped the development of modern societies. This challenging and innovative book 'maps' the evolution of those distinctive forms of political,

Bug Music (Rothenberg David)(Paperback)

In the spring of 2013, the cicadas in the Northeastern United States emerged from their seventeen-year cycle--the longest gestation period of any animal. Those who experienced this great sonic invasion compared their sense of wonder to the arrival of a comet or a solar eclipse. This unending

The Music of the Future (Barry Robert)(Paperback)

The Music of the Future is not a book of predictions or speculations about how to save the music business or the bleeding edge of technologies. Rather, it's a history of failures, mapping 200 years of attempts by composers, performers and critics to imagine a future for music. Encompassing utopian

The End of Jewish Modernity (Traverso Enzo)(Paperback)

Jewish modernity flourished between the age of Enlightenment and World War II--and in fact was a major driver of intellectual, scientific, social, literary, and artistic progress in that period. But the age of Jewish modernity is over. That's the argument that historian Enzo Traverso mounts in this

Life of the Party (Philip Gillian)(Paperback / softback)

Earth's Wild Music: Celebrating and Defending the Songs of the Natural World (Moore Kathleen Dean)(Pevná vazba)

The Music of Life (Revised) (Khan Inayat)(Paperback)

A transcendent exploration of the nature and effects of sound by the Sufi master. The Music of Life is the definitive collection of Hazrat Inayat Khan's teachings on sound, presenting the Sufi master's vision of the harmony that underlies and infuses every aspect of our lives. Inayat Khan explores

The Economics of Music (Tschmuck Peter)(Paperback)

The second edition of this popular introduction to the economic workings of the music business explores the impact of the pandemic at every level of the sector and considers how the business model may need to change going forward as different stakeholder positions

Gillian Clarke: Collected Poems (Clarke Gillian)(Paperback)

The Welsh publishing house Gwasg Gomer published Gillian Clarke's first full collection of poems, The Sundial, in 1978. In the twenty years since then the poet has become one of the best-loved and most widely read writers of Wales, well-known for her readings, for her radio work and her workshops

Decomposed: The Political Ecology of Music (Devine Kyle)(Paperback)

The hidden material histories of music.Music is seen as the most immaterial of the arts, and recorded music as a progress of dematerialization--an evolution from physical discs to invisible digits. In Decomposed, Kyle Devine offers another perspective. He shows that recorded music has always been a

Subjects of Modernity: Time-Space, Disciplines, Margins (Dube Saurabh)(Paperback)

Subjects of Modernity brings together the past and the present as well as theory and narrative, sowing the historical, the ethnographic, and the methodological deep into its critical

The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory (Christensen Thomas)(Paperback)

The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory is the first comprehensive history of Western music theory to be published in the English language. A collaborative project by leading music theorists and historians, the volume traces the rich panorama of music-theoretical thought from the Ancient

Messy Hospitality (Moore Lucy)(Paperback)

In this book Lucy Moore, the pioneer of Messy Church, explores the Christian principle of hospitality. She addresses the theology of hospitality and how it can be expressed at the welcome table, the activity table, the Lord's Table, the meal table, and in the home. Also included is learning from

C (McCarthy Tom)(Paperback / softback)

Follows the life of Serge Carrefax, a man who surges into the electric modernity of the early twentieth century, transfixed by the technologies that obliterate him. Born to the sound of one of the experimental wireless stations, Serge finds himself steeped in a weird world of

The Oxford Handbook of Music Psychology (Hallam Susan)(Paperback)

The second edition of The Oxford Handbook of Music Psychology updates the original landmark text and provides a comprehensive review of the latest developments in this fast-growing area of research. Covering both experimental and theoretical perspectives, each of the 11 sections is edited by an

The Music of James Bond (Burlingame Jon)(Paperback)

The story of the music that accompanies the cinematic adventures of Ian Fleming's intrepid Agent 007 is one of surprising real-life drama. In The Music of James Bond, author Jon Burlingame throws open studio and courtroom doors alike to reveal the full and extraordinary history of the sounds of

Saga of the Swamp Thing Book Four (Moore Alan)(Paperback)

Continuing the hardcover collection of master comics writer Alan Moore's award-winning run on The Saga of The Swamp Thing, this fourth volume brings Swamp Thing's quest for self-discovery with the mystic John Constantine to its shattering conclusion. A harbinger of doom has been released with the

Saga of the Swamp Thing, Book Five (Moore Alan)(Paperback)

Continuing the hardcover collection of master comics writer Alan Moore's award-winning run on THE SAGA OF THE SWAMP THING, this fifth volume begins as Swamp Thing returns from his sojourn to hell, only to learn that his girlfriend Abby is being persecuted for their 'unnatural relations.' When she

Vet on a Mission (Hick Gillian)(Paperback)

With the imminent arrival of her third child, veterinary surgeon, Gillian Hick, decides to abandon the perils of mixed animal practice, in a favour of setting up a small animal practice from home. When neighbouring farmer, John Armstrong, drops in for a cup of tea and stays to build the new

Wild Medicine - Spring (English Ali)(Paperback)

A seasonal exploration of the wonders of hedgerow medicine in the Spring. Gloriously illustrated with her own photographs, this series is a beautiful introduction to wild foraging - packed with recipes, remedies, and ideas for making the most of nature's abundant bounty. The books encourage a love