Escaping Extermination Hungarian Prodigy to American Musician, Feminist, and Activist / by Jambor, Agi, 1909-1997

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The spectral piano : from Liszt, Scriabin, and Debussy to the digital age / by Nonken, Marilyn

Table of Contents: “…An intimate history -- Itinerary -- Photospectralists at the piano -- The first generation -- The spectral effect -- Spectral music and its pianistic expression / Hugues Dufourt ; translated from the French by Joshua Cody.…”
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Performing music in the age of recording / by Philip, Robert, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Life before recordings -- The experience of recording -- Ensemble and freedom : orchestras -- Ensemble and freedom : chamber groups and pianists -- Questions of authority : the composer -- Questions of authority : schools of playing -- Questions of authority : the archaeological approach -- Listening back : lessons from the twentieth century.…”
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Musical biographies : the music of memory in post-1945 German literature / by Ben-Horin, Michal

Table of Contents: “…Clown : ironic tune between memory and oblivion -- Ingeborg Bachmann : the resonance of trauma -- Interlude III. Pianist : Austria from a musician's perspective -- Thomas Bernhard : writing, playing, and the compulsion to repeat -- Interlude IV. …”
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Pianos and politics in China : middle-class ambitions and the struggle over western music / by Kraus, Richard Curt

Table of Contents: “…Science versus Revolution in the Modernization of Music; 5. Court Pianist to the Cultural Revolution: Yin Chengzong; 6. …”
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Der Verführer : Karol Szymanowski und seine Musik. by Gwizdalanka, Danuta

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Queer arrangements : Billy Strayhorn and mid-century jazz collaboration / by Barg, Lisa

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Representations of World War II refugee experiences in memoirs, fiction, and film : studies in flight and displacement /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- (Re)writing the French summer exodus of 1940 from northern to southwestern France / Marie-Claire Rohinsky -- Shifting identities and displacement in Germany and Poland (1938-1945): the films Europa, Europa and The pianist / Karen A. Ritzenhoff -- Narratives of war, flight, and survival in Pomerania, Czechoslovakia, Siberia, and the Baltic Sea (1940-1949) / Herbert Arnold -- Intersections of class, gender, loyalty, and altruism in German flight memoirs of the privileged / Martha Kaarsberg Wallach -- Cologne and other ruins: dislocation in a narrative of flight from Holland to Switzerland / Harold Schweizer -- Flight from Romania to Austria and the United States (1944-1953): trauma and visual representation / Susanna Stachler Tschurtz -- Flight from Romania to Austria and the United States (1944-1953): trauma and visual representation / Susanna Stachler Tschurtz -- Internment and escape from Yugoslavia to Germany and the United States (1944-1950): a personal history of a Donauschwaben refugee / Elizabeth B. …”
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Music at the limits / by Said, Edward W.

Table of Contents: “…The music itself : Glenn Gould's contrapuntal vision ; Remembrance of things played : presence and memory in the pianist's art ; Pomp and circumstance (on musical festivals) ; On Richard Strauss ; Die Walküre, Aida, X ; Music and feminism ; Maestro for the masses (review of Understanding Toscanini) ; Middle age and performers ; The Vienna Philharmonic : the complete Beethoven symphonies and concertos ; The Barber of Seville, Don Giovanni ; Glenn Gould at the Metropolitan Museum ; Giulio Cesare ; Bluebeard's Castle, Erwartung ; Extreme occasions (on Celibidache) ; Peter Sellars's Mozart ; András Schiff at Carnegie Hall -- pt. …”
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Temporaries and Eternals : the Music Criticism of Aldous Huxley, 1922-23. by Allis, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Going to the operahandel, polly, and ourselves; music clubs; cherubini-emotion and form; madrigals and programme music; the hymn and the dream; barbarism in music; notes on a pianist and on pianos; a mozart programme; contemporaneousness; bach and handel; the lied; books about music; what are the wild waves saying?…”
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Resonances of the Raj : India in the English musical imagination, 1897-1947 / by Ghuman, Nalini

Table of Contents: “…. -- 5. Persian composer-pianist baffles: Kaikhosru Sorabji. Marginal exotic -- Himalayan Hermitage -- Colour matters -- Modernist -- Scheherazade-Kaikhosru -- Raga, Jangal, and Chakra -- Melancholy moth. -- 6. …”
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Dreams in double time : on race, freedom, and bebop / by Leal, Jonathan, 1989-

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John Kirkpatrick, American music, and the printed page / by Massey, Drew

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Essays on the Peripheries by Valente, Peter

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Dreams in double time : on race, freedom, and bebop / by Leal, Jonathan, 1989-

Making music American : 1917 and the transformation of culture / by Bomberger, E. Douglas, 1958-

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Nancy Cunard : heiress, muse, political idealist / by Gordon, Lois G.

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Polish film and the Holocaust : politics and memory / by Haltof, Marek

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Music in the Air. by Gleason, Ralph J.

Table of Contents: “…Miles Davis, Bitches BrewThe Sunlight and Beauty of Johnny Hodges; God Bless Louis Armstrong; Duke Ellington, The Pianist; Cal Tjader, Los Ritmos Calientes!; Ben Webster: Another Giant Gone; Frank: Then and Now; Farewell to the Duke; FOLK, ROCK, AND POP; The Limeliters, Through Children's Eyes: Little-Folk Songs for Adults; The Magic of Joan Baez; Pete Seeger Is Here Tonight; Odetta the Incomparable; A Folk-Singing Social Critic; The Beatles' Mersey Sound; Who really Is Bob Dylan?…”
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Sir Ernest MacMillan : the importance of being Canadian / by Schabas, Ezra, 1924-

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