Classical Music : Contemporary Perspectives and Challenges. by Beckerman, Michael

Table of Contents: “…The Enduring Value of Classical Music in the Western Tradition / Ellen Harris and Michael Beckerman -- 2. …”
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Classical music in Weimar Germany : culture and politics before the Third Reich / by Fay, Brendan

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Classical music in a changing world : crisis and vital signs /

Table of Contents: “…Foreword / Alberto Nones -- The state of classical music : a Turkish detour / Özgecan Karadağlı -- Local music and the classical music of others : misconceptions and possibilities in Colombian musical education / Francisco Castillo -- Waxing and waning : musical depictions of cyclicity and fluidity in Moonlight / Hamish Robb -- Contemporary music theater and the experience of marginalization / Federica Marsico -- Relevance and meaning : classical music in the present / Natalie Tsaldarakis -- A call for context : historical explanations for our disappearing classical music culture / Amy Damron Kyle -- "The hard problem" : classical music and the history of consciousness / Lawrence Kramer.…”
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Performing civility : international competitions in classical music / by McCormick, Lisa, 1975-

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The Karl Muck scandal : classical music and xenophobia in World War I America / by Burrage, Melissa D., 1962-

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A weapon in the struggle : the cultural history of the communist party in Britain /

Table of Contents: “…Notes From the Left: Communism and British Classical Music /…”
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Performing Turtle Island : Indigenous theatre on the world stage /

Table of Contents: “…Decolonizing counterpoints: Indigenous perspectives and representations in classical music and opera /…”
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Music in America's Cold War diplomacy / by Fosler-Lussier, Danielle, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : instruments of diplomacy -- Classical music and the mediation of prestige -- Classical music as development aid -- Jazz in the cultural presentations program -- African American ambassadors abroad and at home -- Portraying America's religious heritage -- The double-edged diplomacy of popular music -- Music, media, and cultural relations between the United States and the Soviet Union -- Conclusion : music, mediated diplomacy, and globalization.…”
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Music of the First World War / by Tyler, Don

Table of Contents: “…Music's contribution to the war effort -- Popular hits of the war years -- Stage music during the war years -- Blues and rags during World War I -- Jazz during World War I -- Classical music during World War I -- Appendix A. Most successful composers and lyricists of the WWI era -- Appendix B. …”
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The North Carolina symphony : a history / by Mobley, Joe A., Lambert, John W. (Music critic)

Table of Contents: “…Dicks; Preface; Introduction; 1. Classical Music from "Poor Carolina" to "The Sahara of the Bozart"; 2. …”
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El Sistema : orchestrating Venezuela's youth / by Baker, Geoffrey, 1970-

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Aaron Copland in Latin America : music and cultural politics / by Hess, Carol A.

Table of Contents: “…Copland, Latin America, and the early Cold War ; Shifting ground : Copland, Latin America, and the crisis of modernism ; A "living refutation to Communist-inspired lies" : Copland in Latin America in the sixties ; Latin American classical music and memory.…”
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Absolute music, mechanical reproduction / by Ashby, Arved Mark

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Dickens, journalism, music : Household words and All the year round / by Bledsoe, Robert Terrell

Table of Contents: “…Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgments ; Abbreviations; Introduction; i Overview ; ii Amusements: Sweet and Useful ; iii Music and Theatrical Fiction ; iv Classical Music and Opera ; Chapter 1 Household Words: 1850-1859; i Dickens Conducts "The General Improvement of Our Social Condition" ; ii Music, Metaphor, Cliché ; iii Mr. …”
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Building musical culture in nineteenth-century Amsterdam. The Concertgebouw / by Cressman, Darryl

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Performing music in the age of recording / by Philip, Robert, 1945-

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Singing like Germans : Black musicians in the land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms / by Thurman, Kira

Table of Contents: “…How Beethoven Came to Black America -- African American Intellectual and Musical Migration to Central Europe, 1870-1914 -- The Sonic Color Line Belts the World : Constructing Race and Music in Central Europe, 1870-1914 -- Blackness and Classical Music in the Age of the Black Horror on the Rhine Campaign -- Singing Lieder, Hearing Race : Debating Blackness, Whiteness, and German Music in Interwar Central Europe -- "A Negro Who Sings German Lieder Jeopardizes German Culture" : Black Musicians under the Shadow of Nazism -- "And I Thought They Were A Decadent Race" : Denazification, the Cold War, and (African) American Involvement in Postwar West German Musical Life -- Breaking with the Past : Race, Gender, and Opera after 1945 -- Singing in the Promised Land : Black Musicians in the German Democratic Republic -- Conclusion : "What Should a Negro Do with Beethoven?!".…”
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Creative industries : contracts between art and commerce / by Caves, Richard E.

Table of Contents: “…Artists as apprentices -- Artists, dealers, and deals -- Artist and gatekeeper: trade books, popular records, and classical music -- Artists, starving and well-fed -- The Hollywood studios disintegrate -- Contracts for creative products: films and plays -- Guilds, unions, and faulty contracts -- The nurture of ten-ton turkeys -- Creative products go to market: books and records -- Creative products go to market: films -- Buffs, buzz, and educated tastes -- Consumers, critics, and certifiers -- Innovation, fads, and fashions -- Covering high fixed costs -- Donor-supported nonprofit organizations in the performing arts -- Cost disease and its analgesics -- Durable creative goods: rents pursued through time and space -- Payola -- Organizing to collect rents: music copyrights -- Entertainment conglomerates and the quest for rents -- Filtering and storing durable creative goods: visual arts -- New versus old art: Boulez meets Beethoven.…”

The orchestra : a very short introduction / by Holoman, D. Kern, 1947-

Meter in music, 1600-1800 : performance, perception, and notation / by Houle, George

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