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The Trouble with Wagner by Michael P Steinberg
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £28.30In this unique and hybrid book, cultural and music historian Michael P. Steinberg combines a close analysis of Wagnerian music drama with a personal account of his work as a dramaturg on the... -
Reading Charlotte Salomon by Michael P. Steinberg
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £45.22Charlotte Salomon was born in Berlin in 1917 and was murdered at Auschwitz at the age of twenty-six. While in exile in the south of France from 1940 until her deportation in 1943, she created some... -
Walter Benjamin and the Demands of History by Michael P. Steinberg
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89This book is the first to consider the presence of history and the question of historical practice in Walter Benjamin's work. Benjamin, the critic and philosopher of history, was also the... -
Judaism Musical and Unmusical by Michael P. Steinberg 9780226771946
Booksplease Price: £91.71Modernity gave rise to a Jewish consciousness that has increasingly distanced itself from the sacred in favor of worldliness and secularity. "Judaism Musical and Unmusical" traces the formulation of... -
Judaism Musical and Unmusical by Michael P. Steinberg 9780226771953
Booksplease Price: £34.64Modernity gave rise to a Jewish consciousness that has increasingly distanced itself from the sacred in favor of worldliness and secularity. "Judaism Musical and Unmusical" traces the formulation of... -
The Concerto: A Listener's Guide by Michael P. Steinberg 9780195139310
Booksplease Price: £36.60Michael Steinberg's 1996 volume The Symphony: A Reader's Guide received glowing reviews across America. It was hailed as "wonderfully clear...recommended warmly to music lovers on all levels"... -
The Concerto: A Listener's Guide by Michael P. Steinberg 9780195103304
Booksplease Price: £52.94Michael Steinberg's 1996 volume The Symphony: A Reader's Guide received glowing reviews across America. It was hailed as "wonderfully clear...recommended warmly to music lovers on all levels"... -
Austria as Theater and Ideology: The Meaning of the Salzburg Festival by Michael P. Steinberg
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89Austria's renowned Salzburg Festival has from the outset engaged issues of cultural identity in a country that has difficulty coming to terms with its twentieth-century history. That this is the case... -
Listening to Reason: Culture, Subjectivity, and Nineteenth-Century Music by Michael P. Steinberg
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.35This pathbreaking work reveals the pivotal role of music--musical works and musical culture--in debates about society, self, and culture that forged European modernity through the "long nineteenth... -
Prehistories of the Future: The Primitivist Project and the Culture of Modernism by Elazar Barkan
RRP: £133.00Booksplease Price: £81.46A Stanford University Press classic.Reviews"This is an unusually rich, subtle, and rewarding collection that brings varied approaches to a crucial topic in modern cultural history. . . . The essays... -
Prehistories of the Future: The Primitivist Project and the Culture of Modernism by Elazar Barkan 9780804724869
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91A Stanford University Press classic.Reviews"This is an unusually rich, subtle, and rewarding collection that brings varied approaches to a crucial topic in modern cultural history. . . . The essays... -
The Afterlife of Moses: Exile, Democracy, Renewal by Michael Steinberg
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £14.75In this elegant and personal new work, Michael P. Steinberg reflects on the story of Moses and the Exodus as a foundational myth of politics-of the formation not of a nation but of a political... -
The Afterlife of Moses: Exile, Democracy, Renewal by Michael Steinberg 9781503631144
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £58.64In this elegant and personal new work, Michael P. Steinberg reflects on the story of Moses and the Exodus as a foundational myth of politics-of the formation not of a nation but of a political... -
Jewish Musical Modernism, Old and New by Philip V. Bohlman 9780226063263
Booksplease Price: £49.96Tackling the myriad issues raised by Sander L. Gilman's provocative opening salvo - "Are Jews Musical?" - this volume's distinguished contributors present a series of essays that trace the... -
Images from the Region of the Pueblo Indians of North America by Aby M. Warburg
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Aby M. Warburg (1866-1929) is recognized not only as one of the century's preeminent art and Renaissance historians but also as a founder of twentieth-century methods in iconology and cultural... -
Mendelssohn by Benedict Taylor 9781472435392
Booksplease Price: £91.48This volume of essays brings together a selection of the most significant and representative writings on Mendelssohn from the last fifty years. Divided into four main subject areas, it makes... -
Schumann and His World by R. Larry Todd
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £49.59We know Robert Schumann in many ways: as a visionary composer, a seasoned journalist, a cultured man of letters, and a genius who, having passed his mantle on to the young Brahms, succumbed to mental... -
Arendt's Solidarity: Anti-Semitism and Racism in the Atlantic World David D. Kim 9781503640375
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £89.90Hannah Arendt's work inspires many to stand in solidarity against authoritarianism, racial or gender-based violence, climate change, and right-wing populism. But what if a careful analysis of her... -
Georges Bizet's Carmen by Nelly Furman 9780190059149
Booksplease Price: £100.79The popularity of Carmen endures across generations and continents, with one of the most frequently performed and instantly recognizable operatic scores of all time and a libretto derived from... -
Georges Bizet's Carmen by Nelly Furman
Booksplease Price: £17.24The popularity of Carmen endures across generations and continents, with one of the most frequently performed and instantly recognizable operatic scores of all time and a libretto derived from... -
Arendt's Solidarity: Anti-Semitism and Racism in the Atlantic World David D. Kim 9781503640771
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Hannah Arendt's work inspires many to stand in solidarity against authoritarianism, racial or gender-based violence, climate change, and right-wing populism. But what if a careful analysis of her... -
The Shadow of the Empress: Fairy-Tale Opera and the End of the Habsburg Monarchy by Larry Wolff
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.54A beguiling exploration of the last Habsburg monarchs' grip on Europe's historical and cultural imagination. In 1919 the last Habsburg rulers, Emperor Karl and Empress Zita, left Austria, going into... -
The Shadow of the Empress: Fairy-Tale Opera and the End of the Habsburg Monarchy by Larry Wolff 9781503634589
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £58.64A beguiling exploration of the last Habsburg monarchs' grip on Europe's historical and cultural imagination. In 1919 the last Habsburg rulers, Emperor Karl and Empress Zita, left Austria, going into... -
The Political Power of Visual Art: Liberty, Solidarity, and Rights Daniel Herwitz (University of Michigan, USA) 9781350182370
Booksplease Price: £27.79Visual art has a ubiquitous political cast today. But which politics? Daniel Herwitz seeks clarity on the various things meant by politics, and how we can evaluate their presumptions or aspirations... -
The Political Power of Visual Art: Liberty, Solidarity, and Rights by Daniel Herwitz 9781350182387
Booksplease Price: £81.47Visual art has a ubiquitous political cast today. But which politics? Daniel Herwitz seeks clarity on the various things meant by politics, and how we can evaluate their presumptions or aspirations... -
Cosmopolitan Aesthetics: Art in a Global World by Daniel Herwitz 9781350075245
Booksplease Price: £27.58New arts created in the context of new social realities are impacting our traditional ideas about aesthetics. Art, art markets and aesthetics now interact in ways that demand new forms of thought and... -
Red Sea-Red Square-Red Thread: A Philosophical Detective Story by Lydia Goehr
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £35.46A profoundly original philosophical detective story tracing the surprising history of an anecdote ranging across centuries of traditions, disciplines, and ideas Red Sea-Red Square-Red Thread is a...