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Benjamin Britten: Peter Grimes by Philip Brett
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $26.33Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes is one of the few operas of the last half-century to have gained a secure place in the repertory. Its appearance in 1945 shortly after the end of the war in Europe was... -
Music and Sexuality in Britten: Selected Essays by Philip Brett 9780520246102
Booksplease Price: $32.52Philip Brett's groundbreaking writing on Benjamin Britten altered the course of music scholarship in the later twentieth century. This volume is the first to gather in one collection Brett's... -
William Byrd and His Contemporaries: Essays and a Monograph by Philip Brett 9780520247581
RRP: $91.59Booksplease Price: $81.84Throughout his distinguished career, Philip Brett wrote about the music of the Tudor period. He carried out pathbreaking work on the life and music of William Byrd (c.1540-1623), both as an editor... -
Real Men Don't Sing: Crooning in American Culture by Allison McCracken
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.71The crooner Rudy Vallee's soft, intimate, and sensual vocal delivery simultaneously captivated millions of adoring fans and drew harsh criticism from those threatened by his sensitive masculinity... -
Queering the Pitch by Phillip Brett
RRP: $77.39Booksplease Price: $69.79When the first edition of Queering the Pitch was published in early 1994, it was immediately hailed as a landmark and defining work in the new field of Gay Musicology. In light of the explosion of... -
Opera after 1900 Margaret Notley 9781032918914
RRP: $43.85Booksplease Price: $40.24The articles reprinted in this volume treat operas as opera and from some sort of critical angle; none of the articles uses methodology appropriate for another kind of musical work. Additional... -
Queer Episodes in Music and Modern Identity by Dr. Sophie Fuller
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $23.23Through the hidden or lost stories of composers, scholars, patrons, performers, audiences, repertoires, venues, and specific works, this intriguing volume explores points of intersection between... -
Stunning Males and Powerful Females: Gender and Tradition in East Javanese Dance by Christina Sunardi
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.26In east Javanese dance traditions like Beskalan and Ngremo, musicians and dancers negotiate gender through performances where males embody femininity and females embody masculinity. Christina... -
Decomposition: Post-Disciplinary Performance by Sue-Ellen Case
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $20.51The fluid nature of performance studies and the widening embrace of the idea of performativity has produced in Decomposition: Post-Disciplinary Performance a collection of great interest that crosses... -
The Making of Peter Grimes: Essays Paul Banks 9780851157917
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $32.28Historic accounts and new material illuminate the creation, early history and artistic intentions of Britten's first opera. The premiere of Peter Grimes on 7 June 1945 announced the emergence of... -
Portrait of a Castrato: Politics, Patronage, and Music in the Life of Atto Melani by Roger Freitas 9781107696105
RRP: $59.34Booksplease Price: $55.53This book explores the fascinating life of the most documented musician of the seventeenth century. Born in 1626 into a bourgeois family in Pistoia, Italy, Atto Melani was castrated to preserve his... -
Portrait of a Castrato: Politics, Patronage, and Music in the Life of Atto Melani by Roger Freitas 9780521885218
RRP: $110.94Booksplease Price: $101.87This book explores the fascinating life of the most documented musician of the seventeenth century. Born in 1626 into a bourgeois family in Pistoia, Italy, Atto Melani was castrated to preserve his... -
Culpability Bruce Holsinger 9781787706057
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56"I was riveted until the very last shocking sentence!" Oprah Winfrey When the Cassidy-Shaws' driverless minivan fatally collides with an oncoming car, seventeen-year-old Charlie is in the driver's... -
Stunning Males and Powerful Females: Gender and Tradition in East Javanese Dance by Christina Sunardi 9780252038952
RRP: $113.52Booksplease Price: $91.77In east Javanese dance traditions like Beskalan and Ngremo, musicians and dancers negotiate gender through performances where males embody femininity and females embody masculinity. Christina... -
Authenticity and Early Music: A Symposium by Nicholas Kenyon 9780198161530
Booksplease Price: $65.42No change has had a more profound influence on the development of music-making over the last two decades than the growth of the historical performance movement. The notion that we can - and indeed... -
Sound Play: Video Games and the Musical Imagination by William Cheng 9780199969975
Booksplease Price: $33.99Video games open portals into fantastical worlds where imaginative play prevails. The virtual medium seemingly provides us with ample opportunities to behave and act out with relative safety and... -
Flaming?: The Peculiar Theopolitics of Fire and Desire in Black Male Gospel Performance by Alisha Jones 9780190065416
RRP: $132.23Booksplease Price: $120.50Male-centered theology, a dearth of men in the pews, and an overrepresentation of queer males in music ministry: these elements coexist within the spaces of historically black Protestant churches,... -
Flaming?: The Peculiar Theopolitics of Fire and Desire in Black Male Gospel Performance by Alisha Jones 9780190065423
Booksplease Price: $34.95Male-centered theology, a dearth of men in the pews, and an overrepresentation of queer males in music ministry: these elements coexist within the spaces of historically black Protestant churches,...