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Cherubino’s Leap Haydn’s Sunrise,
In Search of the Enlightenment Moment Beethoven’s Shadow
Richard Kramer Audiovisual Culture and the Emergence
“Close readings that are as attentive to poetic of Musical Romanticism
and musical detail as they are attuned to shades Deirdre Loughridge
of feeling movingly explore moments of deep “Compellingly argues that the marriage
inscrutability in C. P. E. Bach, Gluck, Beetho- between visual and audio cultures is not a late
ven, and Mozart. Kramer’s profound sympathy twentieth-century phenomenon, but has roots
with the paradoxes and ironies of the culture in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth
of sensibility, and his discreetly brilliant way of centuries. By drawing upon a plethora of tech-
writing about them, are breathtaking.” nical devices deployed in operas and popular
—Annette Richards, author of The Free performances, Loughridge demonstrates how
Fantasia and the Musical Picturesque listeners’ practices and thought were shaped
2016 224 p. 6 x 9 17 halftones, 51 line drawings by numerous mechanical contraptions and
1 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-37789-6 $45.00 Your Price: $36.00
scientific instruments.”—Myles W. Jackson,
New York University
The Virtual Haydn 2016 328 p. 6 x 9 5 color plates, 33 halftones, 68 musical examples, 4 tables
4 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-33709-8 $55.00 Your Price: $44.00
Paradox of a Twenty-First-Century Keyboardist
Tom Beghin
“Provides a close, careful examination of Habitual Offenders
the ways in which rhetorical concepts have A True Tale of Nuns, Prostitutes, and Murderers
impinged on the creation, comprehension, and in Seventeenth-Century Italy
reception of Haydn’s solo piano works. The Craig A. Monson
book is original in that it goes far beyond the “What emerges is a page-turner of a whodunit
theoretical framework of most musical-rhe- made especially compelling by Monson’s
torical studies to show how rhetoric influences extraordinary and subtle ability to convey the
the performance and auditory perception of diverse personalities of his many historical
18th-century music. . . . This is a model for subjects and to plunge his reader into the world
future scholarship.”—Choice of early modern Italian culture.”—Andrew
2015 368 p. 6 x 9 17 color plates, 23 halftones, 69 line drawings, 8 tables Dell’Antonio, author of Listening as Spiritual
2 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-15677-4 $55.00 Your Price: $44.00
Practice in Early Modern Italy
2016 344 p. 6 x 9 29 halftones
Back in Print 5 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-33533-9 $40.00 Your Price: $32.00
Bob Gluck
2016 256 p. 6 x 9 14 halftones Most University of Chicago Press titles are also
21 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-18076-2 $37.50 Your Price: $30.00 in e-book form. See back cover.
Blowin’ Up
Rap Dreams in South Central
Jooyoung Lee
“Represents a jump through the keyhole into
the world of hip-hop as it is lived by some of
the art form’s most dedicated practitioners. . . .
Necessary and important, Blowin’ Up provides
an intimate look at this essential art form.”
—PopMatters
“Lee does an amazing job of illuminating the
lives of black men in one of Los Angeles’s un-
derground rap scenes.”—Scott Brooks, author
of Black Men Can’t Shoot
2016 272 p. 6 x 9 9 halftones
28 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-34889-6 $20.00 Your Price: $16.00
A Place for Us
West Side Story and New York
The Death and Resurrection
Julia L. Foulkes
of Elvis Presley
“Foulkes delves deeply into the archive to
Ted Harrison
recover the details and dynamics of West Side
Story from its conception and production to its “Harrison’s central thesis—that Elvis has been
film adaptation and global circulation. In doing much more heavily and successfully commer-
so, she connects that story to the contempora- cialised in death than in life—is convincing. .
neous events and cultural anxieties that made . . It is original. And its most compelling line
the musical both timely and timeless.”—Shane is that the reason Elvis has been so brilliantly
Vogel, author of The Scene of Harlem Cabaret marketed after his death is because he was so
badly handled in his lifetime.”—The Spectator
“An excellent account of West Side Story and
Distributed for Reaktion Books
its central role as a play and movie in American
2016 256 p. 51/2 x 81/2 30 halftones
musical history.”—Lewis A. Erenberg, author 29 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-637-7 $25.00 NSA Your Price: $20.00
of Swingin’ the Dream
2016 272 p. 6 x 9 53 halftones
25 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-30180-8 $30.00 Your Price: $24.00 Everyday Creativity
Singing Goddesses in the Himalayan Foothills
Jazz Worlds/World Jazz Kirin Narayan
Edited by Philip V. Bohlman With a Foreword by Philip V. Bohlman
and Goffredo Plastino “This highly original book, based on a rich but
“As a whole, the book presents a critically mostly unknown corpus of oral texts from the
informed and broadly theorized set of perspec- western Himalayas, reveals a world in which
tives on jazz (and music) around the world, gods and goddesses from the classical Indian
offering a nuanced and balanced perspective to pantheon mingle with human beings, partic-
understanding how global jazz practices have ularly women, and take part in their everyday
taken shape over the years.” lives, their communal rituals, and their deepest
—Charles Hiroshi Garret, editor in chief of the emotions. The translated songs are ravishing.”
Grove Dictionary of American Music —David Shulman, author of More than Real
Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology Big Issues in Music
2016 256 p. 6 x 9 9 halftones
2016 552 p. 6 x 9 1 compact disc, 42 halftones, 11 line drawings
30 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-40756-2 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00
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Improvising
Improvisation The Verdi-Boito
From Out of Philosophy, Music, Dance, Correspondence
and Literature Giuseppe Verdi and Arrigo Boito
Gary Peters Edited by Marcello Conati and Mario Medici
With an Introduction by Marcello Conati
English-language edition prepared by William Weaver
Vaudeville Melodies
Popular Musicians and Mass Entertain- “The letters are engrossing. . . . With or without
ment in American Culture, 1870–1929 transition, Verdi and Boito can shift mercurially
from discussions of high art to commentary
Nicholas Gebhardt on the mundane. Woven into the fabric of life
in nineteenth-century Italy are, among others,
threads of politics, medicine, and labor unrest.
From the Score to the Stage . . . Fascinating.”—Opera Quarterly
1994 384 p. 6 x 9 14 halftones, musical examples throughout
An Illustrated History of Continental Opera 35 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-27389-1 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00
Production and Staging
Evan Baker
2013 464 p. 10 x 12 189 color plates, 2 tables
The Triumph of Pleasure
37 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-03508-6 $65.00 Your Price: $52.00 Louis XIV and the Politics of Spectacle
Georgia J. Cowart
2008 324 p. 6 x 9 8 color plates, 8 halftones, 4 line drawings,
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The Works of Giuseppe Verdi
Philip Gossett, General Editor Emeritus Francesco Izzo, General Editor
Now in Paperback
Il trovatore Messa da
Study Score Requiem
Edited by Study Score
David Lawton Edited by David Rosen
2016 352 p. 81/2 x 11 5 halftones 2016 432 p. 81/2 x 11 5 halftones
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New
I due Foscari Attila
Tragedia lirica in Three Acts Dramma lirico in a Prologue and Three Acts
Edited by Andreas Giger Edited by Helen M. Greenwald
Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave Libretto by Temistocle Solera and Francesco Maria Piave
2016 472 p. 101/2 x 141/2 8 halftones, 28 tables 2012 472 p. 101/2 x 141/2 Two-volume set. Score (one volume cloth); Commentary
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