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Performing Exile, Performing Self
Drama, Theatre, Film
Studies in International Performance

Palgrave Macmillan
This book examines the life and art of those contemporary artists who by force or by choice find themselves on other shores. It argues that the exilic...
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Transforming Folk
Innovation and tradition in English folk-rock music

Manchester University Press
English folk–rock, a former progressive rock music style, remains a stimulus for further change in folk music and has enabled English folk–rock to become...
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Brazilian Hip Hoppers Speak from the Margins
We's on Tape

Palgrave Macmillan
In the land of samba, there is another vibrant culture capturing the attention of urban youth. This compelling account argues that hip hop, while certainly a...
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Religion and Popular Music in Europe
New Expressions of Sacred and Secular Identity
Library of Modern Religion

I.B. Tauris
Music and religion have, throughout history, walked hand in hand. In the rites and rituals of small tribal religions, great world religions, and more recent...
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A Clockwork Counterpoint
The Music and Literature of Anthony Burgess

Manchester University Press
A Clockwork Counterpoint is the first book to examine the musical side of Anthony Burgess, an astonishingly prolific and talented composer, revealing how his...
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Liszt's 'Chopin': A New Edition

Manchester University Press
Passionate and pioneering, Liszt’s biography of Chopin flaunts its author’s celebrity while straddling the divide between the scholarly and the popular. In...
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The Beethoven Song Companion

Manchester University Press
This is the first full-length, published study of Beethoven’s songs. All the composer’s songs with piano are included, with full German texts and translations,...
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Time and Memory in Reggae Music
The Politics of Hope
Music and Society

Manchester University Press
On the basis of a body of reggae songs from the 1970s and late 1990s, this book offers a sociological analysis of memory, hope and redemption in reggae music....
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From Song to Print
Romantic Pseudo-Songs
Nineteenth Century Major Lives and Letters

Palgrave Macmillan
From Song to Print is a study of the major cultural transition from oral forms of art and discourse to the commercial culture of print that happened during the...
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Journeyman
An Autobiography

Manchester University Press
This new edition of Journeyman, Ewan MacColl's vivid and entertaining autobiography, has been re-edited from the original manuscript, and includes a new...

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Performing Class in British Popular Music

Palgrave Macmillan
This new study of British popular music shows how it engages with class in mythical ways that allow audiences to perform class-based identities. Case studies...
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Frank Sinatra
History, Identity, and Italian American Culture
Italian and Italian American Studies

Palgrave Macmillan
No one represents the Italian American journey from undesirable outsiders to embraced citizens better than Frank Sinatra. From impoverished beginnings in an...
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Fela
From West Africa to West Broadway

Palgrave Macmillan
Essays exploring world of Fela Kuti: legendary Nigerian Afrobeat musician, political leader, keeper of 28 wives, black icon
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Musical Metropolis
Los Angeles and the Creation of a Music Culture, 1880-1940

Palgrave Macmillan
This fascinating cultural history of music in Los Angeles focuses on orchestral performance from the late nineteenth century through World War II....
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Acoustic Interculturalism
Listening to Performance
Studies in International Performance

Palgrave Macmillan
Acoustic Interculturalism is a study of the soundscapes of intercultural performance through the examination of sound's performativity. Employing an...
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The Music Industries
From Conception to Consumption

Palgrave Macmillan
The music industry is undergoing immense change. This book argues that the transformations occurring across the various music industries - recording, live...