In Paris's Père-Lachaise cemetery, Jim Morrison's graffiti-scrawled tombstone is a place of pilgrimage for local devotees, adolescent hedonists and wayward backpackers alike. Found dead in his bathtub aged only 27 having achieved worldwide stardom as lead singer of The Doors, Mo…
Over the last fifty years, the music of Joji Yuasa has attained the zenith of international musical standards: a study of this great Japanese composer is long overdue. Persuasive and captivating, less 'easy' than that of his lifetime friend Toru Takemitsu, Yuasa's music has also…
Dylan at Play offers a selection of writings that can challenge and engross readers eager for new ways to meet the singularity of Bob Dylan's work. We have no interest in competing Other the almost numberless and ever-increasing quantity of critical and encyclopedic writing on D…
This book is the first collection of research articles dedicated exclusively to the life and works of the Renaissance composer Gaspar van Weerbeke. While the basic facts of Gaspar's life have long been known, the book fleshes out the details, presenting a more differentiated and…
"Having designed Roxy Music as an haute couture suit hand-stitched of punk and progressive music, Bryan Ferry redesigned it. He made Roxy Music ever dreamier and mellower-reaching back to sadly beautiful chivalric romances. Dadaist (punk) noise exited; a kind of ambient soft sou…
Examines in detail the contexts of Brahms's masterpiece and demonstrates that-contrary to recent consensus-it was performed and received as an inherently Christian work during the composer's life. Despite its entirely biblical text, Brahms's long-beloved A German Requiem is now…
"By gathering historical and musical fragments from a Europe torn apart by World War II and the Cold War, East German playwright Heiner MuÌ#x88;ller and West German composer Heiner Goebbels created Wolokolamsker Chaussee as a musical panorama that stretched across modern Europea…
Introduction: A theory of historical record -- 1. Russian opening -- 2. Forest near Moscow -- 3. The duel -- 4. The centaurs -- 5. The foundling. "By gathering historical and musical fragments from a Europe torn apart by World War II and the Cold War, East German playwright Hei…
"By gathering historical and musical fragments from a Europe torn apart by World War II and the Cold War, East German playwright Heiner Müller and West German composer Heiner Goebbels created Wolokolamsker Chaussee as a musical panorama that stretched across modern European hist…
"By gathering historical and musical fragments from a Europe torn apart by World War II and the Cold War, East German playwright Heiner Müller and West German composer Heiner Goebbels created Wolokolamsker Chaussee as a musical panorama that stretched across modern European hist…
Demystifying Scriabin
This book is an innovative contribution to Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) studies, covering aspects of Scriabin's life, personality, beliefs, training, creative output, as well as his interaction with contemporary Russian culture. It offers new and original research from leading…
"Contradicting assumptions that disco albums are shallow and packed with filler, Donna Summer's double album Once Upon A Time stands out as a piece that delivers on its promise of an immaculately crafted journey from start to finish. A new interpretation of the Cinderella story,…
"Contradicting assumptions that disco albums are shallow and packed with filler, Donna Summer's double album Once Upon A Time stands out as a piece that delivers on its promise of an immaculately crafted journey from start to finish. A new interpretation of the Cinderella story,…
Kurt Cobain: montage of heck
by Bienstock, Richard, Nadelman, Stefan, Morgen, Brett, Hulsing, Hisko
This riveting book accompanies Morgen's highly anticipated documentary and delves further into the material created for the film, presenting an illuminating and honest portrait of the Nirvana frontman that captures the contradictions that made up his character. Taking fans into …
"Provides a window into a moment when both phantasmatic and real relationships between straightness and queerness, between blackness and whiteness, and between utopia and dystopia, were in flux; Bowie in the mid-1970s both exemplified and had a hand in creating the complex and c…