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Music
Clampdown
By Rhian Jones
Paperback
Published 29-Mar-2013
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Political and media policing of female social and sexual autonomy, through the neglected but significant gendered dimensions of the discourse surrounding 'chavs', has been accompanied by a similar restriction and regulation of the expression of working-class femininity in music. This book charts the progress of this cultural clampdown.
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Play it Again
By Alan Rusbridger
Hardback
Published 17-Jan-2013
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As editor of the "Guardian", the author's life is dictated by the demands of the 24-hour news cycle. It is not the kind of job that leaves much time for hobbies. But in the summer of 2010, he managed to make his annual escape to a 'piano camp'.
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Unknown Pleasures
By Peter Hook
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Published 25-Apr-2013
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The story of Joy Division told by the band's legendary bassist, Peter Hook. .
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Gustav Mahler
By Jens Malte Fischer
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Published 02-Apr-2013
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Explores Mahler's early life, his relationship to literature, his achievements as a conductor in Vienna and New York, his unhappy marriage, and his work with "Metropolitan Opera" and "New York Philharmonic" in his later years. This title also illustrates why Mahler is a prime example of artistic idealism worn down by Austrian anti-Semitism.
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BBC Proms 2013: The Official Guide
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Published 18-Apr-2013
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The BBC Proms is the world's biggest and longest-running classical music festival and features many of the greatest artists and orchestras from the UK and around the world in over 80 concerts at the Royal Albert Hall and Cadogan Hall. This guide helps you plan your summer through the 2013 BBC Proms season.
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Pigs Might Fly
By Mark Blake
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Published 07-Mar-2013
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Mark Blake's history of Pink Floyd - the first for fifteen years - has already been acknowledged as the final word on this remarkable band's life.
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This is Your Brain on Music
By Daniel Levitin
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Published 01-May-2008
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Explains how humans experience music and unravels the mystery of our perennial love affair with it. Using musical examples from Bach to the Beatles, this work reveals the role of music in human evolution, shows how our musical preferences begin to form even before we are born, and explains why music can offer such an emotional experience.
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Reinventing Bach
By Paul Ellie
Hardback
Published 09-Oct-2012
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As a musician in eighteenth-century Germany, Bach was on the technological frontie - restoring organs, inventing instruments, and perfecting the tuning scheme still in use today. This book brings Bach into the digital present, where smartphones, video, and multimedia put the sound of Bach all around us.
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Man Who Sold The World
By Peter Doggett
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Published 04-Oct-2012
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Explores the rich heritage of Bowie's productive and inspired decade, and traces the way in which his music reflected and influenced the world around him. This book examines in detail Bowie's audacious creation of an 'alien' rock star, Ziggy Stardust, and his increasingly perilous explorations of the nature of identity and the meaning of fame.
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Freak
By Nile Rodgers
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Published 05-Jul-2012
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"Le Freak" is the fascinating inside story of pop music and its tangled roots, narrated by the man who absorbed everything in his topsy-turvy life--the pain and euphoria and fear and love--and turned it into some of the most sparklingly ebullient pop music ever recorded.
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