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        The Arts
        July 2015

        Refractions of Bob Dylan

        Cultural appropriations of an American icon

        by Eugen Banauch, John Heath

        Bob Dylan's cultural production in the second half of the twentieth century, his songs, but also his changing images and self-fashionings have informed and productively re/shaped certain images of America from outside and within. Refractions of Bob Dylan collects scholarly essays which thoroughly investigate the routes of Bob Dylan's cultural appropriations. The collection looks at how Dylan has been used and interpreted by others, and how his work has been reworked into cultural expressions in culturally and regionally divergent spaces. Additionally, a number of essays look at what Dylan has appropriated and incorporated in his own work, focusing on questions of plagiarism, tribute, allusion, love and theft. Some of the essays originate from the Refractions of Bob Dylan conference in Vienna (www.dylanvienna.at) which took place around the 70th birthday of Bob Dylan, and included Dylan experts such as Clinton Heylin, Stephen Scobie and Michael Gray. ;

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        Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups
        July 2015

        Refractions of Bob Dylan

        Cultural appropriations of an American icon

        by Edited by Eugen Banauch

        Bob Dylan's cultural production in the second half of the twentieth century, his songs, but also his changing images and self-fashionings have informed and productively re/shaped certain images of America from outside and within. Refractions of Bob Dylan collects scholarly essays which thoroughly investigate the routes of Bob Dylan's cultural appropriations. The collection looks at how Dylan has been used and interpreted by others, and how his work has been reworked into cultural expressions in culturally and regionally divergent spaces. Additionally, a number of essays look at what Dylan has appropriated and incorporated in his own work, focusing on questions of plagiarism, tribute, allusion, love and theft. Some of the essays originate from the Refractions of Bob Dylan conference in Vienna (www.dylanvienna.at) which took place around the 70th birthday of Bob Dylan, and included Dylan experts such as Clinton Heylin, Stephen Scobie and Michael Gray.

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        Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups
        July 2015

        Refractions of Bob Dylan

        Cultural appropriations of an American icon

        by Edited by Eugen Banauch

        Bob Dylan's cultural production in the second half of the twentieth century, his songs, but also his changing images and self-fashionings have informed and productively re/shaped certain images of America from outside and within. Refractions of Bob Dylan collects scholarly essays which thoroughly investigate the routes of Bob Dylan's cultural appropriations. The collection looks at how Dylan has been used and interpreted by others, and how his work has been reworked into cultural expressions in culturally and regionally divergent spaces. Additionally, a number of essays look at what Dylan has appropriated and incorporated in his own work, focusing on questions of plagiarism, tribute, allusion, love and theft. Some of the essays originate from the Refractions of Bob Dylan conference in Vienna (www.dylanvienna.at) which took place around the 70th birthday of Bob Dylan, and included Dylan experts such as Clinton Heylin, Stephen Scobie and Michael Gray.

      • Trusted Partner
        The Arts
        July 2015

        Refractions of Bob Dylan

        Cultural appropriations of an American icon

        by Eugen Banauch, John Heath

        Bob Dylan's cultural production in the second half of the twentieth century, his songs, but also his changing images and self-fashionings have informed and productively re/shaped certain images of America from outside and within. Refractions of Bob Dylan collects scholarly essays which thoroughly investigate the routes of Bob Dylan's cultural appropriations. The collection looks at how Dylan has been used and interpreted by others, and how his work has been reworked into cultural expressions in culturally and regionally divergent spaces. Additionally, a number of essays look at what Dylan has appropriated and incorporated in his own work, focusing on questions of plagiarism, tribute, allusion, love and theft. Some of the essays originate from the Refractions of Bob Dylan conference in Vienna (www.dylanvienna.at) which took place around the 70th birthday of Bob Dylan, and included Dylan experts such as Clinton Heylin, Stephen Scobie and Michael Gray. ;

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        Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups
        October 2010

        The Beethoven song companion

        by Paul Reid

        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, together with comprehensive notes on the poetry and the music. The inclusion of unfinished songs gives a fascinating insight into Beethoven's compositional methods. An introductory essay considers reasons for the relative neglect of the songs, the significance of Beethoven's choice of texts, his crucial role in the development of German art-song and specific aspects such as choice of key. Throughout the book, poetic and musical texts are discussed in their historical context, and in the overall context of Beethoven's life and music. It is anticipated that this book, like its predecessor The Schubert Song Companion, will encourage the performance and study of an important but comparatively neglected aspect of the work of the world's most celebrated composer.

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        Music
        December 2016

        Partners in suspense

        Critical essays on Bernard Herrmann and Alfred Hitchcock

        by Edited by Steven Rawle, Kevin J. Donnelly

        This volume of new, spellbinding essays explores the tense relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann, featuring new perspectives on their collaboration. Featuring essays by leading scholars of Hitchcock's work, including Richard Allen, Charles Barr, Murray Pomerance, Sidney Gottlieb and Jack Sullivan, the collection examines the working relationship between the pair and the contribution that Herrmann's work brings to Hitchcock's idiom. Examining key works, including The Man Who Knew Too Much, Psycho, Marnie and Vertigo, the essays explore approaches to sound, music, collaborative authorship and the distinctive contribution that Herrmann's work with Hitchcock brought to this body of films, examining the significance, meanings, histories and enduring legacies of one of film history's most important partnerships. By engaging with the collaborative work of Hitchcock and Herrmann, the book explores the ways in which film directors and composers collaborate, how this collaboration is experienced in the film text, and the ways in which such partnerships inspire later work.

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        The Arts
        October 2010

        Liszt's 'Chopin'

        A new edition

        by Meirion Hughes, Martin Hargreaves

        Passionate and pioneering, Liszt's biography of Chopin flaunts its author's celebrity while straddling the divide between the scholarly and the popular. In this volume Meirion Hughes combines a new translation of the first edition with an introduction that places the work in its cultural and political context. In his introduction Hughes explores the complex relationship between the two composers, the highly charged political context in which the book was written, and the discourse of cultural nationalism and progressivism that dominates content. He argues that Chopin (put in italics) was more than a tribute to an erstwhile friend, but rather a polemic of national music rooted in the politics of that 'year of revolutions', 1848-9. Hughes remains faithful to the original while putting clarity before strict adherence to what is, by general agreement, a quirky text. Controversial in its approach, Liszt's 'Chopin' challenges the long-held view of the memoir is as lightweight, inaccurate portrait of its subject, but rather as one of the most important and daring musical biographies of the nineteenth century. ;

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        December 2016

        Partners in suspense

        Critical essays on Bernard Herrmann and Alfred Hitchcock

        by Steven Rawle, Kevin J. Donnelly

        Introduction - K. J. Donnelly and Steven Rawle 1. Bernard Herrmann: Hitchcock's secret sharer - Jack Sullivan 2. Hitchcock, music and the mathematics of editing - Charles Barr 3. The anatomy of aural suspense in Rope and Vertigo - Kevin Clifton 4. The therapeutic power of music in Hitchcock's films - Sidney Gottlieb 5. A Lacanian take on Herrmann/Hitchcock - Royal S. Brown 6. Portentous arrangements: Bernard Herrmann and The Man Who Knew Too Much - Murray Pomerance 7. On the road with Hitchcock and Herrmann: sound, music and the car journey in Vertigo (1958) and Psycho(1960) - Pasquale Iannone 8. A dance to the music of Herrmann: a figurative dance suite - David Cooper 9. The sound of The Birds - Richard Allen 10. Musical romanticism v. the sexual aberrations of the criminal female: Marnie (1964) - K. J. Donnelly 11. The murder of Gromek: theme and variations - Tomas Williams 12. Mending the Torn Curtain: a rejected score's place in a discography - Gergely Hubai 13. The Herrmann-Hitchcock murder mysteries: post-mortem - William H. Rosar 14. How could you possibly be a Hitchcocko-Herrmannian?: Digitally re-narrativising collaborative authorship - Steven Rawle Index

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        The Arts
        May 2019

        Partners in suspense

        Critical essays on Bernard Herrmann and Alfred Hitchcock

        by Steven Rawle, Kevin J. Donnelly

        This volume of new, spellbinding essays explores the tense relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann, featuring new perspectives on their collaboration. Featuring essays by leading scholars of Hitchcock's work, including Richard Allen, Charles Barr, Murray Pomerance, Sidney Gottlieb and Jack Sullivan, the collection examines the working relationship between the pair and the contribution that Herrmann's work brings to Hitchcock's idiom. Examining key works, including The Man Who Knew Too Much, Psycho, Marnie and Vertigo, the essays explore approaches to sound, music, collaborative authorship and the distinctive contribution that Herrmann's work with Hitchcock brought to this body of films, examining the significance, meanings, histories and enduring legacies of one of film history's most important partnerships.

      • Trusted Partner
        Literature & Literary Studies
        December 2016

        Partners in suspense

        Critical essays on Bernard Herrmann and Alfred Hitchcock

        by Steven Rawle, Kevin J. Donnelly

        Introduction - K. J. Donnelly and Steven Rawle 1. Bernard Herrmann: Hitchcock's secret sharer - Jack Sullivan 2. Hitchcock, music and the mathematics of editing - Charles Barr 3. The anatomy of aural suspense in Rope and Vertigo - Kevin Clifton 4. The therapeutic power of music in Hitchcock's films - Sidney Gottlieb 5. A Lacanian take on Herrmann/Hitchcock - Royal S. Brown 6. Portentous arrangements: Bernard Herrmann and The Man Who Knew Too Much - Murray Pomerance 7. On the road with Hitchcock and Herrmann: sound, music and the car journey in Vertigo (1958) and Psycho(1960) - Pasquale Iannone 8. A dance to the music of Herrmann: a figurative dance suite - David Cooper 9. The sound of The Birds - Richard Allen 10. Musical romanticism v. the sexual aberrations of the criminal female: Marnie (1964) - K. J. Donnelly 11. The murder of Gromek: theme and variations - Tomas Williams 12. Mending the Torn Curtain: a rejected score's place in a discography - Gergely Hubai 13. The Herrmann-Hitchcock murder mysteries: post-mortem - William H. Rosar 14. How could you possibly be a Hitchcocko-Herrmannian?: Digitally re-narrativising collaborative authorship - Steven Rawle Index

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        The Arts
        February 2023

        Manchester Beethoven studies

        by Barry Cooper, Matthew Pilcher

        Manchester Beethoven studies presents ten original chapters by scholars with close ties to the University of Manchester. It throws new light on many aspects of Beethoven's life and works, with a special emphasis on early or little-known compositions such as his concert aria Erste Liebe, his String Quintet Op. 104 and his folksong settings. Biographical elements are prominent in a wide-ranging reassessment of his religious attitudes and beliefs, while Charles Hallé, founder of the Manchester-based Hallé Orchestra, is revealed to have been a tireless and energetic promoter of Beethoven's music in the later nineteenth century.

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        The Arts
        February 2023

        Manchester Beethoven studies

        by Barry Cooper, Matthew Pilcher

        Manchester Beethoven studies presents ten original chapters by scholars with close ties to the University of Manchester. It throws new light on many aspects of Beethoven's life and works, with a special emphasis on early or little-known compositions such as his concert aria Erste Liebe, his String Quintet Op. 104 and his folksong settings. Biographical elements are prominent in a wide-ranging reassessment of his religious attitudes and beliefs, while Charles Hallé, founder of the Manchester-based Hallé Orchestra, is revealed to have been a tireless and energetic promoter of Beethoven's music in the later nineteenth century.

      • Trusted Partner
        The Arts
        February 2023

        Manchester Beethoven studies

        by Barry Cooper, Matthew Pilcher

        Manchester Beethoven studies presents ten original chapters by scholars with close ties to the University of Manchester. It throws new light on many aspects of Beethoven's life and works, with a special emphasis on early or little-known compositions such as his concert aria Erste Liebe, his String Quintet Op. 104 and his folksong settings. Biographical elements are prominent in a wide-ranging reassessment of his religious attitudes and beliefs, while Charles Hallé, founder of the Manchester-based Hallé Orchestra, is revealed to have been a tireless and energetic promoter of Beethoven's music in the later nineteenth century.

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        Business, Economics & Law
        October 2023

        The Island Book of Records Volume I

        1959-68

        by Neil Storey

        The Island Book of Records brings the early years of this iconic record label to life. A fifteen-year labour of love, the volumes will fully document the analogue era of Island. Offering a comprehensive archive of album cover design and photography, together with the voices of the musicians, designers, photographers, producers, studio engineers and record company personnel that worked on each project, the volumes show in unique depth the workings of the label, covering every LP. Featuring material from recent interviews and from media interviews of the time, and each including a comprehensive discography of 45s, the books are lavishly illustrated with gig adverts (very many at venues which no longer exist), concert tickets, flyers, international LP variants, labels, LP and 45 adverts and other ephemera. These LP-sized editions are a collector's dream, offering a truly unparalleled resource for those interested in music history and a perfect gift for any music lover.

      • Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups

        Dennis Brain

        A Life in Music

        by Stephen Gamble

      • Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups
        April 2023

        Halo

        Die Geschichte hinter Depeche Modes Albumklassiker Violator

        by Kevin May und David McElroy

        Im März 1990 veröffentlichten Depeche Mode das Album, das seitdem als ihr Meisterstück gilt: Violator war das siebte Album der Electro-Rocker, die in den Achtzigern erst Kultstatus genossen hatten und dann zu Weltruhm aufstiegen, ausverkaufte Stadien inklusive. Mit »Enjoy The Silence« und »Personal Jesus« enthielt der Longplayer auch die bis heute größten Hits der Band. Violator blieb insgesamt 48 Wochen in den deutschen Albumcharts vertreten.   Wie dieses bahnbrechende Album zustande kam, dokumentieren die beiden Super-Fans Kevin May und David McElroy ganz genau. Sie sprachen dazu mit einer Vielzahl von Mitstreitern – mit der Produzentenlegende Gareth Jones, dem Remixer François Kevorkian, dem Fotografen und Band-Intimus Anton Corbijn sowie mit zahllosen Toningenieuren, Studiomusikern, Videoregisseuren oder Coverdesignern. Sie alle leisteten ihren Beitrag zu dem Gesamtwerk und konnten währenddessen einzigartige Einblicke in die Arbeitsweise von Martin Gore, Dave Gahan, Andy Fletcher und Alan Wilder gewinnen. Von der damals herrschenden Weltlage und der gesellschaftlichen Situation, in der Violator für viele zum Soundtrack ihres Lebens wurde, berichten zudem zahlreiche Fans aus den verschiedensten Ländern.   Diese packend erzählte Oral History gewährt ein faszinierendes Schlaglicht auf die wohl spannendste Entwicklungsphase dieser einzigartigen Band: Sie nimmt die LeserInnen mit in die Studios, wenn an Samples und Sounds gefeilt wurde, zu Signierstunden in den USA, bei denen beinahe Unruhen ausbrachen, und sie erforscht vor allem die einzigartige Chemie zwischen den vier Bandmitgliedern. Besondere Aufmerksamkeit widmet Halo der oft unterschätzten Rolle des vor kurzem verstorbenen Andy Fletcher, aber es schildert auch den enormen emotionalen Druck, unter dem Sänger Dave Gahan damals stand.   Ein Buch von Fans für Fans – passend zum neuen Album und der kommenden Tournee!

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        June 2023

        Applaus, Applaus - Sportfreunde Stiller

        Die Bandbiografie

        by Nicola Bardola

        Die Indie-Rockband Sportfreunde Stiller, Schöpfer der größten Fußball-Hymne Deutschlands (»’54, ’74, ’90, 2006« und »’54, ’74, ‚’90, 2010«), formiert sich bereits Anfang der 1990er Jahre in Germering bei München. 1996 erscheint die EP »Macht doch was ihr wollt – Ich geh’ jetzt!«, 1998 »Thonträger«. Damit beweisen die fußballbesessenen Punk-Popper auf Anhieb ihr musikalisches Können gepaart mit zuversichtlichem Wortwitz. Sie sind dann viel unterwegs und erspielen sich eine Fangemeinde, die sie liebevoll »Sportis« nennt. Mit jedem neuen Album wächst das Mitsingpotenzial ihrer Songs. Mit Liedern wie „Ein Kompliment« (2002), »Ans Ende denken wir zuletzt« (2003) oder »Ich, Roque« (2004) begeistern die drei Musiker aus Bayern den gesamten deutschsprachigen Raum und werden Stammgäste in den Charts. Als im Mai 2006 der WM-Hit »’54, ’74, ‚’90, 2006« erscheint, landen die Sportis auf Platz 1 in Deutschland. Die Fanmeilen der Republik bekommen nicht genug davon.   Peter Brugger (alias Balboa, Fan des FC Bayern, Sänger), Florian Weber (alias Flo, 1860 München, Schlagzeuger) und Rüdiger Linhof (alias Rüde, auch Löwen-Fan, Bassist) sind bald dreißig Jahre nach der Band-Gründung immer noch mit Poesie und Ironie »auf der guten Seite«: Die gleichnamige Veröffentlichung ist 2002 ihr Breakthrough-Album und erreicht Platz 6 der Charts. Alle nachfolgenden Alben erreichen Platz 1 oder 2. Nach 2016 ziehen sich die Sportis zurück. Ob sie jemals wieder gemeinsam auftreten werden, ist lange ungewiss. Das Trio dividiert sich auseinander und verfolgt Soloprojekte. Während des Lockdowns finden die Sportis aber wieder zueinander: Ihr achtes Studioalbum »Jeder nur ein X« erscheint nach sechs Jahren Pause im November 2022.   Was steckt hinter der jahrzehntelangen Freundschaft der Sportis? Was ist das Geheimnis ihres nicht endenden Erfolgs? Die erste Bandbiografie geht diesen und vielen weiteren Fragen nach, beschäftigt sich u. a. mit den Live-Konzerten – vom anonymen Gig im Provinz-Club bis zum Arena-Auftritt vor Tausenden Fans, die jede Zeile mitsingen – und mit den vielen Sportfreunde-Videos, die wesentlich zum Erfolg der Songs beitragen. Auch die Soloprojekte der drei werden vorgestellt, unter anderem Flo’s Arbeit als Schriftsteller und Hip-Hopper. Und auch mit Marc Liebscher setzt sich das Buch auseinander, der die Sportis in Germering entdeckt und bis heute ihr Manager ist. Die drei Musiker sehen ihn weniger als Promoter denn als Bandmitglied. Das hochinformative Buch zeigt die Sportfreunde in ihrer ganzen schöpferischen Vielfalt auf dem Weg von den gut gelaunten Indie-Pop Burschen hin zu den verantwortungsvollen und gesellschaftlich engagierten Musikern, die sie heute sind.

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        Unstrung

        Rants and Stories of a Noise Guitarist

        by Marc Ribot

        Throughout his genre-defying career as one of the most innovative musicians of our time, iconoclastic guitar player Marc Ribot has consistently defied expectation at every turn. Here, in his first collection of writing, we see that same uncompromising sensibility at work as he playfully interrogates our assumptions about music, life, and death. Through essays, short stories, and the occasional unfilmable film “mistreatment” that showcase the sheer range of his voice, Unstrung captures an artist whose versatility on the page rivals his dexterity onstage. In the first section of the book, “Lies and Distortion,” Ribot turns his attention to his instrument—“my relation to the guitar is one of struggle; I’m constantly forcing it to be something else”—and reflects on his influences (and friends) like Robert Quine (The Voidoids) and producer Hal Willner (Saturday Night Live), while delivering an impassioned plea on behalf of artists’ rights. Elsewhere, we glimpse fragments of Ribot’s life as a traveling musician—he captures both the monotony of touring as well as small moments of beauty and despair on the road. In the heart of the collection, “Sorry, We’re Experiencing Technical Difficulties,” Ribot offers wickedly humorous short stories that synthesize the best elements of the Russian absurdist tradition with the imaginative heft of George Saunders. Taken together, these stories and essays cement Ribot’s position as one of the most dynamic and creative voices of our time.

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