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Modernism in Russian Piano Music : Skriabin, Prokofiev, and Their Russian Contemporaries / by Roberts, Peter Deane

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Music for a King : George Herbert's Style and the Metrical Psalms / by Freer, Coburn

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Listening for Africa : Freedom, Modernity, and the Logic of Black Music's African Origins / by García, David F.

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Shaping Words to Fit the Soul : The Southern Ritual Grounds of Afro-Modernism / by Grandt, Jürgen E., 1968-

Table of Contents: “…A life and power far beyond the letter : the Afro-modernism of life and times of Frederick Douglass -- Shaping words to fit the soul : Afro-modernism and the breakdown of communication in Jean Toomer's Cane -- Roll call : Richard Wright's "Long black song" and the betrayal of music -- Blues and the abstract truth : the Southern groove continuum from W.C. …”
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Modernizing Composition : Sinhala Song, Poetry, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Sri Lanka / by Field, Garrett M., 1981-

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Music and the Making of Portugal and Spain : Nationalism and Identity Politics in the Iberian Peninsula /

Table of Contents: “…The Portuguese National Anthem / Paulo Ferreira de Castro ; The Battle for the Greatest Musical Emblem : The National Anthem and the Symbolic Construction of Francoist Spain / Igor Contreras Zubillaga ; Portuguese Rural Traditions as Cultural Exports : How Modernism and Transnational Connections Shaped the New State's Folklore Politics / Vera Marques Alves -- Part II. …”
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A History of Spanish Piano Music / by Powell, Linton

Table of Contents: “…[Part] I : Early Spanish piano music, 1740-1840 -- Madrid, Valencia, Málaga, and the Escorial -- Seville and the Basque Region -- Montserrat, Barcelona, and Related Posts -- [Part] II : The piano music of Isaac Albeniz, Enrique Granados, their immediate predecessors, and their contemporaries -- Immediate Predecessors and Contemporaries -- Isaac Albeniz -- Enrique Granados -- [Part] III : Falla, Turina, Mompou, and their contemporaries -- Manuel de Falla -- Joaquin Turina -- Federico Mompou -- The Grupo de los Ocho -- Others from Madrid -- Cataluña -- Valencia and the Levante -- The Basque Region and Navarra -- León and Old Castile -- Other Contemporaries -- [Part] IV : The influence of the guitar on Spanish keyboard music -- [Part] V : Spanish piano music since World War II -- Barcelona : The Manuel de Falla Circle -- Others Associated with Barcelona -- Madrid : The Grupo Nueva Masica Others Associated with Madrid -- Seville and Other Regions -- Two Spanish Composers of North America -- Appendix I : Anthologies and Modern Editions of Early Spanish Piano Music -- Appendix II : Spanish Piano Music since World War II : A Selective List with Publishers.…”
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The Jazz Republic : Music, Race, and American Culture in Weimar Germany / by Wipplinger, Jonathan O.

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The American Stravinsky : The Style and Aesthetics of Copland's New American Music, the Early Works, 1921-1938 / by Murchison, Gayle Minetta

Table of Contents: “…Scherzo humoristique (Cat and mouse) : Copland's American Petrushka and his debt to Stravinsky -- Boulanger and compositional maturity -- Popular music and jazz : authentic or Ersatz? -- Paris and jazz : French neoclassicism and the new modern American music -- Back in the United States : popular music, jazz, and the new American music -- European influence beyond Stravinsky and les Six : Hába and Schoenberg -- Toward a new national music during the 1930s : Copland's populism, accessible style, and folk and popular music -- Copland's journey left -- "Folk" music and the popular front : El salón Mexico -- Billy the Kid -- A vision for American music -- .…”
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Prosody and Purpose in the English Renaissance / by Hardison, O. B., Jr. (Osborne Bennett), 1928-1990

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Richard Wagner's Essays on Conducting : A New Translation with Critical Commentary / by Walton, Chris, 1963-

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The Idea of the Book in the Middle Ages : Language Theory, Mythology, and Fiction / by Gellrich, Jesse M., 1942-

Table of Contents: “…The argument of the book: medieval writing and modern theory --…”
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American Creoles : The Francophone Caribbean and the American South /

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Kinds of Blue : The Jazz Aesthetic in African American Narrative / by Grandt, Jürgen E., 1968-

Table of Contents: “…-- The remembering song : toward an aesthetic of literary jazz in Sidney Bechet's Treat it Gentle -- "Swing it, sister" : jazz time in Ann Petry's The Street -- Boping billy clubs, burning cadillacs, and wigged-out aliens : jazz and violence in short stories by Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, and Amiri Baraka -- Kinds of blue : Toni Morrison, Hans Janowitz, and the jazz aesthetic -- Coda: Waiting to be the music : hybridity, afro-modernism, and critical practice.…”
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The Lives of Machines : The Industrial Imaginary in Victorian Literature and Culture / by Ketabgian, Tamara Siroone, 1969-

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The Dybbuk Century : The Jewish Play That Possessed the World /

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Estudios de folklore y literatura dedicados a Mercedes Díaz Roig /

Table of Contents: “…Ángeles Soler -- Las coplas de "La llorona" / Flora Botton-Burlá -- Los parricidas: el mito de Edipo y los enfrentamientos padre e hijo en el corrido / María Herrera-Sobek -- Los corridos de maldición / Ma. del Carmen Garza de Koniecki -- Vida de freira en la tradición oral luso-brasileira / Manuel da Costa Fontes -- Musical settings of the lament Vida de freira in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish and Portuguese sources as well as its tunes in the modern Portuguese oral tradition / Israel J. …”
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