Classical Music in a Changing Culture : Essays from The American Record Guide 9781442234550, 9781442234543

Classical Listening : Two Decades of Reviews from The American Record Guide 9781442249363, 9781442249356

The classical record business gained a new lease on life in the 1980s when period instrument performances of baroque and

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The American colonial mind and the classical tradition: essays in comparative culture 9780674284531, 0674284534

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The Complete Classical Music Guide 9780744033472

What makes Mozart's music so great? Why does a minor chord sound sad and a major chord sound happy? What's the

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Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music 9780520943094

For almost half a century, Amiri Baraka has ranked among the most important commentators on African American music and c

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Culture Shock: A Leader's Guide to Changing Church Culture

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Music and culture in Italy from the Middle Ages to the Baroque: a collection of essays 9780674591080, 9780674863620

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Pop-Culture Pedagogy in the Music Classroom : Teaching Tools from American Idol to YouTube 9781461670568, 9780810877368

Teachers the world over are discovering the importance and benefits of incorporating popular culture into the music clas

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Science Talk: Changing Notions of Science in American Culture 9780813541525

Science news is met by the public with a mixture of fascination and disengagement. On the one hand, Americans are inflam

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Music and the Muses: The Culture of ’mousikē’ in the Classical Athenian City

This book explores the role of mousike, the realm of the Muses, in Greek life. More wide-ranging in its implications tha

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Classical Islam: Collected Essays (Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture) 9781474485982, 9781474486002, 9781474486019, 1474485987

This volume collects 21 papers on Classical Islam by one of the world's leading experts on medieval Islamic history

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