Music

Henry Rollins is an artist whose legendary, no-holds-barred performances encompasses music, acting, and written and spoken word.  As Details magazine said when it named Rollins the 1994 Man of the Year: "through two decades of rage and discipline, Henry Rollins has transformed himself from an L. more...

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A newly translated LIBRETTO of Rossini's LA CENERENTOLA. more...

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Serbian and Greek Art Music is the first ever book in the English language to examine the assimilation and development of western art music in Serbia and Greece during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Music education, music life and the creation of the two neighbouring nations since they gained freedom from the Ottomans in the nineteenth century are themes that reverberate through the volume. The book relates the efforts of local musicians to synchronize their musical environment with the West and achieve the inclusion of Serbian and Greek music in western music history, an aim that seemed coherent to overall progress and, at various historical stages, achievable, but has never been realized. Romanou ‘patches up’ this failure with a breadth of research, at a time when the interest in Balkan cultures is becoming increasingly popular among western researchers. Written by seven renowned musicologists, chapters propose new paths of study to scholars of Balkan studies and music of the Balkan people, their culture and Orthodox Christianity, and facilitate a more comprehensive perception of the area. The book stresses the interaction between music and politics, and how these ‘opposite’ terms have been altered by the political upheavals that divided and dislocated the countries’ populations with catastrophic force and high frequency, impeding cultural evolution. more...

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When Stewart Copeland gets dressed, he has an identity crisis. Should he put on "leather pants, hostile shirts, and pointy shoes"? Or wear something more appropriate to the "tax-paying, property-owning, investment-holding lotus eater" his success has allowed him to become? This dilemma is at the heart of Copeland's vastly entertaining memoir-in-stories, Strange Things Happen. The world knows Copeland as the drummer for The Police, one of the most successful bands in rock more...

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A newly translated LIBRETTO of Verdi's OTELLO with many music examples. more...

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