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music David Ake, Charles Hiroshi Garrett, and Daniel Goldmark, editors Jazz/Not Jazz The Music and Its Boundaries More than just a history of jazz and its performers, this collection seeks out those people and pieces missing from traditional narratives to explore what they can tell us about the way jazz has been defined. David Ake is the author of Jazz Cultures and Jazz Matters: Sound, Place and Time since Bebop, both from UC Press. Charles Hiroshi Garrett is the author of Struggling to Define a Nation: American Music in the Twentieth Century (UC Press). Daniel Goldmark is the author of Tunes for ‘Toons (UC Press). A Roth Family Foundation Music in America Book JUNE 300 pages, 6 x 9”, 7 b/w photographs, 1 line illustration, 4 tables, 10 music examples Jazz World cloth 978-0-520-27103-6 $70.00tx/£48.95 paper 978-0-520-27104-3 $34.95tx/£24.95 Beth E. Levy Frontier Figures American Music and the Mythology of the American West Frontier Figures is a comprehensive illumination of what the West meant and still means to composers living and writing long after the close of the frontier. Beth E. Levy is Associate Professor of Music at the University of California, Davis. California Studies in 20th-Century Music, 14 An Authors Imprint Book MARCH 468 pages, 6 x 9”, 10 b/w photographs, 84 music examples American Music/Composers/Classical Music World cloth 978-0-520-26776-3 $75.00tx/£52.00 paper 978-0-520-26778-7 $34.95tx/£24.95 Travis A. Jackson Blowin’ the Blues Away Performance and Meaning in the New York Jazz Scene Blowin’ the Blues Away examines how jazz has thrived in New York following its popular resurgence in the 1980s. Through the notes and words of its most accomplished performers and most ardent fans, jazz appears not simply as a musical style, but as a cultural form. Travis A. Jackson is Associate Professor of Music and the Humanities at the University of Chicago. Music of the African Diaspora, 16 Copub: Center for Black Music Research A Roth Family Foundation Music in America Book JUNE 340 pages, 6 x 9”, 6 line illustrations, 3 tables Jazz/American Music World cloth 978-0-520-27044-2 $70.00tx/£48.95 paper 978-0-520-27045-9 $29.95tx/£19.95 Luciano Chessa Luigi Russolo, Futurist Noise, Visual Arts, and the Occult In the first English language study of Luigi Russolo (1885–1947)—painter, composer, builder of musical instruments, and member of the Italian Futurist movement— Luciano Chessa emphasizes the futurist’s interest in the occult, showing it to be a leitmotif for his life and a foundation for his art. Luciano Chessa teaches music history at the San Francisco Conservatory. An Ahmanson Foundation Book in the Humanities MARCH 336 pages, 6 x 9", 29 b/w photographs Composers/Art/Music World cloth 978-0-520-27063-3 $75.00tx/£52.00 paper 978-0-520-27064-0 $34.95tx/£24.95 www.ucpress.edu | 37
Music / cinema Susan McClary Desire and Pleasure in Seventeenth Century Music Susan McClary examines the mechanisms through which seventeenth-century musicians simulated extreme affective states— desire, divine rapture, and ecstatic pleasure —and demonstrates how every major genre of the period, from opera to religious music to instrumental pieces based on dances, was part of this striving for heightened passions. Susan McClary is Professor of Music at Case Western Reserve University. FEBRUARY 352 pages, 6 x 9", 75 music examples Classical Music World cloth 978-0-520-24734-5 $60.00tx/£41.95 Jacob Smith The Thrill Makers Celebrity, Masculinity, and Stunt Performance In The Thrill Makers, Jacob Smith explains how working-class stunt performers helped shape definitions of American manhood and pioneered a form of modern media celebrity that now occupies an increasingly prominent place in our contemporary popular culture. Jacob Smith is the author of Vocal Tracks: Performance and Sound Media and Spoken Word: Postwar American Phonograph Cultures, both from UC Press. MAY 280 pages, 6 x 9”, 21 b/w photographs Cinema Studies World cloth 978-0-520-27088-6 $70.00tx/£48.95 paper 978-0-520-27089-3 $29.95tx/£19.95 Mauro Calcagno From Madrigal to Opera Monteverdi’s Staging of the Self Covering more than a century of music and cultural history, this study explores the works of Claudio Monteverdi to investigate how his music reflects changing ideas about performance and role-playing by singers. Mauro Calcagno is Associate Professor of Music at SUNY, Stony Brook. An Ahmanson Foundation Book in the Humanities MARCH 328 pages, 6 x 9”, 10 b/w photographs, 4 line illustrations, 6 tables, 20 music examples Classical Music/Opera World cloth 978-0-520-26768-8 $60.00tx/£41.95 Siegfried Kracauer Siegfried Kracauer’s American Writings Essays on Film and Popular Culture Edited by Johannes von Moltke and Kristy Rawson, with an afterword by Martin Jay Siegfried Kracauer (1889–1966), friend and colleague of Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno, was one of the most influential film critics of the mid-twentieth century. These essays provide a unique perspective on this eminent émigré and illuminate post-war cinema and culture. Siegfried Kracauer (1889–1966) was a member of the Frankfurt School and is considered one of the great film critics of the 20th century. Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism, 45 JUNE 288 pages, 6 x 9” Cinema Studies World cloth 978-0-520-27182-1 $70.00tx/£48.95 paper 978-0-520-27183-8 $29.95tx/£19.95 38 | University of California Press
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