Gmainer-Pranzl Franz Gmainer-Pranzl & Fortin-Rittberger Jessica Fortin-Rittberger 
Demokratie – Ein interdisziplinaeres Forschungsprojekt [PDF ebook] 

This book is the inaugural volume a series entitled Polymeric Foams: Technology and Applications. Generally, thermoplastic and thermoset foams have been treated as two separate practices in industry. …

The essays in New Mansions for Music: Performance, Pedagogy and Criticism look at one of the most ancient and rigorous classical musical traditions of India, the Karnatik music system, and the kind …

This volume explores not only the close ties that link the cultures and musics of East and Northeast Asia, but also the distinctive features that separate …

Get Started in Classical Music is a clear, concise yet comprehensive introduction to the world of classical music for the newcomer. It takes your listening experience as the starting point and fills …

This book tells the story of how a regional Chinese theatrical form, Shanghai Yue Opera, evolved from the all-male ’beggar’s song’ of the early twentieth century to become the largest all-female …

Critical of technologically determinist assumptions underpinning current educational policy, Victoria Armstrong argues that this growing technicism has grave implications for the music classroom …

The first concept album in the history of popular music, the soundtrack of the Summer of Love or  »Hippy Symphony No. 1 »: Sgt. Pepper »s Lonely Hearts Club Band is first and foremost the album that …

Armed only with turntables, a mixer and a pile of records, hip-hop DJs and turntable musicians have changed the face of music. However, whilst hip-hop has long been recognised as an influential …

The first book devoted to the composer Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) since 1935, this survey provides the fullest account of his life and the most detailed appraisal of his music to date. …