About this title: The late nineteenth century witnessed the birth and popularization of a number of highly emotional musical styles that played on the eagerness of modern Europeans and Americans to toy with the limits of sanity and to taste the ecstasies of living on the edge. This absorbing book explores these popular, passionate musical styles -- which include ...
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Description: Fine. 1859739040 Great shape! The late nineteenth century witnessed the birth and popularization of a number of highly emotional musical styles that played on the eagerness of modern Europeans and Americans to toy with the limits of sanity and to taste the ecstasies of living on the edge. This absorbing book explores these popular, passionate musical styles--which include flamenco, tango and rebetika--and points out that they arose as well-intentioned intellectuals co-opted the emotional ... read more
Description: FINE. Crisp, clean, unread hardcover with light shelfwear to the boards (no dj) and publisher's mark to one edge otherwise-GREAT! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Date Published: 6-1-98
ISBN-13:9781859739044ISBN:1859739040
Description: FINE. Crisp, clean, unread hardcover with light shelfwear to the boards (no dj) and publisher's mark to one edge otherwise-GREAT! 0.84 lbs. read more
Edition: First Edition. Hardback. No Dustjacket.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Berg Publishers, Oxford, And New York
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9781859739044ISBN:1859739040
Description: Fine. 8vo. Illustrated laminated boards. Issued without dustjacket. Contributors include Timothy deWaal Malefyt, Marta E. Savigliano, Angela Shand. ISBN: 1-85973-904-0 Pages: x, 201. read more
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