Recent Acquisitions

Check out the new books, scores, and recordings added to our shelves since our last Recent Acquisitions post on April 11, 2024. View some highlights in the New Arrivals display at the library or jump to the complete list of new scores, books, eBooks, and CDs.

Weekly highlights

Book coverMarciniak, Marta. 2017. Inna droga życia : niedokończona historia punka w Warszawie i na Górnym Śląsku. Pyskowice: ZIMA Firma Fonograficzno-Handlowa. [ML3534.6 .P7 M37 2017]

Fenomen punk jako zjawisko opisywało już wielu. Bo punk rock jest jak zaraza; jak dopadnie, to nie ma miękkiej gry, po prostu wsiąka i zostaje. I tak już od kilku dekad, bo to właściwie jedyna subkultura, która wciąż istnieje i ma się dobrze! Jedne odchodzą, na ich miejsce pojawiają się nowe, a punk rock jest i będzie! Bo każdy z nas potrzebuje choć trochę wolności, oderwania się, innego, nie zaśmieconego popkulturą spojrzenia na rzeczywistość, wyżycia się, zabawy, przyjaźni trwających lata…. To wszystko oferuje punk rock. I o tym jest ta książka, nie zatrzymuje się tylko na tym co było, doskonale łączy stary punkowy świat z nowym, przy okazji zahaczając o sprawy społeczne, wolność osobistą, zespoły, kluby, społeczności, skłoty… Nowy Jork, Warszawa, Gliwice, Ruda Śląska, Czerwionka-Leszczyny czy Jastrzębie, co łączy te miasta? Odpowiedź jest prosta: punk rock! Ciekawe wywiady, mocne, niepublikowane zdjęcia, relacje z ważnych dla punk rocka miejsc, spotkania z ciekawymi osobami tworzącymi scenę punk. Kilka tysięcy przejechanych kilometrów, kilkadziesiąt godzin nagranych wywiadów, to wszystko znajdziecie w tej książce!

Book coverBroad, Leah. 2023. Quartet : How Four Women Challenged the Musical World. London: Faber and Faber. [ML82 .B76 2023Y]

Ethel Smyth (b.1858): Famed for her operas, this trailblazing queer Victorian composer was a larger-than-life socialite, intrepid traveller and committed Suffragette. Rebecca Clarke (b.1886): This talented violist and Pre-Raphaelite beauty was one of the first women ever hired by a professional orchestra, later celebrated for her modernist experimentation. Dorothy Howell (b.1898): A prodigy who shot to fame at the 1919 Proms, her reputation as the ‘English Strauss’ never dented her modesty; on retirement, she tended Elgar’s grave alone. Doreen Carwithen (b.1922): One of Britain’s first woman film composers who scored Elizabeth II’s coronation film, her success hid a 20-year affair with her married composition tutor. In their time, these women were celebrities. They composed some of the century’s most popular music and pioneered creative careers; but today, they are ghostly presences, surviving only as muses and footnotes to male contemporaries like Elgar, Vaughan Williams and Britten – until now. Leah Broad’s magnificent group biography resurrects these forgotten voices, recounting lives of rebellion, heartbreak and ambition, and celebrating their musical masterpieces. Lighting up a panoramic sweep of British history over two World Wars, Quartet revolutionises the canon forever.

Book coverEisenberg, Andrew J. 2024. Sounds of Other Shores : The Musical Poetics of Identity on Kenya’s Swahili Coast. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press. [ML3503 .K46 E47 2024X]

Swahili taarab, a form of sung poetry that emerged as East Africa's first mass-mediated popular music in the 1930s, is a famously cosmopolitan form, rich in audible influences from across the Indian Ocean. But the variants of the genre that emerged in the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa during the twentieth century feature particularly dramatic, even flamboyant, appropriations of Indian and Arab sonic gestures and styles. Combining oral history, interpretive ethnography, and musical analysis, Sounds of Other Shores explores how Swahili-speaking Muslims in twentieth-century Mombasa derived pleasure and meaning from acts of transoceanic musical appropriation. The result is a musical anthropology of Kenyan Swahili subjectivity that reframes the longstanding questions about Swahili identity while contributing to broader discussions about identity and citizenship in Africa and the Indian Ocean world.

Book coverVeal, Michael E. 2024. Living Space : John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Free Jazz, from Analog to Digital. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press. [ML3506 .V4 2024X]

Living Space: John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Free Jazz, from Analog to Digital fuses biography and style history in order to illuminate the music of two jazz icons, while drawing on the discourses of photography and digital architecture to fashion musical insights that may not be available through the traditional language of jazz analysis. The book follows the controversial trajectories of two jazz legends, emerging from the 1959 album Kind of Blue. Coltrane's odyssey through what became known as "free jazz" brought stylistic (r)evolution and chaos in equal measure. Davis's spearheading of "jazz-rock fusion" opened a door through which jazz's ongoing dialogue with the popular tradition could be regenerated, engaging both high and low ideas of creativity, community, and commerce.

Book coverDiao, Ying. 2023. Faith by Aurality in China’s Ethnic Borderland : Media, Mobility, and Christianity at the Margins. Rochester: University of Rochester Press. [ML3187 .D56 2023X]

Illuminates how voice, faith, and hearing become intertwined with technologies of sound reproduction and mobility amid the rapidly transforming religious landscape of China's ethnic borderland. The twentieth-century expansion of Protestantism among the upland peoples in the China-Southeast Asia borderlands has catalyzed a profound sociocultural change in the region. In Faith by Aurality in China's Ethnic Borderland, Ying Diao finds important sonic evidence for this religious revolution in the rapidly transforming region of northwest Yunnan, presenting a compelling account of the region's Christian minority and highlighting the importance of aurality in this group's response to Christianity and other modernizing projects. Diao documents a range of sounded religious practices by the Lisu, an indigenous yet historically migratory people, to examine how participatory music production, circulation, and consumption become integral to indigenous perception and experience of faith. Weaving together evidence from multisite fieldwork, archival records, and audiovisual media, Diao demonstrates a nuanced understanding of people of faith at the margins, one centered on the sensual and material dimensions of religion and on the intertwining of local agency and external hegemonic forces. The resulting book provides historical and contextual information that enriches anthropological, ethnomusicological, and historical scholarship on global Christianity while showing how sound can be an ambivalent but fruitful avenue through which ways of faith are constructed in a context where religion remains voiceless.

Book coverCavanagh, David. 2023. The Creation Records Story : My Magpie Eyes Are Hungry for the Prize. London: Faber & Faber. [ML3792 .C74 C39 2023Y]

My Magpie Eyes Are Hungry for the Prize tells the uncensored story of Creation Records. Founded by Alan McGee in 1983, the label achieved notoreity as the home of bands including Primal Scream, The Jesus and Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine and Teenage Fanclub. During the Britpop boom of the mid-nineties, the astonishing success of Oasis brought Creation fame on the world stage. In 1999, however, McGee announced his shock departure as his label's influence over a generation of British music came to an abrupt end. Unavailable for many years, the book has gained almost mythical status. Containing interviews with Creation musicians, employees, supporters and detractors, this is the inside story of an iconic record label -- and a defining era of twentieth-century British music.

Book coverFahrenkrog Cianelli, Laura. 2020. Los “indios cantores” del Paraguay : prácticas musicales y dinámicas de movilidad en Asunción colonial (siglos XVI-XVIII). Buenos Aires: SB. [ML239 .P38 A784 2020]

Este libro se centra en la configuración de las prácticas musicales en la ciudad de Asunción del Paraguay durante el período colonial. Los indígenas músicos de los pueblos de indios aledaños -- los 'indios cantores' -- cobraron protagonismo en la actividad musical urbana al ser trasladados desde la reducciones jesuíticas y pueblos de indios a cargo de curas seculares y franciscanos hasta Asunción para fiestas y celebraciones, propiciando la circulación de bienes, saberes y prácticas. Los esclavos afrodescendientes participaron, por su parte, en las prácticas musicales cotidianas de instituciones como el Colegio de la Compañía de Jesús. Sin los 'indios cantores', y sin las prácticas de movilidad que los situaban en uno y otro contexto, el modelo urbano institucional-musical no hubiese sido posible de mantener en este distante rincón del imperio.

Book coverJones, Margaret, and Loretta. Lynn. 2023. The Life and Times of Patsy Cline. Nashville, TN: Country Music Foundation Press. [ML420 .C57 J66 2023Y]

The riveting and heart-wrenching story of country music diva Patsy Cline, from her against-all-odds rise from poverty and a strange, lonely childhood shrouded in secrecy, to her tragic and untimely death at the age of thirty when, ironically, she had finally achieved the triumph she sought all her life.

Book coverChiesa, Laura, ed. 2024. Resonances against Fascism : Modernist and Avant-Garde Sounds from Kurt Weill to Black Lives Matter. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. [ML3916 .R468 2024X]

Resonances against Fascism explores some of the myriad ways music and, more broadly, sound have emerged from, and been mobilized to address, the urgencies of the present, from modernism to today. Taking the works and life of the German-born composer Kurt Weill as a pivotal point of departure, the collection brings together a range of critical voices, each with a singular tone, to demonstrate the pervasive force of sound in the face of fascism. Across eight essays, contributors sound out the anti-authoritarian resonances of modernist and avant-garde aesthetics from Weill to Nina Simone and Chico Buarque, to Marguerite Duras and Jean-Luc Godard, to Lou Reed and Patti Smith, and to the choral chants of the Black Lives Matter Movement. The second volume in the Humanities to the Rescue book series, a public humanities project dedicated to discussing the role of the arts and humanities today, Resonances against Fascism takes its cue from the disruptive force of music in traversing the boundaries between—and engaging readers from—modernist and avant-garde studies, critical and cultural theory, musicology and sound studies, critical race and gender studies, performance studies, and philosophy.

Book coverMdzivani, T. H. (Tatstsi︠a︡na Herasimaŭna). 2018. Belorusskoe kont︠s︡ertno-ispolnitelʹskoe iskusstvo sovremennosti : 1991-2016. Minsk: Belarusskai︠a︡ navuka. [ML309 .B4 M49 2018]

Работа посвящена творческой деятельности белорусских музыкантов, определивших расцвет национального концертно-исполнительского искусства в период формирования и становления государственного суверенитета. В поле зрения находится концертная практика пианистов, органистов, исполнителей на народных и духовых инструментах, а также хоровых и оркестровых дирижеров. В книге проводится мысль о том, что в 1991—2016 гг. в Беларуси была сформирована национально-самобытная музыкальная культура академического исполнительства, которая заняла важное место в европейском и мировом художественном пространстве. Предназначена для профессиональных музыкантов, любителей музыки, учреждений образования культуры и искусства, а также для исследователей гуманитарного профиля и просвещенного человека.

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Keep reading for the complete list of new scores, books, and eBooks, and CDs.

Scores

  • M7 .C272 2023 — Intavolature d'organo tedesche di Berlino: SBPK - Mus. Ms. Lynar B. Vol. II Mus. Ms. Lynar B 2 - B 5 - B 6 / a cura di Armando Carideo.
  • M25 .C46 op.10 2023 — Etudes, op. 10, piano = Klavier / Fryderyk Chopin ; edited by Roy Howat = herausgegeben von Roy Howat = édition de Roy Howat.
  • M25 .H399 P6 2023 — Posuo Pishon : for piano (2022) / Xuntian He.
  • M200 .S73 2023 — Volks- und Kinderlieder : Spielbuch für Klavier zu vier Händen = Folk and children songs : playbook for piano four hands : (2022) / Martin Stadtfeld.
  • M204 .D485 T7 2023 — Trompe-l'œil : für Klavier vierhändig = for piano four hands : (2023) / Leonid Desyatnikov.
  • M231 .B475 op.1 no.3 2023 — Sonata for violoncello and piano (2 violoncellos) = Sonata für Violoncello und Klavier (2 Violoncelli) : G major = G-Dur = Sol majeur : opus 1/3 / Martin Berteau ; edited by = Herausgegeben von Beverley Ellis ; realization of basso continuo by = Generalbassaussetzung von Rainer Mohrs.
  • M289 .D376 P46 2023 — 24 pensées musicales : pour 2 trompettes chromatiques = für 2 Trompeten = for 2 trumpets / François Georges Auguste Dauverné ; ediert von = edited by Jean-Louis Couturier.
  • M312.4 .T3 TWV 42:D11 2023 — Triosonate D-Dur für Violine, Viola oder 2. Violine und Basso continuo = Trio sonata in D major for violin, viola or 2nd violin, and basso continuo, TWV 42:D11 / Georg Philipp Telemann ; Generalbassaussetzung von = Continuo realization by Dankwart von Zadow ; herausgegeben von = edited by Günter und Leonore von Zadow.
  • M316 .M27 H6 2023 — 2 Sonaten für zwei Altblockflöten und Basso continuo / Giovanni Battista Martini (Padre Martini) ; erstmals mit ergänztem Basso continuo herausgegeben von Klaus Hofmann.
  • M317 .H46 S.252 2023 — Trio sonata in G major : (SeiH 252) for 2 oboes & basso continuo / Johann David Heinichen ; edited by Alejandro Garri.
  • M317 .Q3 QV2:42 2023 — Trio sonata in B-flat major (QV 2:42) : for 2 transverse flutes & basso continuo / Johann Joachim Quantz ; edited by Alejandro Garri.
  • M350 .H583 F3 2023 — 18 fantazias, almands and corants : for 3. base violes = 18 Fantasien, Allemanden und Couranten : für drei Bass-Viole da gamba / John Hingeston ; herausgegeben von Olaf Tetampel.
  • M377 .F72 V6 2023 — Vocalise : for flute, clarinet in B flat (or soprano voice) and harp (1994) / Cheryl Frances-Hoad.
  • M451 .C36 C46 2023 — Cuarteto n.° 3 en do menor ; Intermezzo-scherzo sobre el apellido Milanes ; Cuarteto en Do para narrador y cuarteto ; "Patrón de modas. Humorada sonora" : para canto y cuarteto / Conrado del Campo ; edición de Tomás Garrido y Aldo Mata.
  • M452 .B29 no.3 2023 — Streichquartett Nr. 3 / Béla Bartók ; herausgegeben von László Somfai unter Mitarbeit von Zsombor Németh.
  • M452 .B29 no.4 2023 — Streichquartett Nr. 4 / Béla Bartók ; herausgegeben von László Somfai unter Mitarbeit von Zsombor Németh.
  • M452 .S8352 S74 2023 — Sternenstill : for string quartet, 2020 / Lisa Streich.
  • M561 .B78 Q8 2023 — Quintetos : a due violini, viola, fagotto e violoncello, Opera II, L 208 - L 213. Vol. 2, / Cayetano Brunetti ; edición crítica: Raúl Angulo Díaz.
  • M585 .M64 MWV8.15 2023 — Concertino in D major : (MWV 8.15) : for 2 transverse flutes, 2 horns in D & basso continuo / Johann Melchior Molter ; edited by Alejandro Garri.
  • M922 .M357 S6 2023 — Sonata con violini e 4 trombe (HH. 30 n. 7) in Re magg. : per quattro trombe, archi e basso continuo / Giovanni Battista Martini ; edizione critica a cura di Federico Ferri e Daniele Proni.
  • M1001 .S554 op. 10 2023 — Symphony no. 1 / Shostakovich.
  • M1001 .S554 op. 141 2023 — Symphony no. 15 / Shostakovich.
  • M1001 .S554 op. 70 2023 — Symphony no. 9 / Shostakovich.
  • M1001 .S554 op.103 2023 B7 — Symphony no. 11 : the year 1905 / Shostakovich.
  • M1012 .P9 M47 2023 — More imaginary folksongs : solo violin and orchestra (2023) / Stephen Pratt.
  • M1620 .S24 M8 2023 — Musical settings of the ancient lyrics : for voice and piano = Vertonungen antiker Dichtung : für Gesang und Klavier : (1875-1880) / Charles Salaman ; edited by Markus Stachon with the assistance of Luisa Naumann.
  • M1804 .S55 2024 — Silk and bamboo : instrumental chamber music from the Chinese South / edited by Chuen-Fung Wong.
  • M2000 .L54 O7 2023 — Oratorio a Santa Bárbara : (1775) / José Lidón ; edición, Raúl Angulo Díaz y Antoni Pons Seguí.
  • M2020 .B68 P72 2022 — Psaume CXXX : "Du fond de l'abîme" : pour contralto solo, chœur à quatre voix mixtes et orchestre : 1915-17 Rom/Gargenville / Lili Boulanger.
  • M2023 .B745 P713 2022 — Psaume CXXX : "Du fond de l'abîme" : pour contralto solo, chœur à quatre voix mixtes et orchestre : 1915-17 Rom/Gargenville / Lili Boulanger.

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Books

  • ML79 .S44 2023Y — Écrivains et livret d'opéra au tournant du XXe siècle / Charlotte Segonzac.
  • ML82 .M39 2024X — From blues to Beyoncé : a century of black women's generational sonic rhetorics / Alexis McGee.
  • ML394 .K67 2023 — PRL : przeboje / Sławomir Koper, Marek Sierocki.
  • ML410 .B5657 B87 2023X — Elmer Bernstein, film composer : an authorized biography / Peter M. Bernstein.
  • ML417 .L85 E55 2024X — The pedagogical writings of Marguerite Long : a reassessment of her impact on the French school of piano / John Ellis.
  • ML420 .C39 S84 2023X — Darker with the dawn : Nick Cave's songs of love and death / Adam Steiner.
  • ML420 .D98 D37 2023Y — Bob Dylan : mixing up the medicine / written and edited by Mark Davidson and Parker Fishel ; with editorial assistance by Austin Short ; additional essays selected by Michael Chaiken and Robert Polito.
  • ML2827.1 .A54 2023Y — Victor Hugo et la mélodie française / Violaine Anger ; préface de François Le Roux ; postlude de Gérard Dessons.
  • ML3470 .H378 2023X — 60 songs that explain the '90s / Rob Harvilla ; illustrations by Tara Jacoby.
  • ML3498.7.C38 C67 2023Y — Les primeres havaneres a Catalunya : imperialisme i sensualitat abans de Carmen / Anna Costal i Fornells, Joaquim Rabaseda i Matas, Joan Gay i Puigbert.
  • ML3506 .T64 2024X — Early jazz : a concise introduction, from its beginnings through 1929 / Fumi Tomita.
  • ML3531 .S56 2024Y — First things first : hip-hop ladies who changed the game / Nadirah Simmons, [illustrations by Sara Gilanchi].
  • ML3712 .F47 2023Y — Fandango : cuando el fandango voló : memoria del Concurso de Cante Jondo de Huelva de 1923 / Miguel Ángel Fernández Borrero.
  • ML3849 .A85 2022Y — Air et écritures : sous les regards croisés d'Euterpe et de Thalie / [publié par l'] Association européenne François Mauriac ; textes réunis par Françoise Hanus et Patrizia Prati.

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eBooks

CDs

  • CD 4200-4203 — Srul Irving Glick [sound recording].
  • CD 6239 — Songs of the wasteland / music and lyrics by Renia Perel ; arranged by Larry Nickel.
  • CD 6240-6241 — Emerald City nights : live at the Penthouse 1966-1968 / Ahmad Jamal.
  • CD 7577 — Les Nuits d'été [sound recording] / Berlioz. Mélodies / Duparc.
  • CD 8793-8798 — Lieder [sound recording] / R. Strauss.
  • CD 8818 — Stéphanie Laliberté
  • CD 8819 — Solo / Baptiste Trotignon
  • CD 8835 — "Travels" / Levon Ichkhanian.
  • CD 8836 — Bruire: Les fleurs de Leo.
  • CD 8837 — Architectures colorées ; Textures enchaînées ; Ensemble multicolore ; Concert pour violon ; Concert en trois parties / Jean-Pierre Guézec.
  • CD 8838 — Born free / Luluk.
  • CD 8839-8840 — Live in South Africa / Andy Narell.
  • CD 13078-13079 — Ernani [sound recording] / Verdi.
  • CD 16861 — Les nuits d'été [sound recording] / Berlioz. Les illuminations / Britten.
  • CD 21582-21583 — La rondine [sound recording] / Puccini.
  • CD 27040 — Les nuits d'été [sound recording] /
  • CD 30776 — Vickers : [Canadian art songs = Chansons canadiennes].
  • CD 47033 — Bhakti [sound recording] / Jonathan Harvey.
  • CD 50521-50522 — Poliuto [sound recording] / Gaetano Donizetti
  • CD 64308 — Les 1001 nuits [sound recording].
  • CD 68538-68539 — Hommage à Weber [sound recording] / Carl Maria von Weber, Leopold Godowsky, Ignaz Moscheles.

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