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Meeting Jimmie Rodgers

How America's Original Roots Music Hero Changed the Pop Sounds of a Century
Barry Mazor
$19.95
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Paperback,  Feb 2012 ISBN13: 9780199891863ISBN10: 0199891869 An illuminating look at how the "Father of Country Music" inspired several generations of musical stars, from Woody Guthrie to Elvis Presley, Merle Haggard, and Bob Dylan
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Ravel the Decadent

Memory, Sublimation, and Desire
Michael J. Puri
$24.95
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Hardback,  Feb 2012 ISBN13: 9780199735372ISBN10: 0199735379 Brings together musicology, literary criticism, and memory studies to produce a new understanding of Ravel's music and its origins in the French Decadence.
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Samuel Barber

A Thematic Catalogue of the Complete Works
Barbara Heyman
$99.00
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Hardback,  Apr 2012 ISBN13: 9780199744640ISBN10: 0199744645
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Marc Blitzstein

His Life, His Work, His World
Howard Pollack
$39.95
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Hardback,  Apr 2012 ISBN13: 9780199791590ISBN10: 0199791597 A brilliant new biography of Marc Blitzstein, the first to capture both the life and the work of this major American composer
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Modernist Mysteries: Persephone

Tamara Levitz
$65.00
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Hardback,  Apr 2012 ISBN13: 9780199730162ISBN10: 0199730164 A landmark revisionary account of modernism in music in the 1930s.
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