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  • Books Recently Published
  • Julia Graepel and Karen R. Little

For information about the scope of this column, consult the headline in the September 2008 issue (p. 95 of this volume).

English

Accardi, Joseph J. Beloit's Club Pop House. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2008. 127 p. ISBN 9780738552095. ISBN 0738552097. LC 2007-940597.

Images of America

Adinolfi, Francesco. Mondo exotica: sounds, visions, obsessions of the cocktail generation. Ed. and translated by Karen Pinkus with Jason Vivrette. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008. xii, 361 p. ISBN 9780822341321 (hbk.; alk. paper). ISBN 9780822341567 (pbk.; alk. paper). LC 2007-044860.
Adorno, Theodor W., and Hanns Eisler. Composing for the films. With a new Introduction by Graham McCann. London: Continuum, 2007. xxxvi, 133 p. ISBN 9780826499028 (pbk.). ISBN 0826499023 (pbk.). LC 2008-273628.

Continuum impacts

This ed. originally published: London: Athlone, 1994.

Albrecht, Tamara Makdad. Singing through the church year: a children's choir resource book. St. Louis, MO: MorningStar Music Publishers, 2005. 151 p. ISBN 0944529410. LC 2005-016457.
Alter, Andrew. Dancing with devtās: drums, power and possession in the music of Garhwal, North India. Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008. xxiii, 277 p. ISBN 9780754656692. LC 2006 032729.

SOAS musicology series

Althen, W. Blake. Brand, buzz & success: your guide to the new music industry. Reston, VA: Human Factor LLC, 2008. xi, 166 p. ISBN 9780981647203. LC 2008 926004.
Ancelet, Barry Jean, and Philip Gould. One generation at a time: biography of a Cajun and Creole music festival. Lafayette: Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Louisi ana at Lafayette, 2007. xv, 224 p. ISBN 1887366806 (alk. paper). LC 2007-031025.
Andry, Peter, Robin Stringer, and Tony Locantro. Inside the recording studio: working with Callas, Rostropovich, Domingo, and the classical elite. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2008. x, 222 p. ISBN 9780810860261 (pbk.; alk. paper). ISBN 0810860260 (pbk.; alk. paper). LC 2007 041122.
Auxier, Randall E., and Douglas R. Anderson, eds. Bruce Springsteen and philosophy: darkness on the edge of truth. Chicago, IL: Open Court, 2008. xv, 302 p. ISBN 9780812696479 (trade paper; alk. paper). LC 2008-004034.

Popular culture and philosophy, v. 32

Bachmann, Alberto. An encyclopedia of the violin. Translated by Frederick Herman Martens. Ed. by Albert E. Wier. Mineola, NY: Dover, 2008. xiv, 470 p. ISBN 9780486466187. ISBN 0486466183. LC 2007-042787.

Unabridged republication of the edition published by D. Appleton and Company, New York, in 1925.

Baker, Geoffrey. Imposing harmony: music and society in colonial Cuzco. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008. x, 308 p. ISBN 9780822341369 (hbk.; alk. paper). ISBN 9780822341604 (pbk.; alk. paper). LC 2007-038485.
Bassini, Carlo. Bassini's art of singing: an analytical, physiological and practical system for the cultivation of voice. San Diego, CA: Plural Pub., 2008. xiii, 168 p. ISBN 9781597561921 (hbk.; alk. paper). ISBN 1597561924 (hbk.; alk. paper). LC 2007 020720.

Previously published: Boston: Oliver Ditson, 1857. [End Page 519]

Beaujon, Andrew. Body piercing saved my life: inside the phenomenon of Christian rock. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2006. ix, 291 p. ISBN 9780306814570 (pbk.; alk. paper). ISBN 0306814579 (pbk.; alk. paper). LC 2006-006254.
Benward, Bruce, and Marilyn Nadine Saker. Music in theory and practice. 8th ed. Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill, 2009. v. 1. ISBN 9780073101873 (vol. 1 alk. paper). ISBN 0073101877 (vol. 1 alk. paper). ISBN 9780073101880 (vol. 2 alk. paper). ISBN 0073101885 (vol. 2 alk. paper). LC 2008 018491.
Bharali, Rabindra. The forgotten forms of Hindustani music. New Delhi: Kanishka Publishers, Distributors, 2008. xiii, 110 p. ISBN 9788184570229. LC 2007-375880.
Bloustien, Gerry, Margaret Peters, and Susan Luckman, eds. Sonic synergies: music, technology and community, identity. Aldershot, Hampshire, England; Burling ton, VT: Ashgate, 2008. xxviii, 236 p. ISBN 9780754657217 (alk. paper). LC 2006 103143.

Ashgate popular and folk music series

Bonds, Alexandra B. Beijing opera costumes: the visual communication of character and culture. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2008. xix, 350 p. ISBN 9780824829568 (hbk.; alk. paper). LC 2007-043309.
Boyd, Pattie, and Penny Junor. Wonderful tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and me. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2007. x, 321 p. ISBN 9780307407832. LC 2008-012510.
Brover-Lubovsky, Bella. Tonal space in the music of Antonio Vivaldi. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. xix, 357 p. ISBN 9780253351296...

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