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Music books and specialized literature on contemporary music, jazz, music education, sound art, biographies, and music history.

Book cover: Jazz. School. Media.

Jazz. Schule. Medien.

How can jazz be communicated? Articles about jazz in the classroom, in the media and about music strategies for a curious audience in the digital age.

24,00 €
Book cover: Musical Material Today

Musical Material Today

New music after postmodernism: 12 composers explore the expanded material and its meanings.

24,00 €
Book Cover: The Music of Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf

Die Musik von Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf

A multi-voiced anthology on the compositional work of Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf—with contributions from theorists, performers, and fellow composers.

34,80 €
Book Cover: Silence and Sound, Shadow and Light

Stille und Klang, Schatten und Licht

Conversations with Toshio Hosokawa about sound, tradition, and the avant-garde.

29,00 €
Book Cover: Jazz Stories from Europe

Jazzgeschichten aus Europa

Jazz in Europe as a narrative experience: not a comprehensive overview, but rather compelling episodes spanning resistance and emancipation.

28,00 €
Book Cover: Interactions

Wechselwirkungen

The book explores the diverse interactions between music and film, from silent films to music videos.

19,00 €
Book Cover: Everyday Drama

Das alltägliche Drama

Luigi Nono's vocal compositions with tape La fabbrica illuminata and A floresta é jovem e cheja de vida in the context of the unfinished music theater projects.

59,00 €
Book cover: Alexander Goehr

Alexander Goehr

A portrait of composer Alexander Goehr - between tradition and avant-garde.

24,00 €
Book cover: “On Keys”

»An Tasten«

A first overview of Kagel's piano works as a laboratory of aesthetic transitions.

38,00 €
Book Cover: Sound Perspectives

Klangperspektiven

This volume brings together perspectives on the phenomenon of sound in new music—analytical, compositional, and interdisciplinary.

29,00 €
Book Cover: Aspects of Free Improvisation in Music

Aspekte der Freien Improvisation in der Musik

Thirty-three outstanding representatives of the improvisation scene, as well as composers and musicologists, reflect in writing on freely improvised music.

29,00 €
Book Cover: Body, Media, Music

Körper Medien Musik

This study examines how different concepts of physicality shape artistic practice in the field of music and sound.

19,00 €
Book cover: Spirits Rejoice!

Spirits Rejoice!

An intensive search for clues into Albert Ayler's musical vision and mysterious death.

19,00 €
Book cover: The 4th Quarter of the Triad. Tony Oxley

The 4th Quarter of the Triad. Tony Oxley

A drummer who moves between free jazz, ECM, graphic scores—and a life full of musical detours.

24,00 €
Book Cover: Cage & Cunningham Collaboration

Cage & Cunningham Collaboration

Cage & Cunningham: Music and dance as independent arts—radical, interdisciplinary, pioneering.

44,00 €
Book cover: Albert Mangelsdorff

Albert Mangelsdorff

This anthology illuminates facets of the trombonist's work, looks at parallel musical and aesthetic developments, but also at recent developments in German jazz.

27,00 €

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