Music's Modern Muse

Music's Modern Muse
Author: Sylvia Kahan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 547
Release: 2009-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781580463331


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A biography of Winnaretta Singer-Polignac, heiress to the Singer Sewing Machine fortune, who befriended and subsidized some of the most important musical and literary artists of the 20th Century, including Stravinsky, Proust, Ravel, Cocteau, and Colette.

Music's Modern Muse
Language: en
Pages: 547
Authors: Sylvia Kahan
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-07 - Publisher:

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A biography of Winnaretta Singer-Polignac, heiress to the Singer Sewing Machine fortune, who befriended and subsidized some of the most important musical and li
Music's Modern Muse Leather Edition
Language: en
Pages:
Authors: Sylvia Kahan
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-12-22 - Publisher: University of Rochester Press

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The American-born Winnaretta Singer (1865-1943) was a millionaire at the age of eighteen, due to her inheriting a substantial part of the Singer Sewing Machine
The Muse is Music
Language: en
Pages: 306
Authors: Meta DuEwa Jones
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press

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This wide-ranging, ambitiously interdisciplinary study traces jazz's influence on African American poetry from the Harlem Renaissance to contemporary spoken wor
The Erotic Muse
Language: en
Pages: 488
Authors: Ed Cray
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press

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If you've ever wanted to know the "correct" words to "Roll Me Over," or wondered where the melody of "Sweet Betsy from Pike" came from, this book can answer you
Modern Noise, Fluid Genres
Language: en
Pages: 347
Authors: Jeremy Wallach
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-12-15 - Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

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What happens to “local” sound when globalization exposes musicians and audiences to cultural influences from around the world? Jeremy Wallach explores this