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Transcript Verlag Music Practices Across Borders – (E)Valuating
Book SynopsisConnecting migration studies and the theory of valuation, this collection offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of transnational music practices. Conceiving music as a practice not confined to audibility, the contributions reveal how music emerges in concrete situations through people, objects, techniques, meanings, and emotions in different parts of the world and during different historic periods. Values are thereby created and shared, and creative processes are evaluated in terms of diversity, space and exchange. This book presents cases of contemporary, popular and traditional music, festivals and trade fairs, albums and band projects, shedding light on the tensions between the transfer, reconstruction and creation of music in different contexts.
£39.99
Transcript Verlag Curating Contemporary Music Festivals – A New
Book SynopsisContemporary music, like other arts, is dealing with the rise of "curators" laying claim to everything from festivals to playlists - but what are they and what do they do anyway? Drawing from backgrounds ranging from curatorial studies to festival studies and musicology, Brandon Farnsworth lays out a theory for understanding curatorial practices in contemporary music, and how they could be a solution to the field's diminishing social relevance. The volume focuses on two case studies, the Munich Biennale for New Music Theatre, and the Maerzmusik Festival at the Berliner Festspiele, putting them in a transdisciplinary history of curatorial practice, and showing what music curatorial practice can be.
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Transcript Verlag Women's Leadership in Music: Modes, Legacies,
Book SynopsisVarious modes of women's contemporary cultural, social and political leadership can be found in music. Informed by different histories and culturally bound social mores but also by a comparative perspective, the contributors of this volume ask what can be considered leadership in culture from women's point of view. They deconstruct the notion of leadership as corporative and career-related modes of success by showing how women's agency, power and negotiation in and through music can and should be considered as empowering, transformative and role-modeling. By interweaving several disciplinary perspectives - from ethnomusicology, musicology and cultural management to sociology and anthropology - this volume aims to substantially contribute to the study of women's leadership.
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Museum Tusculanum Press J. P. E. Hartmann: Thematic-Bibliographic
Book SynopsisJ.P.E. Hartmann (18051900) is one of Denmarks greatest composers. Throughout his long life he played a central role, not only in Danish musical life but in the entire cultural life of the nineteenth century, although he never became as well known abroad as his son Emil Hartmann (183698) or his son-in-law Niels W. Gade (181790). This book offers a survey of his prolific works, including nearly five hundred works composed over the span of seventy-six years, and it will be an essential tool for future research in Danish music and cultural history during the nineteenth century.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc You Never Give Me Your Money
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Dreaming the Beatles
Book SynopsisAn NPR Best Book of the Year?Winner of the Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Music Criticism?This is the best book about the Beatles ever written? ?Mashable Rob Sheffield, the Rolling Stone columnist and bestselling author of Love Is a Mix Tape offers an entertaining, unconventional look at the most popular band in history, the Beatles, exploring what they mean today and why they still matter so intensely to a generation that has never known a world without them.Dreamingthe Beatles is not another biography of the Beatles, or a song-by-song analysis of the best of John and Paul. It isn?t another exposé about how they broke up. It isn?t a history of their gigs or their gear. It is a collection of essays telling the story of what this ubiquitous band means to a generation who grew up with the Beatles music on their parents? stereos and their faces on T-shirts. What do the Beatles mean today? Why are they more famous and beloved now than ever? And why do they still matter so much to us, nearly fifty years after they broke up?As he did in his previous books, Love is a Mix Tape, Talking to Girls About Duran Duran, and Turn Around Bright Eyes, Sheffield focuses on the emotional connections we make to music. This time, he focuses on the biggest pop culture phenomenon of all time?The Beatles. In his singular voice, he explores what the Beatles mean today, to fans who have learned to love them on their own terms and not just for the sake of nostalgia. Dreaming theBeatlestells the story of how four lads from Liverpool became the world?s biggest pop group, then broke up?but then somehow just kept getting bigger. At this point, their music doesn?t belong to the past?it belongs to right now. This book is a celebration of that music, showing why the Beatles remain the world?s favorite thing?and how they invented the future we?re all living in today.
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HarperCollins GrownUp Anger
Trade Review“A masterful tale of music, social, and economic history…. Wolff’s elegantly intertwined historical drama is consistently revelatory. A dazzling, richly researched story impeccably told.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “In this book—so soberly inflamed that the pages seem to turn of their own accord—the history of the American twentieth century is made of lodestars that don’t figure in conventional accounts… It is at precisely this moment that its story will be most fully heard.” — Greil Marcus “In Grown-Up Anger, Daniel Wolff assembles an American triad to raise the ghosts of greed and misery. Through memory, music, and a clear insight into the emotional process of protest, Wolff reminds us of how it did, and how it does, ultimately feel.” — Patti Smith “The path leading from Woody Guthrie to Bob Dylan has been well traveled, but Daniel Wolff has gone off-road and forged bold new connections between the two cultural titans… The result is an imaginative tour de force that sheds new light on…the heartbreaking history that created them both.” — Anthony DeCurtis, contributing editor, Rolling Stone “No matter how much you think you know about Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie, you’re wrong… This is the best sense anyone has ever made about the connection between them, and the best reappraisal either has had in a couple of decades.” — Dave Marsh “…Wolff provides a primer on the complicated history of anger, political and personal, in American music, one that’s never been more needed than it is today. There aren’t many cultural histories that read like they’ve been written for activists and fans. Grown-Up Anger moves to the head of that list.” — Craig Werner, Evjue-Bascom Professor of Afro-American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, author of A Change Is Gonna Come “…an exciting romp across labor union history through the lens of American music. Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie’s protest and solidarity songs represent the disaffection of those marginalized by industrialization, war, and later globalization. If you’re not sure why we need unions… consider Daniel Wolff’s Grown-Up Anger a must read.” — Karen Lewis, president of the Chicago Teachers Union, local 1 of the American Federation of Teachers “…Wolff provides a primer on the complicated history of anger, political and personal, in American music, one that’s never been more needed than it is today. There aren’t many cultural histories that read like they’ve been written for activists and fans. Grown-Up Anger moves to the head of that list.” — Timothy B. Tyson, author of The Blood of Emmett Till
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Year of Wonder Classical Music to Enjoy Day by
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HarperCollins The Jazzmen
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Penguin Random House Australia Garcia An American Life
Book SynopsisHe was there when Dylan went electric, when a generation danced naked at Woodstock, and when Ken Kesey started experimenting with acid. Jerry Garcia was one of the most gifted musicians of all time, and he was a member of one of the most worshiped rock ''n'' roll bands in history. Now, Blair Jackson, who covered the Grateful Dead for twenty-five years, gives us an unparalleled portrait of Garcia--the musical genius, the brilliant songwriter, and ultimately, the tortured soul plagued by his own addiction. With more than forty photographs, many of them previously unpublished, Garcia: An American Life is the ultimate tribute to the man who, Bob Dylan said, had no equal.
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Penguin Putnam Inc Rip It Up and Start Again
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Oxford University Press Composing the World Harmony in the Medieval Platonic Cosmos Critical Conjunctures in Music and Sound
Trade ReviewThe main objective of this volume is highly innovative and stimulating... Hicks' essay is a very accurate study of Harmony in the Medieval Platonic Cosmos, and is going to become a must for future researchers in a field that includes a number of disciplines with different epistemological statutes. * Letterio Mauro, Università di Genova, Greek and Roman Musical Studies *written from a multidisciplinary perspective that includes musicology, philosophy, and history of science ... the inspiration Hicks's book provides to reflect on the place of music in historical and contemporary ways of world-making. * Jacomien Prins, Isis *Composing the World is itself well-composed -- its chapters flow, despite their many long citations from the works under discussion. As the book is very much about these texts, most readers will be glad of this florilegium ... Hicks has done a wonderful job of making a complex subject and its somewhat forbidding texts accessible and of drawing out their importance and relevance to manifold wider concerns. * Speculum *Andrew Hicks has been so bold as to add a new book about world harmony, the music of the spheres, and the medieval reception of the Pythagorean concept of a creation organised according to musical principles to the already existing wealth of scholarship ... Hicks has chosen an approach which is new and refreshing, and which goes far beyond the boundaries of what already exists on the subject. * Plainsong & Medieval Music *Andrew H's Composing the World is a well-written and informative work. It was undoubtedly a courageous and imaginative decision to embark on a study of the notion of cosmic harmony in twelfth-century Latin sources, since a successful outcome could only be achieved by someone who combines many skills including not only musicology but medieval Latin philology and paleography, not without some acquaintance with the histories of philosophy and science ... Andrew H. is obviously a person of great intelligence and already of considerable learning. It seems to me that with his range of expertise he is adding greatly, and could presumably so add in the future, to medieval musicology and medieval studies more generally. * Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch *This ambitious book opens a new window onto twelfth-century philosophical thought, and successfully shows how deeply Platonic conceptions of harmony were embedded within it. As well as becoming essential reading for medievalists who want to develop their knowledge of speculative music theory, it is also worth the attention of early modernists and scholars who focus on present-day philosophical and scientific thought. * British Journal for the History of Science *Hicks writes towards the beginning of his book that, if we neglect the natural philosophers of the twelfth century, 'we have done ourselves and the discipline of musicology a grand disservice' (p. 8). By bringing a musicological perspective to his engagement with these natural philosophers, he enriches our understanding of the twelfth century's musical speculation and raises new questions that broaden musicology itself. * Music and Letters *There is no other work on this topic that can compare in terms of depth, scope, and complexity. This book is likely to become an indispensable point of reference for the study of both medieval musical theory and the school of Chartres. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *fascinating insights into the way the medieval mind worked as it tried to develop the notion of "a cosmos animated and choreographed according to a specifically musical aesthetic". * Andrew Benson-Wilson, Early Music Reviews *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Series Editors' Foreword Abbreviations Acknowledgements About the Companion Website PRELUDE: Listening to the Universe PART ONE: The Framework 1. Harmonizing the World: Natural Philosophy and Order 2. Knowing the World: Music, Mathematics, and Physics PART TWO: The Particulars 3. Composing the Human: Harmonies of the Microcosm 4. Hearing the World: Sonic Materialisms 5. Composing the Cosmic: Harmonies of the Macrocosm POSTLUDE: The Musical Aesthetics of a World So Composed Appendix One: William of Conches, Glosulae de magno Prisciano Appendix Two: Hisdosus, De anima mundi Platonica Works Cited Index
£52.25
Oxford University Press Music and Belonging Between Revolution and Restoration Critical Conjunctures in Music and Sound
Book SynopsisHow is music implicated in the politics of belonging? Provocatively fusing recent European philosophy with music theory, Music and Belonging explores the instrumental music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, reveals connections between listening and constructions of community, and testifies to Classical music's enduring political significance in an age of neoliberal exclusion.Trade ReviewWaltham-Smith's ingenious analysis opens up productive conversations between unlikely interlocutors (Deleuze and Caplin, Nietzsche and Mozart), prompting us to contend anew with what each can offer to our understanding of music and its value. And her insights into the musical creativity of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven offer a novel way to engage with the enduring value of this repertory, and the real possibility of hearing this music with a new ear. * Beth M. Snyder, Eighteenth-Century Music *Waltham-Smith's Music and Belonging Between Revolution and Restoration is an impressive, thought-provoking interpretation of works of the Austro-German canon as 'paradigmatic' of a politics of belonging and community * Jeremy Coleman, Marx and Philosophy Review of Books *
£70.30
Oxford University Press Listening to Bach The Mass in B Minor and the Christmas Oratorio
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Oxford University Press Making Sense of Recordings How Cognitive Processing of Recorded Sound Works
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OUP USA The Oxford Handbook of Community Music
This Handbook charts the new and emerging contexts, practices, pedagogies, and research approaches which will define the field of community music in coming decades.
£44.49
Oxford University Press Voices of Vietnam
Book SynopsisOn September 2, 1945, Ho Chi Minh read out the Vietnamese Declaration of Independence over a makeshift wired loudspeaker system to thousands of listeners in Hanoi. Five days later, Ho''s Viet Minh forces set up a clandestine radio station using equipment brought to Southeast Asia by colonial traders. The revolutionaries garnered support for their coalition on air by interspersing political narratives with red music (nh?c d?). Voice of Vietnam Radio (VOV) grew from these communist and colonial foundations to become one of the largest producers of music in contemporary Vietnam. In this first comprehensive English-language study on the history of radio music in mainland Southeast Asia, Lonán Ó Briain examines the broadcast voices that reconfigured Vietnam''s cultural, social, and political landscape over a century. Ó Briain draws on a year of ethnographic fieldwork at the VOV studios (2016-17), interviews with radio employees and listeners, historical recordings and broadcasts, and archiTrade ReviewThe author's successful integration of storytelling and scholarly research makes this an invaluable contribution to scholarship on Vietnam and Southeast Asia in general. * CHOICE *A fascinating account of the relationship between music and radio in Vietnam from colonial times, through the civil war and up to the present day. * David Harris, Communication, journal of BDXC *This book is well written and will be of interest to those who want to learn morre about radio in other countries. * David Harris, Radio User *Voices of Vietnam is a significant contribution to Southeast Asian and Vietnamese studies and ethnomusicology, as well as the bourgeoning field of radio studies. * Ethnomusicology Forum *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction: On Radio, Red Music, and Revolution Defining Red Music A Continuous Revolution Radio and Voice Social History of Sound Reproduction Ethnographic and Archival Research Structure of the Book Note on Language and Music Chapter 1: Sound, Technology, and Culture in French Indochina Cultural Colonialism in French Indochina Trading Instruments, Scores, and Recordings The Gramophone as a Lifestyle Choice Radio as a Technology of the Future Public Radio in French Indochina The Radio Club of Northern Indochina Instability under Japanese Occupation Local Clubs with Global Perspectives Chapter 2: Battle of the Airwaves during the First Indochina War Producing the Declaration of Independence Viet Minh Clandestine Radio in the Mountains Making Music for the Masses Cosmopolitan Styles on Radio Hanoi Inventing Traditions for the Vietnamese Forgotten Musicians of the Vi?t Nh?c Ensemble Viet Minh Radio becomes the Official Voice of Vietnam Chapter 3: Songs of the Golden Age in the Democratic Republic Radio Infrastructure in the DRV Recording, Broadcasting, and Receiving Signals VOV Directives and Programming Traditions Iconic Voices, Musicians, and Singers Local and International Tours Reification of Gender Roles Men as Administrators and Composers Women as Mothers and Martyrs Children as Nephews and Nieces Listening and Responding in the South Music for the Liberation of Saigon, April 30, 1975 Sonic Reterritorialization of the Socialist State Chapter 4: National Radio in the Reform Era Post-War Unification of the Musical Media Challenges and Opportunities in the Reform Era VOV3: A Place for Music Programming the Minorities on Air Curating the Past: The VOV Sound Centre and its Archives History of the VOV Soun d Centre Engaging with the Archives Forecasting the Future: Listener-Centred Productions Surveying the Musical Preferences of Audiences Responding to Audience Demand Revolutionizing the Medium, Regurgitating the Message Chapter 5: Studio Production in Contemporary Vietnam The Politics of Intangible Cultural Heritage Representing the Nation with Traditional Music In the Rehearsal Hall, July 12, 2016 In the Recording Studio, July 15, 2016 Redefining the Nation with New Music In the Rehearsal Hall, July 13, 2016 In the Recording Studio, July 14, 2016 Post-Production and Dissemination Reproducing the Homeland in the Late-Reform Era Conclusion: Nostalgia for the Past, Hope for the Future Notes Bibliography Interviews Index
£35.14
Yale University Press The Possessor and the Possessed
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Yale University Press Wagner in Performance
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Hachette Books Goodnight L.A.
Book SynopsisA behind-the-scenes journey through the rise and demise of the ''70s and ''80s classic rock era Before disco, punk, hair metal, rap, and eventually grunge took it all away, the music scene in Los Angeles was dominated by rock ''n'' roll. If a group wanted to hit it big, L.A. was the place to be. But in addition to the bands themselves finding their footing, their albums also needed some guidance. That came from a group of dedicated producers and engineers working in a cadre of often dilapidated-looking buildings that contained some of the greatest recording studios the music industry has ever known. Within the windowless walls of these well-hidden studios, legends-to-be such as Foreigner, Fleetwood Mac, Pat Benatar, Boston, the Eagles, the Grateful Dead, Chicago, Linda Ronstadt, Santana, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Loggins and Messina, REO Speedwagon, and dozens more secretly created their album masterpieces: Double Vision. Rumours. Hotel California. Terrapin Station. Damn the Torpedoes. Hi Infidelity. However, the truth of what went on during these recording sessions has always remained elusive. But not anymore. Longtime music-business insider Kent Hartman has filled Goodnight, L.A. with troves of never-before-told stories about the most prolific and important period and place in rock ''n'' roll history. With music producer Keith Olsen and guitarist Waddy Wachtel as guides to the journey and informed by new, in-depth interviews with classic rock artists, famed record producers, and scores of others, Goodnight, L.A. reveals what went into the making of some of the best music of the past forty years. Readers will hear how some of their favorite albums and bands came to be, and ultimately how fame, fortune, excess, and a shift in listener demand brought it all tumbling down.
£999.99
Grand Central Publishing Raised on Radio
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Hachette Books Sing Backwards and Weep
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Random House USA Inc Everybody Loves Our Town
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St. Martin's Publishing Group Englands Dreaming Revised Edition Anarchy Sex Pistols Punk Rock and Beyond
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St. Martins Press-3pl ACDC The Worlds Heaviest rock
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HarperCollins High and Rising
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WW Norton & Co Perspectives on Contemporary Music Theory Classical America Series in Art and Architecture
Book SynopsisPerspectives on Contemporary Music Theory includes contributions to metatheory and methodology by Milton Babbitt, Arthur Berger, Pierre Boulez, Benjamin Boretz, Edward T. Cone, Henri Pousseur, and others; essays on compositional theory by composers such as Babbitt, Karlheinz Stockhausen, J. K. Randall, and Peter Westergaard.
£19.00
Two Palms Publishing Never Be Alone Again
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iUniverse Medieval Music Magical Minds
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iUniverse Chicago Top 40 Charts 19601969
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iUniverse Moments for Music 175 short stories about music and brief glimpses into the lives of musicians past and present
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iUniverse Nostalgia Is What It Was
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iUniverse Unheard Voices The Rise of Steelband and Calypso in the Caribbean and North America
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iUniverse WCFL Chicago Top 40 Charts 19651976
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iUniverse HipHop Homophobes Origin Attitudes TowardsGays Lesbians in Hip Hop CultureAs Perpetuated byRappers Thugs Athletes Reggae Rastas Against Homosexuality A Religious Hoax
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iUniverse Rock n Politics A State of the Union Address
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers American Singing Groups A History 1940 to Today A
Book SynopsisAMERICAN SINGING GROUPS: A HISTORY 1940 TO TODAY
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Roundtable Synths Sax and Situationists
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Punctum Books Miny
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Martin Productions Tupac 187 The Red Knight
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Martin Productions Tupac 187 The Red Knight
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Xlibris Classically Romantic Classical Form and Meaning in Wagners Ring
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Grove Atlantic Last Night a DJ Saved My Life
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Philosophical Library Schoenberg and His School
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Louisiana State University Press Irish American Civil War Songs
Book SynopsisProvides the first in-depth exploration of Irish Americans’ use of balladry to portray and comment on virtually every aspect of the American Civil War as witnessed on the front line and home front. Bateson considers the lyrics, themes, and sentiments of songs produced in America but often originating with those born in Ireland and Britain.
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Scarecrow Press Lutoslawski on Music
Book SynopsisLutoslawski on Music is the first collection of writings by the Polish twentieth-century composer Witold Lutoslawski. It includes texts about his own compositions and techniques as well as writings on various aspects of twentieth-century musical culture.Trade ReviewThe production and editorial work are uniformly excellent....Very highly recommended. * CAML Review *Table of ContentsPart 1 Preface Part 2 Introduction: Witold Lutoslawski's Life and Music Chapter 3 1. On Beauty, Musical Form, Compositional Technique, and Perception Chapter 4 2. On His Own Works Chapter 5 3. On Composers and Musicians Chapter 6 4. Miscellaneous Items on Contemporary Music in Poland and Abroad Chapter 7 5. Occasional Speeches Chapter 8 6. Notebook of Ideas, 1959–1984 Part 9 Select Bibliography Part 10 Name and Title Index Part 11 About the Editor
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