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Hal Leonard Corporation Mountains Come Out of the Sky
Book SynopsisMOUNTAINS COME OUT OF THE SKY -THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF PROG ROCK
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Scarecrow Press The Literature of Music Bibliography An Account
Book SynopsisIn tracing the history of writings on music printing and publishing, this book discusses the theory of music bibliography. It examines such major topics as historical surveys of music printing and musical commerce and property; and surveys specific subjects ranging from type-specimen books to patent registrations, from the history of music libraries to bibliophilic editions.Trade Review"...required reading for all music librarians, musicologists, and bibliographers." * Mla Notes *
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University of Virginia Press Unfinished Blues Memories of a New Orleans Music
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Don Giovanni Records Love Death Photosynthesis
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Forgotten Books The Guitar and Mandolin
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Forgotten Books Applied Forms A Sequel to Musical Form Classic Reprint
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Forgotten Books Life of Mozart Vol 1 of 3 Classic Reprint
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Forgotten Books J. S. Bach
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Forgotten Books Life of Mozart Vol 3 of 3 Classic Reprint
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Forgotten Books Giuseppe Sarti
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Forgotten Books La Psychologie dans lOpra Franais AuberRossiniMeyerbeer Cours Libre Profess A la Sorbonne Classic Reprint
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John Murray Press On Taylor Swift
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Prima la musica! Shibboleths Ploughshares
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Listen to Jazz
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Rowman & Littlefield Ethnomusicologizing
Book SynopsisIn Ethnomusicologizing: Essays on Music in the New Paradigms, composer and musicologist brings together a series of essays on music making in contemporary culture. More specifically, it focuses on the myriad ways we engage with musicas makers, as listeners, as consumers, as producers. Banfield labels this fully engaged process as ethnomusicologizing, as he explores the ways we create, share, teach, and discuss music. Throughout he argues that music is more than the experience of structured sound. It is rather a way of being more critically present as musicians and as citizens of sharing in the world itself. Ethnomusicologizing contains writings on contemporary music and culture studies, offering glimpses on more than just music history through reflective essays, interviews with contemporary artists, and exercises in the analysis and criticism of popular culture. In this work, Banfield instructs readers in the ways by which we may better appreciate and understand creative artistry and pTrade ReviewToday, many young musicians are driven by a short-sighted desire for money, fame, and power. But the purpose of art—true art—remains the search for meaning, purpose, inspiration, and spiritual fulfillment. Banfield is hopeful in this regard: 'Young people feel they are a more integral part of their success story if they are allowed to bring to a product a piece of who they are, what their story is. I think, despite our capitalistic surges, people always return back to the basic humanistic codes'. Such nuanced appraisals make Ethnomusicologizing a provocative and profitable read. * Thinking On Music *Table of ContentsPrelude Keeping the Core Creative Soul-Spirit Part 1: Theory: Music Thinking Theories, Teaching, and Approaches Chapter 1: Ethnomusicologizing: The Way Forward, Cultural Relevancy Chapter 2: Ethnomusicology Studies in Music Culture Chapter 3: Popular Music Culture: How to Teach and Reach within Popular Music Chapter 4: Black Music Matters Chapter 5: Notes From Cuba Chapter 6: The “I Theory” Part 2: History: Backbones, Songs Chapter 7: A Progressive View of American Popular Music History, 1948-2014 Chapter 8: American Mavericks Interviews Chapter 9: Harlem Renaissance 1920-1935: Artistry, Aesthetics, Politics and Popular Culture Chapter 10: CBMR Letter Chapter 11: Mom, Dad, and the Making of Symphony 10 with Sweet Honey In The Rock Part 3: Culture: New Standards, Cultural Critique Chapter 12: Wake up! What Time is It Really? Who Turns it Up, Down, and Back?: Values on The Cultural Dial Chapter 13: Does Our Music Still Bring The Good News Of The Day? Chapter 14: On The Crisis of Popular Arts and Society: Steps Ahead Chapter 15: The Problem With Jazz Chapter 16: Review of George Lewis, Les Exercices Spirituels Chapter 17: Don’t Use the “J word”: Jazz in its Connections to Culture and Meaning Chapter 18: From Hip-Hop To Zombie Nation Chapter 19: Critical Culture Concerns Today Chapter 20: The Songs We Need To Be Hearing Again: Music Culture and A Musician’s Credo To Citizenry Postlude: Afterthought on Ethnomusicologizing
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Hal Leonard Corporation The Hammond Organ Book An Introduction to the
Book SynopsisTHE HAMMOND ORGAN: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE INSTUMENT AND THE PLAYERS WHO MADE IT FAMOUS
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Hal Leonard Corporation The History of Canadian Rock n Roll
Book SynopsisRock and roll was born in the United States during the 1950s. Its popularity rapidly grew spreading across the Atlantic to England. The Brits transformed rock bringing it back to the States in a new form with the British Invasion. Since that time the two countries have dominated headlines and histories in terms of rock music.ÞWhat''s often forgotten in these histories is the evolution of Canadian rock and roll during the same period. Over the years a huge contingent of Canadian artists has made invaluable contributions to rock and roll. The list of innovative Canadian artists is quite impressive: Neil Young Joni Mitchell Paul Anka Arcade Fire The Band Bryan Adams Rush Leonard Cohen Celine Dion Diana Krall Gordon Lightfoot Sarah McLachlan Alanis Morissette Tegan and Sara Feist Nickelback and many others not to mention the all-star producers such as Daniel Lanois (U2 Bob Dylan Peter Gabriel) Bob Rock (Metallica Aerosmith Bon Jovi) Bob Ezrin (Pink Floyd Alice
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Hal Leonard Corporation On the Road
Book SynopsisThis book tells the story of a life spent on the road recording the rich diversity of music in America when it was a major part of our lives, not just digital background noise. For music fans, there was a golden era of live music stretching from the 1960s through the 1980s, and even evolving into the 1990s, if you want to be generous. In the pre digital era, music fans spent a large part of their free time (and money) listening to their favorite artist's recordings. It was an analog world so if they wanted to hear the music, they actually had to listen to the radio, buy the records, and go to the concerts. Popular artists had long performed live concerts in the major markets, but it took rock n'' roll to make national touring a viable business. Touring sound systems grew from scratch to keep up with larger and larger venues. Likewise, the ability to record those shows had to grow as well. The rudimentary collection of semi-professional gear grew into full-blown remote
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Hal Leonard Corporation Get Tusked
Book SynopsisIn this behind-the-scenes look at the making of Fleetwood Mac's epic, platinum-selling double album, Tusk, producers and engineers Ken Caillat and Hernan Rojas tell their stories of spending a year with the band in their new million-dollar studio trying to follow up Rumours, the biggest rock album of the time. Following their massive success, the band continued its infamous soap opera when its musical leader and guitarist, Lindsey Buckingham, threatened to quit if he didn't get things his way, resulting in clashes not only with his band but especially Caillat, who had been essential to the band's Grammy-winning sound. Hernan Rojas's story recounts a young man who leaves Chile after General Pinochet's coup to seek his future in the music industry of Los Angeles, where he finds success at one of the hottest studios in town. When Fleetwood Mac arrives, Rojas falls in love with its star singer, Stevie Nicks, and the two of them become romantically involved.
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Hal Leonard Corporation Metallica
Book SynopsisMetallica: The $24.95 Book features an in-depth look at Metallica''s cultural significance with chapters devoted to each member, each album, touring, fashion, books, film, influences, fandom, and more, exploring the band''s politics and religion along the way. With over 125 million records sold worldwide, Metallica is the biggest metal band of all time. Four decades into their unparalleled career, Metallica is a massive cultural force who drastically changed the sound of popular music by creating their own rules. Yet for all their popularity, Metallica can seem impenetrable. They've built the unexpected into their music and career, raising more questions and inspiring more discourse as their mythos grows. Metallica questions run deeper than what people find on the internet. Metallica questions deserve a book. Metallica, by dedicated fan and music journalist Ben Apatoff (including a foreword by What
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Globe Pequot Press Moving Pictures
Book SynopsisMoving Pictures takes a novel historical approach to the making and recording of Rush''s album by the same name. This 1981 release was a landmark record, not only for Rush, but also for the entirety of progressive rock.There''s nothing else like it in the Rush catalog. Permanent Waves and Hemispheres were important releases in their evolution as a progressive band, but neither provided the necessary commercial firepower to blast the Canadian trio into the stratosphere of rock stardom. Moving Pictures, with its thematic work and positioning as the antithesis of a concept record, balanced opposing creative sensibilities, garnered the attention of radio programmers across North America, and sold millions of copies around the globe.As the title of the record suggests, each track projects unique filmic properties, allowing the collective work to escape into the realm of the audiovisual. Unparalleled in the band''s recorded output, Moving Pictures boasts multisensory qualiti
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Hal Leonard Corporation Take a Sad Song
Book SynopsisIn Take a Sad Song: The Emotional Currency of Hey Jude, James Campion dives deeply into the song''s origins, recording, visual presentation, impact, and eventual influence, while also discovering what makes Hey Jude a classic musical expression of personal comfort and societal unity conceived by a master songwriter, Paul McCartney. Within its melodic brilliance and lyrical touchstones of empathy and nostalgia resides McCartney''s personal and professional relationship with his childhood friend and songwriting partner, John Lennon, and their simultaneous pursuit of the women who would complete them. There are also clues to the growing turmoil within the Beatles and their splintering generation scarred by war, assassination, and virulent protest.Campion''s journey into the song includes the insights of academic experts and professors in the field of musicology, sociology, philosophy, psychology, and history. Campion also reveals commentary from noted Beatles authors, biographer
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Hal Leonard Corporation Music Revolution
Book SynopsisEven before the Beatnik Riots of 1961, New York City''s Greenwich Village was the epicenter of revolutionary movements in American music and culture. But, in the early 1960s and throughout the decade, a new wave of writers and performers inspired by the folk music revival of the 1950s created socially aware and deeply personal songs that spoke to a generation like never before. These writersBob Dylan, Richard Fariña, Janis Ian, and Phil Ochs, to name a fewchanged the folk repertoire from traditional songs to songs sprung from personal, contemporary experiences and the nation''s headlines, raising the level of political self-expression to high art. Message and music merged and mirrored society.In Music + Revolution: Greenwich Village in the 1960s, Richard Barone tells this freewheelin'' historical narrative, peppered with personal stories and insights from those who were there, celebrating the lasting legacy of this pivotal decade with stories behind songs that resonate just a
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Globe Pequot Press Jesus Christ Superstar
Book SynopsisAlmost thirty years after Rock Opera, his first book on Jesus Christ Superstar, Ellis Nassour returns to the world of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice to complete the fascinating story of the Broadway musical that rocked the stage and pushed boundaries. Nassour goes behind the scenes to show the evolution of Jesus Christ Superstar from an album to a Broadway musical, exploring not only the breakthroughs, but also the frustrations and pitfalls. With never-before-seen photos and new interviews, Superstar presents a detailed account of the life of the musical from 19691973.
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Globe Pequot Press The Jive 95
Book SynopsisKSAN!: The Hippie Radio Revolution that Rocked America is an oral history of America's first hippie underground FM station which broadcasted the countercultural consciousness of the 60s and 70s to a new generation. A communal radio band of intrepid hellraisers, pranksters, and drug-enlightened geniuses defined this psychedelic era, from the Summer of Love in Golden Gate Park, to the rebellion and bitter end of the late 1970s, which launched the Reagan Revolution.Founded in San Francisco by Tom Donahue, a 1996 inductee into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, an entire generation of Americans discovered a new musical universe among dance clubs, light shows and street feststhe original pop-ups. Almost overnight, KSAN became an audio clubhouse, where anyone could belong with friends and the cool cats and hipsters they just met.Rock gods, political stars, and literary celebrities, including Jerry Garcia, Ken Kesey, Sly Stone, and John Lennon were all interviewed by founder Tom D
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Globe Pequot Press All the Leaves Are Brown
Book SynopsisFew songs have captured the contradictions and ambiguities of the 1960s as memorably as California Dreamin', the iconic folk music single that catapulted The Mamas & The Papas into rock and roll history. In All the Leaves Are Brown, SiriusXM producer Scott Shea details how John Phillips, Denny Doherty, Michelle Phillips, and Mama Cass Elliot became standard-bearers for California counterculture, following their transformation from folk music wannabes to rock sensations and chronicling the tumultuous events that followed their unexpected success. Shea gives a definitive account of the group's short time together, from their hitmaking approach with legendary producer Lou Adler to John's unique songwriting to their tours and friendships with other musicians riding the folk-rock wave. He explores the emotional vicissitudes that came with being in the Mamas & the Papas, from Cass's unrequited love for Denny, his affair with Michelle, and the ebb and flow of dysfunction in John and
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Globe Pequot Press Shes a Badass
Book SynopsisDuring the rise of second-wave feminism in the 60s and 70s, political activists were not the only ones at work to usher in a more equitable world. In the music world, female rock performers were pursuing a revolution of their own: rejecting the industry's manufactured pop personas and the unacknowledged labor they contributed to male-led groups, women took control of their own music, messages, and images. Even while they often used music to critique rampant chauvinism, they made some of their greatest impacts by paving the way for subsequent musicians to simply be true to themselves. In this way, they helped to transform the music business and society more broadly.In She's a Badass, rock critic Katherine Yeske Taylor interviews more than a dozen of these influential, fearless women about their experiences in an era when female rockers were not given the same respect and opportunities as their male peers. Each chapter focuses on an individual artist, taking an in-depth look at
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Hal Leonard Corporation Some Fun Tonight The Backstage Story of How the
Book SynopsisThe Beatles'' North American tours turned the entertainment business on its ear and forever changed the landscape of the concert touring industry. In February 1964 after finally achieving a number-one hit in America the Fab Four came to the country with high hopes performing on the wildly popular ÊEd Sullivan ShowÊ in both New York City and Miami and playing concerts at Carnegie Hall and the Washington Coliseum. In just fifteen short days the Beatles conquered America. The Beatles made music-entertainment history with their North American tours from 1964 to 1966.ÞÊSome Fun Tonight! The Backstage Story of How the Beatles Rocked America: The Historic Tours of 1964-1966Ê is a comprehensive two-volume set which gives you a city-by-city synopsis of the group''s activities as they traveled the United States and Canada for their groundbreaking series of concerts. From San Francisco''s Cow Palace show on August 19 1964 through their last-ever live performances at that city''s famed Candl
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Hal Leonard Corporation Some Fun Tonight
Book SynopsisSOME FUN TONIGHT: THE BACKSTAGE STORY OF HOW THE BEATLES ROCKED AMERIC
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Hal Leonard Corporation A Stowaway Ukulele Revealed
Book SynopsisÊA Stowaway Ukulele Revealed: Richard Konter & the Byrd Polar ExpeditionsÊ is the unlikely and compelling story of a globe-trotting ukulele-strumming Brooklyn sailor named Richard Konter and his famous autographed instrument. At the height of the ukulele craze Konter was a go-to arranger for Tin Pan Alley composers and publishers.ÞIn 1926 Konter shipped out as a member of the crew of the Byrd Arctic Expedition. As a riveted world followed their progress (and that of their arch-rival Roald Amundsen the world''s greatest polar explorer) Konter managed to get his ukulele aboard Byrd''s plane for the first successful polar flight.ÞA keen contributor to history in the making Konter managed to obtain the autographs of more than 150 individuals both famous and unknown all of whom respected the importance of Konter''s North Pole ukulele. Later Konter accompanied Byrd to Antarctica and later married for the first time at age 80 the love of his life.ÞFor the first time ÊA Stowaway U
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Experimentations John Cage in Music Art and
Book SynopsisBranden W. Joseph is Frank Gallipoli Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at Columbia University. He is the author of four books, including Beyond the Dream Syndicate: Tony Conrad and the Arts after Cage (2008) and Random Order: Robert Rauschenberg and the Neo-Avant-Garde (2003), which appeared in French translation in 2012.Trade ReviewBranden W. Joseph's formidable Experimentations: John Cage in Music, Art and Architecture throws open the terrain [of Cagean studies] once again. * The Wire *Branden Joseph gradually unfolds the role of chance, transformation, performativity and transparency in music, and provides an interesting multi-layered understanding of the latter’s intercourse with other disciplines ... The book provides an innovative understanding of the examined ideas that remains open, allowing for other disciplines to enter into the suggested discourse ... In this way Joseph offers to artists and architects valuable tools to work on the further development on the role of tracing, documenting, scoring and attuning in the performative understanding of their areas. * The Journal of Architecture *Experimentations: John Cage in Music, Art, and Architecture is a brilliant and vital critical contribution to the growing body of art historical scholarship on John Cage’s multidisciplinary legacy. The readymade Cage of chance and silence is replaced by a rich and nuanced narrative of a compositional practice nourished by its evolving and often conflicted exchanges with the artistic, architectural and political avant-gardes. * Ina Blom, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, University of Oslo, Norway *With great musical and historical sensitivity Joseph unpacks John Cage’s struggles, on the one hand, with Beethoven, Schoenberg, Stockhausen—the whole weighty European musical tradition, and on the other, with changing notions of experimentation and the avant-garde. What emerges is an artist who places music in the service of remaking the entire institution of art. Joseph succeeds in writing a brilliant book that is equally captivating for musicians and art historians. * Alexander Rehding, Professor of Music, Harvard University, USA *...Experimentations: John Cage in Music, Art, and Architecture provides its reader with an overview of Branden W. Joseph’s two-decade engagement with John Cage and represents some of the most intellectually rigorous writing about the composer … nuanced and important. * Critical Inquiry *Table of ContentsI. Introduction II. A Therapeutic Value for City Dwellers III. Hitchhiker in an Omnidirectional Transport IV. The Architecture of Silence V. Chance/Indeterminacy/Multiplicity VI. Ghost or Monster? Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Bob Moulds Workbook
Book SynopsisIn 1989, Bob Mould took a left turn. Already legendary before his 30th birthday for his noise-and-nuance work in Hüsker Dü, Mould had recently walked away from his old band. He re-emerged with his debut solo album: Workbook. Filled with chiming acoustic guitars, multitracked vocals, pristine production, and even a cello, Workbook was both admired and questioned for Mould's perceived departure from his post-punk roots. Three decades later, the album has emerged as a key for understanding the nascent alternative rock genre and the concerns Mould would explore for the duration of his career. Fusing post-punk sound and confessional lyrics with a richer emotional and musical range, Mould's Workbook merged worlds that seemed unbridgeable at the time. Alternative rock emerged from the wreckage of the 1980s, and Workbook was a model for the genre's maturation. Workbook serves its title in two waysas a map for musicians to follow into a new mode, and as a joTrade ReviewBeing in a literary conversation style, between an editor and a professor that have known each other since childhood… this 33 1/3 entry makes for interesting reading. * QRO Magazine *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Influence 2. Fathers and Sons 3. “It’s All Coming Back in a Way” 4. Necessary Evils 5. Workbook as Notebook 6. Try it On, See How it Fits 7. Salinger and Bob’s (Workbook) 8. Wall of Sound, Wall of Words 9. Zebra Cocktail 10. Skateboards and Suits 11. Independence and Interdependence 12. Changes 13. The Road Not Taken Thanks and Acknowledgments Resources
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Merle Haggards Okie from Muskogee
Book SynopsisEvery now and then, a song inspires a cultural conversation that ends up looking like a brawl. Merle Haggard''s Okie from Muskogee, released in 1969, is a prime example of that important role of popular music. Okie immediately helped to frame an ongoing discussion about region and class, pride and politics, culture and counterculture. But the conversation around the song, useful as it was, drowned out the song itself, not to mention the other songs on the live albumnamed for Okie and performed in Muskogeethat Haggard has carefully chosen to frame what has turned out to be his most famous song. What are the internal clues for gleaning the intended meaning of Okie? What is the pay-off of the anti-fandom that Okie sparked (and continues to spark) in some quarters? How has the song come to be a shorthand for expressing all manner of anti-working class attitudes? What was Haggard''s artistic path to that stage in Oklahoma, and how did he come to shape the Table of Contents1. Introduction; or, Hag as Historian 2. The Bakersfield Sound; or, Hag Gets Hard 3. Singing a Group Autobiography; or, Hag as Hero 4. Misreading “Okie”; or, Hag Gets Hit 5. Country Music and Labor; or, Hag’s Two Hands 6. Good-bye, Merle: Hag Heads Home
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Perfumes GAME
Book SynopsisPatrick St. Michel is a writer in Tokyo focusing on Japanese music and pop culture. He has operated the Japanese music blog Make Believe Melodies since 2009, and his work has appeared in The Japan Times, Pitchfork, The Atlantic, The Fader, MTV, Vice, and The Sydney Morning Herald, among others.Table of ContentsTrack Listing Acknowledgements Notes on Text Introduction 1: The Age of Technopop 2: Music Controller 3: A New Scent 4: Brave New World 5: Play the Game 6: Take Off 7: Love the World Notes Suggested Further Reading
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Corneliuss Fantasma
Book SynopsisMartin Roberts teaches courses on global digital media at Dartmouth College and Emerson College, USA. His research focuses on subcultural identities and practices in an age of globalization. His publications include essays on global documentary film, world music, and the J-pop genre Shibuya-kei.Trade ReviewA personal, yet professional, account of the intricacies of Fantasma. * Japan Times *Table of ContentsNote on Transliterations and Japanese Names Preface: White Rabbit 1 From Nakameguro to Everywhere 2 Magic Kingdom 3 Ape Shall Not Kill Ape 4 Mutations 5 Pet Sounds 6 Merrie Melodies 7 Three Dimensional Music 8 Analog Afterlives 9 Double Fantasy Notes References Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc The Wild Tchoupitoulas The Wild Tchoupitoulas
Book SynopsisBryan Wagner is Associate Professor of English and American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. His books include Disturbing the Peace: Black Culture and the Police Power after Slavery (2009), The Tar Baby: A Global History (2017), and The Life and Legend of Bras-Coupé: The Fugitive Slave Who Fought the Law, Ruled the Swamp, Danced at Congo Square, Invented Jazz, and Died for Love (2019).Trade ReviewIn his view, the Wild Tchoupitoulas is both a harbinger of that future and a symbol of the past that is long gone now. For a long essay/short book, [Bryan Wagner] does a great job, and he never forgets that the music and personalities that made it are what makes it the classic that it is. * Offbeat Magazine *Bryan Wagner’s truly enjoyable book is a fascinating trip into some of the history of the amazing city of New Orleans and the past and traditions of a section of the population who don’t always get the attention they deserve. It is much more about tradition and history than it is about the album per se; and it’s an all the better read as a result of that. * Americana UK *Table of ContentsMaps Introduction 1 Family 2 Tradition 3 Arrangement 4 Culture and Commerce Acknowledgements Notes on Sources
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Low End Theory Bass Bodies and the Materiality of Sonic Experience
Book SynopsisPaul C. Jasen is a Lecturer in Music and Communication Studies at Carleton University, Canada.Trade ReviewThere's much here that gives a compelling and productive slant on one of the most contested areas of contemporary audio culture. * The Wire *Low End Theory is a fascinating study ... An interesting and thoughtful addition to the greater discussion of sound materiality, and will serve as excellent graduate level reading for ethnomusicologists, folklorists and anthropologists alike. * Dancecult *Low End Theory is an extremely broad-ranging book that refreshingly challenges the divisions between the humanities and sciences in terms of our understanding of sound, stretching this understanding from a wide-ranging interdisciplinary base. The core chapters represent a tour de force analysis of sound, body and experience that is both exhilarating and challenging. The reader will feel that they are racing through a stimulating sonic haze picking up wonderful nuggets of sonic knowledge on the way. * Michael Bull, Professor of Sound Studies, University of Sussex, UK *A pioneering study of the murky world of bass that enlists speculative concepts to reveal the vibrational practices at work in ritual, science and in the underbelly of pop. Low End Theory contributes to a growing literature which recognises, tracks and encourages the perpetual reconstruction the sonic body. * Steve Goodman, Independent Scholar, UK, author of Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect and the Ecology of Fear (2010) and Founder of record label Hyperdub *We live in a world of vibrations. Sound envelops us, moves us, caresses or assaults us—especially in the lower frequencies that we cannot hear directly. In Low End Theory, Paul Jasen provides us with an ontology of bass. He works through the many ways—natural, social, and technological—that subsonic frequencies haunt us, affect us, and change us. * Steven Shaviro, DeRoy Professor of English, Wayne State University, USA *“…a rewarding read…By now widely travelled and well-thumbed, my copy of Low End Theory obviously affected me more than many other books I have recently read… * Oliver Seibt, Musicae Scientiae *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Elements of a Myth-Science 1. The Sonic Body: An Ethico-Acoustic Toolkit Sonorous Relations Tales and Strategies Myth-Science in the Vibratory Milieu 2. Spectral Catalysis: Disquieting Encounters Spectres of the Manmade Unknown Infrasound Unhomed Boo! (toward an operative reality) The Hum ‘And it was only by analogy that it could be called a sound at all...’ Blinkered Science We still do not know what a sonic body can do... 3. Numinous Strategies Learning to Play the Sonic Body The Nervous Piano Numinous Instruments Religious Audiogenesis Numinous Sound Design Playing the Resonances Tellurian Organs The Organ-Church Assemblage The Arcanum: An Ambulant Myth-Science The Nervous Organ Baroque Affect Engineering The Gothic Assemblage: Applied Synaesthetics 4. Tone Scientists I: Vibratory Arts Cymatic Arts Documentary Practices A Speculative Turn Perceptual Abstraction Transversal Strategies Incipient Dance Sonic Architectures Dance With the Speaker ‘A people of oscillators’ 5. Tone Scientists II: Bass Cults The Lab The Science Bass Science Dubplates and Mastering Engineering the Vibratorium Affects and Affectations Entering the Rhythmachine Three Physio-Logics Jungle (1994) Dubstep (2005) Footwork (2009) Conclusion: Where next? Endnotes Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Joe Hisaishis Soundtrack for My Neighbor Totoro
Book SynopsisMy Neighbor Totoro is a long-standing international icon of Japanese pop culture that grew out of the partnership between the legendary animator Miyazaki Hayao and the world-renowned composer Joe Hisaishi. A crucial step in the two artists' collaboration was the creation of the album, My Neighbor Totoro: Image Song Collection, with lyrics penned by Miyazaki and Nakagawa Rieko, a famed children's book author, and music composed by Hisaishi. The album, released in 1987 prior to the opening of the film, served not only as a promotional product, but also provided Miyazaki with concrete ideas about the characters and the themes of the film. This book investigates the extent to which Hisaishi's music shaped Miyazaki's vision by examining the relationship between the images created by Miyazaki and the music composed by Hisaishi, with special emphasis on their approaches to nostalgia, one of the central themes of the film.Trade ReviewMany fans of Japanese anime love their musical soundtracks, but few scholars have studied their appeal. Kunio Hara explains in clear, soulful language how Joe Hisaishi and Miyazaki Hayao collaborated to create the sonic environment for the beloved My Neighbor Totoro, balancing a scholars’ sophisticated musical analysis and a fan’s emotional engagement. * E. Taylor Atkins, Distinguished Teaching Professor and Assistant Chair of History, Northern Illinois University, USA *Kunio Hara is one of the few music and Japanese film scholars with a truly multidisciplinary and multilingual competence. To discover the minutest details of Totoro's music through a panoply of references previously unavailable to English-speaking readers, while also enjoying endearing recollections on the special sense of nostalgia exuded by the film, is all the more satisfying. * Marco Bellano, Research Fellow and Adjunct Professor in History of Animation, University of Padova, Italy *Table of ContentsList of Examples Acknowledgments Preface Introduction 1. Miyazaki, Hisaishi, and Their Collaboration 2. Two Songs from the Image Album 3. Totoro in Music and Sound 4. The Wind and the Forest 5. Satsuki and Mei 6. Forgotten Sounds Conclusion: Forgetting and Remembering Notes References Filmography Discography Track Lists Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Nuovo Canzoniere Italianos Bella Ciao
Book SynopsisJacopo Tomatis is a musicologist, music journalist, and musician. He is a Research Fellow at the University of Torino, Italy, where he teaches Popular Music and Ethnomusicology. His first book Storia culturale della canzone italiana (2019) won the IASPM book prize in 2021.Table of ContentsList of abbreviations of the archive funds Acknowledgements Prologue (in the form of a picture) INTRODUCTION 1. A song, a show, a record 2. Popular music and politics in the “boom” years 3. Communism, ethnomusicology and folk revival PART 1. The myth of Bella Ciao 4. Meet the Nuovo Canzoniere Italiano 5. One week in Spoleto 6. Constructing the myth: the countess, the colonel, the rice picker 7. Bella Ciao in the theater: protest and distinction 8. After Spoleto 9. Bella Ciao on disc: antagonism and the market PART 2. The performance of “real” folk 10. Organizing folk: the structure 11. Curating folk: the repertoire 12. “Bella Ciao” of the partisans 13. “Bella Ciao” of the rice pickers 14. Performing philology: Giovanna Marini’s “fakes” 15. Staging folk: direction, sets and costumes 16. Strumming folk: the arrangements 17. Singing and learning to sing folk: the voices 18. Sounding folk: the studio recording CODA: Us and them Notes Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Living Colours Times Up
Book SynopsisThe iconic Black rock band Living Colour''s Time''s Up, released in 1990, was recorded in the aftermath of the spectacular critical and commercial success of their debut record Vivid. Time''s Up is a musical and lyrical triumph, incorporating distinct forms and styles of music and featuring inspired collaborations with artists as varied as Little Richard, Queen Latifah, Maceo Parker, and Mick Jagger. The clash of sounds and styles don''t immediately fit. The confrontational hardcore-thrash metal - complete with Glover''s apocalyptic wail - in the title track is not a natural companion with Doug E. Fresh''s human beat box on Tag Team Partners, but it''s precisely this bold and brilliant collision that creates the barely-controlled chaos. And isn''t rock & roll about chaos?Living Colour''s sophomore effort holds great relevance in light of its forward-thinking politics and lyrical engagement with racism, classism, police brutality, and other social and polTrade Review[A] satisfying addition to Bloombsury’s 33 1/3 series. . . . Mack helpfully shines a light on a still-excellent album and band that have all too often been overlooked. * PopMatters *Expansive. . . . Mack digs deep into Living Colour's history as a band while fleshing out their story with some crucial historical and personal context. * Okayplayer *[Mack’s] academic prowess and ability to finely tune the history of Black rock music makes the book an informative and exciting read, as she traverses through the contemporary sound of rock music. * New York Amsterdam News *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. “History Lesson”: Who are Living Colour? 2. “Time’s Up”: Time’s Up in Their Own Words 3. “Pride”: Rock and Roll, Living Colour, and Me 4. “Information Overload”: The Critics Weigh In 5. “This is the Life”: Aftermath and Legacy Acknowledgments Notes
£9.49
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Yumings The 14th Moon
Book SynopsisIt is not an exaggeration that Matsutoya Yumibetter known by her stage name Yumingis one of the most influential figures in Japanese popular music history. A singer-songwriter recognized globally for her songs used in Miyazaki Hayao's beloved animations, Yuming has captured the hearts of listeners of different generations since her debut in the early 1970s. Her fourth album, The 14th Moon, released in 1976, was a milestone in establishing her signature style: the posh, city sound that later paved the way to the 1980s City Pop and 1990s J-pop. In addition to examining the album's astonishing stylistic versatility, this book explores how Yuming revolutionized the position of women in Japanese popular music and how her work can help us understand social changes in Japan of the 1970s.Table of ContentsTrack Listing Preface Introduction 1. Becoming Yuming 2. Transient worlds 3. New Music 4. Women’s images 5. Soaring women 6. Musical legacies Conclusion Acknowledgments Bibliography Index
£23.21
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Aquas Aquarium
Book SynopsisI''m a Barbie Girl, in a Barbie world, the ubiquitous refrain that dominated the airwaves in summer 1997. Aqua''s single from their debut album Aquarium spread like wildfire, topping charts across the globe. With their erotically charged lyrics and dance beats, Aqua moved beyond their Danish Eurodance beginnings and achieved global renown in the late 1990s. In the US, however, they are an infamous one hit wonder, remembered for their highly publicized lawsuit with Mattel. Although Aqua''s fame waned at the turn of the millennium, the 25th anniversary of their debut precipitated a resurgence in their popularity. This book unwraps a bubblegum dance classic to offer the first in-depth examination of what lies beneath Aqua''s sticky-sweet veneer. It traces the history of Aquarium alongside interpretations of the album's singles informed by queer theory and covers by contemporary musicians commissioned for the book. Peeling back the layers of Aquarium reveals
£21.36
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc The Dead Cs Clyma est mort
Book SynopsisThe Dead C's Clyma est mort (1993) is the record of a live gig for one person. Tom Lax was running the Siltbreeze label in Philadelphia and had come to New Zealand to meet the artists he was releasing. He heard The Dead C at their noisy, improvised best, turning rock music on its head with a free-form style of blaring, loosely organised sound. Leading a second wave of music from Dunedin, New Zealand, The Dead C were an assault against the kind of jangly pop that had made the Dunedin Sound famous during the 1980s. This book uses The Dead C and in particular their album Clyma est mort (1993) to offer insights into the way the best of rock music plays vertigo with our senses, illustrating a sonic picture of freedom and energy. It places the album into the history of independent music in New Zealand, and into an international context of independent labels posting, faxing and phoning each other.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements An American visits New Zealand only to find that nobody wants to play You wouldn’t play like that if you didn’t know what you were doing In which the band find themselves in front of the whole country An Englishman does not share the droll humour of the local people The natural born gifts of the drummer On the poetics of the Bible, and the day jobs of the artists Looking the Horse in the Mouth In which a correspondence is established, and an exchange of like views The Port Chalmers Sound The cells of the body return to their unliving state References Index
£20.43
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Alastair Riddells Space Waltz
Book SynopsisAlastair Riddell's band Space Waltz was a short-lived one-album New Zealand rock act who hit gold with a #1 hit single in October 1974 with the song Out On The Street' but thereafter failed to achieve anything even close to that feat. While relegated to one-hit-wonder status in the eyes of many, to this day Riddell and Space Waltz epitomize the mid-1970s heyday of glam rock in New Zealand. But in truth their impact went far beyond this. Their generationally divisive nation-wide debut on the hugely popular MOR television talent quest Studio One/New Faces demonstrated the power of mass media exposure they were instantly signed to a record deal with industry giant EMI while Riddell's controversial gender-bending image provided a cultural crossroads that greatly impacted the wider youth culture of Aotearoa New Zealand. In addition, while the album's most famous track, Out On The Street,' is rightly regarded as New Zealand's glam rock anthem, the wider album demonstrates a compositTrade ReviewA fun and detailed account of an ambitious album and band. * Christchurch City Libraries Nga Kete Wananga o Otautahi *A book that firmly places [Space Waltz] in the canon. * Witchdoctor *Ian Chapman ... is a talented writer who knows and loves his topic – all this shines through in this wonderful book – a must for anybody interested in New Zealand music. * DustyShelves Book Reviews and BookBits *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. ‘Out on the Street’: Space Waltz Takes New Zealand by Storm 3. What Came Before 4. The Album Part 1 5. The Album Part 2 6. What Came After Notes Bibliography Index
£16.14
