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Integrating perspectives from musicology with the cognitive sciences, author Zachary Wallmark advances a novel model of timbre interpretation that takes into account the bodily, sensorimotor dynamics of sound production and perception\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEvery musicologist should read this book, and it is required reading for those dealing with the cognition of music. Essential. * CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003eIn this book Zachary Wallmark confronts head on an aspect of musical practice that is at once elusive and essential: the enduring mystery of timbre. In Wallmark's hands, however, this mystery does not so much endure as become an entry point for exploring the bases of musical expression. Through a splendid blend of empirical research and humanistic inquiry, set out in lucid and approachable prose, he explains how timbre matters as well as why it matters. 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It is also engagingly written, a model both for understanding Queen and for addressing any band's idiolect. * Allan F. Moore, Emeritus Professor in Music, University of Surrey *\u003cbr\u003eBraae's book is a brilliant analytical journey of how Queen created their unique and identifiable sound. It is an insightful, original and much-needed text that explores not just the notes, but also the historical, performative and production contexts that shaped their music. * Jadey O'Regan, Lecturer in Contemporary Music, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes on Musical Examples Acknowledgements List of Tables and Figures  1. Introduction The Book The Study of Queen Issues of Style  2. Queen's Idiolect: A Primer Harmonic Structure and Gestures Textural Foundations and the Sound-Box Arrangement and Performance Gestures Sounds Like Queen, and other Conclusions  3. Artistic Craft and Crafted Artistry: Queen's Structural Archetypes Introduction and Definitions Conventional Forms Variations on Conventional Forms Episodic Songs Artistic Craft and Crafted Artistry  4. Temporal Processes in Queen's Large-Scale Songs Time and Popular Song Phrase and Intra-Sectional Linearity Sectional Temporality Closure Queen's Temporal Processes and Exceptions  5. Brian May and Roger Taylor Analyzing the Voice The Voices of Brian May and Roger Taylor May, Taylor, and Rock Authenticity  6. Freddie Mercury The Voices  Structural Dynamics  Stylistic Incongruities, Queer and Camp Voices, and the \"Real\" Freddie  Mercury, Rock Authenticity, and Interpretation  Coda   7. Hard Rock, Glam Rock and Progressive Rock in the 1970s  Commentary and Conceptual Considerations  Queen's \"Dominant Voice\": The Hard Rock Connection  The Glam Rock Connection: Exaggeration, Irony, and Play  Progressive Rock, and Interplay   8. The Musical World(s) of Queen A \"Unique\" Sonic Fingerprint and Pastiche in the 1970s  Queen's Sonic Patterns and Stylistic Connections  The Musical World(s) of Queen   9. A Day at the Races and the Gestural Unity of Queen  Queen in 1976 and the Ideal of Evolution  The Notion of Gestural Unity: Idiolect Revisited  A Day at the Races  The Gestural Unity of Queen   10. Was It All Worth It? Queen in the 1980s  A Decade of Changing Fortunes  From \"Save Me\" to \"Staying Power\"  The Rock Ballads Revisited  Hard Rock by Numbers  Was It All Worth It?   11. Queen's Jubilee: The Late Style of Innuendo  Introduction  \"Innuendo\"  \"The Show Must Go On\"  A Late Style of Queen   12. Legacy  Post-1991  Replacing Freddie  \"No One But You\"  We Will Rock You  The Influence of Queen  The End of the Story   Bibliography  Appendix A","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732644114775,"sku":"9780197526743","price":24.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780197526743.jpg?v=1719997778"},{"product_id":"inside-mahlers-second-symphony-9780197575642","title":"Inside Mahlers Second Symphony","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis guide introduces concertgoers, serious listeners, and music students to Gustav Mahler''s Second Symphony, one of the composer''s most popular and most powerful works. 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To do this, the book re-appropriates the term Renegade to explain the nuanced ways that Dubsmashers take up visual and sonic space on social media apps to self-fashion identity, form supportive digital communities, and exert agency to take up space that is often denied to them in other facets of their lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the dance challenges of the Renegade and Donut Shop, to the moves of the mop and the woah, Renegades: Digital Dance Cultures from Dubsmash to TikTok provides a fascinating window into the youth identity formation of Gen Z culture through their predominant life-line of social media. * Adrienne Gibbons Oehlers, Dance Research Journal  *\u003cbr\u003eRenegades celebrates new digital platforms, through the lives and experiences of the Black dancers, artists, musicians, and activists who popularize their viral content. 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This collaborative, therapeutic hip-hop intervention will lead White teachers and other readers to exclaim: Keke taught me the Black girl joy that influences the Internet's top hip-hop songs and dance. * Kyra Gaunt, author of The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop *\u003cbr\u003eRenegades: Digital Dance Cultures from Dubsmash to TikTok is a thorough and nuanced analysis of the many ways that Black youth have used hip-hop dance to transform digital space. By addressing the implications of this transformation for areas as diverse as educational philosophy, identity, language, intellectual property law, and political organizing, Trevor Boffone has produced a timely and inspiring contribution to hip-hop dance scholarship. * Joe Schloss, author of Foundation; B-boys, B-girls and Hip-Hop Culture in New York *\u003cbr\u003eThe book creates a platform to center Black narratives and will deepen (and in many instances initiate) the dance discussions in my courses related to race, equity, and social media. * Heather Trommer-Beardslee, Journal Of Dance Education *\u003cbr\u003eFrom the dance challenges of the Renegade and Donut Shop, to the moves of the mop and the woah, Renegades: Digital Dance Cultures from Dubsmash to TikTok provides a fascinating window into the youth identity formation of Gen Z culture through their predominant life-line of social media. * Adrienne Gibbons Oehlers, Dance Research Journal *\u003cbr\u003eRenegades celebrates new digital platforms, through the lives and experiences of the Black dancers, artists, musicians, and activists who popularize their viral content. 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Taking full advantage of all we have learned about Handel's operas over the past half-century, from the likes of Winton Dean et al, Link goes beyond facts and figures to focus, not on the what, but on the how, and not from the point of view of the composer alone but from his relationship with his audience-on the expressive contract established between them. By engaging a variety of critical strategies drawn from literary, film, and dramatic theory, Link brilliantly illuminates Handel's storytelling in ways that can be applied to operas of any period, including our own. * Ellen Rosand, author of Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice: The Creation of a Genre *\u003cbr\u003eThe Poetics of Handel's Operas offers a wholly new analytic system based on narrative storytelling that will surely have a strong impact on Handel scholarship - and also has the potential to mark a turning point in the study and performance of opera seria. A seminal work. * Ellen T. 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I commend it to anyone interested in how media works in the 21st century.\" * Metascience *\u003cbr\u003e\"Streaming music services are the norm today, but people don't often think about how they work or how they recommend the next song. Seaver peeks behind the musical curtain in this book about the humans behind the algorithms. . . . 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If you’re interested in start-up culture and liked \u003ci\u003eThe Social Network\u003c\/i\u003e, there’s something for you in this book. Throughout \u003ci\u003eComputing Taste\u003c\/i\u003e, Seaver comments on the balancing act between artificial intelligence and human expertise. He says the title ‘is meant to index that tension’—to probe how technological systems can coexist with something as personal as music taste.\" -- Hope Karnopp * Daily Cardinal *\u003cbr\u003e\"The gap between technology and culture might not be as wide as we think, says Seaver in his analysis of how music recommender systems are produced. . . . 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It will be immensely useful for those outside of computer science and engineering who want to understand how people think and work in the AI industry.” -- Jonathan Sterne, author of \"Diminished Faculties,\" \"MP3,\" and \"The Audible Past\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Seaver’s exquisite and essential book brings us into an expert community aspiring to find the delicate balance between caring for and controlling the sprawling phenomenon of taste. The ethnographically engaging \u003ci\u003eComputing Taste\u003c\/i\u003e offers a complex rendering of the makers of music recommendation systems who believe that algorithms can predict and shape musical taste while also wrestling with the reductive absurdity of such a claim. 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Seaver brilliantly tunes us to the cadences of these people’s works and lives, decoding the mix of cosmologies, capital, and computation that channel how and what we hear today.” -- Stefan Helmreich, author \"Sounding the Limits of Life: Essays in the Anthropology of Biology and Beyond\"\u003cbr\u003e“Perhaps there’s no accounting for taste, but as Seaver demonstrates in \u003ci\u003eComputing Taste\u003c\/i\u003e, his resonant and resourceful ethnography of music recommendation algorithms, musical taste can indeed be counted and coded. 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