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Taylor & Francis Touraj Kiaras and Persian Classical Music An
Book SynopsisIn this book Owen Wright analyses a single recording of classical Persian music made by Touraj Kiaras, a distinguished singer, accompanied by four noted instrumentalists. The format of the recording is typical of a public concert performance, and thus includes instrumental compositions as well as a central exploration of vocal repertoire and technique. The analysis identifies salient structural features, whether of the individual components or of the whole, in a way accessible to the western reader, but it also takes account of the analytical metalanguage used in Persian scholarship, and includes consideration of the relationship between music and poetry. It is important to note that it is also guided by the perceptions of the performer, whose input and responses to questions have significantly influenced the enterprise. To avoid the dryly impersonal, the analysis is also framed by an introduction which combines a biographical sketch of Touraj Kiaras with a survey of the twentieth-centTrade Review�Touraj Kiaras and Persian Classical Music stands favourably alongside Wright's other foundational Middle Eastern Studies as a refreshingly performance-focused foray into the increasingly cross-cultural character of twenty-first-century musical analysis.� Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 'Wright�s exceptionally lucid explanations of the terms generally used in discussions of Persian classical music (26-35) would alone make the book a valuable resource for teachers... Wright also reproduces a few of Massoudieh�s notations with modifications that facilitate comparison with his own. His flexible and inventive approach to notation is one of the book�s many strengths.' Ethnomusicology '... the [CD] recording really is superb ... [Wright] presents some highly original and persuasive ideas... It cuts an intelligent swathe through current debates about the analysis of non-Western music. And it will persuade many of those wedded to anthropological and context-oriented approaches in ethnomusicology, in what is - once again - a rather polemicized environment, that there are decent arguments to be made for an analytical engagement with non-Western music, and not just reaction or retrenchment. This admittedly quirky but deeply thoughtful book must, in these terms, be judged a considerable success.' Music and LettersTable of ContentsContents: Purpose; Part 1 Touraj Kiaras: Historical context; Learning; Career development; Westernization and tradition; Exile. Part 2 Analytical Frameworks: Approaches; Indigenous categories; Terminology; Creativity. Part 3 The Present Performance: Format; Analysis: background; a) The Pre-Composed Pieces (1): Pishdaramad; Moqaddame; Tarane; b) The Radif Section: Daramad; Chakavak; Leyli o majnun; Ney-e davud; Bidad; Forud; c) The Pre-Composed Pieces (2): Tarane; Reng. Part 4 Epilogue: Select bibliography; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ancient Text Messages of the Yoruba Bata Drum Cracking the Code SOAS Studies in Music
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Taylor & Francis Mark E. Smith and The Fall Art Music and Politics
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Taylor & Francis The African Diaspora A Musical Perspective 3 Critical and Cultural Musicology
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Book SynopsisMade in Poland: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of contemporary Polish popular music. Each essay, written by a leading scholar of Polish music, covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of pop music in Poland and provides adequate context so readers understand why the figure or genre under discussion is of lasting significance. The book first presents a general description of the history and background of popular music in Poland, followed by essays organized into thematic sections: Popular Music in the Peopleâs Republic of Poland; Documenting Change and Continuity in Music Scenes and Institutions; and Music, Identity, and Critique.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Series Foreword Introduction: Polish Popular Music and its Research: Filling the Gaps PATRYK GALUSZKAPart I: Born in the PRL: Popular Music in the People’s Republic of Poland 1 No Country for Sheer Entertainment: Cultural Politics of Socialist Poland, its Conceptual Scheme, and Vision of Popular Music RENATA PASTERNAK- MAZUR2 Rock and Politics in the People’s Republic of Poland ANNA IDZIKOWSKA- CZUBAJ3 Against the Mainstream: Music and the Polish Alternative Culture of the 1980s MAREK JEZIŃSKIPart II: Documenting Change and Continuity in Music Scenes and Institutions 4 Polish Psychedelic Rock: A Game of Appearances MARCIN MICHALAK5 “Lipstick on the Glass”: A Cultural Studies Perspective on the Female Artists of the National Festival of Polish Song in Opole MATEUSZ TORZECKI AND ŁUKASZ SŁOŃSKI6 Deserters with a Chance of Success: Polish Punks Before and Aft er 1989 1MARTA MARCINIAK7 Microlabels: Th e Modern Popular Culture Niches in Poland TOMASZ MISIAK AND SZYMON NOŻYŃSKI8 Independent from What Exactly? Th e Polish Recording Industry in the 1990s PATRYK GALUSZKA AND KATARZYNA M. WYRZYKOWSKAPart III: Polishness and its Discontents: Music, Identity, and Critique 9 Between Artistic Freedom and National Pride: Th e Dance House Movement and Folk Music in Poland WALDEMAR KULIGOWSKI10 Th e Making of Polish Hip- Hop: Music, Nationality, and the Limits of Hegemony ARTUR SZARECKI11 Sandwiches with Cash and the Scent of God: Mister D. and the Post- Transformational Criticism of Polishness KONRAD SIERZPUTOWSKI12 Disco Polo Music: Th e Agency and Modernization of the Polish Province ZIEMOWIT SOCHA13 Polish Music in British Nightclubs: Examining How Nostalgic Longing Brought Disco Polo and Polish Hip- Hop to the United Kingdom KAMILA RYMAJDOCODA14 Polish Popular Music beyond the Borders of Poland EWA MAZIERSKAAFTERWORD15 “Music as the Binder”: A Conversation with Macio Moretti PATRYK GALUSKASelected Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sounds of the Pandemic
Book SynopsisSounds of the Pandemic offers one of the first critical analyses of the changes in sonic environments, artistic practice, and listening behaviour caused by the Coronavirus outbreak. This multifaceted collection provides a detailed picture of a wide array of phenomena related to sound and music, including soundscapes, music production, music performance, and mediatisation processes in the context of COVID-19. It represents a first step to understanding how the pandemic and its by-products affected sound domains in terms of experiences and practices, representations, collective imaginaries, and socio-political manipulations. This book is essential reading for students, researchers, and practitioners working in the realms of music production and performance, musicology and ethnomusicology, sound studies, and media and cultural studies.Table of ContentsPart 1: Accounts: Sounds from a World under Lockdown 1. Listening to the First Lockdown: The Auditory Experience of Wrocław’s Inhabitants 2. Together in Discipline and Turmoil: Remembering Public Sounds during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Czech Republic and Slovakia 3.Listening to the Hustle and the Hush: Sound, City, and the Pandemic 4. Applauses and Banners, Horns and Fireworks: Tracing the Sonic Expression of French Social Movements during Lockdown 5. Pandemic Soundscaping: Rediscovering a New Aura in the Mediatised Sonic Reality 6. Not People but a Sound: Virtual Audio and the Appropriation of Fandom Practices in Pandemic Football 7. A Digital Archive of Participatory Location Rhythm Performances: Listening as a Way of Attending to the Pandemic Part 2: Experiences: Musicking in the Face of the Pandemic 8. Huapanguitos pa seguir aguantando en cuarentena: Mexican SonTube Channels as Emergent Digital Spaces of Music and Community during COVID-19 9. "WHY DO THEY DANCE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PANDEMIC?" Post-Pandemic Cumbia, Mediated Live Music, and Digital Heritage from Mexico City 10. Sardinian Traditional Music during the COVID-19 Pandemic 11. Becoming Visible: Proud Roma and Sinti Musicians in Italy during the Pandemic 12. Rethinking Intermedia Practices during the Pandemic: Staging and Conception of Alexander Schubert’s Virtual Reality Video Game Genesis 13. Musicians in the Brazilian Pandemic: Facing COVID-19 during the Bolsonaro Regime and the Aldir Blanc Emergency Bill 14. Musical Performance during and after the COVID-19 Pandemic: Days of Future Passed? Part 3: Perspectives: Rethinking Sound and Music against the Backdrop of a Global Crisis 15. Coronamusic(king): Types, Repertoires, Consolatory Function 16. The Pandemic as a Catalyst for Remotivity in Music 17. Music in Lockdown: On Sonic Spaces during the COVID-19 Pandemic, March – June 2020 18. What a Blackbird Has Told Me: Latent Acoustic Learning in the Times of COVID-19 19. The Sounds and Silence of COVID-19 Quarantine: Media Representation, Debility, and Neoliberal Biopolitics 20. Four Sounds against Capitalocene: Lockdown, Music, and the Artist as Producer 21. Afterword: Coping with Crisis through Coronamusic
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ethnomusicology and its Intimacies
Book SynopsisEthnomusicology and its Intimacies situates intimacy, a concept that encompasses a wide range of often informal social practices and processes for building closeness and relationality, within the ethnomusicological study of music and sound. These scholarly essays reflect on a range of interactions between individuals and communities that deepen connections and associations, and which may be played out relatively briefly or nurtured over time.Three major sections on Performance, Auto/biographical Strategies, and Film are each prefaced by an interview with a scholar or practitioner with close knowledge of the subject that links the chapters in that section. Often drawing directly on fieldwork experience in a variety of contexts, authors consider how concepts of intimacy can illuminate the ethnographic study of music, addressing questions such as: how can we understand ethnomusicological and ethnographic research and performance as processes of musically mediated intimaTable of ContentsList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsIntroductionPart I: Musical Intimacy in PerformanceIntrospection I Chapter 1: The Intimacy of InterlockingChapter 2: Spiritual and Emotional Dimensions of Female Lullaby Singing in AfghanistanChapter 3: Afghan Wars and Musical IntimacyPart II: Intimate Confessions and Biographical StrategiesIntrospection II Chapter 4: Radio and the Music ConfessionalChapter 5: Amīr Kòhusraw Between Balkh and Delhi: The Transnational Legacies of an Indo-Afghan Poet-Musician Chapter 6: Meetings With Masterly Musicians: Collaboration, Creation, and Curation in the Pursuit of Ethnomusicological KnowledgeChapter 7: Searching for a Voice: An Anatolian TalePart III: Filmic IntimaciesIntrospection III Chapter 8: Intimacy in Ethnographic Film: Listening to How to Improve the World by Nguyễn Trinh ThiChapter 9: The Sonic Intimacies of Khosrow Sinai’s A Lost Requiem (1983)Chapter 10: Intoxicated Intimacies: Drunken Heroes in Greek Popular Film and SongEpilogue: Digital Ethnomusicology in a Socially-Distanced World
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Global Metal Music and Culture
Book SynopsisThis book defines the key ideas, scholarly debates, and research activities that have contributed to the formation of the international and interdisciplinary field of Metal Studies. Drawing on insights from a wide range of disciplines including popular music, cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, and ethics, this volume offers new and innovative research on metal musicology, global/local scenes studies, fandom, gender and metal identity, metal media, and commerce. Offering a wide-ranging focus on bands, scenes, periods, and sounds, contributors explore topics such as the riff-based song writing of classic heavy metal bands and their modern equivalents, and the musical-aesthetics of Grindcore, Doom metal, Death metal, and Progressive metal. They interrogate production technologies, sound engineering, album artwork and band promotion, logos and merchandising, t-shirt and jewellery design, and fan communities that define the global metal music economy and subcultural sTrade Review"Although Kahn-Harris warns of a decline in metal’s vitality, the reader should rest assured that metal studies, at least, is alive and well. Global Metal Music and Culture aptly registers this state of affairs and for that reason alone merits a read."- Jordan Musser, Cornell University in Metal Music Studies, Volume 3 Number 1, 2017Table of Contents1. Introduction: Global Metal Music and Culture and Metal Studies Andy R. Brown, Karl Spracklen, Keith Kahn-Harris, and Niall W.R. Scott 2. Reflections on Metal Studies Deena Weinstein Part 1: Metal Musicology 3. Iron and Steel: Forging Heavy Metal’s Song Structures or the Impact of Black Sabbath and Judas Priest on Metal’s Musical Language Dietmar Elflein 4.‘It’s like a Mach piece, really’: Critiquing the Neo-classical Aesthetic of 80s Heavy Metal Music Gareth Heritage 5. The Distortion Paradox: Analysing Contemporary Metal Production Mark Mynett Part 2: Metal Music Scenes 6. Voracious Souls: Race and Place in the Formation of the San Francisco Bay Area Thrash Scene Kevin Fellezs 7. The Unforgiven: A Reception Study of Metallica Fans and ‘Sell-Out’ Accusations Eric Smialek 8. Use Your Mind?: Embodiments of Protest, Transgression, and Grotesque Realism in British Grindcore Gabby Riches Part 3: Metal Demographics and Identity 9. The Numbers of the Beast: Surveying Iron Maiden’s Global Tribe Jean-Philippe Ury-Petesch 10. The Social Characteristics of the Contemporary Metalhead: The Hellfest Survey Christophe Guibert and Gérôme Guibert 11.Un(su)Stained Class? Figuring Out the Identity-Politics of Heavy Metal’s Class Demographics Andy R. Brown Part 4: Metal Markets and Commerce 12. Tunes from the Land of the Thousand Lakes: Early Years of Internationalization in Finnish Heavy Metal Toni-Matti Karjalainen and Eero Sipilä 13. Death Symbolism in Metal Jewellery: Circuits of Consumption from Subculture to the High Street Claire Barratt Part 5: Metal and Gender Politics 14. ‘Getting My Soul Back’: Empowerment Narratives and Identities among Women in Extreme Metal in North Carolina Jamie E. Patterson 15. Gender and Power in the Death Metal Scene: A Social Exchange Perspective Sonia Vasan 16. Masculine Pleasure? Women’s Encounters with Hard Rock and Metal Music Rosemary Lucy Hill Part 6: Metal and Cultural Studies 17. Retro Rock and Heavy History Simon Poole 18. Transforming Detail into Myth: Indescribable Experience and Mystical Discourse in Drone Metal Owen Coggins Part 7: Metal Futures 19. The Future of Metal is Bright and Hell Bent for Genre Destruction: A Response to Keith Kahn-Harris Tom O’Boyle and Niall Scott 20. A Reply to Scott and O’Boyle Keith Kahn-Harris
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Focus Music and Religion of Morocco
Book SynopsisFocus: Music and Religion of Morocco introduces the region and its history, highlighting how the pressures of religious life, post-colonial economic struggle, and global media come together within Moroccan musical life. Musical practices contextualize and clarify global historical and contemporary movementsmany of which remain poorly understoodwhile articulating the daily realities of the region's populations in ways that rarely show through current news accounts of religious extremism, poverty and inequality, and forced migration.As with other volumes in the series, Focus: Music and Religion of Morocco addresses large, conceptual issues though interwoven case studies, in three parts: Part I Memories and Medias: Who We Are highlights how issues of religion, colonialism, nationalism, and globalization transcend boundaries through music to create a sense of personal and national identity, whTable of ContentsPART I - Memories and Medias: Who We Are / 1. Andalusian Memories / 2. Global Popular Music / PART II - Contesting Mainstreams: Where We’re Going / 3. Pop and Protest / 4. Gnawa Music and Ritual / PART III - Focusing In: Faith and Fun in Fez / 5. Sufi Ritual / 6. Sufi Entertainments / 7. Malhun as Pop, Piety, and Local Pride / Conclusion: Who We Are and Where We’re Going Resources Glossary References Index
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Taylor & Francis Psychology of Music
Book SynopsisIn Psychology of Music: From Sound to Significance (2nd edition), the authors consider music on a broad scale, from its beginning as an acoustical signal to its different manifestations across cultures. In their second edition, the authors apply the same richness of depth and scope that was a hallmark of the first edition of this text. In addition, having laid out the topography of the field in the original book, the second edition puts greater emphasis on linking academic learning to real-world contexts, and on including compelling topics that appeal to students' natural curiosity. Chapters have been updated with approximately 500 new citations to reflect advances in the field.The organization of the book remains the same as the first edition, while chapters have been updated and often expanded with new topics. ''Part I: Foundations'' explores the acoustics of sound, the auditory system, and responses to music in the brain. ''Part II: The Perception and CogTrade Review‘Tan, Pfordresher, and Harré have thoroughly revised and updated Psychology of Music: From Sound to Significance with great success. They maintain the logical progression of topics from the earlier version, but each chapter incorporates new and intriguing material, ranging from practical problems in learning and performing music to philosophical issues concerning how music conveys meaning. Topics are seamlessly integrated across chapters with valuable cross-references and clear links are drawn between the classic studies and the vibrant, contemporary research. Technical jargon is avoided, at the same time providing satisfying descriptions of important methodologies. Anyone involved in music, as performer or listener, will find an engaging array of ideas about music and human thought and emotion - and many fascinating, unanswered questions.’ - Carol Lynne Krumhansl, Professor of Psychology, Cornell University, US‘The authors' revision of Psychology of Music: From Sound to Significance provides students and instructors with a rich and deep resource for learning about the field of music psychology. Approachable in its language and sweeping in scope, this text introduces readers to the many areas of scientific research into the powerful, deeply human experiences of listeners and performers, children and adults. I have used the first edition as a text in my undergraduate survey course for years and highly recommend this book as an excellent choice, both in the classroom and for the independent learner.’ - Richard Ashley, Associate Professor of Music, Cognitive Science, and Cognitive Neuroscience, Northwestern University, US; Co-Editor, Routledge Companion to Music CognitionTable of ContentsAbout the authors Preface to the second edition Notes to instructors Acknowledgments 1. The scope of psychology of music Part I. Foundations 2. The acoustics of music 3. Auditory perception and the neurophysiology of hearing 4. Cognitive neuroscience and the music-language link Part II. The perception and cognition of music 5. Perception of musical pitch and melody 6. Perception of musical time 7. Analysis and cognition of musical structure Part III. Development, learning, and performance 8. Emergence of auditory and music perception 9. Early musical development 10. Practice and musical expertise 11. The psychology of music performance Part IV. The meaning and significance of music 12. The social psychology of music 13. The question of meaning in music 14. The emotional power of music 15. Culture and music. Appendix: The chapters in action. References. Name index. Subject index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The History of Live Music in Britain Volume I
Book SynopsisThe social history of music in Britain since 1950 has long been the subject of nostalgic articles in newspapers and magazines, nostalgic programmes on radio and television and collective memories on music websites, but to date there has been no proper scholarly study. The three volumes of The History of Live Music in Britain address this gap, and do so from the unique perspective of the music promoter: the key theme is the changing nature of the live music industry. The books are focused upon popular music but cover all musical genres and the authors offer new insights into a variety of issues, including changes in musical fashions and tastes; the impact of developing technologies; the balance of power between live and recorded music businesses; the role of the state as regulator and promoter; the effects of demographic and other social changes on music culture; and the continuing importance of do-it-yourself enthusiasts. Drawing on archival research, a wide range of academic and non-Trade Review'...This engagingly written, carefully documented study should interest scholars and students of popular music history and cultural history and might well provide fruitful avenues for further research...Highly recommended.' Choice '... absolutely fascinating... It is a magnificent read for anyone with a broad interest in the live music scene in Britain. Roll on the next volume and the one after.' Folk North West ’... this 'social history of music in Britain' written by a team of popular music scholars has a lot to offer to any 'certified' historian with an interest in post-war popular culture and music in particular’. Sehepunkte ’The four authors should be congratulated for achieving a near seamless synergy in terms of style and argument throughout this volume, especially given its breadth. Clear introductions and conclusions help to draw the multiple threads of each chapter together and the text is eminently readable. ... This book sets a very high standard for future work and I await further instalments with interest’. Popular MusicTable of ContentsContents: Preface; Getting back to business; Live music and the state; A snapshot of Bristol in October-November 1962; Being a musician; Do-it-yourself!; A snapshot of Glasgow in October-November 1962; Youth; The recording industry; A snapshot of Sheffield in October-November 1962; Venues, audience and promoters; The Rolling Stones, Richmond 1963; Bibliography; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Heavy Metal Music in Britain
Book SynopsisHeavy metal has developed from a British fringe genre of rock music in the late 1960s to a global mass market consumer good in the early twenty-first century. Early proponents of the musical style, such as Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Judas Priest, Saxon, Uriah Heep and Iron Maiden, were mostly seeking to reach a young male audience. Songs were often filled with violent, sexist and nationalistic themes but were also speaking to the growing sense of deterioration in social and professional life. At the same time, however, heavy metal was seriously indebted to the legacies of blues and classical music as well as to larger literary and cultural themes. The genre also produced mythological concept albums and rewritings of classical poems. In other words, heavy metal tried from the beginning to locate itself in a liminal space between pedestrian mass culture and a rather elitist adherence to complexity and musical craftsmanship, speaking from a subaltern position against the hegemonic discouTrade Review'Given that heavy metal has received less academic attention than other popular music forms, and that studies have often been biased towards heavy metal in the United States, the publication of Heavy Metal Music in Britain should be warmly welcomed. The essays in the collection focus largely on British heavy metal in the 1970s and 1980s, the period in which British heavy metal bands were crucial in defining the genre and spreading its popularity. The various contributions to the collection benefit from the different perspectives of authors from a variety of disciplines. They offer fascinating insights into heavy metal in Britain, situating the genre in its context and critically interrogating its complex aesthetics and politics.' Keith Kahn-Harris, Goldsmiths College, London, UK author of Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge (2006) 'It’s formulaic, it’s hypermasculine, it’s politically reactionary. Or is it? For too long cultural studies has bought into a few convenient myths about heavy metal, but ignored the music itself. This book energetically undermines those myths, and the results will inform and surprise anyone who thinks of heavy metal as a lost cause, and it will also please the fans who knew all along that metal and its subgenres were among the most rewarding cultural formations of the rock era.' Andrew Blake, University of East London, UK ’... proper leather-patches-on-tweed-jackets brainy stuff to get your teeth right into... you'll find a dazzling insight into why bands do what they do... certainly interesting. Who said metal's full of idiots?’ Kerrang! ’... a welcome - and overdue - contribution.’ International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) '... an important contribution to the literature... Cultural studies and English literature scholars, as well as mid- and larger-size colleges and universities, will want this volume in their libraries, as will teachers of rock and popular music at the upper-undergrTable of ContentsDoing Cultural Studies with Earplugs, Gerd Bayer; Part I Metal Commodities; Chapter 1 The Empowering Masculinity of British Heavy Metal, Deena Weinstein; Chapter 2 Metal Goes ‘Pop’: The Explosion of Heavy Metal into the Mainstream, Benjamin Earl; Chapter 3 The Brutal Truth: Grindcore as the Extreme Realism of Heavy Metal 1 A version of this paper was delivered as a talk at the Institute for Advanced Study, University of Minnesota on 2 April 2007. My thanks go to both Susannah L. Smith and John Mowitt who facilitated this presentation and provided me with invaluable resources. My thanks also to Gerd Bayer for his sterling editorial support and to both Ruth Barraclough and my daughter Una for their love and bemused tolerance of my passion for grindcore., Liam Dee; Part II The Literary and Mythological Heritage; Chapter 4 Demons, The Occult Devils and Witches: in Heavy Metal Music, Helen Farley; Chapter 5 Images of Human-Wrought Despair and Destruction: Social Critique in British Apocalyptic and Dystopian Metal, Laura Wiebe Taylor; Chapter 6 From Achilles to Alexander: The Classical World and the World of Metal 1 I would like to thank Simon Swift, Clare Sargent, Simon Hall, Dave Ling, Chris Martin and my wife Sam for all their help in getting this chapter written., Iain Campbell; Chapter 7 Elements of the Gothic in Heavy Metal: A Match Made in Hell, Bryan A. Bardine; Part III Heavy Metal Societies; Chapter 8 The Unmaking of the English Working Class: Deindustrialization, Reification and the Origins of Heavy Metal, Ryan M. Moore; Chapter 9 No Class? Class and Class Politics in British Heavy Metal, Magnus Nilsson; Chapter 10 Rocking the Nation: One Global Audience, One Flag?, Gerd Bayer;
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Excursions in World Music Seventh Edition
Book SynopsisExcursions in World Music is a comprehensive introductory textbook to world music, creating a panoramic experience for students by engaging the many cultures around the globe and highlighting the sheer diversity to be experienced in the world of music. At the same time, the text illustrates the often profound ways through which a deeper exploration of these many different communities can reveal overlaps, shared horizons, and common concerns in spite of and, because of, this very diversity. The new seventh edition introduces five brand new chapters, including chapters by three new contributors on the Middle East, South Asia, and Korea, as well as a new chapter on Latin America along with a new introduction written by Timothy Rommen. General updates have been made to other chapters, replacing visuals and updating charts/statistics. Excursions in World Music remains a favorite among ethnomusicologists who want students to explore the in-depth knowledge and scholarship that animates regiTable of Contents1. Introduction: Studying Musics of the World’s Cultures (Timothy Rommen) 2. Music of South Asia (Jim Sykes) 3. Music of the Middle East and North Africa (Richard Jankowsky) 4. Musics of East Asia I: China (Isabel K.F. Wong) 5. Musics of East Asia II: Korea (Joshua Pilzer) 6. Musics of East Asia III: Japan (Isabel K.F. Wong) 7. Music of Indonesia (Charles Capwell) 8. Music of Sub-Saharan Africa (Thomas Turnino) 9. The Musical Culture of Europe (Philip V. Bohlman) 10. Music in Latin America (Timothy Rommen) 11. Music in the Caribbean (Timothy Rommen) 12. Native American Music (Bruno Nettl) 13. Music of Ethnic North America (Byron Dueck)
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Soundtrack Album
Book SynopsisThe Soundtrack Album: Listening to Media offers the first sustained exploration of the soundtrack album as a distinctive form of media. Soundtrack albums have been part of our media and musical landscape for decades, enduring across formats from vinyl and 8-tracks to streaming playlists. This book makes the case that soundtrack albums are more than promotional tools for films, television shows, or video games they are complex media texts that reward a detailed analysis. The collection's contributors explore a diverse range of soundtrack albums, from Super Fly to Stranger Things, revealing how these albums change our understanding of the music and film industries and the audio-visual relationships that drive them.An excellent resource for students of Music, Media Studies, and Film/Screen Media courses, The Soundtrack Album offers interdisciplinary perspectives and opens new areas for exploration in music and media studies.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Listening to Media Part 1: Case Studies 1. The Soundtrack in Transition: The Many Objects of Paul Simon’s One-Trick Pony 2. It’s a Kind of Soundtrack: Queen, Highlander, and the "Unofficial Soundtrack Album" 3. Super Fly and the Sound of Seventies Blaxploitation Cinema 4. Signifyin(g) on the Soundtrack Album? OutKast’s Idlewild Project Part 2: Brands 5. Learning from Sesame Street Soundtrack Albums 6. Creazioni Artistiche Musicali and Italian Cinema after World War II 7. King of the Whole Wide World: Elvis, RCA Camden, and the Non-Filmic "Budget" Soundtrack Album 8. Sing Along with Hitch: Musically Marketing the Master of Suspense Part 3: Formats 9. Fixing the Brand: The Sonic Branding of Adult Swim 10. Video Game Soundtrack Albums and the Digital Revolution 11. Tracking Hypernostalgia: Soundtrack Albums and the Return of the Cassette in American Film and Television Part 4: New Directions 12. Now—For Even Greater Enjoyment…The Home Movie Soundtrack Album 13. A Brief Hearing for the Unified Soundtrack Album
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Orlando Gibbons and the Gibbons Family of
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1999, this volume is the first full-length study to deal with the life and music of Orlando Gibbons since E.H. Fellowes's short book, originally published in 1923. John Harley investigates in detail the family and musical background from which Orlando Gibbons emerged, and gives a fascinating account of the activities of his father, William Gibbons, as a wait in Oxford and Cambridge. He traces, too, the activities of Orlando's brothers Edward, who was the master of the choristers at King's College, Cambridge and later at Exeter Cathedral; Ferdinando, who may have taken over from his father as head of the Cambridge waits, and who became a wait in Lincoln; and Ellis, who contributed two madrigals to Thomas Morley's collection of 1601, The Triumphs of Oriana. Attention naturally focuses principally on Orlando Gibbons. A full record is given of his remarkably youthful appointment as an organist of the Chapel Royal (he was probably less than twenty at the time) Trade Review'It is clearly the result of extensive archival research, which has yielded quite a lot of new information about the Gibbons family ... the result of a great deal of original research.' The Musical Times '...future generations of readers will be glad to find much fundamental material and secondary consideration aggregated agreeably into a single volume, and this book is to be welcomed as the first study of this major composer to have appeared for many years.' Early Music 'At last we have the outstanding book about Orlando Gibbons that reflects his stature...This book is indispensable to all who know his music and to those encountering it for the first time.' Cathedral Music ’...Harley is to be congratulated for having made considerable inroads into the study of this still under-appreciated music.’ Times Literary Supplement '... a welcome addition... There is no question that Harley had done a very useful service not only for English musicology but also, one would like to think, performance as well.' Seventeenth-Century News '... the first comprehensive discussion of Gibbons's music in many years...' Notes 'Its undoubted strength is the genealogical and archival matter relating to the extended Gibbons family, much of which is previously unpublished.' Music and Letters 'John Harley's study of Orlando Gibbons blends a high level of archival research with a sensitive and thorough discussion of all the known music by this major English composer... This study of Gibbons (...) will undoubtedly be the definitive one for a long time.' AlbionTable of ContentsPart 1. 1. The Gibbons Family. Part 2. 2. The Court Musician. 3. Orlando Gibbons’s Personality and Music. 4. Keyboard Music. 5. Consort Music. 6. Songs. 7. Anthems: Introduction. 8. Full Anthems. 9. Verse Anthems. 10. Liturgical Music. 11. Orlando Gibbons’s Death. Part 3. 12. Christopher Gibbons.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Congregational MusicMaking and Community in a
Book SynopsisCongregational music can be an act of praise, a vehicle for theology, an action of embodied community, as well as a means to a divine encounter. This multidisciplinary anthology approaches congregational music as media in the widest sense - as a multivalent communication action with technological, commercial, political, ideological and theological implications, where processes of mediated communication produce shared worlds and beliefs. Bringing together a range of voices, promoting dialogue across a range of disciplines, each author approaches the topic of congregational music from his or her own perspective, facilitating cross-disciplinary connections while also showcasing a diversity of outlooks on the roles that music and media play in Christian experience. The authors break important new ground in understanding the ways that music, media and religious belief and praxis become 'lived theology' in our media age, revealing the rich and diverse ways that people are living, experienTrade Review’A valuable collection that throws new light on how new media technologies are interacting with the practices of Christian music-making, music-leadership and music-participation in congregational settings. It provides significant insights also into how these wider processes of cultural mediation taken up in congregational music are provoking a wider re-thinking and re-formation of Christian communities, beliefs and identity.’ Peter Horsfield, RMIT University, Australia ’Huge changes have occurred in Christian worship in the last fifty years. In the study of new and contemporary forms of worship, where would we be without the musicologists? Offering penetrating studies of contemporary changes, this volume is another welcome addition contributing to the study of Christian worship.’ Lester Ruth, Duke University, USATable of ContentsIntroduction: Worship Music as Media Form and Mediated Practice: Theorizing the Intersections of Media, Music and Lived ReligionPart 1. Technology, Place and Practice 1. Music as a Mediated Object, Music as a Medium: Towards a Media Ecological View of Congregational Music2. Music, Ritual and Media in Charismatic Religious Experience in Ghana3. Panoptic or Pastoral Gaze? The Worship Leader in the New Media Environment4. Who Gets to Sing in the Kingdom? Part 2. Community Creation 5. ‘This is a Chance to Come Together’: Subcultural Resistance and Community at Cornerstone Festival 6. ‘Through Every Land, By Every Tongue’: Diasporic and National Consciousness Among a Transnational Community of Sacred Harp Singers 7. YouTube: The New Mediator of Christian Community 8. Belonging, Integration and Tradition: Mediating Romani Identity Through Pentecostal Praise & Worship MusicPart 3. Embodied Sonic Theologies9. On the Inherent Contradiction in Worship Music10. ‘Yet to Come’ or ‘Still to Be Done’?: Evangelical Worship and the Power of ‘Prophetic’ Songs11. Happiness and Music: Salvific Practice in a Feelgood Age12. The Dance + Pray Worship Experience in Finland: Negotiating the Transcendent and Transgressive in Search of Alternative Sensational Forms and Affective SpaceAfterword: Of Animatrons and Eschatology: Congregational Music, Mediation and World-Making
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Music in Epic Film
Book SynopsisAs both a distinct genre and a particular mode of filmmaking, the idea of the epic has been central to the history of cinema. Including contributions from both established and emerging film music scholars, the ten essays in Music in Epic Film: Listening to Spectacle provide a cross-section of contemporary scholarship on the subject. They explore diverse topics, including the function of music in epic narratives, the socio-political implications of cinematic music, and the use of pre-existing music in epic films. Intended for students and scholars in film music, film appreciation, and media studies, the wide range of topics and the diversity of the films that the authors discuss make Music in Epic Film: Listening to Spectacle an ideal introduction to the field of music in epic film.Table of ContentsSeries ForewordPreface: Epic Genre, Epic Style Stephen C. MeyerAcknowledgmentsPart I: Marketing and Production1. Branding the Franchise: Music and the (Corporate) Myth of Origin James Buhler2. Manufacturing the Epic Score: Hans Zimmer and the Sounds of Significance Frank LehmanPart II: Narrative and Interpretation3. Topoi and Intertextuality: Narrative Function in Hans Zimmer’s and Lisa Gerrard’s Music to Gladiator Joakim Tillman4. The Politics of Authenticity in Miklós Rózsa's Score to El Cid Stephen C. MeyerPart III: Pre-Existing Music and the Epic Style5. From Authenticity to Anachronism: Pre-Existing Music and "Epic Englishness" in Elizabeth and Master and Commander Alexandra Wilson6. Records, Repertoire and Rollerball: Music and the Auteur Epic Julie HubbertPart IV: Songs and Themes7. "The epic and intimately human": Contemplating Tara’s Theme in Gone With the Wind Nathan Platte8. "We’re the real countries": Songs as Private Musical Territories in the Epic Romances Casablanca, Doctor Zhivago, and The English Patient Todd DeckerPart V: Genre and the (Anti-)Epic9. Inverting the Epic: The Music of Ridley Scott’s Kingdom of Heaven Kirsten Yri10. The Western as National Epic: Musical Persona and Narrative Distance in High Noon Jordan Carmalt Stokes
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Research Companion to Electronic
Book SynopsisThe theme of this Research Companion is ''connectivity and the global reach of electroacoustic music and sonic arts made with technology''. The possible scope of such a companion in the field of electronic music has changed radically over the last 30 years. The definitions of the field itself are now broader - there is no clear boundary between ''electronic music'' and ''sound art''. Also, what was previously an apparently simple divide between ''art'' and ''popular'' practices is now not easy or helpful to make, and there is a rich cluster of streams of practice with many histories, including world music traditions. This leads in turn to a steady undermining of a primarily Euro-American enterprise in the second half of the twentieth century. Telecommunications technology, most importantly the development of the internet in the final years of the century, has made materials, practices and experiences ubiquitous and apparently universally available - though some contributions to this voTable of ContentsPart 1: Global reach – local identities [1] Ricardo Dal Farra (and others): ‘Research-Creation in Latin American’ [2] Marc Battier and Lin-Ni Liao: 'Electronic Music in East Asia' [3] Leigh Landy: ‘The Three Paths: Cultural retention in contemporary Chinese electroacoustic music’ [4] Patrick Valiquet: ‘Technologies of Genre: Digital distinctions in Montreal’ [5] Hillegonda Rietveld: ‘Dancing in the Technoculture’ Part 2: Awareness, consciousness, participation [6] Pedro Rebelo and Rodrigo Cicchelli Velloso: ‘Participatory Sonic Arts: the Som de Maré project - towards a socially engaged art of sound in the everyday’ [7] Atau Tanaka and Adam Parkinson: ‘The Problems with Participation’ [8] Leah Barclay: ‘The Agency of Sonic Art in Changing Climates’ [9] Sally-Jane Norman: ‘Tuning and Metagesture After New Natures’ [10] Eduardo Miranda and Joel Eaton: ‘Music Neurotechnology: a natural progression’ Part 3: Extending performance and interaction [11] Simon Emmerson and Kenneth Fields: ‘Where are we? Extended Music Practice on the Internet’’ [12] Jonty Harrison: ‘Rendering the Invisible: BEAST and the performance practice of acousmatic music’ [13] Mick Grierson: ‘Creative Coding for Audiovisual Art: The CodeCircle Platform’
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ageing and Youth Cultures: Music, Style and
Book SynopsisWhat happens to punks, clubbers, goths, riot grrls, soulies, break-dancers and queer scene participants as they become older? For decades, research on spectacular 'youth cultures' has understood such groups as adolescent phenomena and assumed that involvement ceases with the onset of adulthood. In an age of increasingly complex life trajectories, Ageing and Youth Cultures is the first anthology to challenge such thinking by examining the lives of those who continue to participate into adulthood and middle-age. Showcasing a range of original research case studies from across the globe, the chapters explore how participants reconcile their continuing involvement with ageing bodies, older identities and adult responsibilities. Breaking new ground and establishing a new field of study, the book will be essential reading for students and scholars researching or studying questions of youth, fashion, popular music and identity across a wide range of disciplines.Trade Review"This book brings forth some new avenues for studying youth cultures (and subcultures) within emerging fields such as Postyouth Studies, Dance Studies, and other original intersections. Graduate students studying popular music, cultural studies, sociology, and youth studies will appreciate its questionings and conceptualisation about the practices and the (sometimes unusual) representations of age and ageing persons, mostly from the ‘‘X’’ Generation, in various contexts. - International Journal of Ageing and Later Life - Yves Laberge The book sets the tone for an emerging social system, distinctive in its acceptance and re-accommodating of age within youth culture, and provides a framework for further research - Anthropological Notebooks - David Lorbiecke, Tallinn University, Estonia Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. - CHOICE - D.S. Carr, Rutgers University Mentioned - Anthropological Notebooks"Table of ContentsIntroductionAgeing and Youth Cultures, Andy Bennett, Griffith University and Paul Hodkinson, University of Surrey, UKPart One: Ageing, Image and Identity'More than the Xs on my Hands': Older Straight Edgers and The Meaning of Style, Ross Haenfler, University of Mississippi, USAPerformances of Post-Youth Sexual Identities in Queer Scenes, Jodie Taylor, Griffith University, AustraliaAgeing Rave Women's Post-Scene Narratives, Julie Gregory, Queen's University, CanadaPart Two: Constraints of the Ageing Body'Each One Teach One': B-Boying and Ageing, Mary Fogarty, York University Toronto, CanadaSlamdancing, Ageing and Belonging, William Tsitos, University of Arizona, USARock Fans' Experiences of the Ageing Body: Becoming More Civilized, Lucy Gibson, University of Manchester, UKPart Three: Resources and ResponsibilitiesDance Parties, Lifestyle and Strategies for Ageing, Andy Bennett, Griffith University, AustraliaPunk, Ageing and the Expectations of Adult Life, Joanna Davis, University of California, Santa Barbara, USAAlternative Women Adjusting to Ageing: How to Stay a Freak at Fifty, Samantha Holland, Leeds Metropolitan University, UKPart Four: Ageing CommunityThe Collective Ageing of a Goth Festival, Paul Hodkinson, University of Surrey, UKStrong Riot Women and the Continuity of Feminist Subcultural Participation, Kristen Schilt, University of Chicago, USA and Danielle Giffort, University of Illinois at Chicago, USAParenthood and the Transfer of Subcultural Capital in the Northern Soul Scene, Nicola Smith, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, UKBibliographyIndex
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Cambridge University Press Hugo Wolf and his Morike Songs
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Cambridge University Press Vocal Authority
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Cambridge University Press Song on Record Volume 1 Lieder
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Cambridge University Press Schubert Muller and Die schone
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Cambridge University Press Summa Musice A ThirteenthCentury Manual for Singers Cambridge Musical Texts and Monographs
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