Music Books

Book SynopsisGilles Peterson is one of the UK's most iconic DJs, hosting a flagship show on BBC Radio 6 Music. He runs the label Brownswood Recordings and is the founder of We Out Here and Worldwide Festival. Stuart Baker founded Soul Jazz Records in 1992 and launched Soul Jazz Books in 2007.

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Book SynopsisNot long ago, ideas of creativity in music revolved around composers in garrets and the idea of genius. In the last decade there has been a sea change in thinking: musical creativity is seen in terms of collaboration and real-time performance. Music as Creative Practice is a first attempt to synthesise both perspectives.Trade Review...highly informative insights... * Anna Falkenau, Ethnomusicology Ireland *This is a most valuable volume ... it tackles some fundamental issues that are largely becoming ignored in our current populist political and social environment ... As in all his writing, Nicholas Cook goes a very long way in this book to clarify these issues, along with many other intriguing musicological concepts, and to stimulate debate in a most lucid and informative manner. * Sinan Carter Savaskan, Notes *Table of ContentsTable of Contents List of figures Acknowledgements Introduction: creativity in context 1 Making music together 1 Listening together 2 From the inside out 3 You do an up-bow, I do a down-bow 4 Beyond real time 5 Production as relational practice 6 Assemblages in action 7 Creativity on the other side 2 Imagining music 1 Cultures of imagination 2 Composition by stages 3 Improvisations on paper 4 Seeing through the myths 5 Sonic ontology 6 The extended musical mind 7 Talking back 3 Creative in a different sort of way 1 The ghost in the machine 2 Significant others 3 The composer's alter ego 4 Traditions of creative learning 5 Pathways to creative performance 6 Owning creativity 7 A culture of creative repetition Conclusion: creativity everywhere References Index

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Book SynopsisContributors to this volume are as follows: Bernd Baselt - Graydon Beeks - Terence Best - Malcolm Boyd - George J.Buelow - Donald Burrows - Duncan Chisholm - Winton Dean - Elizabeth Gibson - William D.Gudger - Lowell Lindgren - Hans Joachim Marx - Curtis Price - John H.Roberts - Carole Taylor - Colin TimmsTable of ContentsContributors to this volume are as follows: Bernd Baselt - Graydon Beeks - Terence Best - Malcolm Boyd - George J.Buelow - Donald Burrows - Duncan Chisholm - Winton Dean - Elizabeth Gibson - William D.Gudger - Lowell Lindgren - Hans Joachim Marx - Curtis Price - John H.Roberts - Carole Taylor - Colin Timms

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Book SynopsisRachel Lee Rubin is Professor of American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA, where she directs the Center for the Study of Humanities, Culture, and Society. She has authored and edited numerous books on American popular culture including Well Met: Renaissance Faires and the American Counterculture, American Identities: An Introductory Textbook, American Popular Music: New Approaches to the Twentieth Century, and an upcoming title for Bloomsbury's 33 1/3 series, Okie from Muskogee. She is a regular commentator on public radio and frequently quoted as a popular culture expert in the mainstream media.Trade ReviewThere is a wonderfully useful group of contemporary thinkers assembled here. I am glad it exists. * Samuel R. Delany, author of Babel-17 (1966) and Dhalgren (1975) *Featuring an extraordinary range of artists and voices, Creative Activism is an indispensable compilation of oral histories—and an often-exhilarating exchange of ideas on the roles of artists on the front lines of activism today. As an instructive and evocative guide, Rachel Lee Rubin allows us to re-envision how we view the world, redefine the limits of change, and reconsider the role of artists in shaping our lives. The great oral historian Studs Terkel often reminded us that reading a book should not be a passive exercise, but rather a raucous conversation. As an essential resource, Creative Activism offers one of the most important and raucous conversations of our times. * Jeff Biggers, author of Resistance: Reclaiming an American Tradition (forthcoming 2018) *Table of ContentsIntroduction SECTION 1: Coal 1. “I'll Throw This Apple Atcha”: The Meaning of Mining According to Billy Edd Wheeler 2. “Visible, Horrible, Ugly”: Toxicity According to John Sabraw 3. “The Baby Needed Milk”: Collectivity According to Diane Gilliam Fisher SECTION 2: War and Peace 4. “It's a Great American Tradition”: War and Industry According to John Sayles 5. “Revolution by Tricks and Clowning”: Trips According to Maxine Hong Kingston 6. “Part of My Being”: Politics and Poetics According to Keorapetse Kgositsile SECTION 3: Borders 7. “I Sing about Cesar Chavez in Gold Lamé Hot Pants”: Revolution and Celebration According to El Vez 8. "I’m Not Some Fucking Gadjo!": Migration According to Eugene Hutz 9. “Gaps We Cross with Technology”: Solidarity and Surveillance According to Cory Doctorow 10. “What It’s Like to Be Stuck”: Interruption According to Julio Salgado SECTION 4: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality 11. “It’s Like Walt Whitman Gave Me a Blow Job”: Action According to Abe Rybeck 12. “Simultaneity of Actions”: Liberation According to Sarah Schulman 13. “Wigs and Skin”: Colonialism According to Ama Ata Aidoo SECTION 5: Economic Justice 14. “Hey, I See You”: Revolution According to Boots Riley 15. “Power and Powerlessness”: Detecting History According to Sara Paretsky 16. “Sometimes I Get Political, Sometimes I Get Offensive”: Pushing Back According to Dallas Wayne SECTION 6: Prisons 17. “The Anti-Slavery Act of 2002”: Private Prisons and Social Justice According to Si Kahn 18. “Politics through Artistic Eyes, and Art through Political Eyes”: Prison Rebellion According to Raúl Salinas 19. “From My 6 x 9 Cell”: Prison and Painting According to Anthony Papa SECTION 7: Transformations 20. “It’s All Connected”: Service According to Betye Saar 21. “I’m a Bit of a Threat”: Immortality According to Roz Kaveney 22. “Folklore, Fakelore and Fucklore”: Metamorphosis According to Emma Bull and Will Shetterly Bibliography Index

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