Music Books

Book SynopsisForeword.- Preface.- Introduction. Part I: Maps for the Journey.- 1. In Sickness and in Health.- 2. Integration: Medicine, Health and, Empowerment.- 3. Holistic Healing.- 4. Roots of Healing Music.- Part II: The Journey.- 5. Tuning In: The Music Therapist's Journey.- 6. Stepping into the Journey with your Companion.- 7. Orienting to the Journey: The Mythic Way.- 8. The Journey from Illness to Wellness.- Part III: Pathways through the Journey.- 9. The Way to Comfort.- 10. The Way to Awaken.- 11. The Way to the Musical Self.- The Way to Cope.- Conclusion: The Way to Peace.Table of ContentsForeword.- Preface.- Introduction. Part I: Maps for the Journey.- 1. In Sickness and in Health.- 2. Integration: Medicine, Health and, Empowerment.- 3. Holistic Healing.- 4. Roots of Healing Music.- Part II: The Journey.- 5. Tuning In: The Music Therapist's Journey.- 6. Stepping into the Journey with your Companion.- 7. Orienting to the Journey: The Mythic Way.- 8. The Journey from Illness to Wellness.- Part III: Pathways through the Journey.- 9. The Way to Comfort.- 10. The Way to Awaken.- 11. The Way to the Musical Self.- The Way to Cope.- Conclusion: The Way to Peace.

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Book SynopsisLong before anyone ever heard of ''protest music'', people in America were singing about their struggles. They sang for justice and fairness, food and shelter, and equality and freedom; they sang to be acknowledged. Sometimes they also sang to oppress. This book uncovers the history of these people and their songs, from the moment Columbus made fateful landfall to the start of the Second World War, when ''protest music'' emerged as an identifiable brand. Cutting across musical genres, Will Kaufman recovers the passionate voices of America itself. We encounter songs of the mainland and the conquered territories of Hawai''i, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines; we hear Indigenous songs, immigrant songs and Klan songs, minstrel songs and symphonies, songs of the heard and the unheard, songs of the celebrated and the anonymous, of the righteous and the despicable. This magisterial book shows that all these songs are woven into the very fabric of American history.Trade Review'Will Kaufman has uncovered a massive hidden history, one that none of us can ignore. Get the book, be in the know.' Chuck D'Essential.' P. D. Sanders, Choice'The book is very well researched, and is broadly supported by secondary sources … [it] is certainly to be recommended for its masterly presentation of material along with its attention to detail and nuance.' Michael Pickering, Folk Music JournalTable of ContentsIntroduction: the work of recovery; 1. Broken spears and songs of sorrow; 2. Good newes from Virginia; 3. A capital chop; 4. If I had but a small loaf of bread; 5. Where today are the Pequot?; 6. There is a fountain filled with blood; 7. A tragedy that beggared the Greek; 8. Muscle, blood, and steel; 9. Rule Anglo-Saxia; 10. The hand that feeds you; 11. We are many; 12. 100% American; 13. We're up against it now; 14. The panic is on; 15. To thee we sing; Conclusion: whose land?

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Book SynopsisOne of the Next Big Idea Club's Favorite Nonfiction Books A Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of 2022 A legendary record producer–turned–brain scientist explains why you fall in love with music.Trade Review"This Is What It Sounds Like is a revelation. Susan Rogers and Ogi Ogas offer extraordinary insights about music, emotion, and the brain, and they deliver them with great flair and flow. For all I thought I knew about these subjects, I learned a lot from this book—and was entertained at every turn, both by the ideas and the poetry of their expression. This instant classic should be read by anyone who has ever been moved by a piece of music—in other words, everyone." -- Dr. Daniel J. Levitin, author of This Is Your Brain on Music and The Organized Mind"A deliciously nerdy resource for music lovers, and for anyone who thinks deeply about music and how it moves them. What Rogers and Ogas do with This Is What It Sounds Like is distill the science around music into an accessible and wonderous new level of understanding, of the elusive why of loving and living for music." -- Jessica Hopper, author of The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic"Susan Rogers found her superpower in the music world not as a musician, but as a master listener. Rogers’ book is a gift to music listeners of all kinds—because in listening we hear not only the music, we hear the sonic signature of our own soul." -- Dan Charnas, author of Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm"Susan is one of the smartest people in the world of music and this book will help you hear music more deeply and more thoughtfully. You can tell why Prince loved working with her." -- Touré, author of I Would Die 4 U: Why Prince Became an Icon"This is the book that scholars and fans of popular music across all disciplines have impatiently waited for. It is truly inspiring, the kind of book you fall in love with, that causes us to reflect over how and why records become a condition of the heart." -- Stan Hawkins, Professor of Musicology, University of Oslo"[A] pitch-perfect deep-dive into the power of music….Combining erudite analysis with plenty of soul, this will have music lovers rapt." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)"An intriguing look at how what enters our ears shapes our minds." -- Kirkus Reviews"It’s like two books in one: stories of some of our most beloved musicians, singers and songwriters, coupled with insights about how and why our brains decipher musical notes, melodies and lyrics in particular ways." -- BookPage (starred review)

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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 SynopsisStephen C. Ferguson II provides a philosophical examination of Black popular culture for the first time. From extensive discussion of the philosophy and political economy of Hip-Hop music through to a developed exploration of the influence of the postmodernism-poststructuralist ideology on African American studies, he argues how postmodernism ideology plays a seminal role in justifying the relationship between corporate capitalism and Black popular culture. Chapters cover topics such as cultural populism, capitalism and Black liberation, the philosophy of Hip-Hop music, and Harold Cruse's influence on the cultural turn in African American studies. Ferguson combines case studies of past and contemporary Black cultural and intellectual productions with a Marxist ideological critique to provide a cutting edge reflection on the economic structure in which Black popular culture emerged. He highlights the contradictions that are central to the juxtaposition of Black cultural artis

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Book SynopsisAsserting that hip hop culture has become another locus of postmodernity, Osumare explores the intricacies of this phenomenon from the beginning of the Twenty-First century, tracing the aesthetic and socio-political path of the currency of hip hop across the globe.Trade Review"Now in the time where corporations have extracted the economic DNA of American hip-hop to fuel their bottom line with the lowest common denominator, Halifu Osumare's reach into the global importance of the genre is a much needed cultural reclamation. With the power of rap music as a new world language, hip-hop's style and substance is an explosive supplement to the new millennium that is currently lacking knowledge on world cultural and social history, as well as geography. The Africanist Aesthetic in Global Hip-Hop gives us a way to plough through these new global dynamics." - Chuck D, Public Enemy "It may seem as though hip-hop has suddenly gone global, but Halifu Osumare s The Africanist Aesthetic in Global Hip-Hop is a timely and important reminder that hip-hop has always lived in a world larger than the boundaries we impose upon it." - Mark Anthony Neal, Associate Professor of Black Popular Culture, and co-editor, That s the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader "Halifu Osumare's work - a power move in and of itself - compels us to acknowledge the power of technology and capitalism to co-opt and transform a culture-specific phenomenon into a global assault - for better or worse. It is required reading for those of us interested in the social, political, and cultural shifts that shake and quake our worlds. Highly recommended." - Brenda Dixon Gottschild, author of The Black Dancing Body, Waltzing in the Dark, and Digging The Africanist Presence in American Culture"Osumare provides compelling evidence of a global diaspora of hip-hop. Layered yet conversational text assumes more than passing familiarity with cultural theorists whom Osumare discusses alongside rap artists... Highly recommended." - CHOICE"[A] reminder that the global is at the heart of hip-hop culture, which from the start has borrowed, appropriated, and sampled from cultures around the world." - Sujatha Fernandes, Queens College, City University of New YorkTable of ContentsPhat Beats, Dope Rhymes, and Def Moves: The Africanist Aesthetic Meets the Hip Hop Globe Beat Streets in the Global Hood: Hip Hop's Connective Marginalities Props to the Local Boyz: Hip Hop Culture in Hawaii 'It's All About the Benjamins' Postmodernism and Hip Hop's Appropriation

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Book SynopsisUses recent thought in continental philosophy and postmodern theology to interpret hidden and contradictory 'god-ideas' in texts of modernism such as Henry James's The Golden Bowl , Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time , James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man , and Arnold Schoenberg's opera Moses und Aron .Trade Review'The quite amazing stretch of this beautifully written book reaches out effortlessly to the far shores of negative theology and its attendant philosophies. Hegel, Levinas, Derrida, and Kristeva mingle with Proust, Joyce, and HenryJames,until we plunge into Schoenberg and the complexities of Moses und Aron. Erickson knows his philosophical, literary, andmusical stuff - and is neverdull about any of it.' - Mary Ann Caws, DistinguishedProfessor of English, French, and Comparative Literature,The Graduate Center, The City University of New York; Author of Glorious Eccentrics: Modernist Women Painting and Writing (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006) 'This book is very impressive in many respects, offering a comprehensive overview of postmodern theology, detailed discussions of the modern novelby authors such as Henry James and Marcel Proust, and twentieth-century music, focusing onthe work of Arnold Schoenberg. Each chapter is well informed, and demonstrates mastery of available criticism.' - William D. Melaney, Chair, Dept. of English and Comparative Literature, American University in Cairo 'Erickson makes deep and broad connections between the high modernists (most fully late James, Proust, Arnold Schoenberg) and postmodern theological speculation according to which disjunction and rupture are inherent in their veryquest for an ultimate coherence and unity. His book is ambitious, very wellwritten, and brilliant from start to finish.' - David Gordon, Emeritus Professor of English, The Graduate Center, The City University of New YorkTable of ContentsLiterature After the Death of God Reading God/God Writing: The Irrational and Difficult Name The Golden Bowl, Atheology, and Nothing À La Recherche and Proust's Unstable Metaphors of Divinity Proust's Theology of Musical Aesthetics Godless Silences: Modernist Poetry, Musical Atonality, and the Challenge of Coherence Schoenberg's Impossible God: Moses und Aron The Other Side of God: Reading in the Dark

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