Music category: 21679 books
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Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
The Routledge Companion to Screen Music and Sound provides a detailed and comprehensive overview of screen music and sound studies, addressing the ways in which music and sound interact with forms of narrative media such as television, videogames, and film. The inclusive framework of "screen...
by Martin Cloonan
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Written against the academically dominant but simplistic romanticization of popular music as a positive force, this book focuses on the 'dark side' of the subject. It is a pioneering examination of the ways in which popular music has been deployed in association with violence, ranging from what appears...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Popular music has traditionally served as a rallying point for voices of opposition, across a huge variety of genres. This volume examines the various ways popular music has been deployed as anti-establishment and how such opposition both influences and responds to the music produced. Implicit in...
by Dona Omanoff, Fureus
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
We wrote Island Voices Reggae & New Jamaican Music for the tourist and visitor to Jamaica who uses a smartphone or digital reading device. It links to over 300 songs and 200 artists so the reader/listener can sample the song or buy immediately via the Internet. We promise you'll have more...
We Rock! (Music Lab)
A Fun Family Guide for Exploring Rock Music History: From Elvis and the Beatles to Ray Charles and The Ramones, Includes Bios, Historical Context, Extensive Playlists, and Rocking Activities for the Whole Family!
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
Finally! A hip, fun and culturally relevant series of music appreciation books, perfect for modern music-loving families who want to take advantage of this era of exploding musical access! Get a personal guided tour through an amazing historical back-catalog of music that was previously unavailable....
by Victoria Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Critical of technologically determinist assumptions underpinning current educational policy, Victoria Armstrong argues that this growing technicism has grave implications for the music classroom where composition is often synonymous with the music technology suite. The use of computers and associated...
The Popular Music and Entertainment Culture of Barbados
Pathways to Digital Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
During the second half of the 20th century, the Caribbean island of Barbados emerged as a key player in the creation and nurturing of Caribbean popular music. And, yet, despite its vital role in the popularization of tuk music, the rise of spouge, and the Barbadian contribution to and transformation...
Irony, Satire, Parody and the Grotesque in the Music of Shostakovich
A Theory of Musical Incongruities
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The music of Shostakovich has been at the centre of interest of both the general public and dedicated scholars throughout the last twenty years. Most of the relevant literature, however, is of a biographical nature. The focus of this book is musical irony. It offers new methodologies for the semiotic...
Sounds, Societies, Significations
Numanistic Approaches to Music
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
This edited book covers many topics in musicological literature, gathering various approaches to music studies that encapsulate the vivid relation music has to society. It focusses on repertoires and geographical areas that have not previously been well frequented in musicology. As readers will see,...
by Nicholas Cook
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Until recently, ideas of creativity in music revolved around composers in garrets and the lone genius. But the last decade has witnessed a sea change: musical creativity is now overwhelmingly thought of in terms of collaboration and real-time performance. Music as Creative Practice is a first attempt...
Essays on Music and Language in Modernist Literature
Musical Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
This volume explores the role of music as a source of inspiration and provocation for modernist writers. In its consideration of modernist literature within a broad political, postcolonial, and internationalist context, this book is an important intervention in the growing field of Words and Music...
Perspectives on Korean Music
Volume 1: Preserving Korean Music: Intangible Cultural Properties as Icons of Identity
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
As Korea has developed and modernized, music has come to play a central role as a symbol of national identity. Nationalism has been stage managed by scholars, journalists and, from the beginning of the 1960s, by the state, as music genres have been documented, preserved and promoted as 'Intangible...
Communicating Music
Festschrift fuer Ernst Lichtenhahn zum 80. Geburtstag Festschrift for Ernst Lichtenhahns 80th Birthday
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Ernst Lichtenhahn ist ohne Übertreibung ein Doyen der schweizerischen Musikforschung. Als einer der wenigen Musikwissenschaftler im deutschsprachigen Raum hat er unterschiedliche sprachkulturelle und disziplinäre Forschungstraditionen zusammengeführt. In seinem Wissenschaftsverständnis sind historische...
Into the Mystic
The Visionary and Ecstatic Roots of 1960s Rock and Roll
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Explores the visionary, mystical, and ecstatic traditions that influenced the music of the 1960s
• Examines the visionary, spiritual, and mystical influences on the Grateful Dead, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, the Incredible String Band, the Left Banke, Lou Reed...