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European fascination with Oriental cultures has found multifaceted manifestations. Music, as an important element of cultural communication, is well suited for such transitions. This collection of essays explores the fascinating influences between Orient and Western music.
European fascination with Oriental cultures has found multifaceted manifestations. Music, as an important element of cultural communication, is well suited for such transitions. This collection of essays explores the fascinating influences between Orient and Western music.
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Bruce Springsteen’s America
A Dream Deferred
Moving from jargon-free critical analysis to a fan’s passionate participatory research, this book places work and class at the centre of Bruce Springsteen’s oeuvre. It presents him as the bard of the downtrodden and is testament to the life-giving power of rock and roll.
Moving from jargon-free critical analysis to a fan’s passionate participatory research, this book places work and class at the centre of Bruce Springsteen’s oeuvre. It presents him as the bard of the downtrodden and is testament to the life-giving power of rock and roll.
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Music, Metamorphosis and Capitalism
Self, Poetics and Politics
These essays view music like rock, pop, and metal from socio-political, aesthetic, and psychological perspectives. Arguing for music's cultural embeddedness, this volume embraces the aesthetic as a form of social critique that scrutinizes theory itself.
These essays view music like rock, pop, and metal from socio-political, aesthetic, and psychological perspectives. Arguing for music’s cultural embeddedness, this volume embraces the aesthetic as a form of social critique that scrutinizes theory itself.
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Eric Ball
His Life and Music, 1903-1989
This book traces the life and work of renowned twentieth-century Brass Band composer Eric Ball, a great figure in the Brass Band Movement. It surveys his music and researches his involvement with the Salvation Army.
This book traces the life and work of renowned twentieth-century Brass Band composer Eric Ball, a great figure in the Brass Band Movement. It surveys his music and researches his involvement with the Salvation Army.
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The Beggar’s ‘Children’
How John Gay Changed The Course Of England’s Musical Theatre
No author has looked beyond John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera to analyze the works it spawned. This insightful study is the first to explore these descendants—the ballad operas, comic operas, and burlettas of the 18th century—with musical examples and plots.
No author has looked beyond John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera to analyze the works it spawned. This insightful study is the first to explore these descendants—the ballad operas, comic operas, and burlettas of the 18th century—with musical examples and plots.
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This book is an addition to the British music culture as it traces the history, growth and environmental, social and musical conditions of the Brass Band Movement during the Victorian era, and the influences of the “Romantic Period.”
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The Study of Musical Performance in Antiquity
Archaeology and Written Sources
This collection of essays provides valuable insights into the richness of sources dealing with music and musical performance scattered over 3000 years and covering a wide range of geographies, from Syria to Iberia, through Greece and Rome.
This collection of essays provides valuable insights into the richness of sources dealing with music and musical performance scattered over 3000 years and covering a wide range of geographies, from Syria to Iberia, through Greece and Rome.
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Popular Music, Ethnicity and Politics in the Kenya of the 1990s
Okatch Biggy Live at “The Junction”
Okatch Biggy was the single most dominant benga artiste of the 1990s. Mboya analyzes Biggy’s songs as works of art, identifying the aesthetic and rhetorical conventions that are deployed in the songs, and exploring the central messages of the music, and their significance.
Okatch Biggy was the single most dominant benga artiste of the 1990s. Mboya analyzes Biggy’s songs as works of art, identifying the aesthetic and rhetorical conventions that are deployed in the songs, and exploring the central messages of the music, and their significance.
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A Study of the Parallels between Visual Art and Music
The Big Misconception
Standard surveys of art imply a continuity between Rembrandt and Koons, between Caravaggio and Hirst. They are all wrong. There is no such continuity. This book explains why these claims are false, and how we arrived at this point of great confusion about the arts.
Standard surveys of art imply a continuity between Rembrandt and Koons, between Caravaggio and Hirst.
They are all wrong. There is no such continuity. This book explains why these claims are false, and how we arrived at this point of great confusion about the arts.
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William Boyce
A Tercentenary Sourcebook and Compendium
This sourcebook on William Boyce, England’s leading 18th-century composer, brings together significant contemporary documents on his life and career, with critical commentaries. It includes the first comprehensive catalogue of his works and discography.
This sourcebook on William Boyce, England’s leading 18th-century composer, brings together significant contemporary documents on his life and career, with critical commentaries. It includes the first comprehensive catalogue of his works and discography.
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The Impact of the British Oboist Léon Goossens
A Breath in Time
This study reassesses Léon Goossens’ contribution to British oboe playing. It explores his pivotal role as a catalyst for new compositions that created a library of British oboe music, addressing a void in the repertoire and ultimately restoring the instrument’s status.
This study reassesses Léon Goossens’ contribution to British oboe playing. It explores his pivotal role as a catalyst for new compositions that created a library of British oboe music, addressing a void in the repertoire and ultimately restoring the instrument’s status.
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My Kind of Sound
Popular Music and Audiovisual Culture
Music shapes our identity. This book explores music as culture, art, and industry. It examines phenomena from the global rise of Reggaeton to iconic artists like David Bowie and the crucial role of music in TV series, showing how it challenges us to rethink our view of the world.
Music shapes our identity. This book explores music as culture, art, and industry. It examines phenomena from the global rise of Reggaeton to iconic artists like David Bowie and the crucial role of music in TV series, showing how it challenges us to rethink our view of the world.
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This book explores the surprisingly diverse musical landscape of Invercargill, a city at the bottom of Aotearoa/New Zealand. It illustrates the importance of music in local communities, enriching social connectedness, local identity, and the lives interwoven through them.
This book explores the surprisingly diverse musical landscape of Invercargill, a city at the bottom of Aotearoa/New Zealand. It illustrates the importance of music in local communities, enriching social connectedness, local identity, and the lives interwoven through them.
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Iranian Music Education
120 Years of History, Pedagogy and Performance
Explore over a century of Iranian music education, from 1900 to today. This essential guide features detailed, illustrated techniques for playing classical instruments, providing a comprehensive resource on Iranian pedagogy for musicians and educators.
Explore over a century of Iranian music education, from 1900 to today. This essential guide features detailed, illustrated techniques for playing classical instruments, providing a comprehensive resource on Iranian pedagogy for musicians and educators.
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Technology and Performance during the Renaissance
The Musical World of Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci, known for science and art, was also one of the most famous musicians of the Renaissance. His multifaceted knowledge pushed him beyond performance; his codices contain studies on sound and an extraordinary catalogue of new musical instruments he designed.
Leonardo da Vinci, known for science and art, was also one of the most famous musicians of the Renaissance. His multifaceted knowledge pushed him beyond performance; his codices contain studies on sound and an extraordinary catalogue of new musical instruments he designed.
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An Introduction to Georgian Art Music
Sense-Making through Music
This book journeys through 20th-century Georgian art music, reflecting the country’s turbulent history from independence through Soviet occupation. It shows how the music’s roots were shaped, how socialist realism made its imprint, and how a new generation shifted away from it.
This book journeys through 20th-century Georgian art music, reflecting the country’s turbulent history from independence through Soviet occupation. It shows how the music’s roots were shaped, how socialist realism made its imprint, and how a new generation shifted away from it.
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An Exploration of Hatred in Pop Music
Viva Hate
‘Love’ may be the major theme of pop songs, but ‘hate’ runs it close. This book explores hatred across the history of popular music—in lyrics, album art, and the industry itself—asking important questions about misogyny, politics, psychology, and family along the way.
‘Love’ may be the major theme of pop songs, but ‘hate’ runs it close. This book explores hatred across the history of popular music—in lyrics, album art, and the industry itself—asking important questions about misogyny, politics, psychology, and family along the way.
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This book challenges the ontological unity of music, philosophy, and mathematics, then explores music as social history—probing ideological style debates and the cultural memory of post-Stalinism in the 1950s and 60s.
This book challenges the ontological unity of music, philosophy, and mathematics, then explores music as social history—probing ideological style debates and the cultural memory of post-Stalinism in the 1950s and 60s.
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Exploring Personality and Performance in The Beatles
Becoming the Fab Four
Go beyond the music to discover the secret of The Beatles' global success. This book explores how personality, image, and unity created a phenomenon you could love without listening, as seen through the unique lens of the world’s best tribute acts.
Go beyond the music to discover the secret of The Beatles’ global success. This book explores how personality, image, and unity created a phenomenon you could love without listening, as seen through the unique lens of the world’s best tribute acts.
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The Roots of Western Swing
Texas Swing, Race, Radio and Records
This book details the early history of Western swing—a hybrid of country, jazz, and blues. In the 1930s, musicians influenced by jazz foregrounded improvisation and blues expression to develop an original style that reached its peak popularity in the 1940s.
This book details the early history of Western swing—a hybrid of country, jazz, and blues. In the 1930s, musicians influenced by jazz foregrounded improvisation and blues expression to develop an original style that reached its peak popularity in the 1940s.
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