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Sonic Mediations
Body, Sound, Technology
Sonic Mediations is a collection of essays that invites readers to rethink mediation by examining the relationships between the body, sound, and technology. It addresses key questions about performance, perception, and the role of the listener.
Sonic Mediations is a collection of essays that invites readers to rethink mediation by examining the relationships between the body, sound, and technology. It addresses key questions about performance, perception, and the role of the listener.
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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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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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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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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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Small Places, Operatic Issues
Opera and Its Peripheral Worlds
Through its analysis of five different social positions or characterisations of opera from 1748 to 2005, this book creates a fruitful interpretative encounter of the academic domains of opera studies, historical sociology, cultural sociology and social and cultural anthropology.
Through its analysis of five different social positions or characterisations of opera from 1748 to 2005, this book creates a fruitful interpretative encounter of the academic domains of opera studies, historical sociology, cultural sociology and social and cultural anthropology.
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How does gender affect music? How did Bowie change performer identity? How sexist is glam metal? Are LGBTQ+ issues reflected in 21st century music? From French opera to metal and rap, these contributions challenge and inform, confirming that music shapes our gendered selves.
How does gender affect music? How did Bowie change performer identity? How sexist is glam metal? Are LGBTQ+ issues reflected in 21st century music? From French opera to metal and rap, these contributions challenge and inform, confirming that music shapes our gendered selves.
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Musical vernaculars are an eclectic and everchanging object of study. This book defends urbanized folk music, challenging the traditional view that only rural songs are authentic, and examines unexpected interconnections between Russian and Jewish music.
Musical vernaculars are an eclectic and everchanging object of study. This book defends urbanized folk music, challenging the traditional view that only rural songs are authentic, and examines unexpected interconnections between Russian and Jewish music.
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Rock n Roll and Nationalism
A Multinational Perspective
In essays on countries from the United States to Russia, scholars, performers, and journalists explore the fascinating interplay between national identities and the rock music idiom, leading to a new understanding of rock and nationalism.
In essays on countries from the United States to Russia, scholars, performers, and journalists explore the fascinating interplay between national identities and the rock music idiom, leading to a new understanding of rock and nationalism.
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Many Voices
Music and National Identity in Aotearoa/New Zealand
This collection of essays re-thinks music and national identity in Aotearoa/New Zealand. The papers offer various perspectives on the interconnections between music and identity, aiming to open up critical discourse on the many sounds of a diverse nation.
This collection of essays re-thinks music and national identity in Aotearoa/New Zealand. The papers offer various perspectives on the interconnections between music and identity, aiming to open up critical discourse on the many sounds of a diverse nation.
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How can words and melody so successfully manipulate us? This book examines how music—from folk and rock to rap—is used to protest and to promote political, commercial, and religious authority, fueling feminist movements, propaganda, and songs of resistance.
How can words and melody so successfully manipulate us? This book examines how music—from folk and rock to rap—is used to protest and to promote political, commercial, and religious authority, fueling feminist movements, propaganda, and songs of resistance.
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Music as a Spandrel of Evolutionary Adaptation for Speech
The Doors of Imagination
Music makes no sense in the light of evolution. This book reveals it as an innate language that unlocks our imagination, allowing us to transcend reality and create. Not bad for what began as a spandrel of speech.
Music makes no sense in the light of evolution. This book reveals it as an innate language that unlocks our imagination, allowing us to transcend reality and create. Not bad for what began as a spandrel of speech.
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Applied Ethnomusicology
Historical and Contemporary Approaches
Applied ethnomusicology is an approach guided by social responsibility toward solving concrete problems. This volume brings together diverse perspectives on its potential in contributing to sustainable music cultures and the use of music in conflict resolution.
Applied ethnomusicology is an approach guided by social responsibility toward solving concrete problems. This volume brings together diverse perspectives on its potential in contributing to sustainable music cultures and the use of music in conflict resolution.
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Over the Edge
Pushing the Boundaries of Folklore and Ethnomusicology
The authors in this volume bring new ideas from their research to help us create spaces we can claim as our own. These essays explore culturally produced markers of identity, revealing connections that challenge our perspective of scholarly subjects.
The authors in this volume bring new ideas from their research to help us create spaces we can claim as our own. These essays explore culturally produced markers of identity, revealing connections that challenge our perspective of scholarly subjects.
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This book offers a multidisciplinary approach to music in Turkey. Chapters explore topics ranging from the cognitive responses of musicians listening to atonal chords, to Turkey’s heavy metal scene, and the historical mission to “contemporize” music.
This book offers a multidisciplinary approach to music in Turkey. Chapters explore topics ranging from the cognitive responses of musicians listening to atonal chords, to Turkey’s heavy metal scene, and the historical mission to “contemporize” music.
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Irish Music Abroad
Diasporic Sounds in Birmingham
This musical ethnography of Birmingham, 1950–2010, traces how Irish music moved from private arenas to the city's public heart. It shows how the community conquered challenges, like the IRA bombings, to create its massive St Patrick’s Parade.
This musical ethnography of Birmingham, 1950–2010, traces how Irish music moved from private arenas to the city’s public heart. It shows how the community conquered challenges, like the IRA bombings, to create its massive St Patrick’s Parade.
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The Intertwining of Culture and Music
Love and the Times
Salamone examines various kinds of love and the way music reflects them. His text is about romantic love, ethnic pride and love, love and the media, and various other loves we have, especially love for popular culture.
Salamone examines various kinds of love and the way music reflects them. His text is about romantic love, ethnic pride and love, love and the media, and various other loves we have, especially love for popular culture.
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Music and Minorities from Around the World
Research, Documentation and Interdisciplinary Study
The study of music has become an important gateway into understanding the culture of minorities. This volume attends to Jewish themes, with authors from four continents. Its global scope and varied approaches represent the broad range of modern ethnomusicology.
The study of music has become an important gateway into understanding the culture of minorities. This volume attends to Jewish themes, with authors from four continents. Its global scope and varied approaches represent the broad range of modern ethnomusicology.
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Yakupov summarises the communicative processes encompassing the creation, interpretation, perception, and evaluation of the various phenomena of musical art. He considers the numerous communicative links in the spheres of the composer, performer, listener and musicologist-critic.
Yakupov summarises the communicative processes encompassing the creation, interpretation, perception, and evaluation of the various phenomena of musical art. He considers the numerous communicative links in the spheres of the composer, performer, listener and musicologist-critic.
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This volume explores Roberto Gerhard’s work from the early Wind Quintet through to the late period Metamorphoses. It suggests evidence that situates his idiosyncratic experiments alongside, rather than after, the total serialist works of his European counterparts.
This volume explores Roberto Gerhard’s work from the early Wind Quintet through to the late period Metamorphoses. It suggests evidence that situates his idiosyncratic experiments alongside, rather than after, the total serialist works of his European counterparts.
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