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Interpreting the Synthesizer
Meaning Through Sonics
This volume examines the synthesizer’s significance for music and culture. Contributors explore how the synth evolved to signify futurism for new wave acts, mind expansion for psychedelic bands, and escapism for techno, leading to its ubiquity in modern pop.
This volume examines the synthesizer’s significance for music and culture. Contributors explore how the synth evolved to signify futurism for new wave acts, mind expansion for psychedelic bands, and escapism for techno, leading to its ubiquity in modern pop.
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This book is the first complete research on opera theatres across the Middle East and North Africa. Examining many previously undocumented institutions, this work provides scholars and practitioners with the first reference on their evolutionary process.
This book is the first complete research on opera theatres across the Middle East and North Africa. Examining many previously undocumented institutions, this work provides scholars and practitioners with the first reference on their evolutionary process.
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Sound Art and Music
Philosophy, Composition, Performance
This volume explores the mutually beneficial, but occasionally uneasy, relationship between sound art and music. With chapters from practitioners and theoreticians, it provides a snapshot of contemporary research across this exciting area of study.
This volume explores the mutually beneficial, but occasionally uneasy, relationship between sound art and music. With chapters from practitioners and theoreticians, it provides a snapshot of contemporary research across this exciting area of study.
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The Life and Work of Rudolf Bruči
The Composer in the Rift between Aesthetics and Ideologies
This first collection of essays in English on composer Rudolf Bruči explores his multivalent work from many angles. It emphasizes his relevance in Balkan musicology, his considerable international reputation, and his role as a cultural worker in post-war socialist Yugoslavia.
This first collection of essays in English on composer Rudolf Bruči explores his multivalent work from many angles. It emphasizes his relevance in Balkan musicology, his considerable international reputation, and his role as a cultural worker in post-war socialist Yugoslavia.
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Affinities—that nagging sense of familiarity in art—offer a key to how artists work. This book shows how affinity can be a hidden influence, a route to creativity, a shared heritage, or the first step in a lawsuit when it is confused with plagiarism.
Affinities—that nagging sense of familiarity in art—offer a key to how artists work. This book shows how affinity can be a hidden influence, a route to creativity, a shared heritage, or the first step in a lawsuit when it is confused with plagiarism.
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Analog meters offer an easy-to-read display of electrical parameters. Modern digital meters provide many more features, including measurements of capacitance and frequency. This book describes both analog and digital meters, the two primary modes of electronic indication.
Analog meters offer an easy-to-read display of electrical parameters. Modern digital meters provide many more features, including measurements of capacitance and frequency. This book describes both analog and digital meters, the two primary modes of electronic indication.
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Essays on Swedish Cultural Life During the Late Eighteenth Century
Dusting Out the Corners
When dusting out corners, we may be surprised by the vitality of things once thought useful. This book looks at old letters, a popular song, a hit comedy, and an overlooked opera, intending to surprise us with their residual vitality and ask why we swept them aside.
When dusting out corners, we may be surprised by the vitality of things once thought useful. This book looks at old letters, a popular song, a hit comedy, and an overlooked opera, intending to surprise us with their residual vitality and ask why we swept them aside.
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Performance Trends in Postliberation Zimbabwe
Practices, Projections and Trajectories
This collection theorises the dynamic ways Zimbabwean and African artists perform. It examines an interactive movement that fuses performer and spectator, while challenging the dominant Anglocentrism in critical performance pedagogies.
This collection theorises the dynamic ways Zimbabwean and African artists perform. It examines an interactive movement that fuses performer and spectator, while challenging the dominant Anglocentrism in critical performance pedagogies.
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The Disappointed Bridge
Ireland and the Post-Colonial World
This first major study of Ireland’s post-colonial experience draws parallels with other emergent nations. Through literary and musical contexts, it offers unique insight into independence, asking: What happens to an emerging nation after it has emerged?
This first major study of Ireland’s post-colonial experience draws parallels with other emergent nations. Through literary and musical contexts, it offers unique insight into independence, asking: What happens to an emerging nation after it has emerged?
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Challenging traditional film musicology, this book approaches the film score from practical to theoretical perspectives. Essays explore films from art-house to mainstream, and include interviews with influential composers Trevor Jones and Michael Nyman.
Challenging traditional film musicology, this book approaches the film score from practical to theoretical perspectives. Essays explore films from art-house to mainstream, and include interviews with influential composers Trevor Jones and Michael Nyman.
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Against and Beyond
Subversion and Transgression in Mass Media, Popular Culture and Performance
How do film, music, and media subvert the status quo? This essay collection applies critical theory to explore transgression in popular culture, offering essential reading for all who dare to go against and beyond.
How do film, music, and media subvert the status quo? This essay collection applies critical theory to explore transgression in popular culture, offering essential reading for all who dare to go against and beyond.
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Contemporary Southeast Asian Performance
Transnational Perspectives
This volume offers vital insights into recent developments in Southeast Asian performance. Global communications have inspired novel collaborations, with contemporary artists increasingly working beyond the traditional boundaries of nation and discourses of identity.
This volume offers vital insights into recent developments in Southeast Asian performance. Global communications have inspired novel collaborations, with contemporary artists increasingly working beyond the traditional boundaries of nation and discourses of identity.
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This book tells the story of Monet, Tchaikovsky, and Zola. Parallel biographies follow these three artistic geniuses as they took a leading role in moving painting, music, and literature in a bold new direction, shaping the course of modern culture in 19th-century Europe.
This book tells the story of Monet, Tchaikovsky, and Zola. Parallel biographies follow these three artistic geniuses as they took a leading role in moving painting, music, and literature in a bold new direction, shaping the course of modern culture in 19th-century Europe.
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Women in the Arts
Eccentric Essays II
Is there a need for books about women in the arts? The word “woman” still precedes titles like composer or artist, suggesting men’s creativity is the norm. These essays challenge the status quo, highlighting women's accomplishments to enrich our culture.
Is there a need for books about women in the arts? The word “woman” still precedes titles like composer or artist, suggesting men’s creativity is the norm. These essays challenge the status quo, highlighting women’s accomplishments to enrich our culture.
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This collection of essays re-evaluates the connections between music, fine art, and architecture during the flowering of modernism, c. 1849–1950. Through detailed case-studies, this book re-thinks modernism itself to advocate for a multiplicity of modernisms.
This collection of essays re-evaluates the connections between music, fine art, and architecture during the flowering of modernism, c. 1849–1950. Through detailed case-studies, this book re-thinks modernism itself to advocate for a multiplicity of modernisms.
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The essays in this volume explore the relationship between human consciousness and the arts, including theatre, literature, film, and music. This collection reflects a wide range of international disciplines and highlights the growing interest in consciousness studies.
The essays in this volume explore the relationship between human consciousness and the arts, including theatre, literature, film, and music. This collection reflects a wide range of international disciplines and highlights the growing interest in consciousness studies.
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The integrated musical emerged not in the 20th century, but in the 18th with Charles Dibdin. He wrote, composed, and performed in innovative musicals, blending Italian opera and English ballads to create an organic musical theatre that paved the way for the art form today.
The integrated musical emerged not in the 20th century, but in the 18th with Charles Dibdin. He wrote, composed, and performed in innovative musicals, blending Italian opera and English ballads to create an organic musical theatre that paved the way for the art form today.
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Ancient Dramatic Chorus through the Eyes of a Modern Choreographer
Zouzou Nikoloudi
Savrami analyses the work of the Greek choreographer Zouzou Nikoloudi, and provides answers to key questions about her work in relation to ancient Greek views of tragedy and the ways those views have been reinterpreted in contemporary dance practice.
Savrami analyses the work of the Greek choreographer Zouzou Nikoloudi, and provides answers to key questions about her work in relation to ancient Greek views of tragedy and the ways those views have been reinterpreted in contemporary dance practice.
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This collection of articles by musicologists, performers, sound engineers, and educators explores leading ideas in music technologies and the cognition of classical and contemporary music.
This collection of articles by musicologists, performers, sound engineers, and educators explores leading ideas in music technologies and the cognition of classical and contemporary music.
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Russian Émigré Culture
Conservatism or Evolution?
This volume offers a collection of critical articles reflecting current perspectives on Russian émigré culture. Scholars shed new light on cultural diplomacy, literature, art, and music, documenting the diversity and impact of this movement on European life.
This volume offers a collection of critical articles reflecting current perspectives on Russian émigré culture. Scholars shed new light on cultural diplomacy, literature, art, and music, documenting the diversity and impact of this movement on European life.
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