Music and Literary Modernism
Critical Essays and Comparative Studies 2nd Edition
Scholars examine the intersections of music, literature, and language in modernism. Essays explore music's place in the writing of Joyce, Woolf, and Pound, and literature's importance for composers from Antheil to The Beatles. Revised and updated second edition.
Scholars examine the intersections of music, literature, and language in modernism. Essays explore music’s place in the writing of Joyce, Woolf, and Pound, and literature’s importance for composers from Antheil to The Beatles. Revised and updated second edition.
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Music and Magic
Charlie Parker, Trickster Lives!
The magic of jazz is Tricksterism. Greats like Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, and Dizzy Gillespie were Tricksters, taking pop songs and refashioning them into gold. These magician-Tricksters transform all they touch. This book explains how they do it.
The magic of jazz is Tricksterism. Greats like Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, and Dizzy Gillespie were Tricksters, taking pop songs and refashioning them into gold. These magician-Tricksters transform all they touch. This book explains how they do it.
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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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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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Music and Sonic Art
Theories and Practices
This title gathers practitioners and theorists of music and sonic art to discuss a range of historical, artistic, pedagogical and critical issues from multiple perspectives, emphasizing the continuities and links along a broad spectrum of hearing and listening practices.
This title gathers practitioners and theorists of music and sonic art to discuss a range of historical, artistic, pedagogical and critical issues from multiple perspectives, emphasizing the continuities and links along a broad spectrum of hearing and listening practices.
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Music and Technologies is a collection of articles by musicians, computer scientists, and educators from all over the world. It explores contemporary ideas in the field, from automatic cognition and simulation to the re-creation of music, with sound and scoring at its core.
Music and Technologies is a collection of articles by musicians, computer scientists, and educators from all over the world. It explores contemporary ideas in the field, from automatic cognition and simulation to the re-creation of music, with sound and scoring at its core.
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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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Music and/as Process brings together innovative scholars to explore music as a dynamic process. Covering composition, performance, and analysis, these forward-thinking essays challenge the traditional concept of the musical ‘work’ and bring the practitioner to the foreground.
Music and/as Process brings together innovative scholars to explore music as a dynamic process. Covering composition, performance, and analysis, these forward-thinking essays challenge the traditional concept of the musical ‘work’ and bring the practitioner to the foreground.
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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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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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Music Glocalization
Heritage and Innovation in a Digital Age
The first major book to apply the timely notion of “glocality” to music, it offers a distinctive theoretical perspective and advanced insights into how music is impacted by the interaction of global forces with local conditions.
The first major book to apply the timely notion of “glocality” to music, it offers a distinctive theoretical perspective and advanced insights into how music is impacted by the interaction of global forces with local conditions.
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Music in Human Experience
Perspectives on a Musical Species
Music plays an integral role in many facets of human life, from the biological and social to the spiritual and political. This book brings together interdisciplinary and cross-cultural studies on the functions, purposes, and meanings of music in human experience.
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Music of Japan Today examines cross-cultural confluences in contemporary Japanese art-music through essays from international composers, performers, and scholars, covering topics from Toru Takemitsu's legacy to computer music and avant-garde sound artists.
Music of Japan Today examines cross-cultural confluences in contemporary Japanese art-music through essays from international composers, performers, and scholars, covering topics from Toru Takemitsu’s legacy to computer music and avant-garde sound artists.
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Music on Stage presents papers on opera, the Musical, and performance practice. The collection covers a wide spectrum, from historic works by Wagner to Sondheim, also exploring the gestalt of music and text and the training of the actor-musician.
Music on Stage presents papers on opera, the Musical, and performance practice. The collection covers a wide spectrum, from historic works by Wagner to Sondheim, also exploring the gestalt of music and text and the training of the actor-musician.
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This volume highlights the growing fusion and blurring of boundaries between traditional genres. Topics explored range from intercultural opera and the Rocky Horror Show to trans-genre adaptation in Strauss and Glass, and how the physical body dictates movement.
This volume highlights the growing fusion and blurring of boundaries between traditional genres. Topics explored range from intercultural opera and the Rocky Horror Show to trans-genre adaptation in Strauss and Glass, and how the physical body dictates movement.
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This compendium of interdisciplinary research presents new “readings” on topics from opera by Handel and Mozart to 1960s popular sound. Chapters discuss operatic lighting, Wagner’s leitmotif technique, music and social media, and the art and politics of the collective Laibach.
This compendium of interdisciplinary research presents new “readings” on topics from opera by Handel and Mozart to 1960s popular sound. Chapters discuss operatic lighting, Wagner’s leitmotif technique, music and social media, and the art and politics of the collective Laibach.
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Music Performance Anxiety
A Comprehensive Update of the Literature
Music Performance Anxiety (MPA) affects many individuals, regardless of age or experience. This book provides an updated review of the literature on the topic, covering its concept, epidemiology, and interventional studies, along with critiques of published work.
Music Performance Anxiety (MPA) affects many individuals, regardless of age or experience. This book provides an updated review of the literature on the topic, covering its concept, epidemiology, and interventional studies, along with critiques of published work.
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Music Research
New Directions for a New Century
This book compiles peer-reviewed papers from the conference “Music Research: new directions for a new century.” Papers explore four main themes: Research through Performance, Music and Society, Music and Technology, and Structure and Context.
This book compiles peer-reviewed papers from the conference “Music Research: new directions for a new century.” Papers explore four main themes: Research through Performance, Music and Society, Music and Technology, and Structure and Context.
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Music with Expressive Power
An Audio and Musical Quest
For those passionate about quality music, this book explains why high-quality audio reproduction is hard. It highlights the often-ignored role of the listener, enabling you to make informed choices about your equipment and gain richer musical experiences.
For those passionate about quality music, this book explains why high-quality audio reproduction is hard. It highlights the often-ignored role of the listener, enabling you to make informed choices about your equipment and gain richer musical experiences.
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Music, Longing and Belonging
Articulations of the Self and the Other in the Musical Realm
This interdisciplinary book explores how musical communities transcend national borders and challenge the boundaries between self and other. It focuses on forms of musical belonging not bound by national identity, framing music as a medium of desire and dissent.
This interdisciplinary book explores how musical communities transcend national borders and challenge the boundaries between self and other. It focuses on forms of musical belonging not bound by national identity, framing music as a medium of desire and dissent.
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