Music, Meaning and Transformation
Meaningful Music Making for Life
This book examines meaningful music making, reframing music education to focus on the student's personal, social, and cultural experience. It provides a guide for teachers to facilitate lifelong music making for health, wellbeing, and a sense of belonging.
This book examines meaningful music making, reframing music education to focus on the student’s personal, social, and cultural experience. It provides a guide for teachers to facilitate lifelong music making for health, wellbeing, and a sense of belonging.
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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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Musical Aesthetics
An Introduction to Concepts, Theories, and Functions
This book adopts an experiential approach to musical aesthetics, valuing intuitive, subconscious responses over intellectual analysis. Drawing from science, philosophy, and the humanities, it explores our deep attraction to music, offering user-friendly insights for all readers.
This book adopts an experiential approach to musical aesthetics, valuing intuitive, subconscious responses over intellectual analysis. Drawing from science, philosophy, and the humanities, it explores our deep attraction to music, offering user-friendly insights for all readers.
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This collection presents a snapshot of current music theory, exploring repertoire from Bach to the avant-garde. Neglected aspects of musical structure like rhythm and meter are given new focus, with many essays centered on the music and ideas of Arnold Schoenberg.
This collection presents a snapshot of current music theory, exploring repertoire from Bach to the avant-garde. Neglected aspects of musical structure like rhythm and meter are given new focus, with many essays centered on the music and ideas of Arnold Schoenberg.
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Musical Islands
Exploring Connections between Music, Place and Research
Islands are imagined as unique places where unexpected treasures can be found. This collection applies this powerful metaphor to musicology, showcasing innovative research from Australia and New Zealand in both established and uncharted territories.
Islands are imagined as unique places where unexpected treasures can be found. This collection applies this powerful metaphor to musicology, showcasing innovative research from Australia and New Zealand in both established and uncharted territories.
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Musical Receptions of Greek Antiquity
From the Romantic Era to Modernism
This collection of essays offers a comprehensive examination of music’s interaction with ancient Greek culture since the nineteenth century, through scrutiny of various cases, from the Romantic era to experimentations of the twentieth century.
This collection of essays offers a comprehensive examination of music’s interaction with ancient Greek culture since the nineteenth century, through scrutiny of various cases, from the Romantic era to experimentations of the twentieth century.
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Musical Waves
West Coast Perspectives of Pitch, Narrative, and Form
This volume comprises a wide range of cutting-edge analytical approaches for numerous musical styles. It includes studies inspired by Schoenberg, transformational theory, narrative, form, and—notably—several approaches to popular music.
This volume comprises a wide range of cutting-edge analytical approaches for numerous musical styles. It includes studies inspired by Schoenberg, transformational theory, narrative, form, and—notably—several approaches to popular music.
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Written from a practical perspective with up-to-date scholarly references, this monograph investigates perspectives on teaching for the tertiary sector. Providing guiding principles and advice for teachers at the tertiary level, it will appeal to both teachers and learners.
Written from a practical perspective with up-to-date scholarly references, this monograph investigates perspectives on teaching for the tertiary sector. Providing guiding principles and advice for teachers at the tertiary level, it will appeal to both teachers and learners.
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In bringing together examples from different parts of the world, including both Western and Eastern societies, and focusing on separate determinants of individual, communal, political, and national Muslim identities, this edited volume offers a blueprint for identity studies.
In bringing together examples from different parts of the world, including both Western and Eastern societies, and focusing on separate determinants of individual, communal, political, and national Muslim identities, this edited volume offers a blueprint for identity studies.
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This study deals with the Muslim situation in India and the state’s institutional response. It discusses the efficacy of redress mechanisms, like the National Commission for Minorities, and argues that such safeguards are not enough without a strong appreciation for pluralism.
This study deals with the Muslim situation in India and the state’s institutional response. It discusses the efficacy of redress mechanisms, like the National Commission for Minorities, and argues that such safeguards are not enough without a strong appreciation for pluralism.
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This book is an intensive case study of an Indian state representative of the country's Muslim minorities. It investigates the problems of promoting inclusive higher education and presents findings useful for reshaping minority education plans and policies in India.
This book is an intensive case study of an Indian state representative of the country’s Muslim minorities. It investigates the problems of promoting inclusive higher education and presents findings useful for reshaping minority education plans and policies in India.
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Muslim Societies in the Age of Mass Consumption
Politics, Culture and Identity between the Local and the Global
Muslim consumers are not passive victims of globalization. They adapt global brands, reshaping their culture. This volume uses consumption as a prism to understand the enormous transformations that Muslim societies have undergone in the past few decades.
Muslim consumers are not passive victims of globalization. They adapt global brands, reshaping their culture. This volume uses consumption as a prism to understand the enormous transformations that Muslim societies have undergone in the past few decades.
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Muslim Women Seeking Power, Muslim Youth Seeking Justice
Studies from Europe, Middle East and Asia
This volume explores employment equity for Muslim women and the identity of Muslim youth in an age of Islamophobia. It offers a worldwide perspective on overcoming discrimination, developing the idea of peaceful resistance and patience in the face of persecution.
This volume explores employment equity for Muslim women and the identity of Muslim youth in an age of Islamophobia. It offers a worldwide perspective on overcoming discrimination, developing the idea of peaceful resistance and patience in the face of persecution.
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Mutual (In)Comprehensions
France and Britain in the Long Nineteenth Century
This collection of essays explores the complex relationship between France and Britain in the nineteenth century. With both admiration and anxiety, each nation used its “best enemy” to shape its own national identity through art, literature, and history.
This collection of essays explores the complex relationship between France and Britain in the nineteenth century. With both admiration and anxiety, each nation used its “best enemy” to shape its own national identity through art, literature, and history.
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This book explores the lexical borrowing between English and Arabic, tracing their historical contact. It describes the role Arabic played in enriching early English and shows how the hegemony of English can be seen in its modern impact on Arabic.
This book explores the lexical borrowing between English and Arabic, tracing their historical contact. It describes the role Arabic played in enriching early English and shows how the hegemony of English can be seen in its modern impact on Arabic.
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This history of computing from 1950 to 1970 reveals how an arithmetic machine evolved into a cornerstone of global society. Pioneers laid the platform for a social revolution, leading to the phone in your pocket and the PC on your desk. No one saw this coming.
This history of computing from 1950 to 1970 reveals how an arithmetic machine evolved into a cornerstone of global society. Pioneers laid the platform for a social revolution, leading to the phone in your pocket and the PC on your desk. No one saw this coming.
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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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My Life as A Forensic Sociologist
The Memoirs of Dr Erickson
A forensic sociologist involved in criminal trials, Dr. Erickson acts as an expert witness for the defence or prosecution. This is the real-life story of her involvement with violent crime, visiting scenes in the dead of night to uncover discoveries for her testimony.
A forensic sociologist involved in criminal trials, Dr. Erickson acts as an expert witness for the defence or prosecution. This is the real-life story of her involvement with violent crime, visiting scenes in the dead of night to uncover discoveries for her testimony.
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My Mother’s Table
At Home in the Maronite Diaspora, A Study of Emigration from Hadchit, North Lebanon to Australia and America
This study explores how Lebanese immigrants construct home in diaspora. When traditional ties of kinship, village, and sect are transformed, they face a crisis of belonging. The study finds home is not a physical place but a metaphysical state, created by women.
This study explores how Lebanese immigrants construct home in diaspora. When traditional ties of kinship, village, and sect are transformed, they face a crisis of belonging. The study finds home is not a physical place but a metaphysical state, created by women.
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My Utopia
A Collection of Creative Writing
This collection of creative writing demonstrates that utopian thinking is beyond any gender, race, age, color, nationality or border limitations. The short fiction, essays and poems here will be of great interest to anyone who believes in the power of literature in forcing change
This collection of creative writing demonstrates that utopian thinking is beyond any gender, race, age, color, nationality or border limitations. The short fiction, essays and poems here will be of great interest to anyone who believes in the power of literature in forcing change
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