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  • Music Making Community by Perman, Tony
    Tony Perman

    Music Making Community

    Making music offers enormous possibilities--and faces significant limitations--in its power to generate belonging and advance social justice. Tony Perman and Stefan Fiol edit essays focused on the forms of interplay between music-making and community-making as mutually creative processes. Contributors in the first section look...
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  • Tri-Axium Writings 2 by Braxton, Anthony
    Anthony Braxton

    Tri-Axium Writings 2

    Tri-Axium Writings is a series of three books on re-examining the composite reality of creative music and its related information continuum. Author Anthony Braxton believes that more than ever before there is a need for alternative viewpoints on this most important subject and that...
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  • Tri-Axium Writings 1 by Braxton, Anthony
    Anthony Braxton

    Tri-Axium Writings 1

    Tri-Axium Writings 1 is the first of three books on re-examining the composite reality of creative music and its related information continuum. Author Anthony Braxton believes that more than ever before there is a need for alternative viewpoints on this most important subject and...
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  • Tri-Axium Writings 3 by Braxton, Anthony
    Anthony Braxton

    Tri-Axium Writings 3

    Tri-Axium Writings is a series of three books on re-examining the composite reality of creative music and its related information continuum. Author Anthony Braxton believes that more than ever before there is a need for alternative viewpoints on this most important subject and that...
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  • Amplify: How to Use the Power of Connection to Engage, Take Action, and Build a Better World by Met, Adam
    Adam Met

    Amplify: How to Use the Power of Connection to Engage, Take Action, and Build a Better World

    A blueprint for boosting your activism and building support for the causes you care about, featuring fan-building tactics from the music industry and the voices of today's most passionate change-makers From stadium acts to indie singer-songwriters, musicians have pioneered ways of sparking passion, building...
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  • Billie's Bent Elbow: Exorbitance, Intimacy, and a Nonsensuous Standard by Okiji, Fumi
    Fumi Okiji

    Billie's Bent Elbow: Exorbitance, Intimacy, and a Nonsensuous Standard

    Deeply informed by jazz, Billie's Bent Elbow explores the nonsensical and nonsensuous in black radical thought and expression. Extending the encounter between black study, Frankfurt School critical theory, and sound studies staged in her first book, Jazz as Critique, and, crucially, bringing Yoruba aesthetics...
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  • On Purity in Musical Art by Thibaut, Anton Friedrich Justus
    Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut

    On Purity in Musical Art

    In this thought-provoking work, Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut and William Henry Gladstone explore the themes of purity and beauty in musical art. Drawing on their extensive knowledge of music theory and aesthetics, they provide a compelling argument for the importance of maintaining artistic purity...
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  • Feminism and Gender Politics in Mediated Popular Music by Werner, Ann
    Ann Werner

    Feminism and Gender Politics in Mediated Popular Music

    What does it mean, in a polarized political climate, that feminism was popular in mainstream popular music of the 2010s? Engaging with feminist theory and previous research about gender and music, this book investigates the meaning of current trends relating to gender, feminism and...
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  • The Power of Pop (Culture): Cultural Imagery and Media Aesthetic Concepts by Dreckmann, Kathrin
    Kathrin Dreckmann

    The Power of Pop (Culture): Cultural Imagery and Media Aesthetic Concepts

    Reflecting on current debates in media cultural studies, this monograph develops a methodology that offers new readings of race, class, and gender paradigms. This methodology is explored in concrete case studies by applying it to popular and contemporary music video productions. The conclusion is...
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  • Everything and Nothing at Once: A Black Man's Reimagined Soundtrack for the Future by Leon, Jo?l
    Jo?l Leon

    Everything and Nothing at Once: A Black Man's Reimagined Soundtrack for the Future

    For readers of Kiese Laymon's Heavy and Hanif Abdurraqib's A Little Devil in America, a beautiful, painful, and soaring tribute to everything that Black men are and can be Growing up in the Bronx, Jo?l Leon was taught that being soft, being vulnerable, could...
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  • The Evolution of Chinese Popular Music: Modernization and Globalization, 1927 to the Present by Cheng, Ya-Hui
    Ya-Hui Cheng

    The Evolution of Chinese Popular Music: Modernization and Globalization, 1927 to the Present

    Ya-Hui Cheng examines the emergence of popular music genres - jazz, rock, and hip-hop - in Chinese society, covering the social underpinnings that shaped the development of popular music in China and Taiwan, from imperialism to westernization and from modernization to globalization. The political...
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  • Tarab: Music, Ecstasy, Emotion, and Performance by Frishkopf, Michael
    Michael Frishkopf

    Tarab: Music, Ecstasy, Emotion, and Performance

    In Arab culture, at the ineffable point where music meets emotion, lies ṭarab. Often glossed as the ecstasy experienced and expressed when performing or listening to singing, instrumental works, and recitations of poetry, ṭarab is both a practice and an orienting concept central to...
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  • Bach's Architecture of Gratitude: On the Genius of the Mass in B Minor by Crooks, James
    James Crooks

    Bach's Architecture of Gratitude: On the Genius of the Mass in B Minor

    Every lover of music finds themselves, at privileged moments, in ecstasy - certain that what they are hearing has captured, somehow, an incontrovertible truth. In Bach's Architecture of Gratitude James Crooks explores this profound aesthetic experience in a case study of J.S. Bach's Mass...
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  • Billie's Bent Elbow: Exorbitance, Intimacy, and a Nonsensuous Standard by Okiji, Fumi
    Fumi Okiji

    Billie's Bent Elbow: Exorbitance, Intimacy, and a Nonsensuous Standard

    Deeply informed by jazz, Billie's Bent Elbow explores the nonsensical and nonsensuous in black radical thought and expression. Extending the encounter between black study, Frankfurt School critical theory, and sound studies staged in her first book Jazz as Critique, and, crucially, bringing Yoruba aesthetics...
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  • Gender, Race and Religion in Video Game Music by Yee, Thomas B.
    Thomas B. Yee

    Gender, Race and Religion in Video Game Music

    Analyses the representation of gender, race and religion in video game music and explores three master categories of identity across 25 case studies, demonstrating the relevance of semiotic interpretation in video games to sociocultural issues and with Japanese history and culture into dialogue with...
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  • What Do You Call It?: From Grass Roots to the Golden Era of UK Rap by Kane, David
    David Kane

    What Do You Call It?: From Grass Roots to the Golden Era of UK Rap

    In July 2019, eleven years after Jay-Z became the first hip-hop artist to headline Glastonbury, Stormzy became the first English rapper to follow suit. Wearing a customised stab-proof vest designed by Banksy, the South London rapper delivered an explosive performance and finished by thanking...
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  • Popular Music Will Not Save Us: Capitalism and Music Education by Richerme, Lauren K.
    Lauren K. Richerme

    Popular Music Will Not Save Us: Capitalism and Music Education

    In today's globalized landscapes, both traditional and progressive K-12 music education practices, including those associated with popular music, can further capitalism-related inequities. In this context, music educators and students might consider how they position themselves and their music-making practices in relation to capitalist aims...
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  • Popular Music Will Not Save Us: Capitalism and Music Education by Richerme, Lauren K.
    Lauren K. Richerme

    Popular Music Will Not Save Us: Capitalism and Music Education

    In today's globalized landscapes, both traditional and progressive K-12 music education practices, including those associated with popular music, can further capitalism-related inequities. In this context, music educators and students might consider how they position themselves and their music-making practices in relation to capitalist aims...
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  • Music, Place, and Identity in Italian Urban Soundscapes circa 1550-1860 by Piperno, Franco
    Franco Piperno

    Music, Place, and Identity in Italian Urban Soundscapes circa 1550-1860

    Music, Place, and Identity in Italian Urban Soundscapes circa 1550-1860 presents new perspectives on the role music played in the physical, cultural, and civic spaces of Italian cities from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Across thirteen chapters, contributors explore the complex connections between...
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  • Knowledge and Music Education: A Social Realist Account by McPhail, Graham J.
    Graham J. McPhail

    Knowledge and Music Education: A Social Realist Account

    Knowledge and Music Education: A Social Realist Account explores current challenges for music education in relation to wider philosophical and political debates, and seeks to find a way forward for the field by rethinking the nature and value of epistemic knowledge in the wake...
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  • Music and Social Inclusion: International Research and Practice in Complex Settings by Odena, Oscar
    Oscar Odena

    Music and Social Inclusion: International Research and Practice in Complex Settings

    The book celebrates the rich diversity of ways in which learners of all ages participate in social music projects in complex settings. Contributions focus broadly on musical and social processes, considering its conceptualization and practices in a number of contexts. Author: Oscar OdenaISBN-10: 1032037202ISBN-13:...
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  • Decomposed: The Political Ecology of Music by Devine, Kyle
    Kyle Devine

    Decomposed: The Political Ecology of Music

    The hidden material histories of music.Music is seen as the most immaterial of the arts, and recorded music as a progress of dematerialization--an evolution from physical discs to invisible digits. In Decomposed, Kyle Devine offers another perspective. He shows that recorded music has always...
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  • The Shortest History of Music: From Bone Flutes to Synthesizers, Hildegard Von Bingen to Beyonc? - 5,000 Years of Instrument and Song by Ford, Andrew
    Andrew Ford

    The Shortest History of Music: From Bone Flutes to Synthesizers, Hildegard Von Bingen to Beyonc? - 5,000 Years of Instrument and Song

    No art form is as widely discussed--or as readily available--as music. With the click of just a few buttons, modern humans can decide what they think of the brand-new Beyonc?, just as quickly as they can form opinions on Brahms or The Beatles or...
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  • DIY Music and the Politics of Social Media by Jones, Ellis
    Ellis Jones

    DIY Music and the Politics of Social Media

    The emergence of social media in the early 21st century promised to facilitate new "DIY" cultural approaches, emphasizing participation and democratization. However, in recent years these platforms have been criticized as domineering and exploitative. For DIY musicians in scenes with lengthy histories of cultural...
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  • Punk Elegies: True Tales of Death Trip Kids, Wrongful Sex, and Trial by Angel Dust by Macdonell, Allan
    Allan Macdonell

    Punk Elegies: True Tales of Death Trip Kids, Wrongful Sex, and Trial by Angel Dust

    Punk Elegies arrives like a chemically unstable mixture of Richard Yates and Damon Runyon. Set along Hollywood Boulevard at the birth of punk and the death of the seventies, the thirty-three melancholic, comic laments of Punk Elegies are a mesmerizing concoction of delusion and...
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  • Troubling Inheritances: Memory, Music, and Aging by Cohen, Sara
    Sara Cohen

    Troubling Inheritances: Memory, Music, and Aging

    This book provides an interdisciplinary focus on music, memory, and ageing by examining how they intersect outside of a formal therapeutic context or framework and by offering a counter-narrative to age as decline. It contributes to the development of qualitative research methodologies by utilizing...
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  • Corporate Life in the Digital Music Industry: Remaking the Major Record Label from the Inside Out by Bennett, Toby
    Toby Bennett

    Corporate Life in the Digital Music Industry: Remaking the Major Record Label from the Inside Out

    Drawing on a deep and long-term first-hand engagement with major labels in the early years of the 21st century, this book sheds new light 'behind the scenes', at a time of drastic and far-reaching transformation. Refreshingly, it centres not on artists and the most...
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  • The Funk Movement: Music, Culture, and Politics by Rabaka, Reiland
    Reiland Rabaka

    The Funk Movement: Music, Culture, and Politics

    Rabaka explores funk as a distinct multiform of music, aesthetics, politics, social vision, and cultural rebellion that has been remixed and continues to influence contemporary Black popular music and Black popular culture, especially rap music and the Hip Hop Movement.The Funk Movement was a...
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  • Music, Health and the Body: Cross-Cultural Perspectives by Bala, Poonam
    Poonam Bala

    Music, Health and the Body: Cross-Cultural Perspectives

    Music, Health and the Body: Cross-Cultural Perspectives focuses on the role of music in understanding new dimensions of health and healing through a unique relationship between identity, social interactions and the human body under the overarching paradigm of culture. The recent Covid-19 pandemic also...
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  • Philosophy of Jazz by Feige, Daniel Martin
    Daniel Martin Feige

    Philosophy of Jazz

    What is jazz? How does it differ from other kinds of music? To what extent is it an important subject for thinking about aesthetic questions? Philosophy of Jazz is among the first book-length philosophical discussions devoted to jazz. Daniel Martin Feige explores the relationship...
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  • Music with Stanley Cavell in Mind by Larocca, David
    David Larocca

    Music with Stanley Cavell in Mind

    Why does Stanley Cavell's philosophical thought matter for music? And how did Cavell's musical practice and appreciation of music give shape to his indelible philosophical claims about cinema, human speech, opera, the expression of skepticism, and ordinary language philosophy? Music with Stanley Cavell in...
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  • Relational Improvisation: Music, Dance and Contemporary Art by Rose, Simon
    Simon Rose

    Relational Improvisation: Music, Dance and Contemporary Art

    Relational Improvisation explores the creative exchanges that occur between artistic disciplines through the practice of improvisation in performance.Author: Simon RoseISBN-10: 1032231890ISBN-13: 9781032231891Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/27/2024Pages: 250Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.79lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d
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  • The Music of the Spheres in the Western Imagination by Kendall, David J.
    David J. Kendall

    The Music of the Spheres in the Western Imagination

    The Music of the Spheres in the Western Imagination describes various systematic musical ecologies of the cosmos by examining attempts over time to define Western theoretical musical systems, whether practical, human, nonhuman, or celestial. This book focuses on the theoretical, theological, philosophical, physical, and...
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  • What Do I Do with My Baby All Day?!: Simple Ways to Have the Best First Year Together by Benhorin, Vered
    Vered Benhorin

    What Do I Do with My Baby All Day?!: Simple Ways to Have the Best First Year Together

    Let's be real: Caring for a baby can be exhaustingly tedious. Enter Vered Benhorin, musician, therapist, and mother of three. In What Do I Do with My Baby All Day?, Benhorin builds on the foundations of attachment theory and blends practical tools with research...
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  • Improvisation in Music and Philosophical Hermeneutics by McAuliffe, Sam
    Sam McAuliffe

    Improvisation in Music and Philosophical Hermeneutics

    In the first book to examine the overlooked relationship between musical improvisation and philosophical hermeneutics, Sam McAuliffe asks: what exactly is improvisation? And how does it relate to our being-in-the-world? Improvisation in Music and Philosophical Hermeneutics answers these questions by investigating the underlying structure...
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  • Under the Table and Screaming Volume Four: The Front Porch, C'Ville Coffee, and Jefferson School by O'Hare, Erin
    Erin O'Hare

    Under the Table and Screaming Volume Four: The Front Porch, C'Ville Coffee, and Jefferson School

    Under the Table and Screaming is a multi-volume series exploring the history and legacy of the local music scene in Charlottesville, VA. From literally underground shows in DIY basements, to the racially suppressed hip-hop scene, to thriving roots music on woodsy back porches, to...
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  • Mankind - Music - Technology: Technology in the Musical Thinking of the 20th and Early 21st Centuries by Flasar, Martin
    Martin Flasar

    Mankind - Music - Technology: Technology in the Musical Thinking of the 20th and Early 21st Centuries

    This book examines the modalities of human relationships and technology as reflected in the musical thinking of the authors of art music of the 20th and early 21st centuries. The discursive and reference frame of the treatise consists mainly of individual artistic poetics and...
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  • Compositional Process in Elliott Carter's String Quartets: A Study in Sketches by Emmery, Laura
    Laura Emmery

    Compositional Process in Elliott Carter's String Quartets: A Study in Sketches

    Compositional Process in Elliott Carter's String Quartets is an interdisciplinary study examining the evolution and compositional process in Elliott Carter's five string quartets. Offering a systematic and logical way of unpacking concepts and processes in these quartets that would otherwise remain opaque, the book's...
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  • Instrument of War: Music and the Making of America's Soldiers by Suisman, David
    David Suisman

    Instrument of War: Music and the Making of America's Soldiers

    An original history of music in the lives of American soldiers. Since the Civil War, music has coursed through the United States military. Soldiers have sung while marching, listened to phonographs and armed forces radio, and packed the seats at large-scale USO shows. "Reveille"...
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  • Foundations in Music Psychology: Theory and Research by Rentfrow, Peter Jason
    Peter Jason Rentfrow

    Foundations in Music Psychology: Theory and Research

    A state-of-the-art overview of the latest theory and research in music psychology, written by leaders in the field.This authoritative, landmark volume offers a comprehensive state-of-the-art overview of the latest theory and research in music perception and cognition. Eminent scholars from a range of disciplines,...
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  • Etudes on the Philosophy of Music by Rimas, Juozas
    Juozas Rimas

    Etudes on the Philosophy of Music

    Drawing on the author's four decades of experience as a concert oboist, this open access book studies a number of foundational issues in the philosophy of music, such as musical meaning and expression, musical ontology and the existence of the musical work, the relation...
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  • Corporate Life in the Digital Music Industry: Remaking the Major Record Label from the Inside Out by Bennett, Toby
    Toby Bennett

    Corporate Life in the Digital Music Industry: Remaking the Major Record Label from the Inside Out

    Drawing on a deep and long-term first-hand engagement with major labels in the early years of the 21st century, this book sheds new light 'behind the scenes', at a time of drastic and far-reaching transformation. Refreshingly, it centres not on artists and the most...
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  • A New Philosophy of Songwriting: Cakes, Constellations, and Other Obtuse Metaphors to Help Your Practice by Ward, Andy
    Andy Ward

    A New Philosophy of Songwriting: Cakes, Constellations, and Other Obtuse Metaphors to Help Your Practice

    This book makes the case for a new theorisation of Song as a multimodal storytelling sonic act, one that has implications for songwriters, scholars, and the way in which we think about music and song.Author: Andy Ward, Briony LuttrellISBN-10: 1666931675ISBN-13: 9781666931679Publisher: Lexington BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished:...
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  • Seeing Voices: Analyzing Sign Language Music by Maler, Anabel
    Anabel Maler

    Seeing Voices: Analyzing Sign Language Music

    We often think of music in terms of sounds intentionally organized into patterns, but music performed in signed languages poses considerable challenges to this sound-based definition. Performances of sign language music are defined culturally as music, but they do not necessarily make sound their...
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  • Music and Belonging Between Revolution and Restoration by Waltham-Smith, Naomi
    Naomi Waltham-Smith

    Music and Belonging Between Revolution and Restoration

    In what ways is music implicated in the politics of belonging? How is the proper at stake in listening? What role does the ear play in forming a sense of community? Music and Belonging argues that music, at the level of style and form,...
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  • The Endless Refrain: Memory, Nostalgia, and the Threat to New Music by Rowell, David
    David Rowell

    The Endless Refrain: Memory, Nostalgia, and the Threat to New Music

    A veteran music journalist argues that the rise of music streaming and the consolidation of digital platforms is decimating the musical landscape, with dire consequences for the future of our culture ... In The Endless Refrain, former Washington Post writer and editor David Rowell...
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  • The Oxford Handbook of Music Listening in the 19th and 20th Centuries by Thorau, Christian
    Christian Thorau

    The Oxford Handbook of Music Listening in the 19th and 20th Centuries

    An idealized image of European concert-goers has long prevailed in historical overviews of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This act of listening was considered to be an invisible and amorphous phenomenon, a naturally given mode of perception. This narrative influenced the conditions of listening...
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  • Special Needs, Community Music, and Adult Learning: An Oxford Handbook of Music Education, Volume 4 by McPherson, Gary E.
    Gary E. McPherson

    Special Needs, Community Music, and Adult Learning: An Oxford Handbook of Music Education, Volume 4

    Special Needs, Community Music, and Adult Learning is one of five paperback books derived from the foundational two-volume Oxford Handbook of Music Education. Designed for music teachers, students, and scholars of music education, as well as educational administrators and policy makers, this fourth book...
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  • A Way of Music Education: Classic Chinese Wisdoms by Fung
    Fung

    A Way of Music Education: Classic Chinese Wisdoms

    Based on Yijing, classic Confucianism, and classic Daoism, A Way of Music Education proposes a philosophy of music education as a trilogy: change, balance, and liberation. Author C. Victor Fung presents an overview of the fundamentals of classic Chinese philosophy and offers their music...
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  • 4 Reigner 2 Reality by Bryan Craig Tucker, Aria Page Tucker &.
    Aria Page Tucker &. Bryan Craig Tucker

    4 Reigner 2 Reality

    Author: Aria Page Tucker &. Bryan Craig TuckerISBN-13: 9798330334575Publisher: Aria Page Tucker & Bryan Craig TuckerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/06/2024Pages: 76Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.16d
    $14.99
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