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  • The Life of Music: New Adventures in the Western Classical Tradition by Kenyon, Nicholas
    Nicholas Kenyon

    The Life of Music: New Adventures in the Western Classical Tradition

    Nicholas Kenyon explores the enduring appeal of the classical canon at a moment when we can access all music--across time and cultures "Nicholas Kenyon is an amiable and enthusiastic guide to a thousand years of classical music."--Neil Fisher, The Times "A wonderfully engaging survey....
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  • Tuning the World: The Rise of 440 Hertz in Music, Science, and Politics, 1859-1955 by Gribenski, Fanny
    Fanny Gribenski

    Tuning the World: The Rise of 440 Hertz in Music, Science, and Politics, 1859-1955

    Tuning the World tells the unknown story of how the musical pitch A 440 became the global norm. Now commonly accepted as the point of reference for musicians in the Western world, A 440 hertz only became the standard pitch during an international conference...
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  • On Minimalism: Documenting a Musical Movement by O'Brien, Kerry
    Kerry O'Brien

    On Minimalism: Documenting a Musical Movement

    A revisionist history of minimalism's transformative rise, through the voices of the musicians who created it. When composers like Philip Glass and Steve Reich began creating hypnotically repetitive music in the 1960s, it upended the world of American composition. But minimalism was more than...
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  • On Minimalism: Documenting a Musical Movement by O'Brien, Kerry
    Kerry O'Brien

    On Minimalism: Documenting a Musical Movement

    A revisionist history of minimalism's transformative rise, through the voices of the musicians who created it. When composers like Philip Glass and Steve Reich began creating hypnotically repetitive music in the 1960s, it upended the world of American composition. But minimalism was more than...
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  • Tonight It's a World We Bury: Black Metal, Red Politics by Peel, Bill
    Bill Peel

    Tonight It's a World We Bury: Black Metal, Red Politics

    Author: Bill PeelISBN-10: 1914420365ISBN-13: 9781914420368Publisher: RepeaterLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/23/2023Pages: 208Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 7.40h x 5.20w x 1.00d
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  • The Little Book of Country: The Music's History, Hits, and Heartaches by Hippo! Orange
    Hippo! Orange

    The Little Book of Country: The Music's History, Hits, and Heartaches

    Everything you wanted to know about country, from the men and women who put the music on the map, to the genres, guitars and history, to the greatest hits of all time. From the early beginnings of bluegrass, cowboys and Aussie bush balladeers through...
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  • Warren Zevon and Philosophy by MacKinnon, John
    John E. MacKinnon

    Warren Zevon and Philosophy: Beyond Reptile Wisdom

    Warren Zevon and Philosophy is a collection of chapters on Zevon's life and music, authored by philosophers who are also Zevon fans, providing new and exciting insights into Zevon's thinking, his cynical lyrics, and the cruel ironies of his roller-coaster life and career.Since his...
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  • Playing for Peace: Reclaiming Our Human Nature by Keil, Charles
    Charles Keil

    Playing for Peace: Reclaiming Our Human Nature

    Some call it the Anthroposcene: humans taking responsibility for the mess we have made here on Mother Earth. I have come to believe that drumming-singing-dancing-ngoma in every echological niche is the way out. And every goma becoming a dromena, i.e. we're doing the rite...
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  • Youtube and Music: Online Culture and Everyday Life by Vernallis, Carol
    Carol Vernallis

    Youtube and Music: Online Culture and Everyday Life

    YouTube has afforded new ways of documenting, performing and circulating musical creativity. This first open access sustained exploration of YouTube and music shows how record companies, musicians and amateur users have embraced YouTube's potential to promote artists, stage performances, build artistic (cyber)identity, initiate interactive...
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  • Vinyl Theory by Di Leo, Jeffrey R.
    Jeffrey R. Di Leo

    Vinyl Theory

    Why are vinyl records making a comeback? How is their resurgence connected to the political economy of music? Vinyl Theory responds to these and other questions by exploring the intersection of vinyl records with critical theory. In the process, it asks how the political...
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  • Nietzsche's the Case of Wagner and Nietzsche Contra Wagner by Harvey, Ryan
    Ryan Harvey

    Nietzsche's the Case of Wagner and Nietzsche Contra Wagner

    Wagner was a lifelong obsession for Nietzsche. No other topic or figure more consistently and persistently appears in Nietzsche's books from beginning to end as do Wagner and his theories. For the first time, Ryan Harvey and Aaron Ridley put Wagner centre-stage in their...
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  • Rhythm and Critique: Technics, Modalities, Practices by Crespi, Paola
    Paola Crespi

    Rhythm and Critique: Technics, Modalities, Practices

    Rhythm and Critique presents 12 new essays from a range of specialists to define, contextualise and challenge the concepts of rhythm and rhythmanalysis. It includes newly translated materials from Rudolf Laban and Henri Meschonnic. The book begins with a genealogy of rhythm as it...
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  • Transcultural Sound Practices: British Asian Dance Music as Cultural Transformation by Maier, Carla J.
    Carla J. Maier

    Transcultural Sound Practices: British Asian Dance Music as Cultural Transformation

    Listening to the sound practices of bands and musicians such as the Asian Dub Foundation or M.I.A., and spanning three decades of South Asian dance music production in the UK, Transcultural Sound Practiceszooms in on the concrete sonic techniques and narrative strategies in South...
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  • Rock and Romanticism: Blake, Wordsworth, and Rock from Dylan to U2 by Rovira, James
    James Rovira

    Rock and Romanticism: Blake, Wordsworth, and Rock from Dylan to U2

    Rock and Romanticism: Blake, Wordsworth, and Rock from Dylan to U2 is an edited anthology that seeks to explain just how rock and roll is a Romantic phenomenon that sheds light, retrospectively, on what literary Romanticism was at its different points of origin and...
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  • Peculiar Attunements: How Affect Theory Turned Musical by Grant, Roger Mathew
    Roger Mathew Grant

    Peculiar Attunements: How Affect Theory Turned Musical

    Peculiar Attunements places the recent turn to affect into conversation with an earlier affective turn that took place in European music theory of the eighteenth century. It offers a new way of thinking through affect historically and dialectically, drawing attention to repeating patterns and...
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  • Ranciere and Music by Cachopo, João Pedro
    Jo縊 Pedro Cachopo

    Ranciere and Music

    The place of music in Ranci鑽e's thought has long been underestimated or unrecognised. This volume responds to this absence with a collection of 15 essays by scholars from a variety of music- and sound-related fields, including an Afterword by Ranci鑽e on the role of...
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  • The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Policy by Homan, Shane
    Shane Homan

    The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Policy

    The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Policy is the first thorough analysis of how policy frames the behavior of audiences, industries, and governments in the production and consumption of popular music. Covering a range of industrial and national contexts, this collection assesses how music...
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  • Rockin' the Free World!: How the Rock & Roll Revolution Changed America and the World by Kay, Sean
    Sean Kay

    Rockin' the Free World!: How the Rock & Roll Revolution Changed America and the World

    In Rockin' the Free World, international relations expert Sean Kay takes readers inside "Bob Dylan's America" and shows how this vision linked the rock and roll revolution to American values of freedom, equality, human rights, and peace while tracing how those values have spread...
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  • The Psychology of Music: A Very Short Introduction by Margulis, Elizabeth Hellmuth
    Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis

    The Psychology of Music: A Very Short Introduction

    Music has been examined from multiple perspectives: as a product of human history, for example, or a product of human culture. But there is also a long tradition, intensified in recent decades, of thinking about music as a product of the human mind. Whether...
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  • Sonic Identity at the Margins by Love, Joanna
    Joanna Love

    Sonic Identity at the Margins

    Sonic Identity at the Margins convenes the interdisciplinary work of 17 academics, composers, and performers to examine sonic identity from the 19th century to the present. Recognizing the myriad aspects of identity formation, the authors in this volume adopt methodological approaches that range from...
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  • Reflections on the Music of Ennio Morricone: Fame and Legacy by Sciannameo, Franco
    Franco Sciannameo

    Reflections on the Music of Ennio Morricone: Fame and Legacy

    Reflections on the Music of Ennio Morricone: Fame and Legacy provides new contextualized perspectives on Ennio Morricone's position as a radical composer working at the cutting edge of music within the frame work of his cinematic compositions. The Italian composer has reached world fame...
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  • The Oxford Handbook of Social Justice in Music Education by Benedict, Cathy
    Cathy Benedict

    The Oxford Handbook of Social Justice in Music Education

    Music education has historically had a tense relationship with social justice. One the one hand, educators concerned with music practices have long preoccupied themselves with ideas of open participation and the potentially transformative capacity that musical interaction fosters. On the other hand, they have...
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  • The Aesthetics of Imperfection in Music and the Arts: Spontaneity, Flaws and the Unfinished by Hamilton, Andy
    Andy Hamilton

    The Aesthetics of Imperfection in Music and the Arts: Spontaneity, Flaws and the Unfinished

    The aesthetics of imperfectionemphasises spontaneity, disruption, process and energy over formal perfection and is often ignored by many commentators or seen only in improvisation. This comprehensive collection is the first time imperfection has been explored across all kinds of musical performance, whether improvisation or...
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  • Renegades: Born in the USA by Obama, Barack
    Barack Obama

    Renegades: Born in the USA

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Two longtime friends share an intimate and urgent conversation about life, music, and their enduring love of America, with all its challenges and contradictions, in this stunningly produced expansion of their groundbreaking Higher Ground podcast, featuring more than 350...
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  • Paris Blue: A Memoir of First Love by Scolnik, Julie
    Julie Scolnik

    Paris Blue: A Memoir of First Love

    PARIS, 1976: Twenty-year-old American student Julie Scolnik had just arrived in the City of Light to study the flute when, from across a sea of faces in the chorus of the Orchestre de Paris, she is drawn to Luc, a striking (married) French lawyer...
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  • Paris Blue: A Memoir of First Love by Scolnik, Julie
    Julie Scolnik

    Paris Blue: A Memoir of First Love

    PARIS, 1976: Twenty-year-old American student Julie Scolnik had just arrived in the City of Light to study the flute when, from across a sea of faces in the chorus of the Orchestre de Paris, she is drawn to Luc, a striking (married) French lawyer...
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  • We Are Music: An Existential Journey Toward Infinity by Sharpley, John Stephen
    John Stephen Sharpley

    We Are Music: An Existential Journey Toward Infinity

    What is music?Modern society has come to view music largely as entertainment and commodity. In response, We Are Music: An Existential Journey Toward Infinity provides the reader with a holistic starting point. Music has unlimited potential to transform and enlighten, and is only impeded...
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  • Sound Art Revisited by Licht, Alan
    Alan Licht

    Sound Art Revisited

    The first edition of Sound Art Revisited (published as Sound Art: Beyond Music, Between Categories) served as a groundbreaking work toward defining this emerging field, and this fully updated volume significantly expands the story to include current research since the book's initial release. Viewed...
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  • Sound Healing & Values Visualization: Creating a Life of Value by Beaulieu, John
    John Beaulieu

    Sound Healing & Values Visualization: Creating a Life of Value

    OUR INTENTIONS CAN BE TUNED TO OUR HIGHEST VALUES.This ground breaking and pioneering new work explores the vibratory nature of existence through science, mindful listening, and creative sound explorations. The Values Visualization(TM) Process, designed by Dr. Beaulieu, is presented to create highly-tuned intentions, based...
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  • The Spirit of Music: The Lesson Continues by Wooten, Victor L.
    Victor L. Wooten

    The Spirit of Music: The Lesson Continues

    Grammy Award winner Victor Wooten's inspiring parable of the importance of music and the threats that it faces in today's world. We may not realize it as we listen to the soundtrack of our lives through tiny earbuds, but music and all that it...
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  • My Old Kentucky Home: The Astonishing Life and Reckoning of an Iconic American Song by Bingham, Emily
    Emily Bingham

    My Old Kentucky Home: The Astonishing Life and Reckoning of an Iconic American Song

    The long journey of an American song, passed down from generation to generation, bridging a nation's fraught disconnect between history and warped illusion, revealing the country's ever evolving self. MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME, from its enormous success in the early 1850s, written by a...
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  • The Beatles and Sgt. Pepper: A Fans' Perspective by Spizer, Bruce
    Bruce Spizer

    The Beatles and Sgt. Pepper: A Fans' Perspective

    Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the most famous album by the most famous band in the history of rock 'n' roll. It became the soundtrack for the Summer of Love (1967), with its music constantly flowing out of Hi-Fi systems, portable record...
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  • You're History: The Twelve Strangest Women in Music by Chow, Lesley
    Lesley Chow

    You're History: The Twelve Strangest Women in Music

    Raucous, sensual and sublime: how twelve pioneering female artists rewrote the rules of pop. From Kate Bush to Nicki Minaj, from Janet Jackson to TLC and Taylor Swift, pop's greatest female pioneers are simply strange smashing notions of taste and decorum, and replacing them...
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  • Uncommon Measure: A Journey Through Music, Performance, and the Science of Time by Hodges, Natalie
    Natalie Hodges

    Uncommon Measure: A Journey Through Music, Performance, and the Science of Time

    NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLISTNPR "BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR" SELECTIONNEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE A virtuosic debut from a gifted violinist searching for a new mode of artistic becomingHow does time shape consciousness and consciousness, time? Do we live in time, or does time...
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  • Rock and Roll, Social Protest, and Authenticity: Historical, Philosophical, and Cultural Explorations by Torell, Kurt
    Kurt Torell

    Rock and Roll, Social Protest, and Authenticity: Historical, Philosophical, and Cultural Explorations

    This book explores the relationships between rock and roll, social protest, and authenticity to consider how rock and roll could function as social protest music. The author begins by discussing the nature and origins of rock and roll and the nature of social protest...
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  • Why Bob Dylan Matters by Thomas, Richard F.
    Richard F. Thomas

    Why Bob Dylan Matters

    "The coolest class on campus" - The New York TimesWhen the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Bob Dylan in 2016, a debate raged. Some celebrated, while many others questioned the choice. How could the world's most prestigious book prize be awarded to...
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  • Pick a Pocket or Two: A History of British Musical Theatre by Mordden, Ethan
    Ethan Mordden

    Pick a Pocket or Two: A History of British Musical Theatre

    From Gilbert and Sullivan to Andrew Lloyd Webber, from Julie Andrews to Hugh Jackman, from Half a Sixpence to Matilda, Pick a Pocket Or Two is the story of the British musical: where it began and how it developed. In Pick a Pocket Or...
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  • Playing the Piano for Pleasure: The Classic Guide to Improving Skills Through Practice and Discipline by Cooke, Charles
    Charles Cooke

    Playing the Piano for Pleasure: The Classic Guide to Improving Skills Through Practice and Discipline

    Skyhorse Publishing is proud to revive Playing Piano for Pleasure. With the wonderful writing one would expect from a longtime New Yorker reporter, Piano aficionado Charles Cooke, offers concrete routines for improving your piano performance. A pleasant and constant cheerleader, Cooke asks readers to...
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  • The Self-Restorative Power of Music: A Psychological Perspective by Lachmann, Frank M.
    Frank M. Lachmann

    The Self-Restorative Power of Music: A Psychological Perspective

    This book explores how we can understand the place of music from a self psychological perspective, by investigating three journeys: the one we take when listening to music, the literal journey of the author from Nazi Germany to the United States, and the subjective...
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  • Old Records Never Die: One Man's Quest for His Vinyl and His Past by Spitznagel, Eric
    Eric Spitznagel

    Old Records Never Die: One Man's Quest for His Vinyl and His Past

    A Hudson Booksellers Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year, with foreword by Wilco's Jeff Tweedy High Fidelity meets Killing Yourself to Live when one man searches for his lost record collection. As he finds himself within spitting distance of middle-age, journalist Eric Spitznagel feels...
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  • The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places by Krause, Bernie
    Bernie Krause

    The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places

    A "passionate amalgam of science and autobiography" that will leave you hearing -- and seeing -- nature as never before (New York Times Book Review). Musician and naturalist Bernie Krause is one of the world's leading experts in natural sound, and he's spent his...
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  • Raise the Song: A Classical Christian Guide to Music Education by Richey, Jarrod
    Jarrod Richey

    Raise the Song: A Classical Christian Guide to Music Education

    With technology, music has never been more constant. It is heard on phones and in waiting rooms, in coffee shops and on television. Despite such exposure, the number of people able to make music for themselves is dwindling. Classical Christian schools have a unique...
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  • Neon Screams: How Drill, Trap and Bashment Made Music New Again by Mackintosh, Kit
    Kit Mackintosh

    Neon Screams: How Drill, Trap and Bashment Made Music New Again

    Examining new genres from the UK and across the Atlantic, including mumble rap, Brooklyn drill, UK drill, trap dancehall and Afrobeats, Neon Screams explores the dystopias and dissociative transcendence offered by this boundary-pushing music. With a foreword by Simon Reynolds, Neon Screams explores the...
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  • There Was a Time: James Brown, the Chitlin' Circuit, and Me by Leeds, Alan
    Alan Leeds

    There Was a Time: James Brown, the Chitlin' Circuit, and Me

    As seen in the Wall Street Journal "Alan Leeds was a proteg of James Brown and a true historian of the world that nurtured the great entertainer. Alan was a witness to the vibrant black music scene of the '60s and '70s--whose book is...
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  • The Musician's Career Guide: Turning Your Talent Into Sustained Success by Owens, Ulysses
    Ulysses Owens

    The Musician's Career Guide: Turning Your Talent Into Sustained Success

    An Engaging and Accessible Guide to Achieving Sustained Access in the Music Industry As a musician, how can you blend art and survival and still keep loving the business? The Musician's Career Guide, written from the perspective of someone who has engaged in the...
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  • Re-Sounding: introducing an alternative metaphor for organization change by Spann, Rik
    Rik Spann

    Re-Sounding: introducing an alternative metaphor for organization change

    The challenges we encounter in our everyday world(s) require updated and sophisticated types of 'conversation', literally and in a wider sense. It's not just about the content, it's about the relationships, the interactions. Embodied sensemaking offers ideas; the worlds of music, art and design...
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  • The Ring of Truth: The Wisdom of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung by Scruton, Roger
    Roger Scruton

    The Ring of Truth: The Wisdom of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung

    "Nothing in opera is grander than The Ring, no work more suited to the deep reading the writer gives here." --Opera NewsRichard Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung is one of the greatest works of art created in modern times, and has fascinated both critics...
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  • The Music Advantage: How Music Helps Your Child Develop, Learn, and Thrive by Collins, Anita
    Anita Collins

    The Music Advantage: How Music Helps Your Child Develop, Learn, and Thrive

    An expert in cognitive development and music education reveals the remarkable and surprising benefits that playing--or even appreciating--music offers to children. The latest cognitive research has revealed something extraordinary: learning music and listening to music can grow and repair our brains at any age....
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  • Nietzsche's the Case of Wagner and Nietzsche Contra Wagner by Harvey, Ryan
    Ryan Harvey

    Nietzsche's the Case of Wagner and Nietzsche Contra Wagner

    Wagner was a lifelong obsession for Nietzsche. No other topic or figure more consistently and persistently appears in Nietzsche's books from beginning to end as do Wagner and his theories. For the first time, Ryan Harvey and Aaron Ridley put Wagner centre-stage in their...
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  • The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Brain by Thaut, Michael H.
    Michael H. Thaut

    The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Brain

    The study of music and the brain can be traced back to the work of Gall in the 18th century, continuing with John Hughlings Jackson, August Knoblauch, Richard Wallaschek, and others. These early researchers were interested in localizing musicality in the brain and learning...
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