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  • Theorizing Sound Writing by Kapchan, Deborah
    Deborah Kapchan

    Theorizing Sound Writing

    An eclectic and experimental exploration of sound from the vantage point of writingThe study of listening--aurality--and its relation to writing is the subject of this eclectic edited volume. Theorizing Sound Writing explores the relationship between sound, theory, language, and inscription. This volume contains an...
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  • Sound System: The Political Power of Music by Randall, Dave
    Dave Randall

    Sound System: The Political Power of Music

    Musicians have often wanted to change the world, and many--from underground grime artists to mainstream pop icons--channel that desire through the political power of music. Music has a unique ability to unsettle the most fundamental political and social conventions--or, alternatively, to stabilize the status-quo....
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  • Russian Music and Nationalism: From Glinka to Stalin by Frolova-Walker, Marina
    Marina Frolova-Walker

    Russian Music and Nationalism: From Glinka to Stalin

    Challenging what is widely regarded as the distinguishing feature of Russian music - its ineffable 'Russianness' - Marina Frolova-Walker examines the history of Russian music from the premiere of Glinka's opera 'A Life for the Tsar' in 1836 to the death of Stalin in...
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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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  • Speaking for Ourselves: Conversations on Life, Music, and Autism by Bakan, Michael B.
    Michael B. Bakan

    Speaking for Ourselves: Conversations on Life, Music, and Autism

    Since the advent of autism as a diagnosed condition in the 1940s, the importance of music in the lives of autistic people has been widely observed and studied. Articles on musical savants, extraordinary feats of musical memory, unusually high rates of absolute or "perfect"...
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  • Punk Rock and Philosophy by Heter, Joshua
    Joshua Heter

    Punk Rock and Philosophy

    "All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind." Karl Marx might have been thinking of punk rock...
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  • Overtone Singing: Harmonic Dimensions of the Human Voice by Van Tongeren, Mark
    Mark Van Tongeren

    Overtone Singing: Harmonic Dimensions of the Human Voice

    An indispensable guide to a deeper understanding of the nature of the human voice and its harmonic possibilities from East to West. Overtone Singing is the most comprehensive book ever written on the hidden harmonies of the human voice. Ethnomusicologist and vocalist Mark van...
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  • Rock to Recovery: Music as a Catalyst for Human Transformation by Geer, Wes
    Wes Geer

    Rock to Recovery: Music as a Catalyst for Human Transformation

    Tens of thousands of Americans die from substance abuse and suicide each year. Millions more suffer from mental health disorders. Rock to Recovery -- an innovative, therapeutic music program serving more than one hundred addiction treatment and mental health facilities in the USA --...
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  • The Popular and the Sacred in Music by Kärjä, Antti-Ville
    Antti-Ville Kärjä

    The Popular and the Sacred in Music

    Music, as the form of art whose name derives from ancient myths, is often thought of as pure symbolic expression and associated with transcendence. Music is also a universal phenomenon and thus a profound marker of humanity. These features make music a sphere of...
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  • The Fascist Groove Thing: A History of Thatcher's Britain in 21 Mixtapes by Hodges, Hugh
    Hugh Hodges

    The Fascist Groove Thing: A History of Thatcher's Britain in 21 Mixtapes

    This is the late 1970s and '80s as explained through the urgent and still-relevant songs of the Clash, the Specials, the Au Pairs, the Style Council, the Pet Shop Boys, and nearly four hundred other bands and solo artists.Each chapter presents a mixtape (or...
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  • Popular Music and Automobiles by Duffett, Mark
    Mark Duffett

    Popular Music and Automobiles

    Particularly since the 1950s, cars and popular music have been constantly associated. As complementary goods and intertwined technologies, their relationship has become part of a widely shared experience-one that connects individuals and society, private worlds and public spheres. Popular Music and Automobiles aims to...
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  • Sound in the Ecstatic-Materialist Perspective on Experimental Music by Wanke, Riccardo D.
    Riccardo D. Wanke

    Sound in the Ecstatic-Materialist Perspective on Experimental Music

    What does a one hour contemporary orchestral piece by Georg Friedrich Haas have in common with a series of glitch-noise electronic tracks by Pan Sonic? This book proposes that, despite their differences, they share a particular understanding of sound that is found across several...
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  • The Sounds of Place: Music and the American Cultural Landscape by Von Glahn, Denise
    Denise Von Glahn

    The Sounds of Place: Music and the American Cultural Landscape

    Composers like Charles Ives, Duke Ellington, Aaron Copland, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich created works that indelibly commemorated American places. Denise Von Glahn analyzes the soundscapes of fourteen figures whose "place pieces" tell us much about the nation's search for its own voice and about...
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  • Musical Meaning: Toward a Critical History by Kramer, Lawrence
    Lawrence Kramer

    Musical Meaning: Toward a Critical History

    Ranging widely over classical music, jazz, popular music, and film and television music, Musical Meaning uncovers the historical importance of asking about meaning in the lived experience of musical works, styles, and performances. Lawrence Kramer has been a pivotal figure in the development of...
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  • To Create: Imagining the Good Life Through Music by Randles, Clint
    Clint Randles

    To Create: Imagining the Good Life Through Music

    We all need creativity in our lives. It is key to our happiness. Music, according to author Clint Randles, is one of the best ways to feed our longing for self-growth through engagement in creative processes. And music brings us together for the purpose...
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  • The Origins of Music Theory in the Age of Plato by Gurd, Sean Alexander
    Sean Alexander Gurd

    The Origins of Music Theory in the Age of Plato

    Listening is a social process. Even apparently trivial acts of listening are expert performances of acquired cognitive and bodily habits. Contemporary scholars acknowledge this fact with the notion that there are "auditory cultures." In the fourth century BCE, Greek philosophers recognized a similar phenomenon...
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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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  • Performing History: Approaches to History Across Musicology by November, Nancy
    Nancy November

    Performing History: Approaches to History Across Musicology

    The fifteen essays of this volume glimpse the diverse ways music historians "do" history, and the diverse ways in which music histories matter. The book takes in historical musicology as well as ethnomusicology and popular music, showcasing the diverse lines of evidence and approaches...
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  • The Emancipation of Slaves through Music by Knowles Ph. D., Mathew
    Mathew Knowles Ph. D.

    The Emancipation of Slaves through Music

    In The Emancipation of Slaves Through Music, music mogul Dr. Mathew Knowles presents a keen examination of the liberating effects of music on an oppressed people. By taking readers on the journey of its secret use during slavery up through its eventual commercialization in...
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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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  • The Bloomsbury Handbook of Rock Music Research by Moore, Allan
    Allan Moore

    The Bloomsbury Handbook of Rock Music Research

    The Bloomsbury Handbook of Rock Music Researchis the first comprehensive academic survey of the field of rock music as it stands today. More than 50 years into its life and we still ask - what is rock music, why is it studied, and how...
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  • The Oxford Handbook of Social Media and Music Learning by Waldron, Janice L.
    Janice L. Waldron

    The Oxford Handbook of Social Media and Music Learning

    The rapid pace of technological change over the last decade, particularly the rise of social media, has deeply affected the ways in which we interact as individuals, in groups, and among institutions to the point that it is difficult to grasp what it would...
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  • Representing Australian Aboriginal Music and Dance 1930-1970 by Harris, Amanda
    Amanda Harris

    Representing Australian Aboriginal Music and Dance 1930-1970

    Shortlisted for the 2021 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Australian History.Representing Australian Aboriginal Music and Dance 1930-1970offers a rethinking of recent Australian music history. Amanda Harris presents accounts of Aboriginal music and dance by Aboriginal performers on public stages. Harris also historicizes the practices...
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  • The Polyphony of Life by Pangritz, Andreas
    Andreas Pangritz

    The Polyphony of Life

    This fascinating book, which explores an intriguing idea formulated by Dietrich Bonhoeffer in the very last months of his life, has up until now been available only to German readers. Since Polyphonie des Lebens first appeared twenty-five years ago, a whole new generation of...
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  • The Mystery of Musical Creativity: The Human Being and Music by Beckh, Hermann
    Hermann Beckh

    The Mystery of Musical Creativity: The Human Being and Music

    "Beckh ventures into provinces that I have not had the opportunity of investigating myself." --Rudolf Steiner Lost for decades, the manuscript of Hermann Beckh's final lectures on the subject of music present fundamentally new insights into its cosmic origins. Beckh characterizes the qualities of...
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  • Sound Stewardship: How Shall Christians Think about Music? by Demol, Karen A.
    Karen A. Demol

    Sound Stewardship: How Shall Christians Think about Music?

    Nobody doesn't like music; from childhood days to old age, in daily life and in worship, our lives are enriched with music - simple lullabies and complex symphonies, majestic hymns and toe-tapping ragtime. Enjoying music and finding generous space for it in our lives...
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  • Towards Gender Equality in the Music Industry: Education, Practice and Strategies for Change by Strong, Catherine
    Catherine Strong

    Towards Gender Equality in the Music Industry Education, Practice and Strategies for Change

    Gender inequality is universally understood to be a continued problem in the music industry. This volume presents research that uses an industry-based approach to examine why this gender imbalance has proven so hard to shift, and explores strategies that are being adopted to try...
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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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  • Performing Live: Aesthetic Alternatives for the Ends of Art by Shusterman, Richard
    Richard Shusterman

    Performing Live: Aesthetic Alternatives for the Ends of Art

    Current philosophies of art remain sadly dominated by visions of its end and lamentations of decline. Defining the very notions of art and the aesthetic as special products of Western modernity, they suggest that postmodern challenges to traditional high culture pose a devastating danger...
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  • Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir by Hindman, Jessica Chiccehitto
    Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman

    Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir

    When aspiring violinist Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman lands a job with a professional ensemble in New York City, she imagines she has achieved her lifelong dream. But the ensemble proves to be a sham. When the group "performs," the microphones are never on. Instead, the...
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  • Rites, Rights and Rhythms: A Genealogy of Musical Meaning in Colombia's Black Pacific by Birenbaum Quintero, Michael
    Michael Birenbaum Quintero

    Rites, Rights and Rhythms: A Genealogy of Musical Meaning in Colombia's Black Pacific

    Colombia has the largest black population in the Spanish-speaking world, but Afro-Colombians have long remained at the nation's margins. Their recent irruption into the political, social, and cultural spheres is tied to appeals to cultural difference, dramatized by the traditional music of Colombia's majority-black...
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  • Punk Crisis: The Global Punk Rock Revolution by Patton, Raymond A.
    Raymond A. Patton

    Punk Crisis: The Global Punk Rock Revolution

    In March 1977, John "Johnny Rotten" Lydon of the punk band the Sex Pistols looked over the Berlin wall onto the grey, militarized landscape of East Berlin, which reminded him of home in London. Lydon went up to the wall and extended his middle...
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  • The Oxford Handbook of Assessment Policy and Practice in Music Education, Volume 1 by Brophy, Timothy S.
    Timothy S. Brophy

    The Oxford Handbook of Assessment Policy and Practice in Music Education, Volume 1

    In the music classroom, instructors who hope to receive aid are required to provide data on their classroom programs. Due to the lack of reliable, valid large-scale assessments of student achievement in music, however, music educators in schools that accept funds face a considerable...
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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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  • Meditations on Crime by Simon, Harper
    Harper Simon

    Meditations on Crime

    "Everyone is fascinated by crime." "When you look at the history of song, romantic love songs may be the dominant mode of songwriting, but second would probably be songs involving crime--murder ballads, political protest songs; crime is a major theme in all songwriting," says...
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  • Music and Life by Vaccaro, Mike
    Mike Vaccaro

    Music and Life

    "You only need to study music for one minute a day."Sounds radical, doesn't it? The point is . . . get your instrument out of the case, sit down, forget all the things that are pulling at you, and just get started. By practicing...
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  • Music in Greek and Roman Culture by Comotti, Giovanni
    Giovanni Comotti

    Music in Greek and Roman Culture

    Although music was an essential part of Freek and Roman culture, modern introductions to the subject have often tended to be too general for the serious reader or too technical for all but the specilist. Aimed at a wider audience, this book offers a...
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  • Listen: On Music, Sound and Us by Faber, Michel
    Michel Faber

    Listen: On Music, Sound and Us

    "I'm not here to change your mind about Dusty Springfield or Shostakovich or Tupac Shakur or synthpop. I'm here to change your mind about your mind." There are countless books on music with much analysis given to musicians, bands, eras and/or genres. But rarely...
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  • Mischief of the Gods: Tales from the Ethiopian Streets by Kawase, Itsushi
    Itsushi Kawase

    Mischief of the Gods: Tales from the Ethiopian Streets

    "What a rich life it is to have these memories of time spent with the young Azmari singer Tigabu, the Lalibela poet Tilahun, and the other spirits of improvisation. I envy Itsushi Kawase. For him the streets of Gondar are close, dear, and touching."―Ryuichi...
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  • Long Winded: An Oboist's Incredible Journey to the New York Philharmonic by Robinson, Joseph L.
    Joseph L. Robinson

    Long Winded: An Oboist's Incredible Journey to the New York Philharmonic

    "You have led a storied life and I am glad you are telling it now in print." Bill Moyers "I have conducted the world's greatest orchestras for almost sixty years and can say that oboist Joseph Robinson is one of the finest musicians I...
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  • Mixtape Nostalgia: Culture, Memory, and Representation by Burns, Jehnie I.
    Jehnie I. Burns

    Mixtape Nostalgia: Culture, Memory, and Representation

    Mixtape Nostalgia analyzes the role of the mixtape as a site of collective memory tied to youth culture, community identity, and sharing music. The author looks at the history of the mixtape from the early 1980s and the rise of the cassette as a...
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  • Media Narratives in Popular Music by Anderton, Chris
    Chris Anderton

    Media Narratives in Popular Music

    The historical significance of music-makers, music scenes, and music genres has long been mediated through academic and popular press publications such as magazines, films, and television documentaries. Media Narratives in Popular Music examines these various publications and questions how and why they are constructed....
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  • Music as Care: Artistry in the Hospital Environment: CMS Emerging Fields in Music by Hoover, Sarah Adams
    Sarah Adams Hoover

    Music as Care: Artistry in the Hospital Environment: CMS Emerging Fields in Music

    This book provides an overview of professional musicians working within the healthcare system and explores programs that bring music into the environment of the hospital. Far from being onstage, musicians in the hospital provide musical engagement for patients and healthcare providers focused on life-and-death...
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  • Music in World War II: Coping with Wartime in Europe and the United States by Potter, Pamela M.
    Pamela M. Potter

    Music in World War II: Coping with Wartime in Europe and the United States

    How can music withstand the death and destruction brought on by war? Global conflicts of the 20th century fundamentally transformed not only national boundaries, power relations, and global economies, but also the arts and culture of every nation involved. An important, unacknowledged aspect of...
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  • Music in World War II: Coping with Wartime in Europe and the United States by Potter, Pamela M.
    Pamela M. Potter

    Music in World War II: Coping with Wartime in Europe and the United States

    How can music withstand the death and destruction brought on by war? Global conflicts of the 20th century fundamentally transformed not only national boundaries, power relations, and global economies, but also the arts and culture of every nation involved. An important, unacknowledged aspect of...
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  • Moravian Soundscapes: A Sonic History of the Moravian Missions in Early Pennsylvania by Eyerly, Sarah Justina
    Sarah Justina Eyerly

    Moravian Soundscapes: A Sonic History of the Moravian Missions in Early Pennsylvania

    In Moravian Soundscapes, Sarah Eyerly contends that the study of sound is integral to understanding the interactions between German Moravian missionaries and Native communities in early Pennsylvania. In the mid-18th century, when the frontier between settler and Native communities was a shifting spatial and...
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  • Moravian Soundscapes: A Sonic History of the Moravian Missions in Early Pennsylvania by Eyerly, Sarah Justina
    Sarah Justina Eyerly

    Moravian Soundscapes: A Sonic History of the Moravian Missions in Early Pennsylvania

    In Moravian Soundscapes, Sarah Eyerly contends that the study of sound is integral to understanding the interactions between German Moravian missionaries and Native communities in early Pennsylvania. In the mid-18th century, when the frontier between settler and Native communities was a shifting spatial and...
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  • Music & Camp by Moore, Christopher
    Christopher Moore

    Music & Camp

    Illuminates the expressive, social, and political stakes of styleThis collection of essays provides the first in-depth examination of camp as it relates to a wide variety of twentieth and twenty-first century music and musical performances. Located at the convergence of popular and queer musicology,...
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  • Listening to the Unconscious: Adventures in Popular Music and Psychoanalysis by Smith, Kenneth
    Kenneth Smith

    Listening to the Unconscious: Adventures in Popular Music and Psychoanalysis

    What happens in our unconscious minds when we listen to, produce or perform popular music? The Unconscious - a much misunderstood concept from philosophy and psychology - works through human subjects as we produce music and can be traced through the music we engage...
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  • Listening to the Unconscious: Adventures in Popular Music and Psychoanalysis by Smith, Kenneth
    Kenneth Smith

    Listening to the Unconscious: Adventures in Popular Music and Psychoanalysis

    What happens in our unconscious minds when we listen to, produce or perform popular music? The Unconscious - a much misunderstood concept from philosophy and psychology - works through human subjects as we produce music and can be traced through the music we engage...
    $120.00
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