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Claude Ranger - Canadian Jazz Legend (Hardcover): Mark Miller Claude Ranger - Canadian Jazz Legend (Hardcover)
Mark Miller
R839 Discovery Miles 8 390 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Hymns to the Silence - Inside the Words and Music of Van Morrison (Hardcover): Peter Mills Hymns to the Silence - Inside the Words and Music of Van Morrison (Hardcover)
Peter Mills
R3,404 Discovery Miles 34 040 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"Hymns to the Silence" is a thoroughly informed and enlightened study of the art of a pop music maverick that will delight fans the world over.In 1991, Van Morrison said, "Music is spiritual, the music business isn't". Peter Mills' groundbreaking book investigates the oppositions and harmonies within the work of Van Morrison, proceeding from this identified starting point."Hymns to the Silence" is a detailed investigative study of Morrison as singer, performer, lyricist, musician and writer with particular attention paid throughout to the contradictions and tensions that are central to any understanding of his work as a whole.The book takes several intriguing angles. It looks at Morrison as a writer, specifically as an Irish writer who has recorded musical settings of Yeats poems, collaborated with Seamus Heaney, Paul Durcan and Gerald Dawe, and who regularly drops quotes from James Joyce and Samuel Beckett into his live performances. It looks at him as a singer, at how he uses his voice as an interpretive instrument. And there are chapters on his use of mythology, on his stage performances, and on his continuing fascination with America and its musical forms.

The Musical Discourse of Servitude - Authority, Autonomy, and the Work-Concept in Fux, Bach and Handel (Hardcover): Harry White The Musical Discourse of Servitude - Authority, Autonomy, and the Work-Concept in Fux, Bach and Handel (Hardcover)
Harry White
R1,980 Discovery Miles 19 800 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Examining, for the first time, the compositions of Johann Joseph Fux in relation to his contemporaries Bach and Handel, The Musical Discourse of Servitude presents a new theory of the late baroque musical imagination. Author Harry White contrasts musical "servility" and "freedom" in his analysis, with Fux tied to the prevailing servitude of the day's musical imagination, particularly the hegemonic flowering of North Italian partimento method across Europe. In contrast, both Bach and Handel represented an autonomy of musical discourse, with Bach exhausting generic models in the mass and Handel inventing a new genre in the oratorio. A potent critique of Lydia Goehr's seminal The Imaginary Museum of Musical Works, The Musical Discourse of Servitude draws on Goehr's formulation of the "work-concept" as an imaginary construct which, according to Goehr, is an invention of nineteenth-century reception history. White locates this concept as a defining agent of automony in Bach's late works, and contextualized the "work-concept" itself by exploring rival concepts of political, religious, and musical authority which define the European musical imagination in the first half of the eighteenth century. A major revisionist statement about the musical imagination in Western art music, The Musical Discourse of Servitude will be of interest to scholars of the Baroque, particularly of Bach and Handel.

Let's Calculate Bach - Applying Information Theory and Statistics to Numbers in Music (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Alan... Let's Calculate Bach - Applying Information Theory and Statistics to Numbers in Music (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Alan Shepherd
R3,912 Discovery Miles 39 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book shows how information theory, probability, statistics, mathematics and personal computers can be applied to the exploration of numbers and proportions in music. It brings the methods of scientific and quantitative thinking to questions like: What are the ways of encoding a message in music and how can we be sure of the correct decoding? How do claims of names hidden in the notes of a score stand up to scientific analysis? How many ways are there of obtaining proportions and are they due to chance? After thoroughly exploring the ways of encoding information in music, the ambiguities of numerical alphabets and the words to be found "hidden" in a score, the book presents a novel way of exploring the proportions in a composition with a purpose-built computer program and gives example results from the application of the techniques. These include information theory, combinatorics, probability, hypothesis testing, Monte Carlo simulation and Bayesian networks, presented in an easily understandable form including their development from ancient history through the life and times of J. S. Bach, making connections between science, philosophy, art, architecture, particle physics, calculating machines and artificial intelligence. For the practitioner the book points out the pitfalls of various psychological fallacies and biases and includes succinct points of guidance for anyone involved in this type of research. This book will be useful to anyone who intends to use a scientific approach to the humanities, particularly music, and will appeal to anyone who is interested in the intersection between the arts and science.With a foreword by Ruth Tatlow (Uppsala University), award winning author of Bach's Numbers: Compositional Proportion and Significance and Bach and the Riddle of the Number Alphabet."With this study Alan Shepherd opens a much-needed examination of the wide range of mathematical claims that have been made about J. S. Bach's music, offering both tools and methodological cautions with the potential to help clarify old problems." Daniel R. Melamed, Professor of Music in Musicology, Indiana University

Something I Heard (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition): Bernard Holland Something I Heard (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition)
Bernard Holland
R1,008 R870 Discovery Miles 8 700 Save R138 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Evolution of Electronic Dance Music (Hardcover): Ewa Mazierska, Tony Rigg, Les Gillon The Evolution of Electronic Dance Music (Hardcover)
Ewa Mazierska, Tony Rigg, Les Gillon
R3,384 Discovery Miles 33 840 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Evolution of Electronic Dance Music establishes EDM's place on the map of popular music. The book accounts for various ambiguities, variations, transformations, and manifestations of EDM, pertaining to its generic fragmentation, large geographical spread, modes of consumption and, changes in technology. It focuses especially on its current state, its future, and its borders - between EDM and other forms of electronic music, as well as other forms of popular music. It accounts for the rise of EDM in places that are overlooked by the existing literature, such as Russia and Eastern Europe, and examines the multi-media and visual aspects such as the way EDM events music are staged and the specificity of EDM music videos. Divided into four parts - concepts, technology, celebrity, and consumption - this book takes a holistic look at the many sides of EDM culture.

The Sound of Nonsense (Hardcover, Paperback): Richard Elliott The Sound of Nonsense (Hardcover, Paperback)
Richard Elliott
R2,680 Discovery Miles 26 800 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In The Sound of Nonsense, Richard Elliott highlights the importance of sound in understanding the 'nonsense' of writers such as Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, James Joyce and Mervyn Peake, before connecting this noisy writing to works which engage more directly with sound, including sound poetry, experimental music and pop. By emphasising sonic factors, Elliott makes new and fascinating connections between a wide range of artistic examples to ultimately build a case for the importance of sound in creating, maintaining and disrupting meaning.

Memphis Music - Before the Blues (Hardcover): Tim Sharp Memphis Music - Before the Blues (Hardcover)
Tim Sharp
R781 R686 Discovery Miles 6 860 Save R95 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Nobody Cages Me (Hardcover): Corey Washington Nobody Cages Me (Hardcover)
Corey Washington
R602 Discovery Miles 6 020 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Bel Canto in Theory and Practice (Hardcover): Karin Wettig Bel Canto in Theory and Practice (Hardcover)
Karin Wettig
R1,085 Discovery Miles 10 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Long Winded - An Oboist's Incredible Journey to the New York Philharmonic (Hardcover): Joseph  L. Robinson Long Winded - An Oboist's Incredible Journey to the New York Philharmonic (Hardcover)
Joseph L. Robinson
R928 Discovery Miles 9 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Resonant Matter - Sound, Art, and the Promise of Hospitality (Hardcover): Lutz Koepnick Resonant Matter - Sound, Art, and the Promise of Hospitality (Hardcover)
Lutz Koepnick
R3,208 Discovery Miles 32 080 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In Resonant Matter, Lutz Koepnick considers contemporary sound and installation art as a unique laboratory of hospitality amid inhospitable times. Inspired by Ragnar Kjartansson’s nine-channel video installation The Visitors (2012), the book explores resonance—the ability of objects to be affected by the vibrations of other objects—as a model of art’s fleeting promise to make us coexist with things strange and other. In a series of nuanced readings, Koepnick follows the echoes of distant, unexpected, and unheard sounds in twenty-first century art to reflect on the attachments we pursue to sustain our lives and the walls we need to tear down to secure possible futures. The book’s nine chapters approach The Visitors from ever-different conceptual angles while bringing it into dialogue with the work of other artists and musicians such as Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Guillermo Galindo, Mischa Kuball, Philipp Lachenmann, Alvien Lucier, Teresa Margolles, Carsten Nicolai, Camille Norment, Susan Philipsz, David Rothenberg, Juliana Snapper, and Tanya Tagaq. With this book, Koepnick situates resonance as a vital concept of contemporary art criticism and sound studies. His analysis encourages us not only to expand our understanding of the role of sound in art, of sound art, but to attune our critical encounter with art to art’s own resonant thinking.

Scary Monsters - Monstrosity, Masculinity and Popular Music (Hardcover): Mark Duffett, Jon Hackett Scary Monsters - Monstrosity, Masculinity and Popular Music (Hardcover)
Mark Duffett, Jon Hackett
R3,383 Discovery Miles 33 830 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Popular music and masculinity have rarely been examined through the lens of research into monstrosity. The discourses associated with rock and pop, however, actually include more ‘monsters’ than might at first be imagined. Attention to such individuals and cultures can say things about the operation of genre and gender, myth and meaning. Indeed, monstrosity has recently become a growing focus of cultural theory. This is in part because monsters raise shared concerns about transgression, subjectivity, agency, and community. Attention to monstrosity evokes both the spectre of projection (which invokes familial trauma and psychoanalysis) and shared anxieties (that in turn reflect ideologies and beliefs). By pursuing a series of insightful case studies, Scary Monsters considers different aspects of the connection between music, gender and monstrosity. Its argument is that attention to monstrosity provides a unique perspective on the study of masculinity in popular music culture.

Account of the Musical Performances in Westminster Abbey and the Pantheon May 26th, 27th, 29th and June 3rd and 5th, 1784 in... Account of the Musical Performances in Westminster Abbey and the Pantheon May 26th, 27th, 29th and June 3rd and 5th, 1784 in Commemoration of Handel. (Full 243 Page Facsimile of 1785 Edition). (Hardcover)
Charles Burney; Notes by Travis & Emery
R834 Discovery Miles 8 340 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone

The Emancipation of Slaves through Music (Hardcover): Mathew Knowles Ph D The Emancipation of Slaves through Music (Hardcover)
Mathew Knowles Ph D
R698 R625 Discovery Miles 6 250 Save R73 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Melody Man - Joe Davis and the New York Music Scene, 1916-1978 (Hardcover): Bruce Bastin The Melody Man - Joe Davis and the New York Music Scene, 1916-1978 (Hardcover)
Bruce Bastin; As told to Kip Lornell
R1,918 R1,715 Discovery Miles 17 150 Save R203 (11%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Joe Davis, the focus of "The Melody Man" enjoyed a 50-year career in the music industry, which covered nearly every aspect of the business. He hustled sheet music in the 1920s, copyrighted compositions by artists as diverse as Fats Waller, Carson Robison, Otis Blackwell, and Rudy Vallee, oversaw hundreds of recording session, and operated several record companies beginning in the 1940s. Davis also worked fearlessly to help insure that black recording artists and song writers gained equal treatment for their work.

Much more than a biography, this book is an investigation of the role played by music publishers during much of the twentieth century. Joe Davis was not a music "great" but he was one of those individuals who enabled "greats" to emerge. A musician, manager, and publisher, his long career reveals much about the nature of the music industry and offers insight into how the industry changed from the 1920s to the 1970s. By the summer of 1924, when Davis was handling the "Race talent" for Ajax records, he had already worked in the music business for most of a decade and there was more than five decades of musical career ahead of him. The fact that his fascinating life has gone so long under-appreciated is remedied by the publication of Never Sell A Copyright.

Originally published in England, in 1990, Never Sell a Copyright: Joe Davis and His Role in the New York Music Scene, 1916-1978 was never released in the United States and available in a very limited print run in England. The author, noted blues scholar and folklorist Bruce Bastin, has worked with fellow music scholar Kip Lornell to completely update, condense, and improve the book for this first-ever American edition.

Smile When You Call Me a Hillbilly - Country Music's Struggle for Respectability, 1939-1954 (Hardcover): Jeffrey J. Lange Smile When You Call Me a Hillbilly - Country Music's Struggle for Respectability, 1939-1954 (Hardcover)
Jeffrey J. Lange
R2,945 Discovery Miles 29 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Today, country music enjoys a national fan base that transcends both economic and social boundaries. Sixty years ago, however, it was primarily the music of rural, working-class whites living in the South and was perceived by many Americans as hillbilly music. In Smile When You Call Me a Hillbilly, Jeffrey J. Lange examines the 1940s and early 1950s as the most crucial period in country music s transformation from a rural, southern folk art form to a national phenomenon. In his meticulous analysis of changing performance styles and alterations in the lifestyles of listeners, Lange illuminates the acculturation of country music and its audience into the American mainstream. Dividing country music into six subgenres (progressive country, western swing, postwar traditional, honky-tonk, country pop, and country blues), Lange discusses the music s expanding appeal. As he analyzes the recordings and comments of each of the subgenre s most significant artists, including Roy Acuff, Bob Wills, Bill Monroe, Hank Williams, and Red Foley, he traces the many paths the musical form took on its road to respectability. Lange shows how along the way the music and its audience became more sophisticated, how the subgenres blended with one another and with American popular music, and how Nashville emerged as the country music hub. By 1954, the transformation from hillbilly music to country music was complete, precipitated by the modernizing forces of World War II and realized by the efforts of promoters, producers, and performers.

Acoustemologies in Contact - Sounding Subjects and Modes of Listening in Early Modernity (Hardcover, Hardback ed.): Emily... Acoustemologies in Contact - Sounding Subjects and Modes of Listening in Early Modernity (Hardcover, Hardback ed.)
Emily Wilbourne, Suzanne G. Cusick
R1,465 Discovery Miles 14 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Rolling Stones - Sociological Perspectives (Hardcover, New): Helmut Staubmann The Rolling Stones - Sociological Perspectives (Hardcover, New)
Helmut Staubmann; Contributions by Andrea Baker, Matteo Bortolini, Andrea Cossu, Marlie Centawer, …
R2,732 R2,452 Discovery Miles 24 520 Save R280 (10%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Rolling Stones: Sociological Perspectives, edited by Helmut Staubmann, draws from a broad spectrum of sociological perspectives to contribute both to the understanding of the phenomenon of the Rolling Stones and to an in-depth analysis of contemporary society and culture that takes The Stones a starting point. Contributors approach The Rolling Stones from a range of social science perspectives including cultural studies, communication and film studies, gender studies, and the sociology of popular music. The essays in this volume focus on the question of how the worldwide success of The Rolling Stones over the course of more than half a century reflects society and the transformation of popular culture.

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Music Education (Hardcover): Wayne D. Bowman, Ana Luc ia Frega The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Music Education (Hardcover)
Wayne D. Bowman, Ana Luc ia Frega
R5,465 Discovery Miles 54 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Music education thrives on philosophical inquiry, the systematic and critical examination of beliefs and assumptions. Yet philosophy, often considered abstract and irrelevant, is often absent from the daily life of music instructors. In The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Music Education, editors Wayne D. Bowman and Ana Lucia Frega have drawn together a variety of philosophical perspectives from the profession's most exciting scholars. Rather than relegating philosophical inquiry to moot questions and abstract situations, the contributors to this volume address everyday concerns faced by music educators everywhere, demonstrating that philosophy offers a way of navigating the daily professional life of music education and proving that critical inquiry improves, enriches, and transforms instructional practice for the better. Questioning every musical practice, instructional aim, assumption, and conviction in music education, The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Music Education presents new and provocative approaches to the practice of teaching music.
Bowman and Frega go deeper than mere advocacy or a single point of view, but rather conceive of philosophy as a dynamic process of debate and reflection that must constantly evolve to meet the shifting landscapes of music education. In place of the definitive answers often associated with philosophical work, Bowman and Frega offer a fascinating cross-section of often-contradictory approaches and viewpoints. By bringing together essays by both established and up-and-coming scholars from six continents, Bowman and Frega go beyond the Western monopoly of philosophical practice and acknowledge the diversity of cultures, instructors, and students who take part in music education. This range of perspectives invites broader participation in music instruction, and presents alternative answers to many of the fields most pressing questions and issues. By acknowledging the inherent plurality of music educational practices, the Handbook opens up the field in new and important ways. Emphasizing clarify, fairness, rigor, and utility above all, The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Music Education challenges music educators around the world to make their own decisions and ultimately contribute to the conversation themselves."

Playing across a Divide: Playing across a Divide - Musical Border Crossings in Israel and the West Bank (Hardcover, New):... Playing across a Divide: Playing across a Divide - Musical Border Crossings in Israel and the West Bank (Hardcover, New)
Benjamin Brinner
R3,719 Discovery Miles 37 190 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In the last decade of the twentieth century and on into the twenty-first, Israelis and Palestinians saw the signing of the Oslo Peace Accords, the establishment of the Palestinian Authority, the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and the escalation of suicide bombings and retaliations in the region. During this tumultuous time, numerous collaborations between Israeli and Palestinian musicians coalesced into a significant musical scene informed by these extremes of hope and despair on both national and personal levels. Following the bands Bustan Abraham and Alei Hazayit from their creation and throughout their careers, as well as the collaborative projects of Israeli artist Yair Dalal, Playing Across a Divide demonstrates the possibility of musical alternatives to violent conflict and hatred in an intensely contested, multicultural environment. These artists' music drew from Western, Middle Eastern, Central Asian, and Afro-diasporic musical practices, bridging differences and finding innovative solutions to the problems inherent in combining disparate musical styles and sources. Creating this new music brought to the forefront the musicians' contrasting assumptions about sound production, melody, rhythm, hybridity, ensemble interaction, and improvisation. Author Benjamin Brinner traces the tightly interconnected field of musicians and the people and institutions that supported them as they and their music circulated within the region and along international circuits. Brinner argues that the linking of Jewish and Arab musicians' networks, the creation of new musical means of expression, and the repeated enactment of culturally productive musical alliances provide a unique model for mutually respectful and beneficial coexistence in a chronically disputed land.

The Bleeding of Mozart (Hardcover): Lucien Karhausen The Bleeding of Mozart (Hardcover)
Lucien Karhausen
R1,108 Discovery Miles 11 080 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Columbus - The Musical Crossroads (Hardcover): David Meyers, Arnett Howard, James Loeffler Columbus - The Musical Crossroads (Hardcover)
David Meyers, Arnett Howard, James Loeffler
R674 Discovery Miles 6 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Advertising the Beatles (HC) - A Unique Look at How Beatles Products were Merchandised to the World (Hardcover): Ray Zirkle Advertising the Beatles (HC) - A Unique Look at How Beatles Products were Merchandised to the World (Hardcover)
Ray Zirkle
R1,057 Discovery Miles 10 570 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Oklahoma Cowboy Band (Hardcover): Carla Chlouber Oklahoma Cowboy Band (Hardcover)
Carla Chlouber
R674 Discovery Miles 6 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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