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Feel Free - Essays (Paperback): Zadie Smith Feel Free - Essays (Paperback)
Zadie Smith 1
R341 R312 Discovery Miles 3 120 Save R29 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The one and only Zadie Smith, prize-winning, bestselling author of Swing Time and White Teeth, is back with a second unmissable collection of essays.

No subject is too fringe or too mainstream for Zadie Smith's insatiable curiosity. From social media to the environment, from Jay-Z to Karl Ove Knausgaard, she has endless enthusiasmand the boundless wit, insight and wisdom to match. In Feel Free, pop culture, high culture, social change and political debate all get the Zadie Smith treatment, dissected with razor-sharp intellect, set brilliantly against the context of the utterly contemporary, and considered with a deep humanity and compassion.

This electrifying new collection showcases its author as a true literary powerhouse, demonstrating once again her credentials as an essential voice of her generation.

Discovering Music Theory, The ABRSM Grade 2 Workbook (Sheet music): Abrsm Discovering Music Theory, The ABRSM Grade 2 Workbook (Sheet music)
Abrsm
R330 Discovery Miles 3 300 In Stock

Discovering Music Theory is a suite of workbooks and corresponding answer books that offers all-round preparation for the updated ABRSM Music Theory exams from 2020, including the new online papers. This full-colour workbook will equip students of all ages with the skills, knowledge and understanding required for the ABRSM Grade 2 Music Theory exam. Written to make theory engaging and relevant to developing musicians of all ages, it offers: - straightforward explanations of all new concepts - progressive exercises to build skills and understanding, step by step - challenge questions to extend learning and develop music-writing skills - helpful tips for how to approach specific exercises - ideas for linking theory to music listening, performing and instrumental/singing lessons - clear signposting and progress reviews throughout - a sample practice exam paper showing you what to expect in the new style of exams from 2020 As well as fully supporting the ABRSM theory syllabus, Discovering Music Theory provides an excellent resource for anyone wishing to develop their music literacy skills, including GCSE and A-Level candidates, and adult learners.

Theory of Music Workbook Grade 1 (2007) (Staple bound): Trinity College London Theory of Music Workbook Grade 1 (2007) (Staple bound)
Trinity College London
R246 Discovery Miles 2 460 In Stock
Sound Play - Video Games and the Musical Imagination (Hardcover): William Cheng Sound Play - Video Games and the Musical Imagination (Hardcover)
William Cheng
R4,082 Discovery Miles 40 820 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Video games open portals into fantastical worlds where imaginative play prevails. The virtual medium seemingly provides us with ample opportunities to behave and act out with relative safety and impunity. Or does it? Sound Play explores the aesthetic, ethical, and sociopolitical stakes of our engagements with gaming's audio phenomena-from sonic violence to synthesized operas, from democratic music-making to vocal sexual harassment. Author William Cheng shows how the simulated environments of games empower designers, composers, players, and scholars to test and tinker with music, noise, speech, and silence in ways that might not be prudent or possible in the real world. In negotiating utopian and alarmist stereotypes of video games, Sound Play synthesizes insights from across musicology, sociology, anthropology, communications, literary theory, and philosophy. With case studies that span Final Fantasy VI, Silent Hill, Fallout 3, The Lord of the Rings Online, and Team Fortress 2, this book insists that what we do in there-in the safe, sound spaces of games-can ultimately teach us a great deal about who we are and what we value (musically, culturally, humanly) out here.

A Theory of Music Analysis - On Segmentation and Associative Organization (Hardcover, New): Dora A. Hanninen A Theory of Music Analysis - On Segmentation and Associative Organization (Hardcover, New)
Dora A. Hanninen
R3,056 Discovery Miles 30 560 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book introduces a theory of music analysis that one can use to explore aspects of segmentation and associative organization in a wide range of repertoire including Western classical music from the Baroque to the present, with potential applications to jazz and popular music, and some non-Western musics. Rather than a methodology, the theory provides analysts with precise language and a broad, flexible conceptual framework through which they can formulate and investigate questions of interest and develop their own interpretations of individual pieces and passages. The theory begins with a basic distinction among three domains of musical experience and discourse about it: the sonic (psychoacoustic); the contextual (or associative, sparked by varying degrees of repetition); and the structural (guided by a specific theory of musical structure or syntax invoked by the analyst). A comprehensive presentation of the theory, with copious musical illustrations, is balanced with close analyses of works by Beethoven, Debussy, Nancarrow, Riley, Feldman, and Morris. Dora A. Hanninen is associate professor of music theory at the University of Maryland. She received the 2010 Outstanding Publication Award from the Society for Music Theory.

The Oxford Handbook of Children's Musical Cultures (Hardcover): Patricia Shehan Campbell, Trevor Wiggins The Oxford Handbook of Children's Musical Cultures (Hardcover)
Patricia Shehan Campbell, Trevor Wiggins
R5,004 Discovery Miles 50 040 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Oxford Handbook of Children's Musical Cultures is a compendium of perspectives on children and their musical engagements as singers, dancers, players, and avid listeners. Over the course of 35 chapters, contributors from around the world provide an interdisciplinary enquiry into the musical lives of children in a variety of cultures, and their role as both preservers and innovators of music. Drawing on a wide array of fields from ethnomusicology and folklore to education and developmental psychology, the chapters presented in this handbook provide windows into the musical enculturation, education, and training of children, and the ways in which they learn, express, invent, and preserve music. Offering an understanding of the nature, structures, and styles of music preferred and used by children from toddlerhood through childhood and into adolescence, The Oxford Handbook of Children's Musical Cultures is an important step forward in the study of children and music.

The Oxford Handbook of Topic Theory (Hardcover): Danuta Mirka The Oxford Handbook of Topic Theory (Hardcover)
Danuta Mirka
R5,009 Discovery Miles 50 090 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Topics are musical signs developed and employed primarily during the long eighteenth century. Their significance relies on associations that are clearly recognizable to the listener with different genres, styles and types of music making. Topic theory, which is used to explain conventional subjects of musical composition in this period, is grounded in eighteenth-century music theory, aesthetics, and criticism, while drawing also from music cognition and semiotics. The concept of topics was introduced into by Leonard Ratner in the 1980s to account for cross-references between eighteenth-century styles and genres. As the invention of a twentieth-century academic, topic theory as a field is comparatively new, and The Oxford Handbook of Topic Theory provides a much-needed reconstruction of the field's aesthetic underpinnings.
The volume grounds the concept of topics in eighteenth-century music theory, aesthetics, and criticism. Documenting the historical reality of individual topics on the basis of eighteenth-century sources, it traces the origins of topical mixtures to transformations of eighteenth-century musical life, and relates topical analysis to other methods of music analysis conducted from the perspectives of composers, performers, and listeners. Focusing its scope on eighteenth-century musical repertoire, The Oxford Handbook of Topic Theory lays the foundation for further investigation of topics in music of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries.

Occult Aesthetics - Synchronization in Sound Film (Hardcover, New): K.J. Donnelly Occult Aesthetics - Synchronization in Sound Film (Hardcover, New)
K.J. Donnelly
R3,986 Discovery Miles 39 860 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this groundbreaking book, acclaimed film music author Kevin Donnelly offers the first sustained theorization of synchronization in sound film. Donnelly addresses the manner in which the lock of the audio and the visual exerts a perceptible synergy, an aesthetic he dubs occult: a secret and esoteric effect that can dissipate in the face of an awareness of its existence. Drawing upon theories of sound from Sergei Eisenstein to Pierre Schaeffer to Michel Chion, the book investigates points of synchronization as something like repose, providing moments of comfort in a potentially threatening environment that can be fraught with sound and image stimuli. Correspondingly, lack of synchrony between sound and images is characterized as potentially disturbing for the viewer, a discomfort that signals moments of danger. From this perspective, the interplay between the two becomes the central dynamic of audio-visual culture more generally, which, as Donnelly argues, provides a starting point for a new understanding of audio/visual interactions. This fresh approach to the topic is discussed in theoretical and historical terms as well as elaborated through analysis of and reference to a broad selection of films and their soundtracks including, among others, Singin' in the Rain, Saw, Shanghai Express, and Assault on Precinct 13.

Experience and Meaning in Music Performance (Hardcover): Martin Clayton, Byron Dueck, Laura Leante Experience and Meaning in Music Performance (Hardcover)
Martin Clayton, Byron Dueck, Laura Leante
R4,076 Discovery Miles 40 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

How does the immediate experience of musical sound relate to processes of meaning construction and discursive mediation?
This question lies at the heart of the studies presented in Experience and Meaning in Music Performance, a unique multi-authored work that both draws on and contributes to current debates in a wide range of disciplines, including ethnomusicology, musicology, psychology, and cognitive science. Addressing a wide range of musical practices from Indian raga and Afro-Brazilian Congado rituals to jazz, rock, and Canadian aboriginal fiddling, the coherence of this study is underpinned by its three main themes: experience, meaning, and performance. Central to all of the studies are moments of performance: those junctures when sound and meaning are actually produced. Experience-what people do, and what they feel, while engaging in music-is equally important. And considered alongside these is meaning: what people put into a performance, what they (and others) get out of it, and, more broadly, how discourses shape performances and experiences of music. In tracing trajectories from moments of musical execution, this volume a novel and productive view of how cultural practice relates to the experience and meaning of musical performance.
A model of interdisciplinary study, and including access to an array of audio-visual materials available on an extensive companion website, Experience and Meaning in Music Performance is essential reading for scholars and students of ethnomusicology and music psychology.

Sampling Media (Hardcover): David Laderman, Laurel Westrup Sampling Media (Hardcover)
David Laderman, Laurel Westrup
R4,085 Discovery Miles 40 850 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book puts sampling studies on the academic map by focusing on sampling as a logic of exchange between audio-visual media. While some recent scholarship has addressed sampling primarily in relation to copyright, this book is a first: a critical study of sampling and remixing across audio-visual media. Of special interest here are works that bring together both audio and visual sampling: music that samples film and television; underground dance and multimedia scenes that rely on sampling; Internet "memes" that repurpose music videos, trailers and news broadcasts; films and videos that incorporate a wide range of sampling aesthetics; and other provocative variations. Comprised of four sections titled "roots," "scenes," "cinema" and "web" this collection digs deep into and across sampling practices that intervene in popular culture from unconventional or subversive perspectives. To this end, Sampling Media extends the conceptual boundaries of sampling by emphasizing its inter-medial dimensions, exploring the politics of sampling practice beyond copyright law, and examining its more marginal applications. It likewise puts into conversation compelling instances of sampling from a wide variety of historical and contemporary, global and local contexts.

Songlines Presents...The Music of Latin America (Paperback): Songlines magazine Songlines Presents...The Music of Latin America (Paperback)
Songlines magazine
R340 Discovery Miles 3 400 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Music and Youth Culture in Latin America - Identity Construction Processes from New York to Buenos Aires (Hardcover): Pablo Vila Music and Youth Culture in Latin America - Identity Construction Processes from New York to Buenos Aires (Hardcover)
Pablo Vila
R4,091 Discovery Miles 40 910 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Music is one of the most distinctive cultural characteristics of Latin American countries. But, while many people in the United States and Europe are familiar with musical genres such as salsa, merengue, and reggaeton, the musical manifestations that young people listen to in most Latin American countries are much more varied than these commercially successful ones that have entered the American and European markets. Not only that, the young people themselves often have little in common with the stereotypical image of them that exists in the American imagination.
Bridging this divide between perception and reality, Music and Youth Culture in Latin America brings together contributors from throughout Latin America and the US to examine the ways in which music is used to advance identity claims in several Latin American countries and among Latinos in the US. From young Latin American musicians who want to participate in the vibrant jazz scene of New York without losing their cultural roots, to Peruvian rockers who sing in their native language (Quechua) for the same reasons, to the young Cubans who use music to construct a post-communist social identification, this volume sheds new light on the complex ways in which music provides people from different countries and social sectors with both enjoyment and tools for understanding who they are in terms of nationality, region, race, ethnicity, class, gender, and migration status. Drawing on a vast array of fields including popular music studies, ethnomusicology, sociology, and history, Music and Youth Culture in Latin America is an illuminating read for anyone interested in Latin American music, culture, and society."

Musicals magazine - The World of Musical Theatre from the West End to Broadway and beyond (Paperback, New edition): Sarah Kirkup Musicals magazine - The World of Musical Theatre from the West End to Broadway and beyond (Paperback, New edition)
Sarah Kirkup
R340 Discovery Miles 3 400 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Discovering Music Theory, The ABRSM Grade 5 Workbook (Sheet music): Abrsm Discovering Music Theory, The ABRSM Grade 5 Workbook (Sheet music)
Abrsm 1
R389 Discovery Miles 3 890 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Discovering Music Theory is a suite of workbooks and corresponding answer books that offers all-round preparation for the updated ABRSM Music Theory exams from 2020, including the new online papers. This full-colour workbook will equip students of all ages with the skills, knowledge and understanding required for the ABRSM Grade 5 Music Theory exam. Written to make theory engaging and relevant to developing musicians of all ages, it offers: - straightforward explanations of all new concepts - progressive exercises to build skills and understanding, step by step - challenge questions to extend learning and develop music-writing skills - helpful tips for how to approach specific exercises - ideas for linking theory to music listening, performing and instrumental/singing lessons - clear signposting and progress reviews throughout - a sample practice exam paper showing you what to expect in the new style of exams from 2020 As well as fully supporting the ABRSM theory syllabus, Discovering Music Theory provides an excellent resource for anyone wishing to develop their music literacy skills, including GCSE and A-Level candidates, and adult learners.

Days With the Great Composers: Chopin, Wagner, Gounod (Classic Reprint) (Paperback): unknownauthor Days With the Great Composers: Chopin, Wagner, Gounod (Classic Reprint) (Paperback)
unknownauthor
R461 Discovery Miles 4 610 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Marabi Nights - Jazz, 'Race' and Society in Early Apartheid South Africa (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition):... Marabi Nights - Jazz, 'Race' and Society in Early Apartheid South Africa (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Christopher Ballantine 1
R180 R167 Discovery Miles 1 670 Save R13 (7%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

This is the updated and substantially expanded second edition of Christopher Ballantine's classic Marabi Nights, which offers a fascinating view of the triumphs and tragedies of South Africa's marabi-jazz tradition. Based on conversations with legendary figures in the world of music - as well as a perceptive reading of music, the socio-political history, and social meanings - this book is one of sensitive and impassioned curatorship. New chapters extend the book's in-depth account of the birth and development of South African urban-black popular music. They include a powerful story about gender relations and music in the context of forced migrant labor in the 1950s, a critical study of the legendary Manhattan Brothers that uniquely positions their music and words in relation to the apartheid system, and an account of the musical, political, and commercial strategies of the local record industry. A new afterword looks critically at the place of jazz and popular music in South Africa since the end of apartheid, and argues for the continued relevance of the robust, questioning spirit of the marabi tradition. The book includes an illustrative CD of historic sound recordings that the author has unearthed and saved from oblivion.

The Look of Jazz (Hardcover): David Harvey The Look of Jazz (Hardcover)
David Harvey
R863 Discovery Miles 8 630 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Look of Jazz "David's photographs perfectly illustrate the passion, creativity and commitment of these musicians, and distil the atmosphere of live jazz in dazzling detail." Helen Mayhew, Jazz Broadcaster The Look of Jazz is a collection of 90 photographs of musicians taken by photographer and musician David Harvey. The book includes exclusive interviews with 24 of the featured musicians in which they talk about their own stories, inspirations and views on jazz. The portraits include a cross section of musicians, several of whom are variously club owners, educators, journalists and contribute in different ways to the continuing development of the jazz scene. Among the American and European artists featured are Jerry Bergonzi, Kirk Lightsey, Don Weller, Emilia Martensson, Gareth Lockrane, Julian Siegel, Tristan Mailliot and Nikki Iles alongside other leading figures on the jazz scene. "I have also included some less well-known but amazing players in recognition of their contribution to the jazz tradition," says David. The Look of Jazz includes portraits from two exhibitions of David Harvey's work, In the Moment and One More Time... Journalist, broadcaster and musician Jay Rayner called the first of these "a very lovely exhibition of terrific photographs of jazz musicians."

The Quarterly Musical Magazine and Review (Paperback): Richard MacKenzie Bacon The Quarterly Musical Magazine and Review (Paperback)
Richard MacKenzie Bacon
R751 Discovery Miles 7 510 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
A Ramble Among the Musicians of Germany - Giving Some Account of the Operas of Munich, Dresden, Berlin &C. With Remarks Upon... A Ramble Among the Musicians of Germany - Giving Some Account of the Operas of Munich, Dresden, Berlin &C. With Remarks Upon the Church Music, Singers, Performers and Composers, and a Sample of the Pleasures and Inconveniences That Await the Lover of Art o (Paperback)
Holmes
R562 Discovery Miles 5 620 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Art of Music - a Comprehensive Library of Information for Music Lovers and Musicians (Paperback): Daniel Gregory Mason The Art of Music - a Comprehensive Library of Information for Music Lovers and Musicians (Paperback)
Daniel Gregory Mason
R754 Discovery Miles 7 540 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Beethoven - a Memoir (Paperback): Elliott Graeme Beethoven - a Memoir (Paperback)
Elliott Graeme
R490 Discovery Miles 4 900 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
History of Music - in the Form of Lectures (Paperback): Frederic Louis Ritter History of Music - in the Form of Lectures (Paperback)
Frederic Louis Ritter
R491 Discovery Miles 4 910 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Violins and Violin Makers - Biographical Dictionary of the Great Italian Artistes, Their Followers and Imitators, to the... Violins and Violin Makers - Biographical Dictionary of the Great Italian Artistes, Their Followers and Imitators, to the Present Time. With Essays on Important Subjects Connected With the Violin (Paperback)
Joseph Pearce
R487 Discovery Miles 4 870 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Music of the Church, in Four Parts - Containing a General History of Music; Including an Account of Hebrew Music, an... The Music of the Church, in Four Parts - Containing a General History of Music; Including an Account of Hebrew Music, an Investigation Into the Fitness of Instruments, Harmony, Fuguing Anthems, Chants, Choirs, Etc., in Divine Worship; and Notices, Biograph (Paperback)
Thomas Hirst
R601 Discovery Miles 6 010 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Concert Room and Orchestra Anecdotes of Music and Musicians, Ancient and Modern (Paperback): Thomas Busby Concert Room and Orchestra Anecdotes of Music and Musicians, Ancient and Modern (Paperback)
Thomas Busby
R564 Discovery Miles 5 640 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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