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Were you there? (Sheet music, Vocal score): Bob Chilcott Were you there? (Sheet music, Vocal score)
Bob Chilcott
R135 Discovery Miles 1 350 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Set for SATB with divisions, unaccompanied Chilcott's, this setting aims to capture the mood of painful introspection that infuses the spiritual.

Sweet and Sour Nursery Rhymes (Sheet music, Vocal score): Libby Larsen Sweet and Sour Nursery Rhymes (Sheet music, Vocal score)
Libby Larsen
R571 Discovery Miles 5 710 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

for SATB and french horn Larsen takes three nursery rhymes, familiar to every adult from their childhood, and uses the vocal lines and horn to personify the characters in each rhyme. In the first nursery rhyme, 'There was a little girl, ' the horrid little girl cavorts through the piece spouting blatant parallel fifths and brassy nonsense syllables and the setting of the last rhyme 'Try, try again' embodies success amidst many failed attempts

Factory Records - The Complete Graphic Album (Paperback): Matthew Robertson Factory Records - The Complete Graphic Album (Paperback)
Matthew Robertson
R826 R759 Discovery Miles 7 590 Save R67 (8%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Between 1978 and 1992, Factory was one of the most important record labels in Britain. It launched the careers of Joy Division, New Order and the Happy Mondays, to name but a few; it opened the legendary Hacienda club and Dry bar; and it introduced to music the concept of high-quality, cutting-edge design. The visual languages developed alongside the music, by designers such as Peter Saville, Central Station Design and 8vo, are still widely recognized and imitated today. Factory Records documents the label's entire visual legacy and its role in bringing design into the mainstream. Every item with a famous Factory inventory number is illustrated or listed, including album sleeves, singles, special editions, flyers, posters, stationery and architectural projects. With a foreword by Tony Wilson, Factory's charismatic record label owner and nightclub manager, this book amply conveys the energy, creativity and enthusiasm of one of the most dynamic (and chaotic) record labels ever.

Music and Politics (Hardcover, New): John Street Music and Politics (Hardcover, New)
John Street
R1,954 Discovery Miles 19 540 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

It is common to hear talk of how music can inspire crowds, move individuals and mobilise movements. We know too of how governments can live in fear of its effects, censor its sounds and imprison its creators. At the same time, there are other governments that use music for propaganda or for torture. All of these examples speak to the idea of music's political importance. But while we may share these assumptions about music's power, we rarely stop to analyse what it is about organised sound - about notes and rhythms - that has the effects attributed to it.

This is the first book to examine systematically music's political power. It shows how music has been at the heart of accounts of political order, at how musicians from Bono to Lily Allen have claimed to speak for peoples and political causes. It looks too at the emergence of music as an object of public policy, whether in the classroom or in the copyright courts, whether as focus of national pride or employment opportunities.

The book brings together a vast array of ideas about music's political significance (from Aristotle to Rousseau, from Adorno to Deleuze) and new empirical data to tell a story of the extraordinary potency of music across time and space. At the heart of the book lies the argument that music and politics are inseparably linked, and that each animates the other.

The Book of Atlantis Black - The Search for a Sister Gone Missing (Hardcover): Betsy Bonner The Book of Atlantis Black - The Search for a Sister Gone Missing (Hardcover)
Betsy Bonner
R674 R607 Discovery Miles 6 070 Save R67 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
French Music, Culture, and National Identity, 1870-1939 (Hardcover): Barbara L. Kelly French Music, Culture, and National Identity, 1870-1939 (Hardcover)
Barbara L. Kelly; Contributions by Annegret Fauser, Barbara L. Kelly, Edward Berenson, James Ross, …
R3,050 Discovery Miles 30 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

New, insightful essays from musicologists, historians, art historians, and literary scholars reconsider the relationship of Debussy, Gauguin, Zola, and other great French creative artists to cultural and political trends during the Third Republic. This collection of new essays examines the relationships between discourses of French national and regional identity, political alignment, and creative practice during one of France's most fascinating eras: the Third Republic. The authors, from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, explore the ways in which the architects of the Third Republic [re]constructed France culturally and artistically, in part through artful use of the press and [at the 1889Paris World's Fair] new technologies. The chapters also investigate changing attitudes toward Debussy's opera Pelleas et Melisande, attempts by composers and critics to define a musical canon, and the impact of religious education, spirituality, and exoticism for Gauguin and Jolivet. Tensions between the center and region are seen in celebrations for the national musical figurehead, Rameau, and in the cultural regionalism that flourished in the annexed territories of Alsace and Lorraine. Contributors: Edward Berenson, Katharine Ellis, Annegret Fauser, Didier Francfort, Brian Hart, Steven Huebner, Barbara L. Kelly, Detmar Klein, Deborah Mawer, James Ross, Marion Schmid, and Debora Silverman. Barbara L. Kelly is Professor of Musicology at Keele University.

Holy Spirit, Truth Divine (Sheet music, Vocal score): Andrew Carter Holy Spirit, Truth Divine (Sheet music, Vocal score)
Andrew Carter
R127 Discovery Miles 1 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

An anthem for SATB and organ that is suitable for Pentecost. The strong hymn-like tune builds through the addition of a descant to a powerful climax.

Bob Dylan and the Spheres of Existence (Hardcover): Christopher B. Barnett Bob Dylan and the Spheres of Existence (Hardcover)
Christopher B. Barnett
R2,064 Discovery Miles 20 640 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
On the History of Rock Music (Paperback, New edition): Yvetta Kajanova On the History of Rock Music (Paperback, New edition)
Yvetta Kajanova
R1,203 Discovery Miles 12 030 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

On the History of Rock Music follows the development of rock music from its origins up to the present time. It focuses on the relationship between the sound, improvisations and rhythms in particular styles, and gives specific attention to the development of rhythm. The beat-offbeat principle, polyrhythms and polymetrics are fundamental to rock rhythm patterns, which serve as archetypes for specific rhythms. An archetype is a prototype, a model, or an innate experience of a species. Using more than 250 score examples, the author identifies the characteristic rhythmic patterns in rock styles, ranging from rock and roll, hard rock and punk rock to alternative rock, indie rock and grind core.

Eurovision and Australia - Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Down Under (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019): Chris Hay, Jessica Carniel Eurovision and Australia - Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Down Under (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Chris Hay, Jessica Carniel
R2,888 Discovery Miles 28 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book investigates Australia's relationship with the Eurovision Song Contest over time and place, from its first screening on SBS in 1983 to Australia's inaugural national selection in 2019. Beginning with an overview of Australia's Eurovision history, the contributions explore the contest's role in Australian political participation and international relations; its significance for Australia's diverse communities, including migrants and the LGBTQIA+ community; racialised and gendered representations of Australianness; changing ideas of liveness in watching the event; and a reflection on teaching Australia's first undergraduate course dedicated to the Eurovision Song Contest. The collection brings together a group of scholar-fans from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives - including history, politics, cultural studies, performance studies, and musicology - to explore Australia's transition from observer to participant in the first thirty-six years of its love affair with the Eurovision Song Contest.

Ethnomusicology, Queerness, Masculinity - Silence=Death (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2024): Stephen Amico Ethnomusicology, Queerness, Masculinity - Silence=Death (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2024)
Stephen Amico
R1,622 Discovery Miles 16 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This open access book explores the disciplinary, disciplined, and recent interdisciplinary sites and productions of ethnomusicology and queerness, arguing that both academic realms are founded upon a destructive masculinity—indissolubly linked to coloniality and epistemic hegemony—and marked by a monologic, ethnocentric silencing of embodied, same-sex desire. Ethnomusicology’s fetishization of masculinizing fieldwork; queerness’s functioning as Anglophone master category; and both domains’ devaluation of sensuality and experience, concomitant with an adherence to provincial, Western conceptions of knowledge production, are revealed as precluding the possibilities for equitable, dialogic pluriversality.  Enlisting the sonic as theoretical intervention, the disciplined/disciplining ethno and queer are reimagined in relation to negative emotions and intractable affect, ultimately vanquished, and replaced by explorations of sound, sex/uality, and experiential somaticity within a protean, postdisciplinary space of material/epistemic equity.  This uncompromising, long-overdue critique will be of interest to researchers and students from numerous theoretical backgrounds, including music, sound, gender, queer, and postcolonial/decolonial studies.

Creating the Revolutionary Artist - Entrepreneurship for the 21st-Century Musician (Hardcover): Mark Rabideau Creating the Revolutionary Artist - Entrepreneurship for the 21st-Century Musician (Hardcover)
Mark Rabideau; Foreword by Tayloe Harding
R3,058 R2,162 Discovery Miles 21 620 Save R896 (29%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

As traditional music career paths become increasingly scarce, 21st-century musicians must reach out to new and diverse audiences to ensure career success and sustainability. Many universities and conservatories now offer entrepreneurship courses for their students, but musicians already in the working world must also learn to build relationships with their communities, jumpstart and fund new initiatives, engage new audiences, and ultimately create successful and meaningful careers. Creating the Revolutionary Artist challenges performers to build increased audiences through creative action and community involvement. Based on Mark Rabideau's revolutionary online text The 21CM Introduction to Music Entrepreneurship, this book will jumpstart the careers of musicians and artists in all styles and at all levels as it lays out business and project management acumen within a talent-driven spirit of civic-mindfulness. Drawing together the real-world wisdom of world-class musicians and educators, the book includes strength identification and idea creation exercises, inspiring case studies, and a toolkit of how-to guides to lead the reader through a successful community-based project and on to a rewarding career in the arts.

German Pop Music in Literary and Transmedial Perspectives (Hardcover, New edition): Uwe Schutte German Pop Music in Literary and Transmedial Perspectives (Hardcover, New edition)
Uwe Schutte
R1,823 Discovery Miles 18 230 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Pop music is a deeply transmedial art form, a hybrid of images, attitudes, performances and texts. This bilingual volume examines the diverse transmedial processes in which German-language pop music and other forms of art enrich each other. It aims to make an important contribution to the emerging field of German Pop Music Studies, which is currently enjoying an upsurge in interest. Consisting of chapters by a range of scholars from both the Anglophone world and Germany, it explores how German pop music interacts transnationally with political issues as well as art forms such as film, performance art and fine art. It has a particular focus on the manifold processes of mutual exchange and hybridization between German-language literature and German pop music. The artists examined include Kraftwerk, Einsturzende Neubauten, Tocotronic, Ja, Panik, Gerhard Richter and R. W. Fassbinder. Dieser zweisprachige Band untersucht die vielfaltigen transmedialen Prozesse, in denen sich deutschsprachige Pop-Musik und Kunstrichtungen wie Film, Kunst oder Performance gegenseitig befruchten. Er versteht sich damit als deutsch-britischer Bruckenschlag, der die sich in der englischen Germanistik herausbildende German Pop Music Studies an die deutschen Vorarbeiten anzuschliessen sucht. Ein besonderer Fokus des Bandes liegt auf den vielgestaltigen Interaktionen zwischen deutscher Pop-Musik und Literatur.

Congregational Music-Making and Community in a Mediated Age (Paperback): Anna E Nekola, Tom Wagner Congregational Music-Making and Community in a Mediated Age (Paperback)
Anna E Nekola, Tom Wagner
R1,587 Discovery Miles 15 870 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Congregational music can be an act of praise, a vehicle for theology, an action of embodied community, as well as a means to a divine encounter. This multidisciplinary anthology approaches congregational music as media in the widest sense - as a multivalent communication action with technological, commercial, political, ideological and theological implications, where processes of mediated communication produce shared worlds and beliefs. Bringing together a range of voices, promoting dialogue across a range of disciplines, each author approaches the topic of congregational music from his or her own perspective, facilitating cross-disciplinary connections while also showcasing a diversity of outlooks on the roles that music and media play in Christian experience. The authors break important new ground in understanding the ways that music, media and religious belief and praxis become 'lived theology' in our media age, revealing the rich and diverse ways that people are living, experiencing and negotiating faith and community through music.

Holy Roller (Sheet music): Libby Larsen Holy Roller (Sheet music)
Libby Larsen
R750 Discovery Miles 7 500 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Holy Roller is a revival sermon captured in the sounds of the alto saxophone and piano. It is inspired by classical revival preaching and the music seeks to represent the language: cajoling and incanting, with the intention of magnetizing and mesmerizing the listener through the usage of what Larsen describes as "musical masterpieces of rhythm, tempo and extraordinary tension and release." A version for alto saxophone and concert band is available on hire.

Love Songs (Sheet music, Vocal score): Libby Larsen Love Songs (Sheet music, Vocal score)
Libby Larsen
R724 Discovery Miles 7 240 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Five songs for SATB chorus and piano on texts by twentieth-century women poets. Each has a unique perspective on love, ranging from reflections on loss, to the delights of everyday familiarity, and the thrill of spring and new passions.

Digital Space and Embodiment in Contemporary Cinema - Screening Composite Spaces (Hardcover): Jennifer Kirby Digital Space and Embodiment in Contemporary Cinema - Screening Composite Spaces (Hardcover)
Jennifer Kirby
R4,475 Discovery Miles 44 750 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

- The book uses globally recognized films as a basis for analysis. - Studies on digital culture and digital spaces are becoming increasingly relevant in today's world (particularly in light of the pandemic), so demand for books exploring this subject is growing for both research and teaching markets. - Includes examples from a diverse range of film genres: science fiction, horror, comedy, European art films.

Ethics and Christian Musicking (Paperback): Nathan Myrick, Mark Porter Ethics and Christian Musicking (Paperback)
Nathan Myrick, Mark Porter
R1,407 Discovery Miles 14 070 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The relationship between musical activity and ethical significance occupies long traditions of thought and reflection both within Christianity and beyond. From concerns regarding music and the passions in early Christian writings through to moral panics regarding rock music in the 20th century, Christians have often gravitated to the view that music can become morally weighted, building a range of normative practices and prescriptions upon particular modes of ethical judgment. But how should we think about ethics and Christian musical activity in the contemporary world? As studies of Christian musicking have moved to incorporate the experiences, agencies, and relationships of congregations, ethical questions have become implicit in new ways in a range of recent research - how do communities negotiate questions of value in music? How are processes of encounter with a variety of different others negotiated through musical activity? What responsibilities arise within musical communities? This volume seeks to expand this conversation. Divided into four sections, the book covers the relationship of Christian musicking to the body; responsibilities and values; identity and encounter; and notions of the self. The result is a wide-ranging perspective on music as an ethical practice, particularly as it relates to contemporary religious and spiritual communities. This collection is an important milestone at the intersection of ethnomusicology, musicology, religious studies and theology. It will be a vital reference for scholars and practitioners reflecting on the values and practices of worshipping communities in the contemporary world.

Church Music Through the Lens of Performance (Paperback): Marcell Silva Steuernagel Church Music Through the Lens of Performance (Paperback)
Marcell Silva Steuernagel
R1,402 Discovery Miles 14 020 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book is an investigation into church music through the lens of performance theory, both as a discipline and as a theoretical framework. Scholars who address religious music making in general, and Christian church music in particular, use "performance" in a variety of ways, creating confusion around the term. A systematized performance vocabulary for the study of church music can support interdisciplinary investigations of Christian congregational music making in today's complex, interconnected world. From the perspective of performance theory, all those involved in church musicking are performing, be it from platform or pew. The book employs a hybrid methodology that combines ethnographic research and theory from ritual studies, ethnomusicology, theology, and church music scholarship to establish performance studies as a possible "next step" in church music studies. It demonstrates the feasibility of studying church music as performance by analyzing ethnographic case studies using a developmental framework based on the concepts of ritual, embodiment, and play/change. This book offers a fresh perspective on Christian congregational music making. It will, therefore, be a key reference work for scholars working in Congregational Music Studies, Ethnomusicology, Ritual Studies and Performance Studies, as well as practitioners interested in examining their own church music practices.

Music and Creativity in Healthcare Settings - Does Music Matter? (Paperback): Hilary Moss Music and Creativity in Healthcare Settings - Does Music Matter? (Paperback)
Hilary Moss
R787 Discovery Miles 7 870 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Through a series of vivid case studies, Music and Creativity in Healthcare Settings: Does Music Matter? documents the ways in which music brings humanity to sterile healthcare spaces, and its significance for people dealing with major illness. It also considers the notion of the arts as a vessel to explore humanitarian questions surrounding serious illness, namely what it is to be human. Overarching themes include: taking control; security and safety; listening; the normalization of the environment; being an individual; expressing emotion; transcendence and hope and expressing the inexpressible. With an emphasis on service user narratives, chapters are enriched with examples of good practice using music in healthcare. Furthermore, a focus on aesthetic deprivation contributes to debates on the intrinsic and instrumental value of music and the arts in modern society. This concise study will be a valuable source of inspiration for care givers and service users in the health sector; it will also appeal to scholars and researchers in the areas of Music medicine and music Therapy, and the Medical Humanities.

Easiest Guitar Chord Book (Book): William Bay Easiest Guitar Chord Book (Book)
William Bay
R294 R267 Discovery Miles 2 670 Save R27 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A unique, yet simple, format makes this a valuable book for any guitarist. The chords are shown in a tree-dimensional visual format and are classified as easy, standard, full-sounding, barre, jazz, and rock power forms. Chords are shown in each of these categories where applicable. In each key, major, minor, dominant 7th, minor 7th, major 7th, diminished, and augmented chord forms are presented.

A Litany (Sheet music, SATB vocal score): William Walton A Litany (Sheet music, SATB vocal score)
William Walton; Edited by Timothy Brown
R128 Discovery Miles 1 280 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A setting of a melancholy text by Phineas Fletcher for unaccompanied SATB voices.

The Marathon Don't Stop - The Life and Times of Nipsey Hussle (Paperback): Rob Kenner The Marathon Don't Stop - The Life and Times of Nipsey Hussle (Paperback)
Rob Kenner
R344 R315 Discovery Miles 3 150 Save R29 (8%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER This "beautiful tribute to a legendary artist" (Quincy Jones) is the first in-depth biography of Nipsey Hussle, the hip-hop mogul, artist, and activist whose transformative legacy inspired a generation with his motivational lyrics and visionary business savvy-before he was tragically shot down in the very neighborhood he was dedicated to building up. For Nipsey Hussle, "The Marathon" was more than a mixtape title or the name of a clothing store; it was a way of life, a metaphor for the relentless pursuit of excellence and the willpower required to overcome adversity day after day. Hussle was determined to win the race to success on his own terms, and he wanted to see his whole community in the winner's circle with him. A moving and powerful exploration of an extraordinary artist, The Marathon Don't Stop places Hussle in historical context and unpacks his complex legacy. Combining on-the-ground reporting and candid interviews, "Rob Kenner has given us the book the world-and hip-hop and pop culture-has been waiting for...one that should be celebrated alongside the best biographies ever about iconic figures we have loved-and lost" (Kevin Powell, author of When We Free the World).

Good night the pleasure was ours (Paperback): David Grubbs Good night the pleasure was ours (Paperback)
David Grubbs
R551 R506 Discovery Miles 5 060 Save R45 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

With Good night the pleasure was ours, David Grubbs melts down and recasts three decades of playing music on tour into a book-length poem, bringing to a close the trilogy that includes Now that the audience is assembled and The Voice in the Headphones. In Good night the pleasure was ours, the world outside the tour filters in with eccentric sparseness. From teenage punk bands to ensembles without fixed membership, and from solo performance to a group augmented by digital avatars, Grubbs presents touring as a series of daily dislocations that provides an education distinctly its own. These musicians' job is to play that evening's gig-whether to enthusiastic, hostile, or apathetic audiences-and then to do it again the next day. And yet, over the course of the book's multidecade arc, Grubbs depicts music making as an irreversible process-one reason for loving it so.

A Kiss across the Ocean - Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk and US Latinidad (Hardcover): Richard T Rodriguez A Kiss across the Ocean - Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk and US Latinidad (Hardcover)
Richard T Rodriguez
R2,296 R1,830 Discovery Miles 18 300 Save R466 (20%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In A Kiss across the Ocean Richard T. Rodriguez examines the relationship between British post-punk musicians and their Latinx audiences in the United States since the 1980s. Melding memoir with cultural criticism, Rodriguez spotlights a host of influential bands and performers including Siouxsie and the Banshees, Adam Ant, Bauhaus, Soft Cell, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, and Pet Shop Boys. He recounts these bands' importance for him and other Latinx kids and discusses their frequent identification with these bands' glamorous performance of difference. Whether it was Siouxsie Sioux drawing inspiration from Latinx contemporaries and cultural practices or how Soft Cell singer Marc Almond's lyrics were attuned to the vibrancy of queer Latinidad, Rodriguez shows how Latinx culture helped shape British post-punk. He traces the fandom networks that link these groups across space and time to illuminate how popular music establishes and facilitates intimate relations across the Atlantic. In so doing, he demonstrates how the music and styles that have come to define the 1980s hold significant sway over younger generations equally enthused by their matchlessly pleasurable and political reverberations.

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