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Everyday Musical Life among the Indigenous Bunun, Taiwan (Hardcover): Jonathan P.J. Stock, Chou Chiener Everyday Musical Life among the Indigenous Bunun, Taiwan (Hardcover)
Jonathan P.J. Stock, Chou Chiener
R4,207 Discovery Miles 42 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Everyday Musical Life among the Indigenous Bunun, Taiwan contributes to multidisciplinary research on music in everyday human life by pushing beyond the urbanized Western populations routinely featured in such writing. Based on ethnographic study in Buklavu, a village in southern Taiwan mostly inhabited by the indigenous Bunun, the book explores villagers' contemporaneous musical engagements and pathways, paying heed both to imported music-such as TV theme tunes, karaoke singing, church hymns-and to the transformation of Bunun traditions through school and community interventions and folkloric festivals. The case study underpins a new, widely applicable, theoretical model for the study of music in everyday life in global society which is historically engaged, sensitive to individual and group diversity, cognizant of the interplay of the mundane and the exceptional, and primed to support applied research.

Music at the Intersection of Brazilian Culture - An Introduction to Music, Race, and Food (Paperback): Elisa Macedo Dekaney,... Music at the Intersection of Brazilian Culture - An Introduction to Music, Race, and Food (Paperback)
Elisa Macedo Dekaney, Joshua A. Dekaney
R1,173 Discovery Miles 11 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Music at the Intersection of Brazilian Culture takes an interdisciplinary approach by utilizing several aspects of Brazilian music, race, and food as a window to understanding Brazilian culture, with music at the core. Through a holistic understanding of the Brazilian experience - exploring issues of race, colonization, sustainable development, and the contributions of the three distinct ethnic groups in the making of Brazil - the authors create a narrative based on their own recollection of memories, traditions, customs, sounds, and landscapes that they experienced in Brazil. Each engaging section begins with an overview of the topic that places it in historical context, and then focuses on each subtopic with a thorough presentation of the content as well as suggested activities that can be implemented in the classroom. The chapters conclude with a list of useful references, resources, and audio recording examples, which are available on Spotify, to present readers with a musical landscape of the folktales. These can be found online via the Routledge catalogue page for this book. This book is an essential resource for students and teachers of music and cultural studies, as it unpicks complex issues to help readers better understand and appreciate Brazilian culture.

Creative and Cultural Industries in East Asia - An Introduction (Hardcover): Brian Moeran Creative and Cultural Industries in East Asia - An Introduction (Hardcover)
Brian Moeran
R4,211 Discovery Miles 42 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book presents an introductory overview of the socio-economic organization of creative industries, focusing on the East Asian context. Establishing a theoretical framework founded on the work of Richard Caves, Howard Becker, and Pierre Bourdieu, this textbook is an accessible introduction to creative and cultural industries. Drawing on examples from Japan, South Korea, and China, it both examines what is unique about cultural production in these countries and places them in a global and intercultural context. Building on themes of uncertainty and networks of cooperation, Brian Moeran looks at the role of social ties in defining notions of quality. He then analyses the positioning of individual actors, organisations, and commodities in each field of cultural production and the exchanges of economic and symbolic capital that take place between them. Examples are taken from a range of cultural and creative industries, including film, music and fashion. Overall, Creative and Cultural Industries in East Asia serves as a foundational introduction to the study of creative and cultural production in East Asia.

Nationalism and Popular Culture (Paperback): Tim Nieguth Nationalism and Popular Culture (Paperback)
Tim Nieguth
R1,263 Discovery Miles 12 630 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

How do nations come to shape our collective imagination so profoundly? This book argues that the power of national identity and national belonging stems, in part, from the ways in which nationalism is embedded in popular culture. Comprised of chapters covering a wide range of cases from both the Global North and Global South (including Argentina, Australia, Canada, Europe, Israel, Pakistan, and the United States), the text unpacks the connections between nationalism and film, television, music, and other facets of everyday culture. In doing so, it demonstrates that popular culture can help us understand why and how nationhood has become so deeply entrenched in modern society. This book will be of interest to scholars of political science, nationalism, sociology, history, media studies, and cultural studies.

The Portable Community - Place and Displacement in Bluegrass Festival Life (Paperback): Robert Owen Gardner The Portable Community - Place and Displacement in Bluegrass Festival Life (Paperback)
Robert Owen Gardner
R1,297 Discovery Miles 12 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores the various ways in which individuals use music and culture to understand and respond to changes in their natural and built environments. Drawing on over 15 years of ethnographic fieldwork, interviews, and participant observation, the author develops the thesis that the relationships, networks, and intimate forms of social interaction in the "portable" community cultivated at bluegrass festival events are significant cultural formations that shape participants' relationships to their localities. With specific attention to the ways in which the strength of these relationships are translated into meaningful sites of community identity, place, and action following devastating local floods that destroyed homes and businesses, displacing residents for years, The Portable Community: Place and Displacement in Bluegrass Festival Life sheds light on the strength of such communities when tested and under external threat. A study of the central role of arts and music in grappling with social and environmental change, including their role in facilitating disaster relief and recovery, this volume will appeal to scholars of sociology with interests in symbolic interactionism, the sociology of music, culture, and the sociology of disaster.

Preparing Musicians for Precarious Work - Transformational Approaches to Music Careers Education (Hardcover): Nicole Canham Preparing Musicians for Precarious Work - Transformational Approaches to Music Careers Education (Hardcover)
Nicole Canham
R4,212 Discovery Miles 42 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

* The convergence framework of career learning and career counselling theories is a timely addition to the growing literature on musician employability and knowledge management * This is not a "how to" book; the focus is placed upon providing young musicians with a framework for helping them to learn what they need to learn, and understanding themselves in their chosen career * Offers educators an effective summary of some career development and career counselling theories that they may be unfamiliar with, and in so doing provides an opportunity for new learning and ideas

Music in the Making of Modern Japan - Essays on Reception, Transformation and Cultural Flows (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Kei... Music in the Making of Modern Japan - Essays on Reception, Transformation and Cultural Flows (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Kei Hibino, Barnaby Ralph, Henry Johnson
R3,328 Discovery Miles 33 280 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This volume explores the notion of "affective media" within and across different arts in Japan, with a primary focus on music, whether as standalone product or connected to other genres such as theatre and photography. The volume explores the Japanese reception of this "affective media", its transformation and subsequent cultural flow. Moving from a discussion of early encounters with the West through Jesuits and others, the contributors primarily consider the role of music in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. With ten original chapters, the volume covers a wealth of themes, from education, koto music, guitar making, avant-garde recorder works, musicals and rock photography, to interviews with contemporary performers in jazz, modern rock and J-pop. Innovative and fascinating, the book provides rich new insights and material to all those interested in Japanese musical culture.

The Complete Book of 1910s Broadway Musicals (Hardcover): Dan Dietz The Complete Book of 1910s Broadway Musicals (Hardcover)
Dan Dietz
R4,213 Discovery Miles 42 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The 1910s shaped the future of the American musical. While many shows of the decade were imports of European operettas, and even original Broadway musicals were influenced by continental productions, the musicals of the 1910s found their own American voice. In The Complete Book of 1910s Broadway Musicals, Dan Dietz covers all 302 musicals that opened on Broadway during this decade. Among the shows discussed are The Balkan Princess, The Kiss Waltz, Naughty Marietta, The Firefly, Very Good Eddie, Leave It to Jane, Watch Your Step, See America First, and La-La-Lucille. Dietz places each musical in its historical context, including the women's suffrage movement and the decade's defining historical event, World War One. It was the war that truly changed Broadway musicals, with a shift from European-centric, waltz-flavored operettas to musical comedies set in the U.S. Suddenly new voices were heard on Broadway, including Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin, composers who would forever change the sound of the American musical. Each entry features the following: plot summary cast members the creative team, including writers, lyricists, composers, directors, choreographers, and producers opening and closing dates number of performances critical commentary musical numbers and the performers who introduced the songs Numerous appendices include a chronology, discography, filmography, Gilbert and Sullivan productions, Princess Theatre musicals, musicals with World War I themes, and published scripts, making this book a comprehensive and significant resource. The Complete Book of 1910s Broadway Musicals will captivate and inform scholars, historians, and casual fans about this influential decade in musical theater history.

Shorter pieces for cello and piano (Sheet music): Rebecca Clarke Shorter pieces for cello and piano (Sheet music)
Rebecca Clarke
R843 Discovery Miles 8 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This collection contains all the extant shorter pieces by Rebecca Clarke for cello and piano, both original compositions and arrangements. Clarke's transcriptions make up around half of her works for cello. They are always carefully crafted, and are therefore often significantly different from the orginals.

Maternal Representations in Twenty-First Century Broadway Musicals - Stage Mothers (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019): Gina Masucci... Maternal Representations in Twenty-First Century Broadway Musicals - Stage Mothers (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Gina Masucci MacKenzie
R1,408 Discovery Miles 14 080 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Maternal Representations in Twenty-First Century Broadway Musicals: Stage Mothers analyzes Broadway productions within the context of their presentation and assessment of motherhood and the variety of roles for mother figures. Using a frame of feminist and psychoanalytical positions, Gina MacKenzie establishes, defines, and interprets mother figures in contemporary Broadway, according to original categorizations of the absent, inconsequential, and overbearing mothers. MacKenzie considers how and why commercial representation of mother figures are limited and predominantly negative, even as fiction, poetry, and other forms of drama offer a much wider and progressive view of the varieties of motherhood possible in society, asserting the need for greater representation of mother figures in commercial musical theatre today.

Cultural Resistance and Security from Below - Power and Escape through Capoeira (Paperback): Zoe Marriage Cultural Resistance and Security from Below - Power and Escape through Capoeira (Paperback)
Zoe Marriage
R1,346 Discovery Miles 13 460 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book uses the Afro-Brazilian art of capoeira to examine how security has been pursued from below and what significance this has for security analysis and policy. Illegal at the beginning of the twentieth century, capoeira is now a cultural institution and export that is protected by the Brazilian state and recognised by UNESCO, with capoeira players protecting and promoting their interests through the practice and development of their art. The book brings the musical and corporeal narrative from capoeira into conversation with debates on security; these have typically been dominated by northern, white, military voices, and as a result, the perspective of the weaker player is routinely overlooked in security literature and policy making. Bringing the perspective of the weaker party, Cultural Resistance and Security from Below examines the distribution of security from two angles. First, it presents the history of the interaction between capoeira players and the Brazilian society and state that resulted in political and legal acceptance of capoeira. Second, it explores how the practice of capoeira generates knowledge of identities, explanations and values, and how this knowledge empowers communities of players and is communicated to society more broadly. The book then turns to consider how capoeira resists within Brazil's contemporary context of insecurity, and what significance the knowledge and power, along with capoeira's core move of escape, have to security analysis and policy. The book concludes by taking the lessons from capoeira to inform understanding of other cultural activities and ways of life as potential sites and forms of resistance. Conceptually and methodologically original, this book will be of interest to scholars and students in the fields of security studies, development studies, political science and international studies. It will also be of interest to those scholars interested in the changing interaction between politics and the arts.

Nativity Carol (Sheet music, Unison vocal score): John Rutter Nativity Carol (Sheet music, Unison vocal score)
John Rutter; Arranged by Kenneth Pont
R120 Discovery Miles 1 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Suitable for unison voices with a simplified piano accompaniment.

The Aesthetics of Self-Becoming - How Art Forms Empower (Paperback): Paul Crowther The Aesthetics of Self-Becoming - How Art Forms Empower (Paperback)
Paul Crowther
R1,318 Discovery Miles 13 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book shows that art involves an aesthetics of self-becoming, wherein we do not simply consume artistic meaning, but become empowered-by adapting ourselves to what creation in the different art forms makes possible. Paul Crowther argues that the great political task in aesthetics is no longer the creation of political art as such, but rather the winning back of art and aesthetics as central societal concerns. This involves the overcoming of neo-liberal treatments of art as mere commodity and misguided attitudes that dismiss it as the product of dead white European males. The book begins with a theory of self-consciousness which reveals the necessary role played by the aesthetic in personal identity. It then emphasises how art forms empower through processes of making and aesthetic effects that are unique to them individually. To show this, he considers the ontology of pictorial art, sculpture, installation and assemblage works, architecture, literature, cinema, and music. His arguments concerning these are supported, throughout, by in-depth discussions of specific artworks. The book's effect, overall is to reorientate aesthetics by showing how art empowers through its revelation of new possibilities of experience. The Aesthetics of Self-Becoming will appeal to philosophers of art and aesthetics, as well as scholars in art history, literary studies, film studies, and music theory who are interested in the book's central concerns.

Pina Bausch's Aggressive Tenderness - Repurposing Theater through Dance (Paperback): Telory D. Arendell Pina Bausch's Aggressive Tenderness - Repurposing Theater through Dance (Paperback)
Telory D. Arendell
R1,286 Discovery Miles 12 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Pina Bausch's Aggressive Tenderness: Repurposing Theater through Dance maps Bausch's pieces alongside methodologies of key theater and film practitioners. This book includes discussion of a variety of Bausch pieces, including Sacre du Printemps (Rite of Spring 1975), Kontakthof (Meeting Place 1978), Cafe Muller (Cafe Mueller 1978), Nelken (Carnations 1982), Arien (Arias 1985), and Vollmond (Full Moon 2006). Beginning with her approach as one avenue of dance dramaturgy, the author connects the content expressed in these pieces with theoretical conversations, works from other artists inspired by Bausch, and her own experiences, providing an examination that is both academic and personally insightful. Arendell reads all of these theatrical and film approaches into Bausch's work to highlight how the time frame involves a cross-pollination between Bausch and the other artists that looks both backward and forward in its influences. Ideal for students of dance and theater, Pina Bausch's Aggressive Tenderness shows how Bausch's Tanztheater speaks a kinaesthetic language, one that Arendell translates into a somaesthetic exploration to pair a repurposed body ethic with movements that present new forms of embodiment.

Eastern European Music Industries and Policies after the Fall of Communism - From State Control to Free Market (Hardcover):... Eastern European Music Industries and Policies after the Fall of Communism - From State Control to Free Market (Hardcover)
Pauline Fairclough; Edited by Patryk Galuszka
R4,206 Discovery Miles 42 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

During the last thirty years Eastern Europe has been a place of radical political, economic, and social transformation, and these changes have affected the cultural industries of its countries. This volume consists of twelve chapters by leading international researchers. Stories are documented of various organisations that once dominated the 'communist music industries' - such as state-owned record companies, music festivals, and collecting societies. The strategies employed by artists and industries to join international music markets after the fall of communism are explained and evaluated. Political and economic transformations that coincided with the advent of digitalisation and the Internet intensified the changes. All these issues posed challenges both to record labels and artists who, after adjusting to the rules of the free-market economy, were faced with the falling record sales of records caused by the advent of new communication technologies. This book examines how these processes have all affected the music scene, industries, and markets in various Eastern European countries.

Hosanna to the Son of David (Sheet music, Vocal score): Orlando Gibbons Hosanna to the Son of David (Sheet music, Vocal score)
Orlando Gibbons; Edited by Anthony Greening
R121 Discovery Miles 1 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Communion Service (Sheet music, Vocal score): William Mathias Communion Service (Sheet music, Vocal score)
William Mathias
R121 Discovery Miles 1 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Suitable for unison voices and organ with optional SATB choir.

Elegy for Guitar (Sheet music): Alan Rawsthorne Elegy for Guitar (Sheet music)
Alan Rawsthorne; Edited by Julian Bream
R698 Discovery Miles 6 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Early English Carols (Hardcover, 2 Revised Edition): R.L. Greene The Early English Carols (Hardcover, 2 Revised Edition)
R.L. Greene
R4,127 Discovery Miles 41 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
He That is Down Need Fear No Fall - Paperback (Sheet music, Unison version): Ralph Vaughan Williams He That is Down Need Fear No Fall - Paperback (Sheet music, Unison version)
Ralph Vaughan Williams
R120 Discovery Miles 1 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

for unison voices and piano This is an adaptation of music from Act 4, Scene 1 of The Pilgrim's Progress so that it may be performed in concert. It is simple and expressive, bringing focus to the profundity of John Bunyan's text. Recorder, flute, or clarinet may be incorporated into the piano accompaniment, as indicated in the score.

The Sound of the Unconscious - Psychoanalysis as Music (Paperback): Ludovica Grassi The Sound of the Unconscious - Psychoanalysis as Music (Paperback)
Ludovica Grassi
R1,045 Discovery Miles 10 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this book, Ludovica Grassi explores the importance of music in psychoanalysis, arguing that music is a basic working tool for psyche, as words are composed of sound, rhythm and intonation more than lexical meaning. Starting from ethnomusicological, evolutionary, neurodevelopmental, psychological and psychoanalytical perspectives, the book explores music's symbolic status, structure and way of operating compared to unconscious psychic functioning. Extraordinary similarities are revealed, especially in mechanisms such as repetition, imitation, variation (transformation), intimacy and the work of mourning, of the negative and of nostalgia. Moreover, silence and absence are essential components of music as well as of psychic and symbolic functioning. Time and temporality are specifically investigated in the book as key elements both in music and in symbolization and subjectivation processes. The role of the word's phonic kernel and of the voice as fundamental links to emotions, the body, the sexual and the infantile has promising implications for psychoanalytic work. All these elements find an articulation in the natural as well as complex activity of listening, which conveys a tri-dimensional and polyphonic dimension of the world, so important both in music and in psychoanalysis. Illuminating the link between music and analysis in new and contemporary ways, The Sound of the Unconscious explores the resulting advances in theory and clinical practice and will be of great interest to practicing and training psychoanalysts and psychotherapists.

Gold, Festivals, and Music in Southeast Brazil - Sounding Portugueseness (Hardcover): Barbara Alge Gold, Festivals, and Music in Southeast Brazil - Sounding Portugueseness (Hardcover)
Barbara Alge
R4,213 Discovery Miles 42 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Gold, Festivals, and Music in Southeast Brazil: Sounding Portugueseness is a study of the musical legacy of the eighteenth century Brazilian gold rush that integrates ethnographic research of the main genres of former mining communities in Brazil - from liturgical music in the style of European art music to Afro-Brazilian musical expressions. Its content and structure are informed by Norbert Elias's idea of the civilizing process, which is explored regarding its relevance in interpreting sociocultural processes and choreo-musical expressions in the small town of Morro Vermelho. The book's innovative feature is its focus on a little-known area to non-Brazilian scholars, and its focus on the colonial and European heritage in Brazil. Morro Vermelho's cultural traditions have received relatively limited attention. The Catholic festival of Our Lady of Nazareth provides a setting for the documentation and analysis of the musical setting and is thus placed at the center of the discussion. It leads through the vast writings on Brazilian identity and challenges the view on Brazilian-ness as constructed in terms of the mixing of races. Norbert Elias's concept of the "civilizing process" structures the book and is relevant for understanding the cultural sphere of the festival of Our Lady of Nazareth. The book combines discourses of Portugueseness with historical sources and observations from fieldwork and community building in the virtual world. The focus on the music to support social constructions of "Portugueseness" is supported with evidence from diverse data sources: music (literature and fieldwork recordings), original interviews, marketing materials and historical narratives. The combination of archival, ethnographic, and bibliographic research methods attempts a seamless narrative. Its approach to fieldwork and frank reflections on the process and relevant issues help to contextualize the analyses and serve as useful advice for future researchers.

Opera and Church Music 1630-1750 (Hardcover): Anthony Lewis, Nigel Fortune Opera and Church Music 1630-1750 (Hardcover)
Anthony Lewis, Nigel Fortune
R12,458 Discovery Miles 124 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Looks at ancient and oriental music and traces the history of western music from medieval times to the twentieth century.

Organ Music for Manuals Book 5 (Sheet music): C. H. Trevor Organ Music for Manuals Book 5 (Sheet music)
C. H. Trevor
R710 Discovery Miles 7 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

for organ manuals
This collection of 28 titles includes preludes, postludes, and other music for services and concerts. All pieces can be played effectively on a one-manual organ with appropriate stops. This is the fifth book in a progressive series.

Thy perfect love (Sheet music, Vocal score): John Rutter Thy perfect love (Sheet music, Vocal score)
John Rutter
R120 Discovery Miles 1 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

for SATB and organ or strings This anthem based on a 15th-century text opens with unison sopranos or a solo. The full choir immediately reiterates the text in full harmony. The piece may also be performed by omitting the solo or unison verse. Also available in The New Oxford Easy Anthem Book. The accompaniment for string orchestra is available on hire

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