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Physical and Emotional Hazards of a Performing Career - A special issue of the journal Musical Performance. (Hardcover): Basil... Physical and Emotional Hazards of a Performing Career - A special issue of the journal Musical Performance. (Hardcover)
Basil Tschaikov
R3,907 Discovery Miles 39 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The considerable number of musicians experiencing physical and emotional problems has led doctors around the world to become increasingly concerned. The twelve articles in this issue of the journal "Musical Performance" bring together both the thoughts of British and North American doctors who discuss the main problems experienced by musicians and their cures. Topics range from voice disorders and deafness, to stress and the causes and cures of stage fright. A glossary is included that explains the meaning of those medical terms likely to be unfamiliar to the general reader.
Basil Tschaikov was appointed artistic and executive director of the National Center for Orchestral Studies at London University at Goldsmith's College, London, England 1979. Since 1987 he has served as chairman of the Music Performance Research Center and directs its oral history of musicians program in Britain.

Sound Teaching - A Research-Informed Approach to Inspiring Confidence, Skill, and Enjoyment in Music Performance (Hardcover):... Sound Teaching - A Research-Informed Approach to Inspiring Confidence, Skill, and Enjoyment in Music Performance (Hardcover)
Henrique Meissner, Renee Timmers, Stephanie E. Pitts
R1,492 Discovery Miles 14 920 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Sound Teaching is written for vocal and instrumental music teachers, music performers with a portfolio career and music students at conservatoires and universities. Music students undertaking practice-related research will find examples of research methodologies and projects that are informative for their studies. Musical participants of all kinds - students, teachers, performers, and audiences - will find new ways of understanding their practice and experience through research.

Reggae My Life Is (Paperback): Copeland Forbes Reggae My Life Is (Paperback)
Copeland Forbes; As told to Clyde McKenzie; Foreword by Rob Kenner
R578 Discovery Miles 5 780 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Copeland Forbes is one of the most consequential figures in the history of modern Jamaican music. Through his roles as personal and tour manager for some of the most iconic personalities in music, Forbes has been a witness to and a participant in some of the most intriguing dramas in the annals of modern popular music.  Forbes is a much sought after speaking at music symposia and seminars across the world where his name is often a prime attraction and his vast knowledge a source of enlightenment and entertainment.  Forbes has copped numerous awards for his outstanding contribution to the music industry including the Order of Distinction from the Government of Jamaica in 2017.  In Reggae My Life Is, Forbes provides riveting accounts of incidents and colorful portraits of personalities that have helped to shape our society and our culture. It is a matter of easy concession that Forbes has led an exciting life. He has seen so many places and has made so many things happen during the 60 years he was entrusted with handling the affairs of some of the most celebrated figures ever to grace our planet.  Among some of the fascinating figures making appearances in Forbes’ retrospective Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Dennis Brown, Jimmy Cliff, Bunny Wailer. Rita Marley, Frankie Crocker, Danny Sims, Marcia Griffiths, Gregory Issacs, Chris Blackwell, Mick Jagger, Mark Zuckerberg, Richard Branson, Don Taylor, Sly and Robbie, Grace Jones and Don King.  Forbes, with his prodigious recall, is able to situate some of the more seminal moments in the history of Jamaican music with clarity and humor. His knowledge of venues, dates and personalities is encyclopedic. Yet Forbes’ intention is not to provide fodder for the gossip mill. His aim is, instead, to clarify and contextualize in order to provide important lessons for those who seek to learn from art and life. 

Punkzines (Paperback): Eddie Piller, Steve Rowland Punkzines (Paperback)
Eddie Piller, Steve Rowland
R524 R428 Discovery Miles 4 280 Save R96 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Along with its long-lasting influence on music, art, fashion and culture, the punk explosion in the late 1970s also fuelled a thriving underground press. A physical representation of punk's DIY attitude, fanzines rebelled against established forms of expression, surviving outside of the mainstream media and providing a voice for a generation. Punkzines features interviews with leading figures from the scene, including fanzine editors, bands, DJs, promoters and journalists, to provide exclusive anecdotes from this momentous period. Fully illustrated throughout, the book showcases original and rare artwork from celebrated fanzines such as Sniffin' Glue, Bondage, 48 Thrills, Punk, Jamming!, London's Burning, Ripped & Torn and many more. Punkzines is the definitive visual guide to a crucial part of British and global subculture.

Music, Business and Peacebuilding (Hardcover): Constance Cook Glen, Timothy L. Fort Music, Business and Peacebuilding (Hardcover)
Constance Cook Glen, Timothy L. Fort
R4,731 Discovery Miles 47 310 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Business schools are placing more emphasis on the role of business in society. Top business school accreditors are shifting to mandating that schools teach their students about the social impact of business, including AACSB standards to require the incorporation of business impact on society into all elements of accredited institutions. Researchers are also increasingly focused on issues related to sustainability, but in particular to business and peace as a field. A strong strain of scholarship argues that ethics is nurtured by emotions and through aesthetic quests for moral excellence. The arts (and music as shown specifically in this book) can be a resource to nudge positive emotions in the direction toward ethical behavior and, logically, then toward peace. Business provides a model for positive interactions that not only foster long-term successful business but also incrementally influences society. This book provides an opportunity for integration and recognition of how music (and other art forms) can further encourage business toward the direction of peace while business provides a platform for the dissemination and modeling of the positive capabilities of music toward the aims of peace in the world today. The primary market for this book is the academic audience. Unlike many other academic books, however, the interdisciplinary nature of the book allows for multiple academic audiences. Thus, this book reaches into schools of music, business, political science, film studies, sports and society studies, the humanities, ethics and, of course, peace studies.

A Book of Days (Hardcover): Patti Smith A Book of Days (Hardcover)
Patti Smith
R555 Discovery Miles 5 550 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

**THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train. More than 365 images chart Smith’s singular aesthetic - inspired by her wildly popular Instagram In 2018, without any plan or agenda for what might happen next, Patti Smith posted her first Instagram photo: her hand with the simple message “Hello Everybody!” Known for shooting with her beloved Land Camera 250, Smith started posting images from her phone including portraits of her kids, her radiator, her boots, and her Abyssinian cat, Cairo. Followers felt an immediate affinity with these miniature windows into Smith’s world, photographs of her daily coffee, the books she’s reading, the graves of beloved heroes - William Blake, Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath, Simone Weil, Albert Camus. Over time, a coherent story of a life devoted to art took shape, and more than a million followers responded to Smith’s unique aesthetic in images that chart her passions, devotions, obsessions, and whims. Original to this book are vintage photographs: anniversary pearls, a mother’s keychain, and a husband’s Mosrite guitar. Here, too, are never-before-seen photos of life on and off the road, train stations, obscure cafés, a notebook always nearby. In wide-ranging yet intimate daily notations, Smith shares dispatches from her travels around the world. With 365 photographs, taking you through a single year, A Book of Days is a new way to experience the expansive mind of the visionary poet, writer, and performer. Hopeful, elegiac, playful - and complete with an introduction by Smith that explores her documentary process - A Book of Days is a timeless offering for deeply uncertain times, an inspirational map of an artist’s life.

Jazz and Death - Reception, Rituals, and Representations (Hardcover): Walter van de Leur Jazz and Death - Reception, Rituals, and Representations (Hardcover)
Walter van de Leur
R3,749 Discovery Miles 37 490 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Jazz and Death: Reception, Rituals, and Representations critically examines the myriad and complex interactions between jazz and death, from the New Orleans "jazz funeral" to jazz in heaven or hell, final recordings, jazz monuments, and the music’s own presumed death. It looks at how fans, critics, journalists, historians, writers, the media, and musicians have narrated, mythologized, and relayed those stories. What causes the fascination of the jazz world with its deaths? What does it say about how our culture views jazz and its practitioners? Is jazz somehow a fatal culture? The narratives surrounding jazz and death cast a light on how the music and its creators are perceived. Stories of jazz musicians typically bring up different tropes, ranging from the tragic, misunderstood genius to the notion that virtuosity somehow comes at a price. Many of these narratives tend to perpetuate the gendered and racialized stereotypes that have been part of jazz’s history. In the end, the ideas that encompass jazz and death help audiences find meaning in a complex musical practice and come to grips with the passing of their revered musical heroes -- and possibly with their own mortality.

Humperdinck - A Life of the Composer of Hansel und Gretel (Hardcover): William Melton Humperdinck - A Life of the Composer of Hansel und Gretel (Hardcover)
William Melton
R1,119 Discovery Miles 11 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The first-ever full-length biography in English of Engelbert Humperdinck, composer of the opera Hansel und Gretel, examining the rest of his substantial output in a historical framework which sets him in the rich musical life of Wilhelmine Germany. Engelbert Humperdinck's opera Hansel und Gretel is one of the best-known in the repertoire, its melodies as familiar as folk-tunes - and yet no full-length biography of Humperdinck (1854-1921) has ever been published in English: although highly regarded a century ago, he has since been overshadowed by the continued success of his own fairy-tale creation. His other works remain essentially unknown, but they include five additional operas, ten furtherstage works (including music for four Shakespeare plays), pieces for orchestra and for chorus, and many songs. This book sets a pioneering examination of Humperdinck's entire output in a biographical framework, with detailed, illustrated descriptions accompanied by quotations from Humperdinck's contemporaries. Humperdinck was a quintessential composer of the Germany of the Kaisers: his maturation coincided with the establishment of the German Empire,and his training with teachers who remembered Beethoven and Schubert culminated in an apprenticeship with Richard Wagner. His talents won him entry to the Bayreuth inner circle and to the home of Johannes Brahms, and earned him areception with Kaiser Wilhelm II and an evening in Theodore Roosevelt's White House. His friends included Richard Strauss, Hugo Wolf, Gustav Mahler, Giacomo Puccini and Isadora Duncan. Kurt Weill, Leo Blech, and Hans Pfitzner were among his hundreds of students. Humperdinck was a prolific writer, too, and the detailed and candid letters and diary entries quoted here provide an inside view of musical life in Wilhelmine Germany, with its extraordinary number of theatres, orchestras, choral societies, music publishers, journals and conservatoires, their principal personalities generously illustrated in the pages of this book. William Melton, born in Philadelphia in 1954, did hisgraduate studies in music history at the University of California Los Angeles and spent his career in the horn section of the Sinfonie Orchester Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle). In addition, he is a contributor to The Cambridge Wagner Encyclopedia (2013) and the author of The Wagner Tuba: A History (edition ebenos, Aachen, 2008). Further projects have included biographical essays on lesser-known Romantics like Friedrich Klose, Henri Kling, Felix Draeseke, and Friedrich Gernsheim, and he has researched and edited the scores of the 'Forgotten Romantics' series for the publisher edition ebenos.

Staging Voice (Hardcover): Michal Grover-Friedlander Staging Voice (Hardcover)
Michal Grover-Friedlander
R1,491 Discovery Miles 14 910 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

History, Opera, Music, Stage, Voice, Theatre, Performance

Focus: Gamelan Music of Indonesia (Paperback, 3rd edition): Henry Spiller, Elizabeth A. Clendinning Focus: Gamelan Music of Indonesia (Paperback, 3rd edition)
Henry Spiller, Elizabeth A. Clendinning
R1,394 Discovery Miles 13 940 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Focus: Gamelan Music of Indonesia, Third Edition, introduces the emblematic music of Southeast Asia's largest country, as sound and as cultural phenomenon, highlighting the significant role gamelan music plays in the national culture while teaching of Indonesian values and modern-day life. Despite Indonesia's great diversity-a melting pot of indigenous, Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic, Portuguese, Dutch, British, and modern global influences-a forged national identity is at its core. This volume explores that identity, understanding present-day Javanese, Balinese, Cirebonese, and Sundanese gamelan music through ethnic, social, cultural, and global perspectives. New to the third edition: Updated content throughout to reflect current Indonesian history and geography, as well as revivals of gamelan ensembles by the Cirebonese courts Modern examples of Indonesian musics, along with new uses of gamelan and other traditional musics An examination of school gamelan and ISBI as a center of innovation Expanded discussion on dangdut and its current status in Indonesia, along with Islam's effect on dangdut Listening examples now posted as online eResources

Bowie Odyssey 71 (Paperback): Simon Goddard Bowie Odyssey 71 (Paperback)
Simon Goddard
R456 R372 Discovery Miles 3 720 Save R84 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Britain, 1971. Strange land of hot pants, moral outrage, anarchist bombs and sexual revolution. As Marc Bolan is hailed as the nation's teenage saviour, the forgotten hope called David Bowie searches for the spark to relight his fire. He finds it in London's gay clubland and the stoned fields of Glastonbury, the speedy streets of New York City and his new rock'n'roll allies Lou Reed and Iggy Pop. The ignition for songs about life on Mars and cosmic messiahs, starry alter-egos and bold fashions fit for the ultimate Seventies superstar... In the sequel to Bowie Odyssey 70, Simon Goddard continues his groundbreaking immersive narrative of the world around Bowie, through the second year of the decade he changed pop forever.

Social Partner Dance - Body, Sound, and Space (Paperback): David Kaminsky Social Partner Dance - Body, Sound, and Space (Paperback)
David Kaminsky
R1,213 Discovery Miles 12 130 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Social Partner Dance: Body, Sound, and Space is an ethnographic theory of social partner dancing built on participant observation and interviews with instructors of tango, lindy hop, salsa, blues, and various other forms. The work establishes a general analytical language for the study of these dances, based on the premise that a thorough understanding of any lead/follow form must consider in depth how it manages the four-part relationship between self, partner, music, and surroundings. Each chapter begins with a brief vignette on a distinct dance form and explores the focused worlds of partnered dancing done for the joy and entertainment of the dancers themselves. Grounded intellectually in embodiment studies and sensory ethnography, and empirically in ethnographic fieldwork, Social Partner Dance promotes scholarship that understands the social, cultural, and political functions of partner dance through its embodied practice.

Musical Sense-Making - Enaction, Experience, and Computation (Paperback): Mark Reybrouck Musical Sense-Making - Enaction, Experience, and Computation (Paperback)
Mark Reybrouck; Series edited by Graham Welch, Adam Ockelford, Ian Cross
R1,212 Discovery Miles 12 120 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Musical Sense-Making: Enaction, Experience, and Computation broadens the scope of musical sense-making from a disembodied cognitivist approach to an experiential approach. Revolving around the definition of music as a temporal and sounding art, it argues for an interactional and experiential approach that brings together the richness of sensory experience and principles of cognitive economy. Starting from the major distinction between in-time and outside-of-time processing of the sounds, this volume provides a conceptual and operational framework for dealing with sounds in a real-time listening situation, relying heavily on the theoretical groundings of ecology, cybernetics, and systems theory, and stressing the role of epistemic interactions with the sounds. These interactions are considered from different perspectives, bringing together insights from previous theoretical groundings and more recent empirical research. The author's findings are framed within the context of the broader field of enactive and embodied cognition, recent action and perception studies, and the emerging field of neurophenomenology and dynamical systems theory. This volume will particularly appeal to scholars and researchers interested in the intersection between music, philosophy, and/or psychology.

Il Trovatore in Full Score (Sheet music): Giuseppe Verdi Il Trovatore in Full Score (Sheet music)
Giuseppe Verdi
R1,004 R839 Discovery Miles 8 390 Save R165 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

First performed in Rome in 1853, "Il Trovatore" is one of Giuseppe Verdi's most successful and most performed operas. Supremely melodic, vigorously paced, it is filled with arias and vocal ensembles of thrilling power. Grand opera at its most stirring, it is above all rich in opportunities for bravura singing. Music lovers can savor and study in detail Verdi's scoring of this perennial operatic favorite with this finely made full-score edition.

Factory Records - The Complete Graphic Album (Paperback): Matthew Robertson Factory Records - The Complete Graphic Album (Paperback)
Matthew Robertson
R826 R726 Discovery Miles 7 260 Save R100 (12%) Ships in 12 - 17 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.

Ave maris stella (Sheet music, Vocal score): Eleanor DALEY Ave maris stella (Sheet music, Vocal score)
Eleanor DALEY
R97 Discovery Miles 970 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

for SATB unaccompanied Suitable for the seasons of Advent and Christmas or for any Marian feast, this anthem takes as its starting point a reflective and compelling tune from Piae Cantiones, a sacred collection from 1582. Daley successfully creates a fresh new sound, however, by using contemporary harmonies. An English singing translation is included.

The Tamil Padam - A Dance Music Genre of South India (Hardcover): Matthew Harp Allen The Tamil Padam - A Dance Music Genre of South India (Hardcover)
Matthew Harp Allen
R1,721 Discovery Miles 17 210 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Studies the Bharata Natyam dance genre "padam" and focuses on its patrons and composers and its formal structure, texts, and music Examines the "rewriting" of South Indian dance and the decades-long debates over the classicization and ownership of South Indian music The text includes 30 Tamil language songs, minutely translated and annotated together with a documentation of their performance history in the 20th century

50 Movie Music Moments (Hardcover): Vasco Hexel 50 Movie Music Moments (Hardcover)
Vasco Hexel
R3,760 Discovery Miles 37 600 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Provides a wide range of case studies of music in film scenes, allowing instructors to pick and choose examples to focus on. Each case study is accessibly written and follows the same format, breaking down elements of the scene for students in a clear manner that invites comparisons. Organized by the type of musical use, allowing instructors to readily find examples of different types of music functions, and compare across different films.

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
R710 R589 Discovery Miles 5 890 Save R121 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Black Music in Britain in the 21st Century (Hardcover): Monique Charles Black Music in Britain in the 21st Century (Hardcover)
Monique Charles; As told to Mary W. Gani
R3,781 Discovery Miles 37 810 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Since the turn of the 21st century, there have been several genres birthed from or nurtured in Black Britain: funky & tribal House, Afrobeats, Grime, Afro Swing, UK Drill, Road Rap, Trap etc. This pioneering book brings together diverse diasporan sounds in conversation. A valuable resource for those interested in the study of 21st century Black music and related cultures in Britain, this book goes incorporates the significant Black Atlantean, global interactions within Black music across time and space. It examines and proposes theoretical approaches, contributing to building a holistic appreciation of 21st century Black British music and its multidimensional nature. This book proffers an academically curated, rigorous, holistic view of Black British music in the 21st century. Drawing from pioneering academics in the emerging field and industry professionals, the book will serve academic theory, as well as the views, debates and experiences of industry professionals in a complementary style that shows the synergies between diasporas and interdisciplinary conversations. The book is interdisciplinary. It draws from sociology, musicology and the emerging digital humanities fields, to make its arguments and develop a multi-disciplinary perspective about Black British music in the 21st century.

Doomed to Fail - The Incredibly Loud History of Doom, Sludge, and Post-metal (Paperback): J J Anselmi Doomed to Fail - The Incredibly Loud History of Doom, Sludge, and Post-metal (Paperback)
J J Anselmi
R476 Discovery Miles 4 760 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Doomed to Fail explores the heaviest music the world has ever heard, tracing doom, sludge, and post-metal as their own distinct (and incredibly loud) traditions. Anselmi covers the bands and musicians that have impacted those styles most-Black Sabbath, Candlemass, Melvins, Eyehategod, Godflesh, Neurosis, Saint Vitus, and many others-while diving into the cultural doom that has spawned such music, from the bombing of Birmingham and hurricane devastation of New Orleans to glaring economic inequality, industrial alienation, climate change, and widespread addiction. Along the way, Anselmi interweaves the musical experiences that have led him to proudly identify as one of the doomed.

Ripped - How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music (Paperback): Greg Kot Ripped - How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music (Paperback)
Greg Kot
R419 R348 Discovery Miles 3 480 Save R71 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

No less than a decade ago, the majority of mainstream music was funneled through a handful of media conglomerates. But now more individuals are listening to more music from a greater variety of sources than at any time in history. "Ripped "tells the story of how the laptop generation created a new music industry, with fans and bands rather than corporations in charge. In this new world, bands aren't just musicmakers but self-contained multimedia businesses; and fans aren't just consumers but distributors and even collaborators. Since this digital revolution hit the music industry, its infiltration into every other form of media has been well documented, if often not well understood. "Ripped "brilliantly illustrates how, when, and where the changes happened first and leaves us with an understanding of how to move forward.

Silhouettes and Shadows - The Secret History of David Bowie’s Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) (Paperback): Adam Steiner Silhouettes and Shadows - The Secret History of David Bowie’s Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) (Paperback)
Adam Steiner
R668 R558 Discovery Miles 5 580 Save R110 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Methods and Principles of Hungarian Ethnomusicology (Hardcover): Stephen Erdely Methods and Principles of Hungarian Ethnomusicology (Hardcover)
Stephen Erdely
R1,533 Discovery Miles 15 330 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Part of a series that offers mainly linguistic and anthropological research and teaching/learning material on a region of great cultural and strategic interest and importance in the post-Soviet era.

Music and Mysticism - Parts 3 and 4 (Paperback): Maxwell Steer Music and Mysticism - Parts 3 and 4 (Paperback)
Maxwell Steer
R1,022 Discovery Miles 10 220 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


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