|
Books > Music > General
Bach representa el genio cumbre de la armon a musical, el hombre de
bien que sufre las ingratitudes de su tiempo, el creyente de un Ser
Supremo y el forjador de un himno de paz para toda la humanidad y
la historia. Vivir es triunfar. Y triunfar es resolver dos fuerzas
antag nicas. En todo instante estamos viviendo y muriendo. En todo
momento somos y no somos. Ser y no ser frase mas profunda que la de
la tragedia shakesperiana. Todo es y deja de ser. Todo cambia y es.
Inmanente a la vida est el perpetuo fl uir de lo existente. Bach es
el nico artista que ha llegado a esas insondables profundidades del
oc ano, en donde se funden y se identifi can la luz y la
obscuridad. Adalberto Garc a de Mendoza
THE #1 MOST COMPREHENSIVE AND HONEST BOOK FOR ANYONE WHO'S EVER
WANTED TO SING ON MAJOR TV COMMERCIALS You have a great voice, but
record deals are getting harder and harder to come by. Paid gigs
don't pay enough and solo albums aren't selling even with
promotion. There is an answer for you VOLUME 4 OF THE 30-30 CAREER:
MAKING 30 GRAND IN 30 SECONDS SINGING ON MAJOR TV COMMERCIALS walks
you through the lucrative world of commercial jingles. What once
was stereotyped as a career for campy, cliche vocalists and
songwriters has now become a pathway to generating a hit song and
promoting bands and brands at the same time. JINGLES today are
sounding more and more like SINGLES. Hundreds of thousands of
dollars have been made by singers on commercials over the years and
the competition is growing tougher and tougher all the time.
Whether you are a new comer or veteran in the game, VOLUME 4 of THE
30-30 shows you how to break deeper into this money-making industry
right now and have your voice heard locally, nationally and
internationally. We break down the SKILL, the NETWORK, and the
PSYCHOLOGY of singing on commercials. With the record industry
changing day to day, every singer and songwriter should be making
extra money in the advertising industry. It's true. You're either
NETworking or NOTworking Ever wonder why the politics are never on
your side? This book unveils the politics and secrets to working
your way onto vocal contracts that get you paid. Start networking
today and make "NEW" money by SINGING ON MAJOR TV COMMERCIALS.
Texto completo de las conferencias semanales transmitidas por el
comentarista musicologo Dr. Adalberto Garcia de Mendoza por la
Radio difusora Metropolitana XELA en su programa "Horizontes
Musicales." "No cabe duda que al hablar de Chopin llega uno a la
region de los pensamientos mas intimos, de las sugerencias
espirituales mas profundas en que se encuentran todos los colores y
matices emocionales, las ansias de liberacion de una patria
tristemente sufrida y lejanamente martirizada. En cada nota, en
cada frase de la obra de Chopin brota un quejido y tambien una
rebeldia. Es la Historia de Polonia. Su musica posee el misterio
del dolor y la fuerza espiritual que pocos hombres han sabido
idealizar y que solo los supremos intelectos descubren como
diamantes ocultos en lo mas intimo de la conciencia humana." Dr.
Adalberto Garcia de Mendoza
In the literature of information science, a number of studies have
been carried out attempting to model cognitive, affective,
behavioral, and contextual factors associated with human
information seeking and retrieval. On the other hand, only a few
studies have addressed the exploration of creative thinking in
music, focusing on understanding and describing individuals'
information seeking behavior during the creative process. Trends in
Music Information Seeking, Behavior, and Retrieval for Creativity
connects theoretical concepts in information seeking and behavior
to the music creative process. This publication presents new
research, case studies, surveys, and theories related to various
aspects of information retrieval and the information seeking
behavior of diverse scholarly and professional music communities.
Music professionals, theorists, researchers, and students will find
this publication an essential resource for their professional and
research needs.
This book presents chapters that have been brought together to
consider the multitude of ways that post-2000 popular music impacts
on our cultures and experiences. The focus is on misogyny, toxic
masculinity, and heteronormativity. The authors of the chapters
consider these three concepts in a wide range of popular music
styles and genres; they analyse and evaluate how the concepts are
maintained and normalized, challenged, and rejected. The
interconnected nature of these concepts is also woven throughout
the book. The book also seeks to expand the idea of popular music
as understood by many in the West to include popular music genres
from outside western Europe and North America that are often
ignored (for example, Bollywood and Italian hip hop), and to bring
in music genres that are inarguably popular, but also sit under
other labels such as rap, metal, and punk.
THE 30-30 Career is the #1 MOST COMPREHENSIVE BOOK SERIES ON MUSIC
AND ADVERTISING YOU MAY NOT SELL A MILLION RECORDS, but you can
MAKE A MILLION DOLLARS in the world of music and advertising.
VOLUME 3 of THE 30-30 CAREER: BECOMING A PLATINUM COMPOSER Making
Music For Commercials" shows you how to break big into a music
industry full of competition using the decisions and actions of
Award-Winning Commercial Composer Wendell Hanes as a blueprint to
scoring over 700 commercials, themes, and promos. A 24/7 grind is
the blueprint to your success. EARN your spot, HOLD your spot and
NEVER stop The next time the record industry closes you out, tap
the advertising industry.Become a Platinum Composer Don't chase the
dream. Build the Career. The 30-30 CAREER
This book presents an extensive and timely survey of more than 30
surround and 20 stereo-microphone techniques. Further, it offers,
for the first time, an explanation of why the RCA "Living Stereo"
series of legacy recordings from the 1950s and 60s is still
appreciated by music lovers worldwide, despite their use of an
apparently incorrect recording technique from the perspective of
psychoacoustics. Discussing this aspect in detail, the book draws
on the author's study of concert hall acoustics and
psychoacoustics. The book also analyzes the "fingerprint" features
of a selected number of surround and - more importantly - stereo
microphone techniques in depth by measuring their signal
cross-correlation over frequency and also using an artificial human
head. In addition, the book presents a rating of microphone
techniques based on the assessment of various acoustic attributes,
and merges the results of several subjective listening tests,
including those conducted by other researchers. Building on this
knowledge, it provides fresh insights into important microphone
system features, from stereo to 3D audio. Moreover, it describes
new microphone techniques, such as AB-PC, ORTF-T and BPT, and the
recently defined BQIrep (Binaural Quality Index of reproduced
music). Lastly, the book concludes with a short history of
microphone techniques and case studies of live and studio
recordings.
Through personal journeys both interior and across the globe, Alden
Jones investigates what motivates us to travel abroad in search of
the unfamiliar. By way of explorations to Costa Rica, Bolivia,
Nicaragua, Cuba, Burma, Cambodia, Egypt, and around the world on a
ship, Jones chronicles her experience as a young American traveler
while pondering her role as an outsider in the cultures she
temporarily inhabits. Her wanderlust fuels a strong, high-adventure
story and, much in the vein of classic travel literature, Jones's
picaresque tale of personal evolution informs her own transitions,
rites of passage, and understandings of her place as a citizen of
the world. With sharp insight and stylish prose, Jones asks: Is
there a right or wrong way to travel? The Blind Masseuse concludes
that there is, but that it's not always black and white.
Dancehall: It's simultaneously a source of raucous energy in the
streets of Kingston, Jamaica; a way of life for a group of
professional artists and music professionals; and a force of
stability and tension within the community. Electronically
influenced, relevant to urban Jamaicans, and highly danceable,
dancehall music and culture forms a core of popular entertainment
in the nation. As Anne Galvin reveals in "Sounds of the Citizens,"
the rhythms of dancehall music reverberate in complicated ways
throughout the lives of countless Jamaicans.
Galvin highlights the unique alliance between the dancehall
industry and community development efforts. As the central role of
the state in supporting communities has diminished, the rise of
private efforts such as dancehall becomes all the more crucial. The
tension, however, between those involved in the industry and those
within the neighborhoods is palpable and often dangerous. Amidst
all this, individual Jamaicans interact with the dancehall industry
and its culture to find their own paths of employment, social
identity, and sexual mores.
As "Sounds of the Citizens" illustrates, the world of entertainment
in Jamaica is serious business and uniquely positioned as a
powerful force within the community.
 |
Blue Notes
(Hardcover)
Robert P. Vande Kappelle
|
R2,088
R1,698
Discovery Miles 16 980
Save R390 (19%)
|
Ships in 10 - 15 working days
|
|
This book is written based on a true love story, and even though it
has other poems in it, love is the main factor.
This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
contains classical literature works from over two thousand years.
Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore
shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the
cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical
literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the
mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from
oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of
international literature classics available in printed format again
- worldwide.
This is the ultimate collection of funked-up wisdom and
inspiration, from the grooving pioneers of R & B, soul, and
funk to the flame-tending funkateers of hip-hop, neo-soul, and
gospel. With interviews and analyses from both groundbreaking
old-school innovators and ongoing revolutionaries - players like
Larry Graham, Anthony Jackson, Chuck Rainey, Bootsy Collins,
Stanley Clarke, Victor Wooten, Meshell Ndegeocello, and Andrew
Gouche - here are the secrets of how the masters take a groove and
make it funky. From the early days of James Brown and Motown
through the session players of Stax, Muscle Shoals, and Philly
soul, The Funky Bass Book digs deep into the grooves that have
moved generations, illuminating what lies at the heart of funk.
Louis Ginzberg's great compendium of Jewish legends, myths and
ancient lore challenge readers to understand the civilization
behind the greatest prophecies and holy writings ever written.
Volume One begins with the years of creation, detailing God's
creation of the Earth and all the lands and creatures upon it.
Man's creation, and the story of Adam and Eve, are duly related, as
are the ten generations which separated Adam from Noah. Volume Two,
roughly corresponding with the Biblical Books of Exodus and Job,
begins with the life and death of Joseph. His life and the lives of
Jacob's sons - the founders of the Jewish tribes - are likewise
told. Volume Three commences with Moses finally deciding to lead
the Jews out of Egypt, the oppression of the Pharaoh having become
too much to bear. Volume Four opens with the story of Joshua, who
was the servant of Moses and one of the twelve spies who scouted
the lands of Canaan at Moses' behest.
Based on fieldwork in Kinshasa and Paris, Breaking Rocks examines
patronage payments within Congolese popular music, where a love
song dedication can cost 6,000 dollars and a simple name check can
trade for 500 or 600 dollars. Tracing this system of prestige
through networks of musicians and patrons - who include gangsters
based in Europe, kleptocratic politicians in Congo, and lawless
diamond dealers in northern Angola - this book offers insights into
ideologies of power and value in central Africa's troubled
post-colonial political economy, as well as a glimpse into the
economic flows that make up the hidden side of the globalization.
Since the dawn of modernism, visual and music production have had a
particularly intimate relationship. From Luigi Russolo's 1913
Futurist manifesto L'Arte dei Rumori (The Art of Noise) to Marcel
Duchamp's 1925 double-sided discs Rotoreliefs, the 20th century saw
ever more fertile exchange between sounds and shapes, marks and
melodies, and different fields of composition and performance. In
Francesco Spampinato's unique anthology of artists' record covers,
we discover the rhythm of this particular cultural history. The
book presents 450 covers and records by visual artists from the
1950s through to today, exploring how modernism, Pop Art,
Conceptual Art, postmodernism, and various forms of contemporary
art practice have all informed this collateral field of visual
production and supported the mass distribution of music with
defining imagery that swiftly and suggestively evokes an aural
encounter. Along the way, we find Jean-Michel Basquiat's urban
hieroglyphs for his own Tartown record label, Banksy's stenciled
graffiti for Blur, and a skewered Salvador Dali butterfly on Jackie
Gleason's Lonesome Echo. There are insightful analyses and fact
sheets alongside the covers listing the artist, performer, album
name, label, year of release, and information on the original
artwork. Interviews with Tauba Auerbach, Shepard Fairey, Kim
Gordon, Christian Marclay, Albert Oehlen, and Raymond Pettibon add
personal accounts on the collaborative relationship between artists
and musicians. About the series TASCHEN is 40! Since we started our
work as cultural archaeologists in 1980, TASCHEN has become
synonymous with accessible publishing, helping bookworms around the
world curate their own library of art, anthropology, and aphrodisia
at an unbeatable price. Today we celebrate 40 years of incredible
books by staying true to our company credo. The 40 series presents
new editions of some of the stars of our program-now more compact,
friendly in price, and still realized with the same commitment to
impeccable production.
Singer-songwriters' lyrical reflections have a magical way of
expressing our own sentiments and feelings. Almost all of the
singer-songwriters discussed here -- including Bob Dylan, John
Lennon, Tom Waits, Amy Winehouse, The White Stripes, and many more
-- sing in an exotic and raw vocal style, which one would not
traditionally call reassuring, and yet their profoundly unique
voices appear to be the only ones capable of conveying their unique
messages. One of the key elements being studied in this book is the
fact that singer-songwriters often suffer from a deep sense of
loneliness, perhaps associated with a sense of being the only one
who could adequately sing and perform what they compose. Often,
even those who write within a famed partnership still compose for
that other voice exclusively, much to their chagrin. The irony here
is that it is this very tendency towards self-absorption that
allows these artists to speak so eloquently for all the rest of us.
Utilizing firsthand musical reflections on the nature of the
singer-songwriter psychology and its consequences on art and
private life, "Dark Mirror" explores the intricate nature of
isolation and self-absorption in the singer-songwriter's creative
work.
Lyrical reflections have a magical way of expressing our own
sentiments and feelings. Almost all of the singer-songwriters
discussed in this volume-including Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Tom
Waits, Amy Winehouse, The White Stripes, and many more -- sing in
an exotic and raw vocal style, which one would not traditionally
call reassuring, and yet their voices appear to be the only ones
capable of conveying their own unique messages. One of the key
elements being studied in this book is the fact that
singer-songwriters often suffer from a deep sense of loneliness,
perhaps associated with a sense of being the only one who could
adequately sing and perform what they compose. Often, even those
who write within a famed partnership still compose for that other
voice exclusively - much to their chagrin. The irony here is that
it is this very tendency towards self-absorption that allows these
artists to speak so eloquently for all the rest of us.
This work is divided into three principal sections: part one
delves into the singer-songwriters who function primarily as solo
artists; part two explores singer-songwriters who function
primarily as part of a team - and who wouldn't write quite the same
material for a different partner; and part three surveys those who
function as members of a larger thematic community or stylistic
tribe, within which they share certain creative sentiments.
Utilizing firsthand musical reflections on the nature of the
singer-songwriter psychology and its consequences on art and
private life, Dark Mirror explores the intricate nature of
isolation and self-absorption within the singer-songwriter's
creative work.
This book provides an in-depth analysis of the unique structure of
the Nigerian popular music industry. It explores the dissonance
between copyright's thematic support for creative autonomy and the
practical ways in which the law allows singer-songwriters'
(performing authors') creative autonomy to be subverted in their
contractual relationships with record labels. The book establishes
the concept of creative autonomy for performing authors as a key
criterion for sustainable economic development, and makes
innovative legal and policy recommendations to help stakeholders
preserve it.
|
|