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This book uses intermedial theories to study collage and montage,
tracing the transformation of visual collage into photomontage in
the early avant-garde period. Magda Dragu distinguishes between the
concepts of collage and montage, as defined across several media
(fine arts, literature, music, film, photography), based on the
type of artistic meaning they generate, rather than the mechanical
procedures involved. The book applies theories of intermediality to
collage and montage, which is crucial for understanding collage as
a form of cultural production. Throughout, the author considers the
political implications, as collages and montages were often used
for propagandistic purposes. This book combines research methods
used in several areas of inquiry: art history, literary criticism,
analytical philosophy, musicology, and aesthetics.
This book provides cutting-edge research in the growing areas of
Audio Education and Popular Music Pedagogy Offers an ideal blend of
theory and practice as well as acknowledging the practical elements
of music production pedagogy A variety of international viewpoints
are included, making it accessible to educators in the US, UK,
Australia and beyond
From early medieval bards to the bands of the 'Cool Cymru' era,
this book looks at Welsh musical practices and traditions, the
forces that have influenced and directed them, and the ways in
which the idea of Wales as a 'musical nation' has been formed and
embedded in popular consciousness in Wales and beyond. Beginning
with early medieval descriptions of musical life in Wales, the book
provides both an overarching study of Welsh music history and
detailed consideration of the ideas, beliefs, practices and
institutions that shaped it. Topics include the eisteddfod, the
church and the chapel, the influence of the Welsh language and
Welsh cultural traditions, the scholarship of the Celtic Revival
and the folk song movement, the impacts of industrialization and
digitization, and exposure to broader trends in popular culture,
including commercial popular music and sport.
Arnold Bake (1899-1963) was a Dutch pioneer in South Asian
ethnomusicology, whose research impressed not only the most
renowned Indologists of his time but also the leading figures in
the emerging field of ethnomusicology. This long overdue biography
sheds light on his knowledge of the theory and practice of South
Asian music, as well as his legacy on the intellectual history of
ethnomusicology. Bake spent nearly seventeen years in the Indian
subcontinent and made numerous, irreplaceable recordings, films and
photographs of local musicians and dancers. As a gifted Western
musician, he studied Indian singing with Bhimrao Shastri,
Dinendranath Tagore and Nabadwip Brajabashi, and successfully
performed Rabindranath Tagore's compositions and South Asian folk
songs during hundreds of lecture-recitals in India, Europe and the
United States. For the last fifteen years of his life, Bake taught
Indian music at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS),
University of London; he was the first to do so at a Western
university. Besides his numerous writings and radio presentations,
he advanced his subject through his activities in British and
international research associations. The history of
ethnomusicology, especially as applied to South Asia, cannot be
fully understood without regard to Bake, and yet his contribution
has remained, until now, unclear and unknown.
What happens to punks, clubbers, goths, riot grrls, soulies,
break-dancers and queer scene participants as they become older?
For decades, research on spectacular 'youth cultures' has
understood such groups as adolescent phenomena and assumed that
involvement ceases with the onset of adulthood. In an age of
increasingly complex life trajectories, "Ageing and Youth Cultures"
is the first anthology to challenge such thinking by examining the
lives of those who continue to participate into adulthood and
middle-age.
Showcasing a range of original research case studies from across
the globe, the chapters explore how participants reconcile their
continuing involvement with ageing bodies, older identities and
adult responsibilities. Breaking new ground and establishing a new
field of study, the book will be essential reading for students and
scholars researching or studying questions of youth, fashion,
popular music and identity across a wide range of disciplines.
The story of singer Norman Platt's life in music and the rise and
fall of the renowned Kent Opera Company. Norman Platt was seized by
music at the age of five as a boy in industrial Lancashire, played
professionally at the age of nine and made music in one form or
another until his death in 2004. He sang in the choirs of King's
CollegeCambridge and St Paul's Cathedral, was a founder member of
the legendary Deller Consort and toured with Britten's English
Opera Group. He was a principal at Sadler's Wells and broadcast
regularly with the BBC. Yet, as theTimes obituarist wrote, "Norman
Platt was probably as famous for his battles to save Kent Opera in
the 1980's as he was founding the company in the first place in
1969. His was a long and thankless battle against the ArtsCouncil,
which had decided by the end of the 1980's that the country had one
opera company too many. Unfortunately his outspoken attacks on
funding policies made him enemies in high places, which left the
company vulnerable when the axe fell." Making Music, warmly
received on publication in 2001, is the story of Norman Platt's
life in music. At its heart is the story of the Kent Opera, which
featured conductor Roger Norrington, directors likeJonathan Miller
and Nicholas Hytner, and singers of the calibre of Jill Gomez and
Felicity Palmer. It will be essential reading for anyone interested
in the realities of the arts in the modern world.
Music is a metaphor that connects people to a profound sense of
life. In this book, music intersects with wellness and aging as
humans adapt to life changes, stay engaged, remain creative, and
achieve self-actualization. Along with discussion of cutting-edge
research, the book presents stories and interviews from everyday
people as well as professional and non-professional musicians. It
discusses individual and social wellness, age-related and
pathological changes in health, music therapies, personal
resilience and growth, interpersonal and community relationships,
work and retirement, spirituality, and the psychology of aging. The
case studies show how music, wellness, and aging connect to define,
direct, and celebrate life, as these three concepts allow people to
connect with others, break down barriers, and find common ground.
Uniquely bridges the aesthetics of imperfection with areas of
philosophy, music, literature, urban environment, architecture, art
theory, and cultural studies. Divided into seven thematic sections
to offer a comprehensive study of how imperfectionist aesthetics
connect to art and everyday life. As an interdisciplinary study,
this book will appeal to a broad range of scholars and advanced
students working in philosophical aesthetics, cultural studies, and
across the humanities.
Statistically the most performed and listened to contemporary
composer in the world, Arvo Pärt is a musical and cultural
phenomenon. This book is an essential resource for anyone
interested in his extraordinarily innovative and uniquely appealing
music. Andrew Shenton surveys the full scope of Pärt's oeuvre,
providing context and chronological continuity while concentrating
in particular on his text-based music, analysing and describing
individual pieces and techniques such as tintinnabulation. The book
also explores the spiritual and theological contexts of Pärt's
creativity, and the challenges of performing his work. This volume
is the definitive guide for readers looking to engage with the
form, content, and context of Pärt's compositions, as Shenton
situates Pärt in the narrative of metamodernism and suggests new
ways of understanding this unique and beautiful music.
On the Track offers a comprehensive guide to scoring for film and
television. Covering all styles and genres, the authors, both noted
film composers, cover everything from the nuts-and-bolts of timing,
cuing, and recording through balancing the composer's aesthetic
vision with the needs of the film itself. Unlike other books that
are aimed at the person "dreaming" of a career, this is truly a
guide that can be used by everyone from students to technically
sophisticated professionals. It contains over 100 interviews with
noted composers, illustrating the many technical points made
through the text.
This significant volume moves music-historical research in the
direction of deconstructing the national grand narratives in music
history, of challenging the national paradigm in methodology, and
thinking anew about cultural traffic, cultural transfer and
cosmopolitanism in the musical past. The chapters of this book
confront, or subject to some kind of critique, assumptions about
the importance of the national in the musical past. The emphasis,
therefore, is not so much on how national culture has been
constructed, or how national cultural institutions have influenced
musical production, but, rather, on the way the national has been
challenged by musical practices or audience reception.
Active crossovers are used by almost every sound reinforcement
system and every recording studio monitoring set-up; but the use of
active crossovers is rapidly expanding. This new edition, presents
all the updates to loudspeaker technology and crossover design. The
edition expands on loudspeaker configurations and design issues,
sound reinforcement issues, more on lowpass and highpass filters,
and may other filters. This new edition is a must read for anyone
wanting comprehensive practical knowledge.
First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
This volume brings together some of today's most exciting music
scholars to engage with the multifaceted body of work produced by
Nicholas Cook over the last thirty years. It offers a forum for
scholars to respond to his challenges to the discipline - to
'rethink music', to go 'beyond the score', and to build a more
'relational musicology'. Scholars from a range of subdisciplines
have been chosen to reflect Cook's breadth of interest, from music
theory, musical multimedia and the performance turn, popular music
studies, to the question of musical meaning. Cook's work has a
fundamental conceptual synthesis - one that can play an important
role in the future of musical scholarship globally.
Musicians in Crisis is a music ethnography of contemporary Athens,
before and during the infamous economic and political crisis. It
spans two contrasting periods in Greece: the last few years of
relative economic prosperity and social cohesion (2005-2009) and
the following period of austerity and socio-political turmoil
(2010-2017). Based on the author's participation and professional
involvement in the local music scenes since 2005, the monograph
untangles a web of creative practices, economic strategies and
social ideologies through the previously unheard voices of Athenian
music professionals. The book follows the life stories of freelance
musicians of different genders, ages, educational backgrounds and
musical genres, while they 'work' and 'play' in Athenian venues,
recording studios and classrooms. Adding to the growing literature
on precarity and resistance in the creative industries, it traces
the effects of unprecedented socioeconomic circumstances on
musicians' everyday experience, as well as the actions and
solidarities that help them to navigate personal and collective
devastation. Through rich and evocative testimonies from the
labourers of an industrious popular music scene, Musicians in
Crisis contests popular narratives of the Greek predicament as they
are reported by political and financial elites through
international media. In this process, the book tells a story about
how popular music is made in the liminal spaces between East and
West, affuence and poverty, harmony and turmoil.
In this behind-the-scenes look at the making of Fleetwood Mac's
epic, platinum-selling double album, Tusk, producers and engineers
Ken Caillat and Hernan Rojas tell their stories of spending a year
with the band in their new million-dollar studio trying to follow
up Rumours, the biggest rock album of the time. Following their
massive success, the band continued its infamous soap opera when
its musical leader and guitarist, Lindsey Buckingham, threatened to
quit if he didn't get things his way, resulting in clashes not only
with his band but especially Caillat, who had been essential to the
band's Grammy-winning sound. Hernan Rojas's story recounts a young
man who leaves Chile after General Pinochet's coup to seek his
future in the music industry of Los Angeles, where he finds success
at one of the hottest studios in town. When Fleetwood Mac arrives,
Rojas falls in love with its star singer, Stevie Nicks, and the two
of them become romantically involved. Throughout the book, both
Caillat and Rojas detail not only the trials and sacrifices they
made to finish the album, but also triumphs of musical inspiration
and technical innovation that have made Tusk the darling of music
critics and indie rockers today.
The Pearson Edexcel AS/A level Anthology of Music introduces the AS
and A level set works to a new generation of musicians and will
inspire them to develop their music knowledge, understanding and
skills and will help them prepare for their assessment. Published
in partnership with Edition Peters and Faber Music, and edited by
Julia Winterson, the printed Anthology contains: * printed music
scores of all 53 new set works in a single volume * a preface to
each score, setting the piece in context, highlighting key themes *
listening awareness points and suggestions for wider listening *
glossary of key terms used in each set work.
Described by one contemporary as the 'sweet singer of The Temple',
George Herbert has long been recognised as a lover of music.
Nevertheless, Herbert's own participation in seventeenth-century
musical culture has yet to be examined in detail. This is the first
extended critical study to situate Herbert's roles as priest, poet
and musician in the context of the musico-poetic activities of
members of his extended family, from the song culture surrounding
William Herbert and Mary Sidney to the philosophy of his eldest
brother Edward Herbert of Cherbury. It examines the secular visual
music of the Stuart court masque as well as the sacred songs of the
church. Arguing that Herbert's reading of Augustine helped to shape
his musical thought, it explores the tension between the abstract
ideal of music and its practical performance to articulate the
distinctive theological insights Herbert derived from the musical
culture of his time.
A guitar-playing practice guide with hundreds of warm-up and
technique-building exercises If you already play some guitar but
need some practice, you're in the right place. Guitar Exercises For
Dummies is a friendly guide that provides just enough need-to-know
information about practicing scales, chords, and arpeggios in the
context of specific skills and techniques to help you maximize its
400+ exercises and improve your guitar playing. (If you need
instruction on topics like buying or tuning a guitar and playing
basic chords, check out Guitar For Dummies.) This practical book
starts off with warm-up exercises (on and off-instrument) and then
logically transitions to scales, scale sequences, arpeggios,
arpeggio sequences, and chords, with a focus on building strength
and consistency as well as refining technique. Each section helps
you to practice correct hand and body posture and experience
variations, such as fingering options and hand positions, and then
ends with a brief musical piece for you to try. You can also
practice incorporating other facets of musical performance in your
exercises, such as: Tempo Time signature Phrasing Dynamics The book
wraps up with tips to help you maximize your practice time (like
setting goals for each session), ways to improve your musicianship
(such as studying other performers' body language), and an appendix
that explains the accompanying website (where you can find audio
tracks and additional information). Grab your guitar, grab a copy
of Guitar Exercises For Dummies, and start perfecting your finger
picking today. P.S. If you think this book seems familiar, you're
probably right. The Dummies team updated the cover and design to
give the book a fresh feel, but the content is the same as the
previous release of Guitar Exercises For Dummies (9780470387665).
The book you see here shouldn't be considered a new or updated
product. But if you're in the mood to learn something new, check
out some of our other books. We're always writing about new topics!
The study of musical instruments now no longer with us is
necessary, not only for the musician and composer, but for the man
of letters, the artist, and the chronicler of our national life;
for many allusions to customs of bygone times cannot otherwise be
understood, and we should be spared such a trying ordeal as we were
recently subjected to by one of our leading illustrated papers,
which introduced into a thirteenth century scene a twentieth
century mandoline with an up to date mechanism.
-Focuses on what actually works in development practice, in order
to inform and inspire practitioners and students -Impressive global
reach, with a wide range of case studies drawn from across Algeria,
Sri Lanka, Thailand, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, India,
Kosovo, Taiwan, USA, South Africa, Malawi, and China -Highlights
development projects at the small and large scale and across a
range of visual and performing arts
Since the 1970s, the landscape of higher education and research has
been considerably altered by the integration of the arts within the
university environment. Even though a form of research is inherent
to artistic creation, the creative process is not comparable to the
established procedures involved in academic research. As such, how
can the imperatives of intellectual (and sometimes restrictive)
rigour characteristic of scholarly endeavours be reconciled with
the more explorative and intuitive approach of artistic creation?
The concept of 'research-creation' allows artists and scholars to
collaborate on a common project, acknowledging each participant's
expertise in the production of an artistic work that either
generates theoretical reflections or has emerged from academic
research. This fully revised and updated translation of Sophie
Stevance and Serge Lacasse's original French book offers an
overview of the historical, political, social, cultural and
academic contexts within which research-creation has emerged in
Quebec and Canada, before similar (yet often divergent) conceptions
appeared elsewhere in the world. Focussing primarily on the case of
music, the book goes on to explore the pedagogical potential of
research-creation within a university-based environment and
proposes a clear and encompassing definition, as well as a
theoretical model, of research-creation supported by concrete
examples. By underscoring the reciprocal nature of this approach
and the potential benefits of collaborative relationships, the
authors' vision of research-creation extends far beyond the field
of music and art alone: rather, it has the potential to integrate
all approaches and disciplines that seek to combine practice and
research.
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