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The Self-Restorative Power of Music - A Psychological Perspective (Paperback): Frank M. Lachmann The Self-Restorative Power of Music - A Psychological Perspective (Paperback)
Frank M. Lachmann
R973 Discovery Miles 9 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores how we can understand the place of music from a self psychological perspective, by investigating three journeys: the one we take when listening to music, the literal journey of the author from Nazi Germany to the United States, and the subjective round-trip between the past and the present. Drawing on the work of Heinz Kohut, the author examines how music can provide us with a way to reconnect with a sense of self, and how this can manifest in psychological and physical ways. There is particular reference to the work of Richard Wagner, Cole Porter, and Richard Strauss, and an examination of how their music enabled them, in times of stress and crisis, to restore and maintain a more positive sense of self. Finally, the book looks back at the author's own experiences of music and the place of music in the Jewish world. With clinical excerpts, personal narrative, and sophisticated psychoanalytic insights, this book will appeal to all psychoanalysts wanting to understand the place of music in shaping the psyche, as well as music scholars wishing to gain a deeper appreciation of the psychology of music.

Memory and History in Argentine Popular Music (Hardcover): Delia Pamela Fuentes Korban Memory and History in Argentine Popular Music (Hardcover)
Delia Pamela Fuentes Korban
R2,525 Discovery Miles 25 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Memory and History in Argentine Popular Music examines Argentine popular music of the 1990s and early 2000s that denounced, immortalized, and reflected on the processes that led to the socioeconomic crisis that shook Argentine society at the end of 2001. It draws upon the three most popular genres of the time-tango, rock chabon, and cumbia villera, a form of cumbia from the shantytowns. The book analyzes lyrics from these three genres detailing how they capture the feel of daily life and the changes that occurred under the neoliberal economic model that ravaged the country throughout the '90s. The contention is that these are canciones con historia, songs that depict historical events and tell personal stories. Therefore, the lyrics from all three genres serve as accounts of historical events and social and economic changes, denouncing the social inequalities caused by neoliberal economic policies. Furthermore, the book explores how the process of remembering and forgetting takes place on the Internet. It examines how users navigate video-sharing portals and use music to create "virtual sites of memory," a term that extends Winter's conception of physical sites of memory to digital environments as virtual sites of commemoration.

Celtic Music and Dance in Cornwall - Cornu-Copia (Hardcover): Lea Hagmann Celtic Music and Dance in Cornwall - Cornu-Copia (Hardcover)
Lea Hagmann
R4,499 Discovery Miles 44 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

1) First published book on the revival of Cornish music and dance and the first extended history of music and dance in Cornwall. 2) Based on a combination of qualitative fieldwork and expert interviews, and a meticulous study of the historical and revival material

The Self-Restorative Power of Music - A Psychological Perspective (Hardcover): Frank M. Lachmann The Self-Restorative Power of Music - A Psychological Perspective (Hardcover)
Frank M. Lachmann
R4,197 Discovery Miles 41 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores how we can understand the place of music from a self psychological perspective, by investigating three journeys: the one we take when listening to music, the literal journey of the author from Nazi Germany to the United States, and the subjective round-trip between the past and the present. Drawing on the work of Heinz Kohut, the author examines how music can provide us with a way to reconnect with a sense of self, and how this can manifest in psychological and physical ways. There is particular reference to the work of Richard Wagner, Cole Porter, and Richard Strauss, and an examination of how their music enabled them, in times of stress and crisis, to restore and maintain a more positive sense of self. Finally, the book looks back at the author's own experiences of music and the place of music in the Jewish world. With clinical excerpts, personal narrative, and sophisticated psychoanalytic insights, this book will appeal to all psychoanalysts wanting to understand the place of music in shaping the psyche, as well as music scholars wishing to gain a deeper appreciation of the psychology of music.

Playlisting - Collecting Music, Remediated (Hardcover): Onur Sesigur Playlisting - Collecting Music, Remediated (Hardcover)
Onur Sesigur
R1,649 Discovery Miles 16 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book examines the collection and curation of music, and the way digital streaming services are transforming the way we engage with the media. The study foregrounds personal digital curation techniques, rather than algorithms or technology, to acknowledge the sustaining human agency involved in playlisting. The author looks at Digital Service Providers such as Spotify, Apple and Deezer, which offer their users not just access to large collections of music, but also the opportunity to create and maintain personalised consumption subsets such as playlists. Positioning these current playlisting practices as a remediation of significant cultural practices of the 20th century - such as collecting records and mix-taping - the book highlights the continuity of culture through media change, and the implications for concepts of self and identity, society and sharing. Shedding new light on this contemporary cultural phenomenon, this book will be an important read for scholars who are interested in the area of digital music from different disciplines such as communication, digital humanities and social sciences in fields of media studies, digital cultures, personal information management, digital curation and popular music.

The Complete Book of 1910s Broadway Musicals (Hardcover): Dan Dietz The Complete Book of 1910s Broadway Musicals (Hardcover)
Dan Dietz
R5,044 Discovery Miles 50 440 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.

Psalm 150 (Sheet music, Vocal score): John Harper Psalm 150 (Sheet music, Vocal score)
John Harper
R120 Discovery Miles 1 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Film Music in the Sound Era - A Research and Information Guide, Volume 1: Histories, Theories, and Genres (Paperback): Jonathan... Film Music in the Sound Era - A Research and Information Guide, Volume 1: Histories, Theories, and Genres (Paperback)
Jonathan Rhodes Lee
R1,462 Discovery Miles 14 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Film Music in the Sound Era: A Research and Information Guide offers a comprehensive bibliography of scholarship on music in sound film (1927-2017). Thematically organized sections cover historical studies, studies of musicians and filmmakers, genre studies, theory and aesthetics, and other key aspects of film music studies. Broad coverage of works from around the globe, paired with robust indexes and thorough cross-referencing, make this research guide an invaluable tool for all scholars and students investigating the intersection of music and film. This guide is published in two volumes: Volume 1: Histories, Theories, and Genres covers overviews, historical surveys, theory and criticism, studies of film genres, and case studies of individual films. Volume 2: People, Cultures, and Contexts covers individual people, social and cultural studies, studies of musical genre, pedagogy, and the Industry. A complete index is included in each volume.

Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies in Music Education - Expanding Culturally Responsive Teaching to Sustain Diverse Musical... Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies in Music Education - Expanding Culturally Responsive Teaching to Sustain Diverse Musical Cultures and Identities (Hardcover)
Emily Good-Perkins
R4,488 Discovery Miles 44 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume problematizes the historic dominance of Western classical music education and posits culturally sustaining pedagogy (CSP) as a framework through which music curricula can better serve increasingly diverse student populations. By detailing a qualitative study conducted in an urban high school in the United States, the volume illustrates how traditional approaches to music education can inhibit student engagement and learning. Moving beyond culturally responsive teaching, the volume goes on to demonstrate how enhancing teachers' understanding of alternative musical epistemologies can support them in embracing CSP in the music classroom. This new theoretical and pedagogical framework reconceptualizes current practices to better sustain the musical cultures of the minoritized. This text will benefit researchers, academics, and educators with an interest in music education, multicultural education, and urban education more broadly. Those specifically interested in ethnomusicology and classroom practice will also benefit from this book.

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
R4,494 Discovery Miles 44 940 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

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
R1,382 Discovery Miles 13 820 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.

Film Music in the Sound Era - A Research and Information Guide (Paperback): Jonathan Rhodes Lee Film Music in the Sound Era - A Research and Information Guide (Paperback)
Jonathan Rhodes Lee
R1,443 Discovery Miles 14 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Film Music in the Sound Era: A Research and Information Guide offers a comprehensive bibliography of scholarship on music in sound film (1927-2017). Thematically organized sections cover historical studies, studies of musicians and filmmakers, genre studies, theory and aesthetics, and other key aspects of film music studies. Broad coverage of works from around the globe, paired with robust indexes and thorough cross-referencing, make this research guide an invaluable tool for all scholars and students investigating the intersection of music and film. This guide is published in two volumes: Volume 1: Histories, Theories, and Genres covers overviews, historical surveys, theory and criticism, studies of film genres, and case studies of individual films. Volume 2: People, Cultures, and Contexts covers individual people, social and cultural studies, studies of musical genre, pedagogy, and the Industry. A complete index is included in each volume.

Nationalism and Popular Culture (Paperback): Tim Nieguth Nationalism and Popular Culture (Paperback)
Tim Nieguth
R1,320 Discovery Miles 13 200 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.

Moved by Machines - Performance Metaphors and Philosophy of Technology (Paperback): Mark Coeckelbergh Moved by Machines - Performance Metaphors and Philosophy of Technology (Paperback)
Mark Coeckelbergh
R1,403 Discovery Miles 14 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Given the rapid development of new technologies such as smart devices, robots, and artificial intelligence and their impact on the lives of people and on society, it is important and urgent to construct conceptual frameworks that help us to understand and evaluate them. Benefiting from tendencies towards a performative turn in the humanities and social sciences, drawing on thinking about the performing arts, and responding to gaps in contemporary artefact-oriented philosophy of technology, this book moves thinking about technology forward by using performance as a metaphor to understand and evaluate what we do with technology and what technology does with us. Focusing on the themes of knowledge/experience, agency, and power, and discussing some pertinent ethical issues such as deception, the narrative of the book moves through a number of performance practices: dance, theatre, music, stage magic, and (perhaps surprisingly) philosophy. These are used as sources for metaphors to think about technology-in particular contemporary devices and machines-and as interfaces to bring in various theories that are not usually employed in philosophy of technology. The result is a sequence of gestures and movements towards a performance-oriented conceptual framework for a thinking about technology which, liberated from the static, vision-centred, and dualistic metaphors offered by traditional philosophy, can do more justice to the phenomenology of our daily embodied, social, kinetic, temporal, and narrative performances with technology, our technoperformances. This book will appeal to scholars of philosophy of technology and performance studies who are interested in reconceptualizing the roles and impact of modern technology.

Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis Op.53 - Paperback (Sheet music, Vocal score): William Mathias Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis Op.53 - Paperback (Sheet music, Vocal score)
William Mathias
R148 Discovery Miles 1 480 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Audience and Reception in the Early Modern Period (Hardcover): John R. Decker, Mitzi Kirkland-Ives Audience and Reception in the Early Modern Period (Hardcover)
John R. Decker, Mitzi Kirkland-Ives
R4,523 Discovery Miles 45 230 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Early modern audiences, readerships, and viewerships were not homogenous. Differences in status, education, language, wealth, and experience (to name only a few variables) could influence how a group of people, or a particular person, received and made sense of sermons, public proclamations, dramatic and musical performances, images, objects, and spaces. The ways in which each of these were framed and executed could have a serious impact on their relevance and effectiveness. The chapters in this volume explore the ways in which authors, poets, artists, preachers, theologians, playwrights, and performers took account of and encoded pluriform potential audiences, readers, and viewers in their works, and how these varied parties encountered and responded to these works. The contributors here investigate these complex interactions through a variety of critical and methodological lenses.

Educating Musicians for Sustainability (Hardcover): Anna Reid, Peter Petocz Educating Musicians for Sustainability (Hardcover)
Anna Reid, Peter Petocz
R1,660 Discovery Miles 16 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Educating Musicians for Sustainability explores the intersections of sustainability and music, investigating how sustainability affects the development and professional preparation of musicians while asking the question, 'What does sustainability have to do with music?' The volume presents a series of case studies organised according to an expanded view of the 'four pillars of sustainability', addressing cultural, environmental, economic, and social concerns. These case studies reveal a multitude of intersections, highlighting the crucial role music can play in raising awareness and overcoming the crisis of sustainability. In examining pedagogical and practical implications, aspiring musicians are encouraged to develop a broader view of the musical profession as a human endeavour, one that is intimately related to the world in which they live. Educating Musicians for Sustainability addresses the most pressing and serious problem of contemporary times - and seeks to inspire changes in attitudes and behaviour, for the benefit of all of humanity.

AI for Arts (Paperback): Niklas Hageback, Daniel Hedblom AI for Arts (Paperback)
Niklas Hageback, Daniel Hedblom
R823 Discovery Miles 8 230 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

a short and accessible introduction on AI and Art written by leading experts

Fancies (Sheet music, Vocal score): John Rutter Fancies (Sheet music, Vocal score)
John Rutter
R708 Discovery Miles 7 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

for SATB choir and piano or small orchestra A cycle of six choral settings of Elizabethan poetry by Campion, Herrick, Middleton, Shakespeare, and others Orchestral material is available on hire.

Musical Sincerity and Transcendence in Film - Reflexive Fictions (Hardcover): Timothy B. Cochran Musical Sincerity and Transcendence in Film - Reflexive Fictions (Hardcover)
Timothy B. Cochran
R4,496 Discovery Miles 44 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Musical Sincerity and Transcendence in Film focuses on the ways filmmakers treat music reflexively-that is, draw attention to what it is and what it can do. Examining a wide range of movies from the last thirty-five years including examples from Indiewood, teen film, and blockbuster cinema. The book explores two recurring ideas about music implied by foregrounded musical activity on screen: that music can be a potent means of sincere expression and genuine human connection and that music can enable transcendence of disenchantment and the mundane. The book covers eclectic critical terrain to highlight various layers of musical sincerity and transcendence in film, including the nineteenth-century aesthetics of E.T.A. Hoffmann, David Foster Wallace's literary resistance to irony (sometimes called the New Sincerity), strategies of self-revelation in singer-songwriter repertoires, Lionel Trilling's distinction between sincerity and authenticity, theories of play, David Nye's notion of the American technological sublime, and Svetlana Boym's writings on nostalgia. These lenses reveal that film is a way of perpetuating, revising, and critiquing ideas about music and that music in film is a potent means of exploring broader social, emotional, and spiritual desires.

Communion Service (Asb Rite A/Rc Icel Text) - Paperback (Sheet music, Congregational part): John Rutter Communion Service (Asb Rite A/Rc Icel Text) - Paperback (Sheet music, Congregational part)
John Rutter
R120 Discovery Miles 1 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Suitable for unison voices and organ with optional SATB choir.

Five Straight Lines - A History of Music (Hardcover, Main): Andrew Gant Five Straight Lines - A History of Music (Hardcover, Main)
Andrew Gant
R736 Discovery Miles 7 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

'Fascinating ... Composer Andrew Gant is a masterful guide, introducing readers to the major players and key themes of an entrancing topic.' BBC History Magazine Whether you prefer Baroque or pop, Theremins or violins, the music you love and listen to shapes your world. But what shaped the music? Ranging across time and space, this book takes us on a grand musical tour from music's origins in prehistory right up to the twenty-first century. Charting the leaps in technology, thought and practice that led to extraordinary revolutions of music in each age, the book takes us through medieval Europe, Renaissance Italy and Jazz era America to reveal the rich history of music we still listen to today. From Mozart to McCartney, Schubert to Schoenberg, Professor Andrew Gant brings to life the people who made the music, their techniques and instruments, as well as the places their music was played, from sombre churches to rowdy taverns, stately courts to our very own homes.

Composers in the Classroom - A Bio-Bibliography of Composers at Conservatories, Colleges, and Universities in the United States... Composers in the Classroom - A Bio-Bibliography of Composers at Conservatories, Colleges, and Universities in the United States (Hardcover)
James Michael Floyd
R3,675 Discovery Miles 36 750 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Composers in the Classroom is a bio-bibliographical dictionary, chronicling the careers and work of over 120 composers associated with conservatories, colleges, and universities in the United States and Puerto Rico. Scholars and students of music seeking critical information about composers who have taken on the mantle of instruction will find a wealth of detail on their subjects. Painstakingly obtained through direct correspondence with the composers themselves, Floyd includes within each entry a short biography of the composer's life and education, lists of previous positions, most prominent commissions, awards and honors, and notable performers of the subject's work. Each entry also contains a discography of the recordings and a bibliography of writings by the composer. Researchers will find especially useful the organization of each subject's compositions by a variety of types. These include vocal, choral/assembly, dramatic, keyboard, solo instrument, handbells, chamber music, jazz ensemble, band and wind ensemble, band and wind ensemble with solo instruments, orchestra, orchestra with solo instruments, film/television/commercial, electro-acoustic and multimedia, arrangements, transcriptions, and editions and reconstructions. Music scholars will find under each work not only the title and date of composition but also the date of revision, commission, and dedication information, as well as other pertinent details ranging from the names of collaborators to alternate titles under which works may circulate. Composers in the Classroom is an indispensable tool to scholars of modern music seeking to research the current state of musical composition and the compositional trends of the 21st century.

Creative and Cultural Industries in East Asia - An Introduction (Paperback): Brian Moeran Creative and Cultural Industries in East Asia - An Introduction (Paperback)
Brian Moeran
R1,236 Discovery Miles 12 360 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.

Creative and Cultural Industries in East Asia - An Introduction (Hardcover): Brian Moeran Creative and Cultural Industries in East Asia - An Introduction (Hardcover)
Brian Moeran
R4,493 Discovery Miles 44 930 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.

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