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What do we mean when we talk about the identity of a musical work
and what does such an identity involve? What in fact are the
properties that make it something worth protecting and preserving?
These issues are not only of legal relevance; they are central to a
philosophical discipline that has seen considerable advances over
the last few decades: musical ontology. Taking into account its
main theoretical models, this essay argues that an understanding of
the ontological status of musical works should acknowledge the
irreducible ambivalence of music as an "art of the trace" and as a
"performative art." It advocates a theory of the musical work as a
"social object" and, more specifically, as a sound artefact that
functions aesthetically and which is based on a trace informed by a
normative value. Such a normativity is further explored in relation
to three primary ways of conceiving and fixing the trace: orality,
notation and phonography.
This book explores an album of popular music with a remarkable
significance to a violent wave of postcolonial tensions in the
Netherlands in the 1970s. Several "actions" were claimed by a small
number of first-generation descendants of ca. 12,500 reluctant
migrants from the young independent state of Indonesia (former
Dutch East Indies). Transferred in 1951, this culturally coherent
group consisted of ex-Royal Dutch Colonial Army personnel and their
families. Their ancient roots in the Moluccan archipelago and their
protestant-christian faith defined their minority image. Their
sojourn should have been temporary, but frustratingly turned out to
be permanent. At the height of strained relations, Massada rose to
the occasion. Astaganaga (1978) is a telling example of the will to
negotiate a different diasporic Moluccan identity through uplifting
contemporary sounds.
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The Glorious Triumph
(Hardcover)
Aldine S (Aldine Silliman) Kieffer, R A New Melodies of Praise a Glenn
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A piano is one of the most expensive consumer purchases many people
will ever make, yet honest, unbiased price information is
mysteriously scarce. In this companion volume to The Best of
Acoustic & Digital Piano Buyer, Fine provides "list
prices" for most piano and digital-piano brands and models, plus
advice on how to estimate actual "street prices." Specifications
for hundreds of models of digital piano are also included.
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The Lhota Nagas
(Hardcover)
J P (James Philip) 1890-1960 Mills, J H (John Henry) 1885-1968 Hutton
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Rock Atlas has hundreds of stories which deliver a fresh, new
insight into the lives of the UK and Ireland's rock and pop stars.
This fact-packed look at rock and pop, from an entirely different
perspective, throws up many new revelations about our favourite
musicians. When you ve finished reading the stories, you can visit
the places. Every one of the book's 800 entries is followed by
directions for how to find the iconic venues, record shops,
statues, album cover shoots, childhood homes and festival sites.
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