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Marvelous Rise of Superheroes in Cinema: Evolution of the Genre
from Sequels to Universes addresses the superhero movie genre's
transformation between 1978 and 2019. To emphasize and illustrate
the conceptual and thematic transformation, the main conventions of
the genre are scanned through several periods, focusing on the
developmental age of the genre, including the dominant period of DC
Comics-based superhero movies (1978-1997) and the Marvel "boom"
(2000-2007), and the contemporary age. For this purpose, the book
traces the fundamentals of superheroes from the first appearance of
Superman in Action Comics #1 (1938) to the final installment of the
MCU's Phase 3, Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019). The transformation
has two significant points. First, the genre's main conventions
have been in a change. Second, the genre's focus has changed from
sequel filmmaking to the universe concept. The study investigates
the Marvel Cinematic Universe's dominant, leading, and major role
in the genre's evolutionary process. Besides, the future of the
superhero movie genre is questioned through the multiverse concept
to broaden an understanding of the genre's following directions.
"Mary, Did You Know?" the classic song continues to be a seasonal
favorite on airplay.
Author and music artist Mark Lowery offers an expanded view of
his highly successful Christmas song, ""Mary, Did You Know?"" in
this classic gift book. This perennial seller will have a wonderful
new and updated design, as well as refreshed text including a new
foreword with inspirational insights by Gloria Gaither. CD includes
song sung by Lowry and the Gaither Vocal Band plus reflections from
Lowry about his sentiments as he wrote about Mary's view,
heartbreak, and unwavering faith as the mother of the Savior.
Unlocks the secrets behind the images and music of an important
Spanish musical manuscript compiled for a brotherhood of suspected
heretics ca. 1500. The Rosary Cantoral is a rare and beautifully
decorated manuscript of Latin plainchant for the Catholic Mass
compiled in Toledo, Spain, around the year 1500. In an engaging and
richly interdisciplinary essay, Lorenzo Candelaria approaches the
Rosary Cantoral as a cultural artifact, unlocking the secrets
behind its images and music to reveal the social history and
rituals of an elite brotherhood dedicated to the rosary and aspects
of the religious communityit served: the Dominicans of San Pedro
Martir de Toledo. The Rosary Cantoral: Ritual and Social Design in
a Chantbook from Early Renaissance Toledo presents a model for
realizing the fuller significance of illuminatedmusic manuscripts
as cultural artifacts and offers unprecedented insights into the
social and devotional life of Toledo, Spain, around the turn of the
sixteenth century. After solving the mystery of the Rosary
Cantoral's origins,subsequent essays probe the meaning and cultural
significance of the manuscript's iconography (including a border
decoration after Albrecht Durer), its rare Spanish chants for the
Mass, and two striking musical works for multiplevoices (one by
Josquin Desprez and another on "L'homme arme"). Ultimately, this
book focuses on the extraordinary circumstances that engendered the
compilation of the Rosary Cantoral around 1500: a system of
patronage between a brotherhood of suspected heretics and a
religious house that was a key supporter of the Inquisition in
Toledo. Lorenzo Candelaria (University of Texas at Austin) is
co-author of American Music: A Panorama.
Ecologies of Resonance in Christian Musicking Rexplores a diverse
range of Christian musical activity through the conceptual lens of
resonance, a concept rooted in the physical, vibrational, and sonic
realm that carries with it an expansive ability to simultaneously
describe personal, social, and spiritual realities. In this book,
Mark Porter proposes that attention to patterns of back-and-forth
interaction that exist in and alongside sonic activity can help to
understand the dynamics of religious musicking in new ways and, at
the same time, can provide a means for bringing diverse traditions
into conversation. The book focuses on different questions arising
out of human experience in the moment of worship. What happens if
we take the entry point of a human being experiencing certain
patterns of (more than) sonic interaction with the world around
them as a focus for exploration? What different ecologies of
interaction can be encountered? What kinds of patterns can be
traced through different Christian worshiping environments? And how
do these operate across multiple dimensions of experience? Chapters
covering ascetic sounding, noisy congregations, and Internet
live-streaming, among others, serve to highlight the diverse
ecologies of resonance that surround Christian musicking,
suggesting the potential to develop new perspectives on devotional
musical activity that focus not primarily on compositions or
theological ideals but on changing patterns of interaction across
multiple dimensions between individuals, spaces, communities, and
God.
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