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You're with Stupid - kranky, Chicago, and the Reinvention of Indie Music (Hardcover): Bruce Adams You're with Stupid - kranky, Chicago, and the Reinvention of Indie Music (Hardcover)
Bruce Adams
R731 R597 Discovery Miles 5 970 Save R134 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In the 1990s, Chicago was at the center of indie rock, propelling bands like the Smashing Pumpkins and Liz Phair to the national stage. The musical ecosystem from which these bands emerged, though, was expansive and diverse. Grunge players comingled with the electronic, jazz, psychedelic, and ambient music communities, and an inventive, collaborative group of local labels-kranky, Drag City, and Thrill Jockey, among others-embraced the new, evolving sound of indie "rock." Bruce Adams, co-founder of kranky records, was there to bear witness. In You're with Stupid, Adams offers an insider's look at the role Chicago's underground music industry played in the transformation of indie rock. Chicago labels, as Adams explains, used the attention brought by national acts to launch bands that drew on influences outside the Nirvana-inspired sound then dominating pop. The bands themselves-Labradford, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Low-were not necessarily based in Chicago, but it was Chicago labels like kranky that had the ears and the infrastructure to do something with this new music. In this way, Chicago-shaped sounds reached the wider world, presaging the genre-blending music of the twenty-first century. From an author who helped create the scene and launched some of its best music, You're with Stupid is a fascinating and entertaining read.

Discovering Music Theory, The ABRSM Grade 1 Answer Book (Sheet music): Abrsm Discovering Music Theory, The ABRSM Grade 1 Answer Book (Sheet music)
Abrsm
R234 Discovery Miles 2 340 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Discovering Music Theory is a suite of workbooks and corresponding answer books that offers all-round preparation for the updated ABRSM Music Theory exams from 2020, including the new online papers. This full-colour workbook will equip students of all ages with the skills, knowledge and understanding required for the ABRSM Grade 1 Music Theory exam. Written to make theory engaging and relevant to developing musicians of all ages, it offers: *

Performing Nostalgia: Migration Culture and Creativity in South Albania (Hardcover, New Ed): Eckehard Pistrick Performing Nostalgia: Migration Culture and Creativity in South Albania (Hardcover, New Ed)
Eckehard Pistrick
R3,925 Discovery Miles 39 250 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Migration studies is an area of increasing significance in musicology as in other disciplines. How do migrants express and imagine themselves through musical practice? How does music help them to construct social imaginaries and to cope with longings and belongings? In this study of migration music in postsocialist Albania, Eckehard Pistrick identifies links between sound, space, emotionality and mobility in performance, provides new insights into the controversial relationship between sound and migration, and sheds light on the cultural effects of migration processes. Central to Pistrick's approach is the essential role of emotionality for musical creativity which is highlighted throughout the volume: pain and longing are discussed not as a traumatising end point, but as a driving force for human action and as a source for cultural creativity. In addition, the study provides a fascinating overview about the current state of a rarely documented vocal tradition in Europe that is a part of the mosaic of Mediterranean singing traditions. It refers to the challenges imposed onto this practice by heritage politics, the dynamics of retraditionalisation and musical globalisation. In this sense the book constitutes an important study to the dynamics of postsocialism as seen from a musicological perspective. Winner of the 2017 Stavro Skendi Book Prize for Achievement in Albanian Studies, Society for Albanian Studies Dr. Pistrick's book, in the committee's judgment, impressively connects ethnomusicology, anthropology and migration studies. Linking sound with space and emotionality, it offers a new understanding of the role of the oral tradition within Albanian communities, in particular its ability to deal creatively with painful experiences and the realities of migration. Association for Slavic, East European & Eurasian Studies

Madvillain's Madvillainy (Paperback): Will Hagle Madvillain's Madvillainy (Paperback)
Will Hagle
R303 R215 Discovery Miles 2 150 Save R88 (29%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book celebrates Madvillainy as a representation of two genius musical minds melding to form one revered supervillain. A product of circumstance, the album came together soon after MF DOOM's resurgence and Madlib's reluctant return from avant-garde jazz to hip-hop. Written from the alternating perspectives of three fake music journalist superheroes-featuring interviews with Wildchild, M.E.D., Walasia, Daedalus, Stones Throw execs, and many other real individuals involved with the album's creation-this book blends fiction and non-fiction to celebrate Madvillainy not just as an album, but as a folkloric artifact. It is one specific retelling of a story which, like Madvillain's music, continues to spawn infinite legends.

DIY House Shows and Music Venues in the US - Ethnographic Explorations of Place and Community (Paperback): David Verbuč DIY House Shows and Music Venues in the US - Ethnographic Explorations of Place and Community (Paperback)
David Verbuč
R1,233 Discovery Miles 12 330 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

DIY House Shows and Music Venues in the US is an interdisciplinary study of house concerts and other DIY (‘do-it-yourself’) music venues in the US, such as warehouses, all-ages clubs and guerrilla shows, with its primary focus on West Coast American DIY locales. Focusing on DIY houses, music venues, social spaces, and local and translocal cultural geographies, the author examines how American DIY communities constitute themselves in relation to their social and spatial environment. The ethnographic approach shows the inner-workings of American DIY culture, and how the particular people within particular places strive to achieve a social ideal of an "intimate" community.

Celtic Music and Dance in Cornwall - Cornu-Copia (Paperback): Lea Hagmann Celtic Music and Dance in Cornwall - Cornu-Copia (Paperback)
Lea Hagmann
R1,230 Discovery Miles 12 300 Ships in 12 - 17 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

Let's Spend the Night Together - Backstage Secrets of Rock Muses and Supergroupies (Paperback): Pamela Des Barres Let's Spend the Night Together - Backstage Secrets of Rock Muses and Supergroupies (Paperback)
Pamela Des Barres
R546 R466 Discovery Miles 4 660 Save R80 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Since rock's beginnings, there have been groupies. These chosen few women who bed, but not often wed, the musicians of their dreams are almost as much a part of music history as the musicians themselves. Pamela Des Barres, the world's foremost supergroupie, here offers an all-access backstage pass to the world of rock stars and the women who love them. Having had her own affairs with legends such as Keith Moon and Jimmy Page--as documented in her bestselling memoir "I'm with the Band"--Pamela now turns the spotlight onto other women who have found their way into the hearts and bedrooms of some of the world's greatest musicians. In "Let's Spend the Night Together, "she tells, in their own words, the stories of these amazing women who went way beyond the one-night stand. Here you'll get to know 24 outrageous groupies, including - Tura Satana, Miss Japan Beautiful, who taught Elvis how to dance and gave him lessons in lovemaking - Cassandra Peterson, aka Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, who tangled with Tom Jones in Sin City - Soulful Miss Mercy, who discovered that not only does the rest of the world listen to Al Green while making love--so does Al Green - Cynthia Plaster Caster, who redefined art and made history when Jimi Hendrix plunged his member into her plaster mold - The mysterious Miss B, who reveals Kurt Cobain's penchant for lip gloss and pantyhose - and over a dozen more

Music Theory in Late Medieval Avignon - Magister Johannes Pipardi (Paperback): Karen M. Cook Music Theory in Late Medieval Avignon - Magister Johannes Pipardi (Paperback)
Karen M. Cook
R564 Discovery Miles 5 640 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The manuscript Seville, Biblioteca Colombina y Capitular 5-2-25, a composite of dozens of theoretical treatises, is one of the primary witnesses to late medieval music theory. Its numerous copies of significant texts have been the focus of substantial scholarly attention to date, but the shorter, unattributed, or fragmentary works have not yet received the same scrutiny. In this monograph, Cook demonstrates that a small group of such works, linked to the otherwise unknown Magister Johannes Pipudi, is in fact much more noteworthy than previous scholarship has observed. The not one but two copies of De arte cantus are in fact one of the earliest known sources for the Libellus cantus mensurabilis, purportedly by Jean des Murs and the most widely copied music theory treatise of its day, while Regulae contrapunctus, Nota quod novem sunt species contrapunctus, and a concluding set of notes in Catalan are early witnesses to the popular Ars contrapuncti treatises also attributed to des Murs. Disclosing newly discovered biographical information, it is revealed that Pipudi is most likely one Johannes Pipardi, familiar to Cardinal Jean de Blauzac, Vicar-General of Avignon. Cook provides the first biographical assessment for him and shows that late fourteenth-century Avignon was a plausible chronological and geographical milieu for the Seville treatises, hinting provocatively at a possible route of transmission for the Libellus from Paris to Italy. The monograph concludes with new transcriptions and the first English translations of the treatises.

Race and Gender in the Western Music History Survey - A Teacher's Guide (Hardcover): Kristen M. Turner, Horace J. Maxile,... Race and Gender in the Western Music History Survey - A Teacher's Guide (Hardcover)
Kristen M. Turner, Horace J. Maxile, Jr.
R1,506 Discovery Miles 15 060 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Race and Gender in the Western Music History Survey: A Teacher's Guide provides concrete information and approaches that will help instructors include women and people of color in the typical music history survey course and the foundational music theory classes. This book provides a reconceptualization of the principles that shape the decisions instructors should make when crafting the syllabus. It offers new perspectives on canonical composers and pieces that take into account musical, cultural, and social contexts where women and people of color are present. Secondly, it suggests new topics of study and pieces by composers whose work fits into a more inclusive narrative of music history. A thematic approach parallels the traditional chronological sequencing in Western music history classes. Three themes include people and communities that suffer from various kinds of exclusion: Locales & Locations; Forms & Factions; Responses & Reception. Each theme is designed to uncover a different cultural facet that is often minimized in traditional music history classrooms but which, if explored, lead to topics in which other perspectives and people can be included organically in the curriculum, while not excluding canonical composers.

Music Sociology - Examining the Role of Music in Social Life (Hardcover): Sara Towe Horsfall, Jan-Martijn Meij, Meghan... Music Sociology - Examining the Role of Music in Social Life (Hardcover)
Sara Towe Horsfall, Jan-Martijn Meij, Meghan Probstfield
R5,984 Discovery Miles 59 840 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Music Sociology explores 16 different genres to demonstrate that music everywhere reflects social values, organisational processes, meanings and individual identity. Presenting original ethnographic research, the contributors use descriptions of subcultures to explain the concepts of music sociology, including the rituals that link people to music, the past and each other. Music Sociology introduces the sociology of music to those who may not be familiar with it and provides a basic historical perspective on popular music in America and beyond.

Musical Theory in the Renaissance (Hardcover, New Ed): Cristle Collins Judd Musical Theory in the Renaissance (Hardcover, New Ed)
Cristle Collins Judd
R9,683 Discovery Miles 96 830 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume of essays draws together recent work on historical music theory of the Renaissance. The collection spans the major themes addressed by Renaissance writers on music and highlights the differing approaches to this body of work by modern scholars, including: historical and theoretical perspectives; consideration of the broader cultural context for writing about music in the Renaissance; and the dissemination of such work. Selected from a variety of sources ranging from journals, monographs and specialist edited volumes, to critical editions, translations and facsimiles, these previously published articles reflect a broad chronological and geographical span, and consider Renaissance sources that range from the overtly pedagogical to the highly speculative. Taken together, this collection enables consideration of key essays side by side aided by the editor's introductory essay which highlights ongoing debates and offers a general framework for interpreting past and future directions in the study of historical music theory from the Renaissance.

The Act of Musical Composition - Studies in the Creative Process (Hardcover, New Ed): Dave Collins The Act of Musical Composition - Studies in the Creative Process (Hardcover, New Ed)
Dave Collins
R4,223 Discovery Miles 42 230 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The study of musical composition has been marked by a didactic, technique-based approach, focusing on the understanding of musical language and grammar -harmony, counterpoint, orchestration and arrangement - or on generic and stylistic categories. In the field of the psychology of music, the study of musical composition, even in the twenty-first century, remains a poor cousin to the literature which relates to musical perception, music performance, musical preferences, musical memory and so on. Our understanding of the compositional process has, in the main, been informed by anecdotal after-the-event accounts or post hoc analyses of composition. The Act of Musical Composition: Studies in the Creative Process presents the first coherent exploration around this unique aspect of human creative activity. The central threads, or key themes - compositional process, creative thinking and problem-solving - are integrated by the combination of theoretical understandings of creativity with innovative empirical work.

Music and Ideology (Hardcover, New Ed): Mark Carroll Music and Ideology (Hardcover, New Ed)
Mark Carroll
R7,444 R2,664 Discovery Miles 26 640 Save R4,780 (64%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume gathers together a cross-section of essays and book chapters dealing with the ways in which musicians and their music have been pressed into the service of political, nationalist and racial ideologies. Arranged chronologically according to their subject matter, the selections cover Western and non-Western musics, as well as art and popular musics, from the eighteenth century to the present day. The introduction features detailed commentaries on sources beyond those included in the volume, and as such provides an invaluable and comprehensive reading list for researchers and educators alike. The volume brings together for the first time seminal articles written by leading scholars, and presents them in such a way as to contribute significantly to our understanding of the use and abuse of music for ideological ends.

Bodily Expression in Electronic Music - Perspectives on Reclaiming Performativity (Hardcover): Deniz Peters, Gerhard Eckel,... Bodily Expression in Electronic Music - Perspectives on Reclaiming Performativity (Hardcover)
Deniz Peters, Gerhard Eckel, Andreas Dorschel
R4,212 Discovery Miles 42 120 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this book, scholars and artists explore the relation between electronic music and bodily expression from perspectives including aesthetics, philosophy of mind, phenomenology, dance and interactive performance arts, sociology, computer music and sonic arts, and music theory, transgressing disciplinary boundaries and established beliefs. The historic decoupling of action and sound generation might be seen to have distorted or even effaced the expressive body, with the retention of performance qualities via recoupling not equally retaining bodily expressivity. When, where, and what is the body expressed in electronic music then? The authors of this book reveal composers, performers, improvisers and listeners bodies, as well as the works and technologies figurative bodies as a rich source of expressive articulation. Bringing together humanities scholarship and musical arts contingent upon new media, the contributors offer inspiring thought and critical reflection for all those seriously engaged with the aesthetics of electronic music, interactive performance, and the body 's role in aesthetic experience and expression. Performativity is not only seen as being reclaimed in live electronic music, interactive arts, and installations; it is also exposed as embodied in the music and the listeners themselves.

Introduction to Digital Music with Python Programming - Learning Music with Code (Paperback): Michael S. Horn, Melanie West,... Introduction to Digital Music with Python Programming - Learning Music with Code (Paperback)
Michael S. Horn, Melanie West, Cameron Roberts
R1,162 Discovery Miles 11 620 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Introduction to Digital Music with Python Programming provides a foundation in music and code for the beginner. It shows how coding empowers new forms of creative expression while simplifying and automating many of the tedious aspects of production and composition. With the help of online, interactive examples, this book covers the fundamentals of rhythm, chord structure, and melodic composition alongside the basics of digital production. Each new concept is anchored in a real-world musical example that will have you making beats in a matter of minutes. Music is also a great way to learn core programming concepts such as loops, variables, lists, and functions, Introduction to Digital Music with Python Programming is designed for beginners of all backgrounds, including high school students, undergraduates, and aspiring professionals, and requires no previous experience with music or code.

Music and Song in Persia (RLE Iran B) - The Art of Avaz (Hardcover): Lloyd Miller Music and Song in Persia (RLE Iran B) - The Art of Avaz (Hardcover)
Lloyd Miller
R5,114 Discovery Miles 51 140 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book is the first full-length analysis of the theory and practice of Persian singing, demonstrating the centrality of Persian elements in the music of the Islamic Middle Ages, their relevance to both contemporary and traditional Iranian music and their interaction with classical Persian poetry and metrics.

Rolling Stone - The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time (Hardcover): Rolling Stone Rolling Stone - The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time (Hardcover)
Rolling Stone
R889 Discovery Miles 8 890 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

From Rolling Stone, the definitive and lavishly illustrated companion book to one of the most popular and hotly debated lists in the world of musicWhen Rolling Stone publishes a list, the world listens. The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list was first established in 2003 and the lineup was updated in 2012, polling the industry's most celebrated artists, producers, industry executives, and journalists to create the definitive ranking. As a companion to the original 2003 list, Rolling Stone and Wenner Books published the bestselling 500 Greatest Albums coffee table book. In 2020 Rolling Stone started from scratch with a completely new 500 Greatest Albums list, voted on by the biggest names in music-including Beyonce, Billie Eilish, and Taylor Swift, to name a few. As expected, the new list caused a huge splash across the music and entertainment industries, sparking major conversation and debate around the list, and generating more than 125 million page views on RollingStone.com in the first month of launch.In partnership with Abrams, Rolling Stone has created the definitive companion book to reflect the all-new 2020 list, telling the stories behind all 500 albums through incredible Rolling Stone photography, original album art, Rolling Stone's unique critical commentary, breakout pieces on the making of key albums, archival interview content, and a celebrity introduction.

The Philosophy of Music (Paperback): William Pole The Philosophy of Music (Paperback)
William Pole; Introduction by Edward J. Dent
R1,374 Discovery Miles 13 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone

Small Town Talk (Paperback): Barney Hoskyns Small Town Talk (Paperback)
Barney Hoskyns
R522 R439 Discovery Miles 4 390 Save R83 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Think Woodstock and the mind turns to the seminal 1969 festival that crowned a seismic decade of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. But the town of Woodstock, New York, the original planned venue of the concert, is located over 60 miles from the site to which the fabled half a million flocked. Long before the landmark music festival usurped the name, Woodstock--the tiny Catskills town where Bob Dylan holed up after his infamous 1966 motorcycle accident--was already a key location in the '60s rock landscape. Drawing on numerous first-hand interviews with the remaining key players in the scene--and on the period when he lived there himself in the 1990s--Hoskyns has produced an East Coast companion to his bestselling L.A. canyon classic Hotel California. This is a richly absorbing study of a vital music scene in a revolutionary time and place.

The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music (Hardcover): Theodore Gracyk, Andrew Kania The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music (Hardcover)
Theodore Gracyk, Andrew Kania
R6,621 Discovery Miles 66 210 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music is an outstanding guide and reference source to the key topics, subjects, thinkers and debates in philosophy and music. Over fifty entries by an international team of contributors are organised into six clear sections: general issues emotion history figures kinds of music music, philosophy and related disciplines The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music is essential reading for anyone interested in philosophy, music and musicology.

Music Theory Through Improvisation - A New Approach to Musicianship Training (Hardcover): Ed Sarath Music Theory Through Improvisation - A New Approach to Musicianship Training (Hardcover)
Ed Sarath
R4,527 Discovery Miles 45 270 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Designed for Music Theory courses, Music Theory Through Improvisation presents a unique approach to basic theory and musicianship training that examines the study of traditional theory through the art of improvisation. The book follows the same general progression of diatonic to non-diatonic harmony in conventional approaches, but integrates improvisation, composition, keyboard harmony, analysis, and rhythm. Conventional approaches to basic musicianship have largely been oriented toward study of common practice harmony from the Euroclassical tradition, with a heavy emphasis in four-part chorale writing. The author's entirely new pathway places the study of harmony within improvisation and composition in stylistically diverse format, with jazz and popular music serving as important stylistic sources. Supplemental materials include a play-along audio in the downloadable resources for improvisation and a companion website with resources for students and instructors.

The First-Year Music Major - Strategies for Success (Paperback): Kerry B. Renzoni, Victoria J. Furby The First-Year Music Major - Strategies for Success (Paperback)
Kerry B. Renzoni, Victoria J. Furby
R1,150 Discovery Miles 11 500 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Offers a comprehensive guide to approaching a degree in music, tailored to the needs of first-year undergraduate students. Questions for discussion, chapter-by-chapter assignments, and downloadable eResources provide practical tools to develop students' professional, practical and academic skills. Includes contributions from faculty across all areas of music that establish foundations to prepare students for all types of music specialities.

The Ashgate Research Companion to Japanese Music (Hardcover, New Ed): Alison McQueen Tokita The Ashgate Research Companion to Japanese Music (Hardcover, New Ed)
Alison McQueen Tokita; David W. Hughes
R3,962 Discovery Miles 39 620 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Music is a frequently neglected aspect of Japanese culture. It is in fact a highly problematic area, as the Japanese actively introduced Western music into their modern education system in the Meiji period (1868-1911), creating westernized melodies and instrumental instruction for Japanese children from kindergarten upwards. As a result, most Japanese now have a far greater familiarity with Western (or westernized) music than with traditional Japanese music. Traditional or classical Japanese music has become somewhat ghettoized, often known and practised only by small groups of people in social structures which have survived since the pre-modern era. Such marginalization of Japanese music is one of the less recognized costs of Japan's modernization. On the other hand, music in its westernized and modernized forms has an extremely important place in Japanese culture and society, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, being so widely known and performed that it is arguably part of contemporary Japanese popular and mass culture. Japan has become a world leader in the mass production of Western musical instruments and in innovative methodologies of music education (Yamaha and Suzuki). More recently, the Japanese craze of karaoke as a musical entertainment and as musical hardware has made an impact on the leisure and popular culture of many countries in Asia, Europe and the Americas. This is the first book to cover in detail all genres including court music, Buddhist chant, theatre music, chamber ensemble music and folk music, as well as contemporary music and the connections between music and society in various periods. The book is a collaborative effort, involving both Japanese and English speaking authors, and was conceived by the editors to form a balanced approach that comprehensively treats the full range of Japanese musical culture.

Musical Psychedelia - Research at the Intersection of Music and Psychedelic Experience (Hardcover): Gemma L. Farrell Musical Psychedelia - Research at the Intersection of Music and Psychedelic Experience (Hardcover)
Gemma L. Farrell
R4,067 Discovery Miles 40 670 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Psychedelic music is a fascinating yet under-researched field of study. This thought-provoking collection offers a broad introduction to the fi eld of psychedelic music studies, bringing together scholarly work on psychedelic music in genres like rock, folk, electronic dance music and pop. Through an expanded purview on psychedelic music, an emerging trend in research, the collection affords students and academics alike an introduction to a rich, multi-faceted field. The contributing authors explore a range of different facets of musical psychedelia: its transgressive and transcendent aspects, its foregrounding of timbre and texture, the way it changes our perception of time, its influence on “non-psychedelic” music, key composition and production techniques that composers and musicians use in its creation, how it is mediated by different places and spaces, and the interplay between psychedelic visual and sonic aesthetics. This interdisciplinary work reveals both commonalities in musical psychedelic experiences and the contestation inherent in a fi eld of study that juxtaposes music of different genres and eras with a variety of theoretical approaches and methodologies. In broadening the scope of psychedelic music research, the collection not only makes for varied and absorbing reading on the subject level but also stimulates reflexive thought about interdisciplinary research.

Suzuki - The Man and His Dream to Teach the Children of the World (Hardcover): Eri Hotta Suzuki - The Man and His Dream to Teach the Children of the World (Hardcover)
Eri Hotta
R668 Discovery Miles 6 680 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A New Yorker Best Book of the Year The remarkable life of violinist and teacher Shinichi Suzuki, who pioneered an innovative but often-misunderstood philosophy of early childhood education-now known the world over as the Suzuki Method. The name Shinichi Suzuki is synonymous with early childhood musical education. By the time of his death in 1998, countless children around the world had been taught using his methods, with many more to follow. Yet Suzuki's life and the evolution of his educational vision remain largely unexplored. A committed humanist, he was less interested in musical genius than in imparting to young people the skills and confidence to learn. Eri Hotta details Suzuki's unconventional musical development and the emergence of his philosophy. She follows Suzuki from his youth working in his father's Nagoya violin factory to his studies in interwar Berlin, the beginnings of his teaching career in 1930s Tokyo, and the steady flourishing of his practice at home and abroad after the Second World War. As Hotta shows, Suzuki's aim was never to turn out disciplined prodigies but rather to create a world where all children have the chance to develop, musically and otherwise. Undergirding his pedagogy was an unflagging belief that talent, far from being an inborn quality, is cultivated through education. Moreover, Suzuki's approach debunked myths of musical nationalism in the West, where many doubted that Asian performers could communicate the spirit of classical music rooted in Europe. Suzuki touched the world through a pedagogy founded on the conviction that all children possess tremendous capacity to learn. His story offers not only a fresh perspective on early childhood education but also a gateway to the fraught history of musical border-drawing and to the makings of a globally influential life in Japan's tumultuous twentieth century.

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