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The Reel World - Scoring for Pictures, Television, and Video Games (Paperback, Third Edition): Jeff Rona The Reel World - Scoring for Pictures, Television, and Video Games (Paperback, Third Edition)
Jeff Rona; Foreword by Peter Golub
R1,088 Discovery Miles 10 880 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This fully updated and complete guide takes you inside the world of creating music for film, television, and-unique to this third edition-video games. It addresses a wide range of topics including musical aesthetics, cutting-edge technology and techniques, and current business aspects of the industry. The Reel World is packed with insider's tips and interviews with some of the most influential film, TV, and video game composers, along with music editors, music supervisors, agents, contractors and studio executives. Rona also advises how to nurture positive relationships with your creative team and professionals in the industry. For the aspiring film, TV or video game composer, this book is a veritable cornucopia of useful information for pursuing scoring to picture as a career. Includes interviews with John Williams, Carter Burwell, James Newton Howard, Hans Zimmer, Mark Isham, Basil Poledouris, Ludwig Goeransson, Marc Shaiman, John Powell, Wendy and Lisa, Joseph Trapanese, and Michael Giacchino. This book explores... The Creative Process: Making good musical choices The psychology of a good score Continuity and contrast, economy and musicality The importance of styles Technology: The best gear for film, TV and video game scoring Home studio design Synchronization Mixing for film, TV and video game scoring Career: Getting started Industry politics Demoing and finances

Rock and Rhapsodies - The Music of Queen (Hardcover): Nick Braae Rock and Rhapsodies - The Music of Queen (Hardcover)
Nick Braae
R2,920 Discovery Miles 29 200 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Since 1973, Queen have captivated listeners through the intense sonic palette of voices and guitars, the sprawling and epic journeys of songs, and charismatic splendour of their live performances. Rock and Rhapsodies is the first book to undertake a musicological study of the band's output, with a fundamental aim of discovering what, exactly, gave Queen's songs their magical and distinct musical identity. Focusing on the material written, recorded, and released between 1973 and 1991, author Nick Braae provides readers with an in-depth and nuanced analytical account of the group's individual musical style (or "idiolect"), and illuminates the multifaceted stylistic and historical contexts in which Queen's music was created. Aspects of Queen's songs are also used as a springboard for exploring a range of further analytical and discursive issues: the nature of a musical style; the conceptual relationship between an artist, style, and genre; form in popular songs; and the character and identity of a singing voice. Following an introduction and "primer" on Queen's idiolect, Rock and Rhapsodies presents ten further chapters, each of which offers a snapshot of a particular musical element (form, the voice), a particular subset of repertoire (Freddie Mercury's large-scale 1970s songs), or a particular era (post-1991), thus painting a rich overall picture of both the band's history and their ongoing presence in popular culture. Along the way, there is an underlying focus on interrogating and substantiating the themes and ideas that emerge from the writing, documentaries and other media on Queen, using a variety of analytical tools and close readings of songs, to demonstrate how aspects of critical reception align (or not) with musical details. Rock and Rhapsodies will reward any reader who has been enchanted by the myriad and complex musical components that make up any Queen song.

Verdi in Victorian London (Hardcover, Hardback ed.): Massimo Zicari Verdi in Victorian London (Hardcover, Hardback ed.)
Massimo Zicari
R1,243 Discovery Miles 12 430 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Le Chant Intime - The interpretation of French melodie (Hardcover): Francois Le  Roux, Romain Raynaldy Le Chant Intime - The interpretation of French melodie (Hardcover)
Francois Le Roux, Romain Raynaldy
R2,927 Discovery Miles 29 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this translation of the groundbreaking Le Chant Intime, internationally renowned baritone Francois Le Roux, in conversation with journalist Romain Raynaldy, presents a master class on French art song, with a thorough analysis of 60 selected songs that deviate from the traditionally narrow repertoire of the melodie genre. Taking an approach that goes far beyond the typical limiting conventions, Le Roux and Raynaldy adhere to composer Francis Poulenc's principle that a song should always be "a love affair, not an arranged marriage." Neither theoretical nor purely academic, this guide instills in its readers a deep appreciation for the historical and artistic context of each piece by enriching each analysis with the full text of the lyrical poem and several musical examples, as well as fascinating details of historic premieres, concert halls, singers and poets. Paired with intensive and practical notes related to the nuances of melody and vocal delivery, each analysis provides an essential reference for performers and listeners alike. The translation is due to the expertise of musicologist and pianist Sylvia Kahan, Professor of Music at the Graduate Center and College of Staten Island, CUNY.

Annual Review of Jazz Studies 14 (Paperback): Evan Spring, George Bassett, Edward Berger, Henry Martin, Dan Morgenstern Annual Review of Jazz Studies 14 (Paperback)
Evan Spring, George Bassett, Edward Berger, Henry Martin, Dan Morgenstern
R2,147 Discovery Miles 21 470 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Annual Review of Jazz Studies (ARJS) is a journal providing a forum for the ever expanding range and depth of jazz scholarship, from technical analyses to oral history to cultural interpretation. Addressed to specialists and fans alike, all volumes include feature articles, book reviews, and unpublished photographs. This 14th issue contains four intriguing articles that to some degree contravene accepted precepts of jazz orthodoxy. John Howland traces the connection between Duke Ellington's extended works and the 'symphonic jazz' model of the 1920s as exemplified by Paul Whiteman and his chief arranger, Ferde GrofZ. Horace J. Maxile Jr. takes an unfashionably broad perspective of Charles Mingus's 'Ecclusiastics, ' applying recent developments in cultural theory as well as the formal tools of traditional music theory. Brian Priestley's exploration of the ties between Charlie Parker and popular music challenges the canonical depiction of Parker as a lone revolutionary genius, instead underscoring the saxophonist's ties to the popular music of his time. Finally, John Wriggle presents an extensive examination of the life and work of arranger Chappie Willet, an unsung hero of the Swing Era. The book reviews cover a cross-section of the burgeoning jazz literature, and Vincent Pelote has again compiled a list of books received at the Institute of Jazz Studies.

From Berlioz to Boulez (Hardcover): Roger Nichols From Berlioz to Boulez (Hardcover)
Roger Nichols; Foreword by Jeremy Sams
R1,120 Discovery Miles 11 200 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Awarded the legion d'Honneur by the French government in 2006 for his services to French culture, acclaimed writer and broadcaster Roger Nichols invites the reader to accompany him on his journey through the century-and-a-half turbulent and fertile period in the history of French music from Berlioz to Boulez. In compiling his collection of articles, interviews, radio plays and talks, Nichols begins with Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique and ends with his obituary of Pierre Boulez. Along the way, he includes in-depth studies of Debussy and Ravel, connecting the two by a comparison of their operatic masterpieces, Pelleas et Melisande and l'Enfant et les sortileges. Twenty other significant composers from this fascinating period come in for Nichols' hallmark combination of erudition and wit.

Fandom and The Beatles - The Act You've Known for All These Years (Hardcover): Kenneth Womack, Kit O'Toole Fandom and The Beatles - The Act You've Known for All These Years (Hardcover)
Kenneth Womack, Kit O'Toole
R3,291 R3,037 Discovery Miles 30 370 Save R254 (8%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

More than 50 years after their breakup, the Beatles are still attracting fans from various generations, all while retaining their original fan base from the 1960s. Why have those first-generation fans continued following the Beatles and are now introducing their grandchildren to the group? Why are current teens affected by the band's music? And perhaps most importantly, how and why do the Beatles continue to resonate with successive generations? Unlike other bands of their era, the Beatles seem permanently frozen in time, having never descended into "nostalgia act" territory. Instead, even after the announcement of the band's breakup in 1970, the group has maintained its cultural and musical relevance. Their timeless quality appeals to younger generations while maintaining the loyalty of older fans. While the Beatles indeed represent a specific time period, their music and words address issues as meaningful today as they were during the Summer of Love: politics, war, sex, drugs, art, and creative liberation. As the first anthology to assess the nature of fan response and the band's enduring appeal, Fandom and the Beatles: The Act You've Known for All These Years defines and explores these unique qualities and the key ways in which this particular pop fusion has inspired such loyalty and multigenerational popularity.

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
R4,953 Discovery Miles 49 530 Ships in 12 - 19 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.

On Music Theory, and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone (Paperback): Philip Ewell On Music Theory, and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone (Paperback)
Philip Ewell
R1,153 R988 Discovery Miles 9 880 Save R165 (14%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Since its inception in the mid-twentieth century, American music theory has been framed and taught almost exclusively by white men. As a result, whiteness and maleness are woven into the fabric of the field, and BIPOC music theorists face enormous hurdles due to their racial identities. In On Music Theory, Philip Ewell brings together autobiography, music theory and history, and theory and history of race in the United States to offer a black perspective on the state of music theory and to confront the field’s white supremacist roots. Over the course of the book, Ewell undertakes a textbook analysis to unpack the mythologies of whiteness and western-ness with respect to music theory, and gives, for the first time, his perspective on the controversy surrounding the publication of volume 12 of the Journal of Schenkerian Studies. He speaks directly about the antiblackness of music theory and the antisemitism of classical music writ large and concludes by offering suggestions about how we move forward. Taking an explicitly antiracist approach to music theory, with this book Ewell begins to create a space in which those who have been marginalized in music theory can thrive.

The Early Film Music of Dmitry Shostakovich (Hardcover): Joan Titus The Early Film Music of Dmitry Shostakovich (Hardcover)
Joan Titus
R1,664 Discovery Miles 16 640 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In the late 1920s, Dmitry Shostakovich emerged as one of the first Soviet film composers. With his first score for the silent film the New Babylon (1929) and the many sound scores that followed, he was positioned to observe and participate in the changing politics of the film industry and negotiate the role of the film composer. In The Early Film Music of Dmitry Shostakovich, Joan Titus examines the scores of six of Shostakovich's films, from 1928 through 1936. Instead of investigating Shostakovich as a composer, a rebel, a communist, or a dissident, as innumerable studies do, Titus approaches him as a concept in itself-as an idea-and asks why and how listeners understand him as they do. Through Shostakovich's scores, Titus engages with the construct of Soviet intelligibility, the filmmaking and scoring processes, and the cultural politics of scoring Soviet film music, asking why and how listeners understand the composer the way they do. The discussions of the scores are enriched by the composer's own writing on film music, along with archival materials and recently discovered musical manuscripts that illuminate the collaborative processes of the film teams, studios, and composer. The Early Film Music of Dmitry Shostakovich commingles film studies, musicology, and Russian studies with original scholarship, and is sure to be of interest to a wide audience including musicologists, film scholars, historians of Russia and the Soviet Union, and Slavicists.

The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour and Yellow Submarine (Hardcover): Bruce Spizer The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour and Yellow Submarine (Hardcover)
Bruce Spizer
R861 R777 Discovery Miles 7 770 Save R84 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Mystical Love in the German Baroque - Theology, Poetry, Music (Paperback, New): Isabella Van Elferen Mystical Love in the German Baroque - Theology, Poetry, Music (Paperback, New)
Isabella Van Elferen
R3,076 Discovery Miles 30 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Mystical Love in the German Baroque: Theology, Poetry, Music identifies the cultural and devotional conventions underlying expressions of mystical love in poetry and music of the German baroque. It sheds new light on the seemingly erotic overtones in settings of the Song of Songs and dialogues between Christ and the faithful soul in late 17th- and early 18th-century cantatas by Heinrich SchYtz, Dieterich Buxtehude, and Johann Sebastian Bach. While these compositions have been interpreted solely as a secularizing tendency within devotional music of the baroque period, Isabella van Elferen demonstrates that they need to be viewed instead as intensifications of the sacred. Based on a wide selection of previously unedited or translated 17th- and 18th-century sources, van Elferen describes the history and development of baroque poetic and musical love discourses, from SchYtz's early works through Buxtehude's cantatas and Bach's cantatas and Passions. This long and multilayered discursive history of these compositions considers the love poetry of Petrarch, European reception of petrarchan imagery and traditions, its effect on the madrigal in Germany, and the role of Catholic medieval mystics in baroque Lutheranism. Van Elferen shows that Bach's compositional technique, based on the emotional characteristics of text and music rather than on the depiction of single words, allows the musical expression of mystical love to correspond closely to contemporary literary and theological conceptions of this affect.

The Southern Rock Revival - The Old South in a New World (Hardcover): Jason T Eastman The Southern Rock Revival - The Old South in a New World (Hardcover)
Jason T Eastman
R2,969 R2,663 Discovery Miles 26 630 Save R306 (10%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

While some people find new opportunities in the postindustrial economy, many working-class men find their social and economic well-being collapse as blue-collar jobs are outsourced and offshored to the global labor market. Faced with limited options to earn a living-wage, many of these blue-collar workers are instead changing who they are, embracing a deviant, rebellious identity expressed by the contemporary southern rock revival musicians studied in this book. Although loosely based in the traditional culture and lifestyle of the southeastern United States, contemporary southerness has little to do with region but instead is a way to rebel from the very institutions blue-collar men traditionally used as the basis of their masculine pride: family, education, employment, military service, and religion. This contemporary form of southerness reflected in their music also involves deviance, as many of these men adorn themselves with the highly controversial confederate flag, binge drink alcohol, brawl with one another and use drugs. Combining interviews, participant observation and a lyrical analysis, this book explores these aspects of rebellious southerness through music as it exists in the ideal sense and as individual men try to live up to these subcultural ideals in their daily lives. The southern rock revival is a new social movement carving out a place for an alternative way to live while simultaneously perpetuating stereotypes about poor men, reinforcing social disadvantage and marginalization.

Philosopher at the Keyboard - Glenn Gould (Paperback, New edition): Elizabeth Angilette Philosopher at the Keyboard - Glenn Gould (Paperback, New edition)
Elizabeth Angilette
R1,472 Discovery Miles 14 720 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is a provocative account of pianist Glenn Gould's intellectual and musical thought. Gould was a philosopher who incessantly pursued wisdom through his art. If the reader follows Gould's ardent campaign through the metaphorical thicket found in his ideas, a compelling Gouldian model for a philosophy of music unfolds. Gould argues that music is not only a reflection of social dynamics, but could also be a tool for the betterment of society. The original methodology conceived and implemented in this study contributes an important design for subsequent historical/philosophical studies, particularly in music education.

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
R4,524 Discovery Miles 45 240 Ships in 12 - 19 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.

Revolutions in Music Education - Historical and Social Explorations (Hardcover): Andrew Sutherland, Jane Southcott, Leon De... Revolutions in Music Education - Historical and Social Explorations (Hardcover)
Andrew Sutherland, Jane Southcott, Leon De Bruin; Contributions by Andrew Brown, Leon De Bruin, …
R2,949 Discovery Miles 29 490 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The teaching and learning of music around the world have evolved in diverse ways as social, industrial, and cultural developments have influenced the ways humans understand, organize, and collectivize music education. Revolutions in Music Education: Historical and Social Explorations chronicles major changes in music education that continue to shape practices in the twenty-first century. The contributors investigate the organizational, pedagogical, and strategic approaches to teaching music across the ages. The universality of music is manifest in the chapters of this book, providing meaning and insight from all geographic, socio-political, and economic contexts.

Theology as Performance - Music, Aesthetics, and God in Western Thought (Hardcover): Philip Stoltzfus Theology as Performance - Music, Aesthetics, and God in Western Thought (Hardcover)
Philip Stoltzfus
R5,962 Discovery Miles 59 620 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Theology as Performance breaks new ground in the growing conversation between modern theology and philosophical aesthetics. Stoltzfus proposes that significant moments in the Western development of the concept of God, in particular as represented in the figures of Friedrich Schleiermacher, Karl Barth, and Ludwig Wittgenstein, have been deeply influenced by concepts and approaches borrowed from the discipline of musical aesthetics. Each thinker develops fundamentally different ways of writing about God that have in significant respects been derived from each one's reading and writing about music. The aesthetic implications of Schleiermacher's so-called subjectivist turn, Barth's objectivist reaction, and Wittgenstein's language-game pragmatism can thus be fully understood only by attending to the musical culture and distinctly musicological discourses that gave rise to them. Stoltzfus constructs two trajectories of thought with which to trace theological reflection upon music throughout the pre-modern period: the traditions of Orpheus and Pythagoras. Schleiermacher's aesthetic approach, then, becomes a modern representative of the Orpheus trajectory, and Barth's approach a representative of the Pythagoras trajectory. Stoltzfus interprets Wittgenstein as putting forward a radical critique of these trajectories and pointing toward a third, "performative" theological-aesthetic method. Theology as Performance offers a provocative rethinking of the aesthetic roots of modern theology.

The Imagination of Experiences - Musical Invention, Collaboration, and the Making of Meanings (Paperback): Alan Taylor The Imagination of Experiences - Musical Invention, Collaboration, and the Making of Meanings (Paperback)
Alan Taylor
R775 Discovery Miles 7 750 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Aimed at lay, student, and academic readers alike, this book concerns the imagination and, specifically, imagination in music. It opens with a discussion of the invalidity of the idea of the creative genius and the connected view that ideas originate just in the individual mind. An alternative view of the imaginative process is then presented, that ideas spring from a subconscious dialogue activated by engagement in the world around. Ideas are therefore never just of our own making. This view is supported by evidence from many studies and corresponds with descriptions by artists of their experience of imagining. The third subject is how imaginations can be shared when musicians work with other artists, and the way the constraints imposed by trying to share subconscious imagining result in clearly distinct forms of joint working. The final chapter covers the use of the musical imagination in making meanings from music. The evidence is that music does not communicate meanings directly, and so composers or performers cannot be looked to as authorities on its meaning. Instead, music is commonly heard as analogous to human experience, and listeners who perceive such analogies may then imagine their own meanings from the music.

Fugal Composition - A Guide to the Study of Bach's '48' (Hardcover): Dorene Groocock Fugal Composition - A Guide to the Study of Bach's '48' (Hardcover)
Dorene Groocock
R3,185 Discovery Miles 31 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Eminently readable despite the complexity of its subject, "Fugal Composition: A Guide to the Study of Bach's 48" guides the reader in studying the 48 fugues of the composer's "Well-Tempered Clavier." Author Joseph Groocock analyzes each of the fugues individually, both verbally and diagrammatically, and includes such elements as overall structure, episodes, stretto, subsidiary subjects, and countersubjects. The appendices and index furnish a ready reference for the scholar or researcher seeking information or guidance on specific points.

Meanwhile, the volume's editor supplies comparative analyses using current and previous scholarship on every fugue-illustrating where the author supports or challenges other viewpoints. In all, the analyses contained in" Fugal Composition" establish the extraordinary diversity of Bach's fugal style, in such a way that readers gain a new understanding of these significant and beautiful works of music.

Alfred's Basic Piano Library Theory Book 1B - Universal Edition (Book): Willard A Palmer, Morton Manus, Amanda Vick Lethco Alfred's Basic Piano Library Theory Book 1B - Universal Edition (Book)
Willard A Palmer, Morton Manus, Amanda Vick Lethco
R295 Discovery Miles 2 950 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Designed to coordinate page-by-page with Lesson Book 1B. Contains enjoyable games and quizzes that reinforce the principles presented in the Lesson Book. Students can increase their musical understanding while they are away from the keyboard.

Transforming Ethnomusicology Volume I - Methodologies, Institutional Structures, and Policies (Hardcover): Beverley Diamond,... Transforming Ethnomusicology Volume I - Methodologies, Institutional Structures, and Policies (Hardcover)
Beverley Diamond, Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco
R3,427 Discovery Miles 34 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

For decades, ethnomusicologists across the world have considered how to affect positive change for the communities they work with. Through illuminating case studies and reflections by a diverse array of scholars and practitioners, Transforming Ethnomusicology aims to both expand dialogues about social engagement within ethnomusicology and, at the same time, transform how we understand ethnomusicology as a discipline. The first volume of Transforming Ethnomusicology focuses on ethical practice and collaboration, examining the power relations inherent in ethnography and offering new strategies for transforming institutions and ethnographic methods. These reflections on the broader framework of ethnomusicological practice are complemented by case studies that document activist approaches to the study of music in challenging contexts of poverty, discrimination, and other unjust systems.

Boom's Blues - Music, Journalism, and Friendship in Wartime (Hardcover): Wim Verbei Boom's Blues - Music, Journalism, and Friendship in Wartime (Hardcover)
Wim Verbei; Translated by Scott Rollins
R2,261 Discovery Miles 22 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Boom's Blues stands as both a remarkable biography of J. Frank G.Boom (1920-1953) and a recovery of his incredible contribution to blues scholarship originally titled The Blues: Satirical Songs of the North American Negro. Wim Verbei tells how and when the Netherlands was introduced to African American blues music and describes the equally dramatic and peculiar friendship that existed between Boom and jazz critic and musicologist Will Gilbert, who worked for the Kultuurkamer during World War II and had been charged with the task of formulating the Nazi's Jazzverbod, the decree prohibiting the public performance of jazz. Boom's Blues ends with the annotated and complete text of Boom's The Blues, providing the international world at last with an English version of the first book-length study of the blues. At the end of the 1960s, a series of thirteen blues paperbacks edited by Paul Oliver for the London publisher November Books began appearing. One manuscript landed on his desk that had been written in 1943 by a then twenty-three-year-old Amsterdammer Frank (Frans) Boom. Its publication, to which Oliver gave thetitle Laughing to Keep from Crying, was announced on the back jacket of the last three Blues Paperbacks in 1971 and 1972. Yet it never was published and the manuscript once more disappeared. In October 1996, Dutch blues expert and publicist Verbei went in search of the presumably lost manuscript and the story behindits author. It only took him a couple of months to track down the manuscript, but it took another ten years to glean the full story behind the extraordinary Frans Boom, who passed away in 1953 in Indonesia.

Music and Historical Critique - Selected Essays (Hardcover, New Ed): Gary Tomlinson Music and Historical Critique - Selected Essays (Hardcover, New Ed)
Gary Tomlinson
R5,520 Discovery Miles 55 200 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Music and Historical Critique provides a definitive collection of Gary Tomlinson's influential studies on critical musicology, with the watchword throughout being history. This collection gathers his most innovative essays and lectures, some of them published here for the first time, along with an introduction outlining the context of the contributions and commenting on their aims and significance. Music and Historical Critique provides a retrospective view of the author's achievements in bringing to the heart of musicological discourse both deep-seated experiences of the past and meditations on the historian's ways of understanding them.

Can't Stop the Grrrls - Confronting Sexist Labels in Music from Ariana Grande to Yoko Ono (Hardcover): Lily E Hirsch Can't Stop the Grrrls - Confronting Sexist Labels in Music from Ariana Grande to Yoko Ono (Hardcover)
Lily E Hirsch; Foreword by Me'shell Ndegeocello; Afterword by Amy Ray
R1,082 R787 Discovery Miles 7 870 Save R295 (27%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

From stars like Britney Spears and Mariah Carey to classic icons like Yoko Ono, female musicians have long been the target of double standards and toxic labels in the media and pop culture: liar, crazy, snake, diva, slut, b*tch. These words can hurt all of us. The popular expression "sticks and stones" is wildly wrong. And the wounds are everywhere. Lily Hirsch confronts the full range of this sexist labeling as well as the repercussions, concentrating on the experiences of Yoko Ono, Courtney Love, Britney Spears, FKA twigs, Taylor Swift, Kesha, Mariah Carey, and Ariana Grande, among many others. While men can make outrageous backstage demands, women like Carey are punished as "divas." A sign of supposed genius for men, "crazy" is a word of condemnation for many women-with legal ramifications in Spears' case. Hirsch dives into the world of these women, looking at their personal lives, relationships and breakups, music, media coverage, public reception, as well as the origins of these toxic labels and how they have caused serious damage. With this focus, the book reveals the inner workings of misogyny and invites us to think about these remarkable women on their own terms-showing us how women have fought back too, sometimes reclaiming these words and their own story through music.

Delta Music and Film - Jefferson County and the Lowlands (Hardcover): Jimmy Cunningham, Donna Cunningham Delta Music and Film - Jefferson County and the Lowlands (Hardcover)
Jimmy Cunningham, Donna Cunningham
R781 R686 Discovery Miles 6 860 Save R95 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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