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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume 11 - Genres: Europe (Hardcover, Hardback): David Horn, John... Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume 11 - Genres: Europe (Hardcover, Hardback)
David Horn, John Shepherd; Volume editing by Paolo Prato, David Horn
R8,044 Discovery Miles 80 440 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The ten EPMOW Genre volumes contain entries on the genres of music that have been or currently are popular in countries and communities all over the world. Included are discussions on cultural, historical and geographic origins; technical musical characteristics; instrumentation and use of voice; lyrics and language; typical features of performance and presentation; historical development and paths and modes of dissemination; influence of technology, the music industry and political and economic circumstances; changing stylistic features; notable and influential performers; and relationships to other genres and sub-genres. This volume, on the music of Europe, features a wide range of entries and in-depth essays. All entries conclude with a bibliography, discographical references and discography, with additional information on sheet music listings and visual recordings. Written and edited by a team of distinguished popular music scholars and professionals, this is an exceptional resource for anybody studying or researching the history and development of popular music. This and all other volumes of the Encyclopedia are now available through an online version of the Encyclopedia: https://www.bloomsburypopularmusic.com/encyclopedia-work?docid=BPM_reference_EPMOW. A general search function for the whole Encyclopedia is also available on this site. A subscription is required to access individual entries. Please see: https://www.bloomsburypopularmusic.com/for-librarians.

Eurovision - A Funny Kind of Euphoria (Paperback): Garry Holland Eurovision - A Funny Kind of Euphoria (Paperback)
Garry Holland
R298 Discovery Miles 2 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Music, Dance and the Archive (Paperback): Amanda Harris, Linda Barwick, Jakelin Troy Music, Dance and the Archive (Paperback)
Amanda Harris, Linda Barwick, Jakelin Troy
R717 Discovery Miles 7 170 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Brings together both Australian and international work on Indigenous music and dance, with chapters centred around practices from Arnhem Land, Western Australia, the Tiwi Islands, the Torres Strait, Taiwan, Aotearoa/New Zealand and North America, and Indigenous scholars authoring or co-authoring more than half of the book. Combines practice-led scholarship with research-informed creative practice. Considers music and dance together as often inseparable parts of performance practices, an approach achieved through the interdisciplinarity of its contributing authors. Music, Dance and the Archive interrogates historical access and responses to archives by showing how Indigenous performing artists and community members, and academic researchers (Indigenous and non-Indigenous) are collaborating to bring life to objects that have been stored in archives. It highlights the relationship between music and dance, as embodied forms of culture, and records in archives, bringing together interdisciplinary research from musicologists, dance historians, linguists, Indigenous Studies scholars and practitioners. The volume examines how music and dance are recorded in audio-visual records, what uses are made of these records (in renewal of cultural practice or in revitalising performances that have fallen out of use), and the relationship between the live body and historical objects. While this book focuses on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander music and dance, it also features research on Indigenous music and dance from beyond Australia, including New Zealand, Taiwan and North America. Music, Dance and the Archive is an insightful culmination of original, previously unpublished research from a diverse selection of scholars in Indigenous history, musicology, linguistics, archival science and dance history.

Transnational Encounters - Music and Performance at the U.S.-Mexico Border (Paperback): Alejandro L. Madrid Transnational Encounters - Music and Performance at the U.S.-Mexico Border (Paperback)
Alejandro L. Madrid
R1,575 Discovery Miles 15 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Through the study of a large variety of musical practices from the U.S.-Mexico border, this book seeks to provide a new perspective on the complex character of this geographic area. By focusing not only on nortena, banda or conjunto musics (the most stereotypical musical traditions among Hispanics in the area) but also engaging a number of musical practices that have often been neglected in the study of this border's history and culture (indigenous musics, African American musical traditions, pop musics), the authors in this book provide a glance into the diversity of ethnic groups that have encountered each other throughout the area's history. Against common misconceptions about the U.S.-Mexico border as a predominant Mexican area, this book argues that it is diversity and not homogeneity what characterizes it. From a wide variety of disciplinary and multidisciplinary enunciations, the essays in this book explore the transnational connections that inform these musical cultures while keeping an eye on their powerful local significance, in an attempt to redefine notions like "border, " "nation, " "migration, " "diaspora, " etc. Looking at music and its performative power through the looking glass of cultural criticism allows this book to contribute to larger intellectual concerns and help redefine the field of U.S.-Mexico border studies beyond the North/South and American/Mexican dichotomies. Furthermore, the essays in this book, from a wide variety of disciplinary and multidisciplinary enunciations, problematize some of the widespread misconceptions about U.S.-Mexico border history and culture in the current debate about immigration.

Rasa - Affect and Intuition in Javanese Musical Aesthetics (Paperback): Marc Benamou Rasa - Affect and Intuition in Javanese Musical Aesthetics (Paperback)
Marc Benamou
R1,371 Discovery Miles 13 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The complex notion of rasa, as understood by Javanese musicians, refers to a combination of various qualities, including: taste, feeling, affect, mood, sense, inner meaning, a faculty of knowing intuitively, and deep understanding. This leaves us with a number of questions: how is rasa expressed musically? Who or what has rasa, and what sorts of musical, psychological, perceptual, and sociological distinctions enter into this determination? How is the vocabulary of rasa structured, and what does this tell us about traditional Javanese music and aesthetics? In this first book on the subject, Rasa provides an entry into Javanese music as it is conceived by the people who know the tradition best: the musicians themselves. In one of the most thorough explorations of local aesthetics to date, author Marc Benamou argues that musical meaning is above all connotative - hence, not only learned, but learnable. Following several years performing and researching Javanese music in the regional and national cultural center of Solo, Indonesia, Benamou untangles the many meanings of rasa as an aesthetic criterion in Javanese music, particularly in court and court-derived gamelan traditions. While acknowledging that certain universal psychological tendencies may inspire parallel interpretations of musical meaning, Rasa demonstrates just how culturally specific such accrued, shared meanings can be.

Entertaining Lisbon - Music, Theater, and Modern Life in the Late 19th Century (Hardcover): Joao Silva Entertaining Lisbon - Music, Theater, and Modern Life in the Late 19th Century (Hardcover)
Joao Silva
R3,598 Discovery Miles 35 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

During the decades leading up to 1910, Portugal saw vast material improvements under the guise of modernization while in the midst of a significant political transformation - the establishment of the Portuguese First Republic. Urban planning, everyday life, and innovation merged in a rapidly changing Lisbon. Leisure activities for the citizens of the First Republic began to include new forms of musical theater, including operetta and the revue theater. These theatrical forms became an important site for the display of modernity, and the representation of a new national identity. Author Joao Silva argues that the rise of these genres is inextricably bound to the complex process through which the idea of Portugal was presented, naturalized, and commodified as a modern nation-state. Entertaining Lisbon studies popular entertainment in Portugal and its connections with modern life and nation-building, showing that the promotion of the nation through entertainment permeated the market for cultural goods. Exploring the Portuguese entertainment market as a reflection of ongoing negotiations between local, national, and transnational influences on identity, Silva intertwines representations of gender, class, ethnicity, and technology with theatrical repertoires, street sounds, and domestic music making. An essential work on Portuguese music in the English language, Entertaining Lisbon is a critical study for scholars and students of musicology interested in Portugal, and popular and theatrical musics, as well as historical ethnomusicologists, cultural historians, and urban planning researchers interested in the development of material culture.

Bossa Nova Guitar (Sheet music): Carlos Arana Bossa Nova Guitar (Sheet music)
Carlos Arana
R669 R602 Discovery Miles 6 020 Save R67 (10%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

(Guitar Educational). Bossa Nova Guitar is intended for a wide range of guitarists, from those with little experience in complex musical styles like jazz, Samba, or Bolero, to highly trained professional guitarists looking to expand their musical palettes. From Joao Gilberto to Antonio Carlos Jobim, the Bossa Nova guitar style has become firmly entrenched in the jazz culture. In this book, you'll gain a strong command of the style, concentrating on these core elements: harmony, rhythms, right-hand technique, chord progressions, essential patterns, and more. Includes a CD with demos.

The Creative Echo Chamber - Contemporary Music Production in Kingston, Jamaica (Paperback): Dennis O Howard The Creative Echo Chamber - Contemporary Music Production in Kingston, Jamaica (Paperback)
Dennis O Howard
R732 Discovery Miles 7 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The pulsating and seductive rhythms that make up Jamaican popular music extend far beyond reggae; and recently, a greater appreciation has emerged for the island's rich musical heritage and international impact. From ska, rocksteady and reggae to dancehall and dub, Jamaican popular music has made significant contributions to international pop culture. In The Creative Echo Chamber, Dennis Howard explores the unique nature of popular music production in Jamaica, which, though successful, runs counter to the models of the music industry in the developed world. The influence of the sound system in particular, the dynamics of intellectual property rights and value chain logic which are peculiar to the Jamaican music industry are part and parcel of the structures, production modes and business models which have led to hybridity, and unparalleled innovation. Using his background as an academic as well as a 30-year veteran in the media and entertainment industries, Howard, a Grammy-nominated producer brings fresh insight and perspective to the distinctive nature of Jamaican popular music.

The Tango Orchestra - Fundamental Concepts and Techniques (Paperback, First English ed.): Julian Peralta The Tango Orchestra - Fundamental Concepts and Techniques (Paperback, First English ed.)
Julian Peralta
R1,777 Discovery Miles 17 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Reggae From Yaad - Traditional and Emerging Themes in Jamaican Popular Music (Paperback): Donna P. Hope Reggae From Yaad - Traditional and Emerging Themes in Jamaican Popular Music (Paperback)
Donna P. Hope
R733 Discovery Miles 7 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Reggae and Dancehall music and culture have travelled far beyond the shores of the tiny island of Jamaica to find their respective places as new genres of music and lifestyle. In Reggae from Yaad, Donna Hope pulls together a remarkable cast of contributors offering contemporary interpretations of the history, culture, significance and social dynamics of Jamaican Popular Music from varying geographical and disciplinary locations. From Alan 'Skill' Cole's lively and frank account of the Bob Marley he knew and David Katz's conversation with veteran music producers Bunny 'Striker' Lee, King Jammy and Bobby Digital; to Heather Augustyn and Shara Rambarran who both explore the role of music in the relationship between Britain and Jamaica in the post-independence 1960s, the contributors bring a new dimension to the discussion on the impact of Jamaican music. Drawn from a selection of presentations at the 2013 International Reggae Conference in Kingston, Jamaica, Reggae from Yaad continues the ever-evolving discourse on the meaning behind the music and the cultural and social developments that inform Jamaican Popular Music. Contributors: Heather Augustyn - Winston C. Campbell - Alan 'Skill' Cole - Brent Hagerman - Patrick Helber - Donna P. Hope - David Katz - Anna Kasafi Perkins - Shara Rambarran - Jose Luis Fanjul Rivero - Livingston A. White

AKB48 (Paperback): Patrick W. Galbraith, Jason G Karlin AKB48 (Paperback)
Patrick W. Galbraith, Jason G Karlin
R571 Discovery Miles 5 710 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Since its formation as a girl group in 2005, AKB48 has become a phenomenal success and institution in Japan. Having originally recruited fans with photocopied fliers and daily performances in the Akihabara area of Tokyo, AKB48 now saturates Japan. Its members--nearly 800 of them, including five sister groups and four so-called "rival groups" across Japan, as well as six sister groups in other Asian cities--appear in print, broadcast, online, and social media; in advertisements and on products; at home and on the train; on- and off-screen. AKB48's multi-platform omnipresence is characteristic of "idols," whose intimate relationship to fans and appeals to them for support have made the group dominant on the Oricon Yearly Singles Chart in the 2010s; they hold several records, including most consecutive million-selling singles sold in Japan. A unique business model relentlessly monetizes fans' affections through meet-and-greet events and elections, which maximize CD sales, and their saturated presence in the media. At a time when affect is more important than ever in economic, political, and social theory, this book explores the intersection of idols and affect in contemporary Japan and beyond.

The Early Film Music of Dmitry Shostakovich (Hardcover): Joan Titus The Early Film Music of Dmitry Shostakovich (Hardcover)
Joan Titus
R2,211 Discovery Miles 22 110 Ships in 10 - 15 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.

Plunky (Paperback): James Plunky Branch Plunky (Paperback)
James Plunky Branch
R706 R600 Discovery Miles 6 000 Save R106 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
World Music Class (2015) - The Aspire Higher Project (Paperback): Arttsi Institute World Music Class (2015) - The Aspire Higher Project (Paperback)
Arttsi Institute
R298 Discovery Miles 2 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A very extensive all-in-one reference, primer, history and songbook for a variety of music. Percussion diagrams. Latin & Caribbean ensemble tips & improvisation techniques. Helpful arrangements of important songs by Mozart, Handel, Bellini, St. Georges, Lecuona, Bizet, Vivaldi, Schubert & many more Level: Beginner to very advanced

Popular Music of the Olden Time a Collection of Ancient Songs, Ballads and Dance Tunes Illustrative of the National Music of... Popular Music of the Olden Time a Collection of Ancient Songs, Ballads and Dance Tunes Illustrative of the National Music of England V2 (Paperback)
William Chappell
R1,108 Discovery Miles 11 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1859 Edition.

The Music of the Netherlands Antilles - Why Eleven Antilleans Knelt before Chopin's Heart (Hardcover): Jan Brokken The Music of the Netherlands Antilles - Why Eleven Antilleans Knelt before Chopin's Heart (Hardcover)
Jan Brokken; Translated by Scott Rollins
R3,181 Discovery Miles 31 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"The Music of the Netherlands Antilles: Why Eleven Antilleans Knelt before Chopin's Heart" is not your usual musical scholarship. In October 1999, eleven Antilleans attended the service held to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Frederic Chopin's death. This service, held in the Warsaw church where the composer's heart is kept in an urn, was an opportunity for these Antilleans to express their debt of gratitude to Chopin, whose influence is central to Antillean music history. Press coverage of this event caused Dutch novelist and author Jan Brokken (b. 1949) to start writing this book, based on notes he took while living on Curacao from 1993 to 2002.

Anyone hoping to discover an overlooked chapter of Caribbean music and music history will be amply rewarded with this Dutch-Caribbean perspective on the pan-Caribbean process of creolization. On Curacao, the history and legacy of slavery shaped culture and music, affecting all the New World. Brokken's portraits of prominent Dutch Antillean composers are interspersed with cultural and music history. He puts the Dutch Caribbean's contributions into a broader context by also examining the nineteenth-century works by pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk from New Orleans and Manuel Saumell from Cuba. Brokken explores the African component of Dutch Antillean music--examining the history of the rhythm and music known as "tambu" as well as American jazz pianist Chick Corea's fascination with the tumba rhythm from Curacao. The book ends with a discussion of how recent Dutch Caribbean adaptations of European dance forms have shifted from a classical approach to contemporary forms of Latin jazz."

World Music Class, The Aspire Higher Project - The Aspire Higher Project (Paperback): Teo Vincent IV World Music Class, The Aspire Higher Project - The Aspire Higher Project (Paperback)
Teo Vincent IV
R296 Discovery Miles 2 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Includes many beautifully prepared scores, extensive music glossaries, classical scores made easy and step by step Afro-Latin / Caribbean percussion. Scores Included: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star / Baa Baa Black Sheep / ABCs Form Figure #1 Resolmilafatimila elegant sequence circle of 5ths World Music Mastery for playing with anyone Standard 1-4-5 progressions, beginner to advanced Bars 30-32 of Praelude #1 by J.S. Bach - study of Seventh Suspended chords Latin Piano (Montuno) 101: "La Bamba" C I-IV-V-IV major and minor (with I-ii-V-ii variation) Satin Doll by Duke Ellington with 7th chords spelled out on the bass clef Montuno Etude #0, Montuno Circles Makes Blues Scale, Shekere pattern as piano montuno Yoruba Diasporas, Rumba Parts translated into Melodic Phrases Calypso Study in Soca (Soul-Calypso) often the first side (bar) is Up and the second half is Down Syncro-Nice Sacred Rhythm Scales, Major and Lydian Scales Sync with Sacred West-African Percussion Conversation Pieces: Extremely Potent Repeatable Perpetual Motivations - Making Improvisation Effortless Montuno Etude #1, Primer for First Time Montuno (Latin Piano) Technique Montuno Etude #2, "That Makes This Heaven" C Major 1-6-2-5 Montuno and Bajo Tumbau (Bass) Swing Montuno Study, 6/8 Swing Jazz, Montuno Rhythmic Tension added to the Melodic Role Calypso Circles circles of fifths with calypso chuck (downbeat on the first half version) Clavinet Keyboard Score 1,"Soca Clav" Soul-Calypso standard keyboard chuck Clavinet Keyboard Score 2,"Superclav" Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" adapted to teach Clavinet Techniques Bossanova Study, Sweet Love Song, Piano, Chords & Lyrics: "Lost In Love" Affirmatinas: "Everything's going perfectly, now and ever more " "Having what I'm wanting, wanting what I'm having" Affirmatina Song, Piano and Lyrics: "My Successes Are Here" Classical Derivative Affirmatina #1, "I Manifest My Destiny" based on Chopin Mazurka in C Classical Derivative Affirmatina #2, "Chopin Made A Way" based on Chopin's C# minor waltz Classical Derivative Affirmatina #3, "Let It Be's" based on Abbe Franz Liszt's "Liebestraum" Clarinet Concerto in A Major, the Adagio, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, reduction to piano solo Canto: Gelido in Ogni Vena, from the opera Farnace by Antonio Vivaldi, piano, chords and vocals Song To The Moon from the opera Rusalka, by Antonin Dvorak, melody / hook for piano and chords Canto: The Triumph of Truth & Time (later the opera Rinaldo), George Frederic Handel, reduction to piano, chords and vocals Canto: Laudate Dominum, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, reduction to piano, chords and Latin vocals Romeo and Juliet Overture, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Theme Reduction Canto: Ave Maria (originally Ellens Gesang for Sir Walter Scott poems) by Franz Schubert, piano, chords and Latin vocals Bel Canto: Casta Diva from the opera Norma, by Vincenzo Bellini, reduction to piano, chords and vocals Andalucia later called The Breeze And I, by Ernesto Lecuona, reduction to piano, chords and melody Les Caquets (short version) by Chevalier de Saint Georges (the Black Mozart), Trio Score version for Bass, Piano & Violin Percs Score 1, Carmen - Carmen's Habanera, Clave, Percussion, Coro (Chorus) adapted to teach the percussion patterns Percs Score 2, Yemaya & Santa Lucia, Agogo, Percussion, Coro (Chorus) in Yoruba and English Percs Score 3, Afro-Blue (Obatala Orisha Song) with Chopin's Eb Prelude / Nocturn (1 verse). Many years of experience in teaching, performing, writing and band-leading have been condensed into handy reference materials, and step-by-step lessons that can be easy to follow, improve music understanding and appreciation. In this book are germs, seeds that can be expanded into lessons in many directions, all making musical understanding and music appreciating improve greatly. This book is great for self-study, and classes.

Popular Music of the Olden Time a Collection of Ancient Songs, Ballads and Dance Tunes Illustrative of the National Music of... Popular Music of the Olden Time a Collection of Ancient Songs, Ballads and Dance Tunes Illustrative of the National Music of England V1 (Paperback)
William Chappell
R1,056 Discovery Miles 10 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1859 Edition.

World Music Class 2015 - The Aspire Higher Project (Paperback): Charmony Givnology World Music Class 2015 - The Aspire Higher Project (Paperback)
Charmony Givnology
R268 Discovery Miles 2 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A very extensive all-in-one reference, primer, history and songbook for a variety of music. Percussion diagrams. Latin & Caribbean ensemble tips & improvisation techniques. Helpful arrangements of important songs by Mozart, Handel, Bellini, St. Georges, Lecuona, Bizet, Vivaldi, Schubert and many more

Unusual Guitar Scales from Around the World - Exotic Guitar Riffs and Licks (Paperback): Raif Justin Orheim Unusual Guitar Scales from Around the World - Exotic Guitar Riffs and Licks (Paperback)
Raif Justin Orheim
R630 R516 Discovery Miles 5 160 Save R114 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Travel the globe with your fingertips -- through 14 unique guitar scales from around the world -- an entertaining look at unusual exotic scale sounds you may not have played before. In addition to the fourteen different scales, the book also provides chords derived from those scales, and riffs and licks that will keep you learning and challenged about many countries' musical styles. The book includes the history (with color photos) of each country's distinct musical instruments and unique sounds -- along with numerous music examples, standard guitar notation and tablature, and strange, exotic scales, licks and riffs that are literally Out-Of-This-World.

Music and Culture in Italy from the Middle Ages to the Baroque (Hardcover, Reprint 2014 ed.): Nino Pirrotta Music and Culture in Italy from the Middle Ages to the Baroque (Hardcover, Reprint 2014 ed.)
Nino Pirrotta
R1,946 Discovery Miles 19 460 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Women Musicians of Zimbabwe - . a Celebration of Women's Struggle for Voice and Artistic Expression (Paperback): Joyce... Women Musicians of Zimbabwe - . a Celebration of Women's Struggle for Voice and Artistic Expression (Paperback)
Joyce Jenje-Makwenda
R1,035 Discovery Miles 10 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
More Than Bollywood - Studies in Indian Popular Music (Paperback): Gregory D. Booth, Bradley Shope More Than Bollywood - Studies in Indian Popular Music (Paperback)
Gregory D. Booth, Bradley Shope
R1,243 Discovery Miles 12 430 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This is the first book to tackle the diverse styles and multiple histories of popular musics in India. It brings together fourteen of the world's leading scholars on Indian popular music to contribute chapters on a range of topics from the classic songs of Bollywood to contemporary remixes, summarized by a reflective afterword by popular music scholar Timothy Taylor. The chapters in this volume address the impact of media and technology on contemporary music, the variety of industrial developments and contexts for Indian popular music, and historical trends in popular music development both before and after the Indian Independence in 1947. The book identifies new ways of engaging popular music in India beyond the Bollywood musical canon, and offers several case studies of local and regional styles of music. The contributors address the subcontinent's historical relationships with colonialism, the transnational market economies, local governmental factors, international conventions, and a host of other circumstances to shed light on the development of popular music throughout India. To illustrate each chapter author's points, and to make available music not easily accessible in North America, the book features an Oxford web music companion website of audio and video tracks.

Global Tribe - Technology, Spirituality and Psytrance (Hardcover, New): Graham St. John Global Tribe - Technology, Spirituality and Psytrance (Hardcover, New)
Graham St. John
R2,573 Discovery Miles 25 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Trance events have an uncanny ability to capture an era, and captivate an audience of travellers occupying the eternal theatre of the dance floor. As this book shows, the tendency within psytrance is to thwart the passage of time, to prolong the night, for those who adopt a liminal lifestyle. Amid the hustle and hubris of the psytrance carnival there is a peaceful repose that you sometimes catch when you've drifted into a sea of outstretched limbs, bodies swaying like a field of sunflowers in a light breeze. And you feel intense joy in this fleeting moment. You are the moment. You are inside the flow. You are all. Embodying the poetry of dance, you are living evidence that nothing lasts. And this is a deep revelation of the mystical function of trance. It is difficult to emerge from this little death, because one does not want the party to end. But it must end, even so that it can recommence - so that one can return to repeat the cycle. The result of fifteen years of research in over a dozen countries, this book applies a sharp lens on a little understood global dance culture that has mushroomed all over the world since its beginnings in the diverse psychedelic music scenes flourishing in Goa in the 1970s and 1980s. The paramount expression of this movement has been the festival, from small parties to major international events such as Portugal's Boom Festival, which promotes itself as a world-summit of visionary arts and trance, a "united tribe of the world". Via first-hand accounts of the scenes, events and music of psychedelic trance in Australia, Israel, Germany, Italy, the UK, the US, Turkey and other places, the book thoroughly documents this transnational movement with its diverse aesthetic roots, multiple national translations and internal controversies. As a multi-sited ethnography and an examination of the digital, chemical, cyber and media assemblage constituting psytrance, the book explores the integrated role that technology and spirituality have played in the formation of this visionary arts movement and shows how these event-cultures accommodate rites of risk and consciousness, a complex circumstance demanding revision of existing approaches to ritual, music and culture.

Modern German Music - Recollections and Criticisms, Volume 1... (Paperback): Henry Fothergill Chorley Modern German Music - Recollections and Criticisms, Volume 1... (Paperback)
Henry Fothergill Chorley
R951 R787 Discovery Miles 7 870 Save R164 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ Modern German Music: Recollections And Criticisms, Volume 1 Henry Fothergill Chorley Smith Elder and Co, 1854 Music; Ethnic; Music; Music / Ethnic; Music / History & Criticism

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