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Postmodernity's Musical Pasts covers topics from classical to
popular and neo-traditional musics to concerns of the disciplines
of musicology. These provide insights how the progression of time
and history can be conceptually understood after 1945.
Postmodernity's Musical Pasts relies on an extensive and varied
spectrum of topics, from both the centre and the periphery of the
musicological canon, that mirror the eclectic and diverse nature of
the postwar era itself. The first section, 'Time and the
(Post)Modern', investigates how to understand manifestations of the
past in musical composition with regard to time, on the one hand,
and with regard to genre, style, and idiom, on the other. The
second section, 'Manifestations of History', shows how time and
history manifest themselves in art music. A third section,
'Receptions of the Past', takes the contrasts and transitional
moments of post-1945 practices further by looking at the
temporality of reception from different angles. A final part
investigates questions of nostalgia and the temporalities of
belonging. The volume subverts the understanding of temporality as
linear progression of past, present, and future. It offers new
avenues of conceptual thinking relevant for those engaged in the
study of music history and culture and for the humanities at large.
The quality of customer experience has become more important in
recent times as businesses struggle to differentiate themselves.
But what are the emerging trends that businesses should focus on
today? The authors explore the growing trends that progressive
businesses need to understand to give themselves a competitive
advantage.
Customer Experience is now the key differentiator as consumers and
businesses alike decide among competing brands. The authors explore
growing trends in Experience Psychology, Social Media and
Neuroscience and their impact on Customer Experience that
businesses need to understand to gain preference, loyalty and
market share.
This anthology offers a fresh approach to the philosophical aspects
of photography. The essays, written by contemporary philosophers in
a thorough and engaging manner, explore the far-reaching ethical
dimensions of photography as it is used today.
A first-of-its-kind anthology exploring the link between the art of
photography and the theoretical questions it raises
Written in a thorough and engaging manner
Essayists are all contemporary philosophers who bring with them an
exceptional understanding of the broader metaphysical issues
pertaining to photography
Takes a fresh look at some familiar issues - photographic truth,
objectivity, and realism
Introduces newer issues such as the ethical use of photography or
the effect of digital-imaging technology on how we appreciate
images
This anthology offers a fresh approach to the philosophical aspects
of photography. The essays, written by contemporary philosophers in
a thorough and engaging manner, explore the far-reaching ethical
dimensions of photography as it is used today.
A first-of-its-kind anthology exploring the link between the art of
photography and the theoretical questions it raises
Written in a thorough and engaging manner
Essayists are all contemporary philosophers who bring with them an
exceptional understanding of the broader metaphysical issues
pertaining to photography
Takes a fresh look at some familiar issues - photographic truth,
objectivity, and realism
Introduces newer issues such as the ethical use of photography or
the effect of digital-imaging technology on how we appreciate
images
The term 'Jewish music' has conveyed complex and diverse meanings
for people around the world across hundreds of years. This
accessible and comprehensive Companion is a key resource for
students, scholars, and everyone with an interest in the global
history of Jewish music. Leading international experts introduce
the broad range of genres found in Jewish music from the biblical
era to the present day, including classical, religious, folk,
popular, and dance music. Presenting a range of fresh perspectives
on the subject, the chapters explore Jewish liturgy, Klezmer, music
in Israel, the music of Yiddish theatre and cinema, and classical
music from the Jewish Enlightenment through to the postmodern era.
Additional contributions set Jewish music in context and offer an
overview of the broader issues that arise in its study, such as
questions of Diaspora, ontology, economics, and the history of
sound technologies.
The term 'Jewish music' has conveyed complex and diverse meanings
for people around the world across hundreds of years. This
accessible and comprehensive Companion is a key resource for
students, scholars, and everyone with an interest in the global
history of Jewish music. Leading international experts introduce
the broad range of genres found in Jewish music from the biblical
era to the present day, including classical, religious, folk,
popular, and dance music. Presenting a range of fresh perspectives
on the subject, the chapters explore Jewish liturgy, Klezmer, music
in Israel, the music of Yiddish theatre and cinema, and classical
music from the Jewish Enlightenment through to the postmodern era.
Additional contributions set Jewish music in context and offer an
overview of the broader issues that arise in its study, such as
questions of Diaspora, ontology, economics, and the history of
sound technologies.
Representation in Western Music offers a comprehensive study of the
roles of representation in the composition, performance and
reception of Western music. In recent years, there has been
increasing academic interest in questions of musical interpretation
and meaning and in music's interactions with other artistic media,
and yet no book has dealt extensively with representation's
important role in these processes. This volume presents new
research about musical representation, with particular focus on
Western art and popular music from the nineteenth century to the
present day. It assembles essays by an international assortment of
leading scholars on a range of subjects including instrumental
music, opera, popular song, ballet, cinema and the music video.
Individual sections address representation, interpretation and
musical meaning; music's relationships with visual forms of
representation; musical representation in dramatic forms; and the
functions of music in the representation of identity.
Sounding Authentic considers the intersecting influences of
nationalism, modernism, and technological innovation on
representations of ethnic and national identities in
twentieth-century art music. Author Joshua S. Walden discusses
these forces through the prism of what he terms the "rural
miniature": short violin and piano pieces based on folk song and
dance styles. This genre, mostly inspired by the folk music of
Hungary, the Jewish diaspora, and Spain, was featured frequently on
recordings and performance programs in the early twentieth century.
Furthermore, Sounding Authentic shows how the music of urban Romany
ensembles developed into nineteenth-century repertoire of virtuosic
works in the style hongrois before ultimately influencing composers
of rural miniatures. Walden persuasively demonstrates how rural
miniatures represented folk and rural cultures in a manner that was
perceived as authentic, even while they involved significant
modification of the original sources. He also links them to the
impulse toward realism in developing technologies of photography,
film, and sound recording. Sounding Authentic examines the complex
ways the rural miniature was used by makers of nationalist agendas,
who sought folkloric authenticity as a basis for the construction
of ethnic and national identities. The book also considers the
genre's reception in European diaspora communities in America where
it evoked and transformed memories of life before immigration, and
traces how many rural miniatures were assimilated to the styles of
American popular song and swing. Scholars interested in musicology,
ethnography, the history of violin performance, twentieth-century
European art music, the culture of the Jewish Diaspora and more
will find Sounding Authentic an essential addition to their
library.
Representation in Western Music offers a comprehensive study of the
roles of representation in the composition, performance and
reception of Western music. In recent years, there has been
increasing academic interest in questions of musical interpretation
and meaning and in music's interactions with other artistic media,
and yet no book has dealt extensively with representation's
important role in these processes. This volume presents new
research about musical representation, with particular focus on
Western art and popular music from the nineteenth century to the
present day. It assembles essays by an international assortment of
leading scholars on a range of subjects including instrumental
music, opera, popular song, ballet, cinema and the music video.
Individual sections address representation, interpretation and
musical meaning; music's relationships with visual forms of
representation; musical representation in dramatic forms; and the
functions of music in the representation of identity.
Joshua S. Walden's Musical Portraits: The Composition of Identity
in Contemporary and Experimental Music explores the wide-ranging
but under-examined genre of musical portraiture. It focuses in
particular on contemporary and experimental music created between
1945 and the present day, an era in which conceptions of identity
have changed alongside increasing innovation in musical composition
as well as in the uses of abstraction, mixed media, and other novel
techniques in the field of visual portraiture. In the absence of
physical likeness, an element typical of portraiture that cannot be
depicted in sound, composers have experimented with methods of
constructing other attributes of identity in music, such as
character, biography, and profession. By studying musical portraits
of painters, authors, and modern celebrities, in addition to
composers' self-portraits, the book considers how representational
and interpretive processes overlap and differ between music and
other art forms, as well as how music is used in the depiction of
human identities. Examining a range of musical portraits by
composers including Peter Ablinger, Pierre Boulez, Morton Feldman,
Philip Glass, Gyoergy Ligeti, and Virgil Thomson, and director
Robert Wilson's on-going series of video portraits of modern-day
celebrities and his "portrait opera" Einstein on the Beach, Musical
Portraits contributes to the study of music since 1945 through a
detailed examination of contemporary understandings of music's
capacity to depict identity, and of the intersections between
music, literature, theater, film, and the visual arts.
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