Bad Music

Author : Christopher J. Washburne,Maiken Derno
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135385477

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Bad Music by Christopher J. Washburne,Maiken Derno Pdf

Why are some popular musical forms and performers universally reviled by critics and ignored by scholars-despite enjoying large-scale popularity? How has the notion of what makes "good" or "bad" music changed over the years-and what does this tell us about the writers who have assigned these tags to different musical genres? Many composers that are today part of the classical "canon" were greeted initially by bad reviews. Similarly, jazz, country, and pop musics were all once rejected as "bad" by the academy that now has courses on these and many other types of music. This book addresses why this is so through a series of essays on different musical forms and performers. It looks at alternate ways of judging musical performance beyond the critical/academic nexus, and suggests new paths to follow in understanding what makes some music "popular" even if it is judged to be "bad." For anyone who has ever secretly enjoyed ABBA, Kenny G, or disco, Bad Music will be a guilty pleasure!

Author : James Whitehead
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781326765866

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Bad Music by James Whitehead Pdf

Author : Christopher J. Washburne,Maiken Derno
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135946845

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Bad Music by Christopher J. Washburne,Maiken Derno Pdf

Why are some popular musical forms and performers universally reviled by critics and ignored by scholars-despite enjoying large-scale popularity? How has the notion of what makes "good" or "bad" music changed over the years-and what does this tell us about the writers who have assigned these tags to different musical genres? Many composers that are today part of the classical "canon" were greeted initially by bad reviews. Similarly, jazz, country, and pop musics were all once rejected as "bad" by the academy that now has courses on these and many other types of music. This book addresses why this is so through a series of essays on different musical forms and performers. It looks at alternate ways of judging musical performance beyond the critical/academic nexus, and suggests new paths to follow in understanding what makes some music "popular" even if it is judged to be "bad." For anyone who has ever secretly enjoyed ABBA, Kenny G, or disco, Bad Music will be a guilty pleasure!

Author : Tim Falconer
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781770894464

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Bad Singer by Tim Falconer Pdf

In the tradition of Daniel Levitin’s This Is Your Brain on Music and Oliver Sacks’ Musicophilia, Bad Singer follows the delightful journey of Tim Falconer as he tries to overcome tone deafness — and along the way discovers what we’re really hearing when we listen to music. Tim Falconer, a self-confessed “bad singer,” always wanted to make music, but soon after he starts singing lessons, he discovers that he’s part of only 2.5 percent of the population afflicted with amusia — in other words, he is scientifically tone-deaf. Bad Singer chronicles his quest to understand human evolution and music, the brain science behind tone-deafness, his search for ways to retrain the adult brain, and his investigation into what we really hear when we listen to music. In an effort to learn more about his brain disorder, he goes to a series of labs where the scientists who test him are as fascinated with him as he is with them. He also sets out to understand why we love music and deconstructs what we really hear when we listen to it. And he unlocks the secret that helps explain why music has such emotional power over us.

Author : Francis Jacox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Music
ISBN : NYPL:33433082181789

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Bible Music by Francis Jacox Pdf

Author : Dr James Kennaway
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781409456216

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Bad Vibrations by Dr James Kennaway Pdf

Music has been used as a cure for disease since as far back as King David's lyre, but the notion that it might be a serious cause of mental and physical illness was rare until the late eighteenth century. At that time, physicians started to argue that excessive music, or the wrong kind of music, could over-stimulate a vulnerable nervous system, leading to illness, immorality and even death. Since then there have been successive waves of moral panics about supposed epidemics of musical nervousness, caused by everything from Wagner to jazz and rock 'n' roll. It was this medical and critical debate that provided the psychiatric rhetoric of "degenerate music" that was the rationale for the persecution of musicians in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. By the 1950s, the focus of medical anxiety about music shifted to the idea that "musical brainwashing" and "subliminal messages" could strain the nerves and lead to mind control, mental illness and suicide. More recently, the prevalence of sonic weapons and the use of music in torture in the so-called War on Terror have both made the subject of music that is bad for the health worryingly topical. This book outlines and explains the development of this idea of pathological music from the Enlightenment until the present day, providing an original contribution to the history of medicine, music and the body.

Author : James Kennaway
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317176466

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Bad Vibrations by James Kennaway Pdf

Music has been used as a cure for disease since as far back as King David's lyre, but the notion that it might be a serious cause of mental and physical illness was rare until the late eighteenth century. At that time, physicians started to argue that excessive music, or the wrong kind of music, could over-stimulate a vulnerable nervous system, leading to illness, immorality and even death. Since then there have been successive waves of moral panics about supposed epidemics of musical nervousness, caused by everything from Wagner to jazz and rock 'n' roll. It was this medical and critical debate that provided the psychiatric rhetoric of "degenerate music" that was the rationale for the persecution of musicians in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. By the 1950s, the focus of medical anxiety about music shifted to the idea that "musical brainwashing" and "subliminal messages" could strain the nerves and lead to mind control, mental illness and suicide. More recently, the prevalence of sonic weapons and the use of music in torture in the so-called War on Terror have both made the subject of music that is bad for the health worryingly topical. This book outlines and explains the development of this idea of pathological music from the Enlightenment until the present day, providing an original contribution to the history of medicine, music and the body.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1074 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Music
ISBN : HARVARD:32044043850197

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The Musical World by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Music
ISBN : NYPL:33433082165311

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Musical News by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michaelangelo Matos
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780306903359

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Can't Slow Down by Michaelangelo Matos Pdf

A Rolling Stone-Kirkus Best Music Book of 2020 The definitive account of pop music in the mid-eighties, from Prince and Madonna to the underground hip-hop, indie rock, and club scenes Everybody knows the hits of 1984 - pop music's greatest year. From "Thriller" to "Purple Rain," "Hello" to "Against All Odds," "What's Love Got to Do with It" to "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go," these iconic songs continue to dominate advertising, karaoke nights, and the soundtracks for film classics (Boogie Nights) and TV hits (Stranger Things). But the story of that thrilling, turbulent time, an era when Top 40 radio was both the leading edge of popular culture and a moral battleground, has never been told with the full detail it deserves - until now. Can't Slow Down is the definitive portrait of the exploding world of mid-eighties pop and the time it defined, from Cold War anxiety to the home-computer revolution. Big acts like Michael Jackson (Thriller), Prince (Purple Rain), Madonna (Like a Virgin), Bruce Springsteen (Born in the U.S.A.), and George Michael (Wham!'s Make It Big) rubbed shoulders with the stars of the fermenting scenes of hip-hop, indie rock, and club music. Rigorously researched, mapping the entire terrain of American pop, with crucial side trips to the UK and Jamaica, from the biz to the stars to the upstarts and beyond, Can't Slow Down is a vivid journey to the very moment when pop was remaking itself, and the culture at large - one hit at a time.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Music
ISBN : UVA:X002071620

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The Monthly Musical Record by Anonim Pdf

Author : Hugh Reginald Haweis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042976501

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My Musical Life by Hugh Reginald Haweis Pdf

Author : Musical Association (Great Britain)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 778 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Music
ISBN : CUB:U183012919998

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Proceedings of the Musical Association by Musical Association (Great Britain) Pdf

Author : Theodore Presser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Music
ISBN : UVA:X030752349

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Etude Music Magazine by Theodore Presser Pdf

Includes music.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006678911

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Dwight's Journal of Music by Anonim Pdf