Author : Don Harr¾n
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0803223471
In Defense of Music
Don Harr¾n
In Defense Of Music
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Major Labels
Kelefa Sanneh
Author : Kelefa Sanneh
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780525559603
Major Labels by Kelefa Sanneh Pdf
One of Oprah Daily's 20 Favorite Books of 2021 • Selected as one of Pitchfork's Best Music Books of the Year “One of the best books of its kind in decades.” —The Wall Street Journal An epic achievement and a huge delight, the entire history of popular music over the past fifty years refracted through the big genres that have defined and dominated it: rock, R&B, country, punk, hip-hop, dance music, and pop Kelefa Sanneh, one of the essential voices of our time on music and culture, has made a deep study of how popular music unites and divides us, charting the way genres become communities. In Major Labels, Sanneh distills a career’s worth of knowledge about music and musicians into a brilliant and omnivorous reckoning with popular music—as an art form (actually, a bunch of art forms), as a cultural and economic force, and as a tool that we use to build our identities. He explains the history of slow jams, the genius of Shania Twain, and why rappers are always getting in trouble. Sanneh shows how these genres have been defined by the tension between mainstream and outsider, between authenticity and phoniness, between good and bad, right and wrong. Throughout, race is a powerful touchstone: just as there have always been Black audiences and white audiences, with more or less overlap depending on the moment, there has been Black music and white music, constantly mixing and separating. Sanneh debunks cherished myths, reappraises beloved heroes, and upends familiar ideas of musical greatness, arguing that sometimes, the best popular music isn’t transcendent. Songs express our grudges as well as our hopes, and they are motivated by greed as well as idealism; music is a powerful tool for human connection, but also for human antagonism. This is a book about the music everyone loves, the music everyone hates, and the decades-long argument over which is which. The opposite of a modest proposal, Major Labels pays in full.
In Defense of Ska
Aaron Carnes
Author : Aaron Carnes
Publisher : Clash Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 1955904715
In Defense of Ska by Aaron Carnes Pdf
In a mix of interviews, essays, personal stories, historical snapshots, obscure anecdotes, and think pieces, this second expanded edition dissects, analyzes and celebrates ska in exactly the way fans have been craving for decades. With the addition of 4 new sections, Aaron adds to the already extensive compendium that was the first edition: The Importance of Christian Ska; After ska died in the '90s, the music went underground and returned to its roots; The ska roots of Fall Out Boy lead singer Patrick Stump; How Katrina created a vibrant ska scene in New Orleans. Aaron expands on the original edition with exciting interviews with Patrick Stump from Fall Out Boy who he interviewed on his podcast of the same name. In Defense of Ska: Ska Now More Than Ever is the much-needed response to years of ska-mockery. Now the time to take to the streets and fight music snobbery, or at least crank up the ska without being teased ruthlessly, has come. This book will enlist ska-lovers as soldiers in the ska army and challenge ska-haters' prejudices to the core.
Earth's Wild Music
Kathleen Dean Moore
Author : Kathleen Dean Moore
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781640095304
Earth's Wild Music by Kathleen Dean Moore Pdf
At once joyous and somber, this thoughtful gathering of new and selected essays spans Kathleen Dean Moore's distinguished career as a tireless advocate for environmental activism in the face of climate change. In this meditation on the music of the natural world, Moore celebrates the call of loons, howl of wolves, bellow of whales, laughter of children, and shriek of frogs, even as she warns of the threats against them. Each group of essays moves, as Moore herself has been moved, from celebration to lamentation to bewilderment and finally to the determination to act in defense of wild songs and the creatures who sing them. Music is the shivering urgency and exuberance of life ongoing. In a time of terrible silencing, Moore asks, who will forgive us if we do not save nature's songs?
In Defense of American Liberties
Samuel Walker
Author : Samuel Walker
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0809322706
In Defense of American Liberties by Samuel Walker Pdf
This updated comprehensive history of the American Civil Liberties Union recounts the ACLU's stormy history since its founding in 1920 to fight for free speech and explores its involvement in some of the most famous causes in American history, including the Scopes "monkey trial," the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, the Cold War anti-Communist witch hunts, and the civil rights movement. The new introduction covers the history of the organization and developments in civil liberties in the 1990s, including the U.S. Supreme Court's declaration of the Communications Decency Act as unconstitutional in ACLU v. Reno.
Military Justice is to Justice as Military Music is to Music
Robert Sherrill
Author : Robert Sherrill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
ISBN : UCAL:$B564959
Military Justice is to Justice as Military Music is to Music by Robert Sherrill Pdf
In Defence of Classical Music
Andrew Ford
Author : Andrew Ford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Music
ISBN : 0733315941
In Defence of Classical Music by Andrew Ford Pdf
Why does anyone still bother with classical music? How can the string quartets of Brahms or the symphonies of Beethoven possibly be relevant in our post-9/11 world? In this stimulating and provocative book, composer and broadcaster Andrew Ford argues that it is because we live in such discordant times that classical music is more valuable than it has ever been. Beginning with a discussion of some common cliches, he considers the nature of classical music: whether it is, for example, an international language. Then in a series of short essays, each taking as its starting point the music of a single composer including Dowland, Haydn, Berlioz, Ravel and the contemporary Finnish composer, Kaija Saariaho, he presents a composite picture of what classical music is, what it is capable of, how it works, and how it differs from other sorts of music. Finally, Ford draws on his own music as a means of explaining what goes on in a composer's mind. Classical music, says Ford, is a source not only of consolation, but of certainty. It reaffirms creativity because it has survived, he writes. It connects us to the best of civilisation at a time when we find little civilisation in our own world.
Music, Education, and Religion
Alexis Anja Kallio,Philip Alperson,Heidi Westerlund
Author : Alexis Anja Kallio,Philip Alperson,Heidi Westerlund
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253043740
Music, Education, and Religion by Alexis Anja Kallio,Philip Alperson,Heidi Westerlund Pdf
Music, Education, and Religion: Intersections and Entanglements explores the critical role that religion can play in formal and informal music education. As in broader educational studies, research in music education has tended to sidestep the religious dimensions of teaching and learning, often reflecting common assumptions of secularity in contemporary schooling in many parts of the world. This book considers the ways in which the forces of religion and belief construct and complicate the values and practices of music education—including teacher education, curriculum texts, and teaching repertoires. The contributors to this volume embrace a range of perspectives from a variety of disciplines, examining religious, agnostic, skeptical, and atheistic points of view. Music, Education, and Religion is a valuable resource for all music teachers and scholars in related fields, interrogating the sociocultural and epistemological underpinnings of music repertoires and global educational practices.
Brian Eno: Visual Music
Christopher Scoates
Author : Christopher Scoates
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781452129488
Brian Eno: Visual Music by Christopher Scoates Pdf
This comprehensive monograph celebrates the visual art of renowned musician Brian Eno. Spanning more than 40 years, Brian Eno: Visual Music weaves a dialogue between Eno's museum and gallery installations and his musical endeavors—all illustrated with never-before-published archival materials such as sketchbook pages, installation views, screenshots, and more. Steve Dietz, Brian Dillon, Roy Ascott, and William R. Wright contextualize Eno's contribution to new media art, while Eno himself shares insights into his process. Also included is a download code for a previously unreleased piece of music created by Eno, making this ebook a requisite for fans and collectors.
Music as an Art
Roger Scruton
Author : Roger Scruton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781472955722
Music as an Art by Roger Scruton Pdf
Music as an Art begins by examining music through a philosophical lens, engaging in discussions about tonality, music and the moral life, music and cognitive science and German idealism, as well as recalling the author's struggle to encourage his students to distinguish the qualities of good music. Scruton then explains – via erudite chapters on Schubert, Britten, Rameau, opera and film – how we can develop greater judgement in music, recognising both good taste and bad, establishing musical values, as well as musical pleasures. As Scruton argues in this book, in earlier times, our musical culture had secure foundations in the church, the concert hall and the home; in the ceremonies and celebrations of ordinary life, religion and manners. Yet we no longer live in that world. Fewer people now play instruments and music is, for many, a form of largely solitary enjoyment. As he shows in Music as an Art, we live at a critical time for classical music, and this book is an important contribution to the debate, of which we stand in need, concerning the place of music in Western civilization.
Music at Hand
Jonathan De Souza
Author : Jonathan De Souza
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190271114
Music at Hand by Jonathan De Souza Pdf
Music at Hand shows how sound, action, and perception are connected in instrumental performance, asking how this integration affects listening, improvisation, and composition. Traversing disciplinary boundaries and diverse musical styles, this innovative book analyzes forms of musical experience that are both embodied and conditioned by technology.
Analytical Studies in World Music
Michael Tenzer
Author : Michael Tenzer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006-05-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 0198039581
Analytical Studies in World Music by Michael Tenzer Pdf
Combining the approaches of ethnomusicology and music theory, Analytical Studies in World Music offers fresh perspectives for thinking about how musical sounds are shaped, arranged, and composed by their diverse makers worldwide. Eleven inspired, insightful, and in-depth explanations of Iranian sung poetry, Javanese and Balinese gamelan music, Afro-Cuban drumming, flamenco, modern American chamber music, and a wealth of other genres create a border-erasing compendium of ingenious music analyses. Selections on the companion website are carefully matched with extensive transcriptions and illuminating diagrams in every chapter. Opening rich cross-cultural perspectives on music, this volume addresses the practical needs of students and scholars in the contemporary world of fusions, contact, borrowing, and curiosity about music everywhere.
Why Classical Music Still Matters
Lawrence Kramer
Author : Lawrence Kramer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007-05-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520250826
Why Classical Music Still Matters by Lawrence Kramer Pdf
In lucid and engaging prose, the book explores the sources of classical music's power in a variety of settings, from concert performance to film and TV, from everyday life to the historical trauma of September 11. Addressed to a wide audience, this book will appeal to aficionados and skeptics alike.
Civil Rights Music
Reiland Rabaka
Author : Reiland Rabaka
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498531795
Civil Rights Music by Reiland Rabaka Pdf
While there have been a number of studies that have explored African American “movement culture” and African American “movement politics,” rarely has the mixture of black music and black politics or, rather, black music an as expression of black movement politics, been explored across several genres of African American “movement music,” and certainly not with a central focus on the major soundtracks of the Civil Rights Movement: gospel, freedom songs, rhythm & blues, and rock & roll. Here the mixture of music and politics emerging out of the Civil Rights Movement is critically examined as an incredibly important site and source of spiritual rejuvenation, social organization, political education, and cultural transformation, not simply for the non-violent civil rights soldiers of the 1950s and 1960s, but for organic intellectual-artist-activists deeply committed to continuing the core ideals and ethos of the Civil Rights Movement in the twenty-first century. Civil Rights Music: The Soundtracks of the Civil Rights Movement is primarily preoccupied with that liminal, in-between, and often inexplicable place where black popular music and black popular movements meet and merge. Black popular movements are more than merely social and political affairs. Beyond social organization and political activism, black popular movements provide much-needed spaces for cultural development and artistic experimentation, including the mixing of musical and other aesthetic traditions. “Movement music” experimentation has historically led to musical innovation, and musical innovation in turn has led to new music that has myriad meanings and messages—some social, some political, some cultural, some spiritual and, indeed, some sexual. Just as black popular movements have a multiplicity of meanings, this book argues that the music that emerges out of black popular movements has a multiplicity of meanings as well.
The Lively Arts of the London Stage, 1675–1725
Professor Kathryn Lowerre
Author : Professor Kathryn Lowerre
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781409455332
The Lively Arts of the London Stage, 1675–1725 by Professor Kathryn Lowerre Pdf
Reflecting the myriad options available to London audiences at the turn of the eighteenth century, this volume offers readers a portrait of the interrelated music, drama and dance productions that characterized this rich period. By bringing together work by scholars in different fields, this cross-disciplinary collection illuminates the interconnecting strands that shaped a vibrant theatrical world.