Music In Our Times

Author : Marco Adria
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 1550283154

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Music of our Times by Marco Adria Pdf

This pioneering work in Canadian pop music criticism analyses the work of some of the country's most acclaimed musicians, winners of national and international awards and recognition. Marco Adria examines the songs of eight Canadian artists who belong to pop music's literati--singer-songerwriters whose work reflects considerable refinement and taste. Gordon Lightfoot, Leonard Cohen, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Bruce Cockburn, Murray McLaughlan, Jane Siberry and k.d. lang are all artists with considerable insight both in Canada and abroad. Individual chapters on each offer thoughtful accounts of their careers and their achievements as interpreters of contemporary popular culture. Music of our Times presents new insights and new understandings of Canada's most acclaimed musicians.

Author : John Burnside
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691218861

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The Music of Time by John Burnside Pdf

"First published in a slight different form in Great Britain in 2019 by Profile Books Ltd."--Title page verso.

Author : Neil Peart
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781554907953

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Traveling Music by Neil Peart Pdf

Neil Peart decided to drive his BMW Z-8 automobile from L.A. to Big Bend National Park, in Southwest Texas. As he sped along “between the gas-gulping SUVs and asthmatic Japanese compacts clumping in the left lane, and the roaring, straining semis in the right,” he acted as his own DJ, lining up the CDs chronologically and according to his possible moods. “Not only did the music I listened to accompany my journey, but it also took me on sidetrips, through memory and fractals of associations, threads reaching back through my whole life in ways I had forgotten, or had never suspected…. Sifting through those decades and those memories, I realized that I wasn’t interested in recounting the facts of my life in purely autobiographical terms, but rather … in trying to unweave the fabric of my life and times. As one who was never much interested in looking back, because always too busy moving forward, I found that once I opened those doors to the past, I became fascinated with the times and their effect on me. The songs and the stories I had taken for granted suddenly had a resonance that had clearly echoed down the corridors of my entire life, and I felt a thrill of recognition, and the sense of a kind of adventure. A travel story, but not so much about places, but about music and memories.”

Author : Melvyn Bragg
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781444742855

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In Our Time by Melvyn Bragg Pdf

Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time series regularly enlightens and entertains substantial audiences on BBC Radio 4. For this book he has selected episodes which reflect the diversity of the radio programmes, and takes us on an amazing tour through the history of ideas, from philosophy, physics and history to religion, literature and biology. We can discover the reasons for the fall of the Byzantine empire, and why women were persecuted as witches in the seventeenth century. What happened in the peasants' revolt? What shape is the origin of life? Where does our calendar come from? We can unearth the influence of great Islamic thinkers, prime numbers, Socrates and Tectonic plates. Melvyn Bragg orchestrates the ideas of leading academics in each field so that the dynamic and lively discussion from the programmes comes through vividly on the page. In Our Time brings to life the signposts of history, the moments that significantly changed the world as we know it, and the individuals and ideas that made us what we are today.

Author : Cousin Bruce Morrow,Rich Maloof
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Doo-wop (Music)
ISBN : 9781402742767

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Doo Wop by Cousin Bruce Morrow,Rich Maloof Pdf

With abundant background and enticing images, this work covers more than just the gorgeous harmonies of the unforgettable doo wop groups. The landmark volume traces the development of the music, politics, art, architecture, and popular culture of the 1950s.

Author : Pradeep Thakur
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9788190870566

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Indian Music Masters of Our Times- i by Pradeep Thakur Pdf

Author : Alex Ross
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781429932882

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The Rest Is Noise by Alex Ross Pdf

Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.

Author : Richard Powers
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374706418

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The Time of Our Singing by Richard Powers Pdf

“The last novel where I rooted for every character, and the last to make me cry.” - Marlon James, Elle From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Overstory and the Oprah's Book Club selection Bewilderment comes Richard Powers's magnificent, multifaceted novel about a supremely gifted—and divided—family, set against the backdrop of postwar America. On Easter day, 1939, at Marian Anderson’s epochal concert on the Washington Mall, David Strom, a German Jewish émigré scientist, meets Delia Daley, a young Black Philadelphian studying to be a singer. Their mutual love of music draws them together, and—against all odds and their better judgment—they marry. They vow to raise their children beyond time, beyond identity, steeped only in song. Jonah, Joseph, and Ruth grow up, however, during the civil rights era, coming of age in the violent 1960s, and living out adulthood in the racially retrenched late century. Jonah, the eldest, “whose voice could make heads of state repent,” follows a life in his parents’ beloved classical music. Ruth, the youngest, devotes herself to community activism and repudiates the white culture her brother represents. Joseph, the middle child and the narrator of this generation-bridging tale, struggles to find himself and remain connected to them both. Richard Powers's The Time of Our Singing is a story of self-invention, allegiance, race, cultural ownership, the compromised power of music, and the tangled loops of time that rewrite all belonging.

Author : Robert T. Beyer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Science
ISBN : 0387984356

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Sounds of Our Times by Robert T. Beyer Pdf

A history of acoustics from the 19th century to the present, written by one of the pre-eminent members of the acoustical community. The book is both a review of the major scientific advances in acoustics as well as an account of famous acousticians and their discoveries, taking in the development of the Acoustical Society of America. Acoustics is distinguished by its interdisciplinary nature and the book duly explores the fields development in its relationship to other sciences. In addition to covering the history of acoustics, the book concludes with the future of acoustics. Beautifully illustrated.

Author : Peter Dayan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Art and music
ISBN : 1138491861

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The Music of Dada by Peter Dayan Pdf

The Music of Dada provides a historical analysis of music at Dada events, and asks why accounts of Dada have so consistently ignored music's vital presence, explaining how music has related to the other arts ever since the days of Dada. The music of Dada is the key to understanding intermediality in our time.

Author : Questlove
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781647001841

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Music Is History by Questlove Pdf

New York Times bestselling Music Is History combines Questlove’s deep musical expertise with his curiosity about history, examining America over the past fifty years—now in paperback Focusing on the years 1971 to the present, Questlove finds the hidden connections in the American tapes, whether investigating how the blaxploitation era reshaped Black identity or considering the way disco took an assembly-line approach to Black genius. And these critical inquiries are complemented by his own memories as a music fan and the way his appetite for pop culture taught him about America. A history of the last half-century and an intimate conversation with one of music’s most influential and original voices, Music Is History is a singular look at contemporary America.

Author : Daniel Barenboim
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781844674701

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Music Quickens Time by Daniel Barenboim Pdf

In this eloquent book, Daniel Barenboim draws on his profound and uniquely influential engagement with music to argue for its central importance in our everyday lives. While we may sometimes think of personal, social and political issues as existing independently of each other, Barenboim shows how music teaches that this is impossible. Turning to his intense involvement with Palestine, he examines the transformative power of music in the world, from his own performances of Wagner in Israel and his foundation, with Edward Said, of the internationally acclaimed West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. Music Quickens Time reveals how the sheer power and eloquence of music offers us a way to explore and shed light on the way in which we live, and to illuminate and resolve some of the most intractable issues of our time.

Author : Jennifer Bryant
Publisher : Eerdmans Publishing Company
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780802852298

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Music for the End of Time by Jennifer Bryant Pdf

Presents the story of how French composer Olivier Messiaen was able to overcome the desolation of a World War II prison camp through the power of music.

Author : Matt Everitt
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 1786272989

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The First Time by Matt Everitt Pdf

Taken from the acclaimed BBC Radio 6 Music show, The First Time invites you inside the lives of some of the music world's most notable legends. From Alice Cooper to Yoko Ono, Courtney Love to Elton John, follow their lives and careers starting with their first musical memories, first records, and first gigs, finding out the songs that have shaped them along the way. With 40 compelling interviews, specially commissioned collage illustrations, and a bespoke playlist for each musician, The First Time is a must-have for any music lover.

Author : George Selden
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781466863620

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The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden Pdf

After Chester lands, in the Times Square subway station, he makes himself comfortable in a nearby newsstand. There, he has the good fortune to make three new friends: Mario, a little boy whose parents run the falling newsstand, Tucker, a fast-talking Broadway mouse, and Tucker's sidekick, Harry the Cat. The escapades of these four friends in bustling New York City makes for lively listening and humorous entertainment. And somehow, they manage to bring a taste of success to the nearly bankrupt newsstand. Join Chester Cricket and his friends in this classic children's book by George Selden, with illustrations by Garth Williams. The Cricket in Times Square is a 1961 Newbery Honor Book.