Music Through The Floor

Author : Eric Puchner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781416559764

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Music Through the Floor by Eric Puchner Pdf

With Music Through the Floor, Pushcart Prize winner and former Wallace Stegner Fellow Eric Puchner makes an extraordinary debut: a collection of nine unforgettable stories -- strikingly original, fiercely funny, and quietly heartbreaking -- portraying a group of cultural misfits attempting to navigate mainstream America. Lost, teetering on the edge of normalcy, Puchner's characters seek to define themselves in a frequently absurd and hostile world -- a world that threatens to make outcasts of us all. Caught up in loneliness or solitude, they can't quite hear the music of their own lives. In "Children of God," a young loner becomes the caretaker and companion for two mentally retarded men, seeking solace in their outsider status. "Essay #3: Leda and the Swan" is told in the forlorn, be-nighted, and tragically funny voice of a high school girl who longs more than anything to be loved. In "Mission," an idealistic ESL teacher is faced with the inscrutable wrath of one of his immigrant students. And in the unsettling "Child's Play," Puchner explores the price of nonconformity by following a pack of boys wreaking havoc on Halloween. Writing from an impressive range of perspectives -- men and women, children and adults, immigrants and tourists -- Puchner deftly exposes the dark, ten-der undersides of his characters with arresting beauty and precision. Here are people fumbling for identity in a depersonalized world, captured in moments that are hilarious, shocking, and transcendent -- sometimes all at once. Unfailingly true, surprisingly moving, and impossible to forget, these nine stories mark the arrival of a brilliant young writer and one of our most promising literary voices.

Author : Danielle Fosler-Lussier
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780472054503

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Music on the Move by Danielle Fosler-Lussier Pdf

Music is a mobile art. When people move to faraway places, whether by choice or by force, they bring their music along. Music creates a meaningful point of contact for individuals and for groups; it can encourage curiosity and foster understanding; and it can preserve a sense of identity and comfort in an unfamiliar or hostile environment. As music crosses cultural, linguistic, and political boundaries, it continually changes. While human mobility and mediation have always shaped music-making, our current era of digital connectedness introduces new creative opportunities and inspiration even as it extends concerns about issues such as copyright infringement and cultural appropriation. With its innovative multimodal approach, Music on the Move invites readers to listen and engage with many different types of music as they read. The text introduces a variety of concepts related to music’s travels—with or without its makers—including colonialism, migration, diaspora, mediation, propaganda, copyright, and hybridity. The case studies represent a variety of musical genres and styles, Western and non-Western, concert music, traditional music, and popular music. Highly accessible, jargon-free, and media-rich, Music on the Move is suitable for students as well as general-interest readers.

Author : Antoine Hennion,Christophe Levaux
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000381993

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Rethinking Music through Science and Technology Studies by Antoine Hennion,Christophe Levaux Pdf

This volume seeks to offer a new approach to the study of music through the lens of recent works in Science and Technology Studies (STS). Applied to the study of music, this approach enables us to reconcile the human, social, factual, and technological aspects of the musical world, and opens the prospect of new areas of inquiry in musicology and sound studies. Drawing together contributions from a wide range of scholars, the book’s four sections focus on key areas of music study that are impacted by STS: organology, sound studies, music history, and epistemology.

Author : Dave Grohl
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780063076112

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The Storyteller by Dave Grohl Pdf

The #1 New York Times Bestseller * Named one of Variety's Best Music Books of 2021 * Included in Audible's Best of The Year list * A Business Insider Best Memoirs of 2021 * One of NME's Best Music Books of 2021 So, I've written a book. Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questionable opportunities ("It's a piece of cake! Just do 4 hours of interviews, find someone else to write it, put your face on the cover, and voila!") I have decided to write these stories just as I have always done, in my own hand. The joy that I have felt from chronicling these tales is not unlike listening back to a song that I've recorded and can't wait to share with the world, or reading a primitive journal entry from a stained notebook, or even hearing my voice bounce between the Kiss posters on my wall as a child. This certainly doesn't mean that I'm quitting my day job, but it does give me a place to shed a little light on what it's like to be a kid from Springfield, Virginia, walking through life while living out the crazy dreams I had as young musician. From hitting the road with Scream at 18 years old, to my time in Nirvana and the Foo Fighters, jamming with Iggy Pop or playing at the Academy Awards or dancing with AC/DC and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, drumming for Tom Petty or meeting Sir Paul McCartney at Royal Albert Hall, bedtime stories with Joan Jett or a chance meeting with Little Richard, to flying halfway around the world for one epic night with my daughters…the list goes on. I look forward to focusing the lens through which I see these memories a little sharper for you with much excitement.

Author : H. P. Lovecraft
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781609773106

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The Music of Erich Zann by H. P. Lovecraft Pdf

H. P. Lovecraft was one of the greatest horror writers of all time. His seminal work appeared in the pages of legendary Weird Tales and has influenced countless writer of the macabre. This is one of those stories.

Author : Metropolitan Board of Works (London, England)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1214 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112089462680

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Minutes of Proceedings of the Metropolitan Board of Works by Metropolitan Board of Works (London, England) Pdf

Author : Nathan Platte
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780199371112

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Making Music in Selznick's Hollywood by Nathan Platte Pdf

Iconic images from fiery scenes of catharsis in Gone With the Wind and Rebecca to The Third Man's decadent cinematography have proven inseparable from their accompanying melodies. From the 1910s-50s, producer David O. Selznick depended upon music to distinguish his films from his competitors'. By demonstrating music's value in film and encouraging its distribution through sheet music, concerts, radio broadcasts, and soundtrack albums, Selznick changed audiences' relationship to movie music. But what role did Selznick play in the actual music composition that distinguished his productions, and how was that music made? As the first of its kind to consider film music from the perspective of a producer, this book tells the story of the evolution of Selznick's style through the many artists whose work defined Hollywood sound.

Author : Lyon & Healy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Musical instrument makers
ISBN : IOWA:31858047727114

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Handbook of Music and Musical Instruments by Lyon & Healy Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Music
ISBN : NYPL:33433085184152

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Music Trade Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michael Ewans,Rosalind Halton,John A. Phillips
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Press
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781904303350

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Music Research by Michael Ewans,Rosalind Halton,John A. Phillips Pdf

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Author : Carolyn Kolb
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-18
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781617038846

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New Orleans Memories by Carolyn Kolb Pdf

Carolyn Kolb provides a delightful and detailed look into the heart of her city, New Orleans. She is a former Times-Picayune reporter and current columnist for New Orleans Magazine, where versions of these essays appeared as “Chronicles of Recent History.” Kolb takes her readers, both those who live in New Orleans and those who love it as visitors, on a virtual tour of her favorite people and places. Divided into sections on food, Mardi Gras, literature, and music, these short essays can be read in one gulp or devoured slowly over time. Either way, the reader will find a welcome companion and guide in Kolb. In bringing her stories up to date, Kolb's writings reflect an ongoing pattern of life in her fascinating city. Since the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, some of these things remembered will never return. Some of the people whose stories Kolb tells are no longer with us. It is important to her, and to us, that they are not forgotten. Kolb, and her readers, can honor them by sharing and enjoying their stories. As Kolb says, “When things fail, when the lights go out and the roof caves in and the water rises, all that remains, ultimately, is the story.” This collection of such stories was made with love.

Author : Susan D. Crafts,Daniel Cavicchi,Charles Keil,Music in Daily Life Project
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1993-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 0819562645

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My Music by Susan D. Crafts,Daniel Cavicchi,Charles Keil,Music in Daily Life Project Pdf

A first-hand exploration of the diverse roles music plays in people's lives.

Author : Evelyn Porter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Dance
ISBN : OSU:32435016292963

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Music Through the Dance by Evelyn Porter Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : Music
ISBN : IOWA:31858027393424

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Musical Opinion and Music Trade Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Margaret S. Barrett,Sandra L. Stauffer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789400706996

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Narrative Soundings: An Anthology of Narrative Inquiry in Music Education by Margaret S. Barrett,Sandra L. Stauffer Pdf

This volume focuses specifically on narrative inquiry as a means to interrogate research questions in music education, offering music education researchers indispensible information on the use of qualitative research methods, particularly narrative, as appropriate and acceptable means of conducting and reporting research. This anthology of narrative research work in the fields of music and education builds on and supports the work presented in the editors’ first volume in Narrative Inquiry in Music Education: Troubling Certainty (Barrett & Stauffer, 2009, Springer). The first volume provides a context for undertaking narrative inquiry in music education, as well as exemplars of narrative inquiry in music education and commentary from key international voices in the fields of narrative inquiry and music education respectively.