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Sound Tracks

Author : John Connell,Chris Gibson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134699124

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Sound Tracks is the first comprehensive book on the new geography of popular music, examining the complex links between places, music and cultural identities. It provides an interdisciplinary perspective on local, national and global scenes, from the 'Mersey' and 'Icelandic' sounds to 'world music', and explores the diverse meanings of music in a range of regional contexts. In a world of intensified globalisation, links between space, music and identity are increasingly tenuous, yet places give credibility to music, not least in the 'country', and music is commonly linked to place, as a stake to originality, a claim to tradition and as a marketing device. This book develops new perspectives on these relationships and how they are situated within cultural and geographical thought.

Sounds of Identity

Author : Shihan de S. Jayasuriya
Publisher : Semar Publishers Srl
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Music
ISBN : 9788877780928

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Cultural Writing. Music. African Studies. Asian Studies. Book two of Musike. Edited by Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya. SOUNDS OF IDENTITY: THE MUSIC OF AFRO-ASIANS "concerns the survival of musical traditions among Africans who were displaced to Asia. Memories of the ancestral homeland seem to be embedded in these musical traditions. Music is also an important factor in identity formation of diasporas. Music, however, is not always limited to the diaspora and there are spillovers to the host societies"--from the Editor's Introduction. This volume features Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy on Sidi African music, Aisha Bilkhair Khalifa on Spirit Posession and its practices in Dubai, Lila Ingrams on African connections in Yemeni music, Galia Sabar & Shlomit Kanari on African Musicians in Israel and many more. SOUNDS OF IDENTITY is a compelling, thought provoking exploration of this fascinating musical "border" between cultures.

Identity Designs

Author : Karen A. Cerulo
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0813522110

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National symbols, modern totems with ancient roots, remain entities for which men and women continue to march, debate, fight, and die. Modern political leaders still drape their campaigns in such symbols; modern revolutionaries still defile them. Identity Designs explores the source of this long-standing power--the way national symbols are selected, the manner in which their meaning is conveyed, their potential effects, and the sustenance of their power. In particular, the book charts the role of design in the selection of symbolic images, thus demonstrating that symbols are chosen not just for what they convey, but how they convey their message. Karen Cerulo shows that the symbolic designs of a nation's identity are not simply the products of indigenous characteristics, as conventional wisdom might suggest. Rather, the banners and songs by which nations represent themselves are generated by broad social forces that transcend the peculiarities of any one nation. Cerulo's analysis acquaints readers with a set of social structural factors that delimit rules of symbolic expression. Further, the book suggests the benefits of adhering to these rules and explores the costs of violating them.

Sounds of Life

Author : Fainos Mangena,Itai Muwati
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781443888561

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Music narrates personal, communal and national experiences. It is a rich repository of a people’s deepest fears, hopes, and achievements, especially as it communicates spirituality, economic, and political realities. This volume examines the multiple roles of music in Zimbabwe, showing how Zimbabwean music has addressed the socio-economic, political and spiritual crisis that the country has endured in the last one and a half decades. While concentrating on the tumultuous 2000–2013 period, the themes that are addressed here are enduring. Thus, the book explores the interplay between music and gender, music and politics, and music and identity construction in Zimbabwe, and it interacts with most of the dominant genres in Zimbabwean music, including Sungura, ZORA, Chimurenga, Gospel and the Urban Grooves. This volume will interest specialists in the study of ethnomusicology, in addition to scholars of literature, religious studies, philosophy, theatre arts, political science, and history.

Identity, Aesthetics, and Sound in the Fin de Siècle

Author : Dariusz Gafijczuk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134492336

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Identity, Aesthetics, and Sound in the Fin de Siècle by Dariusz Gafijczuk Pdf

This book is an analytic and historical portrait of the volatile decades at the beginning of the 20th century. Engaging with avant-garde art and thought, and concentrating on two of the most controversial and still culturally relevant personalities of Viennese modernism - Sigmund Freud and Arnold Schoenberg - it tells the story of a cultural experiment of unprecedented proportions, an experiment that attempted to redesign the senses and the concept of individual identity. The book describes the shape of this identity through its mutually overlapping artistic and intellectual dimensions, as it explores the relationship between psychoanalysis and music.

Auditory Neuroscience

Author : Jan Schnupp,Israel Nelken,Andrew J. King
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780262518024

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Auditory Neuroscience by Jan Schnupp,Israel Nelken,Andrew J. King Pdf

An integrated overview of hearing and the interplay of physical, biological, and psychological processes underlying it. Every time we listen—to speech, to music, to footsteps approaching or retreating—our auditory perception is the result of a long chain of diverse and intricate processes that unfold within the source of the sound itself, in the air, in our ears, and, most of all, in our brains. Hearing is an "everyday miracle" that, despite its staggering complexity, seems effortless. This book offers an integrated account of hearing in terms of the neural processes that take place in different parts of the auditory system. Because hearing results from the interplay of so many physical, biological, and psychological processes, the book pulls together the different aspects of hearing—including acoustics, the mathematics of signal processing, the physiology of the ear and central auditory pathways, psychoacoustics, speech, and music—into a coherent whole.

Island Sounds in the Global City

Author : Ray Allen,Lois Wilcken
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Caribbean Americans
ISBN : 0252070429

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Island Sounds in the Global City by Ray Allen,Lois Wilcken Pdf

Maps the musical Caribbeanization of New York City, now home to the diverse concentrations of Caribbean people in the world. This volume surveys a mosaic of popular Caribbean styles, showing how these musics serve the dual function of defining a group's uniqueness and creating bridges across ethnic boundaries.

Sound Tracks

Author : John Connell,Chris Gibson
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Globalization
ISBN : 0415170273

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Sound Tracks traces the relationships between music, space and identity from inner city 'scenes' to the music of nations, to give a wide-ranging perspective on popular music.

The Queer Composition of America's Sound

Author : Nadine Hubbs
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004-10-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520937956

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The Queer Composition of America's Sound by Nadine Hubbs Pdf

In this vibrant and pioneering book, Nadine Hubbs shows how a gifted group of Manhattan-based gay composers were pivotal in creating a distinctive "American sound" and in the process served as architects of modern American identity. Focusing on a talented circle that included Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, Leonard Bernstein, Marc Blitzstein, Paul Bowles, David Diamond, and Ned Rorem, The Queer Composition of America's Sound homes in on the role of these artists' self-identification—especially with tonal music, French culture, and homosexuality—in the creation of a musical idiom that even today signifies "America" in commercials, movies, radio and television, and the concert hall.

Sounds of Articulating Identity

Author : Birgit Abels
Publisher : Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015079241983

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Sounds of Articulating Identity - Tradition and Transition in the Music of Palau, Micronesia, provides an overview of historical and contemporary music-making practices and their social contexts in the Republic of Palau. The study identifies and analyzes strands of musical development over the course of, roughly, the last century. Its secondary focus is on the conceptualization of the musical transition in Palauan discourse(s) and its interaction with local identity negotiation. As the ethnomusicological exploration of the Palauan world proceeds, the book demonstrates how a study of the music of a small island nation is capable of transcending the boundaries of ethnomusicology as an academic discipline, and it adds rich material to the discourse about globalization and to the field of cultural studies.

Loving Music Till It Hurts

Author : William Cheng
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190620158

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Can music feel pain? Do songs possess dignity? Do symphonies have rights? Of course not, you might say. Yet think of how we anthropomorphize music, not least when we believe it has been somehow mistreated. A singer butchered or mangled the "Star-Spangled Banner" at the Super Bowl. An underrehearsed cover band made a mockery of Led Zeppelin's classics. An orchestra didn't quite do justice to Mozart's Requiem. Such lively language upholds music as a sentient companion susceptible to injury and in need of fierce protection. There's nothing wrong with the human instinct to safeguard beloved music . . . except, perhaps, when this instinct leads us to hurt or neglect fellow human beings in turn: say, by heaping outsized shame upon those who seem to do music wrong; or by rushing to defend a conductor's beautiful recordings while failing to defend the multiple victims who have accused this maestro of sexual assault. Loving Music Till It Hurts is a capacious exploration of how people's head-over-heels attachments to music can variously align or conflict with agendas of social justice. How do we respond when loving music and loving people appear to clash?

Visual Identity: Promoting and Protecting the Public Face of an Organization

Author : Susan Westcott Alessandri
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317452546

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Visual Identity: Promoting and Protecting the Public Face of an Organization by Susan Westcott Alessandri Pdf

Brands, companies, and organizations, much like people, have personalities, and most of what we know and think about their personalities comes through visual identity. A visual identity is the strategically planned and purposeful presentation of the brand or organization in order to gain a positive image in the minds of the public, including - but not limited to - its name, logo, tagline, color palette and architecture, and even sounds. This practical guide explores visual identity from an organizational brand perspective (corporate, non-profit, etc.), rather than a product brand perspective. It not only helps readers to understand the meaning and value of an organization's visual identity, but also provides hands-on advice on how to promote and protect the identity. Each chapter draws from current research and also contains real-world examples and case studies that illustrate the key concepts.

Cities' Identity Through Architecture and Arts

Author : Anna Catalani,Zeinab Nour,Antonella Versaci,Dean Hawkes,Hocine Bougdah,Adolf Sotoca,Mahmoud Ghoneem,Ferdinando Trapani
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 778 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351680325

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Cities' Identity Through Architecture and Arts by Anna Catalani,Zeinab Nour,Antonella Versaci,Dean Hawkes,Hocine Bougdah,Adolf Sotoca,Mahmoud Ghoneem,Ferdinando Trapani Pdf

Every city has its unique and valuable identity, this identity is revealed through its physical and visual form, it is seen through the eyes of its residents and users. The city develops over time, and its identity evolves with it. Reflecting the rapid and constant changes the city is subjected to, Architecture and Arts, is the embodiment of the cultural, historical, and economical characteristics of the city. This conference was dedicated to the investigation of the different new approaches developed in Architecture and Contemporary arts. It has focused on the basis of urban life and identities. This volume provides discussions on the examples and tendencies in dealing with urban identities as well as the transformation of cities and urban cultures mentioned in terms of their form, identity, and their current art. Contemporary art, when subjected to experiments, continues to be produced in various directions, to be consumed and to put forward new ideas. Art continuously renews itself, from new materials to different means of communication, from interactive works to computer games, from new approaches to perceptional paradigms and problems of city and nature of the millennium. This is an Open Access ebook, and can be found on www.taylorfrancis.com.

Geographies of Urban Sound

Author : Dr Torsten Wissmann
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781409462194

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Geographies of Urban Sound by Dr Torsten Wissmann Pdf

Taking into account both the urban soundscape and the impacts of sound on the urban dweller, this book examines sound not as a by-product of urban life, but as a fundamental part of the urban experience that is crucial to understanding the city’s sense of place. Illustrated by case studies from Europe and North America, these range from on-site measurements to the construction of audio tours for local tourism, from media analysis of popular culture audio drama to sound-identity and city branding, and from the classification of noise in city planning to a consideration of the complex relationship between sacred sound and the creation of a sense of place.

Peripheral Visions / Global Sounds

Author : José Colmeiro
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786948151

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Peripheral Visions / Global Sounds by José Colmeiro Pdf

Galician audio/visual culture has experienced an unprecedented period of growth following the process of political and cultural devolution in post-Franco Spain. This creative explosion has occurred in a productive dialogue with global currents and with considerable projection beyond the geopolitical boundaries of the nation and the state, but these seismic changes are only beginning to be the subject of attention of cultural and media studies. This book examines contemporary audio/visual production in Galicia as privileged channels through which modern Galician cultural identities have been imagined, constructed and consumed, both at home and abroad. The cultural redefinition of Galicia in the global age is explored through different media texts (popular music, cinema, video) which cross established boundaries and deterritorialise new border zones where tradition and modernity dissolve, generating creative tensions between the urban and the rural, the local and the global, the real and the imagined. The book aims for the deperipheralization and deterritorialization of the Galician cultural map by overcoming long-established hegemonic exclusions, whether based on language, discipline, genre, gender, origins, or territorial demarcation, while aiming to disjoint the center/periphery dichotomy that has relegated Galician culture to the margins. In essence, it is an attempt to resituate Galicia and Galician studies out of the periphery and open them to the world.