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The Music of the Other

Author : Laurent Aubert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351217927

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We are surrounded by new musical encounters today as never before, and the experience of musics from elsewhere is progressively affecting all arenas of the human conscience. Yet why is it that Western listeners expect a certain cultural and ethnic 'authenticity' or 'otherness' from visiting artists in world music, while contemporary musicians in Western music are no longer bound by such restraints? Should we feel uncomfortable when sacred rites from Asia or Africa are remade for Westerners as musical entertainment? As these thorny questions suggest, the great flood of world musics and of their agents into our most immediate cultural environment is not a simple matter of expanding global musical exchange. Instead, complex processes are at work involving the growth of intercontinental tourism, the development of new technologies of communication and our perceptions both of ourselves and of the new musical others now around us. Elegantly tracing the dimensions of these new musical encounters, Laurent Aubert considers the impact of world musics on our values, our habits and our cultural practices. His discussions of key questions about our contemporary music culture widen conventional ethnomusicological perspectives to consider not only the nature of Western society as a 'global village' but also the impact of current Western demands on the future of world musics and their practitioners.

Western Music and Its Others

Author : Georgina Born,David Hesmondhalgh
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520220838

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"[Western Music and Its Others] will be taken as an important book signalling a new turn within the field. It takes the best features of traditional, rigorous scholarship and brings these to bear upon contemporary, more speculative questions. The level of theoretical sophistication is high. The studies within it are polemical and timely and of lasting scholarly value."--Will Straw, co-editor of Theory Rules: Art as Theory/ Theory and Art "The great value of this collection lies in the wealth of questions that it raises--questions that together crystallize the recent concerns of musicology with force and clarity. But it also lies in the authors' resistance to the easy 'postmodernist' answers that threaten to turn new musicology prematurely grey. The editors' comprehensive, intellectually adventurous introduction exemplifies the sort of eager yet properly skeptical receptivity to scholarly innovation that fosters lasting disciplinary reform. It alone is worth the price of the book." --Richard Taruskin, author of Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions: A Biography of the Works Through " Mavra" "When cultural-studies methods first appeared in musicology 15 years ago, they triggered a storm of polemics that sometimes overshadowed the important issues being raised. As the canon wars recede, however, scholars are finding it possible to focus on the concerns that led them to cultural criticism in the first place: the study of music and its political meanings. Western Music and Its Others brings together leading musicologists, ethnomusicologists, and specialists in film and popular music to explore the ways European and North American musicians have drawn on or identified themselves in tension with the musical practices of Others. In a series of essays ranging from examination of the Orientalist tropes of early 20th-century Modernists to the tangled claims for ownership in today's World Music, the authors in this collection greatly advance both our knowledge of specific case studies and our intellectual awareness of the complexity and urgency of these problems. A timely intervention that should help push music studies to the next level." --Susan McClary, author of Conventional Wisdom: The Content of Musical Form (2000) "This collection provides a sophisticated model for using theory to interrogate music and music to interrogate theory. The essays both take up and challenge the dominance of notions of representation in cultural theory as they explore the relevance of the concepts of hybridity and otherness for contemporary art music. Sophisticated theory, erudite scholarship and a very real appreciation for the specificities of music make this a powerful and important addition to our understanding of both culture and music." --Lawrence Grossberg, author of Dancing in Spite of Myself

The Music of the Other

Author : Laurent Aubert
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Music
ISBN : 0754653439

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The great flood of world musics into our immediate cultural environment is not a simple matter of expanding global musical exchange, but rather many complex processes such as the growth of intercontinental tourism and the development of technologies in communication. Elegantly tracing the dimensions of these new musical encounters, Laurent Aubert considers the impact of world musics on our values, our habits and our cultural practices. His discussions of key questions about our contemporary music culture widen conventional ethnomusicological perspectives to consider the nature of Western society as a 'global village' and the impact of current Western demands on the future of world musics and their practitioners.

The Danger of Music and Other Anti-Utopian Essays

Author : Richard Taruskin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520268050

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"Roth Family Foundation music in America imprint"--Prelim. p.

Beware the Music Teacher!

Author : Mark Burrows
Publisher : Alfred Music Publishing
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2002-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 0757999735

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Enjoy 11 fun, inspirational, wonderful songs that every elementary music teacher needs for occasions throughout the school year. Kid-tested, these superb originals from Mark Burrows will delight students. Great activities are included for all 11 songs, as well as reproducible lyric sheets, and full performance and accompaniment tracks. Songs are: Beware the Music Teacher! * The Boredom Blues * Building a Bridge * The Day the Animals Joined the Band * Christmas Can Last All Year Long * Their Love Shines On * Hola Means "Hello" * Sing a Song for Nature * A Brand New Star in the Sky * (Positive) Attitude * We Are the Future * We Are the Now. Includes two bonus classical listening tracks. Grades K-6.

Music in Other Words

Author : Ruth A. Solie
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2004-02-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520930063

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Just as the preoccupations of any given cultural moment make their way into the language of music, the experience of music makes its way into other arenas of life. To unearth these overlapping meanings and vocabularies from the Victorian era, Ruth A. Solie examines sources as disparate as journalism, novels, etiquette manuals, religious tracts, and teenagers' diaries for the muffled, even subterranean, conversations that reveal so much about what music meant to the Victorians. Her essays, giving voice to "what goes without saying" on the subject—that cultural information so present and pervasive as to go unsaid—fill in some of the most intriguing blanks in our understanding of music's history. This much-anticipated collection, bringing together new and hard-to-find pieces by an acclaimed musicologist, mines the abundant casual texts of the period to show how Victorian-era people—English and others—experienced music and what they understood to be its power and its purposes. Solie's essays start from topics as varied as Beethoven criticism, Macmillan's Magazine, George Eliot's Daniel Deronda, opera tropes in literature, and the Victorian myth of the girl at the piano. They evoke common themes—including the moral force that was attached to music in the public mind and the strongly gendered nature of musical practice and sensibility—and in turn suggest the complex links between the history of music and the history of ideas.

"The Music of American Folk Song" and Selected Other Writings on American Folk Music

Author : Ruth Crawford Seeger,Larry Polansky
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Music
ISBN : 158046095X

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"The Music of American Folk Song" and Selected Other Writings on American Folk Music by Ruth Crawford Seeger,Larry Polansky Pdf

This is the first publication of an annotated monograph by the noted composer and folksong scholar Ruth Crawford Seeger. Originally written as a foreword for the 1940 book Our Singing Country, it was considered too long and was replaced by a much shorter version. According to her stepson, Pete Seeger, when the original was not included "Ruth suffered one of the biggest disappointments of the last ten years of her life. It just killed her . . . She was trying to analyze the whole style and problem of performing this music." Along with her children Mike and Peggy Seeger, he has long desired to see this work in print as it was meant to be read. The manuscript has been edited from several varying sources by Larry Polansky, with the assistance of Seeger's biographer Judith Tick. It is divided into two sections: I. "A Note on Transcription" and II. "Notes on the Songs and on Manners of Singing." Seeger examines all aspects of the relationship between singer, song, notation, the eventual performer, and the transcriber. In Section I, Seeger develops a complex and well-organized system of notation for these songs which is meant to be both descritive (transcription as cultural preservation) and prescriptive (she intended that others would be able to perform these songs). In Section II, she provides an interpretive theory for performance of this music, and suggests how performers might make the songs "their own" through a deep knowledge of the original styles. Ruth Crawford Seeger considered this work to be both a major accomplishment and a central statement of her own ideas on the topic. Larry Polansky is Associate Professor of Music at Dartmouth College, and a well-known composer and theorist on American music. Judith Tick is Professor of Music at Northeastern University and author of the first major biography of Ruth Crawford Seeger.

Musical Understandings

Author : Stephen Davies
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199608775

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Musical Understandings presents an engaging collection of essays by Stephen Davies on the philosophy of music. He explores a range of topics, including how music expresses emotion, modes of perception, and musical profundity. The volume includes original material, newly revised articles, and work published in English for the first time.

Sounds from the Other Side

Author : Elliott H. Powell
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781452964423

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A sixty-year history of Afro–South Asian musical collaborations From Beyoncé’s South Asian music–inspired Super Bowl Halftime performance, to jazz artists like John and Alice Coltrane’s use of Indian song structures and spirituality in their work, to Jay-Z and Missy Elliott’s high-profile collaborations with diasporic South Asian artists such as the Panjabi MC and MIA, African American musicians have frequently engaged South Asian cultural productions in the development of Black music culture. Sounds from the Other Side traces such engagements through an interdisciplinary analysis of the political implications of African American musicians’ South Asian influence since the 1960s. Elliott H. Powell asks, what happens when we consider Black musicians’ South Asian sonic explorations as distinct from those of their white counterparts? He looks to Black musical genres of jazz, funk, and hip hop and examines the work of Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Rick James, OutKast, Timbaland, Beyoncé, and others, showing how Afro–South Asian music in the United States is a dynamic, complex, and contradictory cultural site where comparative racialization, transformative gender and queer politics, and coalition politics intertwine. Powell situates this cultural history within larger global and domestic sociohistorical junctures that link African American and South Asian diasporic communities in the United States. The long historical arc of Afro–South Asian music in Sounds from the Other Side interprets such music-making activities as highly political endeavors, offering an essential conversation about cross-cultural musical exchanges between racially marginalized musicians.

Untwisting the Serpent

Author : Daniel Albright
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 0226012530

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Modernist art often seems to give more frustration than pleasure to its audience. Daniel Albright shows that this perception arises partly because we usually consider each art form in isolation, rather than collaboration.

The Other Classical Musics

Author : Michael Church
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781843837268

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The Other Classical Musics will help both students and general readers to appreciate musical traditions mostly unfamiliar to them.

Music At Night and other essays, including Vulgarity in Literature

Author : Aldous Leonard Huxley
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547106777

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Music At Night and other essays, including Vulgarity in Literature" by Aldous Leonard Huxley. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Chamber Music and Other Poems

Author : James Joyce
Publisher : Alma Books
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-28
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780714548630

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Universally known for his groundbreaking prose - especially for the monumental novel Ulysses and its depictions of Dublin at the turn of the twentieth century - James Joyce started off as a writer of lyrical poetry, a genre which he never abandoned in his lifetime and which informs and enriches the rest of his literary production.This volume, which includes Joyce's first published book, Chamber Music, as well as his later collection Pomes Penyeach and several other uncollected poems, reveals a lesser-known facet of the great modernist's artistic career and a glimpse into his poetical sensibility.

Other Planets

Author : Robin Maconie
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781442272682

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German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen was arguably the most influential figure of the European postwar avant-garde and unquestionably the most elusive and enigmatic musical thinker of a generation that includes Pierre Boulez, John Cage, and Luciano Berio. His radically new electronic and instrumental music converted Igor Stravinsky to serialism in the 1950s and has continued to inspire young composers for more than fifty years. Other Planets: The Complete Works of Karlheinz Stockhausen, 1950–2007 draws on more than fifty years of Maconie’s close study of Stockhausen and functions as a catalogue raisonee of Stockhausen’s complete output. With plentiful citations from the history of radio, film, and sound recording, as well as from contemporary science and technology, the book is laid out in chronological order and contains ample commentary on the composer’s sources of inspiration. Each composition is also fully documented within the text, giving full information of each work’s publisher, catalog number, instrumentation, duration, and authorized compact disc. The updated edition extends the range of the volume’s contents to include the twenty-five works Stockhausen composed between 2004 and his death in 2007. Stockhausen’s status in the history of music in the late twentieth century can now be appreciated with unprecedented clarity. All listeners will benefit from this work, and American music lovers in particular will find it an invaluable guide to the ongoing debate and rivalry over the sources of abstract expressionism and the avant-garde.

Music in the Culture of the Renaissance and Other Essays

Author : Edward Elias Lowinsky
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Music
ISBN : 0226494780

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The writings gathered here finally make available in one place Lowinsky's major essays--including four previously unpublished ones--in two volumes that are lavishly provided with musical examples and illustrations. "Professor Lowinsky's method is the only kind of 'writing about music' that I value."--Igor Stravinsky