Music Styles category: 7119 books
Lady Gaga and Popular Music
Performing Gender, Fashion, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
This book is a multi-faceted, interdisciplinary examination of the music and figure of Lady Gaga, combining approaches from scholars in cultural studies, art, fashion, and music. It represents one of the first scholarly volumes devoted to Lady Gaga, who has become, over a few short years, central...
Song Loves the Masses
Herder on Music and Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Distinguished ethnomusicologist Philip V. Bohlman compiles Johann Gottfried Herder’s writings on music and nationalism, from his early volumes of Volkslieder through sacred song to the essays on aesthetics late in his life, shaping them as the book on music that Herder would have written had he...
Expression and Truth
On the Music of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2012
Expression and truth are traditional opposites in Western thought: expression supposedly refers to states of mind, truth to states of affairs. Expression and Truth rejects this opposition and proposes fluid new models of expression, truth, and knowledge with broad application to the humanities. These...
The Lyre of Orpheus
Popular Music, the Sacred, and the Profane
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
The myth of Orpheus articulates what social theorists have known since Plato: music matters. It is uniquely able to move us, to guide the imagination, to evoke memories, and to create spaces within which meaning is made. Popular music occupies a place of particular social and cultural significance....
Redemption Through Love!
An Irreverent Guide to Getting Wagnerian Opera Thrills Without Being a Nut
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
There is a world of music - beautiful, thrilling, powerful and romantic music - that one composer wrote to express the theme of Redemption Through Love. Richard Wagner set out to transform the world through art. He was hip to the power of myth long before Joseph Campbell, and even before Carl Jung himself....
Global Metal Music and Culture
Current Directions in Metal Studies
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
This book defines the key ideas, scholarly debates, and research activities that have contributed to the formation of the international and interdisciplinary field of Metal Studies. Drawing on insights from a wide range of disciplines including popular music, cultural studies, sociology, anthropology,...
British Rock Modernism, 1967-1977
The Story of Music Hall in Rock
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
British Rock Modernism, 1967-1977 explains how the definitive British rock performers of this epoch aimed, not at the youthful rebellion for which they are legendary, but at a highly self-conscious project of commenting on the business in which they were engaged. They did so by ironically appropriating...
by Markospokus
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2012
This book is designed for and dedicated to all those who would like to start making electronic music, but don't exactly know where or how to begin. It’s designed to give you the kick start you need in order to save the time you would otherwise be spending finding out information for yourself,...
by Liza Lehmann
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
A collection of nine classic Breton folk-songs for voice and piano. Originally published in 1909 and composed by Liza Lehmann. Songs include: Sir Fanch and the Fairy, I dreamt my love was singing, The Ruby Necklace, The Nightingale, No candle was there and no fire, The Spinning-Wheel, L'Ankou (The...
The Americana Revolution
From Country and Blues Roots to the Avett Brothers, Mumford & Sons, and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Americana is a music that defies definition. It isn’t rock, although it does encompass rock. It isn’t folk, but folk is there. It isn’t Celtic, but it is woven with Celtic threads. It is a blend of forms, music that draws on a wide range of influences. Gathering these many genres together, Americana...
by Ted Gioia
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2006
While the first healers were musicians who relied on rhythm and song to help cure the sick, over time Western thinkers and doctors lost touch with these traditions. In the West, for almost two millennia, the roles of the healer and the musician have been strictly separated.
Until recently,...
by Edvard Grieg
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
Edvard Grieg's collection of 44 Norwegian folk songs and dances, originally published in 1895. Classic Folk Music Collection constitutes an extensive library of the most well-known and universally-enjoyed works of folk music ever composed, reproduced from authoritative editions for the enjoyment of musicians and music students the world over.
The Power of Sound
How to Be Healthy and Productive Using Music and Sound
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
Customize your sound environment for a better quality of life
• Shows how to use music and sound to reduce stress, enhance learning, and improve performance
• Provides detailed guidelines for musicians and health care professionals
• Includes a new 75-minute CD of psychoacoustically...
by Uroš ?voro
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Turbo-folk music is the most controversial form of popular culture in the new states of former Yugoslavia. Theoretically ambitious and innovative, this book is a new account of popular music that has been at the centre of national, political and cultural debates for over two decades. Beginning with...