Music category: 21679 books
by Dalibor Mišina
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
From the late-1970s to the late-1980s rock music in Yugoslavia had an important social and political purpose of providing a popular cultural outlet for the unique forms of socio-cultural critique that engaged with the realities and problems of life in Yugoslav society. The three music movements that...
Composing for the State
Music in Twentieth-Century Dictatorships
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Under the dictatorships of the twentieth century, music never ceased to sound. Even when they did not impose aesthetic standards, these regimes tended to favour certain kinds of art music such as occasional works for commemorations or celebrations, symphonic poems, cantatas and choral settings. In...
Sounds of the Borderland
Popular Music, War and Nationalism in Croatia since 1991
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Sounds of the Borderland is the first book-length study of how popular music became a medium for political communication and contested identification during and after Croatia's war of independence from Yugoslavia. It extends existing cultural studies literature on music, politics and the state, which...
The Greatest Music Quiz Book
1,000 questions covering ten genres of music
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
Has music played an important role in your life? Do you enjoy listening to many different genres of music? Can you recall songs and tunes from your childhood? If you answered yes to any of these questions The Greatest Music Quiz Book has been compiled with you in mind.In what year was the word ‘Pop’...
Listening Subjects
Music, Psychoanalysis, Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 1997
In Listening Subjects, David Schwarz uses psychoanalytic techniques to probe the visceral experiences of music listeners. Using classical, popular, and avant-garde music as texts, Schwarz addresses intriguing questions: why do bodies develop goose bumps when listening to music and why does music sound...
Pop-Culture Pedagogy in the Music Classroom
Teaching Tools from American Idol to YouTube
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
Teachers the world over are discovering the importance and benefits of incorporating popular culture into the music classroom. The cultural prevalence and the students' familiarity with recorded music, videos, games, and other increasingly accessible multimedia materials help enliven course content...
iTake-Over
The Recording Industry in the Digital Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
iTake-Over: The Recording Industry in the Digital Era sheds light on the way large corporations appropriate new technologies related to recording and distribution of audio material to maintain their market dominance in a capitalist system. All too commonly, scholars have asserted too confidently,...
Making Music Modern
New York in the 1920s
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2000
New York City witnessed a dazzling burst of creativity in the 1920s. In this pathbreaking study, Carol J. Oja explores this artistic renaissance from the perspective of composers of classical and modern music, who along with writers, painters, and jazz musicians, were at the heart of early modernism...
Experiencing Big Band Jazz
A Listener's Companion
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
The era of popular music from about 1917 onward saw an explosion of creative songwriting that converged with a new sound from reed, brass, and rhythm instruments. Jazz was born, and the musical sophistication that accompanied this original sound set the stage for the prominence of arrangers, whose...
Music and Solidarity
Questions of Universality, Consciousness, and Connection
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
The philosopher Christopher Small suggests that musical meanings are concerned with relationships, both with other human beings and with the world, and that music functions as a means of exploration, affirmation, and celebration of those relationships. If members of different social groups have different...
Louisiana Hayride
Radio and Roots Music along the Red River
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2004
On a Saturday night in 1948, Hank Williams stepped onto the stage of the Louisiana Hayride and sang "Lovesick Blues." Up to that point, Williams's yodeling style had been pigeon-holed as hillbilly music, cutting him off from the mainstream of popular music. Taking a chance on this untried artist,...
Whiskey River (Take My Mind)
The True Story of Texas Honky-Tonk
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
When it comes to Texas honky-tonk, nobody knows the music or the scene better than Johnny Bush. Author of Willie Nelson's classic concert anthem "Whiskey River," and singer of hits such as "You Gave Me a Mountain," "Undo the Right," "Jim, Jack and Rose," and "I'll Be There," Johnny Bush is a legend in...
Musical Performance and the Changing City
Post-industrial Contexts in Europe and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
A contribution to the field of urban music studies, this book presents new interdisciplinary approaches to the study of music in urban social life. It takes musical performance as its key focus, exploring how and why different kinds of performance are evolving in contemporary cities in the interaction...
Mirrors of Heaven or Worldly Theaters?
Venetian Nunneries and Their Music
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Mirrors of Heaven or Worldly Theaters? Venetian Nunneries and Their Music explores the dynamic role of music performance and patronage in the convents of Venice and its lagoon from the sixteenth century to the fall of Venice around 1800. Examining sacred music performed by the nuns themselves and...