Theory Criticism category: 49531 books
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Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Sébastien Erard and the firm that carried his name are seminal in the history of musical instruments. Erard's inventions - especially the double escapement for the piano and the double-action for the harp - have had an enormous impact on instruments and musical life and are still at the foundation...
Hip Hop DJs and the Evolution of Technology
Cultural Exchange, Innovation, and Democratization
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Using interviews with world-renowned and innovative hip-hop DJs, as well as technology manufacturers that cater to the market/culture, this book reveals stories behind some of the iconic DJ technologies that have helped shape the history and culture of DJing. More importantly, it explores how DJs...
Words and Songs of Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, and Nina Simone
Sound Motion, Blues Spirit, and African Memory
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2007
This book explores the relationship between three African American women's dance-art-music sensibilities within the context of a Pan African aesthetic. Its purpose is three-fold: to show commonalities between Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday and Nina Simone's lives and original compositions; to codify,...
The Transformation of Black Music
The rhythms, the songs, and the ships of the African Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Powerful and embracive, The Transformation of Black Music explores the full spectrum of black musics over the past thousand years as Africans and their descendants have traveled around the globe making celebrated music both in their homelands and throughout the Diaspora. Authors Samuel A. Floyd, Melanie...
Musicologia
Musical Knowledge from Plato to John Cage
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2010
In Musicologia—meaning "musical reasoning" as distinct from a mere love of music—author and composer Robin Maconie takes aim against the fashionable misconception that music is empty of meaning, or "auditory cheesecake." Fresh and penetrating insights draw attention to the...
Metamorphosis in Music
The Compositions of György Ligeti in the 1950s and 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
From the mid-1950s through the 1960s, Hungarian composer György Ligeti went through a remarkable period of stylistic transition, from the emulation of his fellow countryman Béla Bartók to his own individual style at the forefront of the Western-European avant-garde. Through careful study of the...
Philosophizing Rock Performance
Dylan, Hendrix, Bowie
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, and David Bowie are among three of the most influential figures in twentieth-century popular music and culture, and innumerable scholars and biographers have explored the history of their influence. However, critical historiography reminds us that such scholarship is responsible...
by Lewis Rowell
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2015
Offering a broad perspective of the philosophy, theory, and aesthetics of early Indian music and musical ideology, this study makes a unique contribution to our knowledge of the ancient foundations of India's musical culture. Lewis Rowell reconstructs the tunings, scales, modes, rhythms, gestures,...
by Fredric Jameson
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Cultural critic Fredric Jameson, renowned for his incisive studies of the passage of modernism to postmodernism, returns to the movement that dramatically broke with all tradition in search of progress for the first time since his acclaimed A Singular Modernity .
The Modernist Papers is a tour...
by Larry McCabe
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Hundreds of musical components related to melody, harmony, and rhythm are blended together to make music. The study of these elements is called music theory. This book explains basic music theory as it relates to the needs of the average musician. It covers basic music reading with note names and...
The Mind-Body Stage
Passion and Interaction in the Cartesian Theater
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Descartes's notion of subjectivity changed the way characters would be written, performed by actors, and received by audiences. His coordinate system reshaped how theatrical space would be conceived and built. His theory of the passions revolutionized our understanding of the emotional exchange between...
Jack the Ripper in Film and Culture
Top Hat, Gladstone Bag and Fog
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
In 1888 the name Jack the Ripper entered public consciousness with the brutal murders of women in the East End of London. The murderer was never caught, yet film and television depicts a killer with a recognisable costume, motive and persona. This book examines the origins of the screen presentation...
So Much Wasted
Hunger, Performance, and the Morbidity of Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
In So Much Wasted, Patrick Anderson analyzes self-starvation as a significant mode of staging political arguments across the institutional domains of the clinic, the gallery, and the prison. Homing in on those who starve themselves for various reasons and the cultural and political contexts in which...
by Bobby Henderson
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
Can I get a “ramen” from the congregation?!
Behold the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM), today’s fastest growing carbohydrate-based religion. According to church founder Bobby Henderson, the universe and all life within it were created by a mystical and divine being: the Flying...