Peter Lang: 4879 books
Gyoergy Ligeti
Beyond Avant-garde and Postmodernism- Translated by Ernest Bernhardt-Kabisch
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
This monograph is an authoritative study of the œuvre of one of the most important composers of our time. For the first time, Ligeti’s key works are presented in the context of their drafts and sketches. His personal and artistic development is set forth and illuminated, and his principal compositions...
The German «Lied» after Hugo Wolf
From Hans Pfitzner to Anton Webern
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Following the development of the German Lied after the nineteenth century – when it was widely known as the setting of Romantic poetry to music – this book explores the changing artistic scene in the early twentieth century, as rapid social, economic and environmental changes affected German cultural...
France and Ireland
Notes and Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
The rich association between Ireland and France is embodied in music, art and creative writing from both countries and this collection provides a tantalising selection of these interweaving influences. The book presents a vivid picture of interactions between composers, performers, poets and novelists...
Digital Competence Development in Higher Education
An International Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
This book seeks to foster the successful incorporation of digital competence in Bologna-adapted language degrees. To this end, it pools the insights of a set of international practitioners and investigators who report on classroom- and research-based experiences which have integrated ICT (information...
Translation and Popular Music
Transcultural Intimacy in TurkishGreek Relations
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Research on translation and music has so far focused mainly on «art music» and on issues such as quality, singability and accessibility. Studies which seek to embed translation and music within their historical and sociocultural contexts are relatively rare. This book aims to shed light on how translations...
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...
Listening to the French New Wave
The Film Music and Composers of Postwar French Art Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
As perhaps the most studied film movement in cinematic history, the French New Wave has been analysed and criticised, romanticised and mythologised, raising the question of whether it is possible to write anything new about this period. Yet there are still gaps in the scholarship, and the study of...
Das fremde Japan: Ainu Kami Shinto
Die praehistorischen Wurzeln im Weltbild der Japaner
Language: German
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Die unsichtbaren Kami sind auch im modernen Japan allgegenwärtig. Die vom Shinto verehrten Geistwesen der Natur prägen bis heute das Selbstverständnis der Japaner. Die Autorin stellt heraus, dass sich die religiösen Muster des Shinto auf das ungewöhnliche Weltbild der alten Ainu-Jäger zurückführen...
Zachows Kantaten
Quellen Stil Kontext
Language: German
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Zum 350-jährigen Geburtsjubiläum von F. W. Zachow erscheint erstmals in Buchform diese innovative, provokative und auch überraschende Forschungsarbeit. Zachow war Händels Lehrmeister. Die Arbeit erschließt die Handschriften der Vokalwerke Zachows mit historisch-quellenkundlicher Methodik und...
A River Rather Than a Road
The Community Choir as Spiritual Experience
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
This book is an auto-ethnographic account of the development of a charismatic community choir leader. It brings together management literature and a survey of the community choir scene with the development of community choir leadership. It provides a useful introduction to the sustaining of community...
Musical Romania and the Neighbouring Cultures
Traditions Influences Identities- Proceedings of the International Musicological Conference- July 47 2013, Iaşi (Romania)
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
This book represents the volume of the International Musicological Conference «Musical Romania and Neighbouring Cultures. Traditions, Influences, Identities», which took place in Iaşi (Romania) and was organised by the George Enescu University of Arts Iaşi in collaboration with the International...
by Melvin Donalson
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Hip Hop in American Cinema examines the manner in which American feature films have served as the primary medium for mainstreaming hip hop culture into American society. With their glamorizing portrayals of graffiti writing, break dancing, rap music, clothing, and language, Hollywood movies have established...
Transnational Revolutionaries
The Fenian Invasion of Canada, 1866
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
The organization of several thousand Irish American men into a military outfit, which then attempted to invade Canada from within the United States, is a significant historical event that remains largely unexplored from an Irish and Irish American perspective. This study offers a fuller exploration...
by Yvetta Kajanová
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
On the History of Rock Music follows the development of rock music from its origins up to the present time. It focuses on the relationship between the sound, improvisations and rhythms in particular styles, and gives specific attention to the development of rhythm. The beat-offbeat principle, polyrhythms...