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Cambridge Studies in Opera: Technology and the Diva
By Karen Henson. 2016
In Technology and the Diva, Karen Henson brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to explore the neglected subject of…
opera and technology. Their essays focus on the operatic soprano and her relationships with technology from the heyday of Romanticism in the 1820s and 1830s to the twenty-first-century digital age. The authors pay particular attention to the soprano in her larger than life form, as the 'diva', and they consider how her voice and allure have been created by technologies and media including stagecraft and theatrical lighting, journalism, the telephone, sound recording, and visual media from the painted portrait to the high definition simulcast. In doing so, the authors experiment with new approaches to the female singer, to opera in the modern - and post-modern - eras, and to the often controversial subject of opera's involvement with technology and technological innovation.Bach's Numbers
By Ruth Tatlow. 2015
In eighteenth-century Germany the universal harmony of God's creation and the perfection of its proportions still held philosophical, moral and…
devotional significance. Reproducing proportions close to the unity (1:1) across compositions could render them beautiful, perfect and even eternal. Using the principles of her groundbreaking theory of proportional parallelism and the latest source study research, Ruth Tatlow reveals how Bach used the number of bars to create numerical perfection across his published collections, and explains why he did so. The first part of the book illustrates the wide-ranging application of belief in the unity, showing how planning a well-proportioned structure was a normal compositional procedure in Bach's time. In the second part Tatlow presents practical demonstrations of this in Bach's works, illustrating the layers of proportion that appear within a movement, a work, between two works in a collection, across a collection and between collections.Can I Say: Living Large, Cheating Death, and Drums, Drums, Drums
By Gavin Edwards, Travis Barker. 2015
Travis Barker s soul-baring memoir chronicles the highlights and lowlights of the renowned drummer s art and his life …
including the harrowing plane crash that nearly killed him and his traumatic road to recovery--a fascinating never-before-told-in-full story of personal reinvention grounded in musical salvation and fatherhood P P After breaking out as the acclaimed drummer of the multiplatinum punk band Blink-182 everything changed for Travis Barker But the dark side of rock stardom took its toll his marriage chronicled for an MTV reality show fell apart Constant touring concealed a serious drug addiction A reckoning did not truly come until he was forced to face mortality His life nearly ended in a horrifying plane crash and then his close friend collaborator and fellow crash survivor DJ AM died of an overdose In this blunt driving memoir Barker ruminates on rock stardom fatherhood death loss and redemption sharing stories shaped by decades worth of hard-earned insights His pulsating memoir is as energetic as his acclaimed beats It brings to a close the first chapters of a well-lived life inspiring readers to follow the rhythms of their own hearts and find meaning in their livesMedia portrayals of Orthodox Jewish women frequently depict powerless, silent individuals who are at best naive to live an Orthodox…
lifestyle, and who are at worst, coerced into it. Karen E. H. Skinazi delves beyond this stereotype in Women of Valor to identify a powerful tradition of feminist literary portrayals of Orthodox women, often created by Orthodox women themselves. She examines Orthodox women as they appear in memoirs, comics, novels, and movies, and speaks with the authors, filmmakers, and musicians who create these representations. Throughout the work, Skinazi threads lines from the poem “Eshes Chayil,” the Biblical description of an Orthodox “Woman of Valor.” This proverb unites Orthodoxy and feminism in a complex relationship, where Orthodox women continuously question, challenge, and negotiate Orthodox and feminist values. Ultimately, these women create paths that unite their work, passions, and families under the framework of an “Eshes Chayil,” a woman who situates religious conviction within her own power.Stolen Time: Black Fad Performance and the Calypso Craze
By Shane Vogel. 2018
In 1956 Harry Belafonte’s Calypso became the first LP to sell more than a million copies. For a few fleeting…
months, calypso music was the top-selling genre in the US—it even threatened to supplant rock and roll. Stolen Time provides a vivid cultural history of this moment and outlines a new framework—black fad performance—for understanding race, performance, and mass culture in the twentieth century United States. Vogel situates the calypso craze within a cycle of cultural appropriation, including the ragtime craze of 1890s and the Negro vogue of the 1920s, that encapsulates the culture of the Jim Crow era. He follows the fad as it moves defiantly away from any attempt at authenticity and shamelessly embraces calypso kitsch. Although white calypso performers were indeed complicit in a kind of imperialist theft of Trinidadian music and dance, Vogel argues, black calypso craze performers enacted a different, and subtly subversive, kind of theft. They appropriated not Caribbean culture itself, but the US version of it—and in so doing, they mocked American notions of racial authenticity. From musical recordings, nightclub acts, and television broadcasts to Broadway musicals, film, and modern dance, he shows how performers seized the ephemeral opportunities of the fad to comment on black cultural history and even question the meaning of race itself.Guitar Zero: The Science of Becoming Musical at Any Age
By Gary Marcus. 2012
On the eve of his 40th birthday, Gary Marcus, a renowned scientist with no discernible musical talent, learns to play…
the guitar and investigates how anyone--of any age --can become musical. Do you have to be born musical to become musical? Do you have to start at the age of six? Using the tools of his day job as a cognitive psychologist, Gary Marcus becomes his own guinea pig as he takes up the guitar. In a powerful and incisive look at how both children and adults become musical, Guitar Zero traces Marcus's journey, what he learned, and how anyone else can learn, too. A groundbreaking peek into the origins of music in the human brain, this musical journey is also an empowering tale of the mind's enduring plasticity. Marcus investigates the most effective ways to train body and brain to learn to play an instrument, in a quest that takes him from Suzuki classes to guitar gods. From deliberate and efficient practicing techniques to finding the right music teacher, Marcus translates his own experience--as well as reflections from world-renowned musicians--into practical advice for anyone hoping to become musical, or to learn a new skill.Guitar Zero debunks the popular theory of an innate musical instinct while simultaneously challenging the idea that talent is only a myth. While standing the science of music on its head, Marcus brings new insight into humankind's most basic question: what counts as a life well lived? Does one have to become the next Jimi Hendrix to make a passionate pursuit worthwhile, or can the journey itself bring the brain lasting satisfaction?For all those who have ever set out to play an instrument--or wish that they could--Guitar Zero is an inspiring and fascinating look at the pursuit of music, the mechanics of the mind, and the surprising rewards that come from following one's dreams.Grunge: Seattle
By Justin Henderson. 2016
Chronicling the intertwined lives of members of core grunge bands, Justin Henderson reveals the origins and inspirations of the grunge…
music movement. Illustrating the dramatic and emotional tensions that arose between the various players, he describes the collisions between personalities and egos, artists and corporations, suburbs and cities, obscurity and fame. The book is also a unique guide to the key locations in the grunge story, exploring the cafes, apartments, and studios where members of Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Mudhoney, and Alice in Chains practiced and played. A new chapter explores the continuing influence of Grunge on music today.Popular Classics for Violin and Piano (Dover Chamber Music Scores)
By Bodewalt Lampe, Stephanie Chase. 2013
This rare collection features violin parts with separate piano reductions of works by Brahms, Dvorak, Handel, Herbert, Saint-Saëns, Schubert, Schumann,…
Mendelssohn, Massenet, Elgar, and others. Contents include Dvorak's Humoresque, Anton Rubinstein's Melody in F, Mendelssohn's Spring Song, Schubert's Serenade, Hungarian Dance No. 5 by Brahms, Love's Greeting by Elgar, and Handel's Largo from Xerxes.I Would Die 4 U: Why Prince Became an Icon
By Tour. 2013
Celebrated journalist, TV personality, and award-winning author Touré investigates one of the most enigmatic and fascinating figures in contemporary American…
culture: Prince. Celebrated journalist, TV personality, and award-winning author Touré investigates one of the most enigmatic and fascinating figures in contemporary American culture: PRINCEDrawing on new research and enlivened by Touré's unique pop-cultural fluency, I Would Die 4 U relies on surprising and in-depth interviews with Prince's band members, former girlfriends, musicologists, and even Bible scholars to deconstruct the artist's life and work. Prince's baby boomer status allowed him to play a wise older brother to the latchkey kids of generation X. Defying traditional categories of race, gender, and sexuality, he nonetheless presents a very traditional conception of religion and God in his music. He was an MTV megastar and a religious evangelist, using images of sex and profanity to invite us into a musical conversation about the healing power of God. By demystifying the man and his music, I Would Die 4 U shows us how Prince defined a generation.My Life with Deth
By Alice Cooper, Joel Mciver, David Ellefson. 2013
One of the hardest headbangers of heavy metal shares his uplifting and empowering memoir about overcoming addiction and dedicating his…
life to God.Since 1983, the celebrated metal band Megadeth has sold more than 20 million albums, received eleven Grammy nominations, and built a fan base of millions. Still going strong, they recently toured the world with Metallica, Anthrax, and Slayer. Now, in My Life with Deth, the band's cofounder and bassist David Ellefson tells the whole behind-the-scenes story of the band and his personal journey from suffering to salvation. At first glance, Ellefson's history reads like a how-to manual of excess, from hardcore drugs to x-rated debauchery. But Ellefson goes much deeper, taking us on a gripping journey from his Lutheran upbringing as a Minnesota farm boy, through the culture shock he experienced when he arrived in Los Angeles and entered the music industry, to his drug-fueled Megadeth days, and finally how he beat his addictions and embarked on a path of sobriety and faith, entering a new life of Christian devotion. Today, studying to become a Lutheran pastor, Ellefson presides over MEGA Life! Ministries, a foundation that reaches hundreds of churchgoers every week. Including exclusive interviews with some of the biggest names in American music and filled with life lessons for everyone, My Life with Deth is an inspiring and uplifting profile in courage.Campfire Songs, Ballads, and Lullabies: Folk Music (North American Folklore for Youth)
By Gus Snedeker. 2013
You may turn on the CD player or the radio when you want to hear music--but once, in the days…
before modern technology, music was enjoyed whenever groups of people got together. You probably know some folk songs, a song that was passed along from person to person. Learn about: * types of folk songs * folk instruments * folk music's European and African roots * Cajun music * the music of Appalachia * Hispanic music * today's folk music. Modern music--Rock, Country, R&B, and more--is rooted deep in North America's musical folklore. And folk music is still alive and well today.DJ (Earning $50,000 - $100,000 with a High S #14)
By Christie Marlowe. 2014
For many high school graduates, college is a way to get ahead, but going to college is not the only…
way for young adults to succeed. Many people choose to enter the workforce after high school to start earning money and gaining experience right away. These motivated young workers can have rewarding jobs without ever having to earn a 4-year college degree. If you're interested in radio or music and don't know that you want to--or can--go to college, a career as a D.J. might be for you. Young people need only a high school diploma or equivalent to start work as a D.J., and they can eventually earn more than $50,000 a year. In D.J., you'll learn how to start a career as a radio or event D.J. and what you need to succeed in the field. Find out about the prospects for D.J. careers in the future, how much D.J.s can make each year, and whether your path to success includes a career as a D.J.Lyrics 1964-2016
By Paul Simon. 1941
A Second Book of Operas
By Henry Edward Krehbiel.
A Bundle of Ballads
By Henry Morley.
Henry Morley (15 September 1822 – 1894) was a writer on English literature and one of the earliest Professors of…
English Literature. The son of an apothecary, he was born in Hatton Garden, London, educated at a Moravian school in Germany, and at King's College London, and after practicing medicine and keeping schools at various places, went in 1850 to London, and adopted literature as his profession. This book is a collection of his ballads.Alaska By Cruise Ship – 8th Edition: The Complete Guide to Cruising Alaska
By Anne Vipond. 2014
For over 20 years, this comprehensive guide has been a popular choice for readers planning a cruise to Alaska. The…
8th edition has been revised and updated and includes over 400 color photographs and maps and with all aspects of this exciting cruise. Exciting details of both the Inside Passage and Glacier cruises, from Seattle to Fairbanks, are inside. Includes two giant color pull-out maps with a mile-by-mile references to help readers track progress during their cruise. Includes special sections on glaciers, native culture and wildlife with a full-page whale-watching map.In 1962, Harry Tuft founded the Denver Folklore Center to bring together contemporary folk music fans and performers such as…
Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, Judy Collins and so many more. In the following decade, a core of folk enthusiasts established the Swallow Hill Music Association.These two organizations have persevered to sustain a lasting folk legacy in the Mile High City. This is the story of how the music and the people who love and live it shaped a unique, influential tradition. Join local historian and musician Paul Malkoski on a tour through more than fifty years of Denver's proud folk music scene.Yodel in Hi-Fi
By Bart Plantenga. 2012
Yodel in Hi-Fiexplores the vibrant and varied traditions of yodelers around the world. Far from being a quaint and dying…
art, yodel is a thriving vocal technique that has been perennially renewed by singers from Switzerland to Korea, from Colorado to Iran. Bart Plantenga offers a lively and surprising tour of yodeling in genres from opera to hip-hop and in venues from cowboy campfires and Oktoberfests to film soundtracks and yogurt commercials. Displaying an extraordinary versatility, yodeling crosses all borders and circumvents all language barriers to assume its rightful place in the world of music.The Cambridge Companion to Duke Ellington
By Edward Green, Evan Spring. 2014
Duke Ellington is widely held to be the greatest jazz composer and one of the most significant cultural icons of…
the twentieth century. This comprehensive and accessible Companion is the first collection of essays to survey, in depth, Ellington's career, music, and place in popular culture. An international cast of authors includes renowned scholars, critics, composers, and jazz musicians. Organized in three parts, the Companion first sets Ellington's life and work in context, providing new information about his formative years, method of composing, interactions with other musicians, and activities abroad; its second part gives a complete artistic biography of Ellington; and the final section is a series of specific musical studies, including chapters on Ellington and song-writing, the jazz piano, descriptive music, and the blues. Featuring a chronology of the composer's life and major recordings, this book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in Ellington's enduring artistic legacy.Music Interventions for Neurodevelopmental Disorders
By Alessandro Antonietti, Barbara Colombo, Braelyn R. DeRocher. 2018
This book explores how music can improve skills that are impaired in some neurodevelopmental disorders including ADHD attention…
deficit hyperactivity disorder autism and Rett syndrome Rehabilitation interventions based on the use of music termed music therapy are relatively widespread but not all are supported by empirical evidence This book offers readers an updated and scientifically grounded perspective on this theory and argues that music can be effective in promoting the acquisition of some basic mental abilities Chapters present some of the latest research and data on how musical activities can lead children affected by neurodevelopmental disorders to improve those skills including examples of training programs and exercises The book will be a valuable resource for therapists rehabilitators psychologists educators musicians researchers as well as anyone interested in exploring the potential in music for human growth