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Why is music so important to most of us? How does music help us both in our everyday lives, and…
in the more specialist context of music therapy? This book suggests a new way of approaching these topical questions, drawing from Ansdell's long experience as a music therapist, and from the latest thinking on music in everyday life. Vibrant and moving examples from music therapy situations are twinned with the stories of 'ordinary' people who describe how music helps them within their everyday lives. Together this complementary material leads Ansdell to present a new interdisciplinary framework showing how musical experiences can help all of us build and negotiate identities, make intimate non-verbal relationships, belong together in community, and find moments of transcendence and meaning. How Music Helps is not just a book about music therapy. It has the more ambitious aim to promote (from a music therapist's perspective) a better understanding of 'music and change' in our personal and social life. Ansdell's theoretical synthesis links the tradition of Nordoff-Robbins music therapy and its recent developments in Community Music Therapy to contemporary music sociology and music studies. This book will be relevant to practitioners, academics, and researchers looking for a broad-based theoretical perspective to guide further study and policy in music, well-being, and health.Litpop: Writing And Popular Music (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series)
By Adam Hansen, Rachel Carroll. 2014
Bringing together exciting new interdisciplinary work from emerging and established scholars in the UK and beyond, Litpop addresses the question:…
how has writing past and present been influenced by popular music, and vice versa? Contributions explore how various forms of writing have had a crucial role to play in making popular music what it is, and how popular music informs ’literary’ writing in diverse ways. The collection features musicologists, literary critics, experts in cultural studies, and creative writers, organised in three themed sections. ’Making Litpop’ explores how hybrids of writing and popular music have been created by musicians and authors. ’Thinking Litpop’ considers what critical or intellectual frameworks help us to understand these hybrid cultural forms. Finally, ’Consuming Litpop’ examines how writers deal with music’s influence, how musicians engage with literary texts, and how audiences of music and writing understand their own role in making ’Litpop’ happen. Discussing a range of genres and periods of writing and popular music, this unique collection identifies, theorizes, and problematises connections between different forms of expression, making a vital contribution to popular musicology, and literary and cultural studies.Living Politics, Making Music: The Writings of Jan Fairley (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series)
By Jan Fairley, Edited By Frith, Ian Christie. 2014
The late Jan Fairley (1949-2012) was a key figure in making world music a significant topic for popular music studies…
and an influential contributor to such world music magazines as fRoots and Songlines. This book celebrates her contribution to popular music scholarship by gathering her most important work together in a single place. The result is a richly informed and entertaining volume that will be of interest to all scholars in the field while also serving as an excellent introduction for students interested in popular music as a global phenomenon. Fairley’s work was focused on the problems and possibilities of cross-cultural musical influences, fantasies and flows and on the importance of performing circuits and networks. Her interest in the details of music-making and in the lives of music-makers means that this collection is also an original and illuminating study of music and politics. In drawing on Jan Fairley’s journalism, this volume also offers students a guide to various genres of world music, from Cuban son to flamenco, as well as an insight into the lives of such world music stars as Mercedes Sosa and Silvio RodrÃguez. This is inspiring as well as essential reading.During the Reformation, the Book of Psalms became one of the most well-known books of the Bible. This was particularly…
true in Britain, where people of all ages, social classes and educational abilities memorized and sang poetic versifications of the psalms. Those written by Thomas Sternhold and John Hopkins became the most popular, and the simple tunes developed and used by English and Scottish churches to accompany these texts were carried by soldiers, sailors and colonists throughout the English-speaking world. Among these tunes were a number that are still used today, including ’Old Hundredth’, ’Martyrs’, and ’French’. This book is the first to consider both English and Scottish metrical psalmody, comparing the two traditions in print and practice. It combines theological literary and musical analysis to reveal new and ground-breaking connections between the psalm texts and their tunes, which it traces in the English and Scottish psalters printed through 1640. Using this new analysis in combination with a more thorough evaluation of extant church records, Duguid contends that Britain developed and maintained two distinct psalm cultures, one in England and the other in Scotland.Soda Goes Pop: Pepsi-Cola Advertising and Popular Music (Tracking Pop)
By Joanna Love. 2019
From its 1939 “Nickel, Nickel” jingle to pathbreaking collaborations with Michael Jackson and Madonna to its pair of X Factor…
commercials in 2011 and 2012, Pepsi-Cola has played a leading role in drawing the American pop music industry into a synergetic relationship with advertising. This idea has been copied successfully by countless other brands over the years, and such commercial collaboration is commonplace today—but how did we get here? How and why have pop music aesthetics been co-opted to benefit corporate branding? What effect have Pepsi’s music marketing practices in particular had on other brands, the advertising industry, and popular music itself? Soda Goes Pop investigates these and other vital questions around the evolving relationships between popular music and corporate advertising. Joanna K. Love joins musical analysis, historical research, and cultural theory to trace parallel shifts in these industries over eight decades. In addition to scholarly and industry resources, she draws on first-hand accounts, pop culture magazines, trade press journals, and other archival materials. Pepsi’s longevity as an influential American brand, its legendary commercials, and its pioneering, relentless pursuit of alliances with American musical stars makes the brand a particularly instructive point of focus. Several of the company’s most famous ad campaigns are prime examples of the practice of redaction, whereby marketers select, censor, and restructure musical texts to fit commercial contexts in ways that revise their aesthetic meanings and serve corporate aims. Ultimately, Love demonstrates how Pepsi’s marketing has historically appropriated and altered images of pop icons and the meanings of hit songs, and how these commercials shaped relationships between the American music business, the advertising industry, and corporate brands. Soda Goes Pop is a rich resource for scholars and students of American studies, popular culture, advertising, broadcast media, and musicology. It is also an accessible and informative book for the general reader, as Love’s musical and theoretical analyses are clearly presented for non-specialist audiences and readers with varying degrees of musical knowledge.The Learner-Centered Music Classroom: Models and Possibilities
By David A. Williams, Jonathan R. Kladder. 2020
The Learner-Centered Music Classroom: Models and Possibilities is a resource for practicing music teachers, providing them with practical ideas and…
lesson plans for implementing learner-centered pedagogical concepts into their music classrooms. The purpose of this book is to propose a variety of learner-centered models for music teaching and learning through the use of a variety of autoethnographic viewpoints. Nine contributors provide working and concrete examples of learner-centered models from their classrooms. Offering lesson plan ideas in each of these areas, the contributors provide practical approaches for implementation of learner-centered approaches in music instruction across a variety of landscapes. Learner-centered teaching provides an approach to music education that encourages social, interactive, culturally responsive, creative, peer-based, open-formed, facilitated and democratic learning. Chapter 1 defines the what, why, and perceived benefits of learner-centered approaches in music teaching and learning contexts Chapters 2-10 will include example lesson plans, rubrics, etc. as models for teachers. The contributors to this book suggest that learner-centered approaches, when embedded into the culture and curricular framework of a music classroom, offer exciting approaches for teaching music in ways that are culturally and educationally appropriate in contemporary education.Music and Identity in Ireland and Beyond
By Mark Fitzgerald, John O'Flynn. 2014
Music and Identity in Ireland and Beyond represents the first interdisciplinary volume of chapters on an intricate cultural field that…
can be experienced and interpreted in manifold ways, whether in Ireland (The Republic of Ireland and/or Northern Ireland), among its diaspora(s), or further afield. While each contributor addresses particular themes viewed from discrete perspectives, collectively the book contemplates whether ’music in Ireland’ can be regarded as one interrelated plane of cultural and/or national identity, given the various conceptions and contexts of both Ireland (geographical, political, diasporic, mythical) and Music (including a proliferation of practices and genres) that give rise to multiple sites of identification. Arranged in the relatively distinct yet interweaving parts of ’Historical Perspectives’, ’Recent and Contemporary Production’ and ’Cultural Explorations’, its various chapters act to juxtapose the socio-historical distinctions between the major style categories most typically associated with music in Ireland - traditional, classical and popular - and to explore a range of dialectical relationships between these musical styles in matters pertaining to national and cultural identity. The book includes a number of chapters that examine various movements (and ’moments’) of traditional music revival from the late eighteenth century to the present day, as well as chapters that tease out various issues of national identity pertaining to individual composers/performers (art music, popular music) and their audiences. Many chapters in the volume consider mediating influences (infrastructural, technological, political) and/or social categories (class, gender, religion, ethnicity, race, age) in the interpretation of music production and consumption. Performers and composers discussed include U2, Raymond Deane, Afro-Celt Sound System, E.J. Moeran, Séamus Ennis, Kevin O’Connell, Stiff Little Fingers, Frederick May, ArnoldCrystal Vision Through Crystal Gazing: The Crystal As A Stepping Stone To Clear Vision
By Frater Achad. 2018
The Purpose of this little volume is three-fold. (1) To give those who are interested in the art of Crystal-Gazing…
a clear and concise method of procedure, not alone in the practice of the work, but also in the preparation of the crystal itself, so that it becomes a true material basis or link with other planes. (2) To show that the Ancient Methods of Working—if properly understood—are more scientific than modern ones, since they were designed to insure a definite type of vision and to put the Seer in touch with definite Intelligences of a Higher Order. (3) To point out that there are other Crystalline Spheres besides the crystal ball at first used to contact them; and that eventually the practice may lead to very high results, if the necessary steps are taken to insure success.With these objects in mind, the Author has done all in his power to make this book of real value to all who may obtain it.In the hands of the beginner it may lead to a wider conception of the Nature and Powers of his, or her, own being. Those who have already traveled some distance along the Occult Path may still find help through the study of the more advanced, if less understood, methods of the Ancient Seers. Those who are seeking to make their own Vision more Perfect, so that the Light of Truth may focus itself within them, will also find hints as to the means of accomplishing their True Purpose.Thus, it is hoped, all will be satisfied; and should their satisfaction be equal to that of the Author at this opportunity to herald the Light—however faintly—of the Ultimate Crystalline Sphere, Whose nature is Light Itself, he will be more than repaid for his efforts.—Frater AchadThe Land of Light: The Tarot
By Hilton Hotema. 2018
In The Land of Light, which was first published in 1959, Professor Hilton Hotema has correlated all of the various…
interpretations of the works on the Tarot into one harmonious whole. Hotema says a true decipherment of the Tarot Symbolism must conform to the principles of the Ageless Wisdom of the Ancient Masters as preserved in the symbology and allegory contained in the Christian Bible and in other ancient scriptures, otherwise the interpretation will fail to agree with the teachings of the Masters who originated and designed the Major Arcana. The 78 Tarot Cards are fully illustrated.The Ancient Tarot was the oldest Bible on earth, and an interpretation of its mysterious symbolism reveals the Cosmic Phenomena that was presented to the Neophyte in the Sacred Drama of the Initiation in the Ancient Mysteries which included the strangest mysteries of Life, such as Reincarnation, Resurrection and Eternal Life.Hotema with his penetrating pen and wisdom clearly shows you secrets you have not known before.“Hotema’s folios astound me with the information they reveal.”—T. P. McG., N.Y.“We consider Prof. Hotema one of the world’s greatest teachers.”—Grant E. Hockens, N.Y.“We are slowly and gradually led into the realm of genius, and shown the answers to many profound anthropological and psychological problems that have perplexed the best scholars for ages. It was left for the mind of Prof. Hotema to correlate and analyze all existing data, as well as to decode the symbols and allegories of the Ancient Masters, and to reach and explain the facts and conclusions which are of immense value to mankind, both new and in the future. The interpretation of the ancient Tarot symbolism is a great work, possibly his greatest […]”—Wm. C. Lloyd, Burlington, N.C.“Hotema is a thinker far above the best scientists, for he is not afraid to oppose them and show where they are wrong.”—A. F., CaliforniaSon of Perfection, Part 2
By Hilton Hotema. 2018
Man is the subject of the Ancient Scriptures.Perfect Man is the Hero of the Ancient Scriptures.Deportment in harmony with Cosmic…
Law was the ancient standard of Perfect Man.According to the principles of the Ancient Masters, complete self-mastery was their standard of Perfect Man. For he who conquers himself is greater than he who conquers a city.He that overcometh the desires of the flash and the passions of the blood, and obeyeth the commandment not to eat of the “forbidden fruit”, the same shall inherit all things good in life; and I, Perfection, will be his Guide, and he shall be my Son (Gen. 2:17; Rev. 21:7).The first book and the last book of the Bible deal with the “forbidden fruit”. The last book describes, in symbol and parable, the nature of the man who heeds the commandment not to eat of the “forbidden fruit”, and defines the great reward inherited by him for obedience. For such is the only man who is worthy to open the book and to loose the seals thereof (Rev. 5).Also, in the last book of the Bible there is concealed the greatest of all secrets of the Human Body, the Microcosm. This secret, hidden in symbol and parable, is so strange and obscure that as yet modern science knows nothing about it, and the priests and preachers have never discovered it.The purpose of this work, which is presented in two parts, is to uncover and reveal that carefully guarded secret, and to provide a summary of the hidden teachings of the Apocalypse, the last book of the Bible, by chapter and verse—from the original Greek, with an interpretation of the symbols and parables, based on the Lost Wisdom of the Ancient Masters.Son of Perfection, Part 1
By Hilton Hotema. 2018
A SUMMARY OF THE HIDDEN TEACHINGS OF THE APOCALYPSE (LAST BOOK OF THE BIBLE)Man is the subject of the Ancient…
Scriptures.Perfect Man is the Hero of the Ancient Scriptures.Deportment in harmony with Cosmic Law was the ancient standard of Perfect Man.According to the principles of the Ancient Masters, complete self-mastery was their standard of Perfect Man. For he who conquers himself is greater than he who conquers a city.He that overcometh the desires of the flash and the passions of the blood, and obeyeth the commandment not to eat of the “forbidden fruit”, the same shall inherit all things good in life; and I, Perfection, will be his Guide, and he shall be my Son (Gen. 2:17; Rev. 21:7).The first book and the last book of the Bible deal with the “forbidden fruit”. The last book describes, in symbol and parable, the nature of the man who heeds the commandment not to eat of the “forbidden fruit”, and defines the great reward inherited by him for obedience. For such is the only man who is worthy to open the book and to loose the seals thereof (Rev. 5).Also, in the last book of the Bible there is concealed the greatest of all secrets of the Human Body, the Microcosm. This secret, hidden in symbol and parable, is so strange and obscure that as yet modern science knows nothing about it, and the priests and preachers have never discovered it.The purpose of this work, which is presented in two parts, is to uncover and reveal that carefully guarded secret, and to provide a summary of the hidden teachings of the Apocalypse—the last book of the Bible.The Hidden Creator
By Hilton Hotema. 2018
The world wants to know who, what, and where is the Creator. Ages of searching by great men have failed…
to find Him. If there is a Creator, it should be possible to locate Him. If there is none, then there is no answer to the question, What Power Creates and Regulates the World and everything in it?All questions have answers. This one has an answer, and Professor Hilton Hotema was determined not to stop digging till he found it.Where did he find it? Right in the Bible, but stated in terms so simple that no one had noticed it.Sacred Music in Secular Society
By Jonathan Arnold. 2014
If music has ever given you 'a glimpse of something beyond the horizons of our materialism or our contemporary values'…
(James MacMillan), then you will find this book essential reading. Sacred Music in Secular Society is a new and challenging work asking why Christian sacred music is now appealing afresh to a wide and varied audience, both religious and secular. Jonathan Arnold offers unique insights as a professional singer of sacred music in liturgical and concert settings worldwide, as an ordained Anglican priest and as a senior research fellow. Blending scholarship, theological reflection and interviews with some of the greatest musicians and spiritual leaders of our day, including James MacMillan and Rowan Williams, Arnold suggests that the intrinsically theological and spiritual nature of sacred music remains an immense attraction particularly in secular society. Intended by the composer and inspired by religious intentions this theological and spiritual heart reflects our inherent need to express our humanity and search for the mystical or the transcendent. Offering a unique examination of the relationship between sacred music and secular society, this book will appeal to readers interested in contemporary spirituality, Christianity, music, worship, faith and society, whether believers or not, including theologians, musicians and sociologists.Ancient Secret of Personal Power: Tetragrammaton
By Hilton Hotema. 2018
In the Great Mystic Symbolic Tetragrammaton of the Ancient Masters we have one of their deepest secrets; the discovery of…
what the Masters called the Sacred Four Elements, as they found that these elements enter into the constitution of everything known.Earth, Water, Air, and Fire are the elements that produce every formation, every object, every organism. The Masters then invented an appropriate symbol to embrace the Sacred Four Elements. This symbol is known to us as the Sphinx, the image of which has been found in all the lands of the ancient world, and just as far back in the night of time as it is possible for us to go.Professor Hilton Hotema again raises compelling questions regarding our physical, spiritual, and mental reactions to these Sacred Four Elements.Cosmic Forces of Mu
By James Churchward. 1992
AT THE time of my parting with the Rishi, after seven years of study under him, and when I thought…
I knew it all, he, placing his hand on my shoulder said:‘Go forth, my son, into nature’s schoolhouse and learn, for at present you know nothing except how to learn. Every old rock with its wrinkled and gnarled fact is speaking a tale of the past if you will but listen, e very leaf on tree or bush and every flower and blade of grass growing out of the ground, has a whisper for listening ears. Nature is the great schoolhouse of knowledge, from which man is taught. Nature is God speaking.’In my previous books I endeavored to show the high state attained by the Earth’s First Civilization, the state they had arrived at after 200,000 years of study and experience: and, how man then learnt his lessons from nature, a study which brought him into a closer touch with his Heavenly Father.I showed that his sciences were mere copies of nature. Even his geometry and geometrical figures were taken from flowers. He carried these flower symbols into his art so that, today, we find his ancient statuary and structures based on regular, progressive, geometrical lines. The same geometrical figures were used in explaining and teaching religion.In this work I have tried to show the ancient sciences in their grander and more sublime form, taking a step nearer to the Creator himself. Yet told in childlike simplicity, as was the custom of the ancients, unencumbered with technology and hard words to understand.—James ChurchwardSamuel Beckett, Repetition and Modern Music
By John McGrath. 2018
Music abounds in twentieth- century Irish literature. Whether it be the "thought-tormented" music of Joyce’s "The Dead", the folk tunes…
and opera that resound throughout Ulysses, or the four- part threnody in Beckett’s Watt, it is clear that the influence of music on the written word in Ireland is deeply significant. Samuel Beckett arguably went further than any other writer in the incorporation of musical ideas into his work. Musical quotations inhabit his texts, and structural devices such as the da capo are metaphorically employed. Perhaps most striking is the erosion of explicit meaning in Beckett’s later prose brought about through an extensive use of repetition, influenced by his reading of Schopenhauer’s philosophy of music. Exploring this notion of "semantic fluidity", John McGrath discusses the ways in which Beckett utilised extreme repetition to create texts that operate and are received more like music. Beckett’s writing has attracted the attention of numerous contemporary composers and an investigation into how this Beckettian "musicalized fiction" has been retranslated into contemporary music forms the second half of the book. Close analyses of the Beckett- inspired music of experimental composer Morton Feldman and the structured improvisations of avantjazz guitarist Scott Fields illustrate the cross- genre appeal of Beckett to musicians, but also demonstrate how repetition operates in diverse ways. Through the examination of the pivotal role of repetition in both music and literature of the twentieth century and beyond, John McGrath’s book is a significant contribution to the field of Word and Music Studies.Mystery Man of the Bible
By Hilton Hotema. 2018
The Life of Apollonius; The Hidden Life of Jesus; The Council of Nicaea; Falsification; The Legend and the Truth Interwoven—Why?;…
The Mystic Sleep; The Second Coming; The True Understanding of the Biblical Statement.Many reject this book at the first reading—later they come back to buy scores to give to their friends.It is a book which will change your entire life. The author says: “TRUTH is such a rare quality—a stranger so seldom met in this civilization of fraud, that it is never received freely, but must always fight its way into the world.”Get this book now—read it—and you’ll probably become another follower of Hilton Hotema.The Astral Body and Other Astral Phenomena: And Other Astral Phenomena (Quest Book Ser.)
By A. E. Powell. 1973
THE purpose of this book is to present to the student of Theosophy a condensed synthesis of the information at…
present (1926) available concerning the Astral Body of man, together with a description and explanation of the astral world and its phenomena. The book is thus a natural sequel of The Etheric Double and Allied Phenomena published in 1925.As in the case of The Etheric Double, the compiler has consolidated the information obtained from a large number of books, a list of which is given, arranging the material, which covers a vast field and is exceedingly complex, as methodically as lay within his power. It is hoped that by this means present and future students of the subject will be saved much labour and research, being able not only to find the information they require presented in a comparatively small compass, but also, with the help of the marginal references, to refer, should they so desire, to the original sources of information.In order that the book may fulfil its purpose by being kept within reasonable dimensions, the general plan followed has been to expound the principles under-lying astral phenomena, omitting particular examples or instances. Lecturers and others who wish specific illustrations of the principles enunciated, will find the marginal references useful as a clue to the places where the examples they seek may be found.—A. E. PowellCreative Realism: A New Method of Winning
By Rolf Alexander. 2018
Originally published in 1954, Creative Realism: A New Method of Winning provides a simple process of self-hypnosis whereby you can…
free the mind from its fragmentation in the subconscious.Dr. Rolf Alexander theorizes that we are all hypnotized to a considerable degree by what has happened to or around us in our lives. Assigning many of our personality troubles on “hypnosis-without-a-hypnotist,” he offers a method which he calls ‘self-realization,’ and which is used to dehypnotize ourselves. The use of this method is urged as a preliminary to the administering of autosuggestion, and provides an antidote to remaining in a suggestible trance to some extent after the use of autohypnosis.Dr. Rolf Alexander devoted himself to a lifelong program of private research and experimentation, and following extensive worldwide travel and the meticulous investigation of many little-known systems, he discovered the new and revolutionary philosophy named ‘Creative Realism,’ which this book outlines.Cellist in Exile: A Portrait of Pablo Casals
By Bernard Taper. 2018
The cellist in exile is, of course, Pablo Casals, one of the noble figures of the century, who is aptly…
described here by Bernard Taper as that rarity—an artist with a sense of commitment to humanity.”The book is informal, deeply personal, and permeated with Mr. Taper’s own wonder and affection for his subject. Sensitive, perceptive, and lucid, Cellist in Exile captures the flavor of a unique personality. The book reveals Casals as he is today—still playing the cello inimitably at the age of eighty-five, still stubbornly asserting the moral tenets which have shaped his life—and shows him in the setting of Puerto Rico, which has been his home for the past few years and is his present place of exile. At the same time the book, without being a formal biography, succeeds in re-creating for the reader a vivid sense of Casals’ long, intense, rich, and purposeful life.In preparing this work, Mr. Taper enjoyed a number of conversations with Casals at his home, talks about a whole gamut of subjects—music, freedom, nature, peace, and the Catalonian homeland that Casals still yearns for after more than two decades in exile.As expanded from the widely acclaimed Profile in The New Yorker, Mr. Taper’s book shows Casals in many moods and many different activities—rehearsing, playing the cello, early morning walks along the beach, and at home with his attractive young wife. He is seen in playful imitation of a novice performer’s nervousness when attempting a quavering line Schubert, a scene then heightened by Casals’ confession of the acute nervousness he has suffered before every one of the performances in his own triumphant career. Mr. Taper conveys the cellist’s warmth and simplicity when working with other famed musicians and the kind of communion in music shared with the members of his Casals’ Festival Orchestra.Beautifully illustrated throughout with numerous photographs, some of which had never before been published.