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Nettl's Elephant
By Anthony Seeger. 2007
From one of the most lauded scholars in ethnomusicology comes this enlightening and highly personal narrative on the evolution…
and current state of the field of ethnomusicology. Surveying the field he helped establish, Bruno Nettl investigates how concepts such as evolution, geography, and history serve as catalysts for advancing ethnomusicological methods and perspectives. This entertaining collection covers Nettl's scholarly interests ranging from Native American to Mediterranean to Middle Eastern contexts while laying out the pivotal moments of the field and conversations with the giants of its past. Nettl moves from reflections on the history of ethnomusicology to evaluations of the principal organizations in the field, interspersing those broader discussions with shorter essays focusing on neglected literature and personal experiences.Good Trouble: Building a Successful Life and Business with Asperger's (Punx Ser.)
By Sander Hicks, Joe Biel, Joyce Brabner. 2016
In 1996, everything about Joe Biel's life seemed like a mistake. He was 18, he lived in Cleveland, he got…
drunk every day, and he had mystery health problems and weird social tics. All his friends' lives were as bad or worse. To escape a nihilistic, apocalyptic worldview and to bring reading and documentation into a communal punk scene, he started assembling zines and bringing them in milk crates to underground punk shows. Eventually this became Microcosm Publishing. But Biel's head for math was stronger than his ability to relate to people, and it wasn't until he was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome that it all began to fall into place. This is the story of how, over 20 years, one person turned a litany of continuing mistakes and seeming wrong turns into a happy, fulfilled life and a thriving publishing business that defies all odds.J. S. Bach and the Oratorio Tradition: Bach Perspectives, Volume 8
By Daniel R Melamed. 2011
As the official publication of the American Bach Society, Bach Perspectives has pioneered new areas of research in the life,…
times, and music of Bach since its first appearance in 1995. Volume 8 of Bach Perspectives emphasizes the place of Bach's oratorios in their repertorial context. These essays consider Bach's oratorios from a variety of perspectives: in relation to models, antecedents, and contemporary trends; from the point of view of musical and textual types; and from analytical vantage points including links with instrumental music and theology. Christoph Wolff suggests the possibility that Bach's three festive works for Christmas, Easter, and Ascension Day form a coherent group linked by liturgy, chronology, and genre. Daniel R. Melamed considers the many ways in which Bach's passion music was influenced by the famous poetic passion of Barthold Heinrich Brockes. Markus Rathey examines the construction and role of oratorio movements that combine chorales and poetic texts (chorale tropes). Kerala Snyder shows the connections between Bach's Christmas Oratorio and one of its models, Buxtehude's Abendmusiken spread over many evenings. Laurence Dreyfus argues that Bach thought instrumentally in the composition of his passions at the expense of certain aspects of the text. And Eric Chafe demonstrates the contemporary theological background of Bach's Ascension Oratorio and its musical realizationPost-Punk Then and Now
By Mark Fisher, Kodwo Eshun, Gavin Butt, Green Gartside, Sue Clayton. 2016
What were the conditions of possibility for art and music-making before the era of neoliberal capitalism? What role did punk…
play in turning artists to experiment with popular music in the late 1970s and early 1980s? And why does the art and music of these times seem so newly pertinent to our political present, despite the seeming remoteness of its historical moment? Focusing upon the production of post-punk art, film, music, and publishing, this book offers new perspectives on an overlooked period of cultural activity, and probes the lessons that might be learnt from history for artists and musicians working under 21st century conditions of austerity. Contemporary reflections by those who shaped avant-garde and contestatory culture in the UK, US, Brazil and Poland in the 1970s and 1980s. Alongside these are contributions by contemporary artists, curators and scholars that provide critical perspectives on post-punk then, and its generative relation to the aesthetics and politics of cultural production today.The Craft of Tonal Counterpoint (2nd Edition)
By Thomas Benjamin. 2003
Tonal counterpoint is the basis of all classical music composition. 'The Craft of Tonal Conunterpoint' is an introductory, taking students…
through a series of carefully graded, cumilative exercises that stress both analysis and writing.Kentucky Traveler
By Ricky Skaggs. 2013
The music legend who revived modern bluegrass music, Ricky Skaggs, gives a warm, honest, one-of-a-kind memoir of forty years in…
music-along with the Ten Commandments of Bluegrass, as handed down by Ricky's mentor Bill Monroe; the Essential Guide to Bedrock Country Songs, a lovingly compiled walk through the songs that have moved Skaggs the most throughout his life; Songs the Lord Taught Us, a primer on Skaggs's most essential gospel songs; and a bevy of personal snapshots of his musical heroes. For readers of Johnny Cash's autobiography, lovers of O Brother Where Art Thou, and fans of country music and bluegrass, Kentucky Traveler is a priceless look at America's most cherished and vibrant musical tradition through the eyes of someone who has lived it.Write Songs Right Now
By Alex Forbes. 2012
Write Songs Right Now is a hands-on, step-by-step guide to creating original pop songs—an approach that has been road-tested by…
thousands of Alex’s students and coaching clients in New York City, some of whom have gone on to achieve great success. With insight, enthusiasm, and humor, Alex guides listeners through the process of brainstorming for ideas, crafting effective lyrics, and putting those lyrics to music. Whether you’ve written one song or one hundred, this audiobook will show you how to take your songwriting to new levels. Each chapter lays out the basics of a different element of songwriting, including song form, lyrics, melodies, chord construction, song dynamics, and the essential ingredients of a killer hook. There are lots of fun exercises to strengthen your songwriting muscles and increase your confidence. Alex also encourages up-and-coming writers to participate in songwriting communities locally and online, and makes a strong case for collaborating as a way to generate even better material.How to Listen to Jazz
By Ted Gioia. 2016
Language of the Spirit: An Introduction to Classical Music
By Jan Swafford. 2017
For many of us, classical music is something serious-something we study in school, something played by cultivated musicians at fancy…
gatherings. In Language of the Spirit, renowned music scholar Jan Swafford argues that we have it all wrong: classical music has something for everyone and is accessible to all. Ranging from Gregorian chant to Handel's Messiah, from Vivaldi's The Four Seasons to the postmodern work of Philip Glass, Swafford is an affable and expert guide to the genre. He traces the history of Western music, introduces readers to the most important composers and compositions, and explains the underlying structure and logic of their music.Language of the Spirit is essential reading for anyone who has ever wished to know more about this sublime art.Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop
By Adam Bradley. 2009
If asked to list the greatest innovators of modern American poetry, few of us would think to include Jay-Z or…
Eminem in their number. And yet hip hop is the source of some of the most exciting developments in verse today. The media uproar in response to its controversial lyrical content has obscured hip hop's revolution of poetic craft and experience: Only in rap music can the beat of a song render poetic meter audible, allowing an MC's wordplay to move a club-full of eager listeners.Examining rap history's most memorable lyricists and their inimitable techniques, literary scholar Adam Bradley argues that we must understand rap as poetry or miss the vanguard of poetry today. Book of Rhymes explores America's least understood poets, unpacking their surprisingly complex craft, and according rap poetry the respect it deserves.Intersecting Cultures in Music and Dance Education
By David Lines, Linda Ashley. 2016
This volume looks forward and re-examines present day education and pedagogical practices in music and dance in the diverse cultural…
environments found in Oceania. The book also identifies a key issue of how teachers face the prospect of taking a reflexive view of their own cultural legacy in music and dance education as they work from and alongside different cultural worldviews. This key issue, amongst other debates that arise, positions Intersecting Cultures as an innovative text that fills a gap in the current market with highly appropriate and fresh ideas from primary sources. The book offers commentaries that underpin and inform current pedagogy and bigger picture policy for the performing arts in education in Oceania, and in parallel ways in other countries.Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll: The Science of Hedonism and the Hedonism of Science
By Zoe Cormier. 2015
Full of noise and color, Sex, Drugs, and Rock ’n’ Roll looks at scientists and their craft, how hedonistic impulses…
inform our highest pursuits, and how the renegades of science have illuminated the secrets of our deepest impulses. It is a fascinating tale of scientists on the edge, experimenting on themselves and others, that asks the big (and strange) questions about what it means to be human, about consciousness and happiness, the future and past of our species, our scientific knowledge, and our culture. Not to mention our parties. It will pull you in and gross you out, but it never loses sight of the stories, ideas, and scientific discoveries that make sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll so timeless.My Damage: The Story of a Punk Rock Survivor
By Keith Morris, Jim Ruland. 2016
Keith Morris is a true punk icon. No one else embodies the sound of Southern Californian hardcore the way he…
does. With his waist-length dreadlocks and snarling vocals, Morris is known the world over for his take-no-prisoners approach on the stage and his integrity off of it. Over the course of his forty-year career with Black Flag, the Circle Jerks, and OFF!, he's battled diabetes, drug and alcohol addiction, and the record industry...and he's still going strong.My Damage is more than a book about the highs and lows of a punk rock legend. It's a story from the perspective of someone who has shared the stage with just about every major figure in the music industry and has appeared in cult films like The Decline of Western Civilization and Repo Man. A true Hollywood tale from an L.A. native, My Damage reveals the story of Morris's streets, his scene, and his music-as only he can tell it.Ain't It Time We Said Goodbye
By Robert Greenfield. 2014
For ten days in March 1971, the Rolling Stones traveled by train and bus to play two shows a night…
in many of the small theaters and town halls where their careers began. No backstage passes. No security. No sound checks or rehearsals. And only one journalist allowed. That journalist now delivers a full-length account of this landmark event, which marked the end of the first chapter of the Stones’ extraordinary career. Ain’t It Time We Said Goodbye is also the story of two artists on the precipice of mega stardom, power, and destruction. For Mick and Keith, and all those who traveled with them, the farewell tour of England was the end of the innocence. Based on Robert Greenfield’s first-hand account and new interviews with many of the key players, this is a vibrant, thrilling look at the way it once was for the Rolling Stones and their fans#151;and the way it would never be again.Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements
By Bob Mehr. 2016
Trouble Boys is the first definitive, no-holds-barred biography of one of the last great bands of the twentieth century: The…
Replacements. With full participation from reclusive singer and chief songwriter Paul Westerberg, bassist Tommy Stinson, guitarist Slim Dunlap, and the family of late band co-founder Bob Stinson, author Bob Mehr is able to tell the real story of this highly influential group, capturing their chaotic, tragic journey from the basements of Minneapolis to rock legend. Drawing on years of research and access to the band's archives at Twin/Tone Records and Warner Bros. Mehr also discovers previously unrevealed details from those in the group's inner circle, including family, managers, musical friends and collaborators.Das Buch befasst sich mit der Vertragspraxis und den Rechtsfragen des Künstlermanagementvertrages im Musikbereich. Schwerpunkt des ersten Teils ist eine…
umfassende Vertragsanalyse der typischen Regelungen und Pflichtenprogramme zwischen Künstlern und Managern anhand von Praxis- und Musterverträgen. Im zweiten Teil wird die Rechtsnatur typischer Künstlermanagementverträge bestimmt und der Vertrag im System der Schuldverträge verortet. Anschließend werden im dritten Teil die wesentlichen Rechtsprobleme bei der Begründung, Durchführung und Beendigung von Künstlermanagementverträgen untersucht.New Critical Perspectives on the Beatles
By Kenneth Womack, Katie Kapurch. 2016
The Beatles are probably the most photographed band in history and are the subject of numerous biographical studies, but a…
surprising dearth of academic scholarship addresses the Fab Four. New Critical Perspectives on the Beatles offers a collection of original, previously unpublished essays that explore 'new' aspects of the Beatles. The interdisciplinary collection situates the band in its historical moment of the 1960s, but argues for artistic innovation and cultural ingenuity that account for the Beatles' lasting popularity today. Along with theoretical approaches that bridge the study of music with perspectives from non-music disciplines, the texts under investigation make this collection 'new' in terms of Beatles' scholarship. Contributors frequently address under-examined Beatles texts or present critical perspectives on familiar works to produce new insight about the Beatles and their multi-generational audiences.This book is about the tiny sounds of the world and listening to them the minute signals that…
are clues to who and where we are A very small sound given the context of its history becomes hugely significant and even an imagined sound in a picture becomes almost a voice By speaking a name we give a person back to the world and a breath a sigh a laugh or a cry need no language A phoneme is the start of all stories and were we able to tune ourselves to the subtleties of the natural world we might share the super-sensitivity of members of the bird and animal kingdom to sense the message in the apparent silence Mind hears sound when it perceives an image the book will appeal to sonic and radio practitioners students of sound those working in the visual arts and creative writersTeaching Living Legends
By Chee-Hoo Lum, Siew Ling Ling Chua. 2016
This book traces the research on the design, implementation and outcomes of a professional development program for in-service primary and…
secondary school teachers aimed at enhancing their understanding of living music traditions in Singapore and how these could be taught in the 21st century music classroom. It proposes a professional development framework comprising the areas of Pedagogy, Practice and Perspective to guide professional development design. The book also aims to promote further discussions on adult learning and teaching about teaching, especially with regard to developing self-efficacy to handle different music traditions in a 21st century, multi-ethnic society like Singapore.Globalization, Music and Cultures of Distinction
By Simone Varriale. 2016
This book is the first comprehensiveaccount of how Anglo-American popular music transformed Italian cultural life. Drawing on neglected archival materials,…
the author explores the rise of newmusical tastes and social divisions in late twentieth century Italy. The book reconstructs the emergence of popmusic magazines in Italy and offers the first in-depth investigation of therole of critics in global music cultures. It explores how class, gender, raceand geographical location shaped the production and consumption of music magazines,as well as critics' struggle over notions of expertise, cultural value andcosmopolitanism. Globalization, Music and Cultures ofDistinction provides an innovative framework for studying how globalization transforms cultural institutions andaesthetic hierarchies, thus breaking new ground for sociological and historicalresearch. It will be essential reading for scholars and students interested incultural sociology, popular music, globalization, media and cultural studies,social theory and contemporary Italy.