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From the theatrical stage to the literary salon, the figure of Sappho—the ancient poet and inspiring icon of feminine creativity—played…
a major role in the intertwining histories of improvisation, text, and performance throughout the nineteenth century. Exploring the connections between operatic and poetic improvisation in Italy and beyond, Singing Sappho combines earwitness accounts of famous female improviser-virtuosi with erudite analysis of musical and literary practices. Melina Esse demonstrates that performance played a much larger role in conceptions of musical authorship than previously recognized, arguing that discourses of spontaneity—specifically those surrounding the improvvisatrice, or female poetic improviser—were paradoxically used to carve out a new authority for opera composers just as improvisation itself was falling into decline. With this novel and nuanced book, Esse persuasively reclaims the agency of performers and their crucial role in constituting Italian opera as a genre in the nineteenth century.From the theatrical stage to the literary salon, the figure of Sappho—the ancient poet and inspiring icon of feminine creativity—played…
a major role in the intertwining histories of improvisation, text, and performance throughout the nineteenth century. Exploring the connections between operatic and poetic improvisation in Italy and beyond, Singing Sappho combines earwitness accounts of famous female improviser-virtuosi with erudite analysis of musical and literary practices. Melina Esse demonstrates that performance played a much larger role in conceptions of musical authorship than previously recognized, arguing that discourses of spontaneity—specifically those surrounding the improvvisatrice, or female poetic improviser—were paradoxically used to carve out a new authority for opera composers just as improvisation itself was falling into decline. With this novel and nuanced book, Esse persuasively reclaims the agency of performers and their crucial role in constituting Italian opera as a genre in the nineteenth century.By Richard Thompson. 2021
An intimate look at the early years of one of the world&’s most significant and influential guitarists and songwriters. In this moving and…
immersive memoir, Richard Thompson, international and longtime beloved music legend, recreates the spirit of the 1960s, where he found, and then lost, and then found his way again. Known for his brilliant songwriting, his extraordinary guitar playing, and his haunting voice, Thompson is considered one of the top twenty guitarists of all time, in the songwriting pantheon alongside Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, and Randy Newman. Now, in his long-awaited memoir, the British folk musician takes us back to the late 1960s, a period of great change and creativity—both for him and for the world at large. Thompson packed more than a lifetime of experiences into his late teens and twenties. During the pivotal years of 1967 to 1975, just as he was discovering his passion for music, he formed the band Fairport Convention with some schoolmates and helped establish the genre of British folk rock. That led to a heady period of songwriting and massive tours, where Thompson was on the road both in the UK and the US, and where he crossed paths with the likes of Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and Jimi Hendrix. But those eight years were also marked by change, upheaval, and tragedy. Then, at the height of the band&’s popularity, Thompson left to form a duo act with his wife Linda. And as he writes revealingly here, his discovery and ultimate embrace of Sufism dramatically reshaped his approach to music—and of course everything else. An honest, moving, and compelling memoir, Beeswing vividly captures the life of a remarkable artist during a period of creative intensity in a world on the cusp of change.By Vernon Oickle. 2014
A biography on the Canadian country musician, from his poor childhood in Nova Scotia to international celebrity on the stage…
of the Grand Ole Opry.Born in tiny Brooklyn, Nova Scotia, Hank Snow enjoyed a musical career that spanned five decades and sales of more than 80 million albums. In I’m Movin’ On, journalist Vernon Oickle chronicles Snow’s hardscrabble life, from his destitute childhood in Queens County to international fame. Leaving no stone unturned in his richly detailed profile of the Singing Ranger, Oickle exposes the highs and lows of Snow’s career, and his journey (“Everywhere, man,”) from small East Coast radio stations to the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. Includes a foreword from Hank’s son, Jimmie Rodgers Snow, a timeline, discography, and 75 photographs.By Tania Tabárez. 2020
Un libro para vivir, sentir y festejar el carnaval. Hay tantos carnavales como murguistas. La diversidad en cuanto a experiencias,…
crecimiento, desarrollo creativo y personal que encierra el fenómeno de la murga uruguaya es tan amplia como la cantidad de artistas que la han vivido en carne propia. La murga, uno de los fenómenos culturales más característicos de nuestro país, es un coro que trasciende el tiempo y las personas y que está en permanente cambio. En este libro, la periodista Tania Tabárez –una apasionada del carnaval– nos lleva a lo más íntimo de esas entrevistas que a lo largo de los años realizó en Fuera de concurso. Tania nos hará sentir que estamos sentados allí junto a estos personajes, indagando las historias personales y grupales que marcaron sus trayectorias artísticas y que han sido claves para la realidad actual de la murga y su relación con la sociedad. Desde los más innovadores a los más clásicos, pasando por rupturistas, amantes de la competencia, cuestionadores del concurso oficial, pero sobre todo murguistas de alma. El coro de este Fuera de Concurso tiene las voces de Bananita González, Carlos Melgarejo, Catusa Silva, Cocina Márquez, Coco Rivero, Diego Bello, Eduardo Rigaud, Jorge Esmoris, Fernando Toja, Guillermo Lamolle, Mónica Santos, Pinocho Routin, Pitufo Lombardo, Raúl Castro y Tabaré Cardozo.By David Lacasa. 2021
The first choice of aspiring guitar makers for more than 30 years For some, it is not enough to buy…
a guitar—the challenge of designing and hand-making a unique, customized instrument is the dream. Since 1986, these people have turned to one book: Make Your Own Electric Guitar. Written in a clear, relaxed style, it covers every facet of guitar design and construction, as well as electronic theory and practice, and full woodworking and wiring techniques—all supported with plenty of photos and diagrams. Now in a revised and expanded third edition, Make Your Own Electric Guitar will enable any musician or enthusiast with basic woodworking skills to create a uniquely valuable instrument.By Desirée J. Garcia. 2021
Putting Asian and European musicals into conversation with Hollywood classics like Singin’ in the Rain and La La Land, this…
study demonstrates the flexibility and durability of the genre. It explores how the movie musical mediates between nostalgia and technical innovation, while foregrounding the experiences of women, immigrants, and people of color.By J. Peter Burkholder. 1996
This volume shows Charles Ives in the context of his world in a number of revealing ways. Five new essays…
examine Ives's relationships to European music and to American music, politics, business, and landscape. J. Peter Burkholder shows Ives as a composer well versed in four distinctive musical traditions who blended them in his mature music. Leon Botstein explores the paradox of how, in the works of Ives and Mahler, musical modernism emerges from profoundly antimodern sensibilities. David Michael Hertz reveals unsuspected parallels between one of Ives's most famous pieces, the Concord Piano Sonata, and the piano sonatas of Liszt and Scriabin. Michael Broyles sheds new light on Ives's political orientation and on his career in the insurance business, and Mark Tucker shows the importance for Ives of his vacations in the Adirondacks and the representation of that landscape in his music. The remainder of the book presents documents that illuminate Ives's personal life. A selection of some sixty letters to and from Ives and his family, edited and annotated by Tom C. Owens, is the first substantial collection of Ives correspondence to be published. Two sections of reviews and longer profiles published during his lifetime highlight the important stages in the reception of Ives's music, from his early works through the premieres of his most important compositions to his elevation as an almost mythic figure with a reputation among some critics as America's greatest composer.By Federico De Haro. 2021
La primera biografía de Javier Krahe, el bardo más irreverente e inclasificable de la canción española. Javier Krahe, como él…
mismo solía decir, añadió una varilla nueva al abanico del género canción en nuestro país. Con ella, el aire circula con una fuerza literaria insólita y descubre rincones inexplorados. Conocido sobre todo por sus letras cáusticas sobre el amor, la política y la religión, admirador de Brassens y de Leonard Cohen, colega de Chicho Sánchez Ferlosio y mentor de Joaquín Sabina y Albert Pla, tuvo una vida inquieta (a su manera) y curiosa. Tanto como sus canciones, que hunden sus raíces en los años de estudiante en El Pilar y llegan hasta las fecundas temporadas en Zahara de los Atunes, pasando por el dulce autoexilio canadiense en el franquismo tardío, los primeros años de la democracia y los posteriores encontronazos con el poder. Canciones como «La hoguera», «Marieta», «Un burdo rumor», «Cuervo ingenuo», «En la costa suiza» o «No todo va a ser follar» son bandera de la contracultura más duradera. Federico de Haro ha reconstruido la vida y la carrera de Javier Krahe a partir de los dos ingredientes imprescindibles en toda gran biografía: pasión y fuentes. La familia y los amigos del cantautor han abierto las puertas de sus casas para contarle todo lo que no se sabe sobre Krahe. El relato, completado con un examen cercano de su personal manera de componer las canciones e introducirlas en directo y con un apéndice con sus primeras letras (inéditas hasta hoy) da como resultado un retrato íntimo y original del hombre que siempre anduvo a la contra. Prólogo de Julio LlamazaresEpílogo de Javier López de Guereña Reseñas:«En este libro está Krahe tal como yo lo quise y lo conocí. Nadie ha amado tanto las palabras cantadas como mi hermano Javier y el autor de este libro lo sabe y se lo hace saber a sus lectores, que ojalá sean los que se merece. Porque a Krahe hay que merecerlo. Merézcanlo ustedes y serán recompensados con la magia de una lengua, la nuestra, que en sus dedos y en su voz era por lo menos como el francés de Georges Brassens.»Joaquín Sabina «La vida de Javier Krahe, que está en sus canciones pero también oculta detrás de ellas (hay que saber cuándo dice la verdad y cuándo miente), está contada por Federico de Haro con tanta inteligencia y admiración que ni una ni otra se notan apenas [...] La verdad, lo ha hecho con tanta elegancia y respeto que a veces hasta cuesta saber si es Krahe o el biógrafo el que habla, tal ha sido la simbiosis de pensamiento y de palabra entre los dos. Lo mejor que se puede decir de esta biografía, evangelio o recensión apócrifa es que a Krahe le habría gustado mucho leerla.»Julio Llamazares «Bendito sea el Krahe; y quien le ha glosado con tanto acierto, Federico de Haro.»Javier López de GuereñaBy Simon Frith, Matt Brennan, Martin Cloonan, Emma Webster. 2021
To date there has been a significant gap in existing knowledge about the social history of music in Britain from…
1950 to the present day. The three volumes of Live Music in Britain address this gap and do so through a unique prism—that of live music. The key theme of the books is the changing nature of the live music industry in the UK, focused upon popular music but including all musical genres. Via this focus, the books offer new insights into a number of other areas including the relationship between commercial and public funding of music; changing musical fashions and tastes; the impact of changing technologies; the changing balance of power within the music industries; the role of the state in regulating and promoting various musical activities within an increasingly globalised music economy; and the effects of demographic and other social changes on music culture. Drawing on new archival research, a wide range of academic and non- academic secondary sources, participant observation and a series of interviews with key personnel, the books have the potential to become landmark works within Popular Music Studies and broader cultural history. The third volume covers the period from Live Aid to Live Nation (1985– 2015).By Benjamin Steege. 2021
An Unnatural Attitude traces a style of musical thought that coalesced in the intellectual milieu of the Weimar Republic—a phenomenological…
style that sought to renew contact with music as a worldly circumstance. Deeply critical of the influence of naturalism in aesthetics and ethics, proponents of this new style argued for the description of music as something accessible neither through introspection nor through experimental research, but rather in an attitude of outward, open orientation toward the world. With this approach, music acquires meaning in particular when the act of listening is understood to be shared with others. Benjamin Steege interprets this discourse as the response of a young, post–World War I generation amid a virtually uninterrupted experience of war, actual or imminent—a cohort for whom disenchantment with scientific achievement was to be answered by reasserting the value of imaginative thought. Steege draws on a wide range of published and unpublished texts from music theory, pedagogy, criticism, and philosophy of music, some of which appear for the first time in English translation in the book’s appendixes. An Unnatural Attitude considers the question: What are we thinking about when we think about music in non-naturalistic terms?By Benjamin Steege. 2021
An Unnatural Attitude traces a style of musical thought that coalesced in the intellectual milieu of the Weimar Republic—a phenomenological…
style that sought to renew contact with music as a worldly circumstance. Deeply critical of the influence of naturalism in aesthetics and ethics, proponents of this new style argued for the description of music as something accessible neither through introspection nor through experimental research, but rather in an attitude of outward, open orientation toward the world. With this approach, music acquires meaning in particular when the act of listening is understood to be shared with others. Benjamin Steege interprets this discourse as the response of a young, post–World War I generation amid a virtually uninterrupted experience of war, actual or imminent—a cohort for whom disenchantment with scientific achievement was to be answered by reasserting the value of imaginative thought. Steege draws on a wide range of published and unpublished texts from music theory, pedagogy, criticism, and philosophy of music, some of which appear for the first time in English translation in the book’s appendixes. An Unnatural Attitude considers the question: What are we thinking about when we think about music in non-naturalistic terms?By Zadie Smith. 2017
Un libro cargado de agudeza, frescura y empatía que nos ilumina en un mundo cada vez más cambiante y contradictorio.…
Zadie Smith ha demostrado ser una ensayista brillante y singular, haciendo que cada texto suyo sea un acontecimiento literario por derecho propio. Con total libertad, que recopila algunos de los más celebrados, abarca el amplísimo rango de intereses de Smith: desde todas las facetas de la cultura y la libertad artística hasta los temas más acuciantes de la política y la actualidad, siempre desde una perspectiva original y radicalmente personal. Gracias a su fina agudeza, una frescura contagiosa y una empatía extraordinaria, este libro es una guía imprescindible para entender un mundo, el nuestro, cada vez más complejo y contradictorio. La crítica ha dicho:«Ecléctica en sus gustos y centrífuga en su estilo, Zadie Smith disfruta, como articulista, de ampliar los límites de su pensamiento [...] En la línea de Hazlitt y Orwell, Woolf y Angela Carter.»The Financial Times «Interesante, sagaz [...]¿Se debe leer este libro brillante? ¡Por supuesto que sí!»The Independent «Un libro inteligente, ingenioso y a menudo hilarante que demuestra que (Zadie Smith) es una de las mentes más brillantes de la literatura británica de hoy en día.»NPR «Es un placer exquisito observar a Zadie Smith pensar a lo largo de estas páginas.»The New York Times Book Review «Smith lleva a la escritura de artículos sus dotes como novelista: buen ojo para el detalle, sutiles giros en las frases.»The Boston Globe «Estos ensayos en su conjunto reflejan una mente abierta, vivaz, natural, rigurosa, erudita y seria, ocupada en perfeccionar su manera de ver la vida, la literatura y la relación entre ambas. Smith demuestra que es mucho más que una cabeza adulta y comprensiva sobre unos hombros muy jóvenes. Y lo demuestra con su apasionada, compulsivamente dialéctica y atractiva indagación de la literatura».Los Angeles Times «No importa sobre lo que escriba -su padre, Kafka, Liberia, George Clooney-: colocar cualquier tema dentro del campo magnético de su cerebro incansable basta para volverlo fascinante. Smith [...] tiene el don de mostrarnos cómo lee y piensa; al ver cómo lo hace, uno se siente a su vez más inteligente y observador por ósmosis.»TimeBy Henrietta Toth. 2021
Lil Nas X became famous in 2019 for the country rap song "Old Town Road." He collaborates with other musicians…
and aims to defy expectations. Learn more about Lil Nas X's life as a famous musician!By Shane Homan, Richard Vella, Stephen Chen, Tracy Redhead. 2021
The Music Export Business examines the workings of the fast-changing world of music industry exports. The music industry is in…
a state of flux, resulting from changes in technology, markets, government policies and most recently the COVID-19 pandemic. In analysing the ability of organisations to access international markets from inception, this book assesses global trends in music industry business models, including streaming and national export policies. The book deploys author interviews with industry insiders including musicians, managers, record labels and government stakeholders, using case studies to highlight cultural and economic value creation in a global value chain Providing research-based insights into "export readiness" in the global music industry, this book reassesses the "born global" phenomenon, providing a unique and valuable resource for scholars and reflective practitioners interested in the evolving relationship between music industries, national economies, government policies and cultural identity. .Hearing southern women in the pauses of history Southern women of all classes, races, and walks of life practiced music…
during and after the Civil War. Candace L. Bailey examines the history of southern women through the lens of these musical pursuits, uncovering the ways that music's transmission, education, circulation, and repertory help us understand its meaning in the women's culture of the time. Bailey pays particular attention to the space between music as an ideal accomplishment—part of how people expected women to perform gentility—and a real practice—what women actually did. At the same time, her ethnographic reading of binder’s volumes, letters and diaries, and a wealth of other archival material informs new and vital interpretations of women’s place in southern culture. A fascinating collective portrait of women's artistic and personal lives, Unbinding Gentility challenges entrenched assumptions about nineteenth century music and the experiences of the southern women who made it.By Tim Summers, Melanie Fritsch. 2021
Video game music has been permeating popular culture for over forty years. Now, reaching billions of listeners, game music encompasses…
a diverse spectrum of musical materials and practices. This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date survey of video game music by a diverse group of scholars and industry professionals. The chapters and summaries consolidate existing knowledge and present tools for readers to engage with the music in new ways. Many popular games are analysed, including Super Mario Galaxy, Bastion, The Last of Us, Kentucky Route Zero and the Katamari, Gran Turismo and Tales series. Topics include chiptunes, compositional processes, localization, history and game music concerts. The book also engages with other disciplines such as psychology, music analysis, business strategy and critical theory, and will prove an equally valuable resource for readers active in the industry, composers or designers, and music students and scholars.By John Schofield, Liam Maloney. 2021
Music and Heritage provides new thinking about the diverse ways people engage with heritage. By exploring the relationships that exist…
between music, place and identity, the book illustrates how people form attachments to place and how such attachments are represented by sound and music-making. Presenting case studies and perspectives from across a range of genres, the volume argues that combining music with heritage provides an alternative and productive opportunity to think about heritage values and place attachment. Contributions to this edited collection use a diversity of methods, perspectives, cues and genres to reflect critically on issues related to these and other interconnections in ways that encourage new thinking about the character, meaning and purpose of cultural heritage, and the various ways in which people can interact with it through sound – thus re-encountering the supposedly familiar world around them. Taking heritage studies, musicology and place-making research in new directions, Music and Heritage will be of interest to academics and students engaged in the study of heritage, history, music, geography and anthropology. It will also be relevant to those with an interest in how music relates to place-making and place attachment, as well as to practitioners and policymakers working in the planning, design and creative sectors.By Antonio Cardiel. 2021
Por fin la historia jamás contada de uno de los grupos más míticos del pop-rock español. Avalada por los músicos…
y contada desde dentro por el hermano del bajista, HÉROES DE LEYENDA es la biografía más personal y completa de la mítica banda. Héroes del silencio, una de las bandas de rock más famosas e internacionales de nuestro país, que incluso tras su disolución todavía cuenta con miles y miles de fans acérrimos, tiene por fin el libro que merece. Un grupo obsesionado por la excelencia y quizás esto fue lo que les llevó a ser pioneros en terrenos intransitados entonces en España: 700 conciertos ofrecidos en 30 países entre Europa y América; compañeros de cartel de bandas como Texas, Aerosmith o Iron Maiden, y solistas como Leonard Cohen, Robert Plant o Bryan Adams; asistencia a los festivales de verano más importantes de Europa, como el Rock amRing y el Rock Insel; decenas de discos piratas que todavía se siguen editando; grabaciones de unplugged para la MTV... Antonio Cardiel ha tenido la oportunidad de entrevistar en exclusiva y detenidamente a sus componentes, relata de forma amena y rigurosa la historia del grupo: su formación, sus comienzos musicales, su escalada hacia el éxito, su época en la cima y su posterior disolución. Además, abunda en revelaciones sobre el proceso creativo de Héroes y la génesis de sus temas más importantes, sobre las giras que hicieron por Europa y América, e incluye fotografías que nunca antes habían visto la luz y muchas anécdotas desconocidas. Una vida al más puro estilo del rock and roll, en cuyo nombre libraron muchas batallas, dentro y fuera de los escenarios.By Brian Ward, Patrick Huber. 2018
Association for Recorded Sound Collections Certificate of Merit for the Best Historical Research in Recorded Roots or World Music, 2019A&R…
Pioneers offers the first comprehensive account of the diverse group of men and women who pioneered artists-and-repertoire (A&R) work in the early US recording industry. In the process, they helped create much of what we now think of as American roots music. Resourceful, innovative, and, at times, shockingly unscrupulous, they scouted and signed many of the singers and musicians who came to define American roots music between the two world wars. They also shaped the repertoires and musical styles of their discoveries, supervised recording sessions, and then devised marketing campaigns to sell the resulting records. By World War II, they had helped redefine the canons of American popular music and established the basic structure and practices of the modern recording industry. Moreover, though their musical interests, talents, and sensibilities varied enormously, these A&R pioneers created the template for the job that would subsequently become known as "record producer." Without Ralph Peer, Art Satherley, Frank Walker, Polk C. Brockman, Eli Oberstein, Don Law, Lester Melrose, J. Mayo Williams, John Hammond, Helen Oakley Dance, and a whole army of lesser known but often hugely influential A&R representatives, the music of Bessie Smith and Bob Wills, of the Carter Family and Count Basie, of Robert Johnson and Jimmie Rodgers may never have found its way onto commercial records and into the heart of America's musical heritage. This is their story.