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Cleveland's Rock and Roll Venues (Images of Modern America)
By Deanna R. Adams. 2020
Cleveland has always been a music town. And thanks to Cleveland deejay Alan Freed, who booked the first venue for…
rock enthusiasts, music fans have never lacked for places to go see their favorite acts perform in person. This book honors the astute owners and their venues--from yesterday to today--that present fans with the music they crave. The early clubs helped usher in Cleveland as the designated Rock and Roll Capital of the World. Today's venues continue the tradition, thus ensuring that music lovers of all ages, and attitudes, get to enjoy their rock and roll on the North Coast, with all its variety and talent. Because of them, musical memories continue to be made.Faces of Tradition in Chinese Performing Arts examines the key role of the individual in the development of traditional Chinese…
performing arts such as music and dance. These artists and their artistic works–the "faces of tradition"–come to represent and reconfigure broader fields of cultural production in China today. The contributors to this volume explore the ways in which performances and recordings, including singing competitions, textual anthologies, ethnographic videos, and CD albums, serve as discursive spaces where individuals engage with and redefine larger traditions and themselves. By focusing on the performance, scholarship, collection, and teaching of instrumental music, folksong, and classical dance from a variety of disciplines–these case studies highlight the importance of the individual in determining how traditions have been and are represented, maintained, and cultivated.The Routledge Companion to Music Theory Pedagogy (Routledge Music Companions)
By Leigh VanHandel. 2020
Today’s music theory instructors face a changing environment, one where the traditional lecture format is in decline. The Routledge Companion…
to Music Theory Pedagogy addresses this change head-on, featuring battle-tested lesson plans alongside theoretical discussions of music theory curriculum and course design. With the modern student in mind, scholars are developing creative new approaches to teaching music theory, encouraging active student participation within contemporary contexts such as flipped classrooms, music industry programs, and popular music studies. This volume takes a unique approach to provide resources for both the conceptual and pragmatic sides of music theory pedagogy. Each section includes thematic "anchor" chapters that address key issues, accompanied by short "topics" chapters offering applied examples that instructors can readily adopt in their own teaching. In eight parts, leading pedagogues from across North America explore how to most effectively teach the core elements of the music theory curriculum: Fundamentals Rhythm and Meter Core Curriculum Aural Skills Post-Tonal Theory Form Popular Music Who, What, and How We Teach A broad musical repertoire demonstrates formal principles that transcend the Western canon, catering to a diverse student body with diverse musical goals. Reflecting growing interest in the field, and with an emphasis on easy implementation, The Routledge Companion to Music Theory Pedagogy presents strategies and challenges to illustrate and inspire, in a comprehensive resource for all teachers of music theory.Mind Over Batter
By Graeme Fowler. 2019
Following the critical and commercial success of Absolutely Foxed, Graeme Fowler returns with a stunning new book that takes the…
reader inside the mental side of cricket. Few sports can be played as much in the mind as cricket. When bowlers are hurling the ball down at your head at 90 mph, or fielders are crowded round the bat waiting to snap up an edge, only the most resilient can thrive. In Mind Over Batter, former Test batsman, commentator and coach Fowler looks into all facets of the game to assess the mental aspect of cricket. What is mental strength? And how can you improve it, or why do some people suddenly lose it? Can the environment in a dressing room have any impact on both mental strength and mental health? When a game builds up to a dramatic climax - how do you train yourself to cope? Can pressure really lead to catastrophic decision-making and even lead players to bend the rules? Told with his familiar mix of brilliant insight, hilarious anecdotes and moving personal experience of his own mental demons, Fowler delivers a superb portrait of the game. Mind Over Batter will not only shed light on the top echelons of cricket, but it will also provide the reader with many useful ideas on how they can improve their own game and performance - in cricket or in other walks of life. Finally, having resisted for many years despite his own mental health issues, Fowler decides to take a closer look inside his own mind and for the first time undergoes therapy to see if he can work out what makes him tick. What he discovered surprised even him.Record Cultures: The Transformation of the U.S. Recording Industry
By Kyle Barnett. 2020
Record Cultures tells the story of how early U.S. commercial recording companies captured American musical culture in a key period…
in both music and media history. Amid dramatic technological and cultural changes of the 1920s and 1930s, small recording companies in the United States began to explore the genres that would later be known as jazz, blues, and country. Smaller record labels, many based in rural or out of the way Midwestern and Southern towns, were willing to take risks on the country’s regional vernacular music as a way to compete with more established recording labels. Recording companies’ relationship with radio grew closer as both industries were on the rise, propelled by new technologies. Radio, which had become immensely popular, began broadcasting more recorded music in place of live performances, and this created profitable symbiosis. With the advent of the talkies, the film industry completed the media trifecta. The novelty of recorded sound was replacing film accompanists, and the popularity of movie musicals solidified film’s connections with the radio and recording industries. By the early 1930s, the recording industry had gone from being part of the largely autonomous phonograph industry to being major media industry of its own, albeit deeply tied to—and, in some cases, owned by—the radio and film industries. The triangular relationships between these media industries marked the first major entertainment and media conglomerates in U.S. history. Through an interdisciplinary and intermedial approach to recording industry history, Record Cultures creates new connections between different strands of media research. It will be of interest to scholars of popular music, media studies, sound studies, American culture, and the history of film, television, and radio.Musicophilia in Mumbai: Performing Subjects and the Metropolitan Unconscious
By Tejaswini Niranjana. 2020
In Musicophilia in Mumbai Tejaswini Niranjana traces the place of Hindustani classical music in Mumbai throughout the long twentieth century…
as the city moved from being a seat of British colonial power to a vibrant postcolonial metropolis. Drawing on historical archives, newspapers, oral histories, and interviews with musicians, critics, students, and instrument makers as well as her own personal experiences as a student of Hindustani classical music, Niranjana shows how the widespread love of music throughout the city created a culture of collective listening that brought together people of diverse social and linguistic backgrounds. This culture produced modern subjects Niranjana calls musicophiliacs, whose subjectivity was grounded in a social rather than an individualistic context. By attending concerts, learning instruments, and performing at home and in various urban environments, musicophiliacs embodied forms of modernity that were distinct from those found in the West. In tracing the relationship between musical practices and the formation of the social subject, Niranjana opens up new ways to think about urbanity, subjectivity, culture, and multiple modernities.Frederick Delius: A Research and Information Guide (Routledge Music Bibliographies)
By Mary Christison Huismann. 2009
Frederick Delius is among the most celebrated English composers of the 20th century. Widely studied and performed, his works are…
considered models of the British impressionist school and continue to fascinate students and scholars centuries later. This research guide serves as a ready reference for students and scholars, but will also be interesting to read and useful for anyone who wants to know where to begin to learn more about this important composer.Film Music in the Sound Era: A Research and Information Guide offers a comprehensive bibliography of scholarship on music in…
sound film (1927–2017). Thematically organized sections cover historical studies, studies of musicians and filmmakers, genre studies, theory and aesthetics, and other key aspects of film music studies. Broad coverage of works from around the globe, paired with robust indexes and thorough cross-referencing, make this research guide an invaluable tool for all scholars and students investigating the intersection of music and film. This guide is published in two volumes: Volume 1: Histories, Theories, and Genres covers overviews, historical surveys, theory and criticism, studies of film genres, and case studies of individual films. Volume 2: People, Cultures, and Contexts covers individual people, social and cultural studies, studies of musical genre, pedagogy, and the Industry. A complete index is included in each volume.On Music (Thinking in Action)
By Theodore Gracyk. 2013
Opinionated and example-filled, this extremely concise and accessible book provides a survey of some fundamental and longstanding debates about the…
nature of music. The central arguments and ideas of historical and contemporary philosophers are presented with the goal of making them as accessible as possible to general readers who have no background in philosophy. The emphasis is on instrumental music, but examples are drawn from many cultures as well as from Western classical, jazz, folk, and popular music.Patterns of India: A Journey Through Colors, Textiles, and the Vibrancy of Rajasthan
By Christine Chitnis. 2020
It's the trip of a lifetime--a textile-based tour of colorful Rajasthan, India featuring more than 200 lush photographs depicting everyday…
life in one of the most vibrant regions in the world.Patterns of India is a visual experience that offers intimate insights into the diverse and richly hued Western Indian culture. Color is the thread that binds the vast country together, defining every aspect of life from religion and politics to food and dress. Organized by the five dominant colors royal blue, sandstone, marigold, ivory, and rose, this book explores how deeply color and pattern exist in a symbiotic relationship and are woven into every part of the culture. For instance, the fuchsia found in the draping fabric of a sari is matched by the vibrant chains of roses offered at temple, and the burnt orange spices in the marketplaces are reflected in the henna tattoos given to brides and wedding guests. While every color is imbued with meaning, it is often within the details of patterns that the full story comes to light. Photographer and writer Christine Chitnis spent over a decade traveling through, getting to know, and falling in love with the intricate patterns of everyday Rajasthani life. With history and culture-based essays woven throughout the more than 200 stunning photographs of architecture, markets, cuisine, art, textiles, and everyday goings-on, Patterns of India captures the beauty and essence of this unique part of the world.Mi amigo Michael: Una amistad normal con un hombre extraordinario
By Frank Cascio. 2011
Todo el mundo conoce a Michael Jackson como mito de la música. Ésta es la verdadera historia de su vida…
sólo como hombre. Para Frank Cascio Michael Jackson ha sido muchas cosas: su segundo padre, su hermano mayor, su jefe, su mentor, su profesor y, por encima de todo esto, su amigo. Cuando lo conoció, Michael Jackson estaba en la cima de su carrera musical. Él era apenas un niño, pero a partir de ese momento Michael Jackson pasó a ser el centro de su vida y así fue durante veinticinco años. Frank ha sido su confidente todo este tiempo. Jamás ha hablado de los incidentes y de los escándalos que salpicaron la vida del artista, nunca ha hecho pública su relación con Michael ni los secretos que le guardaba. Por primera vez desde la muerte del Rey del Pop rompe su silencio para que conozcamos de primera mano toda la verdad sobre Michael Jackson, un hombre eclipsado por su leyenda. En Mi amigo Michael Frank Cascio responde a los rumores, a las mentiras y a las acusaciones que se han vertido sobre Michael Jackson en los últimos tiempos y describe las peculiaridades de su estilo de vida, las polémicas sobre su sexualidad y nos ofrece un retrato minucioso de la complejidad de la personalidad del Rey del Pop, sus pasiones y sus excentricidades. Una mirada amable y sincera sobre un hombre extraordinario, una nueva forma de descubrir al mito. «Conocer a Michael fue una experiencia extraordinaria y normal a la vez. Desde el principio supe que era una persona especial, distinta, un visionario. Era mi amigo, mi familia».Frank CascioUrban Australia and Post-Punk: Exploring Dogs in Space
By David Nichols, Sophie Perillo. 2020
Richard Lowenstein’s 1986 masterpiece Dogs in Space was and remains controversial, divisive, compelling and inspirational. Made less than a decade…
after the events it is based on, using many of the people involved in those events as actors, the film explored Melbourne’s ‘postpunk’ counterculture of share houses, drugs and decadence. Amongst its ensemble cast was Michael Hutchence, one of the biggest music stars of the period, in his acting debut. This book is a collection of essays exploring the place, period and legacy of Dogs in Space, by people who were there or who have been affected by this remarkable film. The writers are musicians, actors and artists and also academics in heritage, history, urban planning, gender studies, geography, performance and music. This is an invaluable resource for anyone passionate about Australian film, society, culture, history, heritage, music and art.Rough Ideas: Reflections on Music and More
By Stephen Hough. 2019
A collection of essays on music and life by the famed classical pianist and composerStephen Hough is one of the…
world’s leading pianists, winning global acclaim and numerous awards, both for his concerts and his recordings. He is also a writer, composer, and painter, and has been described by The Economist as one of “Twenty Living Polymaths.”Hough writes informally and engagingly about music and the life of a musician, from the broader aspects of what it is to walk out onto a stage or to make a recording, to specialist tips from deep inside the practice room: how to trill, how to pedal, how to practice. He also writes vividly about people he’s known, places he’s traveled to, books he’s read, paintings he’s seen; and he touches on more controversial subjects, such as assisted suicide and abortion. Even religion is there—the possibility of the existence of God, problems with some biblical texts, and the challenges involved in being a gay Catholic.Rough Ideas is an illuminating, constantly surprising introduction to the life and mind of one of our great cultural figures.More Fun in the New World: The Unmaking and Legacy of L.A. Punk
By John Doe, Tom DeSavia. 2019
Sequel to Grammy-nominated bestseller Under the Big Black Sun, continuing the up-close and personal account of the L.A. punk scene,…
with 50 rare photosPicking up where Under the Big Black Sun left off, More Fun in the New World explores the years 1982 to 1987, covering the dizzying pinnacle of L.A.'s punk rock movement as its stars took to the national -- and often international -- stage. Detailing the eventual splintering of punk into various sub-genres, the second volume of John Doe and Tom DeSavia's west coast punk history portrays the rich cultural diversity of the movement and its characters, the legacy of the scene, how it affected other art forms, and ultimately influenced mainstream pop culture. The book also pays tribute to many of the fallen soldiers of punk rock, the pioneers who left the world much too early but whose influence hasn't faded.As with Under the Big Black Sun, the book features stories of triumph, failure, stardom, addiction, recovery, and loss as told by the people who were influential in the scene, with a cohesive narrative from authors Doe and DeSavia. Along with many returning voices, More Fun in the New World weaves in the perspectives of musicians Henry Rollins, Fishbone, Billy Zoom, Mike Ness, Jane Weidlin, Keith Morris, Dave Alvin, Louis Pérez, Charlotte Caffey, Peter Case, Chip Kinman, Maria McKee, and Jack Grisham, among others. And renowned artist/illustrator Shepard Fairey, filmmaker Allison Anders, actor Tim Robbins, and pro-skater Tony Hawk each contribute chapters on punk's indelible influence on the artistic spirit.In addition to stories of success, the book also offers a cautionary tale of an art movement that directly inspired commercially diverse acts such as Green Day, Rancid, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Wilco, and Neko Case. Readers will find themselves rooting for the purists of punk juxtaposed with the MTV-dominating rock superstars of the time who flaunted a "born to do this, it couldn't be easier" attitude that continued to fuel the flames of new music. More Fun in the New World follows the progression of the first decade of L.A. punk, its conclusion, and its cultural rebirth.Robotic Musicianship: Embodied Artificial Creativity and Mechatronic Musical Expression (Automation, Collaboration, & E-Services #8)
By Scott Driscoll, Gil Weinberg, Mason Bretan, Guy Hoffman. 2020
This book discusses the principles, methodologies, and challenges of robotic musicianship through an in-depth review of the work conducted at…
the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology (GTCMT), where the concept was first developed. Robotic musicianship is a relatively new research field that focuses on the design and development of intelligent music-making machines. The motivation behind the field is to develop robots that not only generate music, but also collaborate with humans by listening and responding in an expressive and creative manner. This combination of human and machine creativity has the potential to surprise and inspire us to play, listen, compose, and think about music in new ways. The book provides an in-depth view of the robotic platforms designed at the GTCMT Robotic Musicianship Group, including the improvisational robotic percussionists Haile and Shimon, the personal robotic companion Shimi, and a number of wearable robots, such as the Robotic Drumming Prosthesis, The Third Drumming Arm, and the Skywalker Piano Hand. The book discusses numerous research studies based on these platforms in the context of five main principles: Listen like a Human, Play Like a Machine, Be Social, Watch and Learn, and Wear It.This book provides insight into how flamenco travels, the forms it assumes in new locales, and the reciprocal effects on…
the original scene. Utilising a postnational approach to cultural identity, Martin explores the role of non-native culture brokers in cultural transmission. This concept, referred to as ‘cosmopolitan human hubs’, builds on Kiwan and Meinhof’s ‘hubs’ theory of network migration to move cultural migration and globalisation studies forwards. Martin outlines a post-globalisation flamenco culture through analysis of ethnographic research carried out in the UK, Sevilla and Madrid. Insight into these glocal scenes characterises flamenco as a historically globalized art complex, represented in various hubs around the world. This alternative approach to music migration and globalisation studies will be of interest to students and scholars across leisure studies, musicology, sociology and anthropology.Stories Behind the World's Great Music
By Sigmund Spaeth. 2020
In Stories Behind the World's Great Music, second edition published in 1940, renowned musical author Sigmund Spaeth recounts the many…
and varied exploits of the great compsers and musicians from Bach to Tchaikowsky, Schubert to Brahms.Speaking of Pianists (Quality Paperbacks Ser.)
By Abram Chasins. 1981
The pianist, composer, music director of WOXR, contributor to the Saturday Review collects his reminiscences- and reactions stimulated by piano…
playing and piano music. So that his clavichord is well-tempered not only by his knowledge and feeling for its music, but also by his own association with many performers. He re-establishes Josef Hofmann as a great pianist and a greatly loved teacher; Rachmaninoff, the communicable and sumptuous melodist; Schnabel and Godowsky; the courtly Paderewski and the ebullient Rubinstein; Wanda Landowski and Backhaus, Gieseking and Serkin, Casadesus and Horowitz are all in this gallery of greats. He writes also of interpretation and teaching, of the ruthless stranglehold of concert management, of hi fidelity and its ""high fatality"" to the quality of recorded performances, and there is a substantial section of commentaries on particular works and composers- chiefly classical... Informed, but informally presented music appreciation which the general listener will enjoy- along with the contact with many concert pianists and the anecdotal asides (Kirkus Review)¿De qué me suena eso?: Paseo informal por la música clásica
By Máximo Pradera. 2005
Después de leer este libro, ninguna MNI (Melodía No Identificada) volverá a torturarte de nuevo, obligándote a que te preguntes…
una y otra vez, sin éxito: ¿de qué me suena eso? ¿Cuántas veces habremos exclamado, al escuchar una melodía en el tono de un móvil o en la música de espera de una centralita: «¿de qué me suena eso?». Este libro pretende acercar al lector, en un tono informal aunque no exento de rigor musical, esas piezas de música clásica que hemos oído decenas de veces en el cine, en la publicidad o incluso en el ascensor de una oficina y que no sabemos identificar con precisión. Por ejemplo, ¿sabe el lector que una de las sintonías de moda en los modernos móviles polifónicos no es otra que EI acuario de EI carnaval de los animales de Camille Saint Saëns, y que esta pieza fue empleada a su vez en la célebre película Días del cielo? El libro está dividido en cuatro partes. Las tres primerasestán dedicadas a glosar la vida y milagros de lo que se considera La Santísima Trinidad de la música clásica: Bach, Mozart, Beethoven. La última parte es un divertido análisis de las piezas de música clásica más empleadas en el séptimo arte.Messi: A Biography (Vintage Espanol Ser.)
By Leonardo Faccio. 2012
Un perfil fascinant, en tres temps, del futbolista més famós del món. Per Leonardo Faccio. Lionel Messi ha batut tots…
els rècords del futbol i s'ha instal·lat al panteó reservat a les grans estrelles: Pelé, Di Stéfano, Cruyff i Maradona. Des que va aterrar a l'esfera futbolística l'any 2007, l'argentí Leo Messi s'ha convertit en el rei de la pilota, i ho ha guanyat tot excepte el mundial. Una estrella d'aquestes dimensions es mereix més que l'habitual hagiografia o un pamflet morbós. En la millor tradició del periodisme narratiu, el que neix amb Gay Talese, Tom Wolfe o Norman Mailer, Leonardo Faccio ha dibuixat un perfil fascinant en tres temps del futbolista més famós del món, que amb només vint-i-quatre anys ha batut tots els rècords. Un noi tímid, petit i d'aparença fràgil, que s'ha convertit en la joia més valuosa de l'espectacle més gran del món. Passin i llegeixin! Ressenyes:«Amb Messi en marxa, la canxa no és un camp de batalla, sinó una geografia d'unitats d'emoció.»Manuel Rivas «Algun dia els hi explicaré als meus nets que jo vaig entrenar al Leo.»Josep Guardiola «Messi segueix jugant per aconseguir la bicicleta.»Juan Villoro «Sóc a la historia. Jo vaig contractar Messi.»Carlos Reixach «És una carícia més que em va fer l'Argentina.»Joan Manuel Serrat