Using landscape as its unifying concept, this engaging book explores orchestral music that represents real and imagined physical and cultural spaces, natural forces, and humans and wildlife.
On the basis of a body of reggae songs from the 1970s and late 1990s, this book offers a sociological analysis of memory, hope and redemption in reggae music.
Der Band versammelt kultur- und musikanalytische Studien über Werke und Werkgruppen aus allen Phasen des Schaffens von Toru Takemitsu und wendet sich insbesondere den spannungsvollen Verwerfungen zu, aus denen Takemitsus Komponieren im Kontext einer Moderne mit globalem ästhetischen Anspruch hervorgeht.
Steve Larson drew on his 20 years of research in music theory, cognitive linguistics, experimental psychology, and artificial intelligence-as well as his skill as a jazz pianist-to show how the experience of physical motion can shape one's musical experience.
Although Sumatra is the sixth largest island in the world and home to an estimated 44 million Indonesians, its musical arts and cultures have not been the subject of a book-length study until now.
This multilayered study of the representation of black masculinity in musical and cultural performance takes aim at the reduction of African American male culture to stereotypes of deviance, misogyny, and excess.
The Routledge Handbook to Metal Music Composition: Evolution of Structure, Expression, and Production examines metal music composition as a distinct practice that combines a complex array of formal musical, expressive, and technological elements.
This book discusses microtonal tunings in the Arabic maqam, prevalent in the Middle East and Central Asia, which employs microtonal intervals from Pythagorean tuning by perfect fifths.
Strengthen your faith with a daily dose of truth, morality, and biblical wisdom from A&E Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson in this 100-day devotional.
Neue Wege für eine kreative MusikpädagogikMusik ist weit mehr als ein Schulfach – sie ist ein kreativer Prozess, in dem Zeit und Innovation miteinander verschmelzen.
The Routledge Companion to Teaching Music Composition in Schools: International Perspectives offers a comprehensive overview of teaching composing from a wide range of countries around the world.
Commonly known as the "e;Arnolfini Wedding"e; or "e;Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride,"e; Jan van Eyck's double portrait, painted in 1434, is probably the most widely recognized panel painting of the fifteenth century.
Engaging Cultural Ideologies offers a recontextualization of the effects of Poland's cultural practices, especially those concerning issues such as nationalism, elitism, and race, on the genesis and performance of contemporary Polish compositions from 1918 to 1956.
Engaging Cultural Ideologies offers a recontextualization of the effects of Poland's cultural practices, especially those concerning issues such as nationalism, elitism, and race, on the genesis and performance of contemporary Polish compositions from 1918 to 1956.
Contra la idea de que la globalización conduce a una cultura homogénea, bajo la batuta estandarizadora de los Estados Unidos, Néstor García Canclini dijo alguna vez que "hay muchas más oportunidades en nuestro futuro que optar entre McDonald's y Macondo".
Global Popular Music: A Research and Information Guide offers an essential annotated bibliography of scholarship on popular music around the world in a two-volume set.
Down On The Corner is the story of music performed on the streets, in subways, in parks, in schoolyards, on the back of flatbed trucks, and beyond, from the 1920s to the present day.
This book outlines how the protagonists in The Nibelung's Ring, The Lord of the Rings, and Game of Thrones attempt to construct identities and expand their consciousness manifestations.
This book, The Kyoto Post-COVID Manifesto for Global Economics (KM-PC), is a sequel to our 2018 book, The Kyoto Manifesto for Global Economics (KM-I, 2018).
This book, The Kyoto Post-COVID Manifesto for Global Economics (KM-PC), is a sequel to our 2018 book, The Kyoto Manifesto for Global Economics (KM-I, 2018).
This book opens with the emergence and development of the discipline of aesthetics in western countries, specifically the history of Western Music Aesthetics, to study and delve into the development of Chinese Music Aesthetics.
La obra realiza un análisis diacrónico de los sustratos que contribuyeron a la formación del vallenato, para tratar de establecer cómo fue afectado por múltiples procesos de hibridación y mestizaje cultural a través del tiempo.
"Este libro se plantea como un viaje para visitar distintas evoluciones que ha tenido la forma de crear, interpretar y escuchar música en Occidente, en especial, cuando el acento creativo se ha puesto en la relación de la escucha con el espacio.
The second edition of The Oxford Handbook of Music Psychology updates the original landmark text and provides a comprehensive review of the latest developments in this fast-growing area of research.
