This book will provide an exploration of how popular songs have been analysed in the past, before detailing how an interdisciplinary approach is necessary to appreciate the multimodal format of the medium.
Folk Songs Hawaii Sings is a sparkling compilation of melodies from the islands of Polynesia together with a variety of folk songs that countless Asian people have brought with them to their new home in the Hawaiian Islands.
This book presents an introduction to more than a dozen different types of Balinese gamelan, each with its own established tradition, repertoire and social or religious context.
El presente libro contribuye a estrechar los lazos regionales en torno a la musica del Caribe, desde disciplinas como la etnomusicologia, la historia cultural y los estudios regionales.
Les chansons, liées au cinéma depuis ses origines, ont acquis une force nouvelle et singulière tant dans les productions commerciales que dans les films d’auteur récents, notamment en Europe et en Amérique latine.
This book presents an introduction to more than a dozen different types of Balinese gamelan, each with its own established tradition, repertoire and social or religious context.
Folk Songs Hawaii Sings is a sparkling compilation of melodies from the islands of Polynesia together with a variety of folk songs that countless Asian people have brought with them to their new home in the Hawaiian Islands.
For over sixty years, American guitarist John Fahey (19392001) has been a storied figure, first within the folk and blues revival of the long 1960s, later for fans of alternative music.
Mamie Smith’s pathbreaking 1920 recording of “Crazy Blues” set the pop music world on fire, inaugurating a new African American market for “race records.
For over sixty years, American guitarist John Fahey (19392001) has been a storied figure, first within the folk and blues revival of the long 1960s, later for fans of alternative music.
Mamie Smith’s pathbreaking 1920 recording of “Crazy Blues” set the pop music world on fire, inaugurating a new African American market for “race records.
This book describes a colorful period in French social and cultural history, during which music and science combined to provide the intellectual and aesthetic spirit of the Age of Enlightenment with an enormous vitality.
In a comprehensive work with important implications for tuning theory and musicology, Easley Blackwood, a distinguished-composer, establishes a mathematical basis for the family of diatonic tunings generated by combinations of perfect fifths and octaves.
The roots and evolution of two concepts usually thought to be Western in origin-musica mundana (the music of the spheres) and musica humana (music's relation to the human soul)-are explored.
A Rolling Stone Best Music Book of the Year, this is an electrifying, superb (The Atlantic), and entirely fresh (Rolling Stone) journey through the history of rock and roll, told through the lives of fifteen iconic drummers and their percussion rivalsfrom John Bonham and Charlie Watts to Ringo Starr and Questlove.
Bringing concepts from early film theory into dialogue with the vibrant field of contemporary sound studies, Wild Sound turns an analytic eye and ear to the role of the soundscape in cinema, particularly the way that film soundtracks capture, create, represent, and even critique our sonic environment.
For over sixty years, American guitarist John Fahey (19392001) has been a storied figure, first within the folk and blues revival of the long 1960s, later for fans of alternative music.
This vibrant book pulses with the beats of a new American South, probing the ways music, literature, and film have remixed southern identities for a postcivil rights generation.
In this deep dive into the Jamaican music world filled with the voices of creators, producers, and consumers, Larisa Kingston MannDJ, media law expert, and ethnographeridentifies how a culture of collaboration lies at the heart of Jamaican creative practices and legal personhood.
From the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, a steady stream of Scots migrated to Ulster and eventually onward across the Atlantic to resettle in the United States.
Politics of Feminist New Materialisms at Music Playschools: Musicking in the Middle examines how feminist new materialist politics unfold within diverse music playschool practices in Finland.
Mamie Smith’s pathbreaking 1920 recording of “Crazy Blues” set the pop music world on fire, inaugurating a new African American market for “race records.
Adolescence, Identity, and the Politics of Recognition in the Social Media Era explores the political identity formation of adolescents online, with a focus on recognition theory, affect, and lived experiences of belonging and non-belonging.
Hungarian composer Bela Bartok declared his Cantata profana, composed in 1930 and premiered in London in 1934, his "e;credo,"e; the composition of which was inseparable from the history of his involvement with folklore.
Scholarship on the musical traditions of Indonesia has long focused on practices from Java and Bali, including famed gamelan traditions, at the expense of the wide diversity of other musical forms within the archipelago.
In this deep dive into the Jamaican music world filled with the voices of creators, producers, and consumers, Larisa Kingston MannDJ, media law expert, and ethnographeridentifies how a culture of collaboration lies at the heart of Jamaican creative practices and legal personhood.
This vibrant book pulses with the beats of a new American South, probing the ways music, literature, and film have remixed southern identities for a postcivil rights generation.
From the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, a steady stream of Scots migrated to Ulster and eventually onward across the Atlantic to resettle in the United States.
Hungarian composer Bela Bartok declared his Cantata profana, composed in 1930 and premiered in London in 1934, his "e;credo,"e; the composition of which was inseparable from the history of his involvement with folklore.
