Music

Popular Musicology and Identity paves new paths for studying popular music's entwinement with gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class, locality, and a range of other factors.

When it was originally published in 1967, this study of J.

The apostle Paul's theology of glory has its foundations in the biblical drama of creation, fall, redemption, and consummation, and in the identity of Jesus as revealed in his teachings, life, death, and resurrection.

Creation conjures emotion and thereby shapes how we think and act.

What people ultimately want from opera, audience research suggests, is to be absorbed in a story that engages their feelings, even moves them deeply, and that may lead them to insights about life and, perhaps, themselves.

Wie lernte Bach komponieren und improvisieren, und wie gab er sein Wissen und Können unterrichtend weiter?

Two common questions generally rise to the surface for those seeking healing: Is it God's will to heal?

A composer and lyricist of enormous innovation and influence, Marc Blitzstein remains one of the most versatile and fascinating figures in the history of American music, his creative output running the gamut from films scores and Broadway operas to art songs and chamber pieces.

Das Wiener Kärntnertortheater war in der ersten Hälfte des 18.

With its appeal predicated upon what civilized society rejects, there has always been something hidden in plain sight when it comes to the outlaw figure as cultural myth.

Classical music was never meant to be an art for snobs!

Exploring Peru's lively music industry and the studio producers, radio DJs, and program directors that drive it, Gentleman Troubadours and Andean Pop Stars is a fascinating account of the deliberate development of artistic taste.

Sarah Caldwell, the leader of the Opera Company of Boston from 1958-1990, was a groundbreaking and idiosyncratic woman who established her own career as a conductor and stage director in an environment resistant to change.

In the tumultuous decade following World War II, the civil rights movement began transforming Black lives and American society.

For readers of Mozart in the Jungle and Year of Wonder, a new history of and guide to classical music.

This book uses intermedial theories to study collage and montage, tracing the transformation of visual collage into photomontage in the early avant-garde period.

Taking seriously the practice and not just the theory of music, this ground-breaking collection of essays establishes a new standard for the interdisciplinary conversation between theology, musicology, and liturgical studies.

The Ramayana, one of the two pre-eminent Hindu epics, has played a foundational role in many aspects of India's arts and social norms.

There can be little doubt that opera and emotion are inextricably linked.

As a young man, American Louis Sarno heard a song on the radio that gripped his imagination.

When Lady in the Dark opened on January 23, 1941, its many firsts immediately distinguished it as a new and unusual work.

Hawaiian Music in Motion explores the performance, reception, transmission, and adaptation of Hawaiian music on board ships and in the islands, revealing the ways both maritime commerce and imperial confrontation facilitated the circulation of popular music in the nineteenth century.

Richard Wagner (1813-1883) aimed to be more than just a composer.

UPDATED 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITIONOffering an intimate and indispensable window onto the gifted and impassioned, yet vulnerable and uncertain human behind the hip-hop legend of Tupac Shakur, this collection of original poems, letters, and conversations from his time spent incarcerated in 1995 reveals the artist and activist as never seen before.

This collection considers music within the spheres of production and consumption and pulls together an interdisciplinary collection of music studies from around the world, ranging from an ethnomusicological analysis of the condition of Tibetan music and its role within the Chinese state, the changing reception of anti-apartheid music by white musicians in South Africa according to new configurations of society and its memory of recent history, a lyrical exploration of jazz as a signifier of crime and other nefarious activities within film history, an analysis of how music charts and maps the social network and gender roles in Jamaica and a landmark commentary on how music is framed by David Hemsondalgh.

The composer's diaries, translated for the first time, with commentary on his distinctive musical aesthetics and his relationship to artistic cross-currents in Czechoslovakia, France, and America.

Neue Technologien werden in der Regel von außerhalb in die Musikindustrie überführt und verändern die Art des Wirtschaftens radikal.

From the Foreword by Renee Fleming: "e;Kathryn LaBouff has developed an approach to singing in the English language which is wonderfully user-friendly, and which has surely saved much wear and tear on my voice.

John Antill (1904-1986) was one of the foremost composers of Australia's post-colonial period.

Featuring a foreword by Tricia Rose and an Afterword by Cathy J.

In Feenin, Alexander Ghedi Weheliye traces R&B music's continuing centrality in Black life since the late 1970s.

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We once believed that as a majority culture in North America everyone knew all there was to know about a church and its surroundings.

Music in the Role-Playing Game: Heroes & Harmonies offers the first scholarly approach focusing on music in the broad class of video games known as role-playing games, or RPGs.

This book explores why widespread predictions of the radical transformation in the recording industry did not materialise.

The Times Do Not Permit is the first extended overview of the life, times, and music of Michael Mosoeu Moerane (1904-1980), a composer brought up in rural South Africa in the early twentieth century.

From the author of The History of Rock ’n’ Roll in Ten Songs comes his “Basement Tapes”: the complete “Real Life Rock Top 10” columns For nearly thirty years, Greil Marcus has written a remarkable column called “Real Life Rock Top Ten.

In the 1960s and 1970s, a number of British musicians rediscovered traditional folk ballads, fusing the old melodies with rock, jazz, and blues styles to create a new genre dubbed "e;electric folk"e; or "e;British folk rock.

Myth pervades heavy metal.

This book visualises key moments in history where ordinary people have risen up and fought governments, corporations, even empires.

In The Gaithers and Southern Gospel, Ryan P.

This volume gathers together a cross-section of essays and book chapters dealing with the ways in which musicians and their music have been pressed into the service of political, nationalist and racial ideologies.

This book provides a true A to Z of recorded sound, from its inception to the present day, outlining how technologies, techniques, and social attitudes have changed things, noting what is good and what is less good.

The musical tradition of Ma'luf is believed to have come to North Africa with Muslim and Jewish refugees escaping the Christian reconquista of Spain between the tenth and seventeenth centuries.

Ludwig van Beethoven wies einmal einen Musikerkollegen zurecht: "Glaubt er, dass ich an eine elende Geige denke, wenn der Geist zu mir spricht und ich es aufschreibe?

Malte Burbas Brass Master Class (ED 8335) ist seit vielen Jahren ein Standardwerk für die technische und musikalische Ausbildung von Blechbläsern.