Music-Philosophy & Social Aspects

Jude Green's fictional story is based around the real life music and events of the 1960's, 70's and 80's!Her story will bring back nostalgic memories for the reader as they journey through a life that could mirror that of the readers.Is Jude the victim,...

In Music at the Margins of Sense, Jessica A. Holmes contests prevailing misconceptions associated with deafness and hearing in Western music by turning to the musical experiences of deaf, hard of hearing, and hearing disabled musicians in order to impart a multisensory, multimodal conception...

Transatlantic Malagueñas and Zapateados is an exploration of two fandango dances, recording the circulations of people, imagery, music, and dance across what were once the Spanish and Portuguese Empires. Although these dance-musics seem to be mirror images, the unbreachable space between them reflects the...

Music narrates personal, communal and national experiences. It is a rich repository of a people's deepest fears, hopes, and achievements, especially as it communicates spirituality, economic, and political realities. This volume examines the multiple roles of music in Zimbabwe, showing how Zimbabwean music has...

Recent years have witnessed a true technological revolution with a global impact upon all areas of society, from entertainment to education. Technology, changing and evolving at increasing speed, undoubtedly shapes ways of seeing the world, something which requires profound reflection in terms of how...

From the author who proved our intentions shape our reality, an awe-inspiring scientific detective story revealing the mysteries of sound--impacting everything within and around us, from our cells and brains to other living things, our relationships and even the cosmos.Specific sounds create major effects...

Before salsa had a name, it had a heartbeat.That heartbeat began in Africa.Carried across the Atlantic, transformed in Cuba, and reinvented in New York, it became the global phenomenon called SALSA.SALSA: The Unstoppable Rhythm That Conquered the World traces this extraordinary journey from Ouidah...

"Music is life. Music is a reflection of who we are as humans." -Susan Graham, renowned American mezzo-sopranoIn revealing and genuine interviews, Larry Ruttman converses with world-renowned musicians of the 21st century and engages them in an approachable manner. Dive into the recesses of...

Why does some music reach us-and other music leave us cold?Technical ability matters. But it is not the whole of musicianship.The Hidden Shape of Music introduces a theoretical model built from three interacting dimensions: tonal, performative, and expressive capacity. Drawing on music history, listening...

What if one backyard party could map the beating heart of Rock 'n' Roll-and the history of peace and love it powered? KYANA WOODSTOCK: One More Day of Peace and Music is a memoir that turns a generation's soundtrack into a lived practice.We inherit...

"Music in the Disruptive Era" contains fifteen essays assessing the impact of today's revolutionary digital technologies on the ways audiences and industry professionals perceive, compose, consume, research, and communicate about music. After an initial assessment of "the Disruptive Era" in a series of six...

The island is a powerful metaphor in everyday speech which extends almost naturally into several academic disciplines, including musicology. Islands are imagined as isolated and unique places where strange, exotic, different and unexpected treasures can be found by daring adventurers. The magic inherent within...

Why do we have music? Why do we love music, and have such a deep, human need for it? It is just vibrating air, yet it is at the heart of so many of our rituals; weddings, funerals, parties and all kinds of gatherings....

The Welcoming Tradition is the first monograph dedicated to Basque ballads. Written by the exceptional and brilliant musician Alan Griffin, whose performances and recordings resurrected and re-popularized the form, this book's detailed analyses of the traditional form argue for the uniqueness of Basque ballads...

How does music work? Indeed, what is (or isn't) music? We are all instinctively musical, but why? Adam Ockelford has the answers. A tap of the foot, a rush of emotion, the urge to hum a tune; without instruction or training we all respond...

An exploration of the much-derided English suburbs through rap music. There are many different Englands. From the much-romanticized rolling countryside, to the cosmopolitanism of the inner cities (embraced by some as progressive, multicultural enlightenment and derided by others as the playground of a self-righteous...

The Music Major MythWhat Students Think, What Actually Happens, and How to Succeed When It CountsWhat does it really mean to major in music?For many high school students, the decision feels natural. You've spent years in rehearsals, performances, and lessons. You've been told you're...

What song takes you back-instantly-to another time, another place, another version of yourself? In Part I of this collection of stories, you'll heard dozens of individuals share their unique connection to music.What music memories have left a lasting memory for you? A famous concert,...

'80s British alternative band, The Redskins, are a case study for examining the relationship between music, politics and revolution and the development of a contra-culture.In Marxism in Music: Constructing a Communist Contra-Culture with The Redskins, Rock'n'roll and Revolution, Gregor Gall examines how The Redskins,...

An interdisciplinary history of auditory attention that demonstrates the central role of audition in shaping our conceptions of focus and distraction Over the past decade, attention and its perceived opposite, distraction, have become sites of sustained anxiety and debate. Questions around attentive economies, histories,...

The relationship between popular music and consumer brands has never been so cosy. Product placement abounds in music videos, popular music provides the soundtrack to countless commercials, social media platforms offer musicians tools for perpetual promotion, and corporate-sponsored competitions lure aspiring musicians to vie...

In a world facing multiple existential crises, music might be seen as little more than a distraction. However, in this synthesis of ideas developed over a decade, a timely re-appraisal of the potential of musicing for human flourishing is presented, emphasising its role in...

The first book to consider the shellac disc as a global format. With the rise of the gramophone around 1900, the shellac disc traveled the world and eventually became the dominant sound format in the first half of the twentieth century. Format Friction brings...

Every musician has sinned. The guitarist who wouldn't stop soloing. The drummer who sped up. The bassist who would not, could not, let the song end.This is the kind of conduct the Bass Code was written to prevent.For centuries, the Code governed the discipline...

How can we make sense of Bob Dylan and his songs? Looking back on his long career, we can trace multiple styles, a variety of songs, and many musical forms. We can trace a life in which numerous friends and musical collaborators have contributed...

What song takes you back-instantly-to another time, another place, another version of yourself? In Part I of this collection of stories, you'll heard dozens of individuals share their unique connection to music.In Music We Heard Along the Way, Eric Gray-author of the baseball memoir...

A rich, interdisciplinary exploration of music through Japanese aesthetics that calls for a new way to think about nature and the role of silence. The art, aesthetics, and philosophies of medieval Japan and its contemporary Kyoto School lie at the centre of this book....

A rich, interdisciplinary exploration of music through Japanese aesthetics that calls for a new way to think about nature and the role of silence. The art, aesthetics, and philosophies of medieval Japan and its contemporary Kyoto School lie at the centre of this book....

This book examines the collection and curation of music, and the way digital streaming services are transforming the way we engage with the media. The study foregrounds personal digital curation techniques, rather than algorithms or technology, to acknowledge the sustaining human agency involved in...

Examines Morrissey's cultural significance and controversies, offering the first sustained, balanced academic analysis of his 'cancellation' and its legal, ethical and cultural implications. Love him or hate him, Morrissey has been a significant figure in popular culture for more than 40 years, and his...

From Silence to Sound is a transformative guide that explores the creative, emotional, and philosophical dimensions of music production.Written by award-winning producer and composer Thomas Lemmer, the book invites readers to move beyond technical manuals and into the heart of artistic expression. It is...

Cavalry Trumpeters and Kettledrummers is the first history of how horse-mounted musicians shaped military ceremony, communication, and culture from the Middle Ages into the 20th century.Blending musicology, military history, and cultural studies, author Bruce P. Gleason draws on archival sources, art, and military records...

In an era of ecological crisis and digital fatigue, Material Sound examines how contemporary artists are returning to the physical origins of sound. Moving beyond John Cage's influential focus on "sound-as-sound," this study explores how installation and media artists reveal the material realities hidden...

THIS TEXT IS NOT DESIGNED as a linear biography, nor is it a simple collection of verse. It is a hybrid engine-a mecha-nism constructed to navigate the liminal space between histori-cal fact and mythic resonance.The architecture of this work relies on a deliberate collision...

This is a book about music, more specifically about the experience of music. It is about the physical experience of expressing sounds through an instrument, the cognitive experience of reading a written score as opposed to playing by ear, and also about the more...

This book explores the role that benefit concerts, tours, and recordings have and have had in mobilizing popular music and musicians to raise money or awareness to combat social problems, both human and natural. Fund raising rock concerts have been a major feature of...

It's not just a phase.... The rise of interest in heavy metal academically reflects the growth of the genre as a normal or contested part of everyday lives around the globe. Heavy metal has evolved to be seen as a cultural product and with...

Nearly all of these poems were written in2020, the year in which covid-19 moved from China, to Europe, to the United States-an amazing series ofmovements that changed our lives. Infections. Deaths.Face masks, distancing, personal isolation. Racialprotests. Civic chaos. Global instability.The burdens were great, and...

Settling the Pop Score contributes to a growing number of studies that address the interpretation of popular music within the framework of musicology. Suggesting various approaches for the musicological analysis of pop artists and their music, Stan Hawkins explores how pop music functions within...

In the context of a shifting domestic and international status quo that was evolving in the decades following World War II, French audiences used jazz as a means of negotiating a wide range of issues that were pressing to them and to their fellow...

Music and noise seem to be mutually exclusive. Music is generally considered as an ordered arrangement of sounds pleasing to the ear and noise as its opposite: chaotic, ugly, aggressive, sometimes even deafening. When presented in a musical context, noise can thus act as...

Gray's prophetic work explores the marriage of music and technology, and envisions a future where the two are indistinguishable. A fascinating and thought-provoking read for anyone interested in the intersection of art and science.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important,...

An accessible history of music technology from the earliest days to the present.Over forty thousand years ago, humans fashioned flutes from bone. Ever since, music-making has continued to be motivated and shaped by technological innovations. The first book to offer a history of western...

A practical system shaped through an audit of lived experience.A field manual for musicians and other independent artists, writers, or creators of all stripes, looking for clarity, discipline, and momentum instead of stagnation.A toolkit to overcome resistance, avoid distraction, and end procrastination.Curse Mackey calls...

What if we listened to each other and the world around us with the same care and attention we bring to music? What if this listening practice is key to human flourishing? Julian Johnson draws on a remarkable convergence of research from multiple disciplines...

"Three Classics in the Aesthetic of Music" brings together the visionary thoughts of three revolutionary composers who reshaped the landscape of modern sound: Claude Debussy, Ferruccio Busoni, and Charles E. Ives. This collection serves as a vital exploration of the intellectual and spiritual foundations...

You are the audienceYou are the one who is out listening and clapping.You are there with the stamp on your hand to prove that you can drink.You are the one who knows the music.The most important part of seeing a performance, having an audience.And...

The Law of Attraction has fascinated people and changed lives for centuries by combining ideas from philosophy, psychology, and spirituality. To fully understand it, we need to explore its origins and how it developed over time. The idea can be traced back to ancient...

Music helps us, heals, and acts as our daily companion. This book explores how music works and, through many real-life experiences, explains how music helps people navigate through life. It also explains how you can use your superpower - the power we all have,...

Discover the stories behind the songs, the artists and the movements that have inspired generations. Sometimes, we are just waiting for a spark. From Billie Holiday to Bruce Springsteen, Bob Marley, John Lennon or Lady Gaga, from "Bella Ciao" to "Alright" spanning more than...