Music-Philosophy & Social Aspects

Music is what makes us alive, mindful and connected to each other. Music is what makes us human. This is the power of music. Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason knows and feels the transformative power of music as much as any musician alive. From winning the...

A beautifully illustrated exploration of the strangest areas of music from around the world, from the author of the critically acclaimed bestsellers The Phantom Atlas, The Madman's Library, and The Devil's Atlas. Join author Edward Brooke-Hitching on a backstage tour of the most surprising...

In the music classroom, instructors who hope to receive aid are required to provide data on their classroom programs. Due to the lack of reliable, valid large-scale assessments of student achievement in music, however, music educators in schools that accept funds face a considerable...

Through archival material, experience the 140BPM beating heartbeat of grime as told by a pioneer of the scene - not just as a music genre, but as a living, breathing culture that continues to thrive, inspire, and boldly challenge the status quo. 'There are...

OVER THE LAST SEVEN DECADES, some of rock 'n' roll's most celebrated musicians have flirted with the imagery and theater of the Third Reich. From Keith Moon and Vivian Stanshall donning Nazi uniforms and terrorizing Jewish neighborhoods to Siouxsie Sioux and Sid Vicious brandishing...

Sounds in Translation: Intersections of music, technology and society joins a growing number of publications taking up R. Murray Schafer's challenge to examine and to re-focus attention on the sound dimensions of our human environment. This book takes up his challenge to contemporary audiologists,...

Ferruccio Busoni's "Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music" remains a foundational text for anyone interested in the philosophy and aesthetics of music. This thought-provoking work delves into the core principles of musical form, harmony, and counterpoint, offering a compelling vision for the future...

This book offers a series of thought-provoking essays about music and the performing arts viewed from current Anthropocene-aware perspectives. It will be of great interest to students and scholars in the humanities and social sciences, as well as a broader readership involved in art...

In 2005, Tony Perman attended a ceremony alongside the living and the dead. His visit to a Zimbabwe farm brought him into contact with the madhlozi, outsider spirits that Ndau people rely upon for guidance, protection, and their collective prosperity. Perman's encounters with the...

A GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, PITCHFORK, NPR, METRO AND HERALD SCOTLAND BEST MUSIC BOOK OF 2018 'The definitive grime biography' NME 'A landmark genre history' Pitchfork The year 2000. As Britain celebrates the new millennium, something is stirring in the crumbling council estates of inner-city London....

Forced migration has led to the creation of unique spaces within varying contexts where music is made, shared, and experienced. Music Refuge charts over eight years of research to uncover the musical lives of those seeking asylum and refuge in 'host' countries. This book...

The book considers record collecting and vinyl consumption in the 21st century and in the context of the vinyl revival. The book highlights gender, and how gender disparity is expressed in vinyl communities.Author: Veronica SkrimsjöISBN-10: 1032510463ISBN-13: 9781032510460Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/08/2025Pages: 136Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 9.21h...

Growing sales numbers for cassette tapes in the Global North since the early 2010s have led mass media outlets to repeatedly proclaim a tape revival. Yet, the grassroots projects of devotees in niche punk, noise and hip-hop DIY music scenes have continuously upheld the...

The Oxford Handbook of Feminism and Music Education brings together a wide range of international scholars, practicing music teachers and educators, policymakers, and community musicians to conceptualize, analyze, and critique the personal, social, cultural, political, ethical, and therapeutic practices and problems in music education...

Under the Table and Screaming is a multi-volume series exploring the history and legacy of the local music scene in Charlottesville, VA. From literally underground shows in DIY basements, to the racially suppressed hip-hop scene, to thriving roots music on woodsy back porches, to...

The Routledge Handbook of Music and Migration: Theories and Methodologies is a progressive, transdisciplinary paradigm-shifting core text for music and migration studies. It foregrounds the mobile potentials of music and presents key arguments about why musical expressions matter in the discussion of migration politics....

This volume examines the ontology of music groups. It connects two fascinating areas of philosophical research: the ontology of social groups and the philosophy of music.Author: Ludger JansenISBN-10: 1032593148ISBN-13: 9781032593142Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/28/2024Pages: 284Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.24lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d

For aspiring and seasoned music producers alike, the lack of transparency in the industry can lead to confusion, costly mistakes, and missed opportunities. Without a clear set of guidelines, many talented producers stumble not because of a lack of ability but because they simply...

Under the Table and Screaming is a multi-volume series exploring the history and legacy of the local music scene in Charlottesville, VA. From literally underground shows in DIY basements to the racially suppressed hip-hop scene to thriving roots music on woodsy back porches to...

Aesthetic Noise: The Philosophy of Intentional Listening considers the complex nature of noise within the framework of philosophical filtering, examining how, if noise is engaged with aesthetically, it can produce profound experiences and understandings.Author: Mary G. MazurekISBN-10: 103259795XISBN-13: 9781032597959Publisher: Focal PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/03/2025Pages: 222Format:...

This book provides a broad introduction to the scientific and psychological study of music, exploring how music is processed by our brains, affects us emotionally, shapes our personal and cultural identities, and can be used in therapeutic and educational contexts. Why are some people...

The Beatles and Black Music discusses the influence that Black music and culture has had over the Beatles throughout their collective and solo careers. Tracing the history of Black musical and cultural influence on popular music from the Transatlantic Slave Trade in 1795 to...

The Savvy Musician 2.0 guides musicians to build careers, lead organizations, found ventures, strengthen viability, and make a difference. Industry challenges are highlighted, but not dwelled upon. Instead, these pages burst with flexible, actionable success strategies that address a comprehensive collection of issues for...

Stories about new musical instruments are often told as quests for new kinds of sounds. The Composer's Black Box asks, What happens when new musical instruments produce not only new sounds but also new dynamics of musical agency and control? And what consequences do...

Musicians have access to an ever-growing array of technological tools, creating a world rich with new artistic possibilities. Yet the incursion of automation technology into creative pursuits has long sparked panic about the threat to human creativity and authenticity. Relating a 120-year history of...

Musicians have access to an ever-growing array of technological tools, creating a world rich with new artistic possibilities. Yet the incursion of automation technology into creative pursuits has long sparked panic about the threat to human creativity and authenticity. Relating a 120-year history of...

Author: Paul LauzonISBN-10: 1988299578ISBN-13: 9781988299570Publisher: Chapel Street EditionsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/20/2025Pages: 164Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d

Noise has become a model of cultural and theoretical thinking over the last two decades. Following Hegarty's influential 2007 book, Noise/Music, Annihilating Noise discusses in sixteen essays how noise offers a way of thinking about critical resistance, disruptive creativity and a complex yet enticing...

Discover a game-changing resource for indie musicians - "A Fair Record Label Contract for Independent Musicians." Unveil the secrets of a fair contract tailored for sync licensing, offering insights into the music industry's inner workings. Authored by Matti Charlton, this guide empowers musicians with...

"Robertson offers the whole picture, warts and all. In doing so, he honors the music of artists who have enriched his life--and opens the door for his readers to experience the same magic."--Blues Blast MagazineDust: More Lives of the Poets (with Guitars) is a...

A poignant consideration of the material aspect of sound and how it fundamentally shapes our experience of the world, both in its presence and absence From the joyous communal connections fostered through shared auditory experience to the devastating impact of noise pollution in the...

Revived with new intensity at the end of the twentieth century, questions of meaning and interpretation in music continue to generate widespread interest and give rise to new research directions and methods. This collection of essays brings together leading musicologists and music theorists working...

Stories about new musical instruments are often told as quests for new kinds of sounds. The Composer's Black Box asks, What happens when new musical instruments produce not only new sounds but also new dynamics of musical agency and control? And what consequences do...

Author: Basil VassilicosISBN-10: 3031828011ISBN-13: 9783031828010Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/23/2025Pages: 327Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.23lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.81d

This book explores music in contemporary monasticism, including instrumental use, composition, gender-related issues, along with music in neo-monastic communities. The result is a comprehensive study of the agency of music in the construction and expression of personal and community monastic identity.Author: Amanda J. HasteISBN-10:...

We've all heard some version of the line: "I enjoy classical music but don't know anything about it." Why but? Why and when did listeners begin to accept the idea that knowledge was needed to enjoy this particular repertory? Music's Fourth Wall and the...

Opera has long been known for its ability to be used as a tool for colonial expression. But it is increasingly used to narrate histories of colonial trauma, oppression, and struggle. What does it mean for a colonial form to represent the experiences of...

From National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Sam Quinones, the story of a demanding instrument, the determined people who play it, and the hope they offer a fractured nation. The tuba's sound is mighty, emerging, it seems, from deep in the human body. Very...

Author: Richard F. ThomasISBN-10: 0062937987ISBN-13: 9780062937988Publisher: Dey Street BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/02/2025Pages: 384Format: Paperback

What does a one-hour contemporary orchestral piece by Georg Friedrich Haas share with a series of glitch-noise electronic tracks by Pan Sonic? This book proposes that, despite their differences, they share a particular understanding of sound found across several quite distinct genres of contemporary...

A sustained engagement with Theodor Adorno, Jazz As Critique looks to jazz for ways of understanding the inadequacies of contemporary life. Adorno's writings on jazz are notoriously dismissive. Nevertheless, Adorno does have faith in the critical potential of some musical traditions. Music, he suggests,...

Have you ever heard a tune so great you'd spend your whole life trying to find it again? The legendary follow up to Junglist, Bass Instinct takes us on odyssey across '90s London as a young black man and his extended family of friends,...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, creative communities were faced with unprecedented challenges and forced to embark upon a re-evaluation of traditional approaches to artistic collaboration. In the wake of these discussions and experiments, New Directions in Musical Collaborative Creativity asks how new technology can be...

Egotism, Elitism, and the Ethics of Musical Humility examines how cultures of superiority pervade our musical lives and explores ways in which we can challenge them. Combining philosophical inquiry, empirical research, and pop culture examples, William J. Coppola takes a look at how striving...

Author: Tevin RiceISBN-13: 9798349258992Publisher: Gvd Limitless LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/03/2025Pages: 50Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.18lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.10dLarge Print

One of the best-known prose stylists in contemporary musicology, Susan McClary brings together a fascinating set of essays in Making Sense of Music that focus on temporality and the body as ways of understanding music. Prefaced by a Foreword from celebrated theatre director Peter...

This edited collection investigates metal music's enduring fascination with the medieval period from a variety of critical perspectives, exploring how metal musicians and fans use the medieval period as a fount for creativity and critique.Author: Ruth Barratt-PeacockISBN-10: 1787563960ISBN-13: 9781787563964Publisher: Emerald Publishing LimitedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/06/2019Pages:...

Listening, Belonging, and Memoryputs connected listening at the center of current debates around whose voices might be listened to, who by, and why. Arguing that listening has to be understood in relation to the self, nation, age, witnessing, and memory, it uses examples from...

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...

The diva - a central figure in the landscape of contemporary popular culture: gossip-generating, scandal-courting, paparazzi-stalked. And yet the diva is at the epicentre of creative endeavours that resonate with contemporary feminist ideas, kick back against diminished social expectations, boldly call-out casual sexism and...