Music-Philosophy & Social Aspects

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...

Tuning In is a lyrical and philosophical memoir about a life shaped by music, silence, and the search for meaning. Pianist and composer Mark Sutton invites readers into a quiet, reflective journey-one that moves through memory, emotion, and the mysterious power of sound to...

Do you know why Johann Sebastian Bach was considered light-fingered? Or what you could do with a lock of Mozart's hair if you had it? These questions could lead you to an ancient mystery: Why do humans enjoy producing musical notes, as Darwin put...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Playing together is the beating heart of chamber music. Despite great diversity, there are values common across centuries and instrumentation. First, a principle of one player per part, without a conductor. Second, that location is more a state...

British Music and the French Revolution investigates the nature of British musical responses to the cataclysmic political events unfolding in France during the period of 1789-1795, a time when republican and royalist agendas were in conflict in both nations. While the parallel demands for...

At seventeen, Michael Shrieve dropped through a ceiling at Stanford to meet Elvin Jones. Two years later, he was at Woodstock. By 1974, he walked away from Santana at the height of their success-not because he failed, but because competence had become confining.What followed...

A city's restless exhale frames Charlie Morrow's quest to prove he existed through a final recording.The city doesn't sleep--it exhales one long, low frequency that slips beneath the sirens and the chatter of perpetual movement. Charlie Morrow spent his life chasing that tone, the...

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...

Welcome to My Book - I Hope You Like It!by Alan BaryshStep into the unconventional world of Alan Barysh, where music, silence, politics, and art collide in an eclectic tapestry of thought. In this inventive collection of essays-part memoir, part manifesto, part cultural critique-Barysh...

The study of opera in the second half of the eighteenth century has flourished during the last several decades, and our knowledge of the operas written during that period and of their aesthetic, social, and political context has vastly increased. This volume explores opera...

A compilation of materials on the Russian-American composer Alexander Tcherepnin.Book I-biographical, including the first English language edition of "Alexander Tcherepnin" by Willi Reich, along with Tcherepnin's "Short Autobiography" and his "Elements of MyMusical Language." Intermezzi-Tributes and Memoirs.Book II-Analytical: historical and technical essays on seventeen...

A compilation of materials on the Russian-American composer Alexander Tcherepnin.Book I-biographical, including the first English language edition of "Alexander Tcherepnin" by Willi Reich, along with Tcherepnin's "Short Autobiography" and his "Elements of MyMusical Language." Intermezzi-Tributes and Memoirs.Book II-Analytical: historical and technical essays on seventeen...

The Routledge Companion to Women and Musical Leadership: The Nineteenth Century and Beyond provides a comprehensive exploration of women's participation in musical leadership from the nineteenth century to the present. Global in scope, with contributors from over thirty countries, this book reveals the wide...

The Routledge Handbook of Popular Music and Politics of the Balkans is a comprehensive overview of major topics, established debates and new directions in the study of popular music and politics in this region.The vibrant growth of this subject area since the 1990s has...

This open access book explores why lyrics and voices resonate with listeners in various temporal, performance and technological contexts. Sounding the Voice highlights how humans develop voice recognition and listening competence through a lifelong relationship with the voice. The voice is considered to be...

This book addresses the issues in music therapy that are central to understanding it in its scholarly dimensions, how it is evolving, and how it connects to related academic disciplines. It draws on a multi-disciplinary approach to look at the defining issues of music...

Author: Uri ErmanISBN-10: 0197784046ISBN-13: 9780197784044Publisher: Oxford University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/05/2026Pages: 310Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.35lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.81d

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...

Why is gender inseparable from pop songs? What can gender representations in musical performances mean? Why are there strong links between gender, sexuality and popular music? The sound of the voice, the mix, the arrangement, the lyrics and images, all link our impressions of...

This volume presents a unique study of war songs created during and after World War II, known in Russia as the Great Patriotic War. The most popular war songs, such as Katyusha, The Sacred War, Dark Night, My Moscow, In the Dugout, Victory Day,...

This book provides an overview of the full range of the teaching and practice of Committed Theatre and theatre of commitment in Nigeria for scholars in the arts and cultural studies. It is divided into four sections; Chapter 1: Theatre in Development Discourse, which...

An essential musical genre of the early 21st century, meme music affects virtually all areas of public discourse, music, and sound culture. Memes are part of public debates, they fuel political struggles and social movements, and they manifest new cultural trends. In the media...