Music-Philosophy & Social Aspects

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...

Recorded Music in Creative Practices: Mediation, Performance, Education brings new critical perspectives on recorded music research, artistic practice, and education into an active dialogue.Although scholars continue to engage keenly in the study of recordings and studio practices, less attention has been devoted to integrating...

Taylor Swift is always rewriting the rule book. From taking on streaming platforms to re-recording her early albums to regain control, she has built her reputation on business savvy as well as incredible songwriting talent. In a series of 50 accessible essays, author and...

In Music at the Threshold from the Sacred to the Dangerous, author Sean Williams explores the connection of liminality to musical culture by focusing on how performance practices tend to occur at liminal places and times, and often by potentially marginalized people who are,...

Reiland Rabaka provides an alternative history of funk since the mid-1960s, which uncovers the epoch that funk women influenced and were influenced by while wrestling with issues revolving around race, gender, sexuality, and class simultaneously in the American music industry and in American society.Rabaka...

Susana González-Martínez investigates feminist ideologies in metal music and demonstrates techniques of socio-political resistance for usage in real communities and in daily life. This book invites a multidimensional appreciation of the artistic phenomenon of feminist metal. It sheds light on feminist artistic practices emerging...

This collection of interdisciplinary and multicultural essays takes a novel approach to the ancient theory of the Harmony of the Spheres and the notion of musical harmony. The idea of the harmony of the spheres is an old and venerable one, finding a parallel...

The ICTM Study Group Music and Minorities was founded officially in 1997 and is thus one of the youngest Study Groups within the ICTM. The volume Manifold Identities: Studies on Music and Minorities is a collection of the papers of the second Study Group...

This volume brings together scholars and artist-researchers to explore the nature and function of musical instruments in creative practices, and their role in musical culture. Through historical, theoretical, critical, practical-artistic perspectives and case studies, the contributors here examine identities and affordances of acoustical, electronic...

This book focuses on two main topics related to the essence of music, the first of which problematizes the ontological unity of music, philosophy and mathematics. The second concern of the text is the direction of social ontology or the existence of music in...

Author: T. Michael MboyaISBN-10: 1527526747ISBN-13: 9781527526747Publisher: Cambridge Scholars PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/25/2019Pages: 163Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.80w x 0.60d

The use of music in therapeutic practice in Turkey and the surrounding geographical regions is not a new phenomenon. Until recently, however, the music therapy profession, as it is known in the modern world, had not been institutionalized as a scientific discipline in Turkey....

Author: Richard GloverISBN-10: 152751398XISBN-13: 9781527513983Publisher: Cambridge Scholars PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/02/2018Pages: 234Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.90w x 0.70d

This volume brings together practitioners and theorists of music and sonic art. Contributions explore a wide range of historical, artistic, pedagogical and critical issues from multiple perspectives, emphasizing the continuities and links along a broad spectrum of hearing and listening practices and art-making that...

This volume explores various kinds of love and the way music reflects them. It is about romantic love, ethnic pride and love, love and the media, and various other loves we have, especially love for popular culture. Throughout, special focus is given to the...

This collection of fourteen essays provides a starting point to re-think music and national identity in Aotearoa/New Zealand. The papers offer various perspectives on the interconnections between music and identity, while providing case-studies on diverse topics including performance, composition, and musical styles. Based on...

This anthology emanated from a conference in St. John's, Newfoundland, that brought together popular music scholars, folklorists and ethnomusicologists from Canada and Australia. Implicit in that conference and in this anthology is the comparability of the two countries. Their 'post-colonial' status (if that is...

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...

Music's role in animating democracy--whether through protests and demonstrations, as a vehicle for political identity, or as a means of overcoming social divides--is well understood. Yet musicians have also been drawn to the potential of embodying democracy itself through musical processes and relationships. In...

This book presents a theoretical framework for hermeneutic musical analysis, enriched with numerous practical examples. Joan Grimalt's latest work emphasises discursive and dramaturgical dimensions, grounded in hermeneutical principles. Building on his previous volume, Mapping Musical Signification (Springer, 2020), which explores different groupings of musical...

This book widens the context of our understanding of the "modern" American jazz of the 1940s, 50s, and 60s by looking at writing about it by both musicians and commentators. Jazz, Race, and Writing, 1945-1970 addresses jazz at its modernist apotheosis, from the 1940s...

Satiricized by Strauss II to highlight the deceptive aristocratic class, under Schoenberg, Mahler, and Webern's pens the waltz became the pivot between the conscious and unconscious, forcing a paralytic "second state" analogous with the stagnation of the Habsburg Empire. The Viennese Waltz shows how,...

This book presents an analysis of 100 rock concert performances and answers the question "What makes a truly great rock performance?" Peter Smith delves into his own recollections of experiencing rock performances and covers themes of icons, persona, energy, fandom, venues, communities, politics, art-rock,...

A deep dive into the transformative power of music in the 21st century.Dervish at the Crossroads is an autobiographical exploration of music from 2000 to 2020, revealing how the digital age has revolutionized our relationship with sound. Wanda Waterman blends personal experiences, interviews, and...

Political campaigning affects numerous realms under the communication umbrella with each channel seeking to influence as many individuals as possible. In higher education, there is a growing scholarly interest in communication issues and subjects, especially on the role of music, in the political arena....

Discover the enthralling world of Ralph J. Gleason, a pioneering music journalist who expanded the possibilities of the newspaper music column, sparked the San Francisco jazz and rock scenes, and co-founded Rolling Stone magazine. Gleason not only reported on but influenced the trajectory of...

Discourse on popular music frequently describes artists' recordings and performances as "intimate." Yet that discourse often stops short of elucidating how a mass-produced commodity such as popular music is able to elicit feelings of intimacy with and among its audience. Through detailed analysis of...

In this fascinating exploration of the mystical elements of music, Henry Wylde delves into the esoteric symbolism of sound and explores the ways in which music can affect our minds and souls. Drawing on a wide range of spiritual traditions, Wylde offers a unique...