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  • Love Dances: Loss and Mourning in Intercultural Collaboration by Kwan, Sansan
    Sansan Kwan

    Love Dances: Loss and Mourning in Intercultural Collaboration

    Love Dances: Loss and Mourning in Intercultural Collaboration explores global relationality within the realm ofintercultural collaboration in contemporary dance. Author SanSan Kwan looks specifically at duets, focusing on "East" "West" pairings, and how dance artists from different cultural and movement backgrounds -Asia, the Asian...
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  • Massive Attack: Out of the Comfort Zone by Chemam, Melissa
    Melissa Chemam

    Massive Attack: Out of the Comfort Zone

    Author Melissa Chemam's in-depth study of the influences that led to the formation of the Wild Bunch and then Massive Attack looks into Bristol's past to explore how the city helped shape one of the most successful and innovative musical movements of the last...
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  • Made in Ireland: Studies in Popular Music by Mangaoang, Áine
    ﾁine Mangaoang

    Made in Ireland: Studies in Popular Music

    Made in Ireland: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, sociology and musicology of 20th- and 21st-century Irish popular music. The volume consists of essays by leading scholars in the field and covers the major figures, styles...
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  • Music and Musicians in the Medieval Islamicate World: A Social History by Nielson, Lisa
    Lisa Nielson

    Music and Musicians in the Medieval Islamicate World: A Social History

    During the early medieval Islamicate period (800-1400 CE), discourses concerned with music and musicians were wide-ranging and contentious, and expressed in works on music theory and philosophy as well as literature and poetry. But in spite of attempts by influential scholars and political leaders...
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  • Music and Social Justice: A Guide for Elementary Educators by Benedict, Cathy
    Cathy Benedict

    Music and Social Justice: A Guide for Elementary Educators

    In this book author Cathy Benedict challenges and reframes traditional ways of addressing many of the topics we have come to think of as social justice. Offering practical suggestions for helping both teachers and students think philosophically (and thus critically) about the world around...
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  • Media Narratives in Popular Music by Anderton, Chris
    Chris Anderton

    Media Narratives in Popular Music

    The historical significance of music-makers, music scenes, and music genres has long been mediated through academic and popular press publications such as magazines, films, and television documentaries. Media Narratives in Popular Music examines these various publications and questions how and why they are constructed....
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  • Modes of Communication in Stravinsky's Works: Sign and Expression by Dahl, Per
    Per Dahl

    Modes of Communication in Stravinsky's Works: Sign and Expression

    Igor Stravinsky left behind a complex heritage of music and ideas. There are many examples of discrepancies between his literate statements about music and musicians and his musical compositions and activity. Per Dahl presents a model of communication that unveils a clear and logical...
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  • Metaphysical Graffiti: Rock 'n' Roll and the Meaning of Life by Kaufman, Seth
    Seth Kaufman

    Metaphysical Graffiti: Rock 'n' Roll and the Meaning of Life

    A provocative, entertaining but ultimately serious examination of rock's most essential questions: Beatles or Stones? Which is the best air guitar to play? Does Rush suck? And what is the meaning of Billy Joel? Metaphysical Graffiti is a book for music fans, humor fans,...
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  • Music as an Art by Scruton, Roger
    Roger Scruton

    Music as an Art

    As Scruton argues in this book, in earlier times, our musical culture had secure foundations in the church, the concert hall and the home; in the ceremonies and celebrations of ordinary life, religion and manners. Yet we no longer live in that world. Fewer...
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  • Metaphysical Graffiti: Deep Cuts in the Philosophy of Rock by Auxier, Randall E.
    Randall E. Auxier

    Metaphysical Graffiti: Deep Cuts in the Philosophy of Rock

    Metaphysical Graffiti explores the philosophical themes prevalent in the music of the classic rock era. Each chapter is a detailed study of a classic rock performer or ensemble, applying insights from philosophers ancient and modern. It will appeal to an audience that was inspired...
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  • Make Arts for a Better Life: A Guide for Working with Communities by Van Buren, Kathleen
    Kathleen Van Buren

    Make Arts for a Better Life: A Guide for Working with Communities

    Make Arts for a Better Life: A Guide for Working with Communities provides a ground-breaking model for arts advocacy. Drawing upon methods and theories from disciplines such as ethnomusicology, anthropology, folklore, community development, and communication studies, the Guide presents an in-depth approach to researching...
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  • Finding the Singing Spruce: Musical Instrument Makers and Appalachia's Mountain Forests by Waugh-Quasebarth, Jasper
    Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth

    Finding the Singing Spruce: Musical Instrument Makers and Appalachia's Mountain Forests

    Environment, craft, and meaning in the work of Appalachian instrument makers. How can the craft of musical instrument making help reconnect people to place and reenchant work in Appalachia? How does the sonic search for musical tone change relationships with trees and forests? Following...
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  • Hungry Listening: Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies by Robinson, Dylan
    Dylan Robinson

    Hungry Listening: Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies

    WInner of the Best First Book from the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Winner of the Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award Winner of the Ann Saddlemyer Award from the Canadian Association for Theatre Research Reimagining how we understand and write about...
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  • Jamming the Classroom: Musical Improvisation and Pedagogical Practice by Heble, Ajay
    Ajay Heble

    Jamming the Classroom: Musical Improvisation and Pedagogical Practice

    Drawing on a mix of collaborative autoethnography, secondary literature, interviews with leading improvisers, and personal anecdotal material, Jamming the Classroom discusses the pedagogy of musical improvisation as a vehicle for teaching, learning, and enacting social justice. Heble and Stewart write that to "jam the...
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  • Jamming the Classroom: Musical Improvisation and Pedagogical Practice by Heble, Ajay
    Ajay Heble

    Jamming the Classroom: Musical Improvisation and Pedagogical Practice

    Drawing on a mix of collaborative autoethnography, secondary literature, interviews with leading improvisers, and personal anecdotal material, Jamming the Classroom discusses the pedagogy of musical improvisation as a vehicle for teaching, learning, and enacting social justice. Heble and Stewart write that to "jam the...
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  • Key Constellations: Interpreting Tonality in Film Volume 4 by Motazedian, Táhirih
    T疉irih Motazedian

    Key Constellations: Interpreting Tonality in Film Volume 4

    Key is one of the simplest building blocks of music and is among the foundational properties of a work's musical identity--so why isn't it a standard parameter in discussing film music? Key Constellations: Interpreting Tonality in Film is the first book to investigate film...
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  • Richard Wolf

    In Tune: Music as the Bridge to Mindfulness

    In our noisy world, music is the key to inner silenceRichard Wolf first tried Zen meditation in his teens, but no matter in what posture or for how long he sat, transcendence proved stubbornly out of reach. It was only years later that he...
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  • I'm Not Like Everybody Else: Biopolitics, Neoliberalism, and American Popular Music by Nealon, Jeffrey T.
    Jeffrey T. Nealon

    I'm Not Like Everybody Else: Biopolitics, Neoliberalism, and American Popular Music

    Despite the presence of the Flaming Lips in a commercial for a copier and Iggy Pop's music in luxury cruise advertisements, Jeffrey T. Nealon argues that popular music has not exactly been co-opted in the American capitalist present. Contemporary neoliberal capitalism has, in fact,...
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  • Laughter in the Dark: Egypt to the Tune of Change by El Rashidi, Yasmine
    Yasmine El Rashidi

    Laughter in the Dark: Egypt to the Tune of Change

    What can hip-hop tell us about Egypt today? A decade ago, millions of Egyptians took to the streets in a people-led revolution that captivated the world's attention and sent ripples across the Middle East. But the so-called "Arab Spring" quickly faded, and a return...
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  • Hands of Doom by Holloway, Jack
    Jack Holloway

    Hands of Doom

    ""The world today is such a wicked place,"" Black Sabbath declared in 1969, when they recorded their debut album, set against a backdrop of war, assassinations, social unrest, and disillusionment. Cries for justice from the Civil Rights Movement, and for peace and love from...
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  • Feminism and Gender Politics in Mediated Popular Music by Werner, Ann
    Ann Werner

    Feminism and Gender Politics in Mediated Popular Music

    What does it mean, in a polarized political climate, that feminism is popular in mainstream popular music during the 2010s? Engaging with feminist theory and previous research about gender and music, this book investigates the meaning of current trends relating to gender, feminism and...
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  • Heavy Music Mothers: Extreme Identities, Narrative Disruptions by Turley, Julie
    Julie Turley

    Heavy Music Mothers: Extreme Identities, Narrative Disruptions

    Heavy Music Mothers explores women and heavy music and how women have historically engaged with musicking as mothers. With a focus on original interviews with contemporary rock and metal mothers, this is the first scholarly study that contextualizes the challenges and contributions of mothers...
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  • Fela Anikulapo-Kuti: Afrobeat, Rebellion, and Philosophy by Afolayan, Adeshina
    Adeshina Afolayan

    Fela Anikulapo-Kuti: Afrobeat, Rebellion, and Philosophy

    Fela Anikulapo Kuti was the Afrobeat music maestro whose life and time provide the lens through which we can outline the postcolonial trajectory of the Nigerian state as well as the dynamics of most other African states. Through the Afrobeat music, Fela did not...
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  • Hands of Doom by Holloway, Jack
    Jack Holloway

    Hands of Doom

    ""The world today is such a wicked place,"" Black Sabbath declared in 1969, when they recorded their debut album, set against a backdrop of war, assassinations, social unrest, and disillusionment. Cries for justice from the Civil Rights Movement, and for peace and love from...
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  • Going for a Song: A Chronicle of the UK Record Shop by Cartwright, Garth
    Garth Cartwright

    Going for a Song: A Chronicle of the UK Record Shop

    Author Garth Cartwright has travelled the length and breadth of the UK, conducting more than 100 interviews with some of the icons of the record shop trade and the wider music industry, including Martin Mills (Beggars Banquet), Geoff Travis (Rough Trade), Andy Gray (Andy's...
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  • Focal Impulse Theory: Musical Expression, Meter, and the Body by Ito, John Paul
    John Paul Ito

    Focal Impulse Theory: Musical Expression, Meter, and the Body

    Music is surrounded by movement, from the arching back of the guitarist to the violinist swaying with each bow stroke. To John Paul Ito, these actions are not just a visual display; rather, they reveal what it really means for musicians to move with...
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  • How We Used Saint Etienne to Live by Alwakeel, Ramzy
    Ramzy Alwakeel

    How We Used Saint Etienne to Live

    The essential guide to veteran British indie favourites Saint Etienne -- the story of how they made music out of memories, and how we made memories out of them. Do you remember how we used to live? British indie favourites Saint Etienne do. But...
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  • Improvisation in Music and Philosophical Hermeneutics by McAuliffe, Sam
    Sam McAuliffe

    Improvisation in Music and Philosophical Hermeneutics

    In the first book to examine the overlooked relationship between musical improvisation and philosophical hermeneutics, Sam McAuliffe asks: what exactly is improvisation? And how does it relate to our being-in-the-world? Improvisation in Music and Philosophical Hermeneutics answers these questions by investigating the underlying structure...
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  • Knowledge and Music Education: A Social Realist Account by McPhail, Graham J.
    Graham J. McPhail

    Knowledge and Music Education: A Social Realist Account

    Knowledge and Music Education: A Social Realist Account explores current challenges for music education in relation to wider philosophical and political debates, and seeks to find a way forward for the field by rethinking the nature and value of epistemic knowledge in the wake...
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  • Hearing Maskanda: Musical Epistemologies in South Africa by Titus, Barbara
    Barbara Titus

    Hearing Maskanda: Musical Epistemologies in South Africa

    Hearing Maskanda outlines how people make sense of their world through practicing and hearing maskanda music in South Africa. Having emerged in response to the experience of forced labour migration in the early 20th century, maskanda continues to straddle a wide range of cultural...
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  • Kaleidophonic Modernity: Transatlantic Sound, Technology, and Literature by Brehm, Brett
    Brett Brehm

    Kaleidophonic Modernity: Transatlantic Sound, Technology, and Literature

    What stories remain hidden behind one of the most significant inventions of the nineteenth century? Kaleidophonic Modernity reexamines the development of mechanical sound recording technology by charting the orbits of writers, scientists, and artists in France and the United States. Working between comparative literature,...
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  • Kaleidophonic Modernity: Transatlantic Sound, Technology, and Literature by Brehm, Brett
    Brett Brehm

    Kaleidophonic Modernity: Transatlantic Sound, Technology, and Literature

    What stories remain hidden behind one of the most significant inventions of the nineteenth century? Kaleidophonic Modernity reexamines the development of mechanical sound recording technology by charting the orbits of writers, scientists, and artists in France and the United States. Working between comparative literature,...
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  • Japan Fluxus by Galliano, Luciana
    Luciana Galliano

    Japan Fluxus

    Fluxus was a pivotal movement in redefining art's role and the artist's identity in the contemporary world, so that its aesthetics - as well as many of its gimmicks - have become so deeply embedded in our social setting that we now no longer...
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  • Japan Fluxus by Galliano, Luciana
    Luciana Galliano

    Japan Fluxus

    Fluxus was a pivotal movement in redefining art's role and the artist's identity in the contemporary world, so that its aesthetics - as well as many of its gimmicks - have become so deeply embedded in our social setting that we now no longer...
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  • Jazz: A Beginner's Guide by Nicholson, Stuart
    Stuart Nicholson

    Jazz: A Beginner's Guide

    This definitive guide includes a unique chapter-by-chapter playlist for the reader. Jazz: A Beginner's Guide is a lively and highly accessible introduction to a global musical phenomenon. Award-winning music journalist and author Stuart Nicholson takes the reader on an entertaining journey from jazz's early...
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  • Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music by Chaudhuri, Amit
    Amit Chaudhuri

    Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music

    Winner of the James Tait Black Prize for Biography An autobiographical exploration of the role and meaning of music in our world by one of India's greatest living authors, himself a vocalist and performer. Amit Chaudhuri, novelist, critic, and essayist, is also a musician,...
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  • Geddy Lee's Big Beautiful Book of Bass by Lee, Geddy
    Geddy Lee

    Geddy Lee's Big Beautiful Book of Bass

    "A treasure trove for any fan of the four-stringed (and occasionally more) instrument." -- Billboard"It's not surprising that sooner or later I'd dive down the proverbial rabbit hole into the world of vintage bass guitars."--Geddy LeeFrom Rush frontman Geddy Lee's personal collection of vintage...
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  • Jazz as Critique: Adorno and Black Expression Revisited by Okiji, Fumi
    Fumi Okiji

    Jazz as Critique: Adorno and Black Expression Revisited

    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,...
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  • Hit Girls: Women of Punk in the Usa, 1975-1983 by Larson, Jen B.
    Jen B. Larson

    Hit Girls: Women of Punk in the Usa, 1975-1983

    Think punk was only a boys club? Read about the women who were the punk revolution! Women have been kicking against the pricks of music patriarchy since Sister Rosetta Tharpe first played the guitar riffs that built rock-n-roll. The explosion of punk sent shockwaves...
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  • Juggalo Country: Inside the World of Insane Clown Posse and America's Weirdest Music Scene by Rock, Craven
    Craven Rock

    Juggalo Country: Inside the World of Insane Clown Posse and America's Weirdest Music Scene

    WHOOP WHOOP The Insane Clown Posse calls itself "the most hated band in the world," but with 11 million albums sold, the horrorcore hip hop duo from Detroit is a widespread music phenomenon with a cult following. This book is the story of Craven...
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  • Go All the Way: A Literary Appreciation of Power Pop by Myers, Paul
    Paul Myers

    Go All the Way: A Literary Appreciation of Power Pop

    Fun, bright, and playful, Power Pop is a sometimes adored, sometimes maligned, often misunderstood genre of music. From its heyday in the 70s and 80s to its resurgence in the 90s and 00s, Power Pop has meant many things to many people. In Go...
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  • In Tune: Music as the Bridge to Mindfulness by Wolf, Richard
    Richard Wolf

    In Tune: Music as the Bridge to Mindfulness

    Richard Wolf first tried Zen meditation in his teens, but no matter in what posture or for how long he sat, transcendence proved stubbornly out of reach. It was only years later that he found the bridge that could take him there: music.In Tune...
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  • Lessons from a Street-Wise Professor: What You Won't Learn at Most Music Schools by Ricker, Ramon
    Ramon Ricker

    Lessons from a Street-Wise Professor: What You Won't Learn at Most Music Schools

    Lessons from a Streetwise Professor: What You Won't Learn at Most Music Schools was first published in 2011. It's a book that discusses contemporary issues in the real world of music, and the fact is, much has changed since then. An update was needed,...
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  • Identities and Audiences in the Musical: An Oxford Handbook of the American Musical, Volume 3 by Knapp, Raymond
    Raymond Knapp

    Identities and Audiences in the Musical: An Oxford Handbook of the American Musical, Volume 3

    Issues of identity have always been central to the American musical in all its guises. Who appears in musicals, who or what they are meant to represent, and how, over time, those representations have been understood and interpreted, provide the very basis for our...
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  • From Servant to Savant: Musical Privilege, Property, and the French Revolution by Geoffroy-Schwinden, Rebecca Dowd
    Rebecca Dowd Geoffroy-Schwinden

    From Servant to Savant: Musical Privilege, Property, and the French Revolution

    Before the French Revolution, making music was an activity that required permission. After the Revolution, music was an object that could be possessed. Everyone seemingly hoped to gain something from owning music. Musicians claimed it as their unalienable personal expression while the French nation...
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  • Heidegger and Music by Rentmeester, Casey
    Casey Rentmeester

    Heidegger and Music

    Although philosophers have examined and commented on music for centuries, Martin Heidegger, one of the greatest philosophers of the 20th century, had frustratingly little to say about music--directly, at least. This volume, the first to tackle Heidegger and music, features contributions from philosophers, musicians,...
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  • Jazz: A Peoples Music by Finkelstein, Sidney
    Sidney Finkelstein

    Jazz: A Peoples Music

    This book is one of the most improtant works ever written on Jazz music. It is a virtual manifesto agains the ghettoization and the racist pigeonholing thast has afflicted the public's appreciation of this great music since its beginnings as ragtime a century ago....
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  • Hail Columbia!: American Music and Politics in the Early Nation by Lohman, Laura
    Laura Lohman

    Hail Columbia!: American Music and Politics in the Early Nation

    To the tune of "Yankee Doodle," the American obsession with politics was born alongside America itself. From the end of the Revolutionary War through to the antebellum era, music made front page news and brought men to blows. Both common citizens and politicians稙ven early...
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  • If It Sounds Good, It Is Good: Seeking Subversion, Transcendence, and Solace in America's Music by Manning, Richard
    Richard Manning

    If It Sounds Good, It Is Good: Seeking Subversion, Transcendence, and Solace in America's Music

    Music is fundamental to human existence, a cultural universal among all humans for all times. It is embedded in our evolution, encoded in our DNA, which is to say, essential to our survival. Academics in a variety of disciplines have considered this idea to...
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  • Is It My Body?: Selected Texts by Gordon, Kim
    Kim Gordon

    Is It My Body?: Selected Texts

    Throughout the 1980s and early '90s, Kim Gordon--widely known as a founding member of the influential band Sonic Youth--produced a series of writings on art and music. Ranging from neo-Conceptual artworks to broader forms of cultural criticism, these rare texts are brought together in...
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