Music-Philosophy & Social Aspects

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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...

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...

"Reading Nick Corasaniti's delightful book about the storied Asbury Park, New Jersey, club is like sitting at your favorite bar listening to the old regulars tell magnificent stories."--Rolling Stone, Best Music Books of the YearA captivating oral history of the iconic music venue the...

This collection offers the first comprehensive analysis of Bad Bunny's impact on music, culture, and politics. Exploring his gender-fluid style, Afro-Caribbean aesthetics, and critiques of colonialism, the book highlights his role in amplifying marginalized voices. With contributions from diverse scholars, it presents a balanced...

Using cine-ethnomusicology as a focus, Cineworlding introduces readers to ways of thinking eco-cinematically. Screens are omnipresent, we carry digital cinema production equipment in our pockets, but this screen-based technological revolution has barely impacted social science scholarship. Mixing existential phenomenological fiction about social science digital...

Singing in Signs: New Semiotic Explorations of Opera offers a bold and refreshing assessment of the state of opera study as seen through the lens of semiotics. At its core, the volume responds to Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker's Analyzing Opera, utilizing a semiotic...

Making music offers enormous possibilities--and faces significant limitations--in its power to generate belonging and advance social justice. Tony Perman and Stefan Fiol edit essays focused on the forms of interplay between music-making and community-making as mutually creative processes. Contributors in the first section look...

Tri-Axium Writings is a series of three books on re-examining the composite reality of creative music and its related information continuum. Author Anthony Braxton believes that more than ever before there is a need for alternative viewpoints on this most important subject and that...

Tri-Axium Writings 1 is the first of three books on re-examining the composite reality of creative music and its related information continuum. Author Anthony Braxton believes that more than ever before there is a need for alternative viewpoints on this most important subject and...

Tri-Axium Writings is a series of three books on re-examining the composite reality of creative music and its related information continuum. Author Anthony Braxton believes that more than ever before there is a need for alternative viewpoints on this most important subject and that...

A blueprint for boosting your activism and building support for the causes you care about, featuring fan-building tactics from the music industry and the voices of today's most passionate change-makers From stadium acts to indie singer-songwriters, musicians have pioneered ways of sparking passion, building...

Deeply informed by jazz, Billie's Bent Elbow explores the nonsensical and nonsensuous in black radical thought and expression. Extending the encounter between black study, Frankfurt School critical theory, and sound studies staged in her first book, Jazz as Critique, and, crucially, bringing Yoruba aesthetics...

In this thought-provoking work, Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut and William Henry Gladstone explore the themes of purity and beauty in musical art. Drawing on their extensive knowledge of music theory and aesthetics, they provide a compelling argument for the importance of maintaining artistic purity...

What does it mean, in a polarized political climate, that feminism was popular in mainstream popular music of 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...

Reflecting on current debates in media cultural studies, this monograph develops a methodology that offers new readings of race, class, and gender paradigms. This methodology is explored in concrete case studies by applying it to popular and contemporary music video productions. The conclusion is...

For readers of Kiese Laymon's Heavy and Hanif Abdurraqib's A Little Devil in America, a beautiful, painful, and soaring tribute to everything that Black men are and can be Growing up in the Bronx, Jo?l Leon was taught that being soft, being vulnerable, could...

Ya-Hui Cheng examines the emergence of popular music genres - jazz, rock, and hip-hop - in Chinese society, covering the social underpinnings that shaped the development of popular music in China and Taiwan, from imperialism to westernization and from modernization to globalization. The political...

In Arab culture, at the ineffable point where music meets emotion, lies ṭarab. Often glossed as the ecstasy experienced and expressed when performing or listening to singing, instrumental works, and recitations of poetry, ṭarab is both a practice and an orienting concept central to...

Every lover of music finds themselves, at privileged moments, in ecstasy - certain that what they are hearing has captured, somehow, an incontrovertible truth. In Bach's Architecture of Gratitude James Crooks explores this profound aesthetic experience in a case study of J.S. Bach's Mass...

Deeply informed by jazz, Billie's Bent Elbow explores the nonsensical and nonsensuous in black radical thought and expression. Extending the encounter between black study, Frankfurt School critical theory, and sound studies staged in her first book Jazz as Critique, and, crucially, bringing Yoruba aesthetics...

Analyses the representation of gender, race and religion in video game music and explores three master categories of identity across 25 case studies, demonstrating the relevance of semiotic interpretation in video games to sociocultural issues and with Japanese history and culture into dialogue with...

In July 2019, eleven years after Jay-Z became the first hip-hop artist to headline Glastonbury, Stormzy became the first English rapper to follow suit. Wearing a customised stab-proof vest designed by Banksy, the South London rapper delivered an explosive performance and finished by thanking...

In today's globalized landscapes, both traditional and progressive K-12 music education practices, including those associated with popular music, can further capitalism-related inequities. In this context, music educators and students might consider how they position themselves and their music-making practices in relation to capitalist aims...