Music-Philosophy & Social Aspects

The Innerspace of Outerspace explores music as a form of magic - a portal that dissolves ordinary reality and opens onto myth, mystery, and transformation. Tracing a lineage from ancient incantations and shamanic chants to modern visionaries like Sun Ra, the book shows how...

A book of unusual musical exploration, Soiled Amplitudes follows composer Dennis Bathory-Kitsz in his search for both compositional truth and the integrity of music created as graphical scores. Revealing music as a mix of so-called "colonial notation" and a panoply of new symbols, graphics,...

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...

Author: David Brown,Gavin HoppsISBN-10: 3319918176ISBN-13: 9783319918174Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/26/2018Pages: 325Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.26lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.81d

Gregg Kofi-Brown is, of course best known for his work with seminal African funk rock pioneers Osibisa. they were one of the first, if not THE first African band to achieve popular success in the West. With conscience laden lyrics and funky afro-rhythms Gregg...

This book examines the murder ballad form, songs about death and killing, from a legal history perspective.Author: Daniel NewmanISBN-10: 1032964839ISBN-13: 9781032964836Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2026Pages: 302Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.35lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d

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,...

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...

There is growing recognition that improvisation is a vital artistic and ontological practice that can promote developments in many areas of musicianship and beyond. Although improvisation is taught and assessed in education institutions throughout the world, pedagogical research on improvisation is disparate, emerging mainly...

This volume seeks to explain the notion of control artists possess, and given they are changed by the action, the sense in which they can claim an artwork as theirs. Standard explanations of action and agency struggle to explain various artistic practices. Requiring recourse...

This book is the first edited collection dedicated to the work of "canonically" metamodern multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens. Contributors critically examine Stevens' output and impact across the relevant fields of musicology, literature, queer theory, performance studies, religious studies, and cultural studies. The volume provides...

The Foundations of Musical Æsthetics; or, The Elements of Music by John B. McEwen, originally published in 1917, offers a comprehensive exploration of the principles underlying musical beauty and structure. This seminal work delves into the fundamental elements of music, providing a deep understanding...

"Mr Balbir Singh Kanwal has an international reputation for indefatigably conducting remarkably detailed research into little studied areas of Panjab history and culture. His contributions have been recognised far and wide. With the publication of this new book in English, these insights will find...

This book addresses an existing gap in academic arts-based research, whereby, rather than exploring music as an effective therapeutic intervention, it is explored as the central medium or tool of inquiry.Integrating heuristic, hermeneutic, and arts-based grounded theory methodologies, the book conceptualizes and describes the...

Music is a powerful process and resource that can shape and support who we are and wish to be. The interaction between musical identities and learning music highlights school music education's potential contributions and responsibilities, especially in supporting young people's mental health and well-being....

What defines a "musical work"? Traditionally, this question has been dominated by Western art music and its reliance on prescriptive scores. Yet, with the rise of recording technologies and the growing influence of genres like jazz, pop, and rock, the very foundations of music's...

The culture of hip hop shifted dramatically soon after the first wave of studio-recorded vinyl releases at the turn of the 1980s. Drawing upon science fiction, ideas of fantasy, futurism, and sociocultural dynamics, this book presents a study of the impact and influence of...

Discover the Future of Creativity Through the Eyes of AIEmbark on a journey where technology meets imagination, exploring how artificial intelligence is reshaping the boundaries of art. From the origins of AI art to the ethical dilemmas it poses, this groundbreaking narrative invites you...

Based on empirical research on hip-hop cultures, scenes, and artists in the Nordic countries, this book provides new perspectives on how hip-hop has been intertwined with wider societal and political contexts and discussions.Author: Susan LindholmISBN-10: 1032165014ISBN-13: 9781032165011Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/22/2026Pages: 214Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.08lbsSize: 9.21h...

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.Author: Catherine BakerISBN-10: 1032357150ISBN-13: 9781032357157Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/10/2024Pages: 640Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.98lbsSize:...

Grime music has been central to British youth culture since the beginning of the 21st century. Performed by MCs and DJs, it is an Afrodiasporic form that developed on street corners, on pirate radio and at raves. Level Up: Live Performance and Creative Process...

Makis Solomos explores the ecologies of music and sound, inspired by Felix Guattari, for whom environmental destruction caused by capitalism goes hand in hand with deteriorating ways of living and feeling, and for whom an ecosophical stance, combining various ecological registers, offers a glimpse...

How Black music shapes the political identity, consciousness, and engagement of Black youth From Rihanna and Kendrick Lamar to J. Cole and Janelle Monae, Najja K. Baptist shows us how Black music has, more than ever before, become a form of political participation and...

Why does music influence how we feel so deeply--and what are the scientific mechanisms behind this phenomenon? In Music Between Your Ears, Dr. Samuel Markind explores the intriguing relationship between music and brain function. Using evolutionary theory, he illuminates the pivotal role that music...

Hip-hop and rap emerged as a powerful cultural response to systemic inequality, social displacement, and economic hardship. Rooted in artistic expression, storytelling, and resistance, hip-hop and rap became a means for marginalized voices to reclaim agency, shared lived experiences, and foster community identity. Their...

The Best of Mass Movement: The Digital Years Volumes I & II are the result of a crazy five year period that saw Mass Movement reluctantly enter, and make its mark on the digital age. They are a testament to the power of the...

It was never supposed to last or be anything other than an underground punk rock fanzine. But fate had other ideas and for the last two twenty two years, Mass Movement has been navigating its own singular course through the often strange and always...

Kevin Korsyn is a renowned music theorist, musicologist, and pedagogue who has taught at the University of Michigan since 1992. He has published widely and influentially in areas as diverse as Beethoven and Brahms studies, chromatic tonality, disciplinarity and metatheory, history of theory, musical...

'The Rhythm Within' is the ideal companion book to your drumming practice sessions. It is filled with practical advice and exercises to help you approach and structure your learning.Unlock your creativity and feel confident in your drumming, following supportive philosophies and creative workflow guides,...

We've all had the experience: a song comes on, and suddenly we're not where we were. We're back in the past, or living out a future that never happened, or imagining a scene that never existed. In Transported, Elizabeth Margulis explores the phenomenon of...

On Popular Music and Its Unruly Entanglements comprises eleven essays that explore the myriad ways in which popular music is entwined within social, cultural, musical, historical, and media networks. The authors discuss genres as diverse as mainstream pop, hip hop, classic rock, instrumental synthwave,...

Across spatial, bodily, and ethical domains, music and dance both emerge from and give rise to intimate collaboration. This theoretically rich collection takes an ethnographic approach to understanding the collective dimension of sound and movement in everyday life, drawing on genres and practices in...

Succinct and to the point, David Rovics demystifies the very different skills necessary to cultivate the arts of songwriting, guitar-playing and tour booking. In an era when the truly independent record label is virtually a thing of the past, Rovics explains how it's possible...

Rhythm and Critique presents 12 new essays from a range of specialists to define, contextualise and challenge the concepts of rhythm and rhythmanalysis. It includes newly translated materials from Rudolf Laban and Henri Meschonnic. The book begins with a genealogy of rhythm as it...

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...

In a wide-ranging study of sentimentalism's significance for styles, practices and meanings of music in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a series of interpretations scrutinizes musical expressions of sympathetic responses to suffering and the longing to belong. The book challenges hierarchies of artistic value...

Examines the nature of music and traces the history of music philosophy from ancient Greece to the twentieth century. Lewis Rowell's Thinking About Music is more than an introduction to the connections between music and other arts, and the philosophical underpinnings of aesthetics.Author: Lewis...

Compositional Process in Elliott Carter's String Quartets is an interdisciplinary study examining the evolution and compositional process in Elliott Carter's five string quartets. Offering a systematic and logical way of unpacking concepts and processes in these quartets that would otherwise remain opaque, the book's...

In the contemporary world, voices are caught up in fundamentally different realms of discourse, practice, and culture: between sounding and nonsounding, material and nonmaterial, literal and metaphorical. In The Voice as Something More, Martha Feldman and Judith T. Zeitlin tackle these paradoxes with a...

Over the past two centuries Western culture has largely valorized a particular kind of "good" music--highly serious, wondrously deep, stylistically authentic, heroically created, and strikingly original--and, at the same time, has marginalized music that does not live up to those ideals. In Good Music,...

Centring the voices of Indigenous scholars at the intersection of music and education, this co-edited volume contributes to debates about current colonising music education research and practices, and offers alternative decolonising approaches that support music education imbued with Indigenous perspectives. This unique collection is...

Music as Agency: Diversities of Perspectives on Artistic Citizenship focuses on the concept, application, interpretation and manifestation of Artistic Citizenship in diverse contexts. Author: Maria WestvallISBN-10: 1032577576ISBN-13: 9781032577579Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/26/2025Pages: 146Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.35d

Heavy Music Mothers: Extreme Identities, Narrative Disruptions is an exploration of women and heavy music and the ways in which women have historically engaged with musicking as mothers. Julie Turley and Joan Jocson-Singh, musicking mothers themselves, largely employ an ethnographic lens, foregrounded in powerful...

Behind every superstar--from Rihanna to Justin Bieber, SZA to Post Malone--there's an A&R executive shaping their sound, vision, and career. This is the definitive inside story of the people behind the music. The greatest music artists of the past century--those who've shaped the industry...

Approaching the topic from several subdisciplinary points of view within music studies, this edited collection addresses the role that music plays in opposing tyranny or solidifying tyrannical power around the world.Author: Joseph E. MorganISBN-10: 1498546811ISBN-13: 9781498546812Publisher: Lexington BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/26/2017Pages: 282Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.21lbsSize: 9.00h...

Listening is a social process. Even apparently trivial acts of listening are expert performances of acquired cognitive and bodily habits. Contemporary scholars acknowledge this fact with the notion that there are "auditory cultures." In the fourth century BCE, Greek philosophers recognized a similar phenomenon...

Rabaka explores funk as a distinct multiform of music, aesthetics, politics, social vision, and cultural rebellion that has been remixed, and continues to influence contemporary Black popular music and Black popular culture, especially rap music and the Hip Hop Movement. Author: Reiland RabakaISBN-10: 1032789050ISBN-13:...

Current philosophies of art remain sadly dominated by visions of its end and lamentations of decline. Defining the very notions of art and the aesthetic as special products of Western modernity, they suggest that postmodern challenges to traditional high culture pose a devastating danger...

From one of the world's most beloved and respected public intellectuals comes a sweeping work of musical criticism, examining the distance between the performer and their audience "Not since Virgil Thomson have we had a music critic with as wide ranging a view as...

There is growing recognition that improvisation is a vital artistic and ontological practice that can promote developments in many areas of musicianship and beyond. Although improvisation is taught and assessed in education institutions throughout the world, pedagogical research on improvisation is disparate, emerging mainly...