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  • Soundtrack of the Revolution: The Politics of Music in Iran by Siamdoust, Nahid
    Nahid Siamdoust

    Soundtrack of the Revolution: The Politics of Music in Iran

    Music was one of the first casualties of the Iranian Revolution. It was banned in 1979, but it quickly crept back into Iranian culture and politics. The state made use of music for its propaganda during the Iran-Iraq war. Over time music provided an...
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  • The Hum of the World: A Philosophy of Listening by Kramer, Lawrence
    Lawrence Kramer

    The Hum of the World: A Philosophy of Listening

    The Hum of the World is an invitation to contemplate what would happen if we heard the world as attentively as we see it. Balancing big ideas, playful wit and lyrical prose, this imaginative volume identifies the role of sound in Western experience as...
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  • Reaching God Speed: Unlocking the Secret Broadcast Revealing the Mystery of Everything by Kovacs, Joe
    Joe Kovacs

    Reaching God Speed: Unlocking the Secret Broadcast Revealing the Mystery of Everything

    Is it possible we've all been missing something extraordinary in life? Can we really discover and understand the secret to everything? The answer is surprising, and what we're about to learn will wake us up to a reality most of us never knew existed....
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  • The Illustrated Book of Songs by Boyd, Colm
    Colm Boyd

    The Illustrated Book of Songs

    From rockers to ravers, The Illustrated Book of Songs is the book every music lover will want. In quick-witted style, Irish writer Colm Boyd navigates us through lists of classic songs for every occasion. Prepare yourself for fascinating facts, cool illustrations and withering commentary...
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  • The Great Psychic Outdoors: Adventures in Low Fidelity by Monacelli, Enrico
    Enrico Monacelli

    The Great Psychic Outdoors: Adventures in Low Fidelity

    Explores the weird world of lo-fi music to investigate its revolutionary potential and its ability to subvert what we think music can do. Homemade records, tape-hiss worship and a taste for a very peculiar kind of psychedelia have carved themselves a weird niche in...
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  • StereoPravda: Politically Incorrect View On High End Audio by Kucherenko, Misha
    Misha Kucherenko

    StereoPravda: Politically Incorrect View On High End Audio

    This unique book is dedicated to what has been known since the 70s as the High End Audio industry (and, first and foremost, to the equipment that is at the frontline of humanity's pursuit of sonic Utopia) as well as to the dramatic story...
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  • This Is Not a Fighting Song: The Prophetic Witness of the Indigo Girls by Holladay, Meredith
    Meredith Holladay

    This Is Not a Fighting Song

    It is through their music that the Indigo Girls build upon the theological idea of community-building and solidarity-forming, in order to tell the stories, to relate the authentic experience of human struggle and reconciliation, of human love and pain. Further, they work outward, convicted...
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  • The Awesome Music Project Canada: Songs of Hope and Happiness by Stuart, Terry
    Terry Stuart

    The Awesome Music Project Canada: Songs of Hope and Happiness

    MUSIC HEALS US. It can provide solace in difficult times, and help us celebrate moments of joy. The transformative power of music is at the heart of this compilation of intimate recollections by Canadians from every province and territory. In these remarkable stories, Canadians...
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  • Shared Musical Lives: Philosophy, Disability, and the Power of Sonification by Carlson, Licia
    Licia Carlson

    Shared Musical Lives: Philosophy, Disability, and the Power of Sonification

    Shared Musical Lives makes the case for the epistemological and ethical significance of musical experience. Music can be a source of self-knowledge and self-expression, and hence reveal important dimensions of the self to others. This knowledge--of both self and of others--has a moral force...
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  • The Music of the Spheres in the Western Imagination by Kendall, David J.
    David J. Kendall

    The Music of the Spheres in the Western Imagination

    The Music of the Spheres in the Western Imagination describes various systematic musical ecologies of the cosmos by examining attempts over time to define Western theoretical musical systems, whether practical, human, nonhuman, or celestial. This book focuses on the theoretical, theological, philosophical, physical, and...
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  • The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Policy by Homan, Shane
    Shane Homan

    The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Policy

    The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Policy is the first thorough analysis of how policy frames the behavior of audiences, industries, and governments in the production and consumption of popular music. Covering a range of industrial and national contexts, this collection assesses how music...
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  • Woo!: Strange Happenings at the Windmill and Other Tangential Rants by Thomson, Dave
    Dave Thomson

    Woo!: Strange Happenings at the Windmill and Other Tangential Rants

    Join Dave Thomson on a riotous night out centred around two important Brixton venues, where he regales us with tales from the not-too-distant past. You know. Pre-pandemic gigs? The old normal. Where you could mosh with strangers, collapse in a sweaty heap, share the...
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  • Turn On, Tune In, Drift Off: Ambient Music's Psychedelic Past by Szabo, Victor
    Victor Szabo

    Turn On, Tune In, Drift Off: Ambient Music's Psychedelic Past

    Turn On, Tune In, Drift Off: Ambient Music's Psychedelic Past rethinks the history and socioaesthetics of ambient music as a popular genre with roots in the psychedelic countercultures of the late twentieth century. Victor Szabo reveals how anglophone audio producers and DJs between the...
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  • Music, Philosophy and Gender in Nancy, Lacoue-Labarthe, Badiou by Hickmott, Sarah
    Sarah Hickmott

    Music, Philosophy and Gender in Nancy, Lacoue-Labarthe, Badiou

    What counts as music for contemporary thinkers? Why is music of use to philosophers and how do they use it in their work? How do philosophers decide what music is and what assumptions are uncritically inherited in this move? And what is the philosophical...
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  • The Viennese Waltz: Decadence and the Decline of Austria's Unconscious by Hood, Danielle
    Danielle Hood

    The Viennese Waltz: Decadence and the Decline of Austria's Unconscious

    This book shows how over the hundred years between the Vienna Congress and the dissolution of the Empire, the waltz altered from signifier of upper-class artifice--covering with glitz and glamour the poverty and war central to the time--to the link between the three classes,...
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  • Pop Music Legends: Compendium of Recorded Music by Moore, Hank
    Hank Moore

    Pop Music Legends: Compendium of Recorded Music

    Pop Music Legends fondly reviews all eras and aspects of the music industry.Author: Hank MooreISBN-10: 1631959670ISBN-13: 9781631959677Publisher: Morgan James PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/06/2022Pages: 296Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.39lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.81d
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  • Pop Music Legends: Compendium of Recorded Music by Moore, Hank
    Hank Moore

    Pop Music Legends: Compendium of Recorded Music

    Pop Music Legends fondly reviews all eras and aspects of the music industry.Author: Hank MooreISBN-10: 1631959654ISBN-13: 9781631959653Publisher: Morgan James PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/06/2022Pages: 296Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.01lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.67d
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  • The Real Daft Punk by Rosen, Harris
    Harris Rosen

    The Real Daft Punk

    The Real Daft Punk embodies the dynamic practices and principles that launched Daft Punk to superstardom presenting the essence and gift of Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo. A profound reflection of the tidal ebbs and flows of Dance Music intersected with divergent thinking....
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  • The Genesis and Structure of the Hungarian Jazz Diaspora by Havas, Ádám
    ﾁd疥 Havas

    The Genesis and Structure of the Hungarian Jazz Diaspora

    In Hungary, jazz was at the forefront of heated debates sparked by the racialised tensions between national music traditions and newly emerging forms of popular culture that challenged the prevailing status quo within the cultural hierarchies of different historical eras. Drawing on an extensive,...
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  • The Act Of Becoming by Segal-Garcia, Cathy
    Cathy Segal-Garcia

    The Act Of Becoming

    I'm looking for meaning in my life.Does this sound familiar?It should. We all look.Maybe it takes a few decades to get to the point of looking.Maybe it comes and goes. Or goes and comes.There are all kinds of lessons around me, to teach me...
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  • The Bloomsbury Handbook of Rock Music Research by Moore, Allan
    Allan Moore

    The Bloomsbury Handbook of Rock Music Research

    The Bloomsbury Handbook of Rock Music Researchis the first comprehensive academic survey of the field of rock music as it stands today. More than 50 years into its life and we still ask - what is rock music, why is it studied, and how...
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  • Pearl Jam and Philosophy by Marino, Stefano
    Stefano Marino

    Pearl Jam and Philosophy

    The first scholarly discussion on the band, Pearl Jam and Philosophy examines both the songs (music and lyrics) and the activities (live performances, political commitments) of one of the most celebrated and charismatic rock bands of the last 30 years. The book investigates the...
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  • The Acoustics of the Social on Page and Screen by Aghoro, Nathalie
    Nathalie Aghoro

    The Acoustics of the Social on Page and Screen

    Sound positions individuals as social subjects. The presence of human beings, animals, objects, or technologies reverberates into the spaces we inhabit and produces distinct soundscapes that render social practices, group associations, and socio-cultural tensions audible. The Acoustics of the Social on Page and Screen...
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  • The Present and Future of Music Law by Harrison, Ann
    Ann Harrison

    The Present and Future of Music Law

    The music business is a multifaceted, transnational industry that operates within complex and rapidly changing political, economic, cultural and technological contexts. The mode and manner of how music is created, obtained, consumed and exploited is evolving rapidly. It is based on relationships that can...
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  • Troubling Inheritances: Memory, Music, and Aging by Cohen, Sara
    Sara Cohen

    Troubling Inheritances: Memory, Music, and Aging

    This book provides an interdisciplinary focus on music, memory, and ageing by examining how they intersect outside of a formal therapeutic context or framework and by offering a counter-narrative to age as decline. It contributes to the development of qualitative research methodologies by utilizing...
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  • The Dialectics of Music: Adorno, Benjamin, and Deleuze by Weiss, Joseph
    Joseph Weiss

    The Dialectics of Music: Adorno, Benjamin, and Deleuze

    Combining the philosophy and musicology of T.W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and Gilles Deleuze, alongside an exploration of the dialectical character of music production, Joseph Weiss exposes the unresolved contradictions of contemporary music. By following the outermost mediations between nature, history, and technology, the book...
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  • Woodstock University by Lovesey, Oliver
    Oliver Lovesey

    Woodstock University

    Woodstock University addresses the educational interface of 1969's iconic Woodstock Festival, as a number of its attendees and performers would later become academics 'with a touch of gray, ' and it also considers the role of music in Woodstock's legacy as the embodiment of...
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  • Noise as a Constructive Element in Music: Theoretical and Music-Analytical Perspectives by Delaere, Mark
    Mark Delaere

    Noise as a Constructive Element in Music: Theoretical and Music-Analytical Perspectives

    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...
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  • Sounds of the Pandemic: Accounts, Experiences, Perspectives in Times of COVID-19 by Agamennone, Maurizio
    Maurizio Agamennone

    Sounds of the Pandemic: Accounts, Experiences, Perspectives in Times of COVID-19

    Sounds of the Pandemic offers one of the first critical analyses of the changes in sonic environments, artistic practice, and listening behaviour caused by the Coronavirus outbreak. This multifaceted collection provides a detailed picture of a wide array of phenomena related to sound and...
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  • The Mediations of Music: Critical Approaches After Adorno by Borio, Gianmario
    Gianmario Borio

    The Mediations of Music: Critical Approaches after Adorno

    Adorno believed that a circular relationship was established between immediacy and mediation. Should we now say that this model with its clear Hegelian influence is outdated? Or does it need some theoretical integration? This volume addresses these questions by covering the performance of music,...
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  • The Life of Music: New Adventures in the Western Classical Tradition by Kenyon, Nicholas
    Nicholas Kenyon

    The Life of Music: New Adventures in the Western Classical Tradition

    Nicholas Kenyon explores the enduring appeal of the classical canon at a moment when we can access all music--across time and cultures "Nicholas Kenyon is an amiable and enthusiastic guide to a thousand years of classical music."--Neil Fisher, The Times "A wonderfully engaging survey....
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  • Tuning the World: The Rise of 440 Hertz in Music, Science, and Politics, 1859-1955 by Gribenski, Fanny
    Fanny Gribenski

    Tuning the World: The Rise of 440 Hertz in Music, Science, and Politics, 1859-1955

    Tuning the World tells the unknown story of how the musical pitch A 440 became the global norm. Now commonly accepted as the point of reference for musicians in the Western world, A 440 hertz only became the standard pitch during an international conference...
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  • On Minimalism: Documenting a Musical Movement by O'Brien, Kerry
    Kerry O'Brien

    On Minimalism: Documenting a Musical Movement

    A revisionist history of minimalism's transformative rise, through the voices of the musicians who created it. When composers like Philip Glass and Steve Reich began creating hypnotically repetitive music in the 1960s, it upended the world of American composition. But minimalism was more than...
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  • On Minimalism: Documenting a Musical Movement by O'Brien, Kerry
    Kerry O'Brien

    On Minimalism: Documenting a Musical Movement

    A revisionist history of minimalism's transformative rise, through the voices of the musicians who created it. When composers like Philip Glass and Steve Reich began creating hypnotically repetitive music in the 1960s, it upended the world of American composition. But minimalism was more than...
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  • Tonight It's a World We Bury: Black Metal, Red Politics by Peel, Bill
    Bill Peel

    Tonight It's a World We Bury: Black Metal, Red Politics

    Author: Bill PeelISBN-10: 1914420365ISBN-13: 9781914420368Publisher: RepeaterLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/23/2023Pages: 208Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 7.40h x 5.20w x 1.00d
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  • The Little Book of Country: The Music's History, Hits, and Heartaches by Hippo! Orange
    Hippo! Orange

    The Little Book of Country: The Music's History, Hits, and Heartaches

    Everything you wanted to know about country, from the men and women who put the music on the map, to the genres, guitars and history, to the greatest hits of all time. From the early beginnings of bluegrass, cowboys and Aussie bush balladeers through...
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  • Warren Zevon and Philosophy by MacKinnon, John
    John E. MacKinnon

    Warren Zevon and Philosophy: Beyond Reptile Wisdom

    Warren Zevon and Philosophy is a collection of chapters on Zevon's life and music, authored by philosophers who are also Zevon fans, providing new and exciting insights into Zevon's thinking, his cynical lyrics, and the cruel ironies of his roller-coaster life and career.Since his...
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  • Playing for Peace: Reclaiming Our Human Nature by Keil, Charles
    Charles Keil

    Playing for Peace: Reclaiming Our Human Nature

    Some call it the Anthroposcene: humans taking responsibility for the mess we have made here on Mother Earth. I have come to believe that drumming-singing-dancing-ngoma in every echological niche is the way out. And every goma becoming a dromena, i.e. we're doing the rite...
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  • Youtube and Music: Online Culture and Everyday Life by Vernallis, Carol
    Carol Vernallis

    Youtube and Music: Online Culture and Everyday Life

    YouTube has afforded new ways of documenting, performing and circulating musical creativity. This first open access sustained exploration of YouTube and music shows how record companies, musicians and amateur users have embraced YouTube's potential to promote artists, stage performances, build artistic (cyber)identity, initiate interactive...
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  • Vinyl Theory by Di Leo, Jeffrey R.
    Jeffrey R. Di Leo

    Vinyl Theory

    Why are vinyl records making a comeback? How is their resurgence connected to the political economy of music? Vinyl Theory responds to these and other questions by exploring the intersection of vinyl records with critical theory. In the process, it asks how the political...
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  • Nietzsche's the Case of Wagner and Nietzsche Contra Wagner by Harvey, Ryan
    Ryan Harvey

    Nietzsche's the Case of Wagner and Nietzsche Contra Wagner

    Wagner was a lifelong obsession for Nietzsche. No other topic or figure more consistently and persistently appears in Nietzsche's books from beginning to end as do Wagner and his theories. For the first time, Ryan Harvey and Aaron Ridley put Wagner centre-stage in their...
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  • Rhythm and Critique: Technics, Modalities, Practices by Crespi, Paola
    Paola Crespi

    Rhythm and Critique: Technics, Modalities, Practices

    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...
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  • Transcultural Sound Practices: British Asian Dance Music as Cultural Transformation by Maier, Carla J.
    Carla J. Maier

    Transcultural Sound Practices: British Asian Dance Music as Cultural Transformation

    Listening to the sound practices of bands and musicians such as the Asian Dub Foundation or M.I.A., and spanning three decades of South Asian dance music production in the UK, Transcultural Sound Practiceszooms in on the concrete sonic techniques and narrative strategies in South...
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  • Rock and Romanticism: Blake, Wordsworth, and Rock from Dylan to U2 by Rovira, James
    James Rovira

    Rock and Romanticism: Blake, Wordsworth, and Rock from Dylan to U2

    Rock and Romanticism: Blake, Wordsworth, and Rock from Dylan to U2 is an edited anthology that seeks to explain just how rock and roll is a Romantic phenomenon that sheds light, retrospectively, on what literary Romanticism was at its different points of origin and...
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  • Peculiar Attunements: How Affect Theory Turned Musical by Grant, Roger Mathew
    Roger Mathew Grant

    Peculiar Attunements: How Affect Theory Turned Musical

    Peculiar Attunements places the recent turn to affect into conversation with an earlier affective turn that took place in European music theory of the eighteenth century. It offers a new way of thinking through affect historically and dialectically, drawing attention to repeating patterns and...
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  • Ranciere and Music by Cachopo, João Pedro
    Jo縊 Pedro Cachopo

    Ranciere and Music

    The place of music in Ranci鑽e's thought has long been underestimated or unrecognised. This volume responds to this absence with a collection of 15 essays by scholars from a variety of music- and sound-related fields, including an Afterword by Ranci鑽e on the role of...
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  • The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Policy by Homan, Shane
    Shane Homan

    The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Policy

    The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Policy is the first thorough analysis of how policy frames the behavior of audiences, industries, and governments in the production and consumption of popular music. Covering a range of industrial and national contexts, this collection assesses how music...
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  • Rockin' the Free World!: How the Rock & Roll Revolution Changed America and the World by Kay, Sean
    Sean Kay

    Rockin' the Free World!: How the Rock & Roll Revolution Changed America and the World

    In Rockin' the Free World, international relations expert Sean Kay takes readers inside "Bob Dylan's America" and shows how this vision linked the rock and roll revolution to American values of freedom, equality, human rights, and peace while tracing how those values have spread...
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  • The Psychology of Music: A Very Short Introduction by Margulis, Elizabeth Hellmuth
    Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis

    The Psychology of Music: A Very Short Introduction

    Music has been examined from multiple perspectives: as a product of human history, for example, or a product of human culture. But there is also a long tradition, intensified in recent decades, of thinking about music as a product of the human mind. Whether...
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  • Sonic Identity at the Margins by Love, Joanna
    Joanna Love

    Sonic Identity at the Margins

    Sonic Identity at the Margins convenes the interdisciplinary work of 17 academics, composers, and performers to examine sonic identity from the 19th century to the present. Recognizing the myriad aspects of identity formation, the authors in this volume adopt methodological approaches that range from...
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