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A radio playlist could easily follow John Lennon's "Mind Games" with "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy." But comparing the two, it becomes obvious that Lennon had more in common with the great thinkers of any age than with the songwriters who were his contemporaries. Cynical Idealist reveals, for the first time, the spiritual odyssey of this extraordinary man. Out of a turbulent life, from his troubled, working-class childhood throughout his many roles - Beatle,...
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Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR and GQ
Joining the ranks of the classics Please Kill Me, Our Band Could Be Your Life, and Can't Stop Won't Stop, an intriguing oral history of the post-9/11 decline of the old-guard music industry and rebirth of the New York rock scene, led by a group of iconoclastic rock bands.
In the second half of the twentieth-century New York was the source of new sounds, including the Greenwich
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For the first time, serious thinkers explore the work of this towering genius of rock music. For fans of Tom Petty, this volume is an eye-opener, with fourteen music-savvy philosophers looking at different facets of Petty's artistic contribution. They examine not only Tom Petty's thoughts but also the thoughts we have while we listen. The authors, all Petty fans, come from every philosophical viewpoint: classical, analytic, postmodernist, phenomenological,...
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"From television actress, Broadway star, and New York Times bestselling author Kristin Chenoweth comes I'm No Philosopher, But I Got Thoughts, an inspiring high-design, colorful book featuring philosophical-ish musings on connection, creativity, loss, love, faith, and closure. Just like Kristin's grandmother inspired her to trust her heart and develop her own belief system, you'll be inspired to develop your own life philosophies, as you journey through...
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Mozart's Don Giovanni is an operatic masterpiece full of iconic and mythical tensions that still resonate today. The work redefines the terms of power, seduction, and morality, and the resulting conflict between the aesthetic and the ethical is deeply rooted in the Enlightenment and romanticism. The Don Giovanni Moment is the first book to examine the aesthetic and moral legacy of Mozart's opera in the literature, philosophy, and culture of the nineteenth...
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Drone and Apocalypse is an exhibit catalog for a retrospective of twenty-first-century art. Its narrator, Cynthia Wey, is a failed artist convinced that apocalypse is imminent. She writes critical essays delineating apocalyptic tendencies in drone music and contemporary art. Interspersed amid these essays are "speculative artworks", Wey's term for descriptions of artworks she never constructs that center around the extinction of humanity. Wey's favorite...
8) Aretephos
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Aretephos offers a new way of understanding art, music and language. Your ideas about art and the world around you may never be the same again. Aretephos Studio emerged as a medium of symbolic art-'Aretephos'-where works are defined and motivated by geometric shapes and script. Quotes are by various philosophers, scientists, musicians, spiritualists, poets, and dramatists that have shaped humanity into what it is today.
Artist Apostolos Stefanopoulos...
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Probablemente, el compositor francés Hector Berlioz desaprobaría la publicación de un libro que tratase sobre su propio sistema filosófico, por el sencillo motivo de que él mismo jamás mostró interés alguno por la filosofía. Berlioz fue un hombre de acción y lo que aquí presentamos como posicionamientos estéticos, para él no era más que la aplicación, a través del sentido común y de la creencia en la «música expresiva» como arte...
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"From Rush frontman Geddy Lee's personal collection of vintage electric bass guitars, dating from the 1950s to the 1980s, comes the definitive volume on the subject. Geddy's love of the bass has been nurtured over a lifetime spent in the limelight as one of the world's premier rock bassists. For the past seven years, he's dedicated himself to studying the history of the instrument that's been so essential to his career, collecting hundreds of basses...
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Here I'm Alive explores the musical foundation of being human from a psychoanalytic perspective.
Writing in collaboration, three psychoanalytic clinicians develop a fresh vision of the essential role of music in psychical life. Through an interdisciplinary exploration, Here I'm Alive shows how music is fundamental to becoming human, establishing our embodied sense of membership and participation in a shared world through the fabric of culture. With...
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You will find a photographic image of the facts behind the corruption of individuals and masses, declining ethical values and the psychological, sociological and economical insects of society and the people who diseased from these. And, you will be reading the way of salvation and bless by the light of science and Islam. Thus, the wisdom behind the phrase of "Who knows the self, knows the Lord" will be more meaningful and perceivable. Then as a positive...
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Melancology addresses the notorious musical genre black metal as a negative form of environmental writing that 'blackens' the cosmos. This book conjures a new word and concept that conjoins 'black' and 'ecology', melancology, a word in which can be, heard the melancholy affect appropriate to the conjunction. Black metal resounds from the abyss and it is precisely only in relation to its sonic forces that the question of intervention in the environment...
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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 by the music of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. In the words of the author, 'Philosophy is in this music and it is of this music and for this music.' The author is an accomplished...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson was born on 25 of May 1803 in Boston and was a famous writer, American philosopher and poet.
The Naturalist and The Poet was published in 1836 and is considered one of the most important works of Emerson and served as a major inspiration for writers like Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson and Henry David Thoreau in Walden, one of the most important American classics.
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In a narrative that extends from fin de siècle Paris to the 1960s, Edmund Mendelssohn examines modernist thinkers and composers who engaged with non-European and pre-modern cultures as they developed new conceptions of "pure sound." Pairing Erik Satie with Bergson, Edgard Varèse with Bataille, Pierre Boulez with Artaud, and John Cage with Derrida, White Musical Mythologies offers an ambitious critical history of the ontology of sound, suggesting...
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Maria Diaz, originally from Ecuador, teaches math in a Miami high school. She is intellectual, loves poetry and likes music-from classical to Andean, to tangos-and suffers from insomnia. Sleep intrigues her. She does the math and figures that over a sixty-year span we sleep the staggering sum of twenty years. Where does all that time go? Is it a waste? Or does it have a hidden redeeming value? Finding answers to these questions becomes her quest.
She...
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Si la pandemia ha dejado alguna realidad al descubierto, es la manera en que el vínculo humano otorga permanencia, calidad y significado emocional al aprendizaje. En este sentido, la riqueza expresivo-comunicativa del educador catalizará el intercambio vincular pertinente para que el aprendizaje se motive y despierte.
Entendemos por estéticas del vínculo a ese conjunto de percepciones que se constituyen en el intercambio educativo, en donde las...
19) 100 Cassettes
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100 Cassettes started life as one hundred hand drawn cassette covers for an installation at the dA Center for the Arts in Pomona. This book features one hundred chapters on artists and the inner life of music.
Find early entries of abstraction on Alice Cooper, Earl Sweatshirt, Talk Talk, and Prince as well as non fiction meditations on Tony Conrad, Black Sabbath, The Fall, and The Sun City Girls.
Featuring a foreword by Jonathan Lethem and an afterword...
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-¡Cante con todas sus fuerzas! Es una certeza: cantar es bueno para nosotros. Entre otros beneficios, reduce la presión sanguínea y mejora la autoestima y la postura.
-Este libro ofrece una guía experta y ejercicios prácticos para ayudarle a añadir ritmo a su vida.
-De la mano de Rosie Dow, profesora de canto con una extensa carrera y experiencia, descubra cómo controlar la voz, disfrutar de los beneficios físicos y emocionales del canto,...
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