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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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An enlightening exploration of the concept of listening and the evolving role of the listener from Beethoven to Charlie Parker to contemporary remixing.
In this intimate meditation on listening, Peter Szendy examines what the role of the listener is, and has been, through the centuries. The roles of the composer and the musician are clear, but where exactly does the listener stand in relation to music? What is the responsibility of the listener?...
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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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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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-¡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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En Desde la escucha. Creación, investigación e intermedia, Manuel Rocha Iturbide señala la importancia de la relación entre la creación y la investigación, abordando la praxis artística a partir del mundo del conocimiento integrado por las distintas disciplinas estéticas, así como por otros ámbitos que son imprescindibles para comprender el mundo fuera de las órbitas de lo emocional, lo estético y lo sensible, como son las ciencias humanas,...
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This is a collection of funny and inspiring stories from some of my rest home singalongs.
After a fun hour of singing and joking around one lady said, "You make us feel young again . . . if only for an hour." That's the comment that started me thinking I need to collect these wonderful stories and share them. Hope you like them. Rick.
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Alfredo Zotti, a professional musician and bipolar survivor with a university degree in social anthropology and three years study of psychology, provides an introduction to music theory with specific case studies of applications for Alzheimer's, bipolar disorder, autism spectrum disorder (ASD), schizophrenia, anxiety, depression and other issues. Working primarily as a peer support counselor, his person-centered methods are respectful of client's...
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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...
13) 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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Contra la idea de que la globalización conduce a una cultura homogénea, bajo la batuta estandarizadora de los Estados Unidos, Néstor García Canclini dijo alguna vez que "hay muchas más oportunidades en nuestro futuro que optar entre McDonald's y Macondo". Las historias de músicos en tránsito que se cuentan en este libro muestran, precisamente, cómo algunos de los artistas más influyentes de la música popular argentina hicieron una carrera...
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Las páginas de este libro muestran los resultados de una investigación sobre el son jarocho y jazz, específicamente, de su música a partir de las semejanzas. Se abordan temas concernientes al ritmo, melodía, armonía, instrumentación y técnica. Dichos tópicos son comunes en bibliografías musicales de otras latitudes y especializaciones, sin embargo, en lo que atañe al son jarocho, son contados los libros que examinan solo a la música, y...
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¿Qué papel tiene la música en la vida sexual de las personas? ¿Cuáles son las representaciones de la sexualidad en las obras musicales clásicas y populares? ¿Qué consecuencias tienen, sobre la insistente presencia del sexo y el amor en la historia de la música, su devenir comercial y su digitalización? ¿Cómo podemos repensar, a partir de la sexualidad, los poderes de la música?
Desde Mozart hasta Adorno, desde Wagner hasta Cardi B, pasando...
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Why teach music? Who deserves a music education? Can making and learning about music serve the common good? A collection of essays considers the answers.
In Humane Music Education for the Common Good, scholars and educators from around the world offer unique responses to the recent UNESCO report titled Rethinking Education: Toward the Common Good. This report suggests how, through purpose, policy, and pedagogy, education can and must respond to the...
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This fascinating book, which explores an intriguing idea formulated by Dietrich Bonhoeffer in the very last months of his life, has up until now been available only to German readers. Since Polyphonie des Lebens first appeared twenty-five years ago, a whole new generation of scholars has come into contact, in English as well as in the original German, with the entire collection of his works, as well as with a huge body of Bonhoeffer studies that have...
19) Music Theory
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Music is found in every identified culture that man has ever known, in past and in present. Every ancient tribe, even the isolated ones have known to have music especially in their rituals and prayers. Music has always been a part of us since the ancient times. According to historians it has existence among us for the past 55,000 years. Initially music may have been invented in Africa which later developed to become an imperative part in human life.
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Hey Suburbia: A Guide to the Emo/Pop-Punk Rise chronicles the music of the Warped Tour generation that launched bands like Paramore and My Chemical Romance into superstardom. Music journalist Mike Damante covered the genre for one of the largest media companies in North America, and has compiled the stories of 1990s-2000s emo and pop-punk explosion as told by himself, the bands, publicists, and the fans who never stopped listening. Featuring interviews...
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