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Musical Performanceby Stan Godlovitch
Routledge 1998; US$ 37.95This radical new evaluation of music making in the past and future will be essential reading for students of aesthetics, the philosophy of music, as well as musicologists and performance specialists. more...
Media Policy and Music Activityby Roger Wallis; Krister Malm
Routledge 1993; US$ 45.95Case studies are combined with a broad theoretical approach to look at the relationship between policies governing the output of the music media and music activity in society. more...
The Improvisation of Musical Dialogueby Bruce Ellis Benson
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 27.00This book is an important contribution to the philosophy of music. Bruce Benson's concern is the phenomenology of music making as an activity. He offers a radical thesis that it is improvisation that is primary in the moment of music making. It will be a provocative read. more...
Musical Representations, Subjects, and Objectsby Jairo Moreno
Indiana University Press 2004; US$ 35.95Jairo Moreno adapts the methodologies and nomenclature of Foucault's "archaeology of knowledge" and applies it through individual case studies to the theoretical writings of Zarlino, Descartes, Rameau, and Weber. His conclusion summarizes the conditions -- musical, philosophical, and historical -- that "make a certain form of thought about music necessary and possible at the time it emerges." Musical Meaning and Interpretation -- Robert S. Hatten, editor more...
The Cowboy and the Dandyby Perry Meisel
Oxford University Press 1999; US$ 70.00What is rock and roll and where does it come from? In this study of music, literature and culture, Perry Meisel shows how rock and roll joins both Romanticism and the blues tradition by testing the boundaries they share including those between freedom and irony, country and city, cowboy and dandy. more...
Meter As Rhythmby Christopher Hasty
Oxford University Press 1997; US$ 150.00This work presents a theory of musical duration. Drawing on insights from modern "process" philosophy, it advances a fully temporal perspective in which metre is released from its mechanistic connotations and recognized as a concrete, visceral agent of musical expression. more...
Rebirth of Musicby Lamar Boschman
Treasures Media Inc 2006; US$ 8.39In The Rebirth of Music you will discover why music is mentioned 989 times in the Scriptures and why God places such a major priority on it. more...
The Digital Musicianby Andrew Hugill
Taylor & Francis 2007; US$ 46.95The Digital Musician examines cultural awareness, artistic identity and musical skill through the prism of recent technological innovations. more...
Well-Tund Wordby Elise Bickford Jorgens
University of Minnesota Press 1982; US$ 72.00The years 1957-1651 marked a period of high achievement in the history of song. In The Well-Tund Word Elise Bickford Jorgens studies changing musical conventions of English song in relation to new patterns in poetic taste from the late Elizabethan era th more...
Country Music Changed My Lifeby Ken Burke
Chicago Review Press 2005; US$ 9.95In this book based on new interviews, some of country music's greatest stars share personal moments of redemption, inspiration, and heartache related to the music that shaped their lives. Brenda Lee explains how her childhood singing gift raised her entire family out of dire poverty, and Pat Boone speaks about the spiritual influence of his father-in-law, Red Foley. Barbara Pittman talks about her childhood friendship with Elvis Presley, while Little Jimmy Dickens divulges how Hank Williams came to write a song for him and why he never recorded it. Mickey Gilley talks about gladly living in, then gladly escaping, the shadow of his cousin Jerry Lee Lewis, and Hank Thompson reveals how his background in electrical engineering helped revolutionize... more...