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Sound Ideas
University of Minnesota Press 2005; US$ 70.50Aden Evens provides an acute consideration of how music becomes sensible, advancing original variations on the themes of creativity and habit, analog and digital technologies, and improvisation and repetition. Sound Ideas reinvents the philosophy of music in a way that encompasses traditional aspects of musicology, avant-garde explorations of music's... more...
Making Easy Listening
University of Minnesota Press 2006; US$ 69.00In Making Easy Listening, Tim J. Anderson analyzes the period between the Second World War and the mid-1960s that saw the American music industry engaged in a fundamental transformation in how music was produced and experienced. Anderson presents a social and cultural history of musical production that aims to understand how recording technologies... more...
Developing Variations
University of Minnesota Press 1987; US$ 90.00Combines into a cohesive statement the authors pathbreaking critical essays on Western music. more...
The Invention of "Folk Music" and "Art Music"
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 32.00A study tracing the origins and implications of the categories folk music and art music. more...
Music, Philosophy, and Modernity
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 40.00Andrew Bowie uses music to question many current ideas about language, meaning and philosophy. more...
Focus on Music of South Africa
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 52.95Focus: Music of South Africa provides an in-depth look at the full spectrum of South African music, a musical culture that epitomizes the enormous ethnic, religious, linguistic, class, and gender diversity of the nation itself. Drawing on extensive field and archival research, as well as her own personal experiences, noted ethnomusicologist and... more...
True to the Roots
University of Nebraska Press 2006; US$ 24.95Americana music isn't just a musical form. It's a state of mind. This book charts the coordinates of this state of mind with a series of interviews and portraits from the heart of alternative country, often known to its adherents simply as OKOM: Our Kind of Music. more...
Popular Music in Vietnam
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 44.95Based on the author?s research in Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, and other urban areas in Vietnam, this study of contemporary Vietnamese popular music explores the ways globalization and free market economics have influenced the music and subcultures of Vietnamese youth, focusing on the conflict between the politics of remembering, nurtured by the Vietnamese... more...
Put Your Dreams First
Grand Central Publishing 2009; US$ 9.99There is a great mystique about the entertainment industry and a fervent desire in many to be part of it. But what many women don't realize is that most entertainment career guides are written from the point of view of the male executive, or are filled with industry and legal jargon-making them difficult to read and understand. Now, in PUT YOUR... more...
Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2008; US$ 15.95Before his untimely death in 1982, Lester Bangs was inarguably the most influential critic of rock and roll. Writing in hyper-intelligent Benzedrine prose that calls to mind Jack Kerouac and Hunter S. Thompson, he eschewed all conventional thinking as he discussed everything from Black Sabbath being the first truly Catholic band to Anne Murray?s smoldering... more...









