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Balzac und Deutschland - Deutschland und Balzac
Narr Francke Attempto 2012; US$ 54.01Hauptbeschreibung Deutschland spielt im Werk und im Leben Balzacs eine nicht zu unterschätzende Rolle. Nicht nur, dass Balzac Deutschland von verschiedenen Reisen her kannte, er schätzte deutsche Autoren wie Jean Paul und E.T.A. Hoffmann, war mit Heinrich Heine persönlich befreundet und widmete ihm einen seiner Romane, kannte aber auch deutsche Musik... more...
Musikwissenschaft und Musikpädagogik im interdisziplinären Diskurs
Georg Olms Verlag 2006; US$ 22.03Hauptbeschreibung Ute Jung-Kaiser hat mit ihrem Ouvre einen bedeutenden Beitrag sowohl zur Musikwissenschaft als auch zur Musikpädagogik geleistet. Insbesondere die Interdisziplinarität der Wissenschaften und Künste war und ist ihr ein Anliegen. Mit dem Ziel, das große Spektrum der wissenschaftlichen Tätigkeit Ute Jung-Kaisers aufzuzeigen, versammelt... more...
World Music
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 75.95The second edition of World Music: A Global Journey introduces students to the diversity of musical expression around the world. It takes the reader across the globe to experience cultural traditions that challenge the ear, the mind, and the spirit. It presents a systematic study of varied traditions in a non-technical language accessible to any... more...
Music Autoethnographies
Australian Academic Press 2009; US$ 23.95Autoethnography is an autobiographical genre that connects the personal to the cultural, social, and political. The synergies between music and autoethnography are promising, ready to be fully realised. For the first time, this edited volume explores these synergies by presenting work in which the relationship between these two areas is explored through... more...
Foundations of Music History
Cambridge University Press 1983; US$ 37.00A study of the philosophy of music history. more...
Music in Words
Oxford University Press, USA 2009; US$ 18.99Acknowledgements. A note about academic writing conventions. Introduction. Part I. 1. How to write: some basics for shorter writing tasks. 2. Doing research: a basic method for longer projects. 3. Using libraries and the Internet. 4. Scholarly documentation: citing sources. 5. Using illustrations: notated music, pictures, tables, and other visual representations.... more...
Music and the Politics of Negation
Indiana University Press 2012; US$ 28.99Over the past quarter century, music studies in the academy have their postmodern credentials by insisting that our scholarly engagements start and end by placing music firmly within its various historical and social contexts. In Music and the Politics of Negation, James R. Currie sets out to disturb the validity of this now quite orthodox claim.... more...
The Illiterate Listener
Amsterdam University Press 2011; US$ 12.25Since infancy we humans have had a high perceptual sensitivity to both the melodic, rhythmic and dynamic aspects of speech and music. It is, as far as we know, a uniquely human talent for perceiving, interpreting and appreciating music, dating as far back before words were spoken, or even invented. Music has an intriguing way with our hearing, our... more...
Music as a Science of Mankind in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2012; US$ 99.95Music as a Science of Mankind offers a philosophical and historical perspective on the intellectual representation of music in British eighteenth-century culture. A particularly rich field of investigation, developed between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, was the British philosophy of the mind and of human understanding which looked at music... more...
The Cultural Study of Music
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 44.95What is the relationship between music and culture? The first edition of The Cultural Study of Music: A Critical Introduction explored this question with groundbreaking rigor and breadth. Now this second edition refines that original analysis while examining the ways the field has developed in the years since the book?s initial publication. Including... more...









