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Your Playlist Can Change Your Lifeby Joseph Cardillo; Don DuRousseau; Galina Mindlin
Sourcebooks 2012; US$ 9.99Unlock the power of the songs in your pocket Maybe you blast the speakers when you need to get pumped up. If that's all you do, though, you're not taking full advantage of the way music can help you. Listen to a slower track first and the one-two punch of the playlist can push you even higher. Overflowing with easy-to-use tips like these, Your Playlist Can Change Your Life is the first book to offer scientifically proven methods for using your favorite music to enhance your life. You'll discover how you can use the tunes you love to: ?Relieve anxiety ?Increase your alertness ?Feel happier ?Organize your brain ?Sharpen your memory ?Improve your mood ?Live creatively ?Enhance your ability to fight off stress, insomnia, depression,... more...
Music, Music Therapy and Traumaby Julie P. Sutton
Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2002; US$ 34.95Music communicates where words fail, and music therapy has been proven to connect with those who were thought to be unreachable, making it an ideal medium for working with those who have suffered psychological trauma. Music, Music Therapy and Trauma addresses the need for an exploration of current thinking on music and trauma. With chapters written by many of today's leading specialists in this area, music and trauma is approached from a wide range of perspectives, with contributions on: neurology of trauma and music; music and trauma in general; social and cultural perspectives on trauma; contextualising contemporary classical music and conflict; music and trauma in areas where there is war, community unrest and violence (Northern Ireland,... more...
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...
Music Therapyby Leslie Bunt
Routledge 1994; US$ 42.50Music therapy is a relatively new discipline, It is being increasingly recognised at a time when there has never been such a variety of music available to so many people. We may go regularly to the concert hall, the opera house, to a jazz club or a pop concert. We may be members of a local choir, band or orchestra. Music of all styles is also available to us at the push of a button in the comfort of our own homes. We seldom meet people who report no liking for any kind of music whatsoever. more...
Sound Tracksby John Connell; Chris Gibson
Routledge 2002; US$ 61.95Sound Tracks traces the relationships between music, space and identity from inner city 'scenes' to the music of nations, to give a wide-ranging perspective on popular music. more...
Music and the Cognitive Sciencesby Ian Cross
Routledge 1993; US$ 105.00Over the last decade, cognitive science has increasingly come to be seen as offering an appropriate framework within which to explore and to explain issues in musical listening, performance, composition, development and analysis. There are a number of reasons for this. As cognitive science develops, it provides progressively more and more sophisticated and plausible accounts of the phenomena of mental life. Moreover, cognitive science appears to offer frameworks of understanding (or at least modes of enquiry) which appear largely ?culturally-neutral?. more...
Between Couch and Pianoby Gilbert J. Rose
Brunner-Routledge 2004; US$ 34.95Between Couch and Piano links well-established psychoanalytic ideas with historical and neurological theory to help us begin to understand from a psychoanalytic perspective some of the reasons behind music's ubiquity and power. 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...
Perception And Cognition Of Musicby Irene Deliege; John A. Sloboda
Psychology Press 1997; US$ 120.00This text comprises of papers relating to music and mind. It presents a range of approaches from the psychological through the computational, to the musicological. more...