Aesthetics of Music, Paperback

Transmedia Directors focuses on artist-practitioners who work across media, platforms and disciplines, including film, television, music video, com...

Contributor(s): Author: Roger ScrutonWith Understanding Music and The Aesthetics of Music (1997) Roger Scruton set a new standard of rigour and ser...

Theodor W Adorno (1903-1969), one of the principal figures associated with the Frankfurt School, wrote extensively on culture, modernity, aesthetic...

Reducere. Adorno is one of this century's most influential thinkers in the areas of social theory, philosophy, aesthetics, and music. Throughout the essays i...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Lydia (Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics, Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics, Columbia Un...

In this major new interpretation of the music of J.S. Bach, we gain a striking picture of the composer as a unique critic of his age. By reading Ba...

The phenomenon of innovative German electronic music band Kraftwerk is explored in immersive depth in this intimate look at the personalities and c...

This book investigates queering in popular music and video, interpreting the music of numerous pop artists, styles, and idioms to contribute to the...

This is the first introductory survey of western twentieth-century music to address popular music, art music and jazz on equal terms. It highlights...

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Offers a study of energies in aesthetics and the arts, from the birth of modern communications in the nineteenth century to the global transmission...

"We have in this book a Rosetta stone for mediating, or translating, African musical behavior and aesthetics."--Andrew Tracey, African Music "John ...

Explores the political aesthetics of 'lateness' in the cultural sphere after World War I, mapping intersections between the activities, attitudes a...

The correspondence between John Cage and Peter Yates represents the final part of Cage's three most significant exchanges of letters. Cage argued '...

DescriptionExplorations of Deleuze's work by pioneering thinkers from philosophy, aesthetics, music, and architecture.A collection of explorations ...

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Offers an investigation into the formative influence of music on Virginia Woolf's writing. The author discusses all of Woolf's novels as well as se...

A literary novel which follows present-day narrator Mathilda's fixation with the forgotten black Scottish modernist poet, Hermia Drumm, LOTE is an ...

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DescriptionRichard Taruskin's sweeping collection of essays distills a half century of professional experience, demonstrating an unparalleled insid...

Reducere. DescriptionNoise/Music looks at the phenomenon of noise in music, from experimental music of the early 20th century to the Japanese noise music and...

Louise Meintjes traces the history and the political and aesthetic significance of ngoma, a competitive form of dance and music that emerged out of...

Addressing a diverse set of improvised art and music forms-from jazz and cinema to dance and literature-this volume traces how the social, politica...

Baroque Modernity will appeal to readers in a wide array of disciplines, including comparative literature, theater and performance, art and music h...

Description(Guitar Recorded Versions). Crack the Skye tells a story dealing variously with the art aesthetics of Tsarist Russia, astral travel, out...

How does a work of music stir the senses, creating feelings of joy, sadness, elation, or nostalgia? Though sentiment and emotion play a vital role ...

The music industry is dominated today by three companies. Outside of it, thousands of small independent record labels have developed despite the fa...

Dreaming by the Book explores the almost miraculous processes by which poets and writers teach us the work of imaginative creation. Writers from Ho...

DescriptionThis thoroughly revised third edition of Allan F. Moore's ground-breaking book, now co-authored with Remy Martin, incorporates new mater...

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Exposes the new generation of whiteness thriving at the expense and borrowed ingenuity of black people--and explores how this intensifies racial in...

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DescriptionIn its open improvisations, lapidary lyrics, errant melodies, and relentless pursuit of spontaneity, the British experimental band Henry...

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A disciple of Immanuel Kant, Arthur Schopenhauer took the Kantian concept that all knowledge derives from experience and broadened it to conclude t...

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Immanuel Kant is arguably the most influential modern philosopher, but is also one of the most difficult. In this illuminating Very Short Introduct...

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DescriptionFrom Edison's invention of the phonograph through contemporary field recording and sound installation, artists have become attracted to ...

Reducere. Since launching his career at the Village Voice in the early 1980s Greg Tate has been one of the premiere critical voices on contemporary Black mus...

DescriptionArchitecture is often thought to be a diary of a society, filled with symbolic representations of specific cultural moments. However, as...

This year marks the golden anniversary of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, the flagship band of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicia...

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In Janelle Monáe's full-length debut, the science fiction concept album The ArchAndroid, the android Cindi Mayweather is on the run from the author...

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Nu Metal: A Definitive Guide revisits one of the most remarkable eras of heavy music, when mainstream charts, magazines, radio, and TV were all tak...

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