Connecting Sounds. The Social Life of Music, Paperback - Nick Crossley

An original and compelling account of the social nature of music and its interplay with the wider society to which it belongs. Crossley explores th...

An original and compelling account of the social nature of music and its interplay with the wider society to which it belongs. Crossley explores th...

Reducere. We live in a world of technical systems designed in accordance with technical disciplines and operated by technically trained personnel-a unique so...

Who makes our cities, and what part do everyday users have in the design of cities? This book powerfully shows that city-making is a social process...

Reducere. In 1980, William H. Whyte published the findings from his revolutionary Street Life Project in The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces. Both the book...

Questions about the nature of money have gained a new urgency in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Even as many people have less of it,...

Reducere. In this theoretically sophisticated study of indigenous oral narratives, Julie Cruikshank moves beyond the text to explore the social significance ...

Reducere. The contributors to this volume examine how things are sold and traded in a variety of social and cultural settings, both present and past. Bridgin...

Published to mark the 60th birthday of one of Britain's leading composers, this is a unique insight into Sir James MacMillan's thoughts on music, f...

The Social Life of Greylag Geese: Patterns, Mechanisms and Evolutionary Function in an Avian Model System - Isabella B. R. Scheiber, Brigitte M. Weib,

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Rashmi SadanaIllustration(s): 25 b-w illustrationsNumber of pages: 274Publication date: 2021Dim...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: David HollanderForeword by: George RomeroIn the heyday of low-budget television and scrappy genre filmmaking, producers who...

The authorised biography of Nick Lowe, the 'Jesus of Cool'.

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Denise Von GlahnNumber of pages: 384Collection: Music in American LifePublication date: 2021Dimen...

Publisher: Sussex Academic PressAuthor(s): Beatrice DalovNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 158 x 234 x 22Cover type: HardbackRe...

Reducere. In Sounds of Crossing Alex E. Ch vez explores the contemporary politics of Mexican migrant cultural expression manifest in the sounds and poetics o...

Pynchon's Sound of Music is dedicated to cataloging, exploring, and interpreting the manifold manifestations of music in Thomas Pynchon's work. An ...

Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): Carla Lalli MusicIllustration(s): 125 4C photographsNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2021Dimensions:...

Reducere. 1. In Chains 2. Hole to Feed 3. Wrong 4. Fragile Tension 5. Little Soul 6. In Sympathy 7. Peace 8. Come Back 9. Spacewalker 10. Perfect 11. Miles A...

How do you lose music? Then having lost it, what do you do next? This book offers an account of one man's struggle to recover from loss of his grea...

Reducere. DescriptionThis study of the subtlety, complexity, and variety of modes of hearing maps out a "sonorous archipelago"--a heterogeneous set of shifti...

Branded The Master - and a Gentleman Thief - Brian is a true character from the old school of British crime. At the age of 71, Reader masterminded ...

Reducere. A Universe of Stories!Uncle Larry's Antique Shop & Junkyard is a magical world where everything has a price--and nothing is as it seems. In this ju...

Reducere. DescriptionAs the definitive biography of American-bred rocker Tom Petty, this updated and revised book examines his extensive music career, his pe...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Virgil MoorefieldNumber of pages: 168Collection: The MIT PressPublication date: 2010Dimensions: 228 x 152 x 11Co...

Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and his experience trading derivatives, Edward LiPuma theorizes the profound social dimensions of derivatives mar...

A selection of some of the best of the canal art of Harley Crossley

Many years later a small boy would say to me, 'What's inside music? If the bit we hear is just the skin of it, the scent, what's the actual whole o...

The bestselling guide to improving musical performance The Inner Game of Music is the battle that all musicians have to fight against elusive oppon...

DescriptionThis book is addressed to the listener whose enjoyment of music is filled with questions and whose curiosity makes him eager to grasp th...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Part of the revolutionary Crossley ID Guide series, this is the first raptor guide with lifelike scenes composed from multiple photographs--scenes ...

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Reducere. Critical Praise for Gene Smith On Until the Last Trumpet Sounds ""The best recent compact study of the commander of the American Expeditionary Forc...

People around the world and throughout history have used music to express their inner emotions, reach out to the divine, woo lovers, celebrate wedd...

Reducere. When it was first published in 2003, Rebel Musics sought to explore how musical activism resonates as resistance to the dominant culture, and how p...

Inspired by Heidegger's concept of the clearing of being, and by Wittgenstein's ideas on human practice, Theodore Schatzki offers a novel approach ...

Reducere. The bestselling book that launched meth back into the nation's consciousness. Based on Reding's four years of reporting in the agricultural town of...

6th edition of this bestselling music dictionary, now availableas part of the }Oxford Paperback Reference{ series. Contains over 10, 000 entries. T...