MusicA Social Experience

By taking a thematic approach to the study of music appreciation, Music: A Social Experience, Third Edition demonstrates how music reflects and dee...

Through examination of the lived experience of instrumental teachers this study highlights the need to revise existing notions of the professional ...

Emotion is an integral aspect of musical experience. Evidence from neuroscience indicates that music acts on a number of different brain sites, and...

A collection about the female experience in and of music by some of the most intelligent and famous writers of the momentPublisher: Orion Publishin...

The contributors to Sounds of Vacation examine the commodification of music and sound at popular vacation destinations throughout the Caribbean in ...

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. General music is informed by a variety of teaching approaches and methods. These pedagogical frameworks guide teachers in planning and implementing...

Reducere. DescriptionThis was Keman's first experience of Toronto's annual Caribbean Carnival. The excited 8 year old and his Mother enjoyed the rituals at t...

*Updated with a new chapter on digital curation* How Music Works is David Byrne's incisive and enthusiastic look at the musical art form, from its ...

Explores how competing understandings of the US South in the first decades of the twentieth century have led us to experience musical forms, sounds...

Offers a comparative study of improvisation as it appears between music and everyday life. Drawing on work in musicology, cultural studies, and cri...

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

With her visceral style, Goldman blends interviews, history, and her personal experience as one of Britain's first female music writers in a book t...

Reducere. Taking the Music Room beyond EngagementAll too often the music classroom stifles students with one-size-fits-all curricula and repertoire. In Pass ...

Moving beyond progress reports, clinical assessments and practical goals, this book brings to life the reflective aspects of music therapy. The res...

Either you or someone you love or treat professionally is currently struggling to break free from an addiction of some sort. Whether it's drugs, al...

DescriptionCrosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, with their distinct vocal harmonies, blending of rock, jazz, folk, and blues, and political and social ...

Reducere. In his groundbreaking book, The Mozart Effect(R), Don Campbell revealed the enormous healing powers of classical music. Now he shows you how to hel...

What is experimental music today? This book offers an up to date survey of this field for anyone with an interest, from seasoned practitioners to c...

Reducere. NEW REVISED EDITION - The entertainment industry is a multi-billion dollar business that showcases the work, services, talent, and creativity of a ...

Few have combined the music with a message in such a radical way as Bob Marley. The best of Marley's work conveys elements of his social background...

Reducere. (Schott). Teacher and performer Doug Goodkin presents an overview of the dynamic approach to music education known as Orff Schulwerk. In this compr...

An album which distilled a genre from the musical, cultural, and social ether, Portishead's Dummy was such a complete artistic achievement that its...

Reducere. The first edition of There Was a Fire is a National Jewish Book Award FinalistThis book is about the power of memory, the human need for narrative,...

Since the eighteenth century, violin concertos have provided a showcase for dramatic interplay between a soloist's virtuosity and the blended sonor...

Reducere. Music practice arguments in families are seemingly so ubiquitous that it's become a trope used in sitcoms. But it doesn't have to be this way. Your...

Reducere. Around the world communities that have suffered the trauma of unspeakable violence--in Liberia, Somalia, West Africa, Columbia, and elsewhere--are ...

Reducere. Legendary jazzman Johnny Otis has spent a lifetime at the center of L.A.'s black music scene as a composer, performer, producer, d.j., activist, an...

Reducere. This unique short-term Bible study combines an in-depth look at Scripture, American history, and the music and lyrics of six African American spiri...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. When the Sony Walkman debuted in 1979, p...

This book shows teachers of adults how to use styles of learning to enhance the student's experience and enrich their own teaching. A chapter is de...

Oklahoma Book AwardHow many of us really know every side to Oklahoma's past and present?In this companion to his previous volume, "An Oklahoma I Ha...

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...

A fluid, expansive new collection from a poet whose work "dazzles with an] energetic exploration of the Puerto Rican experience in the new millenni...

The follow-up to the groundbreaking Black Queer Studies, the edited collection No Tea, No Shade brings together nineteen essays from the next gener...

Reducere. Arts of Engagement focuses on the role that music, film, visual art, and Indigenous cultural practices play in and beyond Canada's Truth and Reconc...

Writing Accountability Groups (WAGs) began when Kimberly Skarupski, PhD, MPH of Johns Hopkins Medicine started gathering faculty to meet once a wee...

Reducere. In this accessible and provocative study, Brian Blount reads the book of Revelation through the lens of African American culture, drawing correspon...

Reducere. There are many of us who dream about selling all our stuff, quitting our jobs, and running away to Paradise. This is a story about one couple who m...

Reducere. Description"Every season has music, Every season shares joy, Every season sounds with colors, Can you hear it?..."That's how the A Day in the Life ...

Reducere. From Central District Seattle to Harlem to Holly Springs, Black people have built a dynamic network of cities and towns where Black culture is main...

A spiritual, political, and interdisciplinary anthology of wisdom stories from Black liberation leaders and teachers. Afrikan Wisdom represents an ...

Reducere. Educators in Reggio Emilia, Italy, use a distinctive innovative approach that supports children's well-being and fosters their intellectual develop...

Reducere. It's said that prayer is so primal an urge for humankind that we're born into the world praying. Yet, something so natural and seemingly so easy co...

Reducere. DescriptionA descendant of Confederate General Robert E. Lee chronicles his story of growing up with the South's most honored name, and the moments...

DescriptionA compelling portrait of rock's greatest guitarist at the moment of his ascendance, Stone Free is the first book to focus exclusively on...

Reducere. The Druids were the mystics, philosophers, and magicians of the ancient Celtic world. Their spirituality was borne from their near-worship of poetr...

This collection of essays by scholar-activist W. E. B. Du Bois is a masterpiece in the African American canon. Du Bois, arguably the most influenti...

DescriptionThis book explores prison arts in Australia, USA, UK, and Chile, and creates a new framework for understanding its practices. There is a...

In Why Do People Sing? Paddy Scannell explores some of the mysteries at the heart of vocal communication. What explains the communicative musicalit...

Reducere. Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer is Allison Adelle Hedge Coke's searching account of her life as a mixed-blood woman coming of age off reservation, yet de...

Reducere. The poems in Tsitsi Ella Jaji's Beating the Graves meditate on the meaning of living in diaspora, an experience increasingly common among contempor...

Reducere. The identity of ARMY, the dynamic global fanbase of Korean music group BTS, is complex and nuanced. I Am ARMY locates, documents and celebrates jus...

Communitas is inspired fellowship; a group's pleasure in sharing common experiences; being 'in the zone' - as in music, sport, and work; the sense ...

Reducere. In The Lonely Letters, A tells Moth: "Writing about and thinking with joy is what sustains me, daily. It nourishes me. I do not write about joy pri...

Yo-Yo Ma's ear for music emerged not long after he learned to walk. By the age of seven, he was performing for President Kennedy; by fifteen he deb...

Reducere. In Film Blackness Michael Boyce Gillespie shifts the ways we think about black film, treating it not as a category, a genre, or strictly a represen...

Reducere. Now back in print, author of The Unspeakable Meghan Daum's acclaimed cult classic that revitalized the personal essay for a new generation of write...

Reducere. It's been said that Jamaica is the heartbeat of the world. How can such a tiny island in the Caribbean give the world some of the best music, the b...

Reducere. "Hear the dark liquor of her laughter rippling behind her sentences" in this magnetic memoir as it explores a journalist's obsession with pop cultu...

Reducere. If you want to learn about yourself, start by exploring the world around you. Drawing on the rich experience of his own life, best-selling author P...

Prepare to be baffled with The Big Book of Paranormal! Dive deep into urban legends, creepy hauntings, and tales of the unexplained with the Big Bo...

DescriptionWalking around the streets and parks of most towns, you might notice that many dogs look a lot like their owners. Or perhaps it's the ot...

DescriptionNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Author of the iconic bestsellers This Is Your Brain on Music and The Organized Mind, Daniel...