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1 online resource (xxiv, 129 pages) : illustrations, music |
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text file |
| Note |
"These papers came together over time through a number of gatherings, the seminal event being the Inscriptions in the Sand conference series held in Northern Cyprus, the last one taking place in 2005"--Page [x]. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references, discographies, and index. |
| Contents |
The International Language of Screaming: Holey Space and Minorisation in Music and Language / Dafydd Jones -- On Community, Institutions and Politics in the Life and Work of Robert Erickson / John MacKay -- The Bowie Business: Capitalising on Subversion? / Rodney Sharkey -- Prismatics of Music and Culture: The Equivocation of Nordic Metal / İbrahim Beyazoğlu -- Frustrated Listening: Music, Noise and Trauma / Vincent Meelberg -- The Imaginary Body in Chris Cunningham's Music Videos: Portishead's Only You and Leftfield's Afrika Shox / Tristan Fidler -- The Material Experience of Abstraction: Morton Feldman and the Experience of Silence / David Hanner and John Wall -- The Social Aesthetics of Noise: Investigating the Soundscape of Public Enemy / Paal Fagerheim. |
| Summary |
The essays in this volume look at various kinds of music from a number of perspectives, including the socio-political, the aesthetic and the psychological. The music under discussion here is diverse but fits loosely into the categories rock-pop, new music, rap, metal and music video, with the caveat that much of the music discussed here is historically layered and engages self-consciously in the deconstruction of music genres. If there is an interpretative theme that links these essays, it is ... |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Music -- Social aspects -- Congresses.
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Music -- Social aspects. |
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Music -- Political aspects -- Congresses.
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Music -- Political aspects. |
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Music. |
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Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics -- Congresses.
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Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Wall, John (John Henry)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Music, metamorphosis and capitalism. Newcastle, UK : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2007 (DLC) 2007701667 (OCoLC)124070298 |
| ISBN |
9781443807999 (electronic book) |
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1443807990 (electronic book) |
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1847181333 |
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9781847181336 |
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