| Description |
xxxi, 336 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
The Bedford spotlight reader series
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Bedford spotlight series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
What is music-and why do we love it? Making Music / Barry Parker ; Blank Expressions : Brad Mehldau and the Essence of Music / Brad Mehldau ; Why We Love Music and Freud Despised It / Stephen A. Diamond ; Music and Consciousness / Leonid Perlovsky ; from The Homily on the First Psalm / St. Basil ; Brainworms, Sticky Music, and Catchy Tunes / Oliver Sacks ; Most Beautiful Melody in the World / Jan Swafford ; Beethovens Kapow / Justin Davidson -- How does music express and shape the self? Left of the Dial / Rob Sheffield ; from Politics / Aristotle ; from My Bondage and My Freedom / Frederick Douglass ; Lady Day / Robert O'Meally ; Hardcore Persona / Laina Dawes ; Concerning the Spiritual in Indie Rock / Judy Berman ; Country Music, Openness to Experience, and the Psychology of the Culture War / Will Wilkinson ; Songs of Myself? Not Quite / Jeff Ousborne ; Humble Trappings: Blue-Collar Hip-Hop and Recasting the Drug Dealer's Myth / Zach Moldof ; I Listen to Everything, Except Rap and Country Music / Jeremy Gordon -- How do we make and consume music? Stop Forcing Your Kids to Learn a Musical Instrument / Mark Oppenheimer; Loving Through Pain: Why Learning an Instrument Matters / Gracy Olmstead ; Music Is My Bag / Meghan Daum ; Seduced By Perfect Pitch : How Auto-Tune Conquered Pop Music / Lessley Anderson ; On the Efficiency of AC/DC : Bon Scott versus Brian Johnson / Robert J. Oxoby ; When Things Look Dark, Country Music Gets Sunnier / Tom Jacobs ; Making Cents / Damon Krukowski ; Why Artists Should Stop Chasing Spotify's Pennies and Focus on Top Fans / George Howard -- How does music negotiate race and ethnicity? My Bill Evans Problem : Jaded Visions of Jazz and Race / Eugene Holley ; Black Rhythm, White Power / Samantha Ainsley ; In Defense of Kanye's Vanity : The Politics of Black Self-Love / Heben Nigatu ; A Paler Shade of White : How Indie Rock Lost Its Soul / Sasha Frere-Jones ; To Rock or Not to Rock : Cultural Nationalism and Latino Engagement with Rock 'n' Roll / Deborah Pacini Hernandez ; Latin Music Is American Music / Chris Kjorness ; How the 'Kung Fu Fighting' Melody Came to Represent Asia / Kat Chow ; It's a Hip-Hop World / Jeff Chang -- What does music reveal about sexuality and gender? All Hail the Queen? / Tamara Winfrey Harris ; Macho Rock : Men Always Seem to End Up on Top / Susan Hiwatt ; They've Got the Beat / Hannah Steinkopf-Frank ; Role of Pop Music and Pop Singers in the Construction of a Singer's Identity in Three Early Adolescent Females / Amy Clements-Cortes ; Tina Theory: Notes on Fierceness / Madison Moore. |
| Subject |
Musical criticism.
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Musical criticism. |
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English language -- Rhetoric -- Problems, exercises, etc.
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English language -- Rhetoric. |
| Genre/Form |
Problems and exercises.
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| Subject |
Report writing -- Problems, exercises, etc.
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Report writing. |
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College readers.
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College readers. |
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Composition (Music) |
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Music -- Psychological aspects. |
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Music -- Social aspects. |
| Genre/Form |
Problems and exercises.
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| ISBN |
1319020151 paperback |
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9781319020156 paperback |
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