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American Popular Music
Preface Lyric Credits 1. Themes and Streams of American Popular Music Theme One: Listening Theme Two: Music and Identity Theme Three: Music and Technology Theme Four: The Music Business Theme Five: Centers and Peripheries Streams of Tradition: The Sources of Popular Music 2.
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Paul Bowles On Music
It's an easy enough job if one has something to say, Paul Bowles remarked in a letter to his mother about his first foray into music criticism. And Paul Bowles, indeed, had plenty to say about music.
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Music in Other Words
Just as the preoccupations of any given cultural moment make their way into the language of music, the experience of music makes its way into other arenas of life. To unearth these overlapping meanings and vocabularies from the Victorian era, Ruth A.
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Music
This stimulating Very Short Introduction to music invites us to really think about music and the values and qualities we ascribe to it.
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World Music
World music' emerged as an invention of the West from encounters with other cultures. This book draws readers into a remarkable range of these historical encounters, in which music had the power to evoke the exotic and to give voice to the voiceless.
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Medieval Music and the Art of Memory
This bold challenge to conventional notions about medieval music disputes the assumption of pure literacy and replaces it with a more complex picture of a world in which literacy and orality interacted.
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