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A Philosophy of Cover Songs

Author : P.D. Magnus
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1800644256
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book A Philosophy of Cover Songs written by P.D. Magnus and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2022-04-28 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover songs are a familiar feature of contemporary popular music. Musicians describe their own performances as covers, and audiences use the category to organize their listening and appreciation. However, until now philosophers have not had much to say about them. In A Philosophy of Cover Songs, P.D. Magnus demonstrates that philosophy provides a valuable toolbox for thinking about covers; in turn, the philosophy of cover songs illustrates some general points about philosophical method. Lucidly written, the book is divided into three parts: how to think about covers, appreciating covers, and the metaphysics of covers and songs. Along the way, it explores a range of issues raised by covers, from the question of what precisely constitutes a cover, to the history and taxonomy of the category, the various relationships that hold between songs, performances, and tracks, and the appreciation and evaluation of covers. This unique and engaging book will be of interest to those working in philosophy of art, philosophy of music, popular music studies, music history, and musicology, as well as to readers with a general interest in popular music, covers, and how we think about them.

A Philosophy of Cover Songs

Author : P. D. Magnus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781800644274
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (442 download)

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Download or read book A Philosophy of Cover Songs written by P. D. Magnus and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Philosophy of Modern Song

Author : Bob Dylan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451648723
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Modern Song written by Bob Dylan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan’s first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Volume One—and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers his extraordinary insight into the nature of popular music. He writes over sixty essays focusing on songs by other artists, spanning from Stephen Foster to Elvis Costello, and in between ranging from Hank Williams to Nina Simone. He analyzes what he calls the trap of easy rhymes, breaks down how the addition of a single syllable can diminish a song, and even explains how bluegrass relates to heavy metal. These essays are written in Dylan’s unique prose. They are mysterious and mercurial, poignant and profound, and often laugh-out-loud funny. And while they are ostensibly about music, they are really meditations and reflections on the human condition. Running throughout the book are nearly 150 carefully curated photos as well as a series of dream-like riffs that, taken together, resemble an epic poem and add to the work’s transcendence. In 2020, with the release of his outstanding album Rough and Rowdy Ways, Dylan became the first artist to have an album hit the Billboard Top 40 in each decade since the 1960s. The Philosophy of Modern Song contains much of what he has learned about his craft in all those years, and like everything that Dylan does, it is a momentous artistic achievement.

Cover Me

Author : Ray Padgett
Publisher : Union Square + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1454930659
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (549 download)

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Download or read book Cover Me written by Ray Padgett and published by Union Square + ORM. This book was released on 2017-11-03 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A music-snob’s dream come true . . . One of the best multi-subject music books to come down the pike in years . . . a fresh and deeply informed approach.” —Variety A great cover only makes a song stronger. Jimi Hendrix’s version of Bob Dylan’s “All Along the Watchtower.” The Beatles rocking out with “Twist and Shout.” Aretha Franklin demanding “Respect.” Without covers, the world would have lost many unforgettable performances. This is the first book to explore the most iconic covers ever, from Elvis’s “Hound Dog” and Joe Cocker’s “With a Little Help from My Friends” to the Talking Heads’ “Take Me to the River” and Adele’s “Make You Feel My Love.” Written by the founder of the website covermesongs.com, each of the nineteen chapters investigates the origins of a classic cover—and uses it as a framework to tell the larger story of how cover songs have evolved over the decades. Cover Me is packed with insight, photography, and music history. “Delves into the complicated legacy of artists performing other people’s music . . . his research adds fresh context and intriguing background to many of these songs . . . Astute ruminations on evolving cultural perceptions of the cover’s place in the music canon.” —AV Club “This engaging nostalgia trip is sure to appeal to discophiles and cultural historians.” —Library Journal

The Rock Cover Song

Author : Doyle Greene
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476615071
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Rock Cover Song written by Doyle Greene and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-03-13 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover songs operate as a form of cultural discourse across various musical genres and different societal, historical and political conditions. Case studies include a comparative analysis of Jimi Hendrix’s and Whitney Houston’s versions of “The Star-Spangled Banner” as well as a mapping of the trajectory of “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” from the original version by the Rolling Stones through cover versions by Otis Redding, Devo, and Britney Spears. The radical deconstruction of pop and rock songs by the Residents and Laibach is also examined, with additional studies of cover songs by such as Van Halen, Kim Wilde, Rufus Harley, the Four Tops, Pat Boone and Johnny Cash. Rather than questions of quality or how a cover song measures up as “better or worse” than other versions, this book focuses on the ideological implications and social stakes of the “same old songs” as they are reconfigured to consider, comment on and confront political issues of gender, sexuality, race, the nation-state and the generation gap.

A Philosophy of Song and Singing

Author : Jeanette Bicknell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317653130
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book A Philosophy of Song and Singing written by Jeanette Bicknell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Philosophy of Song and Singing: An Introduction, Jeanette Bicknell explores key aesthetic, ethical, and other philosophical questions that have not yet been thoroughly researched by philosophers, musicologists, or scientists. Issues addressed include: The relationship between the meaning of a song’s words and its music The performer’s role and the ensuing gender complications, social ontology, and personal identity The performer’s ethical obligations to audiences, composers, lyricists, and those for whom the material holds particular significance The metaphysical status of isolated solo performances compared to the continuous singing of opera or the interrupted singing of stage and screen musicals Each chapter focuses on one major musical example and includes several shorter discussions of other selections. All have been chosen for their illustrative power and their accessibility for any interested reader and are readily available.

Play it Again: Cover Songs in Popular Music

Author : Professor George Plasketes
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409494004
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Play it Again: Cover Songs in Popular Music written by Professor George Plasketes and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-01-28 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering—the musical practice of one artist recording or performing another composer's song—has always been an attribute of popular music. In 2009, the internet database Second Hand Songs estimated that there are 40,000 songs with at least one cover version. Some of the more common variations of this "appropriationist" method of musical quotation include traditional forms such as patriotic anthems, religious hymns such as Amazing Grace, Muzak's instrumental interpretations, Christmas classics, and children's songs. Novelty and comedy collections from parodists such as Weird Al Yankovic also align in the cover category, as does the "larcenous art" of sampling, and technological variations in dance remixes and mash-ups. Film and television soundtracks and advertisers increasingly rely on versions of familiar pop tunes to assist in marketing their narratives and products. The cover phenomenon in popular culture may be viewed as a postmodern manifestation in music as artists revisit, reinterpret and re-examine a significant cross section of musical styles, periods, genres, individual records, and other artists and their catalogues of works.The cover complex, with its multiple variations, issues, contexts, and re-contextualizations comprises an important and rich popular culture text. These re-recordings represent artifacts which embody artistic, social, cultural, historical, commercial, biographical, and novel meanings. Through homage, allusion, apprenticeship, and parody, among other modes, these diverse musical quotations express, preserve, and distribute popular culture, popular music and their intersecting historical narratives. Play it Again represents the first collection of critical perspectives on the many facets of cover songs in popular music.

Songs Without Music

Author : Desmond Manderson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520216881
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Songs Without Music written by Desmond Manderson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-10-03 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a series of reflections on the aesthetic dimensions of law (how it is presented and conveyed to its subjects) and justice (the ways in which justice can be aesthetically satisfying or dissatisfying).

Soul Covers

Author : Michael Awkward
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822339977
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book Soul Covers written by Michael Awkward and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2007-05-04 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVCultural and literary study of the construction of racial and artistic identity in soul cover albums of three popular artists--Aretha Franklin, Al Green, and Phoebe Snow./div

Forallx - An Introduction to Formal Logic

Author : P.D. Magnus
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Forallx - An Introduction to Formal Logic written by P.D. Magnus and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-27 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forallx is an introduction to sentential logic and first-order predicate logic with identity, logical systems that significantly influenced twentieth-century analytic philosophy. After working through the material in this book, a student should be able to understand most quantified expressions that arise in their philosophical reading. This book treats symbolization, formal semantics, and proof theory for each language. The discussion of formal semantics is more direct than in many introductory texts. Although forall x does not contain proofs of soundness and completeness, it lays the groundwork for understanding why these are things that need to be proven. Contents: What is logic? Sentential logic Truth tables Quanti ed logic Formal semantics Proofs Other symbolic notation Solutions to selected exercises

I, You, and the Word “God”

Author : Sarah Zhang
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1575064766
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book I, You, and the Word “God” written by Sarah Zhang and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I, You, and the Word “God” introduces the approach of lyrical ethics, inspired by Emmanuel Levinas’s ethical-phenomenological philosophy. Through the optics of lyrical ethics, the reader discovers how the ancient erotic poems of the Song of Songs bear ethical and theological significance for contemporary readers. Levinas’s intertwined concepts—oneself qua sensibility, otherness perceived through responsibility, and transcendence embodied in one’s love for the other—reveal themselves as lyrical colors woven into the fabric of Song 4:1–7, 5:2–8, and 8:6. More importantly, Levinas’s understanding that poetic language breaks the tautology of logocentric discourse and gestures to the outside of consciousness provides the theoretical ground for the listener to solicit meaningfulness from the Song. Through this lyrical reading of the selected poetic units, the book demonstrates that the traditional interpretive methods of representative description, narrative paraphrase, and thematic distillation fail to encounter the otherness of poetry. In contrast, lyrical ethics pays attention to that which transcends consciousness: the awakening of the reader’s subjectivity, the saying underlying the said, the sound of the sense, and the invisibility of the visible. The Song so caressed reveals in human love the purposelessly purposive encounter with God.

Edinburgh German Yearbook 13

Author : Siobhán Donovan
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1640140603
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Edinburgh German Yearbook 13 written by Siobhán Donovan and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2022 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 13 deals with the interaction of music and politics, considering a broad range of genres, authors, composers, and artists in Germany since the nineteenth century. A particularly iconic image of German Reunification is that of Mstislav Rostropovich playing from J. S. Bach's cello suites in front of the Berlin Wall on November 11, 1989. Thirty years on, it is timely to reconsider the cross-fertilization of music and politics within the German-speaking context. Frequently employed as a motivational force, a propaganda tool, or even a weapon, music can imbue a sense of identity and belonging, triggering both comforting and disturbing memories. Playing a key role in the formation of Heimat and "Germanness," it serves ideological, nationalistic, and propagandistic purposes conveying political messages and swaying public opinion. This volume brings together essays by historians, literary scholars, and musicologists on topics concerning the increasing politicization of music, especially since the nineteenth century. They cover a broad spectrum of genres, musicians, and thinkers, discussing the interplay of music and politics in "classical" and popular music: from the rediscovery and repurposing of Martin Luther in nineteenth-century Germany to the exploitation of music during the Third Reich, from the performative politics of German punk and pop music to the influence of the events of 1988/89 on operatic productions in the former GDR - up to the relevance of Ernst Bloch in our contemporary post-truth society.

Radically Rethinking Copyright in the Arts

Author : James O. Young
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000179354
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Radically Rethinking Copyright in the Arts written by James O. Young and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-11 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book radically rethinks the philosophical basis of copyright in the arts. The author reflects on the ontology of art to argue that current copyright laws cannot be justified. The book begins by identifying two problems that result from current copyright laws: (1) creativity is restricted and (2) they primarily serve the interests of large corporations over those of the artists and general public. Against this background, the author presents an account of the ontology of artworks and explains what metaphysics can tell us about ownership in the arts. Next, he makes a moral argument that copyright terms should be shorter and that corporations should not own copyrights. The remaining chapters tackle questions regarding the appropriation of tokens of artworks, pattern types, and artistic elements. The result is a sweeping reinterpretation of copyright in the arts that rests on sound ontological and moral foundations. Radically Rethinking Copyright in the Arts will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in aesthetics and philosophy of art, metaphysics, philosophy of law, and intellectual property law.

My Song is My Weapon

Author : Robbie Lieberman
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252065255
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (652 download)

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Download or read book My Song is My Weapon written by Robbie Lieberman and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1940s a left-wing organization called People's Songs used their music as a battle cry for civil rights, civil liberties, and world peace. They were inspired by Woody Guthrie, led by Pete Seeger, and sponsored by Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Oscar Hammerstein II, and Paul Robeson among others. Many members of the group were involved in musical and political activities that spanned twenty years and encompassed sweeping changes in the American political arena. --Jacket

Philosophy for Children Through the Secondary Curriculum

Author : Lizzy Lewis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441176519
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy for Children Through the Secondary Curriculum written by Lizzy Lewis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophy for Children (P4C) is an approach to learning and teaching that aims to develop reasoning and judgement. Students learn to listen to and respect their peers' opinions, think creatively and work together to develop a deeper understanding of concepts central to their own lives and the subjects they are studying. With the teacher adopting the role of facilitator, a true community develops in which rich and meaningful dialogue results in enquiry of the highest order. Each chapter is written by a leading P4C expert and provides an introduction to the relationship between P4C and the subject area, lesson stimuli and activities for extending and deepening students' thinking. The book includes: • guidance on how to embed P4C in curriculum subjects in a crowded and demanding secondary curriculum timetable • troubleshooting advice for the teacher-turned-facilitator • a companion website containing useful links, downloadable resources and material to display on your interactive whiteboard. Edited and collated by the UK's leading P4C organisation, this book introduces a rationale for using and adapting P4C in the secondary curriculum.

The Power of Music

Author : Susan Hallam
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1800644191
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Power of Music written by Susan Hallam and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2022-07-11 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on her earlier work, 'The Power of Music: A Research Synthesis of the Impact of Actively Making Music on the Intellectual, Social and Personal Development of Children and Young People', this volume by Susan Hallam and Evangelos Himonides is an important new resource in the field of music education, practice, and psychology. A well-signposted text with helpful subheadings, 'The Power of Music: An Exploration of the Evidence' gathers and synthesises research in neuroscience, psychology, and education to develop our understanding of the effects of listening to and actively making music. Its chapters address music’s relationship with literacy and numeracy, transferable skills, its impact on social cohesion and personal wellbeing, as well as the roles that music plays in our everyday lives. Considering evidence from large population samples to individual case studies and across age groups, the authors also pose important methodological questions to the research community. 'The Power of Music' defends qualitative research against a requirement for randomised control trials that can obscure the diverse and often fraught contexts in which people of all ages and backgrounds are exposed to, and engage with, music. This magnificent and comprehensive volume allows the evidence about the power of music to speak for itself, thus providing an essential directory for those researching music education and its social, personal, and cognitive impact across human ages and experiences.

Philosophy of New Music

Author : Theodor W. Adorno
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452965692
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy of New Music written by Theodor W. Adorno and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An indispensable key to Adorno’s influential oeuvre—now in paperback In 1949, Theodor W. Adorno’s Philosophy of New Music was published, coinciding with the prominent philosopher’s return to a devastated Europe after his exile in the United States. Intensely polemical from its first publication, every aspect of this work was met with extreme reactions, from stark dismissal to outrage. Even Arnold Schoenberg reviled it. Despite the controversy, Philosophy of New Music became highly regarded and widely read among musicians, scholars, and social philosophers. Marking a major turning point in his musicological philosophy, Adorno located a critique of musical reproduction as internal to composition, rather than a matter of musical performance. Consisting of two distinct essays, “Schoenberg and Progress” and “Stravinsky and Reaction,” Philosophy of New Music poses the musical extremes in which Adorno perceived the struggle for the cultural future of Europe: between human emancipation and barbarism, between the compositional techniques and achievements of Schoenberg and Stravinsky. In this translation, which is accompanied by an extensive introduction by distinguished translator Robert Hullot-Kentor, Philosophy of New Music emerges as an essential guide to the whole of Adorno's oeuvre.