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America's Musical Pulse

Author : Kenneth J. Bindas
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 : 0275943062
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (759 download)

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Download or read book America's Musical Pulse written by Kenneth J. Bindas and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1992-09-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular music may be viewed as primary documents of society, and America's Musical Pulse documents the American experience as recorded in popular sound. Whether jazz, blues, swing, country, or rock, the music, the impulse behind it, and the reaction to it reveal the attitudes of an era or generation. Always a major preoccupation of students, music is often ignored by teaching professionals, who might profitably channel this interest to further understandings of American social history and such diverse fields as sociology, political science, literature, communications, and business as well as music. In this interdisciplinary collection, scholars, educators, and writers from a variety of fields and perspectives relate topics concerning twentieth-century popular music to issues of politics, class, economics, race, gender, and the social context. The focus throughout is to place music in societal perspective and encourage investigation of the complex issues behind the popular tunes, rhythms, and lyrics.

America's Musical Pulse

Author : Kenneth J. Bindas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313389748
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book America's Musical Pulse written by Kenneth J. Bindas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1992-09-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular music may be viewed as primary documents of society, and America's Musical Pulse documents the American experience as recorded in popular sound. Whether jazz, blues, swing, country, or rock, the music, the impulse behind it, and the reaction to it reveal the attitudes of an era or generation. Always a major preoccupation of students, music is often ignored by teaching professionals, who might profitably channel this interest to further understandings of American social history and such diverse fields as sociology, political science, literature, communications, and business as well as music. In this interdisciplinary collection, scholars, educators, and writers from a variety of fields and perspectives relate topics concerning twentieth-century popular music to issues of politics, class, economics, race, gender, and the social context. The focus throughout is to place music in societal perspective and encourage investigation of the complex issues behind the popular tunes, rhythms, and lyrics.

Pulse of the People

Author : Lakeyta M. Bonnette
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812291131
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Pulse of the People written by Lakeyta M. Bonnette and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hip-Hop music encompasses an extraordinarily diverse range of approaches to politics. Some rap and Hip-Hop artists engage directly with elections and social justice organizations; others may use their platform to call out discrimination, poverty, sexism, racism, police brutality, and other social ills. In Pulse of the People, Lakeyta M. Bonnette illustrates the ways rap music serves as a vehicle for the expression and advancement of the political thoughts of urban Blacks, a population frequently marginalized in American society and alienated from electoral politics. Pulse of the People lays a foundation for the study of political rap music and public opinion research and demonstrates ways in which political attitudes asserted in the music have been transformed into direct action and behavior of constituents. Bonnette examines the history of rap music and its relationship to and extension from other cultural and political vehicles in Black America, presenting criteria for identifying the specific subgenre of music that is political rap. She complements the statistics of rap music exposure with lyrical analysis of rap songs that espouse Black Nationalist and Black Feminist attitudes. Touching on a number of critical moments in American racial politics—including the 2008 and 2012 elections and the cases of the Jena 6, Troy Davis, and Trayvon Martin—Pulse of the People makes a compelling case for the influence of rap music in the political arena and greatly expands our understanding of the ways political ideologies and public opinion are formed.

American History and Encyclopedia of Music

Author : William Lines Hubbard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book American History and Encyclopedia of Music written by William Lines Hubbard and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Arts and the American Home, 1890-1930

Author : Jessica H. Foy
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870499074
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (99 download)

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Book Synopsis The Arts and the American Home, 1890-1930 by : Jessica H. Foy

Download or read book The Arts and the American Home, 1890-1930 written by Jessica H. Foy and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1995-07 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1890 and 1930, the domestic arts, as well as the daily life of the American family, began to reflect rapid advances in technology, aesthetics, and attitudes about American culture. Pictorial, literary, musical, and decorative arts from this era all reveal a shift from clutter to clarity and from profusion to restraint as modern conveniences, ranging from pre-stamped needlework patterns to central heat, were introduced into the domestic environment. However, the household arts were also affected by an enduring strain of conservatism reflected in the popularity of historically inspired furnishing styles. In this collection of essays, ten experts in turn-of-the-century popular and material culture examine how the struggle between modernity and tradition was reflected in various facets of the household aesthetic. Their findings touch on sub-themes of gender, generation, and class to provide a fascinating commentary on what middle-class Americans were prepared to discard in the name of modernity and what they stubbornly retained for the sake of ideology. Through an examination of material culture and prescriptive literature from this period, the essayists also demonstrate how changes in artistic expression affected the psychological, social, and cultural lives of everyday Americans. This book joins a growing list of titles dedicated to analyzing and interpreting the cultural dimensions of past domestic life. Its essays shed new light on house history by tracking the transformation of a significant element of home life - its expressions of art.

American Youth Cultures

Author : Neil Campbell
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415971973
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (719 download)

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Download or read book American Youth Cultures written by Neil Campbell and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten essays by British, US, and Canadian academics explore popular books, films, and television shows for clues to the meanings of youth representation in American culture. Drawing on a framework of ideas from cultural and social theory, they consider themes such as race, class, gender, power, and sexuality as well as the ideological nature of youth and its centrality to American popular culture. Originally published in 2000 as The Radiant Hour: Versions of Youth in American Culture (U. of Exeter Press). Annotation : 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Tin Pan Opera

Author : Larry Hamberlin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195338928
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Tin Pan Opera written by Larry Hamberlin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-03 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Larry Hamberlin guides us through the large but oft-forgotten repertoire of operatic novelties, and brings to life the rich humour and keen social criticism of the ragtime era.

Computational Models of Rhythm and Meter

Author : Georg Boenn
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319762850
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Computational Models of Rhythm and Meter written by Georg Boenn and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-20 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the latest computational models of rhythm and meter that are based on number theory, combinatorics and pattern matching. Two computational models of rhythm and meter are evaluated: The first one explores a relatively new field in Mathematics, namely Combinatorics on Words, specifically Christoffel Words and the Burrows-Wheeler Transform, together with integer partitions. The second model uses filtered Farey Sequences in combination with specific weights that are assigned to inter-onset ratios. This work is assessed within the context of the current state of the art of tempo tracking and computational music transcription. Furthermore, the author discusses various representations of musical rhythm, which lead to the development of a new shorthand notation that will be useful for musicologists and composers. Computational Models of Rhythm and Meter also contains numerous investigations into the timing structures of human rhythm and metre perception carried out within the last decade. Our solution to the transcription problem has been tested using a wide range of musical styles, and in particular using two recordings of J.S. Bach's Goldberg Variations by Glenn Gould. The technology is capable of modelling musical rhythm and meter by using Farey Sequences, and by detecting duration classes in a windowed analysis, which also detects the underlying tempo. The outcomes represent human performances of music as accurate as possible within Western score notation.

Focal Impulse Theory

Author : John Paul Ito
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253049946
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Focal Impulse Theory written by John Paul Ito and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music is surrounded by movement, from the arching back of the guitarist to the violinist swaying with each bow stroke. To John Paul Ito, these actions are not just a visual display; rather, they reveal what it really means for musicians to move with the beat, organizing the flow of notes from beat to beat and shaping the sound produced. By developing "focal impulse theory," Ito shows how a performer's choices of how to move with the meter can transform the music's expressive contours. Change the dance of the performer's body, and you change the dance of the notes. As Focal Impulse Theory deftly illustrates, bodily movements carry musical meaning and, in a very real sense, are meaning.

Sounding Latin Music, Hearing the Americas

Author : Jairo Moreno
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022682568X
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Sounding Latin Music, Hearing the Americas written by Jairo Moreno and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2023-05-16 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sounding Latin America studies popular music making by immigrants from Latin America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean in the United States. It focuses on the points of contact and divergence in music making that result from competing values informed by how modernity is experienced across the Americas: the relation of language to letters; cosmopolitanism; racial categories and adjacent traditions and notions of the past; citizenship and migrancy; globalization and belonging. First study of the intra-hemispheric, linked but divergent relations of "Latin" music to the US and Latin America Proposes a comparative method for understanding the relations of immigrants to minority groups in the US with music making as the center Book places aurality ("intersensory, affective, cognitive, discursive, material, perceptual, and rhetorical network") as central operation in the constitution of "music.""--

The Musical Leader

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Musical Leader written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

That Old-Time Rock & Roll

Author : Richard Aquila
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252056809
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book That Old-Time Rock & Roll written by Richard Aquila and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2024-04-22 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elvis Presley and Bill Haley. Sam Cooke and the Shirelles. The Crows and the Chords. American Bandstand and Motown. From its first rumblings in the outland alphabet soup of R&B and C&W, rock & roll music promised to change the world--and did it. Combining social history with a treasure trove of trivia, Richard Aquila unleashes the excitement of rock's first decade and shows how the music reflected American life from the mid-1950s through the dawn of Beatlemania. His year-by-year timelines and a photo essay place the music in historical perspective by linking artists and their hits to the news stories, movies, TV shows, fads, and lifestyles. In addition, he provides a concise biographical dictionary of the performers who made the charts between 1954 and 1963, along with the label and chart position of each of their hit songs.

Women & Music

Author : Karin Pendle
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253115035
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (531 download)

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Download or read book Women & Music written by Karin Pendle and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2001-04-22 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of the “milestone” work of history that focuses on female musicians through the ages (College Music Symposium). This updated, expanded, and reorganized edition of Women and Music features even more women composers, performers, and patrons, even more musical contexts, and an expanded view of women in music outside Europe and North America. A popular university textbook, Women and Music is enlightening for scholars, a good source of programming ideas for performers, and a pleasure for other music lovers.

Scott Joplin

Author : Nancy R. Ping Robbins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113583153X
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Scott Joplin written by Nancy R. Ping Robbins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1998. This book is the first resource guide to published materials on Scott Joplin and encompasses a wide variety of items having to do with the man, his Iife, his music, and his influence on ragtime throughout the twentieth century. This guide includes articles and listings on festivals, concerts, clubs or societies, individual performers, performing groups, radio, television, and film as well as bibliography on Joplin and ragtime in general.

The Dilemma of American Music, and Other Essays

Author : Daniel Gregory Mason
Publisher : New York : The Macmillan Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Dilemma of American Music, and Other Essays written by Daniel Gregory Mason and published by New York : The Macmillan Company. This book was released on 1928 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Perspectives on American Music, 1900-1950

Author : Michael Saffle
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136519726
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book Perspectives on American Music, 1900-1950 written by Michael Saffle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this collection reflect the range and depth of musical life in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century. Contributions consider the rise and triumph of popular forms such as jazz, swing, and blues, as well as the contributions to art music of composers such as Ives, Cage, and Copland, among others. American contributions to music technology and dissemination, and the role of these forms in extending the audience for music, is also a focus.

The Oxford Handbook of Music and Disability Studies

Author : Blake Howe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190493739
Total Pages : 952 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Music and Disability Studies written by Blake Howe and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-11 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Disability Studies represents a comprehensive state of current research for the field of Disability Studies and Music. The forty-two chapters in the book span a wide chronological and geographical range, from the biblical, the medieval, and the Elizabethan, through the canonical classics of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, up to modernist styles and contemporary musical theater and popular genres, with stops along the way in post-Civil War America, Ghana and the South Pacific, and many other interesting times and places. Disability is a broad, heterogeneous, and porous identity, and that diversity is reflected in the variety of bodily conditions under discussion here, including autism and intellectual disability, deafness, blindness, mobility impairment often coupled with bodily difference, and cognitive and intellectual impairments. Amid this diversity of time, place, style, medium, and topic, the chapters share two core commitments. First, they are united in their theoretical and methodological connection to Disability Studies, especially its central idea that disability is a social and cultural construction. Disability both shapes and is shaped by culture, including musical culture. Second, these essays individually and collectively make the case that disability is not something at the periphery of culture and music, but something central to our art and to our humanity.