Bad Music

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135385475
Total Pages : 392 pages
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Book Synopsis Bad Music by : Christopher J. Washburne

Download or read book Bad Music written by Christopher J. Washburne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are some popular musical forms and performers universally reviled by critics and ignored by scholars-despite enjoying large-scale popularity? How has the notion of what makes "good" or "bad" music changed over the years-and what does this tell us about the writers who have assigned these tags to different musical genres? Many composers that are today part of the classical "canon" were greeted initially by bad reviews. Similarly, jazz, country, and pop musics were all once rejected as "bad" by the academy that now has courses on these and many other types of music. This book addresses why this is so through a series of essays on different musical forms and performers. It looks at alternate ways of judging musical performance beyond the critical/academic nexus, and suggests new paths to follow in understanding what makes some music "popular" even if it is judged to be "bad." For anyone who has ever secretly enjoyed ABBA, Kenny G, or disco, Bad Music will be a guilty pleasure!

Bad Music

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Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415943655
Total Pages : 392 pages
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Book Synopsis Bad Music by : Christopher Washburne

Download or read book Bad Music written by Christopher Washburne and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are some popular musical forms and performers universally reviled by critics and ignored by scholars-despite enjoying large-scale popularity? How has the notion of what makes "good" or "bad" music changed over the years-and what does this tell us about the writers who have assigned these tags to different musical genres? Many composers that are today part of the classical "canon" were greeted initially by bad reviews. Similarly, jazz, country, and pop musics were all once rejected as "bad" by the academy that now has courses on these and many other types of music. This book addresses why this is so through a series of essays on different musical forms and performers. It looks at alternate ways of judging musical performance beyond the critical/academic nexus, and suggests new paths to follow in understanding what makes some music "popular" even if it is judged to be "bad." For anyone who has ever secretly enjoyed ABBA, Kenny G, or disco, Bad Music will be a guilty pleasure!

Bad Music

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Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415943666
Total Pages : 396 pages
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Download or read book Bad Music written by Christopher Washburne and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are some popular musical forms and performers universally reviled by critics and ignored by scholars-despite enjoying large-scale popularity? How has the notion of what makes "good" or "bad" music changed over the years-and what does this tell us about the writers who have assigned these tags to different musical genres? Many composers that are today part of the classical "canon" were greeted initially by bad reviews. Similarly, jazz, country, and pop musics were all once rejected as "bad" by the academy that now has courses on these and many other types of music. This book addresses why this is so through a series of essays on different musical forms and performers. It looks at alternate ways of judging musical performance beyond the critical/academic nexus, and suggests new paths to follow in understanding what makes some music "popular" even if it is judged to be "bad." For anyone who has ever secretly enjoyed ABBA, Kenny G, or disco, Bad Music will be a guilty pleasure!

Bad Singer

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Publisher : House of Anansi
ISBN 13 : 1770894462
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (78 download)

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Book Synopsis Bad Singer by : Tim Falconer

Download or read book Bad Singer written by Tim Falconer and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2016-05-14 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Daniel Levitin’s This Is Your Brain on Music and Oliver Sacks’ Musicophilia, Bad Singer follows the delightful journey of Tim Falconer as he tries to overcome tone deafness — and along the way discovers what we’re really hearing when we listen to music. Tim Falconer, a self-confessed “bad singer,” always wanted to make music, but soon after he starts singing lessons, he discovers that he’s part of only 2.5 percent of the population afflicted with amusia — in other words, he is scientifically tone-deaf. Bad Singer chronicles his quest to understand human evolution and music, the brain science behind tone-deafness, his search for ways to retrain the adult brain, and his investigation into what we really hear when we listen to music. In an effort to learn more about his brain disorder, he goes to a series of labs where the scientists who test him are as fascinated with him as he is with them. He also sets out to understand why we love music and deconstructs what we really hear when we listen to it. And he unlocks the secret that helps explain why music has such emotional power over us.

Bad Vibrations

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317176464
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Book Synopsis Bad Vibrations by : James Kennaway

Download or read book Bad Vibrations written by James Kennaway and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music has been used as a cure for disease since as far back as King David's lyre, but the notion that it might be a serious cause of mental and physical illness was rare until the late eighteenth century. At that time, physicians started to argue that excessive music, or the wrong kind of music, could over-stimulate a vulnerable nervous system, leading to illness, immorality and even death. Since then there have been successive waves of moral panics about supposed epidemics of musical nervousness, caused by everything from Wagner to jazz and rock 'n' roll. It was this medical and critical debate that provided the psychiatric rhetoric of "degenerate music" that was the rationale for the persecution of musicians in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. By the 1950s, the focus of medical anxiety about music shifted to the idea that "musical brainwashing" and "subliminal messages" could strain the nerves and lead to mind control, mental illness and suicide. More recently, the prevalence of sonic weapons and the use of music in torture in the so-called War on Terror have both made the subject of music that is bad for the health worryingly topical. This book outlines and explains the development of this idea of pathological music from the Enlightenment until the present day, providing an original contribution to the history of medicine, music and the body.

Bad Music

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Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1326765868
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (267 download)

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Book Synopsis Bad Music by : James Whitehead

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Bad Boy of Music

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Publisher : Samuel French Trade
ISBN 13 : 9780573606045
Total Pages : 378 pages
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Book Synopsis Bad Boy of Music by : George Antheil

Download or read book Bad Boy of Music written by George Antheil and published by Samuel French Trade. This book was released on 1990 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antheil's 'mechanistic' works made him the rage of the 1920s Parisian artistic community and 'bad boy' of the music scene.

Bad Vibrations

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Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409456218
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)

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Book Synopsis Bad Vibrations by : Dr James Kennaway

Download or read book Bad Vibrations written by Dr James Kennaway and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music has been used as a cure for disease since as far back as King David's lyre, but the notion that it might be a serious cause of mental and physical illness was rare until the late eighteenth century. At that time, physicians started to argue that excessive music, or the wrong kind of music, could over-stimulate a vulnerable nervous system, leading to illness, immorality and even death. Since then there have been successive waves of moral panics about supposed epidemics of musical nervousness, caused by everything from Wagner to jazz and rock 'n' roll. It was this medical and critical debate that provided the psychiatric rhetoric of "degenerate music" that was the rationale for the persecution of musicians in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. By the 1950s, the focus of medical anxiety about music shifted to the idea that "musical brainwashing" and "subliminal messages" could strain the nerves and lead to mind control, mental illness and suicide. More recently, the prevalence of sonic weapons and the use of music in torture in the so-called War on Terror have both made the subject of music that is bad for the health worryingly topical. This book outlines and explains the development of this idea of pathological music from the Enlightenment until the present day, providing an original contribution to the history of medicine, music and the body.

The New Music Review and Church Music Review

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Music and Life

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Publisher : London : Methuen
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Music and Life by : Walter James Turner

Download or read book Music and Life written by Walter James Turner and published by London : Methuen. This book was released on 1921 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Borderland of Music and Psychology

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Publisher : London : K. Paul Trench, Trubner & Company, Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
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Book Synopsis The Borderland of Music and Psychology by : Frank Howes

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Buffy, Ballads, and Bad Guys Who Sing

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Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810877651
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Book Synopsis Buffy, Ballads, and Bad Guys Who Sing by : Kendra Preston Leonard

Download or read book Buffy, Ballads, and Bad Guys Who Sing written by Kendra Preston Leonard and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2010-11-16 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When writer and director Joss Whedon created the character Buffy the Vampire Slayer, he could hardly have expected the resulting academic interest in his work. Yet almost six years after the end of Buffy on television, Buffy studies—and academic work on Whedon's expanding oeuvre—continue to grow. Now with three hugely popular television shows, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly, and the film Serenity all available on DVD, scholars are evaluating countless aspects of the Whedon universe (or "Whedonverse"). Buffy, Ballads, and Bad Guys Who Sing: Music in the Worlds of Joss Whedon studies the significant role that music plays in these works, from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to the internet musical Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. Kendra Preston Leonard has collected a varying selection of essays that explore music and sound in Joss Whedon's works. The essays investigate both diegetic and non-diegetic music, considering music from various sources, including the shows' original scores, music performed by the characters themselves, and music contributed by such artists as Michelle Branch, The Sex Pistols, and Sarah McLachlan, as well as classical composers like Camille Saint-Saëns and Johannes Brahms. The approaches incorporate historical and theoretical musicology, feminist and queer musicology, media studies, cultural history, and interdisciplinary readings. The book also explores the compositions written by Whedon himself: the theme music for Firefly, and two fully integrated musicals, the Buffy episode "Once More, With Feeling" and Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. With several musical examples, a table with a full breakdown of the Danse Macabre scene from the acclaimed Buffy episode "Hush," and an index, this volume will be fascinating to students and scholars of science-fiction, television, film, and popular culture.

Musical Observer

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 956 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Catholic Church Music

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Catholic Church Music by : Richard Runciman Terry

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Bible Music

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
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Book Synopsis Bible Music by : Francis Jacox

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Nonconformist Church Music

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
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Book Synopsis Nonconformist Church Music by : Joseph Wood

Download or read book Nonconformist Church Music written by Joseph Wood and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Music Supervisors' Journal

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 748 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Music Supervisors' Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: