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Music Downtown

Author : Kyle Gann
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520935938
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Music Downtown written by Kyle Gann and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-02-13 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection represents the cream of the more than five hundred articles written for the Village Voice by Kyle Gann, a leading authority on experimental American music of the late twentieth century. Charged with exploring every facet of cutting-edge music coming out of New York City in the 1980s and '90s, Gann writes about a wide array of timely issues that few critics have addressed, including computer music, multiculturalism and its thorny relation to music, music for the AIDS crisis, the brand-new art of electronic sampling and its legal implications, symphonies for electric guitars, operas based on talk shows, the death of twelve-tone music, and the various streams of music that flowed forth from minimalism. In these articles—including interviews with Yoko Ono, Philip Glass, Glenn Branca, and other leading musical figures—Gann paints a portrait of a bristling era in music history and defines the scruffy, vernacular field of Downtown music from which so much of the most fertile recent American music has come.

Music Downtown

Author : Kyle Gann
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520229827
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Music Downtown written by Kyle Gann and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-02-13 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects reviews of music produced in the 1980's and 90's, artists include Yoko Ono, Philip Glass, and Glenn Branca.

Music Downtown Eastside

Author : Klisala Harrison
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197535097
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Music Downtown Eastside written by Klisala Harrison and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music Downtown Eastside draws on two decades of research in one of North America's poorest urban areas to illustrate how human rights can be promoted through music. Harrison's examination of how gentrification, grant funding, and community organizations affect the success or failure of human rights-focused musical initiatives offers insights into the complex relationship between culture, poverty, and human rights that have global implications and applicability. The book takes the reader into popular music jams and music therapy sessions offered to the poor in churches, community centers and health organizations. Harrison analyzes the capabilities music-making develops, and musical moments where human rights are respected, promoted, threatened, or violated. The book offers insights on the relationship between music and poverty, a social deprivation that diminishes capabilities and rights. It contributes to the human rights literature by examining critically how human rights can be strengthened in cultural practices and policy.

Hold On to Your Dreams

Author : Tim Lawrence
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822390855
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Hold On to Your Dreams written by Tim Lawrence and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hold On to Your Dreams is the first biography of the musician and composer Arthur Russell, one of the most important but least known contributors to New York’s downtown music scene during the 1970s and 1980s. With the exception of a few dance recordings, including “Is It All Over My Face?” and “Go Bang! #5,” Russell’s pioneering music was largely forgotten until 2004, when the posthumous release of two albums brought new attention to the artist. This revival of interest gained momentum with the issue of additional albums and the documentary film Wild Combination. Based on interviews with more than seventy of his collaborators, family members, and friends, Hold On to Your Dreams provides vital new information about this singular, eccentric musician and his role in the boundary-breaking downtown music scene. Tim Lawrence traces Russell’s odyssey from his hometown of Oskaloosa, Iowa, to countercultural San Francisco, and eventually to New York, where he lived from 1973 until his death from AIDS-related complications in 1992. Resisting definition while dreaming of commercial success, Russell wrote and performed new wave and disco as well as quirky rock, twisted folk, voice-cello dub, and hip-hop-inflected pop. “He was way ahead of other people in understanding that the walls between concert music and popular music and avant-garde music were illusory,” comments the composer Philip Glass. “He lived in a world in which those walls weren’t there.” Lawrence follows Russell across musical genres and through such vital downtown music spaces as the Kitchen, the Loft, the Gallery, the Paradise Garage, and the Experimental Intermedia Foundation. Along the way, he captures Russell’s openness to sound, his commitment to collaboration, and his uncompromising idealism.

Twentieth-Century Music in the West

Author : Tom Perchard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108481981
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Twentieth-Century Music in the West written by Tom Perchard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-06 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Introduction Steve Reich pitched up in San Francisco in September 1961. He was a young musician, one who had been taken by the early-century work of the Hungarian composer and folklorist Béla Bartók, and he had journeyed west from New York in the hope of studying with Leon Kirchner, a composer in the rough-lyric Bartók tradition who'd been teaching at Mills College. But Kirchner had just left for Harvard, so Reich ended up working at Mills under Luciano Berio. Over the course of the previous decade, Berio had become identified as a figurehead of the European post-war avant-garde: his ultramodern serialist work was quite a different proposition to Kirchner's own"--

The Ashgate Research Companion to Minimalist and Postminimalist Music

Author : Keith Potter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317042557
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Ashgate Research Companion to Minimalist and Postminimalist Music written by Keith Potter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years the music of minimalist composers such as La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Philip Glass has, increasingly, become the subject of important musicological reflection, research and debate. Scholars have also been turning their attention to the work of lesser-known contemporaries such as Phill Niblock and Eliane Radigue, or to second and third generation minimalists such as John Adams, Louis Andriessen, Michael Nyman and William Duckworth, whose range of styles may undermine any sense of shared aesthetic approach but whose output is still to a large extent informed by the innovative work of their minimalist predecessors. Attempts have also been made by a number of academics to contextualise the work of composers who have moved in parallel with these developments while remaining resolutely outside its immediate environment, including such diverse figures as Karel Goeyvaerts, Robert Ashley, Arvo Pärt and Brian Eno. Theory has reflected practice in many respects, with the multimedia works of Reich and Glass encouraging interdisciplinary approaches, associations and interconnections. Minimalism’s role in culture and society has also become the subject of recent interest and debate, complementing existing scholarship, which addressed the subject from the perspective of historiography, analysis, aesthetics and philosophy. The Ashgate Research Companion to Minimalist and Postminimalist Music provides an authoritative overview of established research in this area, while also offering new and innovative approaches to the subject.

Retire Downtown

Author : Kyle Ezell
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0740786571
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Retire Downtown written by Kyle Ezell and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you a Ruppie? More and more people are trending toward living downtown. Author Kyle Ezell demonstrates how empty nesters can live out their golden years full of fun and independence in the midst of the city. Ruppies--Retired Urban People--are cropping up all over the country. The populations of city downtowns are exploding nationwide. Also known as active retirees, Ruppies are quickly becoming a big part of that population. Downtown living can help them stay active both physically and mentally while keeping them entertained in the process. After all, there's always a live theater or jazz band playing right around the corner. Author and noted city planner Kyle Ezell has assembled information on living downtown, shopping, eating at exciting new restaurants, getting around, staying active, downsizing to one car, volunteering, keeping faith alive, and much, much more into Retire Downtown. Retire Downtown lists the top 20 cities for Ruppies across the nation, with a wealth of facts on each area and a breakdown of each environment. Learning how to locate the right downtown neighborhood in which to live, and discovering art galleries, cool hangouts, coffee shops, and farmers' markets, as well as the unique and trendy ethnic shops, are all exciting parts of Ezell's book--a must-have for every up-and-coming active retiree!

The Downtown Pop Underground

Author : Kembrew McLeod
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1683353455
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book The Downtown Pop Underground written by Kembrew McLeod and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “McLeod’s deft and generous book tells of a constellation of avant-garde squatters, divas, and dissidents who reinvented the world.” —Jonathan Lethem, New York Times-bestselling author of Motherless Brooklyn The 1960s to early ’70s was a pivotal time for American culture, and New York City was ground zero for seismic shifts in music, theater, art, and filmmaking. The Downtown Pop Underground takes a kaleidoscopic tour of Manhattan during this era and shows how deeply interconnected all the alternative worlds and personalities were that flourished in the basement theaters, dive bars, concert halls, and dingy tenements within one square mile of each other. Author Kembrew McLeod links the artists, writers, and performers who created change, and while some of them didn’t become everyday names, others, like Patti Smith, Andy Warhol, and Debbie Harry, did become icons. Ambitious in scope and scale, the book is fueled by the actual voices of many of the key characters who broke down the entrenched divisions between high and low, gay and straight, and art and commerce—and changed the cultural landscape of not just the city but the world. “The story of underground artists of the 1960s and ’70s, an amalgam of bustling radical creativity and fearless groundbreaking work in art, music, and theater.” —Tim Robbins “Breathes new fire into a familiar history and is a must-read for anyone who wants to know how American bohemia really happened.” —Ann Powers, critic, NPR Music “Honors those who were at the forefront of a movement that transformed our understandings of sexuality and artistic freedom.” —Lily Tomlin

Music/City

Author : Jonathan R. Wynn
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022630566X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Music/City written by Jonathan R. Wynn and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Austin’s famed South by Southwest is far more than a festival celebrating indie music. It’s also a big networking party that sparks the imagination of hip, creative types and galvanizes countless pilgrimages to the city. Festivals like SXSW are a lot of fun, but for city halls, media corporations, cultural institutions, and community groups, they’re also a vital part of a complex growth strategy. In Music/City, Jonathan R. Wynn immerses us in the world of festivals, giving readers a unique perspective on contemporary urban and cultural life. Wynn tracks the history of festivals in Newport, Nashville, and Austin, taking readers on-site to consider different festival agendas and styles of organization. It’s all here: from the musician looking to build her career to the mayor who wants to exploit a local cultural scene, from a resident’s frustration over corporate branding of his city to the music executive hoping to sell records. Music/City offers a sharp perspective on cities and cultural institutions in action and analyzes how governments mobilize massive organizational resources to become promotional machines. Wynn’s analysis culminates with an impassioned argument for temporary events, claiming that when done right, temporary occasions like festivals can serve as responsive, flexible, and adaptable products attuned to local places and communities.

Music and the Broadcast Experience

Author : Christina L. Baade
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199314713
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Music and the Broadcast Experience written by Christina L. Baade and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can broadcasting help us understanding music and its cultural role, both historically and today? To answer this question, 'Music and the Broadcast Experience' brings together fourteen leading music and media scholars, who explore how music and broadcasting have developed together throughout the twentieth and into the twenty-first centuries.

Community Music

Author : National Recreation Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Community Music written by National Recreation Association and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Rethinking Difference in Music Scholarship

Author : Olivia Bloechl
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107026679
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Difference in Music Scholarship written by Olivia Bloechl and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-08 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major essay collection takes a fresh look at how differences among people matter for music and musical thought.

Heritage of Music: The Romantic era

Author : Michael Raeburn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (228 download)

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Download or read book Heritage of Music: The Romantic era written by Michael Raeburn and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Etude Music Magazine

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 946 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Etude Music Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

To Be, Or Not-- to Bop

Author : Dizzy Gillespie
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816665478
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book To Be, Or Not-- to Bop written by Dizzy Gillespie and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: New York: Doubleday, 1979.

Chart Hits of 2018-2019 Songbook

Author : Hal Leonard Corp.
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1540052699
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Chart Hits of 2018-2019 Songbook written by Hal Leonard Corp. and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Easy Piano Songbook). 18 of the hottest hits of '18 and '19, arranged for easy piano. Includes: Eastside (Benny Blanco with Halsey & Khalid) * Happier (Marshmello feat. Bastille) * High Hopes (Panic! At the Disco) * Natural (Imagine Dragons) * Shallow (Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper) * Sunflower (Post Malone & Swae Lee) * Thank U, Next (Ariana Grande) * Without Me (Halsey) * Youngblood (5 Seconds of Summer) * and more.

ATTENTION

Author : Joshua Cohen
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0399590226
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book ATTENTION written by Joshua Cohen and published by Random House. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Attention reveals a fresh, vital literary voice as it covers seemingly every imaginable topic relating to modern life.”—Entertainment Weekly “Joshua Cohen may be America’s greatest living writer.”—The Washington Post NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY WIRED One of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists, Joshua Cohen arrives with his first collection of nonfiction, the culmination of two decades of writing and thought about life in the digital age. In essays, memoir, criticism, diary entries, and letters—many appearing here for the first time—Cohen covers the full depth and breadth of modern life: politics, literature, art, music, travel, the media, and psychology, and subjects as diverse as Google, Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, fictional animals, Gustav Mahler, Aretha Franklin, John Zorn, landscape photography, fake Caravaggios, Wikipedia, Gertrude Stein, Edward Snowden, Jonathan Franzen, Olympic women’s fencing, Atlantic City casinos, the closing of the Ringling Bros. circus, and Azerbaijan. Throughout ATTENTION, Cohen directs his sharp gaze at home and abroad, calling upon his extraordinary erudition and unrivaled ability to draw connections between seemingly unlike things to show us how to live without fear in a world overflowing with information. In each piece, he projects a quality of thought that is uniquely his, and a voice as witty, profound, and distinct as any in American letters. At this crucial juncture in history, ATTENTION is a guide for the perplexed—a handbook for anyone hoping to bring the wisdom of the past into the culture of the future. Praise for ATTENTION “Dazzling in its scope . . . If curiosity is a writer’s greatest innate gift, Joshua Cohen may be America’s greatest living writer.”—The Washington Post “Cause for celebration and close study . . . [Cohen] will hunt after neglected shards of the past, minor histories, and charge them with an immediacy in the present. . . . He is experimenting with the essay form much more, and more cleverly, than any major American writer today.”—The Wall Street Journal “In Attention, Joshua Cohen makes an eclectic argument for how to improve our lives. . . . [He] tackles a surprising range of subjects to underline distraction’s role in our fraught predicament and to argue that paying attention could help us get out of it. . . . When it comes to making sense of our times with verve and imagination, few authors are more rewarding.”—Financial Times