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Book Synopsis Music in the Age of Anxiety by : James Wierzbicki
Download or read book Music in the Age of Anxiety written by James Wierzbicki and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derided for its conformity and consumerism, 1950s America paid a price in anxiety. Prosperity existed under the shadow of a mushroom cloud. Optimism wore a Bucky Beaver smile that masked worry over threats at home and abroad. But even dread could not quell the revolutionary changes taking place in virtually every form of mainstream music. Music historian James Wierzbicki sheds light on how the Fifties' pervasive moods affected its sounds. Moving across genres established--pop, country, opera--and transfigured--experimental, rock, jazz--Wierzbicki delves into the social dynamics that caused forms to emerge or recede, thrive or fade away. Red scares and white flight, sexual politics and racial tensions, technological progress and demographic upheaval--the influence of each rooted the music of this volatile period to its specific place and time. Yet Wierzbicki also reveals the host of underlying connections linking that most apprehensive of times to our own uneasy present.
Book Synopsis Music in the Age of Anxiety: American Music in the Fifties by : James Wierzbicki
Download or read book Music in the Age of Anxiety: American Music in the Fifties written by James Wierzbicki and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Age of Anxiety written by W. H. Auden and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-27 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: New York: Random House, 1947.
Book Synopsis Worship in an Age of Anxiety by : J. Michael Jordan
Download or read book Worship in an Age of Anxiety written by J. Michael Jordan and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the theology of worship is riddled with examples of clergy and worship leaders who have sought to manipulate their parishioners' anxiety in order to spur repentance and turn people toward God. Even if such ends may be desirable—at what cost? In Worship in an Age of Anxiety, Jordan challenges this utilitarian approach, offering a critical assessment of contemporary as well as historical evangelical figures such as D. L. Moody and Billy Graham who have deployed anxiety as a tool for conversion. Proposing a completely different model, Jordan takes up various elements of worship, including: liturgy space music preaching the sacraments In doing so, he develops a practical theology of worship that also turns people toward God but within a healing framework. While worship alone cannot heal anxiety, it can be a time and place where, rather than being manipulated, anxiety can be acknowledged, accepted, and offered to God.
Book Synopsis Singing in the Age of Anxiety by : Laura Tunbridge
Download or read book Singing in the Age of Anxiety written by Laura Tunbridge and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-07-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In New York and London during World War I, the performance of lieder—German art songs—was roundly prohibited, representing as they did the music and language of the enemy. But as German musicians returned to the transatlantic circuit in the 1920s, so too did the songs of Franz Schubert, Hugo Wolf, and Richard Strauss. Lieder were encountered in a variety of venues and media—at luxury hotels and on ocean liners, in vaudeville productions and at Carnegie Hall, and on gramophone recordings, radio broadcasts, and films. Laura Tunbridge explores the renewed vitality of this refugee musical form between the world wars, offering a fresh perspective on a period that was pervaded by anxieties of displacement. Through richly varied case studies, Singing in the Age of Anxiety traces how lieder were circulated, presented, and consumed in metropolitan contexts, shedding new light on how music facilitated unlikely crossings of nationalist and internationalist ideologies during the interwar period.
Book Synopsis The Age of Anxiety by : Pete Townshend
Download or read book The Age of Anxiety written by Pete Townshend and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Age of Anxiety is a great rock novel, but that is one of the less important things about it. The narrator is a brilliant creation - cultured, witty and unreliable. The novel captures the craziness of the music business and displays Pete Townshend's sly sense of humour and sharp ear for dialogue. First conceived as an opera, The Age of Anxiety deals with mythic and operatic themes including a maze, divine madness and long-lost children. Hallucinations and soundscapes haunt this novel, which on one level is an extended meditation on manic genius and the dark art of creativity.
Download or read book The Age of Stress written by Mark Jackson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-17 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are living in a stressful world, yet despite our familiarity with the notion, stress remains an elusive concept. In The Age of Stress, Mark Jackson explores the history of scientific studies of stress in the modern world. In particular, he reveals how the science that legitimates and fuels current anxieties about stress has been shaped by a wide range of socio-political and cultural, as well as biological, factors: stress, he argues, is both a condition and a metaphor. In order to understand the ubiquity and impact of stress in our own times, or to explain how stress has commandeered such a central place in the modern imagination, Jackson suggests that we need to comprehend not only the evolution of the medical science and technology that has gradually uncovered the biological pathways between stress and disease in recent decades, but also the shifting social, economic, and cultural contexts that have invested that scientific knowledge with meaning and authority. In particular, he argues, we need to acknowledge the manner in which enduring concerns about the effects of stress on mental and physical health are the product of broader historical preoccupations with the preservation of personal and political, as well as physiological, stability.
Book Synopsis Music Psychotherapy and Anxiety by : Rebecca Zarate
Download or read book Music Psychotherapy and Anxiety written by Rebecca Zarate and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anxiety can be a debilitating illness that impacts an individual on multiple levels. Through examination on both a societal and individual level, its treatment in the music therapy room is contextualised. Case studies with children, adults and a right's women chorus demonstrates the symptoms and treatment music therapists can offer, with a focus on clinical improvisation. As the very first of its kind, this book provides essential insight for any music therapist or student of music therapy working with clients who experience anxiety and related disorders.
Book Synopsis Anxiety Muted by : Stanley C. Pelkey
Download or read book Anxiety Muted written by Stanley C. Pelkey and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this collection, contributors employ diverse critical methods and perspectives to explore the role of music in American film and television of the 1950s and 1960s, as well as in films from more recent years that allude to, reflect back upon, or recreate those decades. Particular attention is given to uncovering how motion picture culture and its music treated anxieties about suburbanization, conformity, the family, and gender"--Provided by publisher.
Book Synopsis The Age of Anxiety by : Pete Townshend
Download or read book The Age of Anxiety written by Pete Townshend and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his debut novel, rock legend Pete Townshend explores the anxiety of modern life and madness in a story that stretches across two generations of a London family, their lovers, collaborators, and friends. A former rock star disappears on the Cumberland moors. When his wife finds him, she discovers he has become a hermit and a painter of apocalyptic visions. An art dealer has drug-induced visions of demonic faces swirling in a bedstead and soon his wife disappears, nowhere to be found. A beautiful Irish girl who has stabbed her father to death is determined to seduce her best friend's husband. A young composer begins to experience aural hallucinations, expressions of the fear and anxiety of the people of London. He constructs a maze in his back garden. Driven by passion and musical ambition, events spiral out of control -- good drugs and bad drugs, loves lost and found, families broken apart and reunited. Conceived jointly as an opera, The Age of Anxiety deals with mythic and operatic themes. Hallucinations and soundscapes haunt this novel in an extended meditation on manic genius and the dark art of creativity.
Book Synopsis Leonard Bernstein: The Age of Anxiety (Symphony No. 2) by : Cheryl Rae Carnahan
Download or read book Leonard Bernstein: The Age of Anxiety (Symphony No. 2) written by Cheryl Rae Carnahan and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leonard Bernstein's symphonic style displays two out-standing characteristics: it is dramatic and theatrical, and it reflects the composer's penchant for programmatic content. Each of these elements forms an integral part of his second symphony, The Age of Anxiety. The concertante function of the solo piano is certainly theatrical in its effect; the programmatic element is manifested by the work's being a musical paraphrase of Wyston Hugh Auden's The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue. A portion of this thesis is devoted to an analysis of the poem, and the writer has attempted to correlate the program with the music. It is evident that Bernstein has very closely followed the work of Auden in writing this symphony, and this results partially in a wide diversity of musical styles. To the listener totally unfamiliar with the poem, portions of the symphony do not "hang together," and the music may be considered to be too dependent upon the program at various points. A unique aspect of Bernstein's melodic style in this symphony involves the use of a process of melodic evolution: the theme of one small section will provide a motive which will in turn be developed in the next small section, and so on. His melodies are primarily motivic in construction, with emphasis placed upon the individual interval. Sequence is an important element in the development of themes; few themes are long and self-generating. From a rhythmic standpoint, the work is disappointing in its straightforwardness. The one movement in a jazz idiom provides the only real instance of fairly intricate rhythmic patterns, such as polyrhythms and changing meters. This section also presents an example of a rhythmic cell being developed in conjunction with different melodic ideas; in other sections of the work, a rhythmic pattern is always associated with the same melodic line. Harmonic materials are diversified; sections ranging from jazz to serialism are found. In general, tertian harmonies and tertian structures with an added tone prevail; quartal and quintal structures are found, but are employed only for very brief periods. The jazz element has harmonic influence throughout the work. Feeling of a tonal center is generally present, but modulations from this center occur frequently and rapidly. Harmony is non-functional; there is much use of chromaticism, particularly in effecting modulations. Texture at any given moment is generally quite thin, with more than three different simultaneous ideas occurring very rarely. Orchestration is non-virtuosic; scoring is by choirs, and the predominating closed structure is effected by interlocking of choirs. The piano part is of prominence throughout a majority of the symphony; it nearly always carries the prevailing thematic material. The part is virtuosic largely by virtue of the enormous variety of techniques and styles required. The formal organization of the work is undoubtedly a product of the dictates of the poem. Bernstein has divided the work into six sections as follows: Prologue, Seven Ages (seven variations utilizing the technique of melodic evolution discussed previously), Seven Stages (seven variations in the line of more traditional theme and variations), Dirge (slow twelve-tone section), Masque (the jazz movement), and Epilogue. The form is not indicative of a symphony, and much debate has arisen as to whether the work should not instead be considered a concerto, due to the prominence of the piano part. The writer has concluded that Bernstein's naming it "symphony" indicates that he places more emphasis upon the formal organization than upon virtuosity. This, then, should indeed be its designation.
Book Synopsis Hope in the Age of Anxiety by : Anthony Scioli
Download or read book Hope in the Age of Anxiety written by Anthony Scioli and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-03 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic collapse, poverty, disease, natural disasters, the constant threat of community unrest and international terrorism--a quick look at any newspaper is enough to cause almost anyone to feel trapped and desperate. Yet the recent election also revealed a growing search for hope spreading through society. In the timely Hope in the Age of Anxiety, Anthony Scioli and Henry Biller illuminate the nature of hope and offer a multitude of techniques designed to improve the lives of individuals, and bring more light into the world. In this fascinating and humane book, Scioli and Biller reveal the ways in which human beings acquire and make use of hope. Hope in the Age of Anxiety is meant to be a definitive guide. The evolutionary, biological, and cultural roots of hope are covered along with the seven kinds of hope found in the world's religions. Just as vital, the book provides many personal tools for addressing the major challenges of the human condition: fear, loss, illness, and death. Some of the key areas illuminated in Hope in the Age of Anxiety: How do you build and sustain hope in trying times? How can hope help you to achieve your life goals? How can hope improve your relationships with others? How can hope aid your recovery from trauma or illness? How does hope relate to spirituality? Hope in the Age of Anxiety identifies the skills needed to cultivate hope, and offers suggestions for using these capacities to realize your life goals, support health and healing, strengthen relationships, enhance spirituality, and inoculate yourself against the despair that engulfs many individuals.
Author :Internationale Richard Strauss-Gesellschaft Publisher :Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag ISBN 13 :3990128213 Total Pages :194 pages Book Rating :4.9/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Richard Strauss-Jahrbuch 2018 by : Internationale Richard Strauss-Gesellschaft
Download or read book Richard Strauss-Jahrbuch 2018 written by Internationale Richard Strauss-Gesellschaft and published by Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Das Jahr 1918 bedeutete mit Werken wie dem "Krämerspiegel" und den Brentano-Gesängen einen Höhepunkt im Liedschaffen von Richard Strauss. Der Umbruch Europas am Ende des Ersten Weltkriegs nahm aber auch Einfluss auf das Selbstverständnis des Komponisten in Kunst und Leben als "griechischer Germane". Das Jahrbuch 2018 enthält einen aufschlussreichen Artikel über die Geschäftstüchtigkeit des Musikers im Umgang mit seinem Verlag Bote & Bock sowie in einem weiteren Aufsatz philologische Evidenz zu den Spuren griechischer Mythologie in seinen "Antike-Opern" (Hofmannsthal, Gregor). Der Briefwechsel zwischen Ferruccio Busoni und Stefan Zweig beleuchtet den biographischen und literarischen Horizont Zweigs, des von Strauss hochgeschätzten Librettisten der "Schweigsamen Frau". Beiträge zu einem vermeintlichen Jugendwerk des Komponisten und zur Bedeutung der Sopranistin Leonie Rysanek als Strauss-Interpretin sowie einige Miszellen, Rezensionen und Berichte runden den Band ab.
Book Synopsis Sinfonien Nr. 2 by : Leonard Bernstein
Download or read book Sinfonien Nr. 2 written by Leonard Bernstein and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Widening the Horizon by : Philip Hayward
Download or read book Widening the Horizon written by Philip Hayward and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1999-09-22 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deep dive into the history and retro appeal of musical exotica, including the Orientalism, Hawaiianesque, and Afro-tropicalism sub-sets. Widening the Horizon is the first in-depth study of exoticism in Post-War popular music. The opening chapters analyze the work of Les Baxter, Martin Denny, Arthur Lyman, Korla Pandit, Yma Sumac—the musicians who developed (and exemplified) the style known as Exotica in the 1950s and 1960s. Other chapters address more recent developments in musical exoticism which have revived and reinflected the form, such as Haruomi Hosono’s Soy Sauce Music trilogy; the works of Van Dyke Parks, on albums such as Tokyo Rose; and the career of New Age populist/exoticist Yanni. Contributors to this anthology include writers and academics from Australia, Canada, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Download or read book Leonard Bernstein written by Paul Laird and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with an introductory essay on his achievements, it continues with annotations on Bernstein's voluminous writings, performances, educational work, and major secondary sources.
Book Synopsis Music for Piano and Orchestra by : Maurice Hinson
Download or read book Music for Piano and Orchestra written by Maurice Hinson and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suitable for all admirers of the piano, this work brings together more than 3,000 works for piano and orchestra. It comes with a supplement containing over 200 new entries.
