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  • Experiencing Mahler

    A Listener's Companion

    by Arved Ashby ...
    Series series Listener's Companion
    Experiencing Mahler surveys the symphonies and major song sets of Gustav Mahler, presenting them not just as artworks but as vivid and deeply felt journeys. Mahler took the symphony, perhaps the most tradition-bound genre in Western music, and opened it to the widest span of human experience. He introduced themes of love, nature, the chasmic depth of midnight, making peace with death, facing ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Postnational Musical Identities

    Cultural Production, Distribution, and Consumption in a Globalized Scenario

    by Arved Ashby, Chris Dennis, Vanessa Knights, Denilson Lopes, Steven Loza, Cristina Magaldi, Daniel Party, Greg Schelonka, Barry Shank, Helena Simonett ...
    Postnational Musical Identities gathers interdisciplinary essays that explore how music audiences and markets are imagined in a globalized scenario, how music reflects and reflects upon new understandings of citizenship beyond the nation-state, and how music works as a site of resistance against globalization."Hybridity," "postnationalism," "transnationalism," "globalization," "diaspora," and ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Absolute Music, Mechanical Reproduction

    by Arved Ashby ...
    Recordings are now the primary way we hear classical music, especially the more abstract styles of "absolute" instrumental music. In this original, provocative book, Arved Ashby argues that recording technology has transformed our understanding of art music. Contesting the laments of nostalgic critics, Ashby sees recordings as socially progressive and instruments of a musical vernacular, but also ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • Musicking

    The Meanings of Performing and Listening

    by Christopher Small ...
    Extending the inquiry of his early groundbreaking books, Christopher Small strikes at the heart of traditional studies of Western music by asserting that music is not a thing, but rather an activity. In this new book, Small outlines a theory of what he terms "musicking," a verb that encompasses all musical activity from composing to performing to listening to a Walkman to singing in the shower ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Extraordinary Canadians Glenn Gould

    by Mark Kingwell ...
    Series series Extraordinary Canadians
    Glenn Gould, one of the world’s most renowned classical musicians of the twentieth century, was also known as an eccentric genius—solitary, headstrong, a hypochondriac virtuoso. Abandoning stage performances in 1964, Gould concentrated instead on mastering the various media: recordings, radio, television, and print. His sudden death at age fifty stunned the world, but his music and legacy continue ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Feminine Endings

    Music, Gender, and Sexuality

    by Susan Mcclary ...
    A groundbreaking collection of essays in feminist music criticism, this book addresses problems of gender and sexuality in repertoires ranging from the early seventeenth century to rock and performance art. “. . . this is a major book . . . [McClary’s] achievement borders on the miraculous.” The Village Voice“No one will read these essays without thinking about and hearing music in new and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The End of Early Music

    A Period Performer's History of Music for the Twenty-First Century

    by Bruce Haynes ...
    Part history, part explanation of early music, this book also plays devil's advocate, criticizing current practices and urging experimentation. Haynes, a veteran of the movement, describes a vision of the future that involves improvisation, rhetorical expression, and composition. ... Read more

    $63.89 USD

  • Listening through the Noise : The Aesthetics of Experimental Electronic Music

    The Aesthetics of Experimental Electronic Music

    by Joanna Demers ...
    Electronic music since 1980 has splintered into a dizzying assortment of genres and subgenres communities and subcultures. Given the ideological differences among academic popular and avant-garde electronic musicians is it possible to derive an aesthetic theory that accounts for this variety? And is there even a place for aesthetics in twenty-first-century culture? This book explores genres ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Black and Blur

    by Fred Moten ...
    Series Book [5. 1] - consent not to be a single being
    "Taken as a trilogy, consent not to be a single being is a monumental accomplishment: a brilliant theoretical intervention that might be best described as a powerful case for blackness as a category of analysis."—Brent Hayes Edwards, author of Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary ImaginationIn Black and Blur—the first volume in his sublime and compelling trilogy consent not to be a single being ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Audio Culture, Revised Edition

    Readings in Modern Music

    Edited by Daniel Warner, Professor Christoph Cox ...
    The groundbreaking Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music (Continuum; September 2004; paperback original) maps the aural and discursive terrain of vanguard music today. Rather than offering a history of contemporary music, Audio Culture traces the genealogy of current musical practices and theoretical concerns, drawing lines of connection between recent musical production and earlier moments of ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Musicology: The Key Concepts

    by David Beard, Kenneth Gloag ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    Now in an updated 2nd edition, Musicology: The Key Concepts is a handy A-Z reference guide to the terms and concepts associated with contemporary musicology. Drawing on critical theory with a focus on new musicology, this updated edition contains over 35 new entries including:AutobiographyMusic and ConflictDeconstructionPostcolonialismDisabilityMusic... ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Brian Ferneyhough

    by Lois Fitch, Martin Iddon ...
    One of contemporary music’s most significant and controversial figures, Brian Ferneyhough's complex and challenging music draws inspiration from painting, literature and philosophy, as well as music from the recent and distant past. His dense, multi-layered compositions intrigue musicians while pushing performer and instrument to the limits of their abilities. A wide-ranging survey of his life and ... Read more

    $23.79 USD