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  • Meter as Rhythm

    20th Anniversary Edition

    by Christopher Hasty ...
    Drawing on insights from the modern "process" philosophy of Bergson, William James, and A. N. Whitehead, Christopher Hasty's Meter as Rhythm releases meter from its mechanistic connotations and recognizes it as a concrete, visceral agent of musical expression. Hasty reinterprets oppositions of law and freedom, structure and process, determinacy and indeterminacy to form a theory that engages ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Meter As Rhythm

    by Christopher Hasty ...
    In this book Christopher Hasty presents a striking new theory of musical duration. Drawing on insights from modern "process" philosophy, he advances a fully temporal perspective in which meter is released from its mechanistic connotations and recognized as a concrete, visceral agent of musical expression. Part one of the book reviews oppositions of law and freedom, structure and process, ... Read more

    $194.39 USD

  • The Human in Superhuman

    The Power of the Sidekick in Popular Culture

    by Anke Marie Bock, Melissa Caliendo, Kerry Carley Rizzuto, Mary T. Christel, Jacob George, Walter D. Greason, Eric Hasty, Christopher Jeansonne, Jennifer Marmo, Ariel Mickey, Wendy Gray Morales, Margaret A. Robbins, Jennifer L. Toney, Stephen M. Zimmerly, Gian S. Pagnucci, Maryanne A. Rhett, William O. George III ...
    The Human in Superhuman: The Power of the Sidekick in Popular Culture spotlights the often overlooked but very crucial sidekick in superhero narratives. From the classic companion Alfred Pennyworth to the supportive best friend Foggy Nelson, this collection examines a variety of sidekick characters and their importance to the hero’s journey in each story. Ultimately, rather than viewing the lack ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Thought and Play in Musical Rhythm

    Edited by Richard Wolf, Stephen Blum, Christopher Hasty ...
    Thought and Play in Musical Rhythm offers new understandings of musical rhythm through the analysis and comparison of diverse repertoires, performance practices, and theories as formulated and transmitted in speech or writing. Editors Richard K. Wolf, Stephen Blum, and Christopher Hasty address a productive tension in musical studies between universalistic and culturally relevant approaches to the ... Read more

    $62.09 USD

  • Audiobook

    A Court of Honey and Ash [Dramatized Adaptation]

    Honey and Ice 1

    by Shannon Mayer, Kelly St. Clare ...
    Narrated by Full Cast, Tia Shearer, Nick J. Russo, Renee Dorian, James Lewis, Niusha Nawab, Alejandro Ruiz, Christopher Williams, Megan Hastie, Belsheber Rusape, Jonathon Church, Grace Srinivasan ...
    Series series Honey and Ice

    Unabridged

    6 hours 4 min

    "Orphaned. Trained to fight. Raised to fear the power of Underhill. Secretly in love with a man who doesn’t want me.I’m still just Alli, aka the half-human orphan fae, but my life is looking up for the first time. It only took me my whole 24 years.But when Underhill—the ancestral home of the fae—shatters, making it impossible for any fae to enter, I’m the only one who knows who did it.A secret ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Music between Us

    Is Music a Universal Language?

    by Kathleen Marie Higgins ...
    "Higgins' love of music and cultural variety is evident throughout. She writes in a relaxed, accessible, sophisticated style…Highly recommended."— ChoiceFrom our first social bonding as infants to the funeral rites that mark our passing, music plays an important role in our lives, bringing us closer to one another. In this book, philosopher Kathleen Marie Higgins investigates this role, examining ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Music Instinct:How Music Works and Why We Can't Do Without It

    How Music Works and Why We Can't Do Without It

    by Philip Ball ...
    From Bach fugues to Indonesian gamelan, from nursery rhymes to rock, music has cast its light into every corner of human culture. But why music excites such deep passions, and how we make sense of musical sound at all, are questions that have until recently remained unanswered. Now in The Music Instinct, award-winning writer Philip Ball provides the first comprehensive, accessible survey of what ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Everything in its Right Place

    Analyzing Radiohead

    by Brad Osborn, Ph.D. ...
    More than any rock artist since The Beatles, Radiohead's music inhabits the sweet spot between two extremes: on the one hand, music that is wholly conventional and conforms to all expectations of established rock styles, and, on the other hand, music so radically experimental that it thwarts any learned notions. While averting mainstream trends but still achieving a significant level of success in ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Emotion and Meaning in Music

    by Leonard B. Meyer ...
    "Altogether it is a book that should be required reading for any student of music, be he composer, performer, or theorist. It clears the air of many confused notions . . . and lays the groundwork for exhaustive study of the basic problem of music theory and aesthetics, the relationship between pattern and meaning."—David Kraehenbuehl, Journal of Music Theory"This is the best study of its kind to ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sound

    An Acoulogical Treatise

    by Michel Chion ...
    Translated by James A Steintrager ...
    First published in French in 1998, revised in 2010, and appearing here in English for the first time, Michel Chion's Sound addresses the philosophical, interpretive, and practical questions that inform our encounters with sound. Chion considers how cultural institutions privilege some sounds above others and how spurious distinctions between noise and sound guide the ways we hear and value certain ... Read more

    $25.19 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

  • 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

    $38.69 USD