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  • Seeing Opera Anew

    A Cultural and Biological Perspective

    by Joseph Cone ...
    What people ultimately want from opera, audience research suggests, is to be absorbed in a story that engages their feelings, even moves them deeply, and that may lead them to insights about life and, perhaps, themselves.How and why can this combination of music and drama do that? What causes people to be moved by opera? How is it that people may become more informed about living and their own ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • A Common Fate

    Endangered Salmon and the People of the Pacific Northwest

    by Joseph Cone ...
    Though life on earth is the history of dynamic interactions between living things and their surroundings, certain powerful groups would have us believe that nature exists only for our convenience. One consequence of such thinking is the apparent fate of the Pacific salmon--a key resource and preeminent symbol of America's wildlife--which is today threatened with extinction.Drawing on abundant data ... Read more

    $12.99 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

  • Explaining Creativity

    The Science of Human Innovation

    by R. Keith Sawyer ...
    In the last 50 years, psychologists, anthropologists, and sociologists have increasingly turned to studying creativity, so we now know more about it than ever before. However, until about a decade ago, creativity researchers focused only on highly valued activities, such as creating masterpieces in art and making highly significant discoveries in science. In Explaining Creativity, R. Keith Sawyer ... Read more

    $25.69 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

    $68.39 USD

  • Lastingness

    The Art of Old Age

    by Nicholas Delbanco ...
    America grows older yet stays focused on its young. Whatever hill we try to climb, we're "over" it by fifty and should that hill involve entertainment or athletics we're finished long before. But if younger is better, it doesn't appear that youngest is best: we want our teachers, doctors, generals, and presidents to have reached a certain age. In context after context and contest after contest, we ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • An Introduction to Music Studies

    Edited by J. P. E. Harper-Scott, Jim Samson ...
    Why study music? How much practical use is it in the modern world? This introduction proves how studying music is of great value both in its own terms and also in the post-university careers marketplace. The book explains the basic concepts and issues involved in the academic study of music, draws attention to vital connections across the field and encourages critical thinking over a broad range ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • Listen

    A History of Our Ears

    by Peter Szendy ...
    An enlightening exploration of the concept of listening and the evolving role of the listener from Beethoven to Charlie Parker to contemporary remixing.In this intimate meditation on listening, Peter Szendy examines what the role of the listener is, and has been, through the centuries. The roles of the composer and the musician are clear, but where exactly does the listener stand in relation to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Four Last Songs

    Aging and Creativity in Verdi, Strauss, Messiaen, and Britten

    by Linda Hutcheon, Michael Hutcheon ...
    Aging and creativity can seem a particularly fraught relationship for artists, who often face age-related difficulties as their audience's expectations are at a peak. In Four Last Songs, Linda and Michael Hutcheon explore this issue via the late works of some of the world's greatest composers.Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901), Richard Strauss (1864–1949), Olivier Messiaen (1908–92), and Benjamin Britten ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Extraordinary Measures

    Disability in Music

    by Joseph N. Straus ...
    Approaching disability as a cultural construction rather than a medical pathology, this book studies the impact of disability and concepts of disability on composers, performers, and listeners with disabilities, as well as on discourse about music and works of music themselves. For composers with disabilities--like Beethoven, Delius, and Schumann--awareness of the disability sharply inflects ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Improvisation in the Arts

    Edited by Alessandro Bertinetto, Marcello Ruta ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy
    Over the last few decades, the notion of improvisation has enriched and dynamized research on traditional philosophies of music, theatre, dance, poetry, and even visual art. This Handbook offers readers an authoritative collection of accessible articles on the philosophy of improvisation, synthesizing and explaining various subjects and issues from the growing wave of journal articles and ... Read more

    $63.99 USD