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  • Music Making Community

    Making music offers enormous possibilities--and faces significant limitations--in its power to generate belonging and advance social justice. Tony Perman and Stefan Fiol edit essays focused on the forms of interplay between music-making and community-making as mutually creative processes. Contributors in the first section look at cases where music arrived in settings with little or no sense of ... Read more

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  • Music Theory in Ethnomusicology

    by Stephen Blum ...
    Series series Oxford Theory in Ethnomusicology
    During the 1960s and 70s some ethnomusicologists formed relationships with music-makers and ritual specialists in an attempt to interpret how they understood their musical actions. Subsequently ethnomusicologists have studied the respects in which explicit and implicit theory is involved in communication of musical knowledge. They have observed the production of music theory in institutions of ... Read more

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  • The Oneness Hypothesis

    Beyond the Boundary of Self

    The idea that the self is inextricably intertwined with the rest of the world—the “oneness hypothesis”—can be found in many of the world’s philosophical and religious traditions. Oneness provides ways to imagine and achieve a more expansive conception of the self as fundamentally connected with other people, creatures, and things. Such views present profound challenges to Western ... Read more

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  • The Oneness Hypothesis

    Beyond the Boundary of Self

    The idea that the self is inextricably intertwined with the rest of the world—the “oneness hypothesis”—can be found in many of the world’s philosophical and religious traditions. Oneness provides ways to imagine and achieve a more expansive conception of the self as fundamentally connected with other people, creatures, and things. Such views present profound challenges to Western ... Read more

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  • Music \= Cultures in Contact

    Convergences and Collisions

    Series series Musicology
    Contact between cultures may also lead to rejection as well as suppression of certain types of music. This process leads to such unfavorable circumstances as abandonment of entire works, genres or concepts or loss of instruments; yet such conflicts may also generate new and more positive creative achievements. Contributors include Andrew Alter, Tan Sooi Beng, Zdravko Blazekovic, Stephen Blum, Lê ... Read more

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  • Poems for Yuppies (And Also for Normal People)

    by Stephen Blum ...
    In this anthology of original poetry, Blum, a self-described yuppie, presents a collection of verses, most of them (in his words) "verbal cartoons," that define and make fun of this unique sub-culture. A tongue-in-cheek introduction and notes accompanying the poems contribute significantly to this "mission. The book includes a handful of the non-humorous shorter poems are meant to be wistful, ... Read more

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  • Designing Dragons

    An artist's guide to the legendary mythical creatures

    Edited by 3dtotal Publishing ...
    Let your imagination take wing with Designing Dragons**, the must-have guide to bringing mythology's most iconic beast to life.**Discover step by step how professional concept artists take inspiration from the rich biology of real animals, using their scientific insights to design believable dragons, drakes, and serpents from myths and legends around the world. The brand-new artwork inside is ... Read more

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  • Thought and Play in Musical Rhythm

    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

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  • Sustainable Human Development Across the Life Course

    Evidence from Longitudinal Research

    EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. It is critical that the wellbeing of society is systematically tracked by indicators that not only give an accurate picture of human life today but also provide a window into the future for all of us.This book presents impactful findings from international longitudinal studies that respond to the United Nations’ Agenda 2030 commitment to ... Read more

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