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  • Making Sense of Reality

    Culture and Perception in Everyday Life

    by Tia DeNora ...
    What is reality and how do we make sense of it in everyday life? Why do some realities seem more real than others, and what of seemingly contradictory and multiple realities? This book considers reality as we represent, perceive and experience it. It suggests that the realities we take as ‘real’ are the result of real-time, situated practices that draw on and draw together many things - ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • Music Asylums: Wellbeing Through Music in Everyday Life

    by Tia DeNora ...
    Series series Music and Change: Ecological Perspectives
    Taking a cue from Erving Goffman’s classic work, Asylums, Tia DeNora develops a novel interdisciplinary framework for music, health and wellbeing. Considering health and illness both in medical contexts and in the often-overlooked realm of everyday life, DeNora argues that these identities are by no means mutually exclusive. Moreover, she suggests that the promotion of health and more specifically ... Read more

    Was $60.99 USD Now $53.99 USD

  • Musical Pathways in Recovery

    Community Music Therapy and Mental Wellbeing

    by Gary Ansdell, Tia DeNora ...
    Series series Music and Change: Ecological Perspectives
    "Music triggered a healing process from within me. I started singing for the joy of singing myself and it helped me carry my recovery beyond the state I was in before I fell ill nine years ago to a level of well-being that I haven't had perhaps for thirty years."This book explores the experiences of people who took part in a vibrant musical community for people experiencing mental health ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Music-in-Action

    Selected Essays in Sonic Ecology

    by Tia DeNora ...
    Series series Ashgate Contemporary Thinkers on Critical Musicology Series
    This volume brings together DeNora‘s work published between 1986 and 2007. It includes thirteen essays, some of which have had a major impact on the field. The chapters trace the development of her work from its early concern with musical meaning, historical ethnography and theeveryday perspective, to its current focus on music in action. Topics covered include Adorno on Schoenberg and Stravinsky, ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Hope

    The Dream We Carry

    by Tia DeNora ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides a concise, interdisciplinary perspective on the emotion and practice of ‘hope'. Based on the idea that hope is a dream that we carry in different ways, the five chapters draw on the author’s original research and align it with literature on the sociology of culture and emotion, to explore the concept in relation to cultural and community practices and mental health.The climate ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • New Directions in Musical Collaborative Creativity

    The Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra and the Theater of Home

    by Raymond MacDonald, Maria Sappho, Tia DeNora, Robert Burke, Ross Birrell ...
    During the COVID-19 pandemic, creative communities were faced with unprecedented challenges and forced to embark upon a re-evaluation of traditional approaches to artistic collaboration. In the wake of these discussions and experiments, New Directions in Musical Collaborative Creativity asks how new technology can be used to enhance creativity and how this creativity increases our knowledge in ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Caring for Music

    Musical Life, Late Life

    by Gary Ansdell, Tia DeNora ...
    Series series Music and Change: Ecological Perspectives
    Caring for Music describes musical life in Hill House, a residential care home and the site of the AHRC Care for Music research project (https://careformusic.org/) which ran from 2018–2023.The book’s primary aim is to let the people and situations involved show readers, from the inside of musical engagement, what can happen when music is present in scenes of care in late life – when people care ... Read more

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  • 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

    $57.99 USD

  • The Act of Musical Composition

    Studies in the Creative Process

    Edited by Dave Collins ...
    Series series SEMPRE Studies in The Psychology of Music
    The study of musical composition has been marked by a didactic, technique-based approach, focusing on the understanding of musical language and grammar -harmony, counterpoint, orchestration and arrangement - or on generic and stylistic categories. In the field of the psychology of music, the study of musical composition, even in the twenty-first century, remains a poor cousin to the literature ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Teaching General Music

    Approaches, Issues, and Viewpoints

    Edited by Carlos R. Abril, Brent M. Gault ...
    General music is informed by a variety of teaching approaches and methods. These pedagogical frameworks guide teachers in planning and implementing instruction. Established approaches to teaching general music must be understood, critically examined, and possibly re-imagined for their potential in school and community music education programs. Teaching General Music brings together the top ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • What about Me?

    the struggle for identity in a market-based society

    by Paul Verhaeghe ...
    Translated by Jane Hedley-Prole ...
    According to current thinking, anyone who fails to succeed must have something wrong with them. The pressure to achieve and be happy is taking a heavy toll, resulting in a warped view of the self, disorientation, and despair. People are lonelier than ever before. Today’s pay-for-performance mentality is turning institutions such as schools, universities, and hospitals into businesses — even ... Read more

    $26.29 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