Ritualised Belonging: Musicing and Spirituality in the South African Context, Janelize Morelli, June Boyce-Tillman, Liesl Van der Merwe
Автор: Casas Alfonso Название: Freddie Mercury: An Illustrated Life ISBN: 1477320636 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781477320631 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 2753.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
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The music of Queen and powerhouse lead singer Freddie Mercury are best experienced with the volume turned all the way up. Alfonso Casas’s Freddie Mercury delivers a sonorous homage to the formidable singer and the turning points that produced a game-changing body of music that continues to inspire fans around the globe.
First published in Spain and now available worldwide, this luminous work covers Freddie's three “births”: his birth as Farrokh Bulsara in Zanzibar; his adoption of the last name of Mercury and the launch of Queen with Brian May and Roger Taylor; and the emergence of the lasting legend after Freddie’s death at the age of forty-five. Casas's evocative illustrations highlight the key moments in the singer’s transformation from child prodigy to superstar, bringing to life the bold innovator who broke free of his conventional upbringing. Chronicling events from Freddie’s marriage to Mary Austin and early fame in London’s 1970s glam scene, to the making of multiple megahits (including the six-minute chart-topper “Bohemian Rhapsody”), to his final years in a lasting relationship with Jim Hutton, Freddie Mercury is an exhilarating, poignant portrait of a creative genius who lived life to the hilt.
Автор: Emily Mackay Название: Bjork`s Homogenic ISBN: 1501322745 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501322747 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 1582.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In recent years, Bj rk's artistry has become ever more ambitious and ever more respected. With the release of her conceptual app-album Biophilia in 2011, and a huge retrospective exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art coinciding with her most recent album, Vulnicura, in 2015, her status as artpop auteur has been secured. The album that made all this possible, though is 1997's Homogenic, a turning point in Bj rk's career and still among her finest musical achievements. Produced under great strain, it moves beyond the stylistic magpie rush of Debut and the urbanophile future-pop of Post, to something darker, stronger and braver, full of dramatic assertions of independence, sharp, stuttering beats, rich strings and raw outbursts of noise. It created, as the Alexander McQueen designed sleeve clearly asserted, a new Bj rk, one who would never stop hunting.
Описание: A bold application of the concept of "canonical" works to the development of French operatic and concert life in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Автор: Daniel B. Sharp Название: Nana Vasconcelos`s Saudades ISBN: 1501345702 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501345708 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 2851.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The story of Afro-Brazilian percussionist Nana Vasconcelos stitches together histories of 1960s-1980s jazz, psychedelia, world music, experimentalism and post-punk. Based in Recife, Rio de Janeiro, New York City and Paris, Nana played with musicians as varied as Egberto Gismonti, Don Cherry, Pat Metheny, Ralph Towner, Arto Lindsay, Talking Heads, Laurie Anderson, Paul Simon, Jon Hassell, Brian Eno, Os Mutantes, and Milton Nascimento.
This book traces the 15 years (1964-1979) leading up to Nana's Saudades (1979, ECM), an album evoking his sonic memories of Brazil that he recorded while in Germany. Saudades features berimbau, a one-stringed instrument that looks like a bow and arrow, alongside onomatopoetic vocals and the strings of the Radio Symphony Stuttgart. Daniel B. Sharp hears Nana's playing as a counterargument against dishonest notions of the primitive just as world music emerged as a genre. With a gourd, a stick, a wire, a wicker basket, and a stone, Nana made music as complex and contemporary as the ARP synthesizers in vogue at the time.
Автор: Morrison Simon A. Название: Roxy Music`s Avalon ISBN: 1501355341 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501355349 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 1582.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Having designed Roxy Music as an haute couture suit hand-stitched of punk and progressive music, Bryan Ferry redesigned it. He made Roxy Music ever dreamier and mellower—reaching back to sadly beautiful chivalric romances. Dadaist (punk) noise exited; a kind of ambient soft soul entered. Ferry parted ways with Eno, electric violinist Eddie Jobson, and drummer Paul Thompson, foreswearing the broken-sounding synthesizers played by kitchen utensils, the chance-based elements, and the maquillage of previous albums.
The production and engineering imposed on Avalon confiscates emotion and replaces it with an acoustic simulacrum of courtliness, polished manners, and codes of etiquette. The seducer sings seductive music about seduction, but decorum is retained, as amour courtois insists.
The backbeat cannot beat back nostalgia; it remains part of the architecture of Avalon, an album that creates an allusive sheen. Be nostalgic, by all means, but embrace that feeling’s falseness, because nostalgia—whether inspired by medieval Arthuriana or 1940s film noir repartee or a 1980s drug-induced high—deceives. Nostalgia defines our fantasies and our (not Ferry’s) essential artifice.
Автор: Ingolfsson Arni Heimir Название: Jуn Leifs and the Musical Invention of Iceland ISBN: 0253044057 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780253044051 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 5141.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In J?n Leifs and the Musical Invention of Iceland, ?rni Heimir Ing?lfsson provides a striking account of the dramatic career of Iceland's iconic composer. Leifs (1899–1968) was the first Icelander to devote himself fully to composition at a time when a local music scene was only beginning to take form. He was a fervent nationalist in his art, fashioning an idiosyncratic and uncompromising 'Icelandic' sound from traditions of vernacular music with the aim to legitimize Iceland as an independent, culturally empowered nation. In addition to exploring Leifs's career, Ing?lfsson provides detailed descriptions of Leifs's major works and their cultural contexts. Leifs's music was inspired by the Icelandic landscape and includes auditory depictions of volcanos, geysers, and waterfalls. The raw quality of his orchestral music is frequently enhanced by an expansive percussion section, including anvils, stones, sirens, bells, ships' chains, shotguns, and cannons. Largely neglected in his own lifetime, Leifs's music has been rediscovered in recent years and hailed as a singular and deeply original contribution to twentieth-century music. J?n Leifs and the Musical Invention of Iceland enriches our understanding and appreciation of Leifs and his music by exploring the political, literary and environmental contexts that influenced his work.
Описание: Since the 1960s, British progressive rock band Jethro Tull has pushed the technical and compositional boundaries of rock music by infusing its musical output with traditions drawn from classical, folk, jazz, and world music. The release of Thick as a Brick (1972) and A Passion Play (1973) won the group legions of new followers and topped the Billboard charts in the United States, among the most unusual albums ever to do so. Tim Smolko explores the large-scale form, expansive instrumentation, and complex arrangements that characterize these two albums, each composed of one continuous song. Featuring insights from Ian Anderson and in-depth musical analysis, Smolko discusses the band's influence on popular culture and why many consider Thick as a Brick and A Passion Play to be two of the greatest concept albums in rock history.
Описание: Examines in detail the contexts of Brahms`s masterpiece and demonstrates that, contrary to recent consensus, it was performed and received as an inherently Christian work during the composer`s life.
Автор: Anthony Arnone Название: The Art of Listening: Conversations with Cellists ISBN: 1433162938 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781433162930 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 17472.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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In The Art of Listening, Anthony Arnone interviews 13 of the top cello teachers of our time, sharing valuable insights about performing, teaching, music, and life. While almost every other aspect of twenty-first-century life has been changed by technological advancements, the art of playing and teaching the cello has largely remained the same. Our instruments are still made exactly the same way and much of what we learn is passed on by demonstration and word of mouth from generation to generation. We are as much historians of music as we are teachers of the instrument.?
The teaching lineage in the classical music world has formed a family tree of sorts with a select number of iconic names at the top of the tree, such as Pablo Casals, Gregor Piatigorsky, and Leonard Rose. A large percentage of professional cellists working today studied with these giants of the cello world, or with their students. In addition to discussing the impact of these masters and their personal experience as their students, the renowned cellists interviewed in this book touch on a variety of topics from teaching philosophies to how technology has changed classical music.
Автор: Bradford P. Gowen Название: A Performer`s Guide to the Piano Music of Samuel Adler ISBN: 1648250424 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781648250422 Издательство: Boydell & Brewer Рейтинг: Цена: 6336.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This comprehensive study of the piano music of award-winning American composer Samuel Adler will interest pianists, teachers, and anyone interested in the musical art of our day.
Автор: Ingolfsson Arni Heimir Название: Jуn Leifs and the Musical Invention of Iceland ISBN: 0253044049 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780253044044 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 11913.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In J?n Leifs and the Musical Invention of Iceland, ?rni Heimir Ing?lfsson provides a striking account of the dramatic career of Iceland's iconic composer. Leifs (1899–1968) was the first Icelander to devote himself fully to composition at a time when a local music scene was only beginning to take form. He was a fervent nationalist in his art, fashioning an idiosyncratic and uncompromising 'Icelandic' sound from traditions of vernacular music with the aim to legitimize Iceland as an independent, culturally empowered nation. In addition to exploring Leifs's career, Ing?lfsson provides detailed descriptions of Leifs's major works and their cultural contexts. Leifs's music was inspired by the Icelandic landscape and includes auditory depictions of volcanos, geysers, and waterfalls. The raw quality of his orchestral music is frequently enhanced by an expansive percussion section, including anvils, stones, sirens, bells, ships' chains, shotguns, and cannons. Largely neglected in his own lifetime, Leifs's music has been rediscovered in recent years and hailed as a singular and deeply original contribution to twentieth-century music. J?n Leifs and the Musical Invention of Iceland enriches our understanding and appreciation of Leifs and his music by exploring the political, literary and environmental contexts that influenced his work.
Описание: Chronicles the work of Norberto Tavares, a Cabo Verdean musician and humanitarian who served as the conscience of his island nation during the transition from Portuguese colony to democratic republic.
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