Improvisation and Social Aesthetics /

Table of Contents: “…After relational aesthetics : improvised music, the social, and (re)theorizing the aesthetic / Georgina Born -- Scripting social interaction : improvisation, performance, and Western "art" music / Nicholas Cook -- From the American civil rights movement to Mali : reflections on social aesthetics and improvisation / Ingrid Monson -- From network bands to ubiquitous computing : Rich Gold and the social aesthetics of interactivity / George E. …”
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Aesthetic technologies of modernity, subjectivity, and nature : opera, orchestra, phonograph, film / by Leppert, Richard D.

Table of Contents: “…The civilizing process : music and the aesthetics of time-space relations in The Girl of the golden West -- Opera, aesthetic violence, and the imposition of modernity : Fitzcarraldo -- Caruso, phonography, and operatic fidelities : regimes of music listening, 1904-1929 -- Aesthetic meanderings of the sonic psyche : three operas, two notes, and one ending at the boundary of the Great Divide -- Sound, subjectivity, and death : Days of heaven (promesse du bonheur) -- Conclusion : acoustic invocations of crisis and hope.…”
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Philosophical and cultural theories of music

Subjects: “…Music Philosophy and aesthetics.…”
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Why music matters by Hesmondhalgh, David, 1963-

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Who needs classical music? cultural choice and musical value / by Johnson, Julian

Subjects: “…Music Philosophy and aesthetics.…”
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Stance ideas about emotion, style, and meaning for the study of expressive culture / by Berger, Harris M., 1966-

Subjects: “…Music Philosophy and aesthetics.…”
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From the erotic to the demonic on critical musicology / by Scott, Derek B.

Subjects: “…Music Philosophy and aesthetics.…”
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Sonic warfare sound, affect, and the ecology of fear / by Goodman, Steve

Subjects: “…Music Philosophy and aesthetics.…”
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Music, society, education by Small, Christopher, 1927-2011

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Deconstructive variations music and reason in western society / by Subotnik, Rose Rosengard

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Beyond structural listening? postmodern modes of hearing /

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Music, cosmology, and the politics of harmony in early China by Brindley, Erica, 1971-

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What makes music European looking beyond sound / by Sorce Keller, Marcello

Subjects: “…Music Europe Philosophy and aesthetics.…”
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Island songs a global repertoire /

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Metal, rock, and jazz perception and the phenomenology of musical experience / by Berger, Harris M., 1966-

Subjects: “…Music Philosophy and aesthetics.…”
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French cultural politics & music from the Dreyfus affair to the First World War / by Fulcher, Jane F.

Subjects: “…Music Philosophy and aesthetics.…”
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Absolute music, mechanical reproduction by Ashby, Arved Mark

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Bach in Berlin : nation and culture in Mendelssohn's revival of the St. Matthew Passion / by Applegate, Celia

Table of Contents: “…Matthew Passion -- Toward a music aesthetics of the nation -- Music journalism and the formation of judgment -- Musical amateurism and the exercise of taste -- The St. …”
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Wicked theory, naked practice A Fred Ho reader / by Ho, Fred Wei-han

Table of Contents: “…From banana to Third World Marxist ; Beyond Asian American jazz : my musical and political changes in the Asian American movement ; Interview with Chris Mitchell -- Music, aesthetics, and cultural production. What makes "jazz" the revolutionary music of the twentieth century, and will it be revolutionary for the twenty-first century? …”
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Aboriginal music in contemporary Canada echoes and exchanges /

Table of Contents: “…Intercultural collaboration / Russell Wallace ; Listening to the politics of aesthetics : contemporary encounters between First Nations/Inuit and early music traditions / Dylan Robinson ; Musical form as theatrical form in native Canadian stage plays : moving through the third space / Klisala Harrison ; Music and narrative in The unnatural and accidental women / interview excerpts, Marie Clements, Sophie Merasty, and Columpa Bobb with Klisala Harrison ; Music, religion, and healing in a Mi'kmaw community / interview, Walter Denny Jr. with Gordon E. …”
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