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Listening for Africa : Freedom, Modernity, and the Logic of Black Music's African Origins / by García, David F.

Table of Contents: “…Analyzing the African origins of Negro music and dance in a time of racism, fascism, and war -- Listening to Africa in the city, in the laboratory, and on record -- Embodying Africa against racial oppression, ignorance, and colonialism -- Disalienating movement and sound from the pathologies of freedom and time -- Desiring Africa, or Western civilization's discontents -- Conclusion: dance-music as rhizome.…”
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Systematic musicology empirical and theoretical studies /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Albrecht Schneider, Arne von Ruschkowski -- Techno, decibels, and politics : an empirical study of modern dance music productions, sound pressure levels, and "loudness perception" / Albrecht Schneider, Arne von Ruschkowski -- Polynomial functions as a representation of melodic phrase contour / Daniel Müllensiefen, Geraint Wiggins -- Meloworks : an integrated retrieval, analysis and e-learning platform for melody research / Klaus Frieler, Frank Höger, Jörg Korries -- Perception of musical intervals at very low frequencies : some experimental findings / Albrecht Schneider, Valeri Tsatsishvili -- Nasality in musical sounds - a few intermediate results / Robert Mores -- Air modes in stringed lute-like instruments from Africa and China / Florian Pfeifle -- Psychoacoustic effects in wave field synthesis applications / Tim Ziemer -- Sound radiation patterns in classical singing styles / Orie Takada -- Some observations on a Stein-Conrad Hammerflügel from 1793 / Andreas Beurmann, Albrecht Schneider -- Playing "live" at the Star-Club : reconstructing the room acoustics of a famous music hall / Rolf Bader, Albrecht Schneider -- "You don't see the stitching" : some comments on stylistic diversity in rock using the example of Jethro Tull / Till Strauf -- Comments about Joni Mitchell's composing techniques and guitar style / Jan Clemens Moeller -- Egalitarianism and elitism in ethnomusicology and folk music scholarship / Ulrich Morgenstern -- Buddhism, animism, and entertainment in Cambodian melismatic chanting smot : history and tonal system / Rolf Bader -- Concerning the question of "loosely-knit" roughly equidistant scale in traditional music / Rytis Ambrazevičius.…”
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