Search Results - Modernism (music)

Salome's modernity Oscar Wilde and the aesthetics of transgression / by Dierkes-Thrun, Petra, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Dancing on the threshold : Wilde's Salome between symbolist, decadent, and modernist aesthetics -- "The brutal music and the delicate text"? Richard Strauss's operatic modernism in Salome -- Perverts in court : Maud Allan's the vision of Salome and the Pemberton-Billing trial -- Alla Nazimova's Salome : an historical phantasy by Oscar Wilde -- Portraits of the artist as a gay man and Salome as a feminist icon : Wilde and Salome in popular culture since the 1980s.…”
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Men and popular music in Algeria : the social significance of raï / by Schade-Poulsen, Marc

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Musical meaning and human values

Table of Contents: “…Hoffmann and the use of music for life / Keith Chapin -- The devoted ear : music as contemplation / Lawrence Kramer -- Music and fantasy / Marshall Brown -- Whose Brahms is it anyway? …”
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Empire of song Europe and nation in the Eurovision Song Contest /

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Religion and popular music in Europe new expressions of sacred and secular identity /

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Listen a history of our ears / by Szendy, Peter

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China and the West : Music, Representation, and Reception /

Table of Contents: “…Music, China, and the West : a musical-theoretical introduction /…”
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Cuban underground hip hop : Black thoughts, Black revolution, Black modernity / by Saunders, Tanya L.

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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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Selling sounds the commercial revolution in American music / by Suisman, David

Table of Contents: “…When songs became a business -- Making hits -- Music without musicians -- The traffic in voices -- Musical properties -- Perfect pitch -- The black swan -- The musical soundscape of modernity.…”
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Popular Music in Southeast Asia : Banal Beats, Muted Histories / by Barendregt, Bart A., 1968-, Schulte Nordholt, Henk, 1953-, Keppy, Peter

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Music and the Making of Portugal and Spain : Nationalism and Identity Politics in the Iberian Peninsula /

Table of Contents: “…The Portuguese National Anthem / Paulo Ferreira de Castro ; The Battle for the Greatest Musical Emblem : The National Anthem and the Symbolic Construction of Francoist Spain / Igor Contreras Zubillaga ; Portuguese Rural Traditions as Cultural Exports : How Modernism and Transnational Connections Shaped the New State's Folklore Politics / Vera Marques Alves -- Part II. …”
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Moriz Rosenthal in word and music a legacy of the nineteenth century /

Table of Contents: “…. -- The bane of virtuosity (excerpt) / Lawrence Gilman -- From Music, the mystery and the reality / Paul Roës -- On Liszt's Don Juan fantasie / M.R. -- A stroll with Ferruccio Busoni / M.R. -- Mahleriana / M.R. -- Czar Alexander II / M.R. -- Review of a concert by M.R. / H.C.C. -- Letter to the editor / M.R. -- As others see us : H.C.C.'…”
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"Music makers" and world creators : the forms and functions of embedded poems in British fantasy narratives / by Hausmann, Michaela

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Constructing a personal orientation to music teaching : growth, inquiry, and agency / by Campbell, Mark Robin, Thompson, Linda K., Barrett, Janet R.

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Women musicians of Uzbekistan / by Merchant, Tanya

Table of Contents: “…Beyond the canon : feminizing the national project through traditional music -- Ancient treasures, modernized : women's dutar ensembles and arranged folk music -- Like Tereshkova in the cosmos : women at the forefront of Western art music -- "Greetings to the Uzbek people!" …”
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Extreme metal music and culture on the edge / by Kahn-Harris, Keith, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…The extreme metal scene -- The scene and transgression -- Experiencing the scene -- Capital, power, infrastructure -- Comparing extreme metal scenes -- Extreme metal and subcultural capital -- Reflexivity, music and politics -- The scene and modernity.…”
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The well-tun'd word musical interpretations of English poetry, 1597-1651 / by Jorgens, Elise Bickford

Subjects: “…Music and literature History 17th century.…”
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Kraftwerk music non-stop /

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The past is always present the revival of the Byzantine musical tradition at Mount Athos / by Lind, Tore Tvarn�, 1969-

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