Book Description
This is the first book to detail the musical and cultural significance of the songster.
Author : Paul Watt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 26,39 MB
Release : 2017-03-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 1107159911
This is the first book to detail the musical and cultural significance of the songster.
Author : Paul Watt
Publisher :
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 32,90 MB
Release : 2017
Category : MUSIC
ISBN : 9781108162708
This is the first book to detail the musical and cultural significance of the songster.
Author : Charles Fairchild
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 44,85 MB
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 1501336231
Sounds, Screens, Speakers provides a broadly comprehensive survey of the emerging field of music and media. Music has been present at the advent of nearly every new media form since the turn of the 20th century. Whether we look at the start of sound recording, film, television or the Internet, music has been a crucial participant in the social changes brought about by these new tools for making and listening to music. This book examines such changes starting in the late 19th century to the present. From the introduction of the microphone all the way through to music in reality television, the purpose of each section is not simply to move chronologically towards the present, but to focus especially on the tangible social relationships created through specific forms of mediation. With readings at the end of most chapters, key questions to facilitate additional discovery and research, and direction to additional readings and resources on popular websites and news sources, this text serves as the ideal introduction to popular music and media.
Author : Tristan Moss
Publisher : NewSouth
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 10,87 MB
Release : 2018-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1742244289
War is only a small part of military life. Uniformed men and women spend the vast majority of their time away from combat, training, receiving medical attention, burying the dead and undertaking the myriad tasks of survival in an operational zone. Beyond Combat explores how the military manages its ‘other’ roles, as well as the experiences of the servicemen and women themselves. With contributions from Christina Twomey, Noah Riseman, Shirleene Robinson and Major Clare O’Neill, among others, Beyond Combat is a ground-breaking examination of life beyond the frontline.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 16,86 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Folklore
ISBN :
Author : Patrick Spedding
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 22,9 MB
Release : 2020-04-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1000748057
The songbooks of the 1830-40s were printed in tiny numbers, and small format so they could be hidden in a pocket, passed round or thrown away. Collectors have sought ‘these priceless chapbooks’, but only recently a collection of 49 songbooks has come to light. This collection represents almost all of the known songbooks from the period.
Author : Kyle Devine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,24 MB
Release : 2021-01-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 019093266X
Our day-to-day musical enjoyment seems so simple, so easy, so automatic. Songs instantly emanate from our computers and phones, at any time of day. The tools for playing and making music, such as records and guitars, wait for us in stores, ready for purchase and use. And when we no longer need them, we can leave them at the curb, where they disappear effortlessly and without a trace. These casual engagements often conceal the complex infrastructures that make our musical cultures possible. Audible Infrastructures takes readers to the sawmills, mineshafts, power grids, telecoms networks, transport systems, and junk piles that seem peripheral to musical culture and shows that they are actually pivotal to what music is, how it works, and why it matters. Organized into three parts dedicated to the main phases in the social life and death of musical commodities resources and production, circulation and transmission, failure and waste this book provides a concerted archaeology of music's media infrastructures. As contributors reveal the material-environmental realities and political-economic conditions of music and listening, they open our eyes to the hidden dimensions of how music is made, delivered, and disposed of. In rethinking our responsibilities as musicians and listeners, this book calls for nothing less than a reconsideration of how music comes to sound.
Author : Jon W. Finson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 47,65 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Music
ISBN : 0195113829
In this unique and readable study, Jon Finson views the mores and values of nineteenth-century Americans as they appear in their popular songs. The author sets forth lyricists' and composers' notions of courtship, technology, death, African Americans, Native Americans, and European ethnicity by grouping songs topically. He goes on to explore the interaction between musical style and lyrics within each topic. The lyrics and changing musical styles present a vivid portrait of nineteenth-century America. The composers discussed in the book range from Henry Russell ("Woodman, Spare That Tree"), Stephen Foster ("Oh! Susanna"), and Dan Emmett ("I Wish I Was in Dixie's Land"), to George M. Cohan and Maude Nugent ("Sweet Rosie O'Grady"), and Gussie Lord Davis ("In the Baggage Coach Ahead"). Readers will recognize songs like "Pop Goes the Weasel," "The Yellow Rose of Texas," "The Fountain in the Park," "After the Ball," "A Bicycle Built for Two," and many others which gain significance by being placed in the larger context of American history.
Author : John Kirk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 50,46 MB
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1317320646
This collection of essays addresses the role of literature in radical politics. Topics covered include the legacy of Robert Burns, broadside literature in Munster and radical literature in Wales.
Author : Linda Edmondson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 42,23 MB
Release : 1992-08-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521413886
Until the late 1960s, most Western scholars studying the history, culture, social and political life and economy of Russia and the Soviet Union, paid scant attention to the participation and experience of women. The multifarious ways in which gender roles and perceptions of gender were influenced by and in turn influenced the heterogeneous cultures of the Soviet empire were largely ignored. However, this neglect has slowly been rectified and now the study of women and gender relations has become one of the most productive fields of research into Russian and Soviet society. This volume demonstrates the originality and diversity of this recent research. Written by leading Western scholars, it spans the last decade of tsarist Russia, the 1917 revolutions and the Soviet period. The essays reflect the interdisciplinary nature of women's work, women and politics, women as soldiers, female prostitution, popular images of women and women's experience of perestroika.