Author : Mark Slobin
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 27,72 MB
Release : 2010-09-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 0819570788
A vividly illustrated, richly anecdotal account of over 150 years of music at Wesleyan University
Author : Leslie Norris
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 49,69 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Poetry
ISBN :
Author : Alvin Lucier
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 26,21 MB
Release : 2012-11-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 0819572985
Composer and performer Alvin Lucier brings clarity to the world of experimental music as he takes the reader through more than a hundred groundbreaking musical works, including those of Robert Ashley, John Cage, Charles Ives, Morton Feldman, Philip Glass, Pauline Oliveros, Steve Reich, Christian Wolff, and La Monte Young. Lucier explains in detail how each piece is made, unlocking secrets of the composers' style and technique. The book as a whole charts the progress of American experimental music from the 1950s to the present, covering such topics as indeterminacy, electronics, and minimalism, as well as radical innovations in music for the piano, string quartet, and opera. Clear, approachable and lively, Music 109 is Lucier's indispensable guide to late 20th-century composition. No previous musical knowledge is required, and all readers are welcome.
Author : James Buhler
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 17,98 MB
Release : 2000-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 0819564117
A wide-ranging look at the role of music in film.
Author : Elizabeth McAlister
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 48,44 MB
Release : 2002-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0520926749
Rara is a vibrant annual street festival in Haiti, when followers of the Afro-Creole religion called Vodou march loudly into public space to take an active role in politics. Working deftly with highly original ethnographic material, Elizabeth McAlister shows how Rara bands harness the power of Vodou spirits and the recently dead to broadcast coded points of view with historical, gendered, and transnational dimensions.
Author : Andrea Miller-Keller
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 28,67 MB
Release : 2012-12-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 0819572802
This small, striking book commemorates the career of experimental music composer Alvin Lucier, and features an interview with Lucier and curator Andrea Miller-Keller, essays by Nicolas Collins, Ronald Kuivila, Michael Roth and Pamela Tatge, and details of a symposium, exhibit and special performances of Lucier's work held at Wesleyan University, November 4-6, 2011. Lucier has pioneered in many areas of music composition and performance, including the notation of performers' physical gestures, the use of brain waves in live performance, the generation of visual imagery by sound in vibrating media, and the evocation of room acoustics for musical purposes. From 1970 to 2011 he taught at Wesleyan University where he was John Spencer Camp Professor of Music. Lucier performs, lectures and exhibits his sound installations extensively in the United States, Europe and Asia.
Author : Charles Wright
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 39,74 MB
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0819572268
A compilation of powerful and moving poems from early in the poet's career. Co-winner of the 1983 National Book Award for Poetry, Country Music is comprised of eighty-eight poems selected from Charles Wright's first four books published between 1970 and 1977. From his first book, The Grave of the Right Hand, to the extraordinary China Trace, this selection of early works represents "Charles Wright's grand passions: his desire to reclaim and redeem a personal past, to make a reckoning with his present, and to conjure the terms by which we might face the future," writes David St. John in the forward. These poems, powerful and moving in their own right, lend richness and insight to Wright's recently collected later works. "In Country Music we see the same explosive imagery, the same dismantled and concentric (or parallel) narratives, the same resolutely spiritual concerns that have become so familiar to us in Wright's more recent poetry," writes St. John.
Author : Christopher Small
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 39,89 MB
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0819572233
Cited by Soundpost as "remarkable and revolutionary" upon its publication in 1977, Music, Society, Education has become a classic in the study of music as a social force. Christopher Small sets out to examine the social implications of Western classical music, effects that until recently have been largely ignored or dismissed by most musicologists. He strives to view the Western musical tradition "through the mirror of these other musics [Balinese and African] as it were from the outside, and in so doing to learn something of the inner unspoken nature of Western culture as a whole." As series co-editor Robert Walser writes, "By pointing to the complicity of Western culture with Western imperialism, Small challenges us to create a future that is more humane than the past. And by writing a book that enables us to rethink so fundamentally our involvements with music, he teaches us how we might get there."
Author : Jane Alden
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 36,31 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 0195381521
Songs, Scribes, and Society explores the cultural and musical importance of five 15th-century Chansonniers - personalized, portable, and lavishly decorated songbooks - from the Loire Valley of France. Author Jane Alden treats the Chansonniers as physical artifacts to reveal their cultural context and its relationship to their commission, creation, and use.
Author : Eric Charry
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 39,78 MB
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 0819578959
A New and Concise History provides a strong foundation for understanding how music, the music industry, and American culture intersect. Ethnomusicologist Eric Charry's innovative and road-tested teaching style is brought to you in this textbook suitable for general education courses in music. The book is organized around a series of timelines, tables, and figures created by the author, and provides fresh perspectives that bring readers into the heart of the social and cultural importance of the music. Charry lays out key contemporary theoretical issues, covers the technical foundations of the music industry, and provides a capsule history of who did what when, with particular emphasis on the rapid emergence of distinct genres and subgenres. The book's figures distill the history and provide new insight into understanding trends. Over 1000 artists, albums, and songs are included here, such as Muddy Waters, Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, the Velvet Underground, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, Stevie Wonder, Prince, Madonna, Talking Heads, and Public Enemy.
