After Sound: Toward a Critical Music (Barrett G. Douglas)(Paperback)

After Sound: Toward a Critical Music (Barrett G. Douglas)(Paperback)

After Sound considers contemporary art practices that reconceive music beyond the limitation of sound. This book is called After Sound because music and sound are, in Barrett's account, different entities. While musicology and sound art theory alike typically equate music with pure instrumental

Musical Meaning: Toward a Critical History (Kramer Lawrence)(Paperback)

Ranging widely over classical music, jazz, popular music, and film and television music, Musical Meaning uncovers the historical importance of asking about meaning in the lived experience of musical works, styles, and performances. Lawrence Kramer has been a pivotal figure in the development of new

Psychology of Music: From Sound to Significance (Tan Siu-Lan)(Paperback)

In Psychology of Music: From Sound to Significance (2nd edition), the authors consider music on a broad scale, from its beginning as an acoustical signal to its different manifestations across cultures. In their second edition, the authors apply the same richness of depth and scope that was a

Sound Art Revisited (Licht Alan)(Paperback)

The first edition of Sound Art served as groundbreaking work toward defining this emerging field, and this fully updated volume continues the story to include current research since the book's initial release, viewed through a theory-based lens focusing strongly on sound studies. Sound art's roots

The Sound of Music (Rodgers Richard)(Paperback)

(Vocal Selections). Entertainment Weekly says The Sound of Music has 'an irresistible score that's always in tune ' Our deluxe revised Vocal Selections features 13 terrific songs by Rodgers & Hammerstein, a biography, plot synopsis, history of the show and photos Includes: Climb Ev'ry Mountain *

Colloquium: Sound Art and Music (Gardner Thomas)(Paperback)

In 2012, Thomas Gardner and Salome Voegelin hosted a colloquium, entitled 'Music - Sound Art: Historical Continuum and Mimetic Fissures,' at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. This colloquium dealt with the current fervent debate concerning the relationship between

Toward the Critique of Violence: A Critical Edition (Benjamin Walter)(Paperback)

Marking the centenary of Walter Benjamin's immensely influential essay, 'Toward the Critique of Violence,' this critical edition presents readers with an altogether new, fully annotated translation of a work that is widely recognized as a classic of modern political theory. The volume includes

Pink Noises: Women on Electronic Music and Sound (Rodgers Tara)(Paperback)

Pink Noises brings together twenty-four interviews with women in electronic music and sound cultures, including club and radio DJs, remixers, composers, improvisers, instrument builders, and installation and performance artists. The collection is an extension of Pinknoises.com, the

Toward a Sound Ecology: New and Selected Essays (Titon Jeff Todd)(Paperback)

How does sound ecology--an acoustic connective tissue among communities--also become a basis for a healthy economy and a just community? Jeff Todd Titon's lived experiences shed light on the power of song, the ecology of musical cultures, and even cultural sustainability and resilience. In Toward a

The Cultural Study of Music: A Critical Introduction (Clayton Martin)(Paperback)

A Critical Introduction. What is the relationship between music and culture? The first edition of this text explored this question with groundbreaking rigor and breadth. Now the second edition refines that original analysis while examining the ways the field has developed in the years since the

Theory for Theatre Studies: Sound (Bennett Susan)(Paperback)

Sound provides a lively and engaging overview of relevant critical theory for students and researchers in theatre and performance studies. Addressing sound across history and through progressive developments in relevant technologies, the volume opens up the study of theatrical production and live

Makerspace Sound and Music Projects for All Ages (Glendening Isaac)(Paperback)

Dream up and build your own sound and music projects--no experience necessary This easy-to-follow guide shows, step-by-step, how to work with sound generation, recording, editing, and distribution tools. Co-written by a professional audio engineer and a dedicated maker-librarian, Makerspace Sound

Keywords in Sound (Novak David)(Paperback)

In twenty essays on subjects such as noise, acoustics, music, and silence, Keywords in Sound presents a definitive resource for sound studies, and a compelling argument for why studying sound matters. Each contributor details their keyword's intellectual history, outlines its role in cultural,

Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts (Kahn Douglas)(Paperback)

An examination of the role of sound in twentieth-century arts.This interdisciplinary history and theory of sound in the arts reads the twentieth century by listening to it--to the emphatic and exceptional sounds of modernism and those on the cusp of postmodernism, recorded sound, noise, silence,

Kafka, 30: Toward a Minor Literature (Deleuze Gilles)(Paperback)

In this classic of critical thought, Deleuze and Guattari challenge conventional interpretations of Kafka's work. Instead of exploring preexisting categories or literary genres, they propose a concept of 'minor literature'--the use of a major language that subverts it from within. Writing as a Jew

Text-Dependent Questions, Grades K-5: Pathways to Close and Critical Reading (Fisher Douglas)(Paperback)

Fisher & Frey's answer to close and critical reading Learn the best ways to use text-dependent questions as scaffolds during close reading and the big understandings they yield. But that's just for starters. Fisher and Frey also include illustrative video, texts and questions, cross-curricular

Sound (Kelly Caleb)(Paperback / softback)

This volume is the first sourcebook to provide, through original critical writings and artists' statements, a genealogy of sonic pathways into the arts; philosophical reflections on the meanings of noise and silence; dialogues between art and music; investigations of the role of listening and

Language, Capitalism, Colonialism: Toward a Critical History (Heller Monica)(Paperback)

Heller and McElhinny reinterpret sociolinguistics for the twenty-first century with an original approach to the study of language that is situated in the political and economic contexts of colonialism and

The Reification of Desire: Toward a Queer Marxism (Floyd Kevin)(Paperback)

The Reification of Desire takes two critical perspectives rarely analyzed together--formative arguments for Marxism and those that have been the basis for queer theory--and productively scrutinizes these ideas both with and against each other to put forth a new theoretical connection between

Music, Sound, and Architecture in Islam (Frishkopf Michael)(Paperback)

Tracing the connections between music making and built space in both historical and contemporary times, Music, Sound, and Architecture in Islam brings together domains of intellectual reflection that have rarely been in dialogue to promote a greater understanding of the centrality of sound

Old Forres (Lockhart Douglas G)(Paperback / softback)

Informal Logic: A Pragmatic Approach (Walton Douglas)(Paperback)

Informal Logic is an introductory guidebook to the basic principles of constructing sound arguments and criticizing bad ones. Non-technical in approach, it is based on 186 examples, which Douglas Walton, a leading authority in the field of informal logic, discusses and evaluates in clear,

The Music of Life (Revised) (Khan Inayat)(Paperback)

A transcendent exploration of the nature and effects of sound by the Sufi master. The Music of Life is the definitive collection of Hazrat Inayat Khan's teachings on sound, presenting the Sufi master's vision of the harmony that underlies and infuses every aspect of our lives. Inayat Khan explores

Animal Music: Sound and Song in the Natural World (Fischer Tobias)(Paperback)

The first anthology on animal music and communication, with contributions from leading scientists, researchers and musicians.Ever since the accidental discovery of whale song in 1967, the idea of complex animal sentience has been gaining strength within the scientific community. A growing number of