The 'Imagined Sound' of Australian Literature and Music (Cummins Joseph)(Pevná vazba)

The 'Imagined Sound' of Australian Literature and Music (Cummins Joseph)(Pevná vazba)

'Imagined Sound' is a unique cartography of the artistic, historical and political forces that have informed the post-World War II representation of Australian landscapes. It is the first book to formulate the unique methodology of 'imagined sound', a new way to read and listen to literature and

The Edinburgh Companion to Literature and Music (Da Sousa Correa Delia)(Pevná vazba)

Provides a pioneering interdisciplinary overview of the literature and music of nine centuries Offers research essays by literary specialists and musicologists that provides access to the best current interdisciplinary scholarship on connections between literature and music Includes five

The Haskell School of Music (Hudak Paul)(Pevná vazba)

This book teaches functional programming through creative applications in music and sound synthesis. Readers will learn the Haskell programming language and explore numerous ways to create music and design virtual instruments with concise, elegant

Water Sound Images - The Creative Music of the Universe (Lauterwasser Alexander)(Pevná vazba)

Music and Death: Interdisciplinary Readings and Perspectives (Bennett Marie Josephine)(Pevná vazba)

Music is often our companion when dealing with the incomprehensibility of loss, and yet death and dying are topics that are rarely discussed or analysed in the academic space, especially in combination with music studies. This edited collection examines several ways in which diverse music cultures

Audio Technology, Music, and Media: From Sound Wave to Reproduction (Ashbourn Julian)(Pevná vazba)

This book provides a true A to Z of recorded sound, from its inception to the present day, outlining how technologies, techniques, and social attitudes have changed things, noting what is good and what is less good. The author starts by discussing the physics of sound generation and propagation. He

James Rhodes' Playlist - The Rebels and Revolutionaries of Sound (Rhodes James)(Pevná vazba)

Discover seven of the world's greatest composers in this stunning introduction to classical music by piano maestro and bestselling author James

The World of Bob Dylan (Latham Sean)(Pevná vazba)

Bob Dylan has helped transform music, literature, pop culture, and even politics. The World of Bob Dylan chronicles a lifetime of creative invention that has made a global impact. Leading rock and pop critics and music scholars address themes and topics central to Dylan's life and work: the Blues,

The Encyclopedia of Country Music (The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museu)(Pevná vazba)

The Sound of Life's Unspeakable Beauty (Schleske Martin)(Pevná vazba)

Christianity Today Book Award in Culture and the Arts (2021) 'In the final analysis, music is prayer cast into sound.' One of the greatest luthiers of our time reveals the secrets of his profession--and how each phase of handcrafting a violin can point us toward our calling, our true selves, and

Mirror Sound: The People and Processes Behind Self-Recorded Music (Tweedy Spencer)(Pevná vazba)

A visual portrait that delves into the people and processes behind self-recorded music, featuring some of the biggest names in music today. Everywhere you look, musicians are creating, recording, and selling their music without the help of big-name studios, producers, or labels. This book offers

Tell Me Why: The Story of My Life and My Music - The Story of My Life and My Music (Roach Archie)(Pevná vazba)

Anime Architecture: Imagined Worlds and Endless Megacities (Riekeles Stefan)(Pevná vazba)

Anime has been influencing cinema, literature, comic books, and video games around the world for decades. Part of what makes anime so popular are the memorable and breathtakingly detailed worlds designed by the creators, from futuristic cities of steel to romantic rural locales. Anime Architecture

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

British Romanticism and the Literature of Human Interest (Cheng Mai-Lin)(Pevná vazba)

British Romanticism and the Literature of Human Interest investigates the generic structures of Romantic literature and the negotiation of the status of literature in the period in relation to a new media landscape. This book explores the self-theorization of Romantic literature and argues for its

A City Imagined: Belfast Soulscapes (Dawe Gerald)(Pevná vazba)

A City Imagined is a paean to the city of Belfast and its writers. Written in his highly regarded wry and lyrical style, Dawe's memoir sketches the outlines of his life as he starts to understand the city in which he was born, before embracing some of the local writers whose early work had such an

Literature and Cartography: Theories, Histories, Genres (Engberg-Pedersen Anders)(Pevná vazba)

The relationship of texts and maps, and the mappability of literature, examined from Homer to Houellebecq.Literary authors have frequently called on elements of cartography to ground fictional space, to visualize sites, and to help readers get their bearings in the imaginative world of the text

Esquivel! Space-Age Sound Artist (Wood Susan)(Pevná vazba)

A playful picture-book biography of the father of space-age bachelor-pad lounge music. Gorgeously illustrated by Duncan Tonatiuh, this lively biography follows Juan Garcia Esquivel from Mexico to New York City. Juan grew up to the sounds of mariachi bands; he loved music and became a musical

The Ecstasy of Being: Mythology and Dance (Campbell Joseph)(Pevná vazba)

Joseph Campbell's collected writings on dance and art, edited and introduced by Nancy Allison, CMA, the founder of Jean Erdman Dance, and including Campbell's unpublished manuscript 'Mythology and Form in the Performing and Visual Arts,' the book he was working on when he died. Dance was one of

Joseph Beuys Posters (Spiegelberger Rene)(Pevná vazba)

Explore the poster art of Joseph Beuys and discover some of the philosophies that make him one of the most influential artists of the postwar period. One of the most important German postwar artists, Joseph Beuys is known for his sculpture, performance art, activism, and teaching, influencing a

Story of Music (Manning Mick)(Pevná vazba)

A friendly and inspiring introduction to music history, telling the stories of the world's greatest musicians from Bach to

The Last Testament (Bendiksen Jonas)(Pevná vazba)

Imagined as a sequel to the Old and New Testaments of the Bible by Magnum photographer Jonas Bendiksen, The Last Testament features visual accounts and stories of seven men around the world who claim to be the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. Building on biblical form and structure, chapters

Sound And The Fury (Faulkner William)(Pevná vazba)

Literature and Medicine (Lawlor Clark)(Pevná vazba)

Offering an authoritative and timely account of the relationship between literature and medicine in the eighteenth century and Romantic period, a time when most diseases had no cure, this collection provides a valuable overview of how two dynamic fields influenced and shaped one another. Covering a