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  • Recording, musical

  • Bad music: the music we love to hate

    • Authors: Christopher J. Washburne (2004)

  • This book addresses why this is so through a series of essays on different musical forms and performers. It looks at alternate ways of judging musical performance beyond the critical/academic nexus, and suggests new paths to follow in understanding what makes some music "popular" even if it is judged to be "bad." For anyone who has ever secretly enjoyed ABBA, Kenny G, or disco, Bad Music will be a guilty pleasure!
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  • Unfinished music

    • Authors: Richard Kramer (2008)

  • Unfinished Music draws its inspiration from the riddling aphorism by Walter Benjamin that serves as its epigraph: "the work is the death mask of its conception." The work in its finished, perfected state conceals the enlivening process engaged in its creation.
  • Recording, musical

  • Popular music : the key concepts

    • Authors: Roy Shuker (2006)

  • Presenting a comprehensive A-Z glossary of the main terms and concepts used in the study of popular music, this fully updated second edition covers key new developments in the area, such as the impact of the Internet and Reality TV.
  • Recording, musical

  • Communication in eighteenth-century music

    • Authors: Danuta Mirka (2008)

  • The book explores a broad set of issues, ranging from the exigencies of the market for books and music in the eighteenth century through to the deployment of dance topoi in musical composition.
  • Recording, musical

  • The Digital Musician

    • Authors: Andrew Hugill (2008)

  • The Digital Musician examines cultural awareness, artistic identity and musical skill through the prism of recent technological innovations. New technologies, and especially the new digital technologies, mean that anyone can create music without any musical training. How do we know what is good? This involves developing a personal aesthetic, an awareness of the context for one's work, specific musical and technical abilities and an individual identity.
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  • Voicing the popular : on the subjects of popular music

    • Authors: Richard Middleton (2006)

  • Voicing the Popular draws on approaches from musical interpretation, cultural history, social theory and psychoanalysis to explore key topics in the field, including race, gender, authenticity and repetition.
  • Recording, musical

  • Rock and roll

    • Authors: Craig Morrison (2006)

  • Written by experts for students and enthusiasts, "American Popular Music" is an essential resource for the study and appreciation of American music. A seven-member editorial board of expert advisers includes top academics who are also performing musicians, producers, and songwriters, including a Grammy nominee and an internationally recognized composer
  • Recording, musical

  • Overtones and undertones: reading film music

    • Authors: Royal S. Brown (1994)

  • In this bold, insightful book, film and music scholar and critic Royal S. Brown invites readers not only to 'hear' the film score, but to understand it in relation to what they 'see'. Unlike earlier books, which offered historical, technical, and socio political analysis, "Overtones and Undertones" draws on film, music, and narrative theory to provide the first comprehensive aesthetics of film music.
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  • The voice as something more

    • Authors: Martha Feldman (2019)

  • The Voice as Something More reorients Dolar's psychoanalytic analysis around the material dimensions of voices--their physicality and timbre, the fleshiness of their mechanisms, the veils that hide them, and the devices that enhance and distort them.