Bea Palya's I'll Be Your Plaything

Bea Palya's I'll Be Your Plaything
Author: András Rónai
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2022-01-13
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1501354442

For decades, the state-run music industry in Hungary has artificially isolated musical worlds. The 2010 album I'll Be Your Plaything is a concept album comprising at times drastically re-imagined cover versions of Hungary's most popular hits from the socialist era. As such it is a testament to music as a medium's aptness to reflect on public and personal pasts. The album moreover exemplifies how rich and appealing synthesis of sounds and traditions can be concocted when folk, classically trained, rock, and jazz musical artists collaborate. Along with this freedom to blend and synthesize, the album opens up some long overdue space for women; playing with personas, voices, and singing styles, Palya reflects on issues of femininity, maternity, sexuality, and coupledom across generations.

Popular Music, Technology, and the Changing Media Ecosystem

Popular Music, Technology, and the Changing Media Ecosystem
Author: Tamas Tofalvy
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2020-05-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 303044659X

This book explores the relationships between popular music, technology, and the changing media ecosystem. More precisely, it looks at infrastructures and practices of music making and consuming primarily in the post-Napster era of digitization – with some chapters looking back on the technological precursors to digital culture – marked by the emergence of digital tools and platforms such as YouTube or Spotify. The first section provides a critical overview of theories addressing popular music and digital technology, while the second section offers an analysis of the relationship between musical cultures, taste, constructions of authenticity, and technology. The third section offers case studies on the materialities of music consumption from outside the western core of popular music production. The final section reflects on music scenes and the uses and discourses of social media.

Local Fusions

Local Fusions
Author: Barbara Rose Lange
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2018
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0190245360

In Local Fusions, author Barbara Rose Lange explores musical life in Hungary, Slovakia, and Austria between the end of the Cold War and the world financial crisis of 2008. With case studies from Budapest, Bratislava, and Vienna, the book looks at the ways that artists generated social commentary and tried new ways of working together as the political and economic atmosphere shifted during this time. Drawn from a variety of sources, the case studies illustrate how young musicians redefined a Central European history of elevating the arts by fusing poetry, local folk music, and other vernacular music with jazz, Asian music, art music, and electronic dance music. Their projects rejected exclusion based on ethnic background or gender prevalent in Central Europe's present far-right political movements, and instead embraced diverse modes of expression. Through this, the musicians asserted woman power, broadened masculinities, and declared affinity with regional minorities such as the Romani people.

Changing Minds in Therapy: Emotion, Attachment, Trauma, and Neurobiology (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)

Changing Minds in Therapy: Emotion, Attachment, Trauma, and Neurobiology (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)
Author: Margaret Wilkinson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2010-04-12
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0393707903

Addresses the flurry of questions about the practical application of neuroscience in clinical treatment. Recent advances in research in the fields of attachment, trauma, and the neurobiology of emotion have shown that mind, brain, and body are inextricably linked. This new research has revolutionized our understanding of the process of change in psychotherapy and in life, and raised a flurry of questions about the practical application of neuroscience in clinical treatment, particularly with those who have experienced early relational trauma and neglect. What insight does neuroscience offer to our clinical understanding of early life experiences? Can we use the plasticity of the brain to aid in therapeutic change? If so, how? Changing Minds in Therapy explores the dynamics of brain-mind change, translating insights from these new fields of study into practical tips for therapists to use in the consulting room. Drawing from a wide range of clinical approaches and deftly integrating the scholarly with the practical, Margaret Wilkinson presents contemporary neuroscience, as well as attachment and trauma theories, in an accessible way, illuminating the many ways in which cutting edge research may inform clinical practice.

Maasaw

Maasaw
Author: Ekkehart Malotki
Publisher:
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1987
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

The Afghan Whigs' Gentlemen

The Afghan Whigs' Gentlemen
Author: Bob Gendron
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 121
Release: 2008-08-15
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0826429106

Like no record before or since, Gentlemen is fraught with the psychological warfare, bedroom drama, Catholic guilt, reprehensible deception and uncleansable shame that coincide with relationships gone seriously wrong. In addition to dissecting the record's organization, arrangements and lyrics, as well as exhaustively examining old articles, reviews and interviews, the book delves into the memories, experiences and influences of the Afghan Whigs.