Music on the Move

Music on the Move
Author: Danielle Fosler-Lussier
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2020-06-10
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0472901281

Music is a mobile art. When people move to faraway places, whether by choice or by force, they bring their music along. Music creates a meaningful point of contact for individuals and for groups; it can encourage curiosity and foster understanding; and it can preserve a sense of identity and comfort in an unfamiliar or hostile environment. As music crosses cultural, linguistic, and political boundaries, it continually changes. While human mobility and mediation have always shaped music-making, our current era of digital connectedness introduces new creative opportunities and inspiration even as it extends concerns about issues such as copyright infringement and cultural appropriation. With its innovative multimodal approach, Music on the Move invites readers to listen and engage with many different types of music as they read. The text introduces a variety of concepts related to music’s travels—with or without its makers—including colonialism, migration, diaspora, mediation, propaganda, copyright, and hybridity. The case studies represent a variety of musical genres and styles, Western and non-Western, concert music, traditional music, and popular music. Highly accessible, jargon-free, and media-rich, Music on the Move is suitable for students as well as general-interest readers.

Music on the Move Out West

Music on the Move Out West
Author: Matthew Gonder
Publisher:
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2013-09
Genre: Families
ISBN: 9780985200213

This true, crazy family adventure begins in 1969 and follows a widower and his five teenagers throughout multiple trials to find their home in the Pacific Northwest. Spanning four years, two states and four cities, this story of tough knocks and discoveries takes the reader back to a time when less was more and authority was granted to schoolteachers. A growing up account that reminds us of the expression: "where there's a will there's a way" ... -- cover.

Music in the Westward Expansion

Music in the Westward Expansion
Author: Laura Dean
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2022-05-23
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1476685223

Over 400,000 people moved their families in search of a better life in the American West during the Westward Expansion. The pioneers made room for musical instruments with their guns, food, and tools, while taking only the minimal necessities that would fit into modest wagons. During what seemed like an interminable dusty journey, music was often the sole source of light and happiness for these exhausted travelers. This book examines the roles of music in the Westward Expansion and the diverse cultural landscape of the Old West, including northern Cheyenne courtship flute makers, fiddle-playing explorers, dancing fur trappers, hymn-singing missionaries, frontier flutists, girls with guitars, wagon-driving balladeers, poetic cowboys, singing farmers, musical miners, and preaching songsters.

On the Move: a Black Family's Western Saga

On the Move: a Black Family's Western Saga
Author: S R Martin, Jr
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2009
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1603443541

In distinctive, engaging prose, S. R. Martin Jr. crafts the story of his forebears and their westward journey, begun even before the great black migration that occurred around the two world wars. By narrating the struggles and triumphs of his family--both paternal and maternal--during their move west, he illuminates an under-studied facet of African American history. As Martin explains it, he and his brother "arrived on the scene at the confluence of these family streams in time to catch a ride to the shining sea." Students, scholars, and interested general readers of modern African American history and sociology will be greatly rewarded by reading this warm and vivid personal and family memoir.

Film Music in the Sound Era

Film Music in the Sound Era
Author: Jonathan Rhodes Lee
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1096
Release: 2020-03-10
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1000091287

Film Music in the Sound Era: A Research and Information Guide offers a comprehensive bibliography of scholarship on music in sound film (1927–2017). Thematically organized sections cover historical studies, studies of musicians and filmmakers, genre studies, theory and aesthetics, and other key aspects of film music studies. Broad coverage of works from around the globe, paired with robust indexes and thorough cross-referencing, make this research guide an invaluable tool for all scholars and students investigating the intersection of music and film. This guide is published in two volumes: Volume 1: Histories, Theories, and Genres covers overviews, historical surveys, theory and criticism, studies of film genres, and case studies of individual films. Volume 2: People, Cultures, and Contexts covers individual people, social and cultural studies, studies of musical genre, pedagogy, and the industry. A complete index is included in each volume.

The Palgrave Handbook of Sound Design and Music in Screen Media

The Palgrave Handbook of Sound Design and Music in Screen Media
Author: Liz Greene
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 467
Release: 2016-12-14
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1137516801

This book bridges the existing gap between film sound and film music studies by bringing together scholars from both disciplines who challenge the constraints of their subject areas by thinking about integrated approaches to the soundtrack. As the boundaries between scoring and sound design in contemporary cinema have become increasingly blurred, both film music and film sound studies have responded by expanding their range of topics and the scope of their analysis beyond those traditionally addressed. The running theme of the book is the disintegration of boundaries, which permeates discussions about industry, labour, technology, aesthetics and audiovisual spectatorship. The collaborative nature of screen media is addressed not only in scholarly chapters but also through interviews with key practitioners that include sound recordists, sound designers, composers, orchestrators and music supervisors who honed their skills on films, TV programmes, video games, commercials and music videos.

Twentieth-Century Music in the West

Twentieth-Century Music in the West
Author: Tom Perchard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 495
Release: 2022-10-06
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1108638899

This is the first introductory survey of western twentieth-century music to address popular music, art music and jazz on equal terms. It treats those forms as inextricably intertwined, and sets them in a wide variety of social and critical contexts. The book comprises four sections – Histories, Techniques and Technologies, Mediation, Identities – with 16 thematic chapters. Each of these explores a musical or cultural topic as it developed over many years, and as it appeared across a diversity of musical practices. In this way, the text introduces both key musical repertoire and critical-musicological approaches to that work. It historicises music and musical thinking, opening up debate in the present rather than offering a new but closed narrative of the past. In each chapter, an overview of the topic's chronology and main issues is illustrated by two detailed case studies.

The Dawn of Indian Music in the West

The Dawn of Indian Music in the West
Author: Peter Lavezzoli
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 488
Release: 2006-04-24
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780826418159

Peter Lavezzoli, Buddhist and musician, has a rare ability to articulate the personal feeling of music, and simultaneously narrate a history. In his discussion on Indian music theory, he demystifies musical structures, foreign instruments, terminology, an

Mazal Tov, Amigos! Jews and Popular Music in the Americas

Mazal Tov, Amigos! Jews and Popular Music in the Americas
Author: Amalia Ran
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2016-01-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004204776

Winner of the Jewish Music Special Interest Group Paper Prize of 2018 Mazal Tov, Amigos! Jews and Popular Music in the Americas seeks to explore the sphere of Jews and Jewishness in the popular music arena in the Americas. It offers a wide-ranging review of new and old trends from an interdisciplinary standpoint, including history, musicology, ethnomusicology, ethnic studies, cultural studies, and even Queer studies. The contribution of Jews to the development of the music industry in the United States, Argentina, or Brazil cannot be measured on a single scale. Hence, these essays seek to explore the sphere of Jews and popular music in the Americas and their multiple significances, celebrating the contribution of Jewish musicians and Jewishness to the development of new musical genres and ideas.

On the Move

On the Move
Author: Oliver Sacks
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2015-04-28
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0385352557

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A “wonderful memoir” (Los Angeles Times) about a brilliantly unconventional physician and writer, a man who has illuminated the many ways that the brain makes us human. • “Intimate.... Brim[s] with life and affection.” —The New York Times When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote: “Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far.” It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going. With unbridled honesty and humor, Sacks writes about the passions that have driven his life—from motorcycles and weight lifting to neurology and poetry. He writes about his love affairs, both romantic and intellectual; his guilt over leaving his family to come to America; his bond with his schizophrenic brother; and the writers and scientists—W. H. Auden, Gerald M. Edelman, Francis Crick—who have influenced his work.