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Forthcoming Books
| Author | : Rose Arny |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 1896 |
| Release | : 1998-04 |
| Genre | : American literature |
| ISBN | : |
The World in Six Songs
| Author | : Daniel J. Levitin |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 376 |
| Release | : 2008-08-19 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 1101043458 |
The author of the New York Times bestseller This Is Your Brain on Music reveals music’s role in the evolution of human culture in this thought-provoking book that “will leave you awestruck” (The New York Times). Daniel J. Levitin's astounding debut bestseller, This Is Your Brain on Music, enthralled and delighted readers as it transformed our understanding of how music gets in our heads and stays there. Now in his second New York Times bestseller, his genius for combining science and art reveals how music shaped humanity across cultures and throughout history. Here he identifies six fundamental song functions or types—friendship, joy, comfort, religion, knowledge, and love—then shows how each in its own way has enabled the social bonding necessary for human culture and society to evolve. He shows, in effect, how these “six songs” work in our brains to preserve the emotional history of our lives and species. Dr. Levitin combines cutting-edge scientific research from his music cognition lab at McGill University and work in an array of related fields; his own sometimes hilarious experiences in the music business; and illuminating interviews with musicians such as Sting and David Byrne, as well as conductors, anthropologists, and evolutionary biologists. The World in Six Songs is, ultimately, a revolution in our understanding of how human nature evolved—right up to the iPod.
Witnessing and Testifying
| Author | : Rosetta E. Ross |
| Publisher | : Fortress Press |
| Total Pages | : 322 |
| Release | : 2003-01-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781451417869 |
The Civil Rights Movement was not only an epochal social and political event but also a profound moral turning point in American history. Here, for the first time, social ethicist Ross examines the religiously motivated activism of black women in the movement and its moral import.
The Poetics of Rock
| Author | : Albin Zak |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 278 |
| Release | : 2001-11-20 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 0520232240 |
This title provides a fascinating exploration of recording consciousness and compositional process from the perspective of those who make records.
The Wellsprings of Music
| Author | : Curt Sachs |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 257 |
| Release | : 2012-12-06 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 9401510598 |
Typical mild "Sachsonian" humor and illustrated with a wealth of examples and evidence. I doubt whether any other of us ethnomusicologists would have been capable of writing such a comprehensive study: S~chs had at his fingertips a phenomenal amount of factual information. Sometimes, under his wise guidance, complicated propositions become surprisingly simple. The reader will be as fascinated as I was by the originality of some of his conelusions, captivated by his penetrating com parisons, and charmed by his rich and expressive language. After having lived with this book for aperiod of some months, I realize a1l themore what the death of Curt Sachs means to the musicological world. "The Wellsprings of Music" forms a worthy elose to that long series of publications his boundless energy and unsurpassed knowledge have given uso I feel greatly indebted to Dr. Eric Werner, New York, for his decisive encouragement towards the publication of this work and for the active interest he took in it. I want also to express my gratitude to the musicologist Miss Marijke Charbon, The Hague, for having made an Index of N ames and for some useful suggestions. Amsterdam, 15th February 1960 JAAP KUNST My dear friend Jaap Kunst did not live to see this book in print. I wish to express my deep gratitude to him, whose dedi cated help and unfailing and devoted interest made its publi cation possible.
The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia
| Author | : Michael Gray |
| Publisher | : Continuum |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2008-04-15 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 9780826429742 |
The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia is one of the most wide-ranging, informed, entertaining, provocative, and compulsively readable books ever written about popular music. It's the culmination of over thirty years of dedicated research and scholarship by Michael Gray. Inside these pages, you'll find a world of ideas, facts, and opinions. It's a world in which Baudelaire flows on from the Basement Tapes and A.S. Byatt looks out at the Byrds; in which Far from the Madding Crowd follows Ezekiel and Bob Geldof introduces Jean Genet; and in which Hank and William Carlos Williams stand side by side while J.R.R. Tolkien trails the Titanic. Most of all, of course, it's a world in which everyone and everything interconnects, in endlessly fascinating ways, with one of our greatest living artists: Bob Dylan. Click here to read an interview with Michael Gray: http://www.continuumbooks.com/news/details.aspx?NewsID=202&ImprintID=2&CountryID=2&ReturnType=2 "Michael Gray... probably Dylan's single most assiduous critic." - New York Review of Books "Fans of Bob Dylan have a multitude of choices when it comes to biographies and retrospectives, but author Michael Gray outdistances them all with this voluminous collection of all things Dylan. ... Insightful and entertaining, Gray's tome will broaden appreciation of the artist, his influences and his legacy." -Publishers Weekly (starred review) "...has all you need to know, and more" -Richard Corliss, Time "This is no mere catalog of facts, but a work of oceanic immersion. It has wit, opinion, style, and asks to be read, not just consulted." -Village Voice "Deeply impressive...destined to be the most important Dylan book, bar none."-Gerry Smith, The Dylan Daily "Utterly idiosyncratic." -Janet Maslin, New York Times "Amazingly well-researched and surprisingly readable work." -Library Journal (starred review) "Door-stopping detail." -Toronto Star "Magnificent...won't just astonish readers with its detail about Dylan's work...contains so many insights and refutes so many myths about the rock 'n' roll era in general that it's invaluable as both a reference guide and a personality study." -Nashville City Paper "Comprehensive and up-to-date." -Slate
That Winter
| Author | : Pamela Gillilan |
| Publisher | : Bloodaxe Books |
| Total Pages | : 80 |
| Release | : 1986 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : |
Pamela Gillilan was born in London in 1918, married in 1948 and moved to Cornwall in 1951. When she sat down to write her poem Come Away after the death of her husband David, she had written no poems for a quarter of a century. Then came a sequence of incredibly moving elegies. Other poems followed, and two years after starting to write again, she won the Cheltenham Festival poetry competition. Her first collection That Winter (Bloodaxe, 1986) was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Poetry Prize.
128 Beats Per Minute
| Author | : Diplo (Musician) |
| Publisher | : Universe Publishing(NY) |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Culture |
| ISBN | : 9780789324283 |
Contains photo essays on the music and cultural scenes of many different places including Philadelphia, Israel, Trinidad, and Asia.
Making a Way
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 112 |
| Release | : 1987 |
| Genre | : Lesbians |
| ISBN | : |
Photobook featuring scenes of daily life, intimate and vulnerable portraits of lesbians as everyday people surrounded by their community and culture, often accompanied by their names and brief statements about their lives and experiences. Published as a sequel to Eye to Eye: Portraits of Lesbians.
