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Made in Thailand: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, culture, and musicology of twentieth and twenty-first century popular music in Thailand.

A new history of how the musical worlds of German towns and cities were transformed during the Nazi era. In the years after the Nazis came to power in January 1933 and through the war years all aspects of life in Germany changed. However, despite the social and political upheaval, gentile citizens were able to continue leisure activities such as attending concerts. In this book, historian Neil Gregor surveys the classical concert scene in Nazi Germany from the perspective of the audience, rather than institutions or performers. Gregor delves into the cultural lives of ordinary Germans under conditions of dictatorship. Did the ways in which Germans heard music in the period change? Did a Nazi way of listening emerge? For audiences, Gregor shows, changes to the concert experience were small and often took place around the edges. This, combined with the preserved idea of the concert hall as a space of imagined civility and cultivation, led many concertgoers and music lovers to claim after the war that their field and their practice had been innocent-a place to retreat from the vicious violence and racism of the Nazi regime. Drawing on untapped archival sources, The Symphony Concert in Nazi Germany reveals that the true history was one of disruption but also of near effortless adaptation. Through countless small acts, the symphony concert was reframed within the languages of strident nationalism, racism, and militarism to ensure its place inside the cultural cosmos of National Socialist Germany.

Untitled Constable non-fiction title to be published in 2025

If you want to be a rock and roll star, you've got to talk like a rock and roll star...

This book is the first to explore the interconnections between ecology and performance in South Asia.The essays in the volume take inspiration from these different methodological strains in recent scholarship connecting the environment with South Asian music and performance traditions.

English Diatonic Music 1887-1955 provides a study of a modern tradition in English art music of the early twentieth century based on the era's focus on diatonicism and its ability to convey metaphysical and mystical feelings. Matthew Riley remaps traditional understandings of this era, emphasizing the importance of convention and craft in its development.

When it was originally published in 1967, this study of J.S. Bach was the first important work on the composer in nearly a generation.

"Can music be made "independently" in the 21st century? More than a generation of musicians, music workers, and music companies have now been operating in the context of profound shifts in music dissemination and production in the "digital era." Scholarly focus on musical independence has often been centered on genres, like punk and indie, rooted in the US and UK. This volume, focused outside the Euro-American context, shows the variety of ways musicians, music workers and businesses manage the economic, media and cultural shifts intertwined with digitalization, asking what it means now to say one is "independent.""--

Egal, ob Sie bislang nur unter der Dusche gesungen haben oder bereits Ihren großen Auftritt planen: Richtiges Singen will trainiert werden. Pamelia S. Phillips vermittelt Ihnen in diesem Buch das nötige Handwerkszeug dafür. Anschaulich und mit vielen Beispielen erläutert sie, welche Haltung Sie einnehmen sollten, wie Sie beim Singen richtig atmen und wie Sie Ihren Stimmumfang erweitern. Auf zahlreichen Hörbeispielen, die im MP3-Format zum Download zur Verfügung stehen, finden Sie vielfältige Gesangsbeispiele zur Verbesserung Ihres Stimmklangs und Ihrer Artikulation. So verbessern Sie Stück für Stück Ihre Technik und sind bald bereit für die große Bühne.

An oral history of Simple Minds in the words of over 800 fans

Barney McKenna - "Banjo Barney from Donnycarney" - was one of the founder-members of the Dubliners, the world-famous Irish folk musicians and singers who in 2002 celebrated forty years on the road as a band. For Dubliners fans, Barney's name immediately conjures up the image of the burly, bearded banjo genius whodazzled the audience with his virtuosity while charming them with his folksy, no-nonsense personality. However, Barney was also well known for another reason: he was capable of bringing any conversation to a sudden stop by uttering something so completely unexpected, and at the same time so incomprehensible, as to reduceeveryone present to a bemused silence. These surreal verbal gems, collected in this book, have become known simply as "Barneyisms".