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Rush at 50 presents an authoritative and illustrated retrospective of one of rock’s most beloved acts, as told through 50 landmark releases, career pivots, and professional associations.

This book breaks new ground in the social and cultural history of eighteenth-century music in Britain through the study of a hitherto neglected resource, the lists of subscribers that were attached to a wide variety of publications, including musical works.

This book brings together research at the intersection of music, cultural industries, management, politics and gender studies to analyse music as labour, in particular highlighting social inequalities and activism.

Trauma and Resilience in Music Education: Haunted Melodies considers the effects of trauma on both teachers and students in the music classroom, exploring music as a means for working through traumatic experiences.

Empowering Song: Music Education from the Margins weaves together subversive pedagogy and theories of resistance with community music education and choral music, inspiring professionals to revisit and reconsider their pedagogical practices and approaches. The authors' unique insight into some of the most marginalized and justice-deprived contexts in the world -- prisons, refugee shelters, detention facilities, and migrant encampments -- breeds evocative and compassionate enquiry, laying the theoretical groundwork for pedagogical practices while detailing the many facets of equity-centered, musical leadership. Presenting an orientation to healing informed by theory, Empowering Song explores the ways in which music education might take on the challenging questions of cultural responsiveness within the context of justice, seeking to change not only how choral music is led but also our conceptions of why it should matter to all.

This book maps contemporary playwriting and theatre translation practices and ecologies in the European continent.

'ASHÉ Ritual Poetics in African Diasporic Expressivity' is a collection of interdisciplinary essays contributed by international scholars and practitioners. Having distinguished themselves across such disciplines as Anthropology, Art, Music, Literature, Dance, Philosophy, Religion, and Theology and conjoined to construct a defining approach to the study of Aesthetics throughout the African Diaspora with the Humanities at the core, this collection of essays will break new ground in the study of Black Aesthetics. This book will be of great interest to scholars, practitioners, and students interested in tracing African heritage identities throughout the African Diaspora through close examination of a variety of discourses directly connected to expressive elements of cultural production and religious rituals.

The Routledge Companion to Music and Human Rights is a collection of case studies spanning a wide range of concerns about music and human rights in response to intensifying challenges to the well-being of individuals, peoples, and the planet. It brings forward the expertise of academic researchers, lawyers, human rights practitioners, and performing musicians who offer critical reflection on how their work might identify, inform, or advance mutual interests in their respective fields. The book is comprised of 28 chapters, interspersed with 23 'voices' - portraits that focus on individuals' intimate experiences with music in the defence or advancement of human rights - and explores the following four themes: 1) Fundamentals on music and human rights; 2) Music in pursuit of human rights; 3) Music as a means of violating human rights; 4) Human rights and music: intrinsic resonances.

The challenges and limits for musicians dealing with texts. To perform a musical score implies the transformation of a symbolically coded text into vibrant sound. In Performing by the Book? a carefully selected cadre of artist-researchers dissects this delicate act in critical ways. Offering first-hand insights into the notational, structural and interpretative challenges faced by musicians in dealing with texts of all kinds, the chapters traverse the spectrum between the Middle Ages and the age of Stockhausen. In a harmonious blend of scholarly allure and individual artistry, free from academic obfuscation, the contributors keep a keen eye on the limits of interpretation, both in terms of the interpretative process itself and of the balance between textual faithfulness and artistic autonomy. This comprehensive volume is an indispensable guide for everyone interested in the relationship between musical performance and texts. Contributing authors: Niels Berentsen (Haute école de musique de Genève-Neuchâtel (HES-SO) / conductor of Diskantores), Björn Schmelzer (artistic director of Graindelavoix / independent researcher), Jonathan Ayerst (freelance organist and improviser), Elizabeth Dobbin (Le Jardin Secret / Haute école de musique de Genève (HES-SO)), Camilla Köhnken (freelance pianist-researcher / Bern Academy of the Arts), George Kennaway (cellist, conductor, teacher, publisher and musicologist / University of Leeds), Kate Bennett Wadsworth (cellist / Guildhall School of Music and Drama), Nir Cohen-Shalit (conductor and independent researcher), Xiangning Lin (pianist / Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, National University of Singapore), Clare Lesser (independent performer, musicologist and composer). Ebook available in Open Access. This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).

The music, performances, and cultural impact of some of the most enduring figures in popular music are explored in Rock Music Icons: Musical and Cultural Impacts. This collection investigates authenticity, identity, and the power of the voices and images of widely circulated and shared artists that have become the soundtrack of our lives.

Villa-Lobos and Modernism: The Apotheosis of Cannibal Music provides a new assessment of the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos in terms of his contributions to the Modernist Movement of the twentieth century. In this profound study, Ricardo Averbach elevates Cultural Cannibalism as a major manifestation of the Modernist aesthetics and Villa-Lobos as its top exponent in the music field. Villa-Lobos's anthropophagic appetite for multiple opposing aesthetics enlightens through the juxtaposition of contradictory elements, leaving a legacy of unmatched originality, a glittering kaleidoscope of sounds that draw from the radical power of Josephine Baker to the outrageous extravagance of Carmen Miranda, from Dada to Einstein's counterintuitive scientific findings, from folklorism to atonality. The constructed analyses use the works of Stravinsky as a familiar and popular touchstone for accessing Villa-Lobos as the leading exponent of an aesthetic movement that has been neglected due to a traditional Eurocentric view of Modernism. Averbach opens up new possibilities for the study of twentieth-century music, in general, while unveiling how much our present aesthetics owes to the Modernist ideas introduced by the Brazilian composer.

Software mediates a great deal of human musical activity. The writing, running, and maintenance of code lies at the heart of such software. Code Musicology: From Hardwired to Software argues why it is time for a ';code musicology,' then outlines what that should entail. A code musicology opens a conduit between musicology and software studies, providing insights into both of these now interlinked fields along the way. It extends an ethnomusicology of technoculture from the world of hardware and the hardwired to software, code, and algorithms. For popular music studies, it helps direct attention to a newly relevant industrial focusIT and software-centered transnational commerceas a result of sectorial transformation.Denis Crowdy demonstrates how analysis from software studies, critical code studies, and the digital humanities offers insights into power relations, diversity, and commerce in music. Crowdy weaves readings of code and application programming interfaces (APIs) into the discussion, as well as ethnomusicological fieldwork exploring music and mobile phones from the Global South. Analysis of the author's own music apps and associated distribution infrastructure provides unique insights into the machinations of music ';appification.'

This volume explores music education locally and globally, and critically investigates where music education has come from, where it is, and where it may be going in the future, as well as what this means to us in the twenty-first century.

The book explores interconnections of the sacred and the secular in music of the long nineteenth century. It investigates manifestations of religion in music not primarily intended for liturgical performance and assesses compositions that originated in a liturgical context but then migrated in their performance into a non-liturgical sphere.

When hip-hop first emerged in the 1970s, it wasn't expected to become the cultural force it is today. But for a young Black kid growing up in a musical family in Philadelphia, it was everything. He stayed up late to hear the newest songs on the radio. He saved his money to buy vinyl as soon as it landed. He even started to try to make his own songs. That kid was Questlove, and decades later, he is a six-time Grammy Award-winning musician, an Academy Award-winning filmmaker, a New York Times bestselling author, a producer, an entrepreneur, a cofounder of one of hip-hop's defining acts (the Roots), and the genre's unofficial in-house historian. In this landmark book, Hip-Hop Is History, Questlove skilfully traces the creative and cultural forces that made and shaped hip-hop, highlighting both the forgotten but influential gems and the undeniable chart-topping hits-and weaves it all together with the stories no one else knows. It is at once an intimate, sharply observed story of a cultural revolution and a sweeping, grand theory of the evolution of the great artistic movement of our time. And Questlove, of course, approaches it with not only the encyclopaedic fluency and passion of an obsessive fan but also the expertise and originality of an innovative participant. Hip-hop is history, and also his history.

When the Beatles burst onto the pop scene in 1962, they not only took the music world by storm but they also brought with them a counter culture that was to have far-reaching effects. With their long hair, humour and irreverent attitude towards authority, they were a breath of fresh air to a generation who had grown weary of the greyness of the post-war years. Beatlemania was to unleash a revolution against an outdated age. The 1950s with its oppressive and authoritarian attitudes was ready for change and young people, desperate to escape suburbia with its stifling formality, were set to lead that rebellion. In politics, fashion, education, the arts, religion, television, women‿s rights and universities, the time had come to challenge the old order. And in came the swinging sixties with its more liberal attitudes offering hope of change and a more peaceful and just world. The introduction of the contraceptive pill, legalized abortion, gay rights, easier divorce and the relaxing of censorship were all part of this social revolution. And it wasn‿t just in Britain. The influence of the Beatles reverberated across Europe and, most of all, in America where teenagers not only campaigned against a war in Vietnam but also for civil rights in their own country. This book tells the story of the Sixties and how the Beatles‿ influence had such an impact on British society. It‿s a social history of Britain told by Stephen Kelly who regularly watched the Beatles at the Cavern and experienced first hand the changes that were to take place.

First published in 1967, Love Songs of Chandid¿s provides an informative introduction which makes vividly clear the importance of Chandid¿s to the Indian peasant masses.

As the days and months go by, I will be publishing a series of ebooks and books about the subjects that I have encountered for the last 35 years concerned with the business of music. This collection of eBooks and books will be offered in softback, hardback, and as an audio book. Each eBook and books will contain pages of necessary and critical subject matter that I feel anyone that needs to know or wants to learn information about the music business. I assure you if you have or are interested in a career in the music business you will learn and hopefully success in this business. Teaching the business of music including courses on artist development, marketing, promotion, production, and resources of your choice. I look forward to working with you in my classes. Helping anyone interested in the music business paving a path to a successful career or knowledge that you can share.

The definitive recording history of pop megastars, ABBA, told song-by-song and track-by-track. Filled with fascinating photography (some rarely seen), and sensational behind-the-scenes details.A loving and thorough dissection of every album and song released by Swedish superstars, ABBA. From their first single in 1972, when they weren't yet even called ABBA, all the way up to their Grammy-nominated studio album, Voyage, and their revolutionary virtual tour, expert author Benoît Clerc analyses everything there is to know about each song and session.This one-of-a-kind book uncovers the stories behind all their greatest hits, including 'Waterloo', 'Mamma Mia', 'Fernando' and 'Dancing Queen', as well as lesser-known gems. In over 500 pages, no stone is left unturned. Drawing upon decades of research, it recounts the circumstances that led to the composition of every song - detailing the inspiration behind the lyrics, the recording process and the instruments used. Featuring hundreds of photographs, including rare black-and-white publicity stills, images of instruments used by the band, and engaging shots of the musicians on-stage and in-studio, Abba: All the Songs is the perfect gift for any fan of pop.

This Extended Edition book contains 21 newly selected pieces for Trinity Piano Grade 8 exams from 2023, carefully chosen, graded and edited by a panel of experts, along with informative performance notes to help students and teachers get the most out of the repertoire. The book also includes the technical exercises required for the exam, which have been newly composed for the 2023 syllabus, as well as the scales and arpeggios for the grade, and downloadable demonstration audio for all 21 pieces. Encompassing a hugely expanded range of styles and genres including the following at every grade: Classical pieces from Baroque to 21st Century Jazz and Latin from well-known standards to modern-day repertoire A huge range of new brand-new compositions in classical and jazz styles Arrangements of global Pop hits both past and present from artists including Ed Sheeran, Pharrell Williams and Adele Music from Stage and Screen including bestselling Films, TV shows and Video Games such as Harry Potter and Doctor WhoThis book can be used in conjunction with Trinity's 2021 piano books, which remain valid for the 2023 syllabus. This book can also be used for Trinity‿s brand-new Repertoire-Only Pathway for Digital Grades.

This Extended Edition book contains 21 newly selected pieces for Trinity Piano Grade 7 exams from 2023, carefully chosen, graded and edited by a panel of experts, along with informative performance notes to help students and teachers get the most out of the repertoire. The book also includes the technical exercises required for the exam, which have been newly composed for the 2023 syllabus, as well as the scales and arpeggios for the grade, and downloadable demonstration audio for all 21 pieces. Encompassing a hugely expanded range of styles and genres including the following at every grade: Classical pieces from Baroque to 21st Century Jazz and Latin from well-known standards to modern-day repertoire A huge range of new brand-new compositions in classical and jazz styles Arrangements of global Pop hits both past and present from artists including Ed Sheeran, Pharrell Williams and Adele Music from Stage and Screen including bestselling Films, TV shows and Video Games such as Harry Potter and Doctor WhoThis book can be used in conjunction with Trinity's 2021 piano books, which remain valid for the 2023 syllabus. This book can also be used for Trinity‿s brand-new Repertoire-Only Pathway for Digital Grades.

This Extended Edition book contains 21 newly selected pieces for Trinity Piano Grade 6 exams from 2023, carefully chosen, graded and edited by a panel of experts, along with informative performance notes to help students and teachers get the most out of the repertoire. The book also includes the technical exercises required for the exam, which have been newly composed for the 2023 syllabus, as well as the scales and arpeggios for the grade, and downloadable demonstration audio for all 21 pieces. Encompassing a hugely expanded range of styles and genres including the following at every grade: Classical pieces from Baroque to 21st Century Jazz and Latin from well-known standards to modern-day repertoire A huge range of new brand-new compositions in classical and jazz styles Arrangements of global Pop hits both past and present from artists including Ed Sheeran, Pharrell Williams and Adele Music from Stage and Screen including bestselling Films, TV shows and Video Games such as Harry Potter and Doctor WhoThis book can be used in conjunction with Trinity's 2021 piano books, which remain valid for the 2023 syllabus. This book can also be used for Trinity‿s brand-new Repertoire-Only Pathway for Digital Grades.

This Extended Edition book contains 21 newly selected pieces for Trinity Piano Grade 4 exams from 2023, carefully chosen, graded and edited by a panel of experts, along with informative performance notes to help students and teachers get the most out of the repertoire. The book also includes the technical exercises required for the exam, which have been newly composed for the 2023 syllabus, as well as the scales and arpeggios for the grade, and downloadable demonstration audio for all 21 pieces. Encompassing a hugely expanded range of styles and genres including the following at every grade: Classical pieces from Baroque to 21st Century Jazz and Latin from well-known standards to modern-day repertoire A huge range of new brand-new compositions in classical and jazz styles Arrangements of global Pop hits both past and present from artists including Ed Sheeran, Pharrell Williams and Adele Music from Stage and Screen including bestselling Films, TV shows and Video Games such as Harry Potter and Doctor WhoThis book can be used in conjunction with Trinity's 2021 piano books, which remain valid for the 2023 syllabus. This book can also be used for Trinity‿s brand-new Repertoire-Only Pathway for Digital Grades.