Kategoria BISAC: Music >> General

The Music Documentary offers a wide-range of approaches, across key moments in the history of popular music, in order to define and interrogate this essential genre of film-making. The book will be of interest to academics and students as well as film and documentary-makers, musicians and music promoters, and film and music enthusiasts.

The writers in this volume argue that the music documentary must be considered as an essential cultural artefact in documenting stars and icons, and musicians and their times particularly for those figures whose fame was achieved posthumously. The...

Since the late 1980s, the boundaries between the musicologies have become increasingly blurred. Most notably, a growing number of musicologists have become interested in the ideas and methodologies of ethnomusicology, and in particular, in applying one of the central methodological tools of ethnomusicology ethnography to the study of Western art music, a tradition which had previously been studied primarily through scores, recordings and other historical sources. Alongside this, since the 1970s a small number of ethnomusicologists have also written about Western art music, thus...

The first edition of The Auditory Culture Reader offered an introduction to both classical and recent work on auditory culture, laying the foundations for new academic research in sound studies. Today, interest and research on sound thrives across disciplines such as music, anthropology, geography, sociology and cultural studies as well as within the new interdisciplinary sphere of sound studies itself.

This second edition reflects on the changes to the field since the first edition and offers a vast amount of new content, a user-friendly organization which highlights key...

This annotated bibliography uncovers the wealth of resources available on the life and music of John Cage, one of the most influential and fascinating composers of the twentieth-century. The guide will focus on documentary studies, archival resources, scholarly research, and autobiographical materials, and place the composer and his work in a larger context of postmodern philosophy, art and theater movements, and contemporary politics. It will support emerging scholarship and inquiry for future research on Cage, with carefully selected sources and useful annotations.

This selective annotated bibliography places Alma Mahler with three other female composers of her time, covering the first generation of active female composers in the twentieth century. It uncovers the wealth of resources available on the lives and music of Mahler, Florence Price, Yuliya Lazarevna Veysberg, and Maria Teresa Prieto and supports emerging scholarship and inquiry on four women who experienced both entrenched sexual discrimination and political upheaval, which affected their lives and influenced composers of subsequent generations.

Claudio Monteverdi: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography that navigates the vast resources on the composer. It supersedes the research guide by K. Gary Adams and Dyke Kiel which published in 1989. Claudio Monteverdi transformed and mastered the principal genres of his day and his works influenced generations of musicians and other artists. He initiated one of the most important aesthetic debates of the era by proposing a new relationship between poetry and harmony. In addition to scholarship by musicologists and music theorists, Monteverdi's music has...