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| Author | : Lawrence Kramer |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 203 |
| Release | : 2022-10-04 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0520389115 |
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Inventors in the age of the Enlightenment created lifelike androids capable of playing music on real instruments. Music and the Forms of Life examines the link between such simulated life and music, which began in the era's scientific literature and extended into a series of famous musical works by Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. Music invented auditory metaphors for the scientific elements of life (drive, pulse, sensibility, irritability, even metabolism), investigated the affinities and antagonisms between life and mechanism, and explored questions of whether and how mechanisms can come to life. The resulting changes in the conceptions of both life and music had wide cultural resonance at the time, and those concepts continued to evolve long after. A critical part of that evolution was a nineteenth-century shift in focus from moving androids to the projection of life in motion, culminating in the invention of cinema. Weaving together cultural and musical practices, Lawrence Kramer traces these developments through a collection of case studies ranging from classical symphonies to modernist projections of waltzing specters by Mahler and Ravel to a novel linking Bach's Goldberg Variations to the genetic code.
| Author | : Lawrence Kramer |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 203 |
| Release | : 2022-10-04 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0520389107 |
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Inventors in the age of the Enlightenment created lifelike androids capable of playing music on real instruments. Music and the Forms of Life examines the link between such simulated life and music, which began in the era's scientific literature and extended into a series of famous musical works by Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. Music invented auditory metaphors for the scientific elements of life (drive, pulse, sensibility, irritability, even metabolism), investigated the affinities and antagonisms between life and mechanism, and explored questions of whether and how mechanisms can come to life. The resulting changes in the conceptions of both life and music had wide cultural resonance at the time, and those concepts continued to evolve long after. A critical part of that evolution was a nineteenth-century shift in focus from moving androids to the projection of life in motion, culminating in the invention of cinema. Weaving together cultural and musical practices, Lawrence Kramer traces these developments through a collection of case studies ranging from classical symphonies to modernist projections of waltzing specters by Mahler and Ravel to a novel linking Bach's Goldberg Variations to the genetic code.
| Author | : Gavin Steingo |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2016-01-06 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780822368397 |
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"Boundary 2, an international journal of literature and culture, volume 43, number 1, February 2016." -- Cover.
| Author | : Lawrence Kramer |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 254 |
| Release | : 2021-06-21 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 0520382994 |
Download The Hum of the World Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Hum of the World is an invitation to contemplate what would happen if we heard the world as attentively as we see it. Balancing big ideas, playful wit and lyrical prose, this imaginative volume identifies the role of sound in Western experience as the primary medium in which the presence and persistence of life acquires tangible form. The positive experience of aliveness is not merely in accord with sound, but inaccessible, even inconceivable, without it. Lawrence Kramer’s poetic book roves freely over music, media, language, philosophy, and science from the ancient world to the present, along the way revealing how life is apprehended through sounds ranging from pandemonium to the faint background hum of the world. This warm meditation on auditory culture uncovers the knowledge and pleasure waiting when we learn that the world is alive with sound.
| Author | : Robin D. Moore |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 734 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 0520247108 |
Download Music and Revolution Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Annotation A history of Cuban music during the Castro regime (1950s to the present.
| Author | : John Edmund Kaemmer |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 274 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : |
Download Music in Human Life Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Presents an overview of the social and cultural factors involved in music making and introduces the unique features of various world music systems. Emphasizes the social sources of music, offering insights into the human motivations and behaviors that produce music. An audio cassette is included with the music used as examples in the book. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
| Author | : Tia DeNora |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 212 |
| Release | : 2000-06-08 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 9780521627320 |
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The power of music to influence mood, create scenes, routines and occasions is widely recognised and this is reflected in a strand of social theory from Plato to Adorno that portrays music as an influence on character, social structure and action. There have, however, been few attempts to specify this power empirically and to provide theoretically grounded accounts of music's structuring properties in everyday experience. Music in Everyday Life uses a series of ethnographic studies - an aerobics class, karaoke evenings, music therapy sessions and the use of background music in the retail sector - as well as in-depth interviews to show how music is a constitutive feature of human agency. Drawing together concepts from psychology, sociology and socio-linguistics it develops a theory of music's active role in the construction of personal and social life and highlights the aesthetic dimension of social order and organisation in late modern societies.
| Author | : Sarkis M. Ohanesian |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 830 |
| Release | : 1918 |
| Genre | : Social problems |
| ISBN | : |
Download Life's Demand in Twentieth Century Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
| Author | : |
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| Total Pages | : 636 |
| Release | : 1896 |
| Genre | : Music |
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Download Musical News Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
| Author | : Dr Gary Ansdell |
| Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
| Total Pages | : 377 |
| Release | : 2014-02-28 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 1472405714 |
Download How Music Helps in Music Therapy and Everyday Life Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Why is music so important to most of us? How does music help us both in our everyday lives, and in the more specialist context of music therapy? This book suggests a new way of approaching these topical questions, drawing from Ansdell's long experience as a music therapist, and from the latest thinking on music in everyday life. Vibrant and moving examples from music therapy situations are twinned with the stories of 'ordinary' people who describe how music helps them within their everyday lives. Together this complementary material leads Ansdell to present a new interdisciplinary framework showing how musical experiences can help all of us build and negotiate identities, make intimate non-verbal relationships, belong together in community, and find moments of transcendence and meaning. How Music Helps is not just a book about music therapy. It has the more ambitious aim to promote (from a music therapist's perspective) a better understanding of 'music and change' in our personal and social life. Ansdell's theoretical synthesis links the tradition of Nordoff-Robbins music therapy and its recent developments in Community Music Therapy to contemporary music sociology and music studies. This book will be relevant to practitioners, academics, and researchers looking for a broad-based theoretical perspective to guide further study and policy in music, well-being, and health.
