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The Music Between Us
Author | : Kathleen Marie Higgins |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2012-06 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780226333281 |
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A commentary on the communicative universality of music citing real-world examples from rituals, education, work, and healing.
The Music between Us
Author | : Kathleen Marie Higgins |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2012-05-01 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780226333274 |
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“Higgins’ love of music and cultural variety is evident throughout. She writes in a relaxed, accessible, sophisticated style…Highly recommended.”—Choice From our first social bonding as infants to the funeral rites that mark our passing, music plays an important role in our lives, bringing us closer to one another. In this book, philosopher Kathleen Marie Higgins investigates this role, examining the features of human perception that enable music’s uncanny ability to provoke—despite its myriad forms across continents and throughout centuries—the sense of a shared human experience. Drawing on disciplines such as philosophy, psychology, musicology, linguistics, and anthropology, Higgins’s richly researched study showcases the ways music is used in rituals, education, work, and healing, and as a source of security and—perhaps most importantly—joy. By participating so integrally in such meaningful facets of society, Higgins argues, music situates itself as one of the most fundamental bridges between people, a truly cross-cultural form of communication that can create solidarity across political divides. Moving beyond the well-worn takes on music’s universality, The Music between Us provides a new understanding of what it means to be musical and, in turn, human. “Those who, like Higgins, deeply love music, actually know something about it, have open minds and ears, and are willing to look beyond the confines of Western aesthetics…will find much to learn in The Music between Us.”—Journalof Aesthetics and Art Criticism
The Music Between Us
Author | : Steve Litwer |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2020-11-23 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1735527408 |
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As a young man, Steve Litwer wanted to be a musician. Largely self-taught on the guitar, he lacked the talent to play professionally, so he chose another career path, working for a series of popular music radio stations in Kansas City, Memphis, and Charlotte.Needing something good to do when he retired, Steve chose to volunteer as a bedside musician, playing guitar for hospice patients. Unexpectedly, his private performances and companionship offered to those nearing the end of their lives began to unlock long-buried memories of his own past.The result? Surprising lessons and new insights about the events of his life and finding the path to forgiveness for himself and his mother, for whom he had long held resentment. Mentally ill, she had struggled to raise her sons.Incorporating moving and funny true stories of people in hospice and their love for the popular music that was the soundtrack of their lives, this book explores the mysterious ways that Steve was led to reckon with emotional wounds from childhood that had spilled over into many of his key relationships throughout his life and discover fresh joy. It is a celebration both of music and of the power of human connection.
Musicophilia
Author | : Oliver Sacks |
Publsiher | : Vintage Canada |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2010-02-05 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9780307373496 |
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What goes on in human beings when they make or listen to music? What is it about music, what gives it such peculiar power over us, power delectable and beneficent for the most part, but also capable of uncontrollable and sometimes destructive force? Music has no concepts, it lacks images; it has no power of representation, it has no relation to the world. And yet it is evident in all of us–we tap our feet, we keep time, hum, sing, conduct music, mirror the melodic contours and feelings of what we hear in our movements and expressions. In this book, Oliver Sacks explores the power music wields over us–a power that sometimes we control and at other times don’t. He explores, in his inimitable fashion, how it can provide access to otherwise unreachable emotional states, how it can revivify neurological avenues that have been frozen, evoke memories of earlier, lost events or states or bring those with neurological disorders back to a time when the world was much richer. This is a book that explores, like no other, the myriad dimensions of our experience of and with music.
The Garland Handbook of Latin American Music
Author | : Dale Olsen,Daniel Sheehy |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 1103 |
Release | : 2007-12-17 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9781135900076 |
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The Garland Handbook of Latin American Music is comprised of essays from The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Volume 2, South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Carribean, (1998). Revised and updated, the essays offer detailed, regional studies of the different musical cultures of Latin America and examine the ways in which music helps to define the identity of this particular area. Part One provides an in-depth introduction to the area of Latin America and describes the history, geography, demography, and cultural settings of the regions that comprise Latin America. It also explores the many ways to research Latin American music, including archaeology, iconography, mythology, history, ethnography, and practice. Part Two focuses on issues and processes, such as history, politics, geography, and immigration, which are responsible for the similarities and the differences of each region’s uniqueness and individuality. Part Three focuses on the different regions, countries, and cultures of Caribbean Latin America, Middle Latin America, and South America with selected regional case studies. The second edition has been expanded to cover Haiti, Panama, several more Amerindian musical cultures, and Afro-Peru. Questions for Critical Thinking at the end of each major section guide focus attention on what musical and cultural issues arise when one studies the music of Latin America -- issues that might not occur in the study of other musics of the world. Two audio compact discs offer musical examples of some of the music of Latin America.
Country Soul
Author | : Charles L. Hughes |
Publsiher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2015-03-23 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9781469622446 |
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In the sound of the 1960s and 1970s, nothing symbolized the rift between black and white America better than the seemingly divided genres of country and soul. Yet the music emerged from the same songwriters, musicians, and producers in the recording studios of Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee, and Muscle Shoals, Alabama--what Charles L. Hughes calls the "country-soul triangle." In legendary studios like Stax and FAME, integrated groups of musicians like Booker T. and the MGs and the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section produced music that both challenged and reconfirmed racial divisions in the United States. Working with artists from Aretha Franklin to Willie Nelson, these musicians became crucial contributors to the era's popular music and internationally recognized symbols of American racial politics in the turbulent years of civil rights protests, Black Power, and white backlash. Hughes offers a provocative reinterpretation of this key moment in American popular music and challenges the conventional wisdom about the racial politics of southern studios and the music that emerged from them. Drawing on interviews and rarely used archives, Hughes brings to life the daily world of session musicians, producers, and songwriters at the heart of the country and soul scenes. In doing so, he shows how the country-soul triangle gave birth to new ways of thinking about music, race, labor, and the South in this pivotal period.
Bridging The Gap Between The Music Department The Pulpit
Author | : Jerome Bell |
Publsiher | : Xulon Press |
Total Pages | : 98 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781597819534 |
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Frankly Just Between Us
Author | : Vincent Falcone,Bob Popyk |
Publsiher | : Hal Leonard Corporation |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 063409498X |
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Chronicling Falcone's career from his days at Syracuse University and tuning pianos to playing piano and conducting for music icon Sinatra, this volume contains many great stories about playing and conducting for some larger-than-life music personalities of the '70s, '80s and today.