Music (217)

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This monograph offers a unique analysis of social protest in popular music. It presents theoretical descriptions, methodological tools, and an approach that encompasses various fields of musicology, cultural studies, semiotics, discourse analysis, me...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:„Global Pop“ beschreibt in mehr als vierzig Beiträgen das Phänomen 'Weltmusik' in seiner ganzen Breite, ordnet es historisch ein und schließt es an aktuelle kulturwissenschaftliche Diskussionen an. Das Buch führt in zentrale Begriffe ein und bietet e...

publisher: Springer
year: 2016
description:This book is the first comprehensive account of how Anglo-American popular music transformed Italian cultural life. Drawing on neglected archival materials, the author explores the rise of new musical tastes and social divisions in late twentieth cen...

publisher: Springer
year: 2016
description:This book addresses core questions about the role of materials in general and of wood in particular in the construction of string instruments used in the modern symphony orchestra – violins, violas, cellos and basses. Further attention is given to ma...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:Das vorliegende Handbuch gibt nicht nur einen Überblick über den aktuellen Forschungsstand, sondern zeigt außerdem die Möglichkeiten und Grenzen des Einsatzes Funktionaler Musik auf. Neben der Theorie soll insbesondere die gegenwärtige Praxis berücks...

publisher: Springer
year: 2014
description:Using narrative accounts from a sample of 69 New York City-based musicians of various genres who are self-acknowledged heroin users, the book addresses the reasons why these musicians started using heroin and the impact heroin had on these musicians'...

publisher: Springer
year: 2009
description:An extended study of the writings of Lil' Kim, the multi-platinum selling Hip Hop artist. Examines Lil' Kim's anti-sexist, gender-defiant and ultra-erotic verse alongside issues of race and the politics of imprisonment. This is the first study to app...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book examines the post-1960s era of popular music in the Anglo-Black Atlantic through the prism of historical theory and methods. By using a series of case studies, this book mobilizes historical theory and methods to underline different express...

publisher: Springer
year: 2012
description:Surveying irreverent and controversial representations of the Holocaust - from Sylvia Plath and the Sex Pistols to Quentin Tarantino and Holocaust comedy - Matthew Boswell considers how they might play an important role in shaping our understanding o...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book proposes that new music technologies attract unconscious desires for socialism and collectivity, enabling millions of people living under capitalism to dream of repressed social alternatives. Grounded in the philosophical writings of Ernst ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2016
description:Unlike much of the literature on Venezuela in the Chávez period, this book shifts focus away from 'top down' perspectives to examine how Venezuelan folksinger Alí Primera (1942-1985) became intertwined with Venezuelan politics, both during his lif...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:What do millennial rappers in the United States say in their music? This timely and compelling book answers this question by decoding the lyrics of over 700 songs from contemporary rap artists. Using innovative research techniques, Matthew Oware reve...