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Music and Politics
This book is not about music or politics. It is about the 'and' that binds them together. How do these fields intersect, and what theories and approaches can help us understand their interactions? How have the relationships between music and politics changed over time and across cultures, and are the familiar tools we use in dealing with them fit for purpose? This book overhauls our understanding of how these fields interact, offering a rigorous reappraisal of key concepts such as power, protest, resistance, subversion, propaganda, and ideology. It explores and evaluates a wide range of perspectives from contemporary political theory, engaging with an array of musical cultures and practices from medieval chant to rap. In addition, it discusses current ways in which the relationships between music and politics are being reconfigured and reconceptualised. Where else can you find Donald Trump, Kendrick Lamar and Beethoven under one cover?
Music, Culture and Social Reform in the Age of Wagner
Challenging received views of music in nineteenth-century German thought, culture and society, this 2010 book provides a radical reappraisal of its socio-political meanings and functions. Garratt argues that far from governing the nineteenth-century musical discourse and practice, the concept of artistic autonomy and the aesthetic categories bequeathed by Weimar classicism were persistently challenged by alternative models of music's social role. The book investigates these competing models and the social projects that gave rise to them. It interrogates nineteenth-century musical discourse, discussing a wide range of manifestos championing musical democratization or seeking to make music an engine for the transformation of society. In addition, it explores institutions and movements that attempted to realize these goals, and compositions - by Mendelssohn, Lortzing and Liszt as well as Wagner - in which the relation between aesthetic and social claims is programmatic.
Let’s Talk REACH
REACH is an acronym: Relationships, Enjoyment, Achievements, Comfort and Health. Our lives revolve around our relationships, the things we enjoy, the things we try to achieve, the things that give us comfort, and our health, both physical and mental. In this thought provoking and life transforming book, James Garratt, author of REACH for Teenagers, offers an insight into some of the common issues related to REACH and encourages the reader to ask questions, make comments and engage in conversation. Let’s Talk REACH includes sixty-eight original poems and is written in a conversational style, making the content more accessible and memorable.
Design and Technology
Design and Technology is a colorful and stimulating textbook that includes a variety of practical projects with a design emphasis. Included within the text are nearly 700 drawings and photographs to explain procedures and clarify textual explanations, as well as batches of questions referring to both basic information and practical procedures.
Palestrina and the German Romantic Imagination
Focusing on the reception of Palestrina, this bold interdisciplinary study explains how and why the works of a sixteenth-century composer came to be viewed as a paradigm for modern church music. It explores the diverse ways in which later composers responded to his works and style, and expounds a provocative model for interpreting compositional historicism. In addition to presenting insights into the works of Bruckner, Mendelssohn and Liszt, the book offers fresh perspectives on the institutional, aesthetic and ideological frameworks sustaining the cultivation of choral music in this period. This publication provides an overview and analysis of the relation between the Palestrina revival and nineteenth-century composition and it demonstrates that the Palestrina revival was just as significant for nineteenth-century culture as parallel movements in the other arts, such as the Gothic revival.
REACH for Teenagers
REACH when all is said and doneThe teenage years are such a special time, when relationships of yours and mineReflect the qualities (or not) which can dictate our future lives or lot
The Cambridge Companion to Mendelssohn
This book surveys the life, work, and posthumous reception of nineteenth-century German-Jewish composer Felix Mendelssohn.
The Cambridge Companion to Music and Romanticism
A stimulating new approach to understanding the relationship between music and culture in the long nineteenth century.
Musical Vitalities
Does it make sense to refer to bird song—a complex vocalization, full of repetitive and transformative patterns that are carefully calculated to woo a mate—as art? What about a pack of wolves howling in unison or the cacophony made by an entire rain forest? Redefining music as “the art of possibly animate things,” Musical Vitalities charts a new path for music studies that blends musicological methods with perspectives drawn from the life sciences. In opposition to humanist approaches that insist on a separation between culture and nature—approaches that appear increasingly untenable in an era defined by human-generated climate change—Musical Vitalities treats music as one exampl...
Music and Politics
Changes our picture of how music and politics interact through a rigorous and wide-ranging reappraisal of the field.
