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Food Preferences and Taste
An international team of contributors present cross-disciplinary perspectives on food preferences and tastes, showing the common themes of these fundamentals of human existence. A comprehensive introduction outlines the themes and the links between them.
Musicality in Theatre
As the complicated relationship between music and theatre has evolved and changed in the modern and postmodern periods, music has continued to be immensely influential in key developments of theatrical practices. In this study of musicality in the theatre, David Roesner offers a revised view of the nature of the relationship. The new perspective results from two shifts in focus: on the one hand, Roesner concentrates in particular on theatre-making - that is the creation processes of theatre - and on the other, he traces a notion of ‘musicality’ in the historical and contemporary discourses as driver of theatrical innovation and aesthetic dispositif, focusing on musical qualities, metapho...
Occult Aesthetics
Occult Aesthetics: Synchronization in Sound Film opens up an often-overlooked aspect of audiovisual culture which is crucial to the medium's powerful illusions. Author Kevin Donnelly contends that a film soundtrack's musical qualities can unlock the occult psychology joining sound and image, an effect both esoteric and easily destroyed.
Wagner and Cinema
The contributors discuss films ranging from the 1913 biopic of Wagner to Ridley Scott's Gladiator, with essays on silent cinema, film scoring, Wagner in Hollywood, German cinema, and Wagner beyond the soundtrack.
Music and Manipulation
Since the beginning of human civilization, music has been used as a device to control social behavior, where it has operated as much to promote solidarity within groups as hostility between competing groups. Music is an emotive manipulator that influences attitude, motivation and behavior at many levels and in many contexts. This volume is the first to address the social ramifications of music’s behaviorally manipulative effects, its morally questionable uses and control mechanisms, and its economic and artistic regulation through commercialization, thus highlighting not only music’s diverse uses at the social level but also the ever-fragile relationship between aesthetics and morality.
Melodramatic Voices: Understanding Music Drama
The genre of mélodrame à grand spectacle that emerged in the boulevard theatres of Paris in the 1790s - and which was quickly exported abroad - expressed the moral struggle between good and evil through a drama of heightened emotions. Physical gesture, mise en scène and music were as important in communicating meaning and passion as spoken dialogue. The premise of this volume is the idea that the melodramatic aesthetic is central to our understanding of nineteenth-century music drama, broadly defined as spoken plays with music, operas and other hybrid genres that combine music with text and/or image. This relationship is examined closely, and its evolution in the twentieth century in selected operas, musicals and films is understood as an extension of this nineteenth-century aesthetic. The book therefore develops our understanding of opera in the context of melodrama's broader influence on musical culture during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This book will appeal to those interested in film studies, drama, theatre and modern languages as well as music and opera.
Let the music play
Ob iPhone-Apps a la "Quizduell", Retro-Games wie "Pac-Man" oder aktuelle High-End-Produktionen: Digitale Spiele bedienten sich schon fast immer auditiver Elemente, die das Spielgeschehen unterstützen, kommentieren oder manipulieren. Dieses Buch verknüpft die aktuellen, transdisziplinären Diskurse rund um das Thema Game-Sound, beleuchtet die auditive Ebene digitaler Spiele hinsichtlich ihrer strukturellen Gestaltung und entwickelt Annahmen zur Wirkung auf den Spieler. Diese werden im Rahmen einer empirischen Untersuchung überprüft und die Ergebnisse im weiten Feld der Populärkulturforschung verortet.
Zwischen Kinosound und Game Audio
In den letzten Jahren hat sich die internationale Film- und Kinokultur grundlegend verändert. Der Wandel betrifft die Produktion und Distribution von Audiovisionen und damit auch die Praktiken im Kontext der künstlerisch-technischen Herstellung und Konsumption. Ebenso wurden Fachdiskurse erweitert, die dazu herausfordern, Musik und Film im Kontext von Medienbildung und Schule zeitgemäß zu vermitteln. Mit dem Titel Zwischen Kinosound und Game Audio wird eine historische Entwicklung angedeutet, welche die Medienvielfalt von Kino, TV, Video, Internet und Gaming hervorhebt. Ebenso wird die Vielschichtigkeit des Themenfelds aufgegriffen, insofern produktionstechnische und filmästhetische Entwicklungen (z.B. Filmtongestaltung, Sounddesign) verstärkt Eingang in den musik- und filmpädagogischen Diskurs erhalten haben. Im Rahmen einer solchen Konzeption, die auf eine interdisziplinäre Film-Musik-Literacy ausgerichtet ist, werden aber auch Aspekte berücksichtigt, die besonders für den schulischen Musikunterricht von Relevanz sind.
Unlimited Replays
Classical music is everywhere in video games. Works by composers like Bach and Mozart fill the soundtracks of games ranging from arcade classics, to indie titles, to major franchises like BioShock, Civilization, and Fallout. Children can learn about classical works and their histories from interactive iPad games. World-renowned classical orchestras frequently perform concerts of game music to sold-out audiences. But what do such combinations of art and entertainment reveal about the cultural value we place on these media? Can classical music ever be video game music, and can game music ever be classical? Delving into the shifting and often contradictory cultural definitions that emerge when classical music meets video games, Unlimited Replays offers a new perspective on the possibilities and challenges of trying to distinguish between art and pop culture in contemporary society.
Music and Change in the Eastern Baltics Before and After 1989
This volume provides a transnational study of the impact of musical cultures in the Eastern Baltics—Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, and Russia—at the end of the Cold War and in the early post-Communist period. Throughout the book, the contributors explore and conceptualize transnational musical collaboration and the diffusion of information, people, and ideas focusing on musical activity which shaped the moral and artistic outlook of several generations. The volume sheds light on the transformative power of politically and socially engaged music and offers a deeper understanding of the artistic potential of societies and its impact on social and political change.
