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Gendering Musical Modernism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 221

Gendering Musical Modernism

This book explores the work of three significant American women composers of the twentieth century: Ruth Crawford, Marion Bauer and Miriam Gideon. It offers information on both their lives and music and skillfully interweaves history and musical analysis in ways that both the specialist and the more general reader will find compelling. Ellie Hisama suggests that recognising the impact of a composer's identity on the music itself imparts valuable ways of hearing and understanding these works and breaks important new ground towards constructing a feminist music theory.

The Oxford Handbook of Critical Concepts in Music Theory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 849

The Oxford Handbook of Critical Concepts in Music Theory

Music Theory operates with a number of fundamental terms that are rarely explored in detail. This book offers in-depth reflections on key concepts from a range of philosophical and critical approaches that reflect the diversity of the contemporary music theory landscape.

Ask the Experts
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 277

Ask the Experts

  • Categories: Art

This text tells a new story about patterns of public and private grantmaking from the 1950s to the 1970s, a period during which the United States witnessed a remarkable expansion in arts patronage. Through archival documents, oral history, and ethnographic material, author Michael Sy Uy offers an in-depth analysis of grant-making practices, and highlights important and instructive issues concerning philanthropy, arts patronage, and musical production and consumption.

Rethinking Difference in Music Scholarship
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 451

Rethinking Difference in Music Scholarship

This major essay collection takes a fresh look at how differences among people matter for music and musical thought.

Critical Minded
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 164

Critical Minded

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This collection of eight critical essays from New York-based writers surveys an assortment of musicians and styles. Exploring diverse topics ranging from hip hop's New York migrations to its twenty-first century journeys across the globe, this volume provides vibrant perspectives on hip hop from its beginnings to the present.

Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers: Concert Music, 1900DS1960
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 297

Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers: Concert Music, 1900DS1960

"This is the second of four volumes in a multi-authored series of analytical essays on music by women composers from Hildegard of Bingen to the twenty-first century. Volume 2 presents detailed studies of compositions written between 1900 and 1960 by Alma Mahler-Werfel, Rebecca Clarke, Ethel Smyth, Ruth Crawford, Florence B. Price, Galina Ustvolskaya, J. M. Beyer, and Peggy Glanville-Hicks. Each chapter opens with a brief biographical sketch of the composer, followed by an in-depth analysis of a single representative composition, occasionally including other works where comparison strengthens the analytical argument. The repertoire explored by the authors includes art song, opera, choral, sol...

Ruth Crawford Seeger's Worlds
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 334

Ruth Crawford Seeger's Worlds

Offers fresh perspectives on the life and pioneering musical activities of American composer and folk music activist Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-53). This book presents a collection of studies that reveals how innovation and tradition intertwined in surprising ways to shape the cultural landscape of twentieth-century America.

Music, Power, and Politics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 295

Music, Power, and Politics

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004-12-22
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Essays by scholars from around the world explore the means by which music's long-acknowledged potential to persuade, seduce, indoctrinate, rouse, incite, or even silence listeners has been used to advance agendas of power and protest.

Sounding Together
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 376

Sounding Together

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-08-16
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  • Publisher: Unknown

How collaboration can address the challenges facing music scholarship in the Twenty-First Century

What Is Post-Punk?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 237

What Is Post-Punk?

Is post-punk a genre? Where did it come from? And what does it mean?