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Repeating Ourselves
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 297

Repeating Ourselves

Where did musical minimalism come from—and what does it mean? In this significant revisionist account of minimalist music, Robert Fink connects repetitive music to the postwar evolution of an American mass consumer society. Abandoning the ingrained formalism of minimalist aesthetics, Repeating Ourselves considers the cultural significance of American repetitive music exemplified by composers such as Terry Riley, Steve Reich, and Philip Glass. Fink juxtaposes repetitive minimal music with 1970s disco; assesses it in relation to the selling structure of mass-media advertising campaigns; traces it back to the innovations in hi-fi technology that turned baroque concertos into ambient "easy listening"; and appraises its meditative kinship to the spiritual path of musical mastery offered by Japan's Suzuki Method of Talent Education.

The Controversial Pardon of International Fugitive Marc Rich
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1182
Evolution of the Social Brain, from the Book Continuum
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 106

Evolution of the Social Brain, from the Book Continuum

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Roman Military Records on Papyrus
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 594

Roman Military Records on Papyrus

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1971
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Strange You Never Knew
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 97

Strange You Never Knew

The thematic motif found within these poems is one of "knowing": the desire to know the mystery of love in its many forms and depths. Examining daily living, this book's four-section poem sequence is one of immersion into the paradoxical life; familiar yet filled with inexplicable beauty. As it investigates displacement from family, from love, and from self, this compilation discovers that the mundane transpires in an austere and holy place peopled with angels unaware, that faith can exist in a place of stone--absolution is available daily--and that redemption is found in strange places.

Vietnam
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 212

Vietnam

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Justice Undone
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1276

Justice Undone

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Relentless Pursuit of Tone
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 410

The Relentless Pursuit of Tone

The Relentless Pursuit of Tone: Timbre in Popular Music assembles a broad spectrum of contemporary perspectives on how "sound" functions in an equally wide array of popular music. Ranging from the twang of country banjoes and the sheen of hip-hop strings to the crunch of amplified guitars and the thump of subwoofers on the dance floor, this volume bridges the gap between timbre, our name for the purely acoustic characteristics of sound waves, and tone, an emergent musical construct that straddles the borderline between the perceptual and the political. Essays engage with the entire history of popular music as recorded sound, from the 1930s to the present day, under four large categories. "Ge...

Register of Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the United States Navy and Reserve Officers on Active Duty
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1156