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5 produkter

1. 

   Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning

   Av Daniel Chua, Jeffrey Kallberg m. fl.

   Häftad, 2006

   435 kr

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   This book is born out of two contradictions: first, it explores the making of meaning in a musical form that was made to lose its meaning at the turn of the nineteenth century; secondly, it is a history of a music that claims to have no history - absolute music. The book therefore writes against …

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   The Free Fantasia and the Musical Picturesque

   Av Annette Richards, Jeffrey Kallberg m. fl.

   Häftad, 2006

   955 kr

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   A crucial category across all the arts in the late eighteenth century, the picturesque has lost its currency in modern musical criticism, in spite of its rich potential to shed new light on the fantastical elements of instrumental music in general and the genre of the free fantasia in particular. …

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   Music and the Origins of Language

   Theories from the French Enlightenment

   Av Downing A. Thomas, Jeffrey Kallberg m. fl.

   Häftad, 2006

   804 kr

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   The search for the origins of language was one of the most pressing philosophical issues of the eighteenth century. What has often escaped notice, however, is the fact that music figures prominently in this search. This study analyses instances of thinking or reasoning about music and music theory …

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   Rap Music and the Poetics of Identity

   Av Adam Krims, Jeffrey Kallberg m. fl.

   Inbunden, 2000

   2029 kr

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   This is the first book to discuss in detail how rap music is put together musically and how it contributes to the formation of cultural identities for both artists and audiences. It also argues that current skeptical attitudes toward music analysis in popular music studies are misplaced and need to …

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   Music and the Aesthetics of Modernity

   Essays

   Av Karol Berger, Anthony Newcomb

   Inbunden, 2005

   315 kr

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   For most music historians, the modernism of the twentieth century was until recently the only appearance of the "modern" in music. The widely perceived recent decline of musical modernism makes it now possible to see the modernism of the twentieth century as a chapter in a much longer story, the …