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Classical music: contemporary perspectives and challenges
"This kaleidoscopic collection reflects on the multifaceted world of classical music as it advances through the twenty-first century. With insights drawn from leading composers, performers, academics, journalists, and arts administrators, special focus is placed on classical music’s defining traditions, challenges and contemporary scope. Innovative in structure and approach, the volume compri…
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- 9781800641150
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- XXXI, 199 p.
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- 780.903 CLA c
Music of the Baduy people of western Java : singing is a medicine
Music of the Baduy People of Western Java: Singing is a Medicine by Wim van Zanten is about music and dance of the indigenous group of the Baduy, consisting of about twelve-thousand people living in western Java. It covers music for rice rituals, for circumcisions and weddings, and music for entertainment. The book includes many photographs and several discussed audio-visual examples that can b…
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- 9789004444478
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- XXVII, 395 p.
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- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 313
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- 781.6259824 VAN m
Musical composition in the context of globalization : new perspectives on mus…
Since the early transformation of European music practice and theory in the cultural centers of Asia, Latin America, and Africa around 1900, music history has to be conceived globally - a challenge that musicology has hardly faced yet. This book discusses the effects of cultural globalization on processes of composition and distribution of art music in the 20th and 21st centuries. Christian Utz…
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- 9783839450956
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- 527 p.
- Series Title
- Musik und Klangkultur, 43
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- 780.905 UTZ m
Data loam: sometimes hard, usually soft, the future of knowledge systems
As a reaction to the dominant effect and interpretive authority of the digital, Data Loam combines radical approaches based on positions taken in the international practice of contemporary art. Previously: insistence on indexicality and the instrumental reduction of knowledge. Instead: a new metric that requires play, curiosity, experiment, and risk. As an urgent response to the continually …
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- Edition Angewandte
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- 9783110697841
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- 496 p.
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- 700 DAT d
Cultures of computer game concerns : the child across families, law, science …
The same computer games are played by youths all over the world, and worldwide games become matters of concern in relation to children: worries rise about addiction, violence, education, time, and economy. Yet, these concerns vary depending upon where they are situated: in families, legal contexts, industry or science. They also play out differently across countries and cultures. This situated …
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- 9783839439340
- Collation
- III, 355 p.
- Series Title
- VerKörperungen/MatteRealities - Perspektiven empirischer Wissenschaftsforschung, 23
- Call Number
- 794.8 CUL c
Knowing in performing: artistic research in music and the performing arts
How can performing be transformed into cognition? Knowing in Performing describes dynamic processes of artistic knowledge production in music and the performing arts. Knowing refers to how processual, embodied, and tacit knowledge can be developed from performative practices in music, dance, theatre, and film. By exploring the field of artistic research as a constantly transforming space for pa…
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- 9780429323058
- Collation
- 224 p.
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- Call Number
- 790.2 KNO K
Fashion, society and the first world war
The historiography of the Great War has been significantly renewed in recent years, yet, despite its crucial social, economic, and cultural importance, the role that fashion played in shaping wartime experiences and economies has not yet been addressed. This collection fills this gap in the literature by examining the impact the Great War had on fashion, its industry, and civilians in a transna…
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- 9781350119888
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- xxii, 330p.: ill.
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- 746.920904 FAS f
Animating Truth documentary and visual culture in the 21st century
Animating Truth examines the rise of animated documentary in the 21st century, and addresses how non-photorealistic animation is increasingly used to depict and shape reality.
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- 9781474463386
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- 791.4334 EHR a
Music - media - history : re-thinking musicology in an age of digital media
Music and sound shape the emotional content of audio-visual media and carry different meanings. This volume considers audio-visual material as a primary source for historiography. By analyzing how the same sounds are used in different media contexts at different times, the contributors intend to challenge the linear perspective of (music) history based on canonic authority. The book discusses A…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783839451458
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- 297 p.
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- 781 MUS m
Comics and videogames : from hybrid medialities to transmedia expansions
"This book offers the first comprehensive study of the many interfaces shaping the relationship between comics and videogames. It combines in-depth conceptual reflection with a rich selection of paradigmatic case studies from contemporary media culture. The editors have gathered a distinguished group of international scholars working at the interstices of comics studies and game studies to expl…
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- 9781003035466
- Collation
- XIII, 263 p.
- Series Title
- Routledge Advances in Game Studies
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- 794.8 COM c
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