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Higher education as context for music pedagogy research
"This anthology presents music pedagogical research as a field of integrated reflection that transcends institutional and disciplinary barriers. The anthology aims to reinforce thinking, knowledge development and collaboration in the broad landscape of music pedagogical research and education. The authors are associated with performance music education, pre-service and in-service teacher educat…
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- 9788202696979
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- 392 p.
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- MusPed:Research, 2
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- 378 HIG h
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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- 9783839451458
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- 297 p.
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- 781 MUS m
Popular music and public diplomacy : transnational and transdisciplinary pers…
In the early years of the Cold War, Western nations increasingly adopted strategies of public diplomacy involving popular music. While the diplomatic use of popular music was initially limited to such genres as jazz, the second half of the 20th century saw a growing presence of various popular genres in diplomatic contexts, including rock, punk, reggae, and hip-hop. This volume illuminates the…
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- 9783839443583
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- 328 p.
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- 306.4842 POP p
Sonic modernities in the Malay world : a history of popular music, social dis…
Sonic Modernities situates Southeast Asian popular music in specific socio-historical settings, hoping that a focus on popular culture and history may shed light on how some people in a particular part of the world have been witnessing the emergence of all things modern. In its focus on pioneering artists, their creative use of new genres and border crossing technologies it aims at a rewriting …
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- 9789004261778
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- 338 p.; 22 cm.
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- 781.63 SON s
Musical haptics
This Open Access book offers an original interdisciplinary overview of the role of haptic feedback in musical interaction. Divided into two parts, part I examines the tactile aspects of music performance and perception, discussing how they affect user experience and performance in terms of usability, functionality and perceived quality of musical instruments. Part II presents engineering, compu…
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- 9783319583167
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- xv, 285p. : ill.
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- 004.77 MUS m
Music learning with massive open online courses (MOOCs)
"Massive Open Online Courses, known as MOOCs, have arisen as the logical consequence of marrying long-distance education with the web and social media. MOOCs were confidently predicted by advanced thinkers decades ago. They are undoubtedly here to stay, and provide a valuable resource for learners and teachers alike.This book focuses on music as a domain of knowledge, and has three objectives: …
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- 9781614995937
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- XII, 252 p.
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- 780.71 MUS m
Popular music in Southeast Asia : banal beats, muted histories
From the 1920s on, popular music in Southeast Asia was a mass-audience phenomenon that drew new connections between indigenous musical styles and contemporary genres from elsewhere to create new, hybrid forms. This book presents a cultural history of modern Southeast Asia from the vantage point of popular music, considering not just singers and musicians but their fans as well, showing how the …
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- 9789462984035
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- 104p. : ill.
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- 781.630959 BAR p
Can music make you sick? : measuring the price of musical ambition
“Musicians often pay a high price for sharing their art with us. Underneath the glow of success can often lie loneliness and exhaustion, not to mention the basic struggles of paying the rent or buying food. Sally Anne Gross and George Musgrave raise important questions – and we need to listen to what the musicians have to tell us about their working conditions and their mental health.” Em…
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- 9781912656615
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- XI, 186 p.
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- 781.59 ANN c
Curating contemporary music Festivals : a new perspective on music's mediation
Contemporary music, like other arts, is dealing with the rise of »curators« laying claim to everything from festivals to playlists - but what are they and what do they do anyway? Drawing from backgrounds ranging from curatorial studies to festival studies and musicology, Brandon Farnsworth lays out a theory for understanding curatorial practices in contemporary music, and how they could be a …
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- 9783839452431
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- 326 p.
- Series Title
- Musik und Klangkultur, 47
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- 780.7 FAR c
Sung tales from the Papua New Guinea highlands studies in form, meaning, and …
The genres of sung tales that are the subject of this volume are one of the most striking aspects of the cultural scene in the Papua New Guinea Highlands. Composed and performed by specialist bards, they are a highly valued art form. From a comparative viewpoint they are remarkable both for their scale and complexity, and for the range of variation that is found among regional genres and indivi…
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- 9781921862212
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- 330 p.; 22 cm.
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- 781.629912 SUN s
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