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The personality cult of Stalin in Soviet posters, 1929-1953 : archetypes, inv…
From 1929 until 1953, Iosif Stalin’s image became a central symbol in Soviet propaganda. Touched up images of an omniscient Stalin appeared everywhere: emblazoned across buildings and lining the streets; carried in parades and woven into carpets; and saturating the media of socialist realist painting, statuary, monumental architecture, friezes, banners, and posters. From the beginning of the …
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- 13
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- 9781760460624
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- xii, 500
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Musicality of a Literary Work
This book represents an attempt to capture different links between modern literature and music. The author examines strict intertextual correlations, the phenomena of musicality and musicality of literary works, the musical structure in literature, so-called musical literary texts. He focuses on the novel Le Cœur absolu by Philippe Sollers, the poem Todesfuge by Paul Celan, the Preludio e Fugh…
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- Volume 57
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- 9783653047769
- Collation
- 244p. : ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 780.08 AND m
Musical Gentrification : Popular Music, Distincion and Social Mobility
Musical Gentrification is an exploration of the role of popular music in processes of socio-cultural inclusion and exclusion in a variety of contexts. Twelve chapters by international scholars reveal how cultural objects of relatively lower status, in this case popular musics, are made objects of acquisition by subjects or institutions of higher social status, thereby playing an important role …
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- -
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- 9780429325076
- Collation
- x, 185p
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- -
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- 780 MUS m
The Illiterate Listener : On Music Cognition, Musicality and Methodology
We have known for some time that babies possess a keen perceptual sensitivity for the melodic, rhythmic and dynamic aspects of speech and music: aspects that linguists are inclined to categorize under the term ‘prosody’, but which are in fact the building blocks of music. Only much later in a child’s development does he make use of this ‘musical prosody’, for instance in delineating a…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789048526987
- Collation
- 25p.: ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 781.11 HEN t
Craft + design enquiry: issue 4, 2012 relational craft and design
craft + design enquiry is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal promoting and disseminating research excellence generated by and about the craft and design sector. craft + design enquiry investigates the contribution that contemporary craft and design makes to society, establishing a dialogue between craft and design practice and cultural, social and environmental concerns. It includes submissi…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 1837-445X
- Collation
- 150 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 745.099405 HAW c
Contemporary Asian art and exhibitions: connectivities and world-making
“… a diverse and stimulating group of essays that together represents a significant contribution to thinking about the nascent field of contemporary Asian art studies … Contemporary Asian Art and Exhibitions: Connectivities and World-making … brings together essays by significant academics, curators and artist working in Australia, Asia and the United Kingdom that reflect on contemporar…
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- -
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- 9781925022001
- Collation
- 278 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 709.5 ANT c
Evaluation and Credentialing in Digital Music Communities : Benefits and Chal…
An examination of the use of digital badges as a reward for both casual online music evaluators and professional musicians.Professional and amateur musicians alike use social media as a platform for showcasing and promoting their music. Social media evaluation practices—rating, ranking, voting, “liking,” and “friending” by ordinary users, peers, and critics—have become essential pro…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262527149
- Collation
- 113 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 780.2854678 LIA E
New sounds, new stories : narrativity in contemporary music
When listeners talk about their listening experiences, they often refer to music as if it were a narrative. But can music actually tell a story? Can music be narrative? Traditionally, narrativity is associated with verbal and visual texts, and the mere possibility of musical narrativity is highly debated. In this study, Vincent Meelberg demonstrates that music can indeed be narrative, and that …
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- -
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- 9789087280024
- Collation
- 268 hlm
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- -
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- 146 VIN n
Pedigree and Panache: A History of the Art Auction in Australia
Art auctions have long captured the public imagination. They regularly make news headlines and have become synonymous with glamour, money and social distinction. The marketing of auction houses and the works they sell has resulted in firms attaining authoritative positions and the ability both to influence and reflect collecting tastes. Pedigree and Panache is the first comprehensive history of…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781921313721
- Collation
- 254 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 702.994 HUD p
Hesychasm and Art : The Appearance of New Iconographic Trends in Byzantine an…
“Although many of the iconographic traditions in Byzantine art formed in the early centuries of Christianity, they were not petrified within a time warp. Subtle changes and refinements in Byzantine theology did find reflection in changes to the iconographic and stylistic conventions of Byzantine art. This is a brilliant and innovative book in which Dr Anita Strezova argues that a religious…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781925021851
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- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 759.022.STR
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