A Philosophy Of Song And Singing

Author : Jeanette Bicknell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317653130
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Philosophy of Song and Singing written by Jeanette Bicknell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Philosophy of Song and Singing: An Introduction, Jeanette Bicknell explores key aesthetic, ethical, and other philosophical questions that have not yet been thoroughly researched by philosophers, musicologists, or scientists. Issues addressed include: The relationship between the meaning of a song’s words and its music The performer’s role and the ensuing gender complications, social ontology, and personal identity The performer’s ethical obligations to audiences, composers, lyricists, and those for whom the material holds particular significance The metaphysical status of isolated solo performances compared to the continuous singing of opera or the interrupted singing of stage and screen musicals Each chapter focuses on one major musical example and includes several shorter discussions of other selections. All have been chosen for their illustrative power and their accessibility for any interested reader and are readily available.

Author : Bob Dylan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451648723
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Modern Song written by Bob Dylan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan’s first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Volume One—and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers his extraordinary insight into the nature of popular music. He writes over sixty essays focusing on songs by other artists, spanning from Stephen Foster to Elvis Costello, and in between ranging from Hank Williams to Nina Simone. He analyzes what he calls the trap of easy rhymes, breaks down how the addition of a single syllable can diminish a song, and even explains how bluegrass relates to heavy metal. These essays are written in Dylan’s unique prose. They are mysterious and mercurial, poignant and profound, and often laugh-out-loud funny. And while they are ostensibly about music, they are really meditations and reflections on the human condition. Running throughout the book are nearly 150 carefully curated photos as well as a series of dream-like riffs that, taken together, resemble an epic poem and add to the work’s transcendence. In 2020, with the release of his outstanding album Rough and Rowdy Ways, Dylan became the first artist to have an album hit the Billboard Top 40 in each decade since the 1960s. The Philosophy of Modern Song contains much of what he has learned about his craft in all those years, and like everything that Dylan does, it is a momentous artistic achievement.

Author : Jeanette Bicknell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317653122
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Philosophy of Song and Singing written by Jeanette Bicknell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Philosophy of Song and Singing: An Introduction, Jeanette Bicknell explores key aesthetic, ethical, and other philosophical questions that have not yet been thoroughly researched by philosophers, musicologists, or scientists. Issues addressed include: The relationship between the meaning of a song’s words and its music The performer’s role and the ensuing gender complications, social ontology, and personal identity The performer’s ethical obligations to audiences, composers, lyricists, and those for whom the material holds particular significance The metaphysical status of isolated solo performances compared to the continuous singing of opera or the interrupted singing of stage and screen musicals Each chapter focuses on one major musical example and includes several shorter discussions of other selections. All have been chosen for their illustrative power and their accessibility for any interested reader and are readily available.

Author : J. Bicknell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023023383X
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why Music Moves Us written by J. Bicknell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-04-08 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music has extraordinary power to move us, but how and why does it affect us? What is going on, emotionally, physically and cognitively when listeners have strong emotional responses to music? This is a highly readable, original and philosophically important book for anyone who has ever been moved by music.

Author : Jerrold Levinson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019966966X
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Musical Concerns written by Jerrold Levinson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a new collection of essays on music by Jerrold Levinson, one of the most prominent philosophers of art today. The essays are wide-ranging and represent some of the most stimulating work being done within analytic aesthetics. Three of the essays are previously unpublished, and four of them focus on music in the jazz tradition.

Author : David James Elliott
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195334043
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music Matters written by David James Elliott and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is music significant in life and education? What shall we teach? How? To whom? Where and when? The praxial philosophy espoused in Music Matters: A Philosophy of Music Education offers an integrated sociocultural, artistic, participatory, and ethics-based concept of the natures and values of musics, education, musicing and listening, community music, musical understanding, musical emotions, creativity, and more. Embodied-enactive concepts of action, perception, and personhood weave through the book's proposals. Practical principles for curriculum and instruction emerge from the authors' praxial themes.

Author : Clara Kathleen Rogers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Singing written by Clara Kathleen Rogers and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Desmond Manderson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520216881
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Songs Without Music written by Desmond Manderson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-10-03 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a series of reflections on the aesthetic dimensions of law (how it is presented and conveyed to its subjects) and justice (the ways in which justice can be aesthetically satisfying or dissatisfying).

Author : James Rovira
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319726889
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rock and Romanticism written by James Rovira and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-29 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rock and Romanticism: Post-Punk, Goth, and Metal as Dark Romanticisms explores the relationships among the musical genres of post-punk, goth, and metal and American and European Romanticisms traditionally understood. It argues that these contemporary forms of music are not only influenced by but are an expression of Romanticism continuous with their eighteenth- and nineteenth-century influences. Figures such as Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, Friedrich, Schlegel, and Hoffman are brought alongside the music and visual aesthetics of the Rolling Stones, the New Romantics, the Pretenders, Joy Division, Nick Cave, Tom Verlaine, emo, Eminem, My Dying Bride, and Norwegian black metal to explore the ways that Romanticism continues into the present in all of its varying forms and expressions.

Author : Kathleen Marie Higgins
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226333272
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Music between Us written by Kathleen Marie Higgins and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Higgins’ love of music and cultural variety is evident throughout. She writes in a relaxed, accessible, sophisticated style…Highly recommended.”—Choice From our first social bonding as infants to the funeral rites that mark our passing, music plays an important role in our lives, bringing us closer to one another. In this book, philosopher Kathleen Marie Higgins investigates this role, examining the features of human perception that enable music’s uncanny ability to provoke—despite its myriad forms across continents and throughout centuries—the sense of a shared human experience. Drawing on disciplines such as philosophy, psychology, musicology, linguistics, and anthropology, Higgins’s richly researched study showcases the ways music is used in rituals, education, work, and healing, and as a source of security and—perhaps most importantly—joy. By participating so integrally in such meaningful facets of society, Higgins argues, music situates itself as one of the most fundamental bridges between people, a truly cross-cultural form of communication that can create solidarity across political divides. Moving beyond the well-worn takes on music’s universality, The Music between Us provides a new understanding of what it means to be musical and, in turn, human. “Those who, like Higgins, deeply love music, actually know something about it, have open minds and ears, and are willing to look beyond the confines of Western aesthetics…will find much to learn in The Music between Us.”—Journalof Aesthetics and Art Criticism