Americas Musical Landscape

Author : Jean Ferris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781264296088
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America's musical landscape written by Jean Ferris and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this book America's Musical Landscape, 9e, basic musical terms and concepts is introduced using selected examples of outstanding American music"--

Author : Jean Ferris
Publisher : WCB/McGraw-Hill
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America's Musical Landscape written by Jean Ferris and published by WCB/McGraw-Hill. This book was released on 1993 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text addresses the broad range of music in the United States from early periods to today, presenting this rich tapestry of sound in its historical and cultural context. Its reasonable length, readability, and logical organization make the text a useful and attractive means of furthering appreciation of the musical heritage of the United States. Frequent connections to other arts, particularly the visual arts, add to the book's appeal and enhance understanding of core musical concepts. The text also offers an elegant and readable introduction to the fundamentals of music. To order the text packaged with a set of three CDs of recorded examples, at a discounted price, use ISBN 0-07-304387-7.

Author : Jean Ferris
Publisher : WCB/McGraw-Hill
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America's Musical Landscape written by Jean Ferris and published by WCB/McGraw-Hill. This book was released on 1993 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text addresses the broad range of music in the United States from early periods to today, presenting this rich tapestry of sound in its historical and cultural context. Its reasonable length, readability, and logical organization make the text a useful and attractive means of furthering appreciation of the musical heritage of the United States. Frequent connections to other arts, particularly the visual arts, add to the book's appeal and enhance understanding of core musical concepts. The text also offers an elegant and readable introduction to the fundamentals of music. To order the text packaged with a set of three CDs of recorded examples, at a discounted price, use ISBN 0-07-304387-7.

Author : Katie Rios
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793619174
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book “This Is America” written by Katie Rios and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In“This Is America”: Race, Gender, and Politics in America’s Musical Landscape, Katie Rios argues that prominent American artists and musicians build encoded gestures of resistance into their works and challenge the status quo. These artists offer both an interpretation and a critique of what “This Is America” means. Using Childish Gambino’s video for “This Is America” as a starting point, Rios considers how elements including clothing, hairstyles, body movements, gaze, lighting effects, distortion, and word play symbolize American dissonance. From Laurie Anderson’s presence in challenging authority and playing with traditional gender roles in her works, to the Black female feminism and social activism of Beyoncé, Rhiannon Giddens, and Janelle Monáe, to hip hop as resistance in the age of Trump, to sonic and visual variety in the musical Hamilton, the subjects are as powerful as they are topical. Rios explores the ways in which artists relate to and represent underrepresented groups, especially groups that are not traditionally perceived as having a majority voice. The encoded resistances recur across performances and video recordings so that they begin to become recognizable as repeated acts of resistance directed at injustices based on a number of categories, including race, gender, class, religion, and politics.

Author : Bill Banfield
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0585464162
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Musical Landscapes in Color written by Bill Banfield and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sequel to the award-winning The Black Composer Speaks (Scarecrow Press, 1978), this exploration of the creative world of African American composers traces the lives and careers of 40 talented individuals and, in their own words, provides perspectives on a world that has been slow to recognize their remarkable contributions to classical music. The discussion places the music of these composers within the greater context of Western art music, but analyzes it through the lenses of sociology, Western concepts of art and taste, and vernacular musical forms, including spirituals, blues, jazz, and contemporary popular music. Each chapter is devoted to an individual composer, who discusses his or her musical training, compositional techniques and style, and the composer's personal philosophy as reflected in his or her music. A selected list of compositions for each composer is included, as well as a photo and sample of the composer's "hand." Banfield offers unprecedented insight into the history and influence of the African American composer with this documentary, which will appeal to everyone from the music scholar to the general reader.

Author : Jean Ferrie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780072475227
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America's Musical Landscape written by Jean Ferrie and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Crawford
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393048100
Total Pages : 1000 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America's Musical Life written by Richard Crawford and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2001 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated history of America's musical heritage ranges from the earliest examples of Native American traditional song to the innovative sound of contemporary rock and jazz.

Author : James Corner
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300086962
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taking Measures Across the American Landscape written by James Corner and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographs and essays express "the way the American landscape has been forged by various cultures in the past and what the possibilities are for its future design."--Jacket.

Author : David Roberts
Publisher : Ovolo Publishing, Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781905959976
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rock Atlas USA written by David Roberts and published by Ovolo Publishing, Limited. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organized by state, a guide to 650 locations in the United States associated with rock music.

Author : Michael P. Conzen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317793692
Total Pages : 805 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Making of the American Landscape written by Michael P. Conzen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 805 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only compact yet comprehensive survey of environmental and cultural forces that have shaped the visual character and geographical diversity of the settled American landscape. The book examines the large-scale historical influences that have molded the varied human adaptation of the continent’s physical topography to its needs over more than 500 years. It presents a synoptic view of myriad historical processes working together or in conflict, and illustrates them through their survival in or disappearance from the everyday landscapes of today.