Cosmik Debris

Author : Michael Broyles
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300127898
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mavericks and Other Traditions in American Music written by Michael Broyles and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From colonial times to the present, American composers have lived on the fringes of society and defined themselves in large part as outsiders. In this stimulating book Michael Broyles considers the tradition of maverick composers and explores what these mavericks reveal about American attitudes toward the arts and about American society itself. Broyles starts by examining the careers of three notably unconventional composers: William Billings in the eighteenth century, Anthony Philip Heinrich in the nineteenth, and Charles Ives in the twentieth. All three had unusual lives, wrote music that many considered incomprehensible, and are now recognized as key figures in the development of American music. Broyles goes on to investigate the proliferation of eccentric individualism in all types of American music—classical, popular, and jazz—and how it has come to dominate the image of diverse creative artists from John Cage to Frank Zappa. The history of the maverick tradition, Broyles shows, has much to tell us about the role of music in American culture and the tension between individualism and community in the American consciousness.

Author : Greg Russo
Publisher : CrossFire Pub.
ISBN 13 : 9780998355047
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cosmik Debris written by Greg Russo and published by CrossFire Pub.. This book was released on 2021-11-27 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of Frank Zappa.

Author : Kelly Fisher Lowe
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803260054
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Words and Music of Frank Zappa written by Kelly Fisher Lowe and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deep look at the work of one of the most insightful and incisive critics of late 20th-century American culture.

Author : Paul Carr
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317133153
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frank Zappa and the And written by Paul Carr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays, documented by an international and interdisciplinary array of scholars, represents the first academically focused volume exploring the creative idiolect of Frank Zappa. Several of the authors are known for contributing significantly to areas such as popular music, cultural, and translation studies, with expertise and interests ranging from musicology to poetics. The publication presents the reader with an understanding of the ontological depth of Zappa's legacy by relating the artist and his texts to a range of cultural, social, technological and musicological factors, as encapsulated in the book's title - Frank Zappa and the And. Zappa's interface with religion, horror, death, movies, modernism, satire, freaks, technology, resistance, censorship and the avant-garde are brought together analytically for the first time, and approached non chronologically, something that strongly complies with the non linear perspective of time Zappa highlights in both his autobiography and recordings. The book employs a variety of analytical approaches, ranging from literary and performance theory, 'horrality' and musicology, to post modern and textually determined readings, and serves as a unique and invaluable guide to Zappa's legacy and creative force.

Author : Alex DiBlasi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442229764
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Geek Rock written by Alex DiBlasi and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-08-14 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geek Rock: An Exploration of Music and Subculture examines the relationship between geek culture and popular music, tracing a history from the late 1960s to the present day. The term “geek rock” refers to forms of popular music that celebrate all things campy, kitschy, and quirky. In this collection of essays, contributors explore the evolution of this music genre, from writing songs about poodles, girls, monster movies, and outer space to just what it means to be “white and nerdy.” Editors Alex DiBlasi and Victoria Willis have gathered eleven essays from across the world, covering every facet of geek culture from its earliest influences, including Frank Zappa Captain Beefheart Devo They Might Be Giants Weird Al Yankovic Present-day advocates of “Nerdcore” Geek Rock offers a working history of this subgenre, which has finally begun to come under academic study. The essays take a variety of scholarly approaches, encompassing musicology, race, gender studies, sociology, and Lacanian psychoanalysis. Geek Rock will be of interest to readers of all backgrounds: music scholars, college and university professors, sociologists, and die-hard fans.

Author : Jonathan Powell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9783319510156
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cosmic Debris written by Jonathan Powell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-05-10 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the mysterious and the well-studied debris in Earth’s crowded neighborhood. From orbiting comets to the workings of the Asteroid Belt, and from meteor showers to our home-grown network of orbiting satellites, the full diversity of space objects and the debris they create is explored. Powell also discusses some of the current research techniques used to find potentially harmful rogue elements, with an emphasis on keeping watch for any objects that may intersect Earth’s orbit. Such bodies also impact other worlds, and much has been learned from observing these encounters. The information in this book is intended to foster thought about the universe in which we live, but without overloading its readers with numbers and lecture-room analysis. Like a good thriller, it allows its readers to pace themselves with the story and, by the end, encourages them to draw their own conclusions.

Author : John William Daniel Robinson
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789047285
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Famous for Fifteen People written by John William Daniel Robinson and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-29 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life and songs of singer-songwriter Momus during his time at Creation records and beyond. Momus - the stage name of musician Nicholas Currie - is one of the most prolific and talented indie songwriters of the last forty years. His work is controversial, influential and highly regarded. From aspiring indie pop star of the 1980s to Japanese chart success in the 1990s through many experimental works to the present day, he has been a constant in the search for intelligent, thinking person's pop. Jarvis Cocker asked him to produce his band Pulp, the NME memorably awarded his album "Hippopotamomus" 0/10, Creation Records dropped him when he proved too dangerous for them, and his more controversial work led to astounding legal tussles. His personal life has involved scandal and heartbreak and he lost an eye following an infection, resulting in his distinctive eye-patch. His songs including "The Hairstyle of the Devil", "The Guitar Lesson" and "I Want You but I Don't Need You" are acclaimed and have been covered by artists including Amanda Palmer and Steven Wilson.

Author : Thomas Robinson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315465272
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Popular Music Theory and Analysis written by Thomas Robinson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular Music Theory and Analysis: A Research and Information Guide uncovers the wealth of scholarly works dealing with the theory and analysis of popular music. This annotated bibliography is an exhaustive catalog of music-theoretical and musicological works that is searchable by subject, genre, and song title. It will support emerging scholarship and inquiry for future research on popular music.

Author : Cosmic Darren
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1456890743
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life During Wartime written by Cosmic Darren and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-06-13 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : C. Pangeran
Publisher : C.Pangeran
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book When You're Strange written by C. Pangeran and published by C.Pangeran. This book was released on with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It begins simply enough: A twenty-something unnamed character meets a transvestite angel and get an unbelievable task of finding an even more fishy character: A demon king with a plan to ruin human world. And then begin a magical, surreal, psychedelic & psychological quest where our quirky & strange protagonist meet a lot of stranger; a free spirit & pretty teenagers, a failed rock star/taxi driver, hippies uncle & what he think as Terrence McKenna-look-alike god. Who’s not love The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Ken Kesey & an altered state of consciousness experience?