Musical Encounters With Dying

Author : Islene Runningdeer
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0857007483
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Musical Encounters with Dying written by Islene Runningdeer and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music therapy can be a profound physical, emotional and spiritual support at the end of life. This book looks at a wide variety of cases, explaining how music therapy can be used effectively. It highlights particular components of working with this group, such as creating a therapeutic relationship, helping patients to reach final goals, working within cultural contexts and dealing with difficult emotions, all within the parameters of the musical experience. It also explores the unique needs of people with disabilities or mental illness, and how to support the families of the dying. Therapeutic and philosophical insights related to the dying process are included. This will be a supportive and insightful guide for anyone working with people who are at the end of life, especially music therapists and other complementary therapists, caregivers, hospice workers and medical professionals.

Author : Pirkko Moisala
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501316761
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Musical Encounters with Deleuze and Guattari written by Pirkko Moisala and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first volume to mobilize encounters between the work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari and the rich developments in cultural studies of music and sound. The book takes seriously the intellectual and political challenge that the process philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari poses for previous understandings of music as permanent objects and primarily discursive texts. By elaborating on the concepts of Deleuze and Guattari in innovative ways, the chapters of the book demonstrate how musical and sonic practices and expressions can be reconsidered as instances of becoming, actors in assemblages, and actualizations of virtual tendencies. The collection pushes notions of music and sound beyond such long-term paradigms as identity thinking, the privileging of signification, and the centrality of the human subject. The chapters of the volume bring a range of new topics and methodological approaches in contact with Deleuze and Guattari. These span from movement improvisation, jazz and western art music studies, sound and performance art and reality TV talent shows to deaf musicians and indigenous music. The book also highlights such fresh ways of doing analysis and shaping the methodological tools of music and sound studies that are enabled by Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy. Their philosophy, too, gains renewed capacities and potential when responding to ethnographic, cultural, ethnomusicological, participatory, aesthetic, new materialist, feminist and queer perspectives to music and sound.

Author : Annegret Fauser
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1580461859
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Musical Encounters at the 1889 Paris World's Fair written by Annegret Fauser and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2005 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1889 Exposition universelle in Paris is famous as a turning point in the history of French music, and modern music generally. This book explores the ways in which music was used, exhibited, listened to, and written about during the Exposition universelle. It also reveals the sociopolitical uses of music in France during the 19th century.

Author : C. Thomas Perry
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1503509230
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dying to Be Alive written by C. Thomas Perry and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-09-14 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dying to be Alive is the first hand account of an incredible experience. In 2008 the author suffered a heart attack and found himself in an ambulance, blacking out and in immediate danger of death. He describes the experience of being in the presence of angels, engaged in conversation with Jesus and then being offered the choice to return to life on earth or to continue living in heaven. The story does not stop there. He traces the intervention of God on his life as he recounts the journey through life that saw him threatened by a cult and suffering the death of his brain-injured daughter. This is a story of life and death that extends well beyond our routine earthly existence and offers an intriguing glimpse into the timeless realm of eternity. This book offers more than a story. It opens the way to an encounter with heaven that reaches from beyond this world deep into the heart and soul.

Author : Clifton D. Bryant
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 0761925147
Total Pages : 1146 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Death and Dying written by Clifton D. Bryant and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2003 with total page 1146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Review: "More than 100 scholars contributed to this carefully researched, well-organized, informative, and multi-disciplinary source on death studies. Volume 1, "The Presence of Death," examines the cultural, historical, and societal frameworks of death, such as the universal fear of death, spirituality and varioius religions, the legal definition of death, suicide, and capital punishment. Volume 2, "The Response to Death," covers such topics as rites and ceremonies, grief and bereavement, and legal matters after death."--"The Top 20 Reference Titles of the Year," American Libraries, May 2004.

Author : Nicholas Cook
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197663982
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music, Encounter, Togetherness written by Nicholas Cook and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Western musical thought tends to represent music as a thing--a pattern, a structure, even an organism--than as a human practice. Music, Encounter, Togetherness focusses on music as something people do, as a mode of encounter between individuals and cultures, and as an agent of interpersonal and social togetherness. It presents music as a utopian dimension of everyday life.

Author : Annegret Fauser
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351541471
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Musical Identity written by Annegret Fauser and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the way in which composers, performers, and critics shaped individual and collective identities in music from Europe and the United States from the 1860s to the 1950s. Selected essays and articles engage with works and their reception by Richard Wagner, Georges Bizet (in an American incarnation), Lili and Nadia Boulanger, William Grant Still, and Aaron Copland, and with performers such as Wanda Landowska and even Marilyn Monroe. Ranging in context from the opera house through the concert hall to the salon, and from establishment cultures to counter-cultural products, the main focus is how music permits new ways of considering issues of nationality, class, race, and gender. These essays - three presented for the first time in English translation - reflect the work in both musical and cultural studies of a distinguished scholar whose international career spans the Atlantic and beyond.

Author : Mervyn McLean
Publisher : Department of Anthropology University of Auckland
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oceanic Music Encounters written by Mervyn McLean and published by Department of Anthropology University of Auckland. This book was released on 2007 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mervyn Evan McLean, teacher, mentor, researcher and archivist, is the worthy recipient of this set of essays. Oceanic Music Encounters - the Print Resource and the Human Resource. The authors include colleagues and former students of an academic who was a practising ethnomusicologist only three years after the term was coined. Although most of his university career was spent at the University of Auckland, Mervyn's influence in the fields of Pacific music research and archiving were such that the contributions in this volume arc the result of both distant reputation and personal acquaintance. The volume is the product of the Study Group on Musics of Oceania within the International Council for Traditional Music, of which Mervyn has been a member for many years. The volume title is intended to encompass the span of Mervyn's professional interests, which include the role of archives in Oceanic music research and performance; material culture collections in music research and performance; the role of transcription in music research and performance; the importance of bibliographic research in tracing the connections between the past and the present; the significance of collaboration in research, particularly with scholars in other disciplines, and its significance to performance; and the colonial encounter and its implications for historical and contemporary performance.

Author : Marie Josephine Bennett
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838679456
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music and Death written by Marie Josephine Bennett and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music is often our companion when dealing with the incomprehensibility of loss. This edited collection speaks to the multifarious and complex ways in which music accompanies, supplements, and complements aspects of death and dying, whether this is the death of a loved one, or a celebrity from popular culture.

Author : Helen Dell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315302098
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Singing Death written by Helen Dell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death is an unanswerable question for humanity, the question that always remains unanswered because it lies beyond human experience. Music represents one of the most profound ways in which humanity struggles, nevertheless, to accommodate death within the scope of the living by giving a voice to death and the dead and a voice that responds. This book engages with the question of how music expresses and responds to the profound existential disturbance that death and loss present to the living. Each chapter offers readers an encounter with music as a way of speaking or responding to human mortality. Each chapter, in its own way, addresses these questions: How are death and the dead made present to us through music? How does music, as composed, performed and heard, respond to the brute fact of death for the living, the dying and the bereaved? These questions are addressed from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives: musicology, ethnomusicology, literature, history, philosophy, film studies, psychology and psychoanalysis. Singing Death also covers a wide range of musical genres from medieval love song to twenty-first-century horror film music. The collection is accompanied by a website including some of the music associated with each of its chapters.