(Izdošanas datums: 11-Sep-2014, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199844814)
Watching Weimar Dance historicizes and theorizes the spectatorship of dances in and from interwar Germany - at home, on tour, and later returning from exile - developing a culturally-situated model of watching that not only offers a revisionist hist...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 11-Sep-2014, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199936892)
This book tells the history of sound machines through singers whose bodies and voices do not match. Jennifer Fleeger explores this phenomenon, moving from the fictional Trilby to the real-life Youtube star Susan Boyle, and demonstrating along the wa...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 04-Sep-2014, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199363032)
This book proposes a new concept - musical experience - as the most effective framework for navigating the shifting terrain of educational policy as it is applied to music education. It expands upon the dimensions of musical experience and provides,...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 28-Aug-2014, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199347841)
Sound Unseen explores the phenomenon of acousmatic sound-a sound that one hears without seeing its source-and presents a powerful argument for the central yet overlooked role of acousmatic sound in music aesthetics, sound studies, literature, philos...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 31-Jul-2014, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780195393613)
The most familiar format of electronic dance music is the DJ set. Performed live with turntables, headphones, twelve-inch vinyl records, and a mixing board, these performances are largely improvised, evolving in response to the demands of a particul...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 31-Jul-2014, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199973842)
Insightful, exuberant, and witty, Dangerous Rhythm offers a fresh, sometimes revolutionary take on a uniquely American institution: the movie musical. Combining chronicle with critique and analysis, award-winning historian Richard Barrios lays out t...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 26-Jun-2014, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199349678)
In late eighteenth-century Vienna and the Habsburg territories, over 50 minor-key symphonies were written. Their distinctive stormy character, nervous energy and intense pathos make them a unique phenomenon....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 26-Jun-2014, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199352173)
In response to increased focus on the preservation of intangible cultural heritage across the world, Music Endangerment offers the first practical approach to assessing, advocating, and assisting the sustainability of musical genres....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 19-Jun-2014, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199936182)
At the center of Bartóks oeuvre are his string quartets, which are generally acknowledged as some of the most significant pieces of 20th century chamber music. The String Quartets of Béla Bartók examines these remarkable works from a range of theor...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 05-Jun-2014, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199791767)
Jewish choreographers have not only been vital contributors to American modern and postmodern dance, but they have also played a critical and unacknowledged role in American Jewish culture. This book delineates this rich history, demonstrating how,...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 29-May-2014, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199366484)
Sounding American: Hollywood, Opera, and Jazz looks at the role played by 1920s musical shorts in crafting studio identity and establishing American film sound. It argues that the persistence of opera and jazz on the soundtrack during and after the...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-May-2014, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199773343)
Bachs Johannine Theology: The St. John Passion and the Cantatas for Spring 1725 is a fertile examination of this group of fourteen surviving liturgical works. Renowned Bach scholar Eric Chafe investigates Bachs theology with the composers St. Joh...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-May-2014, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199969968)
Video games open portals into fantastical worlds where imaginative play prevails. Sound Play explores the aesthetic, ethical, and sociopolitical stakes of peoples engagements with audio phenomena in video games-from sonic violence to synthesized op...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 08-May-2014, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199647019)
Do fictions depend upon imagination? Derek Matravers argues against the mainstream view that they do, and offers an original account of what it is to read, listen to, or watch a narrative. He downgrades the divide between fiction and non-fiction, la...Lasīt vairāk
