Tag: Music

Free Download Rafal Zaborowski, "Music Generations in the Digital Age: Social Practices of Listening and Idols in Japan "
English | ISBN: 9462985596 | 2023 | 226 pages | PDF | 1529 KB
What do we do when we listen? The act of engagement with music in everyday life may seem simple on the surface but participation, interpretation, circulation and cultural production in the digital age are more complex and entangled than ever before. It is especially so in Japan, with its vast multimedia idol and vocaloid industries. This unique ethnographic work at the intersection of cultural, media and music studies covers a wide spectrum of music-related activities embedded in the daily lives of two Japanese cohorts. The varied case studies, including teen idol groups and virtual idols, aid the detailed examination of the relation between music, generation, and society.

Free Download Katherine E. Krohn, "Michael Jackson: Ultimate Music Legend"
English | 2010 | pages: 52 | ISBN: 0761360026, 0761357629 | PDF | 2,2 mb
Biography of the life of entertainer Michael Jackson.

Free Download John Paul Braddock, "Mastering in Music "
English | ISBN: 0367227193 | 2020 | 302 pages | PDF | 11 MB
Mastering in Music is a cutting-edge edited collection that offers twenty perspectives on the contexts and process of mastering.

Free Download Charles Hoffer, "Introduction to Music Education, Fourth Edition Ed 4"
English | ISBN: 1478634073 | 2017 | 167 pages | PDF | 27 MB
The streamlined Fourth Edition of this widely adopted text introduces prospective school music teachers to the profession of music education by one of the field’s respected senior practitioners. In a warm, approachable style, Hoffer presents a working repertoire of concepts and general information, gets readers thinking about music teaching, and encourages them to examine themselves in terms of their future roles as educators in the field.

Free Download Michael Clarke, "Inside Computer Music"
English | ISBN: 0190659645 | 2020 | 432 pages | AZW3 | 3 MB
Inside Computer Music is an investigation of how new technological developments have influenced the creative possibilities of composers of computer music in the last 50 years. This book combines detailed research into the development of computer music techniques with nine case studies that analyze key works in the musical and technical development of computer music. The book’s companion website offers demonstration videos of the techniques used and downloadable software. There, readers can view interviews and test emulations of the software used by the composers for themselves. The software also presents musical analyses of each of the nine case studies to enable readers to engage with the musical structure aurally and interactively.

Free Download Iris M. Yob, "Humane Music Education for the Common Good "
English | ISBN: 0253046904 | 2020 | 298 pages | AZW3 | 1467 KB
Why teach music? Who deserves a music education? Can making and learning about music contribute to the common good? In Humane Music Education for the Common Good, scholars and educators from around the world offer unique responses to the recent UNESCO report titled Rethinking Education: Toward the Common Good. This report suggests how, through purpose, policy, and pedagogy, education can and must respond to the challenges of our day in ways that respect and nurture all members of the human family. The contributors to this volume use this report as a framework to explore the implications and complexities that it raises. The book begins with analytical reflections on the report and then explores pedagogical case studies and practical models of music education that address social justice, inclusion, individual nurturance, and active involvement in the greater public welfare. The collection concludes by looking to the future, asking what more should be considered, and exploring how these ideals can be even more fully realized. The contributors to this volume boldly expand the boundaries of the UNESCO report to reveal new ways to think about, be invested in, and use music education as a center for social change both today and going forward.

Free Download Alex Batterbee, "How to Succeed in the Music Business"
English | 2008 | pages: 208 | ISBN: 1844495086 | EPUB | 3,0 mb
The necessary guide for songwriters and performers. Chapters include: recording sessions, publishing, contracts, copyrights, royalties, and management.

Free Download Leon de Bruin, "Guerrilla Music: Musicking as Resistance, Defiance, and Subversion"
English | ISBN: 1666944033 | 2024 | 258 pages | EPUB, PDF | 7 MB + 2 MB
Guerrilla Music: Musicking as Resistance, Defiance, and Subversion explores human initiations and responses to music as a process and product intrinsically part of our culture, history, place, time and ecological musical worlds. The contributors challenge scholarly approaches wherein music is detached from the social relationships in which it is produced, transmitted, used and judged. ‘Guerrilla’ is a trope long applied to socio-political machinations, human conflict and confrontation. Guerrilla Music provocatively explores research involving music practices, stories, communities and musickers worldwide that resist, defy and subvert by silence and non-compliance, reluctant subordination, subversive depowering, resistive counterpoint, or destructive, violent dismantling. Contexts spanning the subcultural local, glocal and universal highlight the potency, passions, actions and life worlds of music, musicians and those that become engulfed in musical maelstroms that incite change. Guerrilla Music both invigorates and advances scholarly debates about social power, colonisation and difference by exploring the social semiotics of music making and communities, identifying powerful new ways of understanding human communication, and what musicking means in the twenty-first century.

Free Download John J. Sheinbaum, "Good Music: What It Is and Who Gets to Decide"
English | ISBN: 022659324X | 2018 | 320 pages | AZW3 | 1064 KB
Over the past two centuries Western culture has largely valorized a particular kind of "good" music-highly serious, wondrously deep, stylistically authentic, heroically created, and strikingly original-and, at the same time, has marginalized music that does not live up to those ideals.

Free Download Greil Marcus, "Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs"
English | ISBN: 0300255314 | 2022 | 288 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Acclaimed cultural critic Greil Marcus tells the story of Bob Dylan through the lens of seven penetrating songs