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Free Download Touraj Kiaras and Persian Classical Music: An Analytical Perspective By Owen Wright
2009 | 148 Pages | ISBN: 0754663280 | PDF | 5 MB
In this book Owen Wright analyses a single recording of classical Persian music made by Touraj Kiaras, a distinguished singer, accompanied by four noted instrumentalists. The format of the recording is typical of a public concert performance, and thus includes instrumental compositions as well as a central exploration of vocal repertoire and technique. The analysis identifies salient structural features, whether of the individual components or of the whole, in a way accessible to the western reader, but it also takes account of the analytical metalanguage used in Persian scholarship, and includes consideration of the relationship between music and poetry. It is important to note that it is also guided by the perceptions of the performer, whose input and responses to questions have significantly influenced the enterprise. To avoid the dryly impersonal, the analysis is also framed by an introduction which combines a biographical sketch of Touraj Kiaras with a survey of the twentieth-century evolution of Persian classical music and of the position of the vocal repertoire within it, and by an epilogue which examines further the ideological basis of prevalent attitudes to music, and seeks to explore the validity of the analytical enterprise within this context.

Free Download The Making of Latin London: Salsa Music, Place and Identity By Patria Román-Velázquez
1999 | 176 Pages | ISBN: 1840148810 | PDF | 10 MB
This book focuses on how Latin American people and cultural practices have moved from one continent to another, and specifically to London. How do Latin Americans experience such a process and what part do different people play in the re-making of Latin identities in the neighbourhoods, parks, bars and dance clubs of London? Through a critical engagement with theories of globalization, the geography of power, cultural identity and the transformation of places, the book explores how the formation of Latin identities is directly related to wider social, economic and political processes. Drawing on the voices of migrant peoples, community activists, shop owners, sports organizers, club owners, dancers, dance teachers, musicians and disc jockeys, the book argues that the micro movements of people – through a shopping mall or across a dance floor in a club – are directly connected to global processes involving the regulated movement of citizens, sounds and images across national boundaries and through cities.

Free Download Rachel Wenrick, Desmond Tutu, "Spirit Rising: My Life, My Music"
English | 2014 | pages: 256 | ISBN: 0062071793 | EPUB | 12,5 mb
Grammy Award-winning singer Angélique Kidjo is known for her electrifying voice and fearless advocacy work. In this intimate memoir, she reveals how she escaped Communist Africa to make her dreams a reality, and how she’s prompting others all around the world to reach for theirs as well.

Free Download Steve Kilbey, "Something Quite Peculiar: the Church. The Music. The Mayhem"
English | 2014 | pages: 305 | ASIN: B074Y3X132 | EPUB | 14,6 mb
Come inside the world of Steve Kilbey singer songwriter and bassist of one of Australia’s best loved bands, The Church. From his migrant ten pound pom childhood through his adolescence growing up during the advent of The Beatles, Dylan and The Stones to his early adventures in garage bands and neighbourhood jams. His misadventures with a full time job and a 9 to 5 life and wild adventures with The Church as they conquer Australia and then the world. The tours. The records. The women. And then the heroin addiction which enslaved him for ten long years. Then the two sets of twins he fathers along the way and branching off into acting, painting and writing. From snowy Sweden to a cell in New York City, from Ipanema beach to Bondi, Kilbey stumbles through his surrrealistic life as an idiot savant that will make you smile as well as want to kick him up the arse. After coming out the other side his tale is simply too good not to be told. Narrated with unusual and often pristine clarity we and with much focus on his considerable musical talent.

Free Download Music, Gestalt, and Computing: Studies in Cognitive and Systematic Musicology By Marc Leman
1997 | 530 Pages | ISBN: 3540635262 | PDF | 35 MB
This book presents a coherent state-of-the-art survey on the area of systematic and cognitive musicology which has enjoyed dynamic growth now for many years. It is devoted to exploring the relationships between acoustics, human information processing, and culture as well as to methodological issues raised by the widespread use of computers as a powerful tool for theory construction, theory testing, and the manipulation of musical information or any kind of data manipulation related to music.

Free Download Music Theory and Analysis in the Writings of Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) By Norton Dudeque
2005 | 274 Pages | ISBN: 0754641392 | PDF | 12 MB
This book provides an historical and theoretical assessment of Arnold Schoenberg’s theory of music. Norton Dudeque’s achievement in this volume involves the synthesis of Schoenberg’s theoretical ideas from the whole of the composer’s working life, includi

Free Download Kentucky’s Bluegrass Music By James C. Claypool
2010 | 128 Pages | ISBN: 143962609X | EPUB | 43 MB
It is likely that most fans of bluegrass music would concede that no state should be more associated with bluegrass music than Kentucky-and rightly so. Bluegrass music draws its name from the band that Kentuckian Bill Monroe formed during the late 1930s and 1940s. Bill named his band Bill Monroe and The Blue Grass Boys to honor his home state. Eventually, the music these bands and others like them were playing came to be known as bluegrass music. Later, another Kentuckian, Ebo Walker, while playing with the Bowling Green-based bluegrass band, New Grass Revival, coined the phrase "newgrass" to describe the band’s progressive style of music. Other Kentuckians such as Bobby and Sonny Osborne, J. D. Crowe, Ricky Skaggs, and Dale Ann Bradley have become bluegrass stars. Some of the musicians from Kentucky covered in this book are quite famous-some are not. Famous or not, all of them have a deep-rooted passion for the music they play.

Free Download Hello, Hello Brazil: Popular Music in the Making of Modern Brazil By Bryan McCann
2004 | 312 Pages | ISBN: 0822332841 | PDF | 2 MB
"Hello, hello Brazil" was the standard greeting Brazilian radio announcers of the 1930s used to welcome their audience into an expanding cultural marketplace. New genres like samba and repackaged older ones like choro served as the currency in this marketplace, minted in the capital in Rio de Janeiro and circulated nationally by the burgeoning recording and broadcasting industries. Bryan McCann chronicles the flourishing of Brazilian popular music between the 1920s and the 1950s. Through analysis of the competing projects of composers, producers, bureaucrats, and fans, he shows that Brazilians alternately envisioned popular music as the foundation for a unified national culture and used it as a tool to probe racial and regional divisions.McCann explores the links between the growth of the culture industry, rapid industrialization, and the rise and fall of Getúlio Vargas’s Estado Novo dictatorship. He argues that these processes opened a window of opportunity for the creation of enduring cultural patterns and demonstrates that the understandings of popular music cemented in the mid-twentieth century continue to structure Brazilian cultural life in the early twenty-first.

Free Download Christopher T. Conner, "Electronic Dance Music: From Deviant Subculture to Culture Industry "
English | ISBN: 1793620393 | 2023 | 150 pages | EPUB, PDF | 13 MB + 2 MB
Electronic Dance Music: From Deviant Subculture to Culture Industry explores the subculture’s emergence as a deviant subculture. This text analyzes how industry professionals, fans, and public officials helped usher in a new age of EDM, arguing that while the defining features of the subculture made it attractive, they also laid the foundations for outsiders to commodify the movement as a culture industry. Conner and Dickens explore the concept of "commodified resistance" as the mechanism by which the movement’s politically dissident features were removed and its place as a multi-billion-dollar industry made possible. Ultimately, this text advocates the continued utility of the culture industry thesis through an empirical analysis of the EDM subculture.

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Moogerfooger Effects Plug-ins bring the legendary tone, musicality, and interconnectivity of the original hardware effects to your digital music production environment.