Tag: Music

Free Download Ralph Roberts, "Mastering Media with the Raspberry Pi: Media Centers, Music, High End Audio, Video, and Ultimate Movie Nights"
English | ISBN: 1484227271 | 2017 | 237 pages | AZW3 | 6 MB
Create and maintain Raspberry Pi-based entertainment systems in a comprehensive and fun manner. Instead of front-loading a bunch of theory and minutia, this book takes a more practical approach of showing what’s needed when it’s needed.

Free Download Joshua Tucker, "Making Music Indigenous: Popular Music in the Peruvian Andes "
English | ISBN: 022660733X | 2019 | 290 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB
When thinking of indigenous music, many people may imagine acoustic instruments and pastoral settings far removed from the whirl of modern life. But, in contemporary Peru, indigenous chimaycha music has become a wildly popular genre that is even heard in the nightclubs of Lima. In Making Music Indigenous, Joshua Tucker traces the history of this music and its key performers over fifty years to show that there is no single way to "sound indigenous." The musicians Tucker follows make indigenous culture and identity visible in contemporary society by establishing a cultural and political presence for Peru’s indigenous peoples through activism, artisanship, and performance. This musical representation of indigeneity not only helps shape contemporary culture, it also provides a lens through which to reflect on the country’s past. Tucker argues that by following the musicians that have championed chimaycha music in its many forms, we can trace shifting meanings of indigeneity-and indeed, uncover the ways it is constructed, transformed, and ultimately recreated through music.

Free Download Make Music with Pro Tools by Avid Technology
English | August 19, 2023 | ISBN: 1538175622 | 442 pages | MOBI | 31 Mb
Make Music with Avid Pro Tools introduces users to the power of Pro Tools software and marks the first steps toward developing core skills in audio production. The book covers the basic principles you’ll need to complete a Pro Tools project, from initial setup to final output, and it is designed for those who are new to professional audio production, as well as for experienced users who are unfamiliar with Pro Tools software.

Free Download Adriana N. Helbig, "Hip Hop Ukraine: Music, Race, and African Migration "
English | ISBN: 0253012007 | 2014 | 240 pages | AZW3 | 1222 KB
In Hip Hop Ukraine, we enter a world of urban music and dance competitions, hip hop parties, and recording studio culture to explore unique sites of interracial encounters among African students, African immigrants, and local populations in eastern Ukraine. Adriana N. Helbig combines ethnographic research with music, media, and policy analysis to examine how localized forms of hip hop create social and political spaces where an interracial youth culture can speak to issues of human rights and racial equality. She maps the complex trajectories of musical influence―African, Soviet, American―to show how hip hop has become a site of social protest in post-socialist society and a vehicle for social change.

Free Download Maria Razumovskaya, "Heinrich Neuhaus: A Life beyond Music "
English | ISBN: 1580469329 | 2018 | 268 pages | AZW3 | 12 MB
The first critical study of the life and distinctive artistic vision of Heinrich Neuhaus, a legendary pianist-pedagogue widely considered one of the leading shapers of the renowned Russian piano tradition.

Free Download James Revell Carr, "Hawaiian Music in Motion: Mariners, Missionaries, and Minstrels"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 025208019X, 0252038606 | PDF | pages: 241 | 2.2 mb
Hawaiian Music in Motion explores the performance, reception, transmission, and adaptation of Hawaiian music on board ships and in the islands, revealing the ways both maritime commerce and imperial confrontation facilitated the circulation of popular music in the nineteenth century. James Revell Carr draws on journals and ships’ logs to trace the circulation of Hawaiian song and dance worldwide as Hawaiians served aboard American and European ships. He also examines important issues like American minstrelsy in Hawaii and the ways Hawaiians achieved their own ends by capitalizing on Americans’ conflicting expectations and fraught discourse around hula and other musical practices.

Free Download Daniel Harrison, "Harmonic Function in Chromatic Music: A Renewed Dualist Theory and an Account of Its Precedents"
English | ISBN: 0226318087 | | 352 pages | PDF | 70 MB
The highly chromatic music of the late 1800s and early 1900s includes some of the best-known works by Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, Cesar Franck, and Hugo Wolf. Yet until now, the harmonic complexity of this repertory has resisted the analytic techniques available to music theorists and historians. In this book, Daniel Harrison builds on nineteenth-century music theory to provide an original and illuminating method for analyzing chromatic music.

Free Download Sasha Geffen, "Glitter Up the Dark: How Pop Music Broke the Binary "
English | ISBN: 147731878X | 2020 | 264 pages | AZW3 | 688 KB
From the Beatles to Prince to Perfume Genius, Glitter Up the Dark takes a historical look at the voices that transcended gender and the ways music has subverted the gender binary.

Free Download Mark Goodall, "Gathering of the Tribe: Music and Heavy Conscious Creation"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1900486857 | PDF | pages: 726 | 51.4 mb
From Mozart to Miles Davis, it is a matter of record that over many centuries composers and musicians have been consistently inspired by the occult. Few music lovers’ curiosity can fail to have been piqued by the rumours of magick and mysticism that surround many of their favourite records, and Mark Goodall’s Gathering of the Tribe: Music and Heavy Conscious Creation is a title capable of satisfying almost everyone. In chapters that range from ‘Jazz and the Spirit World’ to ‘Rock Music and the Occult’, Goodall sketches a fascinating overview of this intriguing and enduring relationship, offering en route a guide to the ultimate occult record collection, looking into some of the most brilliantly nefarious recordings and compositions of all time, ranging from the Beatles to the Stones, Led Zeppelin to Nick Cave, Captain Beefheart to the Wu Tang Clan, Debussy to Sun Ra, Throbbing Gristle, Charles Manson and many more. With further contributions from ― among others ― Mick Farren, David Kerekes and Mark Reeve, Gathering of the Tribe is looking like a definitive work on a hypnotising topic.

Free Download Robin D. Moore, "Fernando Ortiz on Music: Selected Writing on Afro-Cuban Culture "
English | ISBN: 1439911738 | 2018 | 292 pages | AZW3 | 3 MB
Fernando Ortiz (1881-1969) is recognized as one of the most influential Latin American authors of the twentieth century. Although he helped establish the field of Afro-diasporic studies, his writings are still relatively unknown to the English-speaking world. In Fernando Ortiz on Music, accomplished ethnomusicologist Robin Moore has collected and translated an essential selection of Ortiz’s publications. These essays on Afro-Cuban expressive culture, music and dance are now available for the first time in English.