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Bad Music


Bad Music
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Author : Christopher J. Washburne
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-04-15

Bad Music written by Christopher J. Washburne and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-15 with Music categories.


Why are some popular musical forms and performers universally reviled by critics and ignored by scholars-despite enjoying large-scale popularity? How has the notion of what makes "good" or "bad" music changed over the years-and what does this tell us about the writers who have assigned these tags to different musical genres? Many composers that are today part of the classical "canon" were greeted initially by bad reviews. Similarly, jazz, country, and pop musics were all once rejected as "bad" by the academy that now has courses on these and many other types of music. This book addresses why this is so through a series of essays on different musical forms and performers. It looks at alternate ways of judging musical performance beyond the critical/academic nexus, and suggests new paths to follow in understanding what makes some music "popular" even if it is judged to be "bad." For anyone who has ever secretly enjoyed ABBA, Kenny G, or disco, Bad Music will be a guilty pleasure!



Bad Music


Bad Music
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Author : Christopher J. Washburne
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-01-11

Bad Music written by Christopher J. Washburne and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-11 with Music categories.


Why are some popular musical forms and performers universally reviled by critics and ignored by scholars-despite enjoying large-scale popularity? How has the notion of what makes "good" or "bad" music changed over the years-and what does this tell us about the writers who have assigned these tags to different musical genres? Many composers that are today part of the classical "canon" were greeted initially by bad reviews. Similarly, jazz, country, and pop musics were all once rejected as "bad" by the academy that now has courses on these and many other types of music. This book addresses why this is so through a series of essays on different musical forms and performers. It looks at alternate ways of judging musical performance beyond the critical/academic nexus, and suggests new paths to follow in understanding what makes some music "popular" even if it is judged to be "bad." For anyone who has ever secretly enjoyed ABBA, Kenny G, or disco, Bad Music will be a guilty pleasure!



Bad Music


Bad Music
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Author : James Whitehead
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
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Bad Music written by James Whitehead and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.




Bad Vibrations


Bad Vibrations
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Author : Dr James Kennaway
language : en
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2012-08-01

Bad Vibrations written by Dr James Kennaway and has been published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-01 with Music categories.


Music has been used as a cure for disease since as far back as King David's lyre, but the notion that it might be a serious cause of mental and physical illness was rare until the late eighteenth century. At that time, physicians started to argue that excessive music, or the wrong kind of music, could over-stimulate a vulnerable nervous system, leading to illness, immorality and even death. Since then there have been successive waves of moral panics about supposed epidemics of musical nervousness, caused by everything from Wagner to jazz and rock 'n' roll. It was this medical and critical debate that provided the psychiatric rhetoric of "degenerate music" that was the rationale for the persecution of musicians in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. By the 1950s, the focus of medical anxiety about music shifted to the idea that "musical brainwashing" and "subliminal messages" could strain the nerves and lead to mind control, mental illness and suicide. More recently, the prevalence of sonic weapons and the use of music in torture in the so-called War on Terror have both made the subject of music that is bad for the health worryingly topical. This book outlines and explains the development of this idea of pathological music from the Enlightenment until the present day, providing an original contribution to the history of medicine, music and the body.



Dave Barry S Book Of Bad Songs


Dave Barry S Book Of Bad Songs
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Author : Dave Barry
language : en
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Release Date : 2012-11-06

Dave Barry S Book Of Bad Songs written by Dave Barry and has been published by Andrews McMeel Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-06 with Humor categories.


The humorist asked his readers to share their least favorite tunes and chronicles the hilarious responses. When funnyman Dave Barry asked readers about their least favorite tunes, he thought he was penning just another installment of his weekly syndicated humor column. But the witty writer was flabbergasted by the response when over 10,000 readers voted. “I have never written a column that got a bigger response than the one announcing the Bad Song Survey,” Barry wrote. Based on the results of the survey, Dave Barry’s Book of Bad Songs is a compilation of some of the worst songs ever written. Dave Barry fans will relish his quirky take. Music buffs too will appreciate this humorous stroll through the world’s worst lyrics. The only thing wrong with this book is that readers will find themselves unable to stop mentally singing the greatest hits of Gary Puckett. Praise for Dave Barry’s Book of Bad Songs “Barry is his usual puckish self, but the real surprise here is how funny many of the survey respondents are.” —Kirkus Reviews “Who can resist such a book?” —Publishers Weekly



Popular Music Gender And Postmodernism


Popular Music Gender And Postmodernism
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Author : Neil Nehring
language : en
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Release Date : 1997-03-20

Popular Music Gender And Postmodernism written by Neil Nehring and has been published by SAGE Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-03-20 with Education categories.


The migration of cynical academic ideas about postmodernism into music journalism are traced in this book. The result of this migration is a widespread fatalism over the ability of the music industry to absorb any expression of defiance in popular music. The book synthesizes a number of fields: American and British academic and journalistic music criticism; aesthetic and literary history and theory from romanticism through postmodernism; alternative music such as feminist punk and grunge; political economy, which has fueled the obsession with commercial incorporation; and subcultural sociology.



Hindu Music


Hindu Music
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1875

Hindu Music written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1875 with Hindu music categories.




Frog Music


Frog Music
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Author : Emma Donoghue
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2014-03-27

Frog Music written by Emma Donoghue and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-27 with Fiction categories.


Inspired by a true unsolved crime, Frog Music is a gripping historical novel by Emma Donoghue, author of the multi-million-copy bestseller Room. San Francisco, 1876: a stifling heat wave and smallpox epidemic have engulfed the City. Deep in the streets of Chinatown live three former stars of the Parisian circus: Blanche, now an exotic dancer at the House of Mirrors, her lover Arthur and his companion Ernest. When an eccentric outsider joins their little circle, secrets unravel, changing everything – and leaving one of them dead. A New York Times bestseller, Frog Music is a dark and compelling story of intrigue and murder.



The Musical World


The Musical World
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1888

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Musical News


Musical News
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1893

Musical News written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1893 with Music categories.