California Polyphony
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California Polyphony
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Author : Mina Yang
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2010-10-01
California Polyphony written by Mina Yang and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-01 with Music categories.
What does it mean to be Californian? To find out, Mina Yang delves into multicultural nature of musics in the state that has launched musical and cultural trends for decades. In the early twentieth century, an orientalist fascination with Asian music and culture dominated the popular imagination of white Californians and influenced their interactions with the Asian Other. Several decades later, tensions between the Los Angeles Police Department and the African American community made the thriving jazz and blues nightclub scene of 1940s Central Avenue a target for the LAPD's anti-vice crusade. The musical scores for Hollywood's noir films confirmed reactionary notions of the threat to white female sexuality in the face of black culture and urban corruption while Mexican Americans faced a conflicted assimilation into the white American mainstream. Finally, Korean Americans in the twenty-first century turned to hip-hop to express their cultural and national identities. A compelling journey into the origins of musical identity, California Polyphony explores the intersection of musicology, cultural history, and politics to define Californian.
Folk Song Style And Culture
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Author : Alan Lomax
language : en
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
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Polyphonic Minds
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Author : Peter Pesic
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2022-09-13
Polyphonic Minds written by Peter Pesic and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-13 with Music categories.
An exploration of polyphony and the perspective it offers on our own polyphonic brains. Polyphony—the interweaving of simultaneous sounds—is a crucial aspect of music that has deep implications for how we understand the mind. In Polyphonic Minds, Peter Pesic examines the history and significance of “polyphonicity”—of “many-voicedness”—in human experience. Pesic presents the emergence of Western polyphony, its flowering, its horizons, and the perspective it offers on our own polyphonic brains. When we listen to polyphonic music, how is it that we can hear several different things at once? How does a single mind experience those things as a unity (a motet, a fugue) rather than an incoherent jumble? Pesic argues that polyphony raises fundamental issues for philosophy, theology, literature, psychology, and neuroscience—all searching for the apparent unity of consciousness in the midst of multiple simultaneous experiences. After tracing the development of polyphony in Western music from ninth-century church music through the experimental compositions of Glenn Gould and John Cage, Pesic considers the analogous activity within the brain, the polyphonic “music of the hemispheres” that shapes brain states from sleep to awakening. He discusses how neuroscientists draw on concepts from polyphony to describe the “neural orchestra” of the brain. Pesic’s story begins with ancient conceptions of God’s mind and ends with the polyphonic personhood of the human brain and body. An enhanced e-book edition allows the sound examples to be played by a touch.
The Saint Martial Polyphony
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Author : Jens Bonderup
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
The Saint Martial Polyphony written by Jens Bonderup and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Church music categories.
Extreme Exoticism
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Author : W. Anthony Sheppard
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2019-09-20
Extreme Exoticism written by W. Anthony Sheppard and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-20 with Music categories.
To what extent can music be employed to shape one culture's understanding of another? In the American imagination, Japan has represented the "most alien" nation for over 150 years. This perceived difference has inspired fantasies--of both desire and repulsion--through which Japanese culture has profoundly impacted the arts and industry of the U.S. While the influence of Japan on American and European painting, architecture, design, theater, and literature has been celebrated in numerous books and exhibitions, the role of music has been virtually ignored until now. W. Anthony Sheppard's Extreme Exoticism offers a detailed documentation and wide-ranging investigation of music's role in shaping American perceptions of the Japanese, the influence of Japanese music on American composers, and the place of Japanese Americans in American musical life. Presenting numerous American encounters with and representations of Japanese music and Japan, this book reveals how music functions in exotic representation across a variety of genres and media, and how Japanese music has at various times served as a sign of modernist experimentation, a sounding board for defining American music, and a tool for reshaping conceptions of race and gender. From the Tin Pan Alley songs of the Russo-Japanese war period to Weezer's Pinkerton album, music has continued to inscribe Japan as the land of extreme exoticism.
Converting California
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Author : James A. Sandos
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2004-01-01
Converting California written by James A. Sandos and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-01 with History categories.
This book is a compelling and balanced history of the California missions and their impact on the Indians they tried to convert. Focusing primarily on the religious conflict between the two groups, it sheds new light on the tensions, accomplishments, and limitations of the California mission experience. James A. Sandos, an eminent authority on the American West, traces the history of the Franciscan missions from the creation of the first one in 1769 until they were turned over to the public in 1836. Addressing such topics as the singular theology of the missions, the role of music in bonding Indians to Franciscan enterprises, the diseases caused by contact with the missions, and the Indian resistance to missionary activity, Sandos not only describes what happened in the California missions but offers a persuasive explanation for why it happened.
The Polyphony Of Saint Martial And Santiago De Compostela Edition
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Author : Theodore Karp
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
The Polyphony Of Saint Martial And Santiago De Compostela Edition written by Theodore Karp and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Music categories.
The Polyphonic Period Method Of Musical Art 330 1330
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Author : Harry Ellis Wooldridge
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1901
The Polyphonic Period Method Of Musical Art 330 1330 written by Harry Ellis Wooldridge and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1901 with Music categories.
Two Part Polyphony Of The Renaissance
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Author :
language : el
Publisher:
Release Date : 1946
Two Part Polyphony Of The Renaissance written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1946 with Choruses, Unaccompanied categories.
French And English Polyphony Of The 13th And 14th Centuries
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Author : Ernest H. Sanders
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-05-29
French And English Polyphony Of The 13th And 14th Centuries written by Ernest H. Sanders and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-29 with Music categories.
First published in 1998, this volume brings together the most part of the author’s work on medieval polyphony. The most significant advance in music during the period in the High Gothic was the development of a system of rhythm and of its notation, the modern understanding of which was to a considerable extent obscured by an undue emphasis on the so-called rhythmic modes. The investigation of this topic forms the centre of this book, and a related essay deals with rhythmic Latin poetry. Other pieces survey the accomplishments of Europe’s first great composer and the flourishing of the medieval motet, whose rise he stimulated, while several essays focus on English polyphony, and on what remains of the motets of Philippe de Vitry, a major figure in Parisian intellectual circles of the 14th century.