Community musicians move in many diverse settings, and facilitate local music activities in a wide array of community contexts including schools, hospitals, places of worship, music festivals, and prisons. Underscoring the importance of active participation and sensitivity to co…
"This volume brings together DeNora's work published between 1986 and 2007. It includes thirteen essays, some of which have had a major impact on the field. The chapters trace the development of her work from its early concern with musical meaning, historical ethnography and the…
This volume brings together DeNora's work published between 1986 and 2007. It includes thirteen essays, some of which have had a major impact on the field. The chapters trace the development of her work from its early concern with musical meaning, historical ethnography and the …
Words and notes in the long nineteenth century
Contributors to the volume engage in two dialogues: with nineteenth-century conceptions of word-music relations, and with each other. Criss-crossing disciplinary boundaries, the authors of the book's eleven essays address new questions relating to listening, imagining and perfor…
Focuses on the emerging synergies of music and digital technology within the new knowledge economies. Drawing on a range of musical genres from jazz, heavy metal, hip-hop and trance, and case studies reflecting on the work of professional and local amateur artists, this book off…
Forfatteren beskriver rockmusikken som et politisk fænomen med en vigtig plads i massekulturen, og dens betydning som identitetsskabende, både for individet og for gruppen
From Janis Joplin to P.J. Harvey, Women and popular music explores the changing role of women musicians and the ways in which their songs resonate in popular culture. Through a series of artist case studies Sheila Whiteley examines the interaction between feminist debates and mu…
Clearly technology has added a "voice" to music, but how does that voice affect the traditional human craftsmanship of music? In other words, can the music created still be called one's own? In "Strange Sounds", Timothy Taylor addresses the anxieties provoked by technology's rol…