This open access book offers an introduction to the field of the environmental humanities in India. The environmental humanities, often referred to as 'EH', are a multifaceted, relatively new, and swiftly evolving field of scholarship that integrates the theories and approaches of various disciplines - from anthropology, art, communications, cultural studies, philosophy and ecology to history, literature, media, music, performance, politics, sociology, theology and theater. Practitioners of this considerably integrative and widely ranging field aim to address and, in certain cases, confront today's urgent ecological and cultural challenges, namely climate change, urban sustainability, biodiversity conservation, species decline, energy policy, the exigencies of the Anthropocene, environmental activism, and Indigenous peoples' justice. Although the environmental humanities have been relatively slow to gain traction in South Asia, an increasing momentum towards transdisciplinary approaches to ecology and sustainability is palpable in India. Comprising fourteen chapters, this contributed volume is the first major publication to call attention to current work in the environmental humanities in India. The volume foregrounds particular ecohumanist theories and methodologies evolving from Indian biocultural contexts. Towards this aim, the book consists of four thematic sections: Indigenous Perspectives: Conservation, Spirituality, and Language; Theoretical Grounding: Education, Law, and Ethics; Literary Formulations: Memoir, Parable, and Storyworlds; and Popular Narratives: Myth, Travel, and Music. The volume is of interest to undergraduates, postgraduates, early career scholars, and more established researchers in the environmental humanities and the allied fields of ecopoetics, ecocriticism, ecomusicology, environmental art, cultural ecology, postcolonial studies, and South Asian studies.This is an open access book.
Friends and collaborators, musician Daniel Avery and photographer Keffer present Techno Is Boring, a book that collects a decade of work chronicling club culture in visceral form. Intimate black-and-white portrayals transfer the energy, joy and humour of life thriving in the smallest hours, whether in vast festival tents, perspiring discotheques or animated backstage spaces. Across over 80 photos taken at legendary European venues including DC10, Robert Johnson, Rex Club and The Warehouse Project, a curious and impulsive lens is discreetly drawn to ravers in the crowd, strange sights on the periphery of the dance, as well as the pleasure and absurdities of touring life. Shooting far beyond the DJ booth, Techno Is Boring melts down the barrier between performer and crowd, portraying an authentic continuum of community as ecstasy. The wide-ranging collection of work is accompanied by short written essays and notes from Avery and fellow DJ, writer and collaborator John Loveless.
This stunning publication offers the first full examination of the priceless scores at the heart of The Juilliard School's unparalleled collection that has supported the education of performing artists for more than a century.Richly illustrated and elegantly designed, this volume highlights treasures including the final manuscript of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, with extensive revisions, corrections and alterations by the composer; the autographed manuscript of the final scene of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro; an extensively worked and autographed manuscript of the first movement of Mahler's Ninth Symphony; Igor Stravinsky's published scores with his own annotations; and holographs of Ysaÿe's violin sonatas.Accessible essays delve into the amazing stories behind the unique autographed manuscripts, sketches, engravers proofs and first editions by Bach, Brahms, Schumann and others, written by scholars and performers who intimately know these materials and convey their importance to music scholarship and the history of the performing arts.
This is a book about how rock music has served as inspiration for many important Colombian literary works since its inception in the 1960s.
This book explores rock and pop music lyrics of the last seventy years to elucidate a broad spectrum of themes about the collective human experience.
Pandemic Playlist explores a selection of popular music recorded in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, analyzing songs by Bono, Cardi B, Kid Rock, Van Morrison, Juvenile and many more. Through rhetorical analysis of these songs, Kevin Farrell considers how the pandemic shaped the music of 2020, 2021, and beyond.
This book examines Chicago's controversial Drill rap scene, emphasizing both the technology that allows Drill rappers to gain visibility through exploitation of stereotypes and the social processes through which Drill rappers and cultural workers organize themselves around platforms.
Harry Styles is a multi-platinum recording artist, film actor, and a fashion icon whose rise to fame took him from a reality show to becoming one of the most globally recognized celebrities of his generation. Now his fans of all ages can express their creativity and put their knowledge to the test with the Super Fabulous Harry Styles Coloring & Activity Book. Commemorate Harry's most iconic performances and appearances in 30 amazingly realistic coloring pages. And whether your fandom alliance is with the "Harries" or "Stylers", you are sure to enjoy the challenge of solving a variety of Harry-themed games, puzzles, and quizzes inspired by his legendary career. Throughout you'll learn more fun-facts and "Harry-isms" on the back of each detachable coloring page including how his song, Treat People with Kindness (TPWK) has become a movement to promote acceptance and diversity. Round out your Harry Styles experience and enjoy the array of beautiful photographs of Harry Styles through the years.
This book, the first to look at Avison's music in depth, examines the influences on Avison and the circumstances around the composition of his music. It draws heavily upon his important treatise, An Essay on Musical Expression, and other writings, to look at how closely he adheres to his musical aesthetics.
In association with an international touring exhibition and coinciding with what would have been Bob Marley's eightieth birthday, Dennis Morris marks the first full-career retrospective for this groundbreaking photographer.
This irreverent musical memoir is a heady journey from the imagined mountains of rural Illinois to the grime of the Windy City, and onto the subterranean sonic landscapes of Japan and the UK. Psychedelic svengali Plastic Crimewave is creator of the celebrated hallucinogenic Galactic Zoo Dossier 'zine and the 20-years-running Secret History of Chicago Music column in the Chicago Reader-not to mention acid-punkin' bandleader, conductor of guitar orchestras, and booker of the international-freak-spanning Million Tongues festivals. Tune out, turn on, and drop in for decadent tales of rock gods, folk legends, underground underdogs, avant garde gurus, mass murderers, tours gone wrong, and working in a record shop in ye olde edgy 90s and beyond. Includes personal photos and artwork/ephemera from the PCW archives.
Peter Crowley, the music curator of Max's Kansas City, tells it like it is in his first volume of stories. A teenage runaway from Vermont who has seen it all from the West Village in the 1960s to the color sound of California to managing and booking bands during the punk explosion of the 1970s. Like a beer for a breakfast, a reflection on what it was really like to be there (you know where). From someone who was.
Drawing on the author's four decades of experience as a concert oboist, this open access book studies a number of foundational issues in the philosophy of music, such as musical meaning and expression, musical ontology and the existence of the musical work, the relation between music and language, and the phenomenology of music. The book surveys the development of Western classical music from the Baroque era through to the 20th century, both from the perspective of contemporary Lithuanian philosophers such as Girnius, Maceina, ¿liogeris, and Jack¿nas, and 20th century European philosophy. In addition to discussing key questions in the philosophy of music, the book also analyses technical musical terms such as articulation, phrasing, and rhythm.
This book considers how music can transport listeners beyond themselves. Both music and the Spirit operate between languages and cultures, between desires and longings, between the visible and invisible, and between the deep and near. Thus, the Spirit, through music, unites and gathers communities, revealing new possibilities.
Sometimes acclaimed as Scotland's finest-ever singer-songwriter, Gerry Rafferty was born in 1947. After developing a passion for several genres of popular music during childhood, from traditional folk and classical to rock'n'roll and the early 1960s beat boom, he played in a couple of bands during his teens.
In great detail, this book discusses the Californication album's writing and recording processes, the stories behind every song- including the B-sides and unreleased material, the ensuing world tour, and the legacy the record has left behind.
A fascinating look at the world of sound engineering during a time of huge technological change. Of interest to all music fans, but the author worked with bands as diverse as Yes, Thin Lizzy, Tina Turner, Elton John and Def Leppard. Producers that the author worked with include Trevor Horn, Tony Visconti and Frank Zappa.
Thisbook analyses all of Porcupine Tree's studio albums and Eps, including thehugely successful reunion album Closer/Continuation, in forensic detail,providing illuminating insight into the band's music for existing and new fansalike.
Part memoir, part music biography, Days and Days chronicles a backpacking adventure between friends through England, Ireland, and Scotland in '99 and the discovery of Sunderland's best-kept secret: the punk band Leatherface.
This book demonstrates the rhetorical strategies present in mainstream popular music and how those strategies are implemented to empower resistance.
Feel Like Going Home brings to life the legendary musicians, songs, and labels of blues and early rock 'n' roll, capturing the drama on and off stage, the wrenching lyrics and the driving rhythms that changed performance, engagement and lives in America and around the world.
Unwritten Literature of Hawaii: The Sacred Songs of the Hula (1909) is a collection of hulas and essays by Nathaniel B. Emerson. Translating previously unwritten songs, interviewing native Hawaiians, and consulting the works of indigenous historians, Emerson provides an entertaining and authoritative look at one of Hawaii's most cherished traditions. "For an account of the first hula we may look to the story of Pele. On one occasion that goddess begged her sisters to dance and sing before her, but they all excused themselves, saying they did not know the art. At that moment in came little Hiiaka, the youngest and the favorite. [...] When banteringly invited to dance, to the surprise of all, Hiiaka modestly complied. The wave-beaten sand-beach was her floor, the open air her hall; Feet and hands and swaying form kept time to her improvisation." As an American born in Hawaii who played a major role in the annexation of the islands as an author of the 1887 Constitution of the Hawaiian Kingdom, Emerson likely saw himself as a unifying figure capable of interpreting for an English-speaking audience the ancient and sacred tradition of the hula, a Polynesian dance often accompanied with instruments and chanting or singing. Combining critical analysis with samples of popular hulas in both Hawaiian and English, Emerson works to preserve part of the rich cultural heritage of the Hawaiian Islands.Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book. With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.
Initially based on Scènes de la vie de bohème (1851), La bohème follows the trials and tribulations of young artists struggling to make ends meet. Despite their circumstance, they celebrate small wins, while seeking love and opportunity.La bohème is an Italian opera that centers a group of up-and-coming artists. This includes Rodolfo, a poet, Mimì, a seamstress, Marcello, a painter and Musetta, a singer. Together, they attempt to earn a living from their respective crafts. Rodolfo and Marcello struggle to maintain their relationships with Mimì and Musetta, who are likely to attract wealthier suitors. In the midst of romance troubles and a professional drought, Mimì¿s health becomes a cause for concern.La bohème is a captivating story about friendship, love and survival. Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illicäs opera offers a compelling narrative with memorable moments. It¿s a romantic tale that highlights hope in the face of tragedy. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of La bohème is both modern and readable.
"'So how do you discern a shape for / what is often called god' asks the poet in a book that is as metaphysical as it is very much of this moment, of this, our crisis. How so? Because every crisis is first of all metaphysical. Kazim Ali speaks in the same breath of the injustice of our world and of 'the actual syllables Orpheus sang/ to the dead to be allowed into hell.' This is a metaphysics of a scream. It speaks against world that wrongs us, yes-but also of 'what language cannot / hold onto,' of 'ecstatic sound aiming to reach from the muck of the earth.' What is this speech like? It takes many forms: lyrical, cinematic, choral. The Voice of Sheila Chandra is a sequence of sequences, a book where three long poems come together to make a statement that is far larger than the sum of its parts. It is a brilliant book." -Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic and Dancing in Odessa
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