Musik

If you want to get back to the beginningyou must fast forward to the end. I press play, drop into the solarsystem à la Holst, somewherebeyond the asteroid belt,rocketing ever further out. The poems in There's No Pluto in this Suite take the reader to the edges of ordinary experiences, places and narratives and ask them to leap from that ordinariness into the unexpected. The collection is broken into three parts, and the reader is taken on a ride through verse concerned with the experiences of immigration, travel and transience; then on to a gathering around the hearth, telling stories about what drives humans to live: vocations, love and journeys of discovery; and finally into a mythic realm, encountering holy fools, witchy saints and places of overlap between silly and sacred. There's No Pluto in this Suite is a playful collection that blends formal and free verse, lyric and narrative, and in which the profound rubs shoulders with the messy and the patently mysterious.

In Let Every Little Thing Make You Happy, singer-songwriter and TikTok sensation, Peach Martine delivers her uplifting, refreshingly honest and magnetic poems and lyrics, which have caught the attention of millions of fans across the globe.

Soviet Composers and the Development of Soviet Music (1970) is a thought-provoking review of Soviet music and musicians. The lives and works of some two dozen major Soviet composers are discussed, and insight is provided into Soviet thinking about music, and thinking about the arts.

Music Under the Soviets (1955) examines the concept of Soviet music, its special characteristics and its differences from the musical tradition of the West. As the musical practice under the Soviet totalitarian dictatorship, it should be viewed as the musical policy of that regime.

The Red Pencil (1989) examines the many ways in which Soviet censorship interfered in the creative process - in the words of those who experienced it first hand. It helps to identify the ways in which Soviet artistic and intellectual production was shaped by the practices of Soviet censorship.

The contributors to this volume examine musical instrument collectors and their reasons and means for collecting: Who were they professionally and personally? Why did they collect musical instruments? How did they acquire their objects? What were their collecting criteria and aesthetics?

The Routledge Companion to Diasporic Jazz Studies recognizes the proliferation of jazz as global music in the 21st century. It illustrates the multi-vocality of contemporary jazz studies, combining local narratives, global histories and cultural criticism.

This book offers a detailed analysis of how the science of music was a part of a larger intellectual and sociocultural context in the medieval Islamic world. It is intended for scholars and students interested in the history of science and the intellectual history of the pre-modern Islamic world.

A new trade publication of Before Easter After, originally published in a limited edition at $1,000.Hundreds of rarely seen images by legendary photographer Lynn Goldsmith offer an intimate portrait of rock ’n’ roll icon Patti Smith during a transformative moment in her career. Images of Smith performing on stage combine with candid behind-the-scenes photographs and striking studio shoots to create a deeply personal look at the singer during her rise to fame. The photographs include Smith’s life-changing accident while on tour in 1977 and the aftermath, as well as closeup, empathetic portraits that reveal Smith’s self-assurance, her defiance of cultural norms, and her effortless poise. This poignant visual narrative is punctuated throughout by Smith’s original poetry and song lyrics.This book is both a glimpse into a fabled time in music history, documenting a young artist creating what turned out to be a revolutionary work, as well as a celebration of an enduring partnership between two close friends who continue to be creative collaborators to this day.

This re-release of Alice Cooper at 75 (2023) celebrates the godfather of shock rock’s life in a photo-filled retrospective detailing 75 key releases and life events.

A no holds barred rampage through gigs, clubs, boardrooms, drugs and booze, mad scenes, brilliant signings, machine gun quotes and a resilient wild spirit

Aimed at postgraduate students and researchers of anthropology, sociology and youth culture in Africa, and Rwanda in particular, this book offers insights into how urban young people in Rwanda navigate everyday life through popular music and new religious practices, finding ways to exert agency in a challenging political context.

Thestory of the Groundhogs spans the most exciting years British rock will everenjoy. Springing from the same early roots as the Animals, Pretty Things andRolling Stones, they soon garnered a reputation as a blues band backing thelikes of John Lee Hooker and many other giants of the genre.

The Kinks burst onto the British music scene in 1964, propelled by the historic guitar riff of 'You Really Got Me'. In Thank You for the Days, fans from around the world share how The Kinks have inspired and shaped their lives.

You could consider Kate Bush's The Dreaming to be her finest moment, depending on whether you value the rejection of compromise and see that as a sign of authenticity. Ultimately, The Dreaming is just art. .

Everynow and then, a band comes along that defies convention, refuses to bepigeon-holed, thumbs its nose at comfy predictability and blows raspberries atcommercial wisdom. That band is Gong.

This is the first full-length study of the symphonies of Robert Simpson to be offered to the general public. Simpson is perhaps best known for his BBC work, including the Promenade Concerts and such innovatory radio programmes as The Innocent Ear; but critics have hailed him as one of the finest writers of symphonies of the twentieth century-one who additionally spent a lifetime examining and talking about works of this kind, being particularly interested in the oeuvres of Bruckner, Nielsen and Sibelius. As a result, his compositions provide invaluable case studies for the understanding of this most demanding of compositional forms, as well as being a string of eleven masterpieces spanning the last half of the twentieth century.

Jodie Harsh arrived in London aged 15, in 2002, heading straight off the train from Canterbury to her first club night at the Astoria. New music, new fashion, new art, all coming together in a mad heady rush before - and during - the financial crash of 2008.

Scotland's LGBT+ musicians have long mined beauty from the darkest of seams - and today's artists are taking that treasure and using it to make magic. Trans writer, broadcaster and musician Carrie Marshall travels from bothys to the Barras to discover and share the sounds, the stories and the sheer joy of queer Scots pop.

Renowned music manager, Rikki Stein, has spent nearly six decades moving musicians around the world, and this book recounts a lifetime of adventure on the road. Always in the right place at the right time, Rikki was part of the great countercultural moments of the last century, from Woodstock and the Vietnam War Moratorium March to the launch Glastonbury Festival.Throughout this extraordinary time, Rikki has toured some of the world’s most iconic musicians and groups, from The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Kinks, The Animals, The Yardbirds, The Moody Blues and the Grateful Dead to managing the Nigerian superstar, Fela Kuti.Full of extraordinary, sometimes hilarious, stories of life on the road, this memoir recounts the joys, frustrations and surprises of juggling logistics, local politics and the whims of his creative clients to deliver true, life-enhancing moments of moving music.

This volume shows music educators how music teaching and learning can help address humanity's greatest challenge-the ecological crisis. It provides essential background knowledge in ecomusicology, from compositions about nature, soundscape experiences, activist songs, and practical lesson ideas.

Highlighting the diversity of musical practice that flows though Australia, this book places the music of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people at its heart. It presents the latest research alongside perspectives of current creative artists, whilst acknowledging the fluid nature of music, and the complexity inherent in the term 'Australia'.

Highlighting the diversity of musical practice that flows though Australia, this book places the music of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people at its heart. It presents the latest research alongside perspectives of current creative artists, whilst acknowledging the fluid nature of music, and the complexity inherent in the term 'Australia'.