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  • 1
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    Book
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781009420198
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 415 Seiten , 24 cm
    Series Statement: Cambridge themes in American literature and culture
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Kulturleben ; Jazz ; Öffentlichkeit ; USA ; Jazz / History and criticism ; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) / History / 20th century ; Jazz / Social aspects / United States ; Jazz / Political aspects / United States ; Music and literature / History ; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) ; Jazz ; Jazz / Political aspects ; Jazz / Social aspects ; Music and literature ; United States ; 1900-1999 ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; History ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; USA ; Jazz ; Kulturleben ; Öffentlichkeit ; Geschichte
    Abstract: "Almost immediately after jazz became popular nationally in the United States in the early 20th century, American writers responded to what this exciting art form signified for listeners. This book takes an expansive view of the relationship between this uniquely American music and other aspects of American life, including books, films, language, and politics. Observing how jazz has become a cultural institution, widely celebrated as 'America's classical music,' the book also never loses sight of its beginnings in Black expressive culture and its enduring ability to critique problems of democracy or speak back to violence and inequality, from Jim Crow to George Floyd. Taking the reader through time and across expressive forms, this volume traces jazz as an aesthetic influence, a political force, and a representational focus in American literature and culture. It shows how Jazz has long been a rich source of aesthetic stimulation, influencing writers as stylistically wide-ranging as Langston Hughes, Eudora Welty, and James Baldwin, or artists as diverse as Aaron Douglas, Jackson Pollock, and Gordon Parks."
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  • 2
    ISBN: 9781108355780
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 326 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Diagramme
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    DDC: 304.209
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    Keywords: Landscape changes History ; Landscape changes Research ; Landscape assessment History ; Landscape assessment Research ; Human ecology History ; Human ecology Research ; Historische Umweltforschung ; Historische Ökologie ; Humanökologie ; Geschichte ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Historische Umweltforschung ; Historische Ökologie ; Humanökologie ; Geschichte
    Abstract: Historical ecology is a research framework which draws upon diverse evidence to trace complex, long-term relationships between humanity and Earth. With roots in anthropology, archaeology, ecology and paleoecology, geography, and landscape and heritage management, historical ecology applies a practical and holistic perspective to the study of change. Furthermore, it plays an important role in both fundamental research and in developing future strategies for integrated, equitable landscape management. The framework presented in this volume covers critical issues, including: practicing transdisciplinarity, the need for understanding interactions between human societies and ecosystem processes, the future of regions and the role of history and memory in a changing world. Including many examples of co-developed research, Issues and Concepts in Historical Ecology provides a platform for collaboration across disciplines and aims to equip researchers, policy-makers, funders, and communities to make decisions that can help to construct an inclusive and resilient future for humanity
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  • 3
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316271476
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (ix, 284 pages)
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    DDC: 306.4/842094
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1400-1600 ; Geschichte ; Gesellschaft ; Musik ; Music / Social aspects / History ; Music therapy / History ; Plague / Europe / History ; Musik ; Pest ; Europa ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Pest ; Musik ; Geschichte 1400-1600
    Abstract: Plague, a devastating and recurring affliction throughout the Renaissance, had a major impact on European life. Not only was pestilence a biological problem, but it was also read as a symptom of spiritual degeneracy and it caused widespread social disorder. Assembling a picture of the complex and sometimes contradictory responses to plague from medical, spiritual and civic perspectives, this book uncovers the place of music - whether regarded as an indispensable medicine or a moral poison that exacerbated outbreaks - in the management of the disease. This original musicological approach further reveals how composers responded, in their works, to the discourses and practices surrounding one of the greatest medical crises in the pre-modern age. Addressing topics such as music as therapy, public rituals and performance and music in religion, the volume also provides detailed musical analysis throughout to illustrate how pestilence affected societal attitudes toward music
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  • 4
    ISBN: 9781107184800 , 9781316636145
    Language: English
    Pages: xviii, 305 Seiten , Illustrationen , 26 cm
    Series Statement: New perspectives in music history and criticism
    DDC: 941.081092
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    Keywords: Drew, Mary Gladstone ; Gladstone, W. E Family ; Drew, Mary Gladstone 1847-1927 ; Socialites Biography ; Musicians Biography ; Women Political activity 19th century ; History ; Salons History 19th century ; Music History and criticism 19th century ; Private secretaries Biography ; Music Political aspects ; History ; 19th century ; Great Britain ; Liberalism History ; 19th century ; Great Britain ; Salons History ; 19th century ; England ; London ; Great Britain Intellectual life ; 19th century ; Great Britain Politics and government ; 1837-1901 ; Drew, Mary Gladstone 1847-1927 ; Großbritannien ; Salon ; Musikleben ; Geistesleben ; Geschichte ; Drew, Mary Gladstone 1847-1927 ; Großbritannien ; Salon ; Kultur ; Politik ; Musik ; Geschichte ; Royal College of Music ; Geschichte
    Abstract: "The daughter of one of Britain's longest-serving prime ministers, Mary Gladstone was a notable musician, hostess of one of the most influential political salons in late Victorian London, and probably the first female prime ministerial private secretary in Britain. Pivoting around Mary's initiatives, this intellectual history draws on a trove of unpublished archival material that reveals for the first time the role of music in Victorian liberalism, explores its intersections with literature, recovers what the high Victorian salon was within a wider cultural history, and shows Mary's influence on her father's work. Paying close attention to literary and biographical details, the book also sheds new light on Tennyson's poetry, George Eliot's fiction, the founding of the Royal College of Music, the Gladstone family, and a broad plane of wider British culture, including political liberalism and women, sociability, social theology and aesthetic democracy"--
    Abstract: Machine generated contents note: Part I. Intellectual History: 1. Idealist philosophy, culture and the Gladstones; 2. The passion of liberalism; 3. The Victorian salon; 4. Music and the Gladstone salon; Part II. Musical and Literary Case Studies: 5. Mary Gladstone's diary and the Royal College of Music; 6. '... there ought to be some melody in poetry': Tennyson's salon readings; 7. '... musical, I see!': triangulated criticism and Daniel Deronda; 8. Conclusion
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 273-294 , Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
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  • 5
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316460252
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Resource (xix, 346 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Studies in environment and history
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    DDC: 304.209
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Globalisierung ; Human ecology / History ; Material culture ; Globalization / History ; Materialismus ; Geschichtstheorie ; Humanökologie ; Geschichtsphilosophie ; Geschichtsphilosophie ; Geschichtstheorie ; Materialismus ; Humanökologie
    Abstract: New insights into the microbiome, epigenetics, and cognition are radically challenging our very idea of what it means to be 'human', while an explosion of neo-materialist thinking in the humanities has fostered a renewed appreciation of the formative powers of a dynamic material environment. The Matter of History brings these scientific and humanistic ideas together to develop a bold, new post-anthropocentric understanding of the past, one that reveals how powerful organisms and things help to create humans in all their dimensions, biological, social, and cultural. Timothy J. LeCain combines cutting-edge theory and detailed empirical analysis to explain the extraordinary late-nineteenth century convergence between the United States and Japan at the pivotal moment when both were emerging as global superpowers. Illustrating the power of a deeply material social and cultural history, The Matter of History argues that three powerful things - cattle, silkworms, and copper - helped to drive these previously diverse nations towards a global 'Great Convergence'
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  • 6
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139151214
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 293 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Cambridge companions to music
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    DDC: 780.89924
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Juden ; Musik ; Jews / Music / History and criticism ; Judentum ; Musik ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Judentum ; Musik ; Geschichte
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  • 7
    ISBN: 9781107100862 , 9781107498297
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 287 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme
    Series Statement: Cambridge cultural social studies
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    DDC: 306.4842
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Musik ; Music / Social aspects ; Music / History and criticism ; Klassische Musik ; Wettbewerb ; Klassische Musik ; Wettbewerb
    Note: Literaturverz. S. 264 - 281 , Paperback edition 2017
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  • 8
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107337879
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 246 pages)
    Uniform Title: Essays
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    DDC: 303.48/3
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Naturwissenschaft ; Science / Social aspects ; Gesellschaft ; Wissenschaftsethik ; Naturwissenschaften ; Naturwissenschaften ; Wissenschaftsethik ; Gesellschaft
    Abstract: Does science have limits? Where does order come from? Can we understand consciousness? Written by Nobel Laureate Leon N. Cooper, this book places pressing scientific questions in the broader context of how they relate to human experience. Widely considered to be a highly original thinker, Cooper has written and given talks on a large variety of subjects, ranging from the relationship between art and science, possible limits of science, to the relevance of the Turing test. These essays and talks have been brought together for the first time in this fascinating book, giving readers an opportunity to experience Cooper's unique perspective on a range of subjects. Tackling a diverse spectrum of topics, from the conflict of faith and science to whether understanding neural networks could lead to machines that think like humans, this book will captivate anyone interested in the interaction of science with society
    Description / Table of Contents: Part One. Science and Society: 1. Science and human experience; 2. Does science undermine our values?; 3. Can science serve mankind?; 4. Modern science and contemporary discomfort : metaphor and reality; 5. Faith and science; 6. Art and science; 7. Fraud in science; 8. Why study science? The keys to the cathedral; 9. Is evolution a theory? A modest proposal; 10. The silence of the second; 11. Introduction to Copenhagen; 12. The unpaid debt -- Part Two. Thought and Consciousness: 13. Source and limits of human intellect; 14. Neural networks; 15. Thought and mental experience : the Turing test; 16. Mind as machine : will we rubbish human experience?; 17. Memory and memories: a physicist's approach to the brain; 18. On the problem of consciousness -- Part Three. On the Nature and Limits of Science: 19. What is a good theory?; 20. Shall we deconstruct science?; 21. Visible and invisible in physical theory; 22. Experience and order; 23. The language of physics : on the role of mathematics in science; 24. The structure of space; 25. Superconductivity and other insoluble problems; 26. From gravity and light to consciousness : does science have limits?
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  • 9
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139058483
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (356 p.)) , digital, PDF file(s).
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Conway, David, 1950 - Jewry in music
    DDC: 780.89924
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    Keywords: Jews Music ; History and criticism ; Jews in music ; Jews Music ; History and criticism ; Jews ; Music ; History and criticism ; Jews in music ; Jewish musicians ; History ; Jewish composers ; History ; Jews ; Music ; Judentum ; Musik ; Geschichte
    Abstract: David Conway analyses why and how Jews, virtually absent from Western art music until the end of the eighteenth century, came to be represented in all branches of the profession within fifty years as leading figures – not only as composers and performers, but as publishers, impresarios and critics. His study places this process in the context of dynamic economic, political, sociological and technological changes and also of developments in Jewish communities and the Jewish religion itself, in the major cultural centres of Western Europe. Beginning with a review of attitudes to Jews in the arts and an assessment of Jewish music and musical skills, in the age of the Enlightenment, Conway traces the story of growing Jewish involvement with music through the biographies of the famous, the neglected and the forgotten, leading to a new and radical contextualisation of Wagner's infamous 'Judaism in Music'.
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  • 10
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139042758
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (306 p.)) , digital, PDF file(s).
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Garratt, James, 1974 - Music, culture and social reform in the age of Wagner
    Parallel Title: Print version
    DDC: 306.4/842094309034
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    Keywords: Wagner, Richard ; Music Political aspects ; History ; 19th century ; Germany ; Music Social aspects ; History ; 19th century ; Germany ; Music Social aspects 19th century ; History ; Music Political aspects 19th century ; History ; Music ; Political aspects ; Germany ; History ; 19th century ; Music ; Social aspects ; Germany ; History ; 19th century ; Music ; Germany ; 19th century ; History and criticism ; Socialism and music ; Germany ; History ; 19th century ; Music ; Political aspects ; Germany ; History ; 19th century ; Music ; Social aspects ; Germany ; History ; 19th century ; Deutschland ; Musik ; Gesellschaft ; Geschichte 1815-1870 ; Deutschland ; Musikästhetik ; Politik ; Geschichte 1815-1870 ; Deutschland ; Musik ; Politik ; Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Deutschland ; Musik ; Gesellschaft ; Geschichte 1800-1900
    Abstract: Challenging received views of music in nineteenth-century German thought, culture and society, this 2010 book provides a radical reappraisal of its socio-political meanings and functions. Garratt argues that far from governing the nineteenth-century musical discourse and practice, the concept of artistic autonomy and the aesthetic categories bequeathed by Weimar classicism were persistently challenged by alternative models of music's social role. The book investigates these competing models and the social projects that gave rise to them. It interrogates nineteenth-century musical discourse, discussing a wide range of manifestos championing musical democratization or seeking to make music an engine for the transformation of society. In addition, it explores institutions and movements that attempted to realize these goals, and compositions - by Mendelssohn, Lortzing and Liszt as well as Wagner - in which the relation between aesthetic and social claims is programmatic
    Abstract: Liberalism, autonomy and the social functions of art. Liberal individualism, perfectionism and aesthetic autonomy ; Music and Schillerian autonomy ; Choral music and socialization in the early nineteenth century: Nägeli and Zelter -- Radical and social aesthetics in the Vormärz. The trouble with Tannhäuser: artistic discourse as oppositional politics ; Left Hegelians and the politicization of literature and music ; Socialism in Vormärz literary and musical discourse -- Speaking for the Volk: music, politics and Vormärz festivals. Commemorative festivals and the cult of genius ; Lortzing, Mendelssohn and the Leipzig Gutenberg Festival ; An equal music? Singing festivals as mass and counter-culture ; To the artists (i): Mendelssohn and the German-Flemish singing festival -- Revolutionary voices: blueprints for an aesthetic state. Musical reform and the state ; Wagner, Lortzing and the music of revolution -- Music and the politics of post-revolutionary culture. Between anarchism and socialism: Wagner's Zurich essays ; The politics of progressivism: Liszt and the New German School ; To the artists (ii): Liszt and the Karlsruhe music festival ; Citizen Sachs? A Wagnerian coda -- The song of the workers: idylls and activism. Socialization and self-help: workers' education societies ; Lassalle, Bülow and the end of bourgeois music ; Schiller's heirs: art, Bildung and proletarian identity
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  • 11
    ISBN: 9780511521348
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XII, 306 Seiten)
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    DDC: 303.6/6
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    Keywords: Darwin, Charles / 1809-1882 / Influence ; Darwin, Charles ; Geschichte 1859-1918 ; Geschichte ; Psychologie ; Weltkrieg (1914-1918) ; Aggressiveness / History ; Social Darwinism / History ; Biopolitics / History ; World War, 1914-1918 / Causes ; War / Psychological aspects / History ; Peace / Psychological aspects / History ; Theorie ; Biologie ; Friede ; Krieg ; Darwinismus ; Soziobiologie ; Gesellschaft ; Sozialdarwinismus ; Darwinismus ; Gesellschaft ; Darwinismus ; Krieg ; Krieg ; Theorie ; Darwinismus ; Geschichte 1859-1918 ; Krieg ; Sozialdarwinismus ; Geschichte 1859-1918 ; Krieg ; Soziobiologie ; Geschichte 1859-1918 ; Darwin, Charles 1809-1882 On the origin of species by means of natural selection ; Krieg ; Friede ; Krieg ; Friede ; Biologie ; Geschichte 1859-1918
    Abstract: While much has been written upon Social Darwinism, the historical impact of Darwinism upon theories of war and human aggression has been sadly neglected. This book is the first to study this discourse in depth. It challenges the received view that Darwinism generated essentially aggressive and warlike social values and pugnacious images of humankind. Paul Crook reconstructs the influential discourse of 'peace biology', whose liberal vision was of a basically free humanity, not fettered by iron laws of biological necessity or governed by violent genes. By exploring a gamut of Darwinian readings of history and war, mainly in the English-speaking world to 1919, this study throws new light upon militarism, peace movements, the origins of World War I and British social thought
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. The Darwinian legacy.--2. The age of Spencer and Huxley.--3. Crisis in the west: the pre-war generation and the new biology.-- 4. 'The natural decline of warfare': anti-war evolutionism prior to 1914.--5. The first owrld war: man the fighting animal.--6. The survival of peace biology.--7. Naturalistic fallacies and noble ends.--8. Conclusion
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  • 12
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511489495
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (vii, 294 pages)
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    DDC: 781.65/09
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Musik ; Jazz / History and criticism ; Music / Social aspects ; Geschichte ; Sozialgeschichte ; Jazz ; Jazz ; Geschichte ; Jazz ; Sozialgeschichte
    Abstract: This 2002 book presents a unique sociological vision of the evolution of jazz in the twentieth century. Analysing organizational structures and competing discourses in American music, Paul Lopes shows how musicians and others transformed the meaning and practice of jazz. Set against the distinct worlds of high art and popular art in America, the rise of a jazz art world is shown to be a unique movement - a socially diverse community struggling in various ways against cultural orthodoxy. Cultural politics in America is shown to be a dynamic, open, and often contradictory process of constant re-interpretation. This work is a compelling social history of American culture that incorporates various voices in jazz, including musicians, critics, collectors, producers and enthusiasts. Accessibly written and interdisciplinary in approach, it will be of great interest to scholars and students of sociology, cultural studies, social history, American studies, African-American studies, and jazz studies
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) , Introduction: the quest for cultural legitimacy , Before the Jazz Age: professional musicians and good music , Jazz Age: professional musicians and the cultivated vernacular , Swing craze: professional musicians, swing music and the art of improvisation , Rise of a jazz art world: jazz enthusiasts, professional musicians and the modernist revolt , New jazz age: the jazz art world and the modern jazz renaissance , Conclusion: the jazz art world and American culture
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0521470420 , 0521644046
    Language: English
    Pages: X, 358 S. , Ill.
    Edition: Repr.
    DDC: 306.709
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    Keywords: Human evolution ; Sex ; Sexualität ; Sexualverhalten ; Evolution ; Geschichte
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  • 14
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511895500
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xii, 390 pages)
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    DDC: 781.6409
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Musik ; Popular music / History and criticism ; Music / Social aspects ; Unterhaltungsmusik ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Unterhaltungsmusik
    Abstract: This volume of essays by the distinguished musicologist Charles Hamm focuses on the context of popular music and its interrelationships with other styles and genres, including classical music, the meaning of popular music for audiences, and the institutional appropriation of this music for hegemonic purposes. Specific topics include the use of popular song to rouse anti-slavery sentiment in mid-nineteenth-century America, the reception of such African-American styles and genres as rock 'n' roll and soul music by the black population of South Africa, the question of genre in the early songs of Irving Berlin, the attempts by the governments of South Africa and China to impose specific bodies of music on their populations, the persistence of the minstrel show in rural twentieth-century America and the impact of modernist modes of thought on writing about popular music
    Description / Table of Contents: Modernist narratives and popular music -- Rock and the facts of life -- Changing patterns in society and music: the US since World War II -- "If I were a voice": or, The Hutchinson Family and popular song as political and social protest -- Some thoughts on the measurement of popularity in music -- Elvis, a review -- Home cooking and American soul in black South African popular music -- Rock 'n' roll in a very strange society -- African-American music, South Africa, and apartheid -- "The constant companion of man": Separate development, radio Bantu, and music -- Privileging the moment of reception: music and radio in South Africa -- Music and radio in the People's Republic of China -- Towards a new reading of Gershwin -- A blues for the ages -- Graceland revisited -- Dvořák in America: nationalism, racism, and national race -- The last minstrel show? -- The role of rock, a review -- Genre, performance, and ideology in the early songs of Irving Berlin -- Epilogue: John Cage revisited
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511586156
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xii, 228 pages)
    Uniform Title: Rockmusik
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    DDC: 306.4/84
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Musik ; Rock music / History and criticism ; Music / Philosophy and aesthetics ; Music / Social aspects ; Popular culture
    Abstract: Rock music - powerful, sensual, loud and full of energy. It has changed the face of modern music. But what is its fascination for, and its significance in contemporary society and what cultural values does it reflect? Peter Wicke addresses these issues in a stimulating and penetrating study of rock music tracing the genesis and influence of this diverse strand of popular music. Beginning with the advent of rock 'n' roll, Wicke chronicles the development through Elvis Presley and the Beatles to the current music industry, its performers, and the impact of the music video. The book will appeal to readers with an interest in music history, popular culture, and media studies
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- 'Roll over Beethoven': new experiences in art -- 'Rock Around the Clock': emergence -- 'Love Me Do': the aesthetics of sensuousness -- 'My Generation': rock music and subcultures -- 'Revolution': the ideology of rock -- 'We're Only in It for the Money': the rock business -- 'Anarchy in the UK': the punk rebellion -- 'Wild Boys': the aesthetic of the synthetic -- Postscript: 'The Times They are A-Changing' -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Discography -- Index of people and groups -- General index
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511752407
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiv, 376 pages)
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    DDC: 304.2/7
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Human behavior ; Social evolution ; Social psychology ; Human biology / Social aspects ; Humanethologie ; Humanethologie
    Abstract: Biology and Freedom, first published in 1989, is an essay on human nature: an attempt to make a just assessment of a species often presented as predominantly and unavoidably violent, grasping, selfish and stupid. Likening human beings to animals is a traditional method of influencing attitudes on morals and politics. But in this book Professor Barnett shows that modern ethology, experimental psychology, genetics and evolutionary theory give the now fashionable misanthropy no authentic support. In doing so he asks whether the theory of evolution has any bearing on Machiavellianism in politics or the concept of original sin; and whether laboratory experiments on the effects of reward and punishment tell us anything about the enigma of free will. Combining the findings of biology with logic and humour, Professor Barnett gives a lucid alternative portrait of humanity in which he stresses the questions that the complexities of human existence will raise long after current myths have faded. This book is for all interested in human nature and the future of human society
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