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From the Bronx to the Bosphorus

Klezmer and Other Displaced Musics of New York

Walter Zev Feldman

Discover the vibrant journey of music from New York’s melting pot to the mystical shores of the BosphorusFrom the Bronx to the Bosphorus explores the vibrant, yet largely concealed, musical culture...

ISBN: 9781531509767

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New Music and the Crisis of Memory

Andrea Zarafshon Moore

An innovative and much-needed critical work on music and memorialization in relation to AIDS, 9/11, and anti-Black violence in AmericaMusic has long served as a powerful medium for communal mourning...

ISBN: 9781531508692

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Rockin' the Bronx

Larry Kirwan

Discover the untold story of 1980s Irish New York, where love, politics, and rock 'n' roll collide in a gritty urban tale that's as passionate as it is poignant.Rockin’ The Bronx vividly transports...

ISBN: 9781531510008

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On the Colors of Vowels

Thinking through Synesthesia

Liesl Yamaguchi

On the Colors of Vowels investigates the nineteenth-century emergence of discourses attributing visual properties (color, brightness) to vowels in linguistics, poetics, acoustics, opera, and experimental psychology.

ISBN: 9781531509057

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Group Works

Art, Politics, and Collective Ambivalence

Ethan Philbrick

An exciting new reflection on the role of artistic collaboration, collectivism, and the politics of group formation in the neoliberal era.The artist and author Ethan Philbrick’s Group Works re-imagines...

ISBN: 9781531502706

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Shattering Biopolitics

Militant Listening and the Sound of Life

Naomi Waltham-Smith

Failures to listen or mishearings can be a matter of life and death. Shattering Biopolitics elaborates the intimate and complex relation between life and sound in philosophy, political theory, and sound-art.

ISBN: 9780823294879

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Arvo Pärt

Sounding the Sacred

Edited by Peter C. Bouteneff, Jeffers Engelhardt and Robert Saler

Contributor(s): Andrew Albin, Peter C. Bouteneff, Maria Cizmic, Jeffers Engelhardt, Adriana Helbig, Kevin Karnes, Alexander Lingas, Christopher May, Ivan Moody, Robert Saler, Andrew Shenton and Sevin Yaraman

Scholarly writing on the music of Arvo Pärt is situated primarily in the fields of musicology, cultural and media studies, and, more recently, in terms of theology/spirituality. Arvo Pärt: Sounding...

ISBN: 9780823289769

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The Fact of Resonance

Modernist Acoustics and Narrative Form

Julie Beth Napolin

The Fact of Resonance returns to the colonial and technological contexts in which theories of the novel developed, seeking in sound an alternative premise for theorizing modernist narrative form. The book shows how the experience of reading is undergirded by the sonic.

ISBN: 9780823288168

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Peculiar Attunements

How Affect Theory Turned Musical

Roger Mathew Grant

Peculiar Attunements places the recent turn to affect into conversation with an earlier affective turn that took place in European music theory of the eighteenth century. It offers a new way of thinking through affect historically and dialectically, drawing attention to repeating patterns and problems in affect theory’s history.

ISBN: 9780823287741

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Who Can Afford to Improvise?

James Baldwin and Black Music, the Lyric and the Listeners

Ed Pavlić

Based on unprecedented access to private correspondence, unpublished manuscripts and attuned to a musically inclined poet’s skill in close listening, Who Can Afford to Improvise? retraces the full arc of James Baldwin’s passage across the pages and stages of his career amplifying our sense of his contemporary relevance.

ISBN: 9780823276837

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All Ears

The Aesthetics of Espionage

Peter Szendy

Translated by Roland Végső

An archeology of auditory surveillance combined with an analysis of representations of spying in works of literature, music, and film that provide philosophical reflections on the drives that animate listening: the drive for mastery and the death drive.

ISBN: 9780823273966

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Dissonance

Auditory Aesthetics in Ancient Greece

Sean Alexander Gurd

An overview and descriptions of the auditory commitments of ancient Greek song, drama, and acoustic theory from the time of Homer to the death of Euripides, this is the first complete study of the cultural system of sound in Greece.

ISBN: 9780823269655

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The Matter of Voice

Sensual Soundings

Karmen MacKendrick

Voices are material, somatic, and musical. They are also meaningful—they give body to concepts that cannot exist in abstractions. Through explorations of theology, pedagogy, translation, and more, this book works toward reintegrating our thinking about words as a fleshy combining of meaning and music.

ISBN: 9780823270002

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The Much-at-Once

Music, Science, Ecstasy, the Body

Bruce W. Wilshire

In this capstone work of his career, Bruce W. Wilshire builds on William James’s concept of the much-at-once to develop a holistic philosophy of the experiencing body, giving special attention to the importance of music, and engaging a rich array of thinkers and composers ranging from Jefferson and James to Beethoven and Mahler.

ISBN: 9780823268344

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Phantom Limbs

On Musical Bodies

Peter Szendy

Translated by Will Bishop

In an exploration of the many ways that musical bodies have been trained and imagined but also concrete analyses of the ways certain of them have played, Phantom Limbs touches on the technical apparatuses set into place by organology with an ear for the dissident mass formations haunting music’s corpus.

ISBN: 9780823267064

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Thresholds of Listening

Sound, Technics, Space

Edited by Sander van Maas

This collection of essays addresses recent and historical changes in the ways in which listening has been conceived as a cultural agency and act. It argues that listening, by emancipating from an essentially implied, passive-receiving, and subjected position, has become an explicit factor in culture and the object of proactive collective and individual politics.

ISBN: 9780823264384

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Speaking of Music

Addressing the Sonorous

Edited by Keith Chapin and Andrew H. Clark

A collection of essays that address the ways that writers, musicians, philosophers, politicians, critics, and scholars speak of music from varying standpoints and in varying ways. An introduction to the volume identifies common themes and issues.

ISBN: 9780823251391

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Fifth Avenue Famous

The Extraordinary Story of Music at St. Patrick's Cathedral

Salvatore Basile

Victorian-era divas who were better paid than some corporate chairmen, the boy soprano who grew up to give Bing Crosby a run for his money, music directors who were literally killed by the job—the...

ISBN: 9780823231881

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Hits

Philosophy in the Jukebox

Peter Szendy

Translated by Will Bishop

Hits: Philosophy in the Jukebox is an extraordinary foray into what apple has convinced us is “the soundtrack of our lives.” How does music come to inhabit us, to possess and haunt us? What does...

ISBN: 9780823234387

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The Reinvention of Religious Music

Olivier Messiaen's Breakthrough Toward the Beyond

Sander van Maas

On the basis of a careful analysis of Olivier Messiaen's work, this book argues for a renewal of our thinking about religious music. Addressing his notion of a "hyper-religious" music of sounds and...

ISBN: 9780823230587

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Musically Sublime

Indeterminacy, Infinity, Irresolvability

Kiene Brillenburg Wurth

Musically Sublime rewrites musically the history and philosophy of the sublime. Music enables us to reconsider the traditional course of sublime feeling on a track from pain to pleasure. Resisting the...

ISBN: 9780823230648

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Victor Herbert

A Theatrical Life

Neil Gould

Victor Herbert is one of the giants of American culture. As a musician, conductor, and, above all, composer, he touched every corner of American musical life at the turn of the century, writing scores...

ISBN: 9780823228720

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Musical Meaning and Human Values

Edited by Keith Chapin and Lawrence Kramer

Musical understanding has evolved dramatically in recent years, principally through a heightened appreciation of musical meaning in its social, cultural, and philosophical dimensions. This collection...

ISBN: 9780823230105

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Listen

A History of Our Ears

Peter Szendy

In this intimate meditation on listening, Peter Szendy examines what the role of the listener is, and has been, through the centuries. The role of the composer is clear, as is the role of the musician,...

ISBN: 9780823228003

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Listening

Jean-Luc Nancy

Translated by Charlotte Mandell

In this lyrical meditation on listening, Jean-Luc Nancy examines sound in relation to the human body. How is listening different from hearing? What does listening entail? How does what is heard differ...

ISBN: 9780823227730

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From the Bronx to the Bosphorus

Audible Loss

Rockin' the Bronx

On the Colors of Vowels

Group Works

Shattering Biopolitics

Arvo Pärt

The Fact of Resonance

Peculiar Attunements

Who Can Afford to Improvise?

All Ears

Dissonance

The Matter of Voice

The Much-at-Once

Phantom Limbs

Thresholds of Listening

Speaking of Music

Fifth Avenue Famous

Hits

The Reinvention of Religious Music

Musically Sublime

Victor Herbert

Musical Meaning and Human Values

Listen

Listening

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