Image-Music-Text
Author: Roland Barthes
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780374521363
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEssays on semiology
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Analysing Popular Music
Author: David Machin
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2010-03-15
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1446241343
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPopular music is far more than just songs we listen to; its meanings are also in album covers, lyrics, subcultures, voices and video soundscapes. Like language these elements can be used to communicate complex cultural ideas, values, concepts and identities. Analysing Popular Music is a lively look at the semiotic resources found in the sounds, visuals and words that comprise the ′code book′ of popular music. It explains exactly how popular music comes to mean so much. Packed with examples, exercises and a glossary, this book provides the reader with the knowledge and skills they need to carry out their own analyses of songs, soundtracks, lyrics and album covers. Written for students with no prior musical knowledge, Analysing Popular Music is the perfect toolkit for students in sociology, media and communication studies to analyse, understand - and celebrate - popular music.
How to Read Barthes' Image-Music-Text
Author: Ed White
Publisher: Pluto Press
Published: 2012-07-15
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780745329574
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRoland Barthes remains one of the most influential cultural theorists of the postwar period and Image-Music-Text is his most widely taught work. Ed White provides students with a clear guide to this essential but difficult text. As students are increasingly expected to write across a range of media, Barthes' work can be understood as an early mapping of what we now call interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary study. The book's detailed section-by-section readings makes Barthes' most important writings accessible to undergraduate readers. This book is a perfect companion for teaching and learning Barthes ideas in cultural studies and literary theory.
Music on the Move
Author: Danielle Fosler-Lussier
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2020-06-10
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 0472126784
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA dynamic multimedia introduction to the global connections among peoples and their music
Music and Text
Author: Steven Paul Scher
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1992-02-28
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 0521401585
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe semiotic elements of a multiplanar discourse : John Harbison's setting of Michael Fried's "depths" / Claudia Stanger -- Whose life? : the gendered self in Schumann's Frauenliebe songs / Ruth A. Solie -- Operatic madness : a challenge to convention / Ellen Rosand -- Commentary : form, reference, and ideology in musical discourse / Hayden White.
Rethinking Social Action through Music
Author: Geoffrey Baker
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Published: 2021-04-12
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 180064129X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow can we better understand the past, present and future of Social Action through Music (SATM)? This ground-breaking book examines the development of the Red de Escuelas de Música de Medellín (the Network of Music Schools of Medellín), a network of 27 schools founded in Colombia’s second city in 1996 as a response to its reputation as the most dangerous city on Earth. Inspired by El Sistema, the foundational Venezuelan music education program, the Red is nonetheless markedly different: its history is one of multiple reinventions and a continual search to improve its educational offering and better realise its social goals. Its internal reflections and attempts at transformation shed valuable light on the past, present, and future of SATM. Based on a year of intensive fieldwork in Colombia and written by Geoffrey Baker, the author of El Sistema: Orchestrating Venezuela’s Youth (2014), this important volume offers fresh insights on SATM and its evolution both in scholarship and in practice. It will be of interest to a very varied readership: employees and leaders of SATM programs; music educators; funders and policy-makers; and students and scholars of SATM, music education, ethnomusicology, and other related fields.
The Vision of Music in Saint Hildegard's Scivias
Author: Claire Fontijn
Publisher: Music Word Media
Published: 2012-10-31
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9781937330217
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReassembling song texts and music from the final vision in St. Hildegard of Bingen's prophetic work, Scivias (c1151), this volume provides text and images for a celebration of music's power. Scivias provides the texts for these 14 symphonia songs and contains the dialogue for a morality play.
Understanding Music
Author: N. Alan Clark
Publisher:
Published: 2015-12-21
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9781940771335
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMusic moves through time; it is not static. In order to appreciate music wemust remember what sounds happened, and anticipate what sounds might comenext. This book takes you on a journey of music from past to present, from the Middle Ages to the Baroque Period to the 20th century and beyond!
Empire of Signs
Author: Roland Barthes
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780374522070
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis anthology by Roland Barthes is a reflection on his travels to Japan in the 1960s. In twenty-six short chapters he writes about his encounters with symbols of Japanese culture as diverse as pachinko, train stations, chopsticks, food, physiognomy, poetry, and gift-wrapping. He muses elegantly on, and with affection for, a system "altogether detached from our own." For Barthes, the sign here does not signify, and so offers liberation from the West's endless creation of meaning. Tokyo, like all major cities, has a center--the Imperial Palace--but in this case it is empty, "both forbidden and indifferent ... inhabited by an emperor whom no one ever sees." This emptiness of the sign is pursued throughout the book, and offers a stimulating alternative line of thought about the ways in which cultures are structured.
Can You Hear It?
Author: William Lach
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Published: 2006-11-01
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 9780810957213
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents an introduction to music and musical instruments, through the matching of excerpts of classical music with art works selected from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
