Music and Democracy explores music as a resource for societal transformation processes. This book provides recent insights into how individuals and groups used and still use music to achieve social, cultural, and political participation and bring about social change. The contributors present outstanding perspectives on the topic: From the promise and myth of democratization through music techno…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Games and Learning Alliance, GALA 2014, held in Bucharest, Romania, in July 2014. The 15 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 submissions. The papers presented cover a variety of aspects and knowledge fields. They are grouped into four sessions: pedagogy, technology, design, …
Since the early transformation of European music practice and theory in the cultural centers of Asia, Latin America, and Africa around 1900, it has become necessary for music history to be conceived globally - a challenge that musicology has hardly faced yet. This book discusses the effects of cultural globalization on processes of composition and distribution of art music in the 20th and 21st …
Music and sound shape the emotional content of audio-visual media and carry different meanings. This volume considers audio-visual material as a primary source for historiography. By analyzing how the same sounds are used in different media contexts at different times, the contributors intend to challenge the linear perspective of (music) history based on canonic authority. The book discusses A…
Academic attention has focused on America’s influence on European stage works, and yet dozens of operettas from Austria and Germany were produced on Broadway and in the West End, and their impact on the musical life of the early twentieth century is undeniable.
Digital Electronics for Musicians is the perfect book for musicians who want to dive into the world of computer music and physical computing. This book is aimed at adventurous musicians who want to learn about music programming with Arduino, sensors, and Pure Data, and how to make new interfaces and even new instruments with that knowledge.You’ll learn the basics of the Pure Data and Arduino …
Dalam antologi ini, yang merupakan kontribusi terutama pada bidang Filsafat Pendidikan Musik (PME), kami menawarkan perspektif yang agak tidak biasa. Kerangka filosofisnya berasal dari fenomenologi. Lebih tepatnya: semua penulis terinspirasi oleh pemikiran Martin Heidegger. Sejauh yang kami tahu, ini adalah pertama kalinya fokusnya ditempatkan sedemikian rupa pada filosofi Heidegger di bidang P…
Across the twentieth century war was the central experience of the Russian people, spurring tales of the struggles and advances of the combat hero to become a prevailing Russian literary trope. In this wide spanning text Brintlinger traces the war experiences, memories, tropes, and metaphors in literature of the Soviet and post-Soviet period, examining the work of Dmitry Furmanov, Fyodor Gladko…
The Chinese government is increasingly focusing on ecological construction and℗ℓhas subscribed to a national ℓ́ℓEcological Civilization Constructionℓ́ℓ. Ecological℗ℓresearch and protection practice develop so fast and achieve a lot at the℗ℓnational agenda. This book is a synthesis of five most exciting and dominant themes in℗ℓcontemporary ecological research in China: …
This IEA volume brings together a set of essays written by leading authors on themes relevant to the study of economic development. The book covers a range of topics many of which are relevant to policy issues. The contributors bring new insights from empirical research in a range of economies with chapters including discussions of the UN development agenda, fiscal policy in Latin America, pove…