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Author
Publisher
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A pulsating graphic novel on the epic history of electronic music, from the heyday of disco in the 1970s to the rave culture of the 1990s and beyond. With a foreword from house music legends Daft Punk, The Song of the Machine is a celebration of a musical wave that swept across the world over decades, demographics, and dance styles. Originally published in 2000 in France, and updated through today for this first English edition, the electrifying...
2) Rubber-band banjos and a java jive bass: projects and activities on the science of music and sound
Author
Publisher
Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
Presents the science of sound and music, including how sound is made, how the ear hears sounds, and how different musical instruments are made.
Author
Publisher
Albatros
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A comprehensive overview of the origin of the world s best-known musical instruments, presenting many fascinating facts along the way.Niccolo the cricket would like to become a musician. But which instrument should he start with? The violin? The guitar? The trumpet? All at once? Well, he does have six limbs, so why not? In any case, Niccolo and his trusty companion Luciano the nightingale travel the world as they learn about musical instruments of...
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Why has music so often served as an accomplice to transcendent expressions of gender? Why did the query "is he musical?" become code, in the twentieth century, for "is he gay?" Why is music so inherently queer? For Sasha Geffen, the answers lie, in part, in music's intrinsic quality of subliminal expression, which, through paradox and contradiction, allows rigid gender roles to fall away in a sensual and ambiguous exchange between performer and listener....
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