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This book demonstrates how experimentation generates new and creative music. It considers whether musical practice can provide worthwhile research outputs and how artistic research in music can assume a legitimate place in the academy. It goes on to demonstrate how exploration and experimentation function as legitimate artistic research in music.

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Perspectives on Schoenberg and Stravinsky is an analytical and historical study of the twentieth century's most influential figures, by Milton Babbitt, Arthur Berger, Edward T. Cone, Robert Craft, Claudio Spies, and others; with new bibliographic and discographic studies prepared especially for this revised edition. Originally published in 1968.

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The Grateful Dead, one of the most meticulously documented rock bands, significantly influenced American music and popular culture. This collection of essays attests to the varied fields of interest the band and its followers, known as "Deadheads", have affected, including psychology.

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Smith explores Pete Townshend's artistic struggle between his own creative impulses and those of the commercial public. Townshend, early in his career, ignored his creative instincts to satisfy commercial agendas. After his success, he slowly withdrew to resolve his conflict between creativity and commercialism.

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"The most comprehensive academic examination of Peter Jackson's work and career"--

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A guide to the music of Britain's most prominent living composer, this volume contains the most complete listing available of Davies's works (unpublished as well as published) plus a comprehensive discography and a bibliography of nearly 1,000 items.

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A record of the work of Australian composer, Peter Sculthorpe, and of its reception by composer colleagues, performers, critics and audiences.

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"Explores the direct relation of cinema to the history of petroleum extraction through the lens of sponsored film"--

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This volume in the Greenwood Press series Bio-Bibliographies in Music provides an overview of Phil Ochs' life and career, an annotated guide to the literature by and about Phil Ochs, and a discography of his recordings.

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MacLeod explores Phil Spectors rise and fall as a musician, songwriter, and producer whose musical ability and visionary foresight radically influenced popular music and culture of the 20th century. Spectors legendary wall of sound became a hallmark of 1960s pop music and contributed to the success of bands like the Beach Boys and the Beatles.

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The initial portion of this book is a chronological narrative of theatre construction in Philadelphia, from the first known theatre in 1724 to the present day. Following it is the main annotated listing of over eight hundred theatres, arranged alphabetically by theatre name.

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Philosophers and geographers have converged on the topic of public space, fascinated and in many ways alarmed by fundamental changes in the way post-industrial societies produce space for public use, and in the way citizens of these same societies perceive and constitute thems...

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Ferrara devises an eclectic method that provides bridges for musical sound, form, and reference.

In response to the multiplicity of levels of musical significance, Ferrara's eclectic method draws upon a wide-ranging number of conventional and non-conventional approaches to musical analysis which results in a dialectic of methods.

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In recent years, considerable scholarly attention has been paid to women in music, and information on the music of a handful of black women composers, such as Florence Price and Mary Lou Williams, has been published. Appendixes list available published music, ensemble instrumentation, music for teaching, and music published before 1920.

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A biography of experimental music improviser and Dadaist visionary Steve Beresford, based on first-hand interviews between the author and artist.

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An anthology of Pablo Picasso's statements about art

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In this text, Andre Malraux recollects a number of his conversations with Picasso. Malraux was intimately involved in French intellectual life, as philosopher, novelist, soldier, statesman and Secretary for Cultural Affairs, and he knew the painter well.