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Reveals the pivotal role of music - musical works and musical culture - in debates about society, self, and culture that forged European modernity through the 'long nineteenth century'. This book argues that from the late 1700s to the early 1900s, music not only reflected but also embodied modern subjectivity.

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"An examination of the unconscious as it relates to popular music and the first truly interdisciplinary book on philosophy and popular music with equal weight given to each discipline"--

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"An examination of the unconscious as it relates to popular music and the first truly interdisciplinary book on philosophy and popular music with equal weight given to each discipline"--

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"An interdisciplinary approach to listening, in relation to the self, nation, age, witnessing and memory"--

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"An interdisciplinary approach to listening, in relation to the self, nation, age, witnessing and memory"--

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Identifies literature as a site of sonic invention and reconfiguration, contributing a range of terms, models, and methods for attending to sound.

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Sheds light on the Beatles' story - from their salad days as a Liverpool Skiffle group and their apprenticeship in the nightclubs and mean streets of Hamburg through their early triumphs at the legendary Cavern Club and the massive onslaught of Beatlemania itself.

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A philosophical exploration of sound and contemporary technoculture that utilizes fictocriticism and the conceit of the dream to engage with the intersection of listening and dreaming.

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A philosophical exploration of sound and contemporary technoculture that utilizes fictocriticism and the conceit of the dream to engage with the intersection of listening and dreaming.

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This book explores how young people living in a former ethnic homeland in post-apartheid Namibia imagine the nation through songs they compose and perform. The author argues that these Oshiwambo-speaking youth draw on conflicting ideologieshierarchical and egalitarian, nationalist and cosmopolitanto construct a complex sense of national identity.

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The author has endeavored to set forth a statement of the various means of modulation found in music, from Bach to the 20th century.

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"A collection of essays focused on diverse conceptions of Frankenstein and monstrosity as they intersect in music, theatre, visual art, film, media and cultural mediations more broadly"--

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Deals with classical issues in the philosophy of music, including metaphysics and ontology. This book argues that music is not a hieroglyph, nor a language or sign system. It argues that music is 'ineffable', because it cannot be pinned down, and has a capacity to engender limitless resonance in several domains.

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Analysis of the elements of musical expression, correlating musical theme with the nervous tension and impulses which characterize human emotion.

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This book describes a colorful period in French social and cultural history, during which music and science combined to provide the intellectual and aesthetic spirit of the Age of Enlightenment with an enormous vitality. Investigating the place assigned to music in France's preeminent scientific institution, the Paris Academy, the author shows the

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The roots and evolution of two concepts usually thought to be Western in origin-musica mundana (the music of the spheres) and musica humana (music's relation to the human soul)-are explored. Beginning with a study of the early creeds of the Near East, Professor Meyer-Baer then traces their development in the works of Plato and the Gnostics, and in

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