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  • The Ontology of Music Groups

    Identity, Persistence, and Agency of Creative Groups

    Edited by Ludger Jansen, Thorben Petersen ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Metaphysics
    This volume examines the ontology of music groups. It connects two fascinating areas of philosophical research: the ontology of social groups and the philosophy of music.Interest in questions about the nature of music groups is growing. Since people are widely familiar with music groups, the topic is particularly well-suited for introducing issues in social ontology. Being comparably small-scale ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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    In a focused and compelling discussion, Anis Bawarshi looks to genre theory for what it can contribute to a refined understanding of invention. In describing what he calls "the genre function," he explores what is at stake for the study and teaching of writing to imagine invention as a way that writers locate themselves, via genres, within various positions and activities. He argues, in fact, that ... Read more

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  • Teaching Music Musically (Classic Edition)

    by Keith Swanwick ...
    Series series Routledge Education Classic Edition
    'There are countless gems within these pages ... Swanwick seems to write from more experience as a musician and teacher than most others who write for this audience. There is a real sense of his having been there. - Patricia Shehan Campbell, Professor of Music, University of Washington, USA'... contains the essential and highly valued hallmark of ... Read more

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  • Running with the Devil

    Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music

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  • Semiotics: The Basics

    by Daniel Chandler ...
    Series series The Basics
    This fifth edition of the bestselling textbook is a major new revision, continuing to provide a concise introduction to the key concepts of semiotics in accessible and jargon-free language.Demystifying what is a complex, highly interdisciplinary field, key questions covered include: What are signs and codes? What can semiotics teach us about representation and reality? What tools does it offer for ... Read more

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  • The Linguistics Wars

    Chomsky, Lakoff, and the Battle over Deep Structure

    by Randy Allen Harris ...
    An updated and expanded history of the field of linguistics from the 1950s to the current day The Linguistics Wars tells the tumultuous history of language and cognition studies from the rise of Noam Chomsky's Transformational Grammar to the current day. Focusing on the rupture that split the field between Chomsky's structuralist vision and George Lakoff's meaning-driven theories, Randy Allen ... Read more

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  • An Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge

    by Dan O'Brien ...
    An Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge, 2nd Edition guides the reader through the key issues and debates in contemporary epistemology. Lucid, comprehensive and accessible, it is an ideal textbook for students who are new to the subject and for university undergraduates.The book is divided into five parts. Part I discusses the concept of knowledge and distinguishes between different types of ... Read more

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  • Neil Young and the Poetics of Energy

    by William Echard ...
    "This book uniquely and successfully sustains a cohesive analysis of the work, career, and reception of a single artist . . . Neil Young." —Daniel Cavicchi, author of Tramps Like UsAs a writer in Wired magazine puts it, Neil Young is a "folk-country-grunge dinosaur [who has been] reborn (again) as an Internet-friendly, biodiesel-driven, multimedia machine." In Neil Young and the Poetics of Energy, ... Read more

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  • Uncharted

    Creativity and the Expert Drummer

    by Dr. Bill Bruford, PhD ...
    Series series Tracking Pop
    What do expert drummers do? Why do they do it? Is there anything creative about it? If so, how might that creativity inform their practice and that of others in related artistic spheres? Applying ideas from cultural psychology to findings from research into the creative behaviors of a specific subset of popular music instrumentalists, Bill Bruford demonstrates the ways in which expert drummers ... Read more

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  • Philosophy of Improvisation

    Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Theory and Practice

    Edited by Susanne Ravn, Simon Høffding, James McGuirk ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Aesthetics
    This volume brings together philosophical and interdisciplinary perspectives on improvisation. The contributions connect the theoretical dimensions of improvisation with different viewpoints on its practice in the arts and the classroom.The chapters address the phenomenon of improvisation in two related ways. On the one hand, they attend to the lived practices of improvisation both within and ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Improvisation in the Arts

    Edited by Alessandro Bertinetto, Marcello Ruta ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy
    Over the last few decades, the notion of improvisation has enriched and dynamized research on traditional philosophies of music, theatre, dance, poetry, and even visual art. This Handbook offers readers an authoritative collection of accessible articles on the philosophy of improvisation, synthesizing and explaining various subjects and issues from the growing wave of journal articles and ... Read more

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  • Improvising Improvisation

    From Out of Philosophy, Music, Dance, and Literature

    by Gary Peters ...
    There is an ever-increasing number of books on improvisation, ones that richly recount experiences in the heat of the creative moment, theorize on the essence of improvisation, and offer convincing arguments for improvisation's impact across a wide range of human activity. This book is nothing like that. In a provocative and at times moving experiment, Gary Peters takes a different approach, ... Read more

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