Unlocking the Groove
Author: Mark Jonathan Butler
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780253346629
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first music-driven analysis of electronic dance music.
Author: Mark Jonathan Butler
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780253346629
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first music-driven analysis of electronic dance music.
Author: Mark Abel
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2014-09-18
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9004242945
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What is the relationship between music and time? How does musical rhythm express our social experience of time? In Groove: An Aesthetic of Measured Time, Mark Abel explains the rise to prominence in Western music of a new way of organising rhythm: groove. He provides a historical account of its emergence around the turn of the twentieth century, and analyses the musical components which make it work. Tracing the influence of key philosophical arguments about the nature of time on musical aesthetics, Mark Abel draws on materialist interpretations of art and culture to challenge those, like Adorno, who criticise popular music’s metrical regularity. He concludes that groove does not simply reflect the temporality of contemporary society, but, by incorporating abstract time into its very structure, is capable of effecting a critique of it.
Author: Gerald Lyn Early
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780472089567
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How Motown changed the landscape of American popular culture
Author: Scott A. Shay
Publisher: Devora Publishing
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9781932687859
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ten practical and achievable mini-manifestos that can reinvigorate American Jewry.
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Published: 1909
Total Pages: 1120
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Includes cases argued and determined in the District Courts of the United States and, Mar./May 1880-Oct./Nov. 1912, the Circuit Courts of the United States; Sept./Dec. 1891-Sept./Nov. 1924, the Circuit Courts of Appeals of the United States; Aug./Oct. 1911-Jan./Feb. 1914, the Commerce Court of the United States; Sept./Oct. 1919-Sept./Nov. 1924, the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia.
Author: Henry Alford
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2019-06-18
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1501122266
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“Captivating…equal parts memoir and cultural history, Henry Alford seamlessly interweaves heartwarming and hilarious anecdotes about his deep dive into all things dance” (Misty Copeland, The New York Times Book Review). When Henry Alford wrote about his experience with a Zumba class for The New York Times, little did he realize that it was the start of something much bigger. Dance would grow and take on many roles for Henry: exercise, stress reliever, confidence builder, an excuse to travel, a source of ongoing wonder, and—when he dances with Alzheimer’s patients—even a kind of community service. Tackling a wide range of forms (including ballet, hip-hop, jazz, ballroom, tap, contact improvisation, Zumba, swing), Alford’s grand tour takes us through the works and careers of luminaries ranging from Bob Fosse to George Balanchine, Twyla Tharp to Arthur Murray. Rich in insight and humor, Alford mines both personal experience and fascinating cultural history to offer a witty and ultimately moving portrait of how dance can express all things human. And Then We Danced “is in one sense a celebration of hoofer in all its wonder and variety, from abandon to refinement. But it is also history, investigation, memoir, and even, in its smart, sly way, self-help…very funny, but more, it is joyful—a dance all its own” (Vanity Fair).
Author: George Morgan Chinn
Publisher:
Published: 1951
Total Pages: 672
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