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Pages: 324
Authors: Eduardo De La Fuente
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: BRILL

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This collection brings together philosophers, sociologists, musicologists and students of culture who theorize music through cultural practices as diverse as op
Music and Cultural Theory
Language: en
Pages: 240
Authors: John Shepherd
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-08-15 - Publisher: Polity

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In this book Shepherd and Wicke make a bold and original contribution to the understanding of music as a form of human expression. They argue that music is fund
Philosophical and Cultural Theories of Music
Language: en
Pages: 324
Authors: Eduardo de la Fuente
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-09-14 - Publisher: BRILL

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Music is a ubiquitous and hard to grasp cultural form. It is semiotically and aesthetically open-ended; yet even a 'non-musical' person is able to follow the ba
In the Process of Becoming
Language: en
Pages: 347
Authors: Janet Schmalfeldt
Categories: Music
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With their insistence that form is a dialectical process in the music of Beethoven, Theodor Adorno and Carl Dahlhaus emerge as the guardians of a long-standing
Conceptualizing Music
Language: en
Pages: 377
Authors: Lawrence M. Zbikowski
Categories: Music
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This book shows how recent work in cognitive science, especially that developed by cognitive linguists and cognitive psychologists, can be used to explain how w