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China’s Music Industry Unplugged: Business Models, Copyright and Social Entrepreneurship in the Online Platform Economy
by Zhen Troy ChenThis research book is the first of its kind to conduct an interdisciplinary research on the recent and dramatic developments in China’s music industries with a particular focus on business models, copyright protection, and artist compensation. The monograph explores and discusses proper business models through which revenue can be generated and maintained in a changing copyright climate and transforming business environment. It also discusses how musicians can be fairly compensated in the online platform economy informed by social entrepreneurship. This book is distinctive in the sense that it explores the intersection of cultural and creative industries, legal studies, business studies, and new media. It uses a qualitative and mixed-method approach to study business innovations and institutions in the making in the second largest economy which is also gaining cultural and political significance around the world.
Explosions in the Mind: Composing Psychedelic Sounds and Visualisations (Palgrave Studies in Sound)
by Jonathan WeinelThis book explores how to compose sounds and visualisations that represent psychedelic hallucinations and experiences of synaesthesia. Through a detailed discussion regarding compositional methodologies and technical approaches, the book aims to educate students, practitioners, and researchers working in related areas. It weaves together sound, visual design, and code across a range of media, providing conceptual approaches, theoretical insights, and practical strategies, which unlock new design frameworks for composing psychedelic sounds and visualisations.
Geographically Isolated and Peripheral Music Scenes: Global Insights and Perspectives
by Christina BallicoThis book explores the influence of geographical isolation and peripherality on the functioning of music industries and scenes which operate within and from such locales. As is explored, these sites engage dynamic practices to offset challenges resulting from geographical isolation and peripherality.
Meta-functional Equivalent Translation of Chinese Folk Song: Intercultural Communication of Zhuang Ethnic Minority as an Example
by Yang YangThis book brings audiences the enchanting melodies passing down from generation to generation in the Zhuang community, which are on the brink of extinction. Specifically, it sheds light on the origin, evolution and artistic features of Zhuang folk song in the first place, and then it shifts to their English translation based on meta-functional equivalence, through which the multi-aesthetics of Zhuang folk song have been represented. At length, forty classic Zhuang folk songs have been selected, and each could be sung bilingually in line with the stave.This book benefits researchers and students who are interested in music translation as well as the Zhuang ethnic music, culture and literature. It also gives readers an insight into musicology, anthropology and intercultural study.
We Piano Teachers and Our Demons: Socio-psychological Obstacles on the Road to Inspired and Secure Performance (Landscapes: the Arts, Aesthetics, and Education #32)
by Zecharia PlavinThis book focuses on piano teachers and the many pains they encounter in their careers. These pains play an essential role in blocking the musical inspiration of their students. The author identifies with the sensitivities of the teachers, aiming at the inspiration permeated and safer playing of their students.The book penetrates the protective mechanisms of the teachers that, on the one hand, maintain their professional functioning, while on the other hand, block refreshing ideas. It combines exploration of secure and culturally informed inspired playing, coping with exaggerated anxiety and understanding the interaction of piano actions with pianist’s physiology.This book helps to open teachers’ perceptions of the ways to enable more secure and more inspired performances while remembering the inner feelings of the piano teachers.
Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Sound and Music Technology: Revised Selected Papers from CMST (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering #923)
by Xi Shao Kun Qian Xin Wang Kejun ZhangThe book presents selected papers at the 9th Conference on Sound and Music Technology (CSMT) held virtually in June 2022, organized by Zhejiang University, China. CSMT is a multidisciplinary conference focusing on audio processing and understanding with bias on music and acoustic signals. The primary aim of the conference is to promote the collaboration between art society and technical society in China. In this book, the paper included covers a wide range topic from speech, signal processing, music understanding, machine learning, and signal processing for advanced medical diagnosis and treatment applications, which demonstrates the target of CSMT merging arts and science research together. Its content caters to scholars, researchers, engineers, artists, and education practitioners not only from academia but also industry, who are interested in audio/acoustics analysis signal processing, music, sound, and artificial intelligence (AI).
From Stage to Screen: The Legacy of Traditional Chinese Theatre in Chinese Martial Arts Cinema Soundtracks
by Shuang WangChinese martial arts cinema is held to be a synthesis drawing on artistic conventions of traditional Chinese theatre. Film sound and music perform as the legitimate heirs of some of the aesthetic ideas and norms of traditional Chinese theatre. This book critically examines the history of this under-explored field of inquiry from a theoretically comparative perspective, demonstrating that the musical codes drawn from traditional theatre are a constantly changing component integral to Chinese martial arts cinema. It explores the interaction between traditional Chinese theatre and Chinese martial arts cinema in how the musical codes of the former have shaped the aesthetics of the latter uniquely. This departs from conventional existing studies that focus on “adaptation.” The book’s historical and theoretical approach connects film, theatre and music, and re-defines the status of distinctive domains of filmic expression, grounding theatre as the pivot – or “hinge” – of film aesthetics. The book proffers this unique angle of research to rethink and re-imagine film sound and audiovisual synchronisation. Primarily intended for scholars in Chinese cinema, film music, Chinese theatre and visual culture, this monograph also presents introductory and comprehensive material for undergraduate and graduate-level courses in film and media studies, film music, Chinese cinema, and Chinese theatre.
Mode & Musik
by Jochen SträhleDieses Buch wird das Verständnis der Leser für die Verbindungen zwischen der Musik- und der Modeindustrie erweitern. Es hebt die Herausforderungen hervor, denen sich die Modeindustrie derzeit in Bezug auf den Hyperwettbewerb, die Definition immer schnellerer Trends, sich ändernde Verbraucherwünsche usw. gegenübersieht. Die Modeindustrie wird in der Tat stark von der digitalen Revolution in der Musikindustrie beeinflusst, die das Gesicht des individuellen Musikkonsums und des sozialen Bezugs verändert hat und sich daher auch auf den Modekonsum und den sozialen Bezug auswirkt. Dieses Verständnis ist von entscheidender Bedeutung, um die Strategien eines Modeunternehmens auf die Anforderungen der modernen Modekonsumenten auszurichten. Inhaltlich befasst sich das Buch zunächst mit der sozialen Perspektive von Mode und Musik. Dazu gehört eine Analyse der Musik als wichtiger Einflussfaktor für Modetrends, sowohl theoretisch als auch anhand einer Fallstudie über Grunge-Musik. Anschließend wird die Rolle der Musik in der Modebranche behandelt, wobei die Musik in den Geschäften und die Rolle der Musik in der Modekommunikation behandelt werden. Im Anschluss daran wird die Rolle der Mode im Musikgeschäft analysiert. Dazu gehören der Trend zum Co-Design von Modekollektionen, die Rolle von Musikkünstlern bei der Differenzierung nach Stilrichtungen und der Markt für Musik-Mode-Merchandise-Artikel (sowohl theoretisch als auch anhand einer Fallstudie). Abschließend werden mögliche Lehren aus der Musikindustrie für die Modeindustrie gezogen. Dazu gehört auch eine Analyse der digitalen Revolution und des Aufkommens der Crowdfunding-Idee (sowohl theoretisch als auch in einer Fallstudie).
Urban Australia and Post-Punk: Exploring Dogs in Space
by David Nichols Sophie PerilloRichard Lowenstein’s 1986 masterpiece Dogs in Space was and remains controversial, divisive, compelling and inspirational. Made less than a decade after the events it is based on, using many of the people involved in those events as actors, the film explored Melbourne’s ‘postpunk’ counterculture of share houses, drugs and decadence. Amongst its ensemble cast was Michael Hutchence, one of the biggest music stars of the period, in his acting debut. This book is a collection of essays exploring the place, period and legacy of Dogs in Space, by people who were there or who have been affected by this remarkable film. The writers are musicians, actors and artists and also academics in heritage, history, urban planning, gender studies, geography, performance and music. This is an invaluable resource for anyone passionate about Australian film, society, culture, history, heritage, music and art.
Electronic Cities: Music, Policies and Space in the 21st Century
by Sébastien Darchen Damien Charrieras John WillsteedThis book examines Electronic Dance Music (EDM) scenes in 18 cities across Africa, the Middle East, Europe, Asia, North America and Australia. It focuses on the historical development of these scenes, with an emphasis on the post-2000 context, including the COVID-19 pandemic and its far-reaching effects. Expert contributors highlight the influence of geographical contexts, as well as cultural and political histories, in the development of mainstream EDM scenes and underground Electronic Dance Music Cultures. This expansive work offers additional insights on cultural and creative policies, planning interventions and regulations associated with nightlife management, and provides a detailed analysis of current challenges inherent to the governance of EDM scenes in contemporary cities.
Musical Nationalism in Indonesia: The Rise and Fall of Lagu Seriosa
by Sharifah Faizah MohammedThis book charts the growth of the Indonesian nationalistic musical genre of lagu seriosa in relation to the archipelago's history in the 1950s and 1960s, examining how folk songs were implemented as a valuable tool for promoting government propaganda. The author reveals how the genre was shaped to fit state ideologies and agendas in the Sukarno and Soeharto eras. It also reveals the very significant role played by Radio Republik Indonesia in the genre’s development and dissemination. Little research has been done to investigate how Indonesian music contributed to nation-building during Indonesia’s immediate post-colonial period. Emulating the European art song, the genre was adapted to compose songs with the purpose of promoting a strengthened collective Indonesian identity, fostered by a group of musicians who functioned as gatekeepers, monitoring and devising various mechanisms for songs to conform to the propagandistic needs of the Indonesian government at the time. The result was the development of classical style of singing and the cultivation of a patriotic collection of music during the Guided Democracy period (1959–1965), which peaked at the height of the Konfrontasi (1963–1966). Lagu seriosa lost popularity as popular music infiltrated Indonesia in the 1970s, but it remains an iconic yet understudied aspect of the nationalistic agenda in Indonesia. The case studies of selected songs reflected continuity and change in musical style and over time. This book is of interest to scholars studying the intersection between history, politics, identity, arts and cultural studies in Indonesia. It is also of interest to researchers investigating the role of music in identity formation and nation-building more widely.
New Perspectives on the Research of Chinese Culture
by Pei-Kai Cheng Ka Wai FanThis volume contains high quality articles, originally published in Chinese in the Chinese Journal Jiuzhou Xuelin [Chinese Cultural Quarterly] and new articles written on special invitation by established scholars in the field. The theme of the volume is 'New Perspectives on Research of Chinese Culture', introducing the latest trends and new developments in the research into Chinese history, humanities, music and geography. The articles are written by well-known scholars in the field who examine Chinese culture from various new perspectives adopting different research methods.
New Geographies of Music 1: Urban Policies, Live Music, and Careers in a Changing Industry (Geographies of Media)
by Ola Johansson Séverin Guillard Joseph PalisThis book is the first installment of a trilogy that explores the spatial dimensions of music. Music has generated substantial interest among geographers, but other academic disciplines have also developed related spatial perspectives on music. This trilogy brings together multiple approaches, each book investigating a bundle of interrelated themes. New Geographies of Music 1: Urban Policies, Live Music, and Careers in a Changing Industry starts with an introduction that explores contemporary approaches to the study of popular music. The following chapters address a range of issues, including the role of live music in urban development, how knowledge about local music ecosystems circulates among cities, urban networks of music production, how musical practices in local scenes are affected by core-periphery relations, and how musicians rely on touring in order to earn a living. This is a must-read for anyone interested in the relationship between space and music.
Reimagining Singapore: Self and Society in Contemporary Art
by Chee-Hoo Lum Juliette Yu-Ming Lizeray Chor Leng Twardzik ChingThis book approaches the subject of contemporary art by exploring the social embeddedness and identities of Singaporean artists. Linking artistic processes and production to both personal worlds and wider issues, the book examines how artists negotiate their relationships between self and society and between artistic freedom and social responsibility. It is based on original research into the discourses and artistic practices of local artists, with a special focus on emerging artists and artists whose work and perspectives engage with questions of identity. Reimagining contemporary Singapore and their place within it, artists are asserting their multiple and heterogeneous self-identities and contesting hegemonic norms and notions, as they negotiate and adapt to the world around them. This book is relevant to students and researchers in the fields of cultural studies, media studies, art, sociology of art, arts education, and race and ethnicity studies.
Computer Assisted Music and Dramatics: Possibilities and Challenges (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing #1444)
by Ambuja Salgaonkar Makarand VelankarThis book is intended for researchers interested in using computational methods and tools to engage with music, dance and theatre. The chapters have evolved out of presentations and deliberations at an international workshop entitled Computer Assisted Music and Dramatics: Possibilities and Challenges organized by University of Mumbai in honour of Professor Hari Sahasrabuddhe, a renowned educator and a pioneering computational musicologist (CM) of Indian classical music. The workshop included contributions from CM as well as musicians with a special focus on South Asian arts. The case studies and reflective essays here are based on analyses of genres, practices and theoretical constructs modelled computationally. They offer a balanced and complementary perspective to help innovation in the synthesis of music by extracting information from recorded performances. This material would be of interest to scholars of the sciences and humanities and facilitate exchanges and generation of ideas.
A Philosophy of Ambient Sound: Materiality, Technology, Art and the Sonic Environment (Palgrave Studies in Sound)
by Ulrik SchmidtThis book presents the first book-length study of ambient sound as a key issue in sound studies and sonic philosophy. Taking a broad, media-philosophical approach, it explores ambient sound as a basic dimension of the sonic environment, sonic technologies, sonic arts and the material staging of listening.Through analyses of key concepts such as surroundability, mediatization, immanence, synthetization and continuous variation, the book elucidates how ambient aspects of sound influence our conceptions of what sound is and how it affects us by exposing sound’s relation to basic categories such as space, time, environment, medium and materiality. It also illuminates how the strategic production of ambient sound constitutes a leading aesthetic paradigm that has been a decisive factor in the shaping of the modern sonic environment – from key developments in experimental and popular music, sound art and cinematic sound design to the architectural-technological construction of listening spaces in concert halls and theaters and in current streaming infrastructures, digital surround sound and the everyday aesthetics of headphone listening.
Digital Music Learning Resources: From Research to Educational Practice (SpringerBriefs in Education)
by Marcella Mandanici Simone Spagnol Luca Andrea Ludovico Adriano Baratè Federico AvanziniThis book offers an overview of the complex world of digital materials for music education and of their possible use in the everyday practice of music teachers. It presents a multidimensional taxonomy of digital materials for music education. Through the taxonomy it is possible to derive a clear framework of the whole field and to perform analysis of the state of art. The book shows the use of this flexible and powerful knowledge tool for reviewing the digital materials in the various domains and dimentions. The book provides researchers and designers with an overview of what has already been designed, proposed and tested in the field. It also offers music teachers a wider perspective of the possibilities connected to current technologies in the field of music education, and it suggests possible interrelationships between research and music education practices.
Participatory Sound Art: Technologies, Aesthetics, Politics (Palgrave Studies in Sound)
by Vadim KeylinThis book addresses a major gap in sound art scholarship: the role of audience participation. It offers a survey of participatory sound art from its origins in the historical avant-gardes to the non-institutionalized forms of sonic creativity in contemporary digital culture. In doing so, it proposes an innovative theoretical framework for analysing such phenomena, rooted in Pragmatist aesthetics, affordance theory and postcritique. Combining artwork analyses with qualitative studies, it focuses on three principal aspects of participatory sound art: the ways the materialities of the artworks facilitate and structure the participatory processes; the interplay of the creative agencies of the artists and the participants; and the postcritical approach to sound art’s politics, unfolding through the participants’ affective gestures. In considering these multiple dimensions, this book contributes to the growing fields of sound studies and participation studies, as well as to curatorial practice regarding sound art and participatory art.
It’s My Party: Tat Ming Pair and the Postcolonial Politics of Popular Music in Hong Kong (Contemporary East Asian Visual Cultures, Societies and Politics)
by Jeroen de Kloet Yiu Fai Chow Leonie SchmidtThis book is unique in focusing on just one band from one city – but the story of Tat Ming Pair, in so many ways, is the story of Hong Kong's recent decades, from the Handover to the Umbrella Movement to 2019's standoff. A comprehensive, theoretically informed study of the sonic history and present of Hong Kong through the prism of Tat Ming Pair, this book will be of interest to cultural studies scholars, scholars of Hong Kong, and those who study the arts in East Asia.This is an open access book.
Formas frágiles: Improvisación, indeterminación y azar en la música
by Pablo GianeraLa vida de un hombre no alcanza para explicar su música, pero en algunasmúsicas puede cifrarse una vida. Hay en el arte ciertas obras que adquieren su forma y se explicanmientras se hacen. En la música, esas obras suelen ser el resultado dela improvisación, de la interpretación indeterminada y del azarcompositivo. Los problemas estéticos de estas tres prácticas, y losdilemas vitales de quienes las ejercen, constituyen el asunto de «Formasfrágiles». La vida de un hombre no alcanza para explicar su música, peroen algunas músicas puede cifrarse una vida. Es lo que ocurre con losnombres propios de este libro, que abarcan un arco que va desde elbarroco y el romanticismo hasta el jazz y la llamada músicacontemporánea. La política, la voluntad mística, el éxtasis, la amnesia,la reclusión y la inminencia de la muerte son algunas de las pasionesque agitan las vidas de John Cage, Johann Sebastian Bach, LennieTristano, Franz Schubert, John Coltrane, Karlheinz Stockhausen,Cornelius Cardew y Anthony Braxton. Todos ellos coinciden en laincertidumbre de una obra, en la fragilidad de una forma en la que seinscribe una biografía.
FORMAS FRAGILES (EBOOK)
by Pablo Ignac GianeraHay en el arte ciertas obras que adquieren su forma y se explican mientras se hacen. En la música, esas obras suelen ser el resultado de la improvisación, de la interpretación indeterminada y del azar compositivo. Los problemas estéticos de estas tres prácticas, y los dilemas vitales de quienes las ejercen, constituyen el asunto de Formas frágiles. La vida de un hombre no alcanza para explicar su música, pero en algunas músicas puede cifrarse una vida. Es lo que ocurre con los nombres propios de este libro, que abarcan un arco que va desde el barroco y el romanticismo hasta el jazz y la llamada música contemporánea. La política, la voluntad mística, el éxtasis, la amnesia, la reclusión y la inminencia de la muerte son algunas de las pasiones que agitan las vidas de John Cage, Johann Sebastian Bach, Lennie Tristano, Franz Schubert, John Coltrane, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Cornelius Cardew y Anthony Braxton. Todos ellos coinciden en la incertidumbre de una obra, en la fragilidad de una forma en la que se inscribe una biografía.
El sonido de los sueños: Y otros ensayos sobre música
by Diego FischermanEnsayos sobre música clásica y popular e interpretación musical, escritos magistralmente por Diego Fischerman, uno de los mejores críticos culturales de la Argentina. El extraño destino del hombre que grabó por primera vez Las cuatro estaciones de Vivaldi, el Oeste psicodélico de Ennio Morricone, gitanos en Europa y rusos en México, Liszt, Victor Hugo y la verdadera Carmen, el clavecinista que cometió el error de enamorarse y acabó como misionero en un virreinato perdido. También Billie Holiday, la comedia de Broadway -que nada tenía de comedia- y la sinfonía que Mozart pensó como comedia, el encuentro entre William Burroughs y Ornette Coleman, los sonidos del mar, Let it be y el arte de lo incompleto, Sandro, Ginastera, Paul Desmond, Chet Baker y los misterios de Miles Davis. Y también algunas marcas personales: María Elena Walsh, Luis Alberto Spinetta. En esta serie de ensayos breves, Diego Fischerman enhebra verdaderas joyas sobre música. Es decir, sobre el sonido: la sensación o la impresión producida en el oído por un conjunto de vibraciones que se propagan en un medio elástico, y que, como el aire, pueden ser la levedad o la espesura de un sueño.
MUJER DUCHA, LA (EBOOK)
by Juan SasturainUn libro de relatos de Juan Sasturain es una galería de mundos y paisajes bien definidos y diferenciados, siempre memorables. En obras de esta índole, el lector, atento al rastro de cada personaje, convierte la evasión en encantamiento, el gusto en adicción. Es difícil salir ileso de estas historias que nos permiten revivir emociones sumergidas en la nostalgia: los mitos del fútbol tal como eran en la infancia, imaginar de nuevo el pasado remoto, los caballeros andantes y sus proezas épicas. Todo eso y más ocurre en La mujer ducha, aunque el elogio del libro no pueda siquiera rozar la experiencia de leerlo.
Indio Solari: El hombre ilustrado
by Gloria GuerreroPocos personajes surgidos de la música popular ofrecen tantos aspectosdestacables como el Indio Solari, ex líder de Patricio Rey y susredonditos de ricota. Él inventó formas de defensa y ataque a las fortalezas convencionales dela estupidez, abrió nuevos caminos, difundió una lírica propia queconvoca a montones de admiradores de distintas generaciones. Elindividuo conocido como el Indio Solari sigue siendo un misterio.Escrito con una precisión acorde con el ritmo y modo en que la voz delIndio se ajusta a sus canciones, es el mejor homenaje al iluminadoadalid del rock argentino, la recompensa más justa que pueden recibiruna actividad y una actitud determinantes en la sociedad y la cultura.Un libro serio, con el suspenso narrativo de una novela, que se lee y seoye como un reclamo ricotero insoslayable.
Sumo por Pettinato
by Roberto PettinatoPeriodista y saxofonista de la banda, Pettinato evoca sus días a bordode la que fue la más salvaje máquina de rock que haya funcionado enestas pampas, Sumo. Antes de ser una estrella de la tevé y de la radio, Roberto Pettinato nosolo fue un periodista de rock brillante, sino que cumplió el sueñorecurrente de su gremio: formar parte de la banda más excitante posible.Fue el saxofonista de Sumo, uno de los grupos insignia del rockargentino, uno de los pocos a los que la palabra mito no les quedagrande.Pettinato honra una vieja deuda: entrega la versión completa, elreajuste definitivo de «La jungla del poder», la biografía de Sumo quesupo editar artesanalmente a comienzos de los noventa. A la inquietantesutileza de aquel volumen, se agregan nuevas capas de recuerdos,vivencias que solo él puede contar, análisis lúcidos e incluso algúnmomento de autocrítica.