Introduction
Richard Carlin
in Country Music: A Very Short Introduction
The Introduction explains that like all popular music styles, the best country music balances the personal with the commercial; it is both nostalgic and progressive, reflecting earlier ...
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1. What does film music do?
Kathryn Kalinak
in Film Music: A Very Short Introduction
Music in film achieves a number of things: it establishes setting; it creates atmosphere; it calls attention to elements; it reinforces or foreshadows narrative developments; it gives ...
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3. Why does film music work?
Kathryn Kalinak
in Film Music: A Very Short Introduction
Film music has power over its audience. Why? There is a body of theory about the sources of film's powers and pleasures, and the way in which they are tied to the presence of music in film. ...
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Conclusion
Kathryn Kalinak
in Film Music: A Very Short Introduction
Film music continues to be a part of film production today. Its practice has become indispensable to the marketability of films worldwide. Soundtracks often precede a film's release and may ...
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4. Music of the folk
Philip V. Bohlman
in World Music: A Very Short Introduction (2nd edn)
If folk music made it possible to imagine world music, it did so from a European perspective. ‘Music of the folk’ examines what concepts of folk and nationality meant to Hungarian composers ...
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1. ‘Movement of Jah people’: the history of Rastafari in Jamaica
Ennis B. Edmonds
in Rastafari: A Very Short Introduction
Jamaica is steeped in the tradition of charismatic preachers proclaiming divine messages, at least since the 1860s, a decade of spiritual interest and excitement in Christianity. The most ...
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6. ‘The head cornerstone’: Rastafari and Caribbean culture
Ennis B. Edmonds
in Rastafari: A Very Short Introduction
Rastafari came from humble beginnings, yet it was able to become a huge creative force influencing cultural production in Jamaica and beyond. The influence Rastafari has had on contemporary ...
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1. Roots of the blues
Elijah Wald
in The Blues: A Very Short Introduction
‘The roots of the blues’ outlines the genesis of blues music. Blues music hit the mainstream in 1912, when W.C. Hardy's Memphis Blues caused a national craze. The roots of the blues can be ...
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5. Music in a global world
Nicholas Cook
in Music: A Very Short Introduction (2nd edn)
This chapter discusses the relationship of music to colonization and globalization. In the colonies music contributed to the legitimizing of hegemony, while at home it functioned as a means ...
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3. The presence of the past
Nicholas Cook
in Music: A Very Short Introduction (2nd edn)
This chapter traces a number of key ideas going back to the 18th century that still condition music and thinking about it today. It largely focuses on classical music, but situates it in ...
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1. Music in the moment
Nicholas Cook
in Music: A Very Short Introduction (2nd edn)
This chapter focuses on music’s existence in real time. On the printed page, music is a series of notes fixed in the same relationships for all time. But as played and heard, music is a ...
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Music: A Very Short Introduction (2nd edn)
Nicholas Cook
Music: A Very Short Introduction is a study of music and thinking about music, focusing on its social, cultural, and historical dimensions. It draws on a wealth of accessible examples, ...
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Folk Music: A Very Short Introduction
Mark Slobin
Folk Music: A Very Short Introduction explores a remarkably diverse musical genre. It considers folk musical traditions from across the globe, everything from music to ...
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Film Music: A Very Short Introduction
Kathryn Kalinak
Film Music: A Very Short Introduction focuses on the most central issues in the practice of film music. What is film music? How is it composed? How does film music work? The ...
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Ethnomusicology: A Very Short Introduction
Timothy Rice
Ethnomusicology: A Very Short Introduction describes this growing discipline, showing how modern researchers go about studying music from around the world, looking for insights ...
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6. Vagabond reverie
Robert Wokler
in Rousseau: A Very Short Introduction
‘Vagabond reverie’ assesses the inspiration and imagination that shaped Rousseau's work. The New Héloïse was written as a work of fantasy to help him to deal with his unrequited love for ...
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1. The formation of Augustine's mind: Cicero, Mani, Plato, Christ
Henry Chadwick
in Augustine: A Very Short Introduction
Augustine was a prolific writer. He was born in ad 354 and died in 430. He lived mostly in Roman North Africa. ‘The formation of Augustine's mind: Cicero, Mani, Plato, Christ’ looks at how ...
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4. Morality and its Discontents
Michael Tanner
in Nietzsche: A Very Short Introduction
Nietzsche's fundamental concern throughout his life was to plot the relationship between suffering and culture, or cultures. ‘Morality and its Discontents’ shows that correlative with this ...
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9. Philosophizing with a Hammer
Michael Tanner
in Nietzsche: A Very Short Introduction
‘Philosophizing with a Hammer’ is concerned with Nietzsche's work in 1888, the last year of his sane life, where he devoted himself to further polemics, written in a style of hard clarity ...
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15. Every night a fest noz: the new Celtomania
Barry Cunliffe
in The Celts: A Very Short Introduction
Brittany, more than any other Celtic-speaking country, rejoices in its past. Fest nozou and fêtes folkloriques always involve traditional Breton music and group dancing. Traditional village ...
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