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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5. Music of the nations
Philip V. Bohlman
in World Music: A Very Short Introduction
Through an evaluation of the Eurovision Song Contest that, since its inception in 1956, has had the aim to foster European unity, ‘Music of the nations’ considers the complex relationship ...
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7. Colonial musics, post- colonial worlds, and the globalization of world music
Philip V. Bohlman
in World Music: A Very Short Introduction
‘Colonial musics, post-colonial worlds, and the globalization of world music’ discusses global music in the modern world from street musicians in the new Eastern Europe to world music ...
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2. The West and the world
Philip V. Bohlman
in World Music: A Very Short Introduction
‘The West and the world’ questions the use and abuse of power in recording, collecting, and anthologizing world music through two case studies — the Demonstration Collection and Music of ...
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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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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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4. Music of the folk
Philip V. Bohlman
in World Music: A Very Short Introduction
‘Music of the folk’ first considers the prominence of folk music in Hungary and the composers Béla Bartók and Zoltan Kodaly. How folk songs and folk music became world music is then ...
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World Music: A Very Short Introduction
Philip V. Bohlman
World Music: A Very Short Introduction shows how ‘world music’ has emerged as an invention of the West from encounters with other cultures and presents its modern diversity ...
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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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6. Diaspora
Philip V. Bohlman
in World Music: A Very Short Introduction
‘Diaspora’ is concerned with the effect of human displacement on world music after the ‘discovery’ of the New World by Columbus in 1492. Three diasporas, each historicizing different ...
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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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