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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Why does music affect us so profoundly? The songs we love do far more than bring back happy memories. They impact the way we think, talk, feel, behave, and even spend money. With his conversational style, humor, and endless knowledge, scientist and musician John Powell explores the fascinating science of music, showing that shoppers spend more money in stores that play classical music and that music can even change the flavor of wine! With chapters...
83) Every song ever
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
What is music in the age of the cloud? Today, we can listen to nearly anything, at any time. It is possible to flit instantly across genres and generations, from 1980s Detroit techno to 1890s Viennese neo-romanticism. This new age of listening brings with it astonishing new possibilities--as well as dangers. --Publisher.
What does it mean to listen in the digital era? Today, new technologies make it possible to roam instantly and experimentally across...
Author
Series
Publisher
Twelve, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Hip-hop (and other things) is about, as it were, rap, but also some other things. It spends the entirety of its time celebrating what has become the most dominant form of music these past two and a half decades. Tupac is in there. Jay Z is in there. Missy Elliott is in there. Drake is in there. Pretty much all of the big names are in there, as are a bunch of the smaller names, too. There's art from illustrator Arturo Torres, there are infographics...
85) 1 Giant Leap
Publisher
Palm Pictires
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
A collaboration with some of the world's most culturally significant musicians, thinkers, artists, authors, actors to explore the unity in diversity, comprising commentary, quotations, visual images, and songs on the themes time, masks, money, confrontation, God, inspiration, sex, death, and happy.
Author
Publisher
Feral House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Expand your aural and sensory experiences with Extreme Music. An exploration of tomorrow's sounds (and silences) today. Michael Tau had spent years obsessed by the extremes of musical expression. Extreme Music: Silence to Noise and Everything In Between is the culmination of decades of research into the sounds (and silences) that comprise the outer limits and conceptual expressions that stretch the definition of music. Tau defines and categorizes...
92) Listen to this
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
This collection of essays showcases the best of Ross's writing from more than a decade at" The New Yorker." Whether his subject is Mozart or Bob Dylan, Ross shows how music expresses the full complexity of the human condition. Witty, passionate, and brimming with insight, "Listen to This" teaches us how to listen.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
[c2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In this variation on the folk song, "The Twelve Days of Christmas," two mice enjoy such Christmas gifts as "nine nuts for nibbling" and "four holly berries." When Hilary Knight discovered mice in his studio, he set about designing them a special outdoor home. The mice had unique talents of their own. Maude, an expert needle-mouse, complemented Max's way with a hammer. Both shared a keen eye for found objects. Mr. Knight's watercolor journal of this...
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Jonathan Lethem and Kevin Dettmar's Shake It Up invites the reader into the tumult and excitement of the rock revolution through fifty landmark pieces by a supergroup of writers on rock in all its variety, from heavy metal to disco, punk to hip-hop. Stanley Booth describes a recording session with Otis Redding; Ellen Willis traces the meteoric career of Janis Joplin; Ellen Sander recalls the chaotic world of Led Zeppelin on tour; Nick Tosches etches...
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