This book explores the transformation of ideas of the material in late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century musical composition. New music of this era is argued to reflect a historical moment when the idea of materiality itself is in flux. Engaging with thinkers such as Theodor Adorno, Sara Ahmed, Zygmunt Bauman, Rosi Braidotti, and Timothy Morton, the author considers music's relationship with changing material conditions, from the rise of neo-liberalisms and information technologies to new concepts of the natural world. Drawing on musicology, cultural theory, and philosophy, the author develops a critical understanding of musical bodies, objects, and the environments of their interaction. Music is grasped as something that both registers material changes in society whilst also enabling us to practice materiality differently.

New Music and the Crises of Materiality: Sounding Bodies and Objects in Late Modernity

Arts & Photography

Wilson, Samuel

Music

Routledge

New Music and the Crises of Materiality

An outbreak of a disease known as the black vomit” prevents the English from strengthening their hold in The New World” in the eighteenth century, with huge repercussions; the untimely death of an emperor prevents Chinese and Portuguese explorers from meeting along the coast of West Africa in the fifteenth century; the most significant factor in the Spanish exploration of North America turns out not to be Spain's mighty armies or her unrivaled fleet, but the lowly mosquito. In human history, little things can make a big difference, as Samuel Wilson demonstrates in The Emperor's Giraffe and Other Stories of Cultures in Contact .Focusing on individuals caught by chance in pivotal times and places, Wilson explores the ways in which seemingly small decisions made during the initial contact period” between two cultures have had a huge impact on the course of history. Many of the stories illustrate that, despite thousands of years of isolation, the states and empires of the Old World were remarkably similar in structure and organization to those of the Americas. And the course of events in these past societies was at least partially determined by decisions made by people very much like ourselvesarmed with imperfect knowledge and fueled by personal agendas.More than anything else, The Emperor's Giraffe shows that the consequences of these contact periods” are still very much with us, in some rather surprising ways. Who could have predicted that the British colonization of the West Indies would come to a symbolic end with a 1950 EnglandWest Indies cricket match? Who would have guessed that centuries-old European folk tales would make their way to America and be brought back to Europe hundred of years later in the guise of Disney characters? Little known events with large consequences and remarkable characters fill these interesting, informative, and sometimes surprising essays.

The Emperor's Giraffe And Other Stories Of Cultures In Contact

Business & Money

Economics

Basic Books

Vascular access surgery

Medical Books

Medicine

YEAR BOOK MEDICAL

Biology Anthology

West Pub. Co.

Book by Wilson, Samuel, Huber, Leonard V.

The Cabildo on Jackson Square

Huber, Leonard V.

Architecture

Pelican Pub Co Inc

Focuses on one of the most comprehensive 19th-century Greek Revival communities.

New Orleans Architecture, Volume 1: The Lower Garden District

History

Americas

Mission Handbook: North American Protestant Ministries Overseas

MARC

Fortunately, for today's reader, John H. B. Latrobe was a journal-keeper. "Southern Travels" reveals Latrobe at his best: a writer whose descriptive powers bring a two-month period in late 1834 into sharp focus. Latrobe records the events of his journey from New York to Natchez, where Mrs. Latrobe planned to stay the winter with her family, and of his return trip by stagecoach to their home in Baltimore. Latrobe's eye for detail is unsurpassed. Life on shipboard, the Creole city of New Orleans, the river town of Natchez, and the hazards of stagecoach travel all come to life under his pen- and his brush. An accomplished artist, he produced watercolors of sights encountered along the way and adorned his journal with marginal drawings. Latrobe, son of Benjamin H. B. Labtrobe, architect and designer of the nation's capitol, chose law as his profession. That he was accomplished in other fields as well is evident by perusing his journal. Here is an agreeable companion to guide the reader through the nineteeth-century South.

Southern Travels: Journal of John H. B. Latrobe 1834

Science & Math

Earth Sciences

Historic New Orleans

The Real Rules of Business Success in China investigates the modern realities of doing business in the largest consumer market on earth. Using real-life examples from international firms currently operating in the country – such as IKEA, General Motors, Intel, and Disney – as well as original interviews with Chinese and Western corporate executives with decades of experience doing business in the country, The Real Rules of Business Success in China provides practical and functional strategies for business executives preparing to establish profitable operations in the Middle Kingdom.

The Real Rules of Business Success in China

International

Independently published

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