Musicians From A Different Shore
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Author |
: Mari Yoshihara |
Publisher |
: Temple University Press |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2008-05-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781592133345 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1592133347 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis Musicians from a Different Shore by : Mari Yoshihara
Musicians of Asian descent enjoy unprecedented prominence in concert halls, conservatories, and classical music performance competitions. In the first book on the subject, Mari Yoshihara looks into the reasons for this phenomenon, starting with her own experience of learning to play piano in Japan at the age of three. Yoshihara shows how a confluence of culture, politics and commerce after the war made classical music a staple in middle-class households, established Yamaha as the world's largest producer of pianos and gave the Suzuki method of music training an international clientele. Soon, talented musicians from Japan, China and South Korea were flocking to the United States to study and establish careers, and Asian American families were enrolling toddlers in music classes. Against this historical backdrop, Yoshihara interviews Asian and Asian American musicians, such as Cho-Liang Lin, Margaret Leng Tan, Kent Nagano, who have taken various routes into classical music careers. They offer their views about the connections of race and culture and discuss whether the music is really as universal as many claim it to be. Their personal histories and Yoshihara's observations present a snapshot of today's dynamic and revived classical music scene.
Author |
: Philip H. Highfill |
Publisher |
: SIU Press |
Total Pages |
: 406 |
Release |
: 1973 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0809315254 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780809315253 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800 by : Philip H. Highfill
Like the works already published, these latest volumes of the Biographical Dictionary deal with theatre people of every ilk, ranging from dressers and one-performance actors to trumpeter John Shore (inventor of the tuning fork) and the incomparable Sarah Siddons. Also prominent is Susanna Rowson, a novelist, actress, and early female playwright. Although born into a British military family, Rowson often wrote plays that dealt with patriotic American themes and spent much of her career on the American stage. The theatrical jewel of these volumes is the "divine Sarah" Siddons: "She raised the tragedy to the skies," wrote William Hazlitt, and "embodied to our imagination the fables of mythology, of the heroic and dignified mortals of elder time." She endured much tragedy herself, including a crippling debilitating illness and the deaths of five of her seven children. Siddons played major roles in both comedy and tragedy, not the least of which was a performance as Hamlet.
Author |
: Timothy D. Taylor |
Publisher |
: Duke University Press |
Total Pages |
: 144 |
Release |
: 2023-03-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781478024446 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1478024445 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis Working Musicians by : Timothy D. Taylor
In Working Musicians Timothy D. Taylor offers a behind-the-scenes look at the labor of the mostly unknown composers, music editors, orchestrators, recording engineers, and other workers involved in producing music for films, television, and video games. Drawing on dozens of interviews with music workers in Los Angeles, Taylor explores the nature of their work and how they understand their roles in the entertainment business. Taylor traces how these cultural laborers have adapted to and cope with the conditions of neoliberalism as, over the last decade, their working conditions have become increasingly precarious. Digital technologies have accelerated production timelines and changed how content is delivered, while new pay schemes have emerged that have transformed composers from artists into managers and paymasters. Taylor demonstrates that as bureaucratization and commercialization affect every aspect of media, the composers, musicians, music editors, engineers, and others whose soundtracks excite, inspire, and touch millions face the same structural economic challenges that have transformed American society, concentrating wealth and power in fewer and fewer hands.
Author |
: Beata M. Kowalczyk |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 140 |
Release |
: 2020-12-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000330182 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000330184 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis Transnational Musicians by : Beata M. Kowalczyk
Informed by theories pertaining to transnational mobility, ethnicity and race, gender, postcolonialism, as well as Japanese studies, Transnational Musicians explores the way Japanese musicians establish their transnational careers in the hierarchically structured classical music world. Drawing on rich material from multi-sited fieldwork and in-depth interviews with Japanese artists in Japan, France and Poland, this study portrays the structurally – and individually – conditioned opportunities and constraints of becoming a transnational classical musician. It shows how transnational artists strive to conciliate the irreconcilable: their professional identification with the dominant image of ‘rootless’ classical musicianship and their ethnocultural affiliation with Japan. As such this book critically engages with the neoliberal discourse on talent and meritocracy prevailing in the creative/cultural industry, which promotes the common image of cosmopolitan artists, whose high, universal skills allow them to carry out their occupational activity internationally, regardless of such prescriptive criteria as gender, ethnicity and race. Highly interdisciplinary, this book will appeal to students and researchers interested in such fields as migration, transnational mobility, ethnicity and race in the creative/cultural sector, gender studies, Japanese culture and other related social issues. It will also be instructive for professionals from the world of classical music, as well as ordinary readers passionate about Japanese society.
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Total Pages |
: 198 |
Release |
: 1912 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105114064509 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis Pacific Coast Musical Review by :
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: |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 1018 |
Release |
: 1925 |
ISBN-10 |
: NYPL:33433085609430 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Pacific Coast Musician by :
Author |
: David Lasocki |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 1305 |
Release |
: 2018-05-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351578226 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351578227 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Biographical Dictionary of English Court Musicians, 1485-1714, Volumes I and II by : David Lasocki
Compiled by scholars with unrivalled knowledge of the sources, this dictionary provides biographies of all musicians and instrument makers employed by the English court from 1485-1714. A number of the musicians featured here have never previously received a dictionary entry. Coverage of these minor figures helps to flesh out the picture of musical life in the court in a way which individual studies of more major composers cannot. In addition to basic biographical details, entries feature information on: appointments; probate material; family background; heraldry; signatures and holograph documents; subscriptions to books; bibliographic references. A finding-list of variant names, details of the succession of court places assumed by musicians and an index of subjects and place names completes this comprehensive reference work.
Author |
: Dagmar Abfalter |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages |
: 183 |
Release |
: 2022-05-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000615760 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000615766 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis Music as Labour by : Dagmar Abfalter
This book brings together research at the intersection of music, cultural industries, management, antiracist politics and gender studies to analyse music as labour, in particular highlighting social inequalities and activism. Providing insights into labour processes and practices, the authors investigate the changing role of manifold actors, institutions and technologies and the corresponding shifts in the valuation and evaluation of music achievements that have shaped the relationship between music, labour, the economy and politics. With research into a variety of geographic regions, chapters shed light on the various ways by which musicians’ work is performed, constructed and managed at different times and show that musicians’ working practices have been marked by precarity, insecurity and short-term contracts long before capitalism invited everybody to ‘be creative’. In doing so, they specifically examine the dynamics in music professions and educational institutions, as well as gatekeepers and mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion. With a specific emphasis on inequalities in the music industries, this book will be essential reading for scholars seeking to understand the collective actions and initiatives that foster participation, inclusion, diversity and fair pay amongst musicians and other workers. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution- Non Commercial- No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Author |
: Sam Riley |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages |
: 447 |
Release |
: 2009-12-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9798216148647 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis Star Struck by : Sam Riley
This balanced examination looks at America's pervasive celebrity culture, concentrating on the period from 1950 to the present day. Star Struck: An Encyclopedia of Celebrity Culture is neither a stern critic nor an apologist for celebrity infatuation, a phenomenon that sometimes supplants more weighty matters yet constitutes one of our nation's biggest exports. This encyclopedia covers American celebrity culture from 1950 to 2008, examining its various aspects—and its impact—through 86 entries by 30 expert contributors. Demonstrating that all celebrities are famous, but not all famous people are celebrities, the book cuts across the various entertainment medias and their legions of individual "stars." It looks at sports celebrities and examines the role of celebrity in more serious pursuits and institutions such as the news media, corporations, politics, the arts, medicine, and the law. Also included are entries devoted to such topics as paranoia and celebrity, one-name celebrities, celebrity nicknames, family unit celebrity, sidekick celebrities, and even criminal celebrities.
Author |
: Scott Barry Kaufman |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 463 |
Release |
: 2013-04-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199794119 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199794111 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Complexity of Greatness by : Scott Barry Kaufman
What are the origins of greatness? Few other questions have caused such intense debate, controversy, and diversity of opinions. In recent years, a large body of research has accumulated that suggests that the origins of greatness are extraordinarily complex. Instead of talent or practice, it's talent and practice. Instead of nature or nature, it's nature via nurture. Instead of practice, it's deliberate practice. Instead of the causes of greatness in general, it's the determinants of greatness specific to a field. The Complexity of Greatness brings together a variety of perspectives and the most cutting-edge research on genes, talent, intelligence, expertise, deliberate practice, creativity, prodigies, savants, passion, and persistence. A variety of different domains are represented, including science, mathematics, expert memory, acting, visual arts, music, and sports. This book demonstrates that the truth about greatness is far more nuanced, complex, and fascinating than any one viewpoint or paradigm can possibly reveal. Indeed, it suggests that the time has come to go beyond talent or practice. Greatness is much, much more.