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... corporeal air listening singing music analysis ...

... of the sirens in Homer’s Odyssey . Overall, this study discourages the common understanding of sound as merely aural and exposes the associated deficiencies in current analytical techniques. corporeal air listening singing music analysis ...

... This chapter explores bodily ramifications of multisite networked music, sometimes called telematics, in which improvisation serves a principal role. Drawing on interviews and musical analysis related to the 2010 networked concert titled “Inspiraling: Telematic Jazz Explorations,” and calling...

... epistemology inaugurate particular feelings of knowing music. Music scholarship exists in relation to an intractable problem: most people feel that they already know music very well. Against such feelings of intimacy, what do disciplinary practices of structural listening and positivist analysis have to offer...

..., the long lineage of music studies can be evaluated positively as having already accomplished much fruitful analysis. Reciprocally, sound studies has productively challenged music studies in developing new questions that do not assume a privileged status for music as a formation of sound.  music...

... This chapter analyzes the Grateful Dead’s development of an authentically rock approach to improvisation. Through analysis of a number of recordings from their early years, it establishes a Framework or paradigm that helped structure their jamming. improvisation rock music jamming ...

... music, and hence jazz, lost its influence over popular music at the end of the war with the demise of many of the most prominent swing bands. This article examines these verities through an analysis of both music industry discourse and a broad range of recordings that were ranked high in charts...

... and participation, which are often taken as paradigms for the analysis of contemporary art practice in terms of their welcome attempt to rethink the relation between aesthetic and social processes. A third goal of the chapter is to ask precisely how it is that improvisation as a socio-musical practice adds...

... and participation, which are often taken as paradigms for the analysis of contemporary art practice in terms of their welcome attempt to rethink the relation between aesthetic and social processes. A third goal of the chapter is to ask precisely how it is that improvisation as a socio-musical practice adds...

... networked music, sometimes called telematics, in which improvisation serves a principal role. Drawing on interviews and musical analysis related to the 2010 networked concert titled “Inspiraling: Telematic Jazz Explorations,” and calling on George E. Lewis’s concept of the Afrological and Vijay Iyer’s...

... and participation, which are often taken as paradigms for the analysis of contemporary art practice in terms of their welcome attempt to rethink the relation between aesthetic and social processes. A third goal of the chapter is to ask precisely how it is that improvisation as a socio-musical practice adds...

... in racial stereotypes. The chapter offers a close analysis of Beto Pùrez’s descriptions of Latin dance in his writing. Then, the chapter incorporates the experiences of Zumba Fitness instructors at Zumba Fitness classes where they learn about Latin music. The chapter ends by considering how Zumba...

... This chapter brings the practical analyses of the Grateful Dead’s improvisational practice into dialogue with research into musical improvisation, discussing both specifically Grateful Dead related research by, for example, David Malvinni and Graeme Boone, and broader musicological research...

... Musical improvisation may be understood as the negotiation of subjectivities in the immediacy of the intercorporeal encounter. Safa is an intercultural Canadian musical ensemble that combines Iranian classical music, free jazz, and Latin percussion. The musicians are invested in maintaining...

... of the globalization of reggaetón and other African diasporic musical practices. On the other hand, the conclusion also considers the possibilities of reggaetón as a diasporic practice through a close analysis of the ways that “Danza Kuduro” draws upon the Angolan popular music, kuduro. The conclusion ends...

... This chapter argues that the tactility of the dancefloor is also evoked in electronic dance music, both thematically and texturally. This cluster of musical styles engages touch through beats, flesh, and grain; that is, it (1) emphasizes percussion (especially at low frequencies and high volume...

... and participation, which are often taken as paradigms for the analysis of contemporary art practice in terms of their welcome attempt to rethink the relation between aesthetic and social processes. A third goal of the chapter is to ask precisely how it is that improvisation as a socio-musical practice adds...

...; the role of black song writers and performers in contributing to the shift in crooning’s meaning, and the growing importance of female audiences in determining content and promoting performers. Analysis of sheet music is foregrounded, as well as publisher memoirs. The racial, gender, and class implications...

... Interdisciplinary artist David Rokeby’s landmark work, Very Nervous System (1986–2004), uses video surveillance technology, synthesizers, a sound system, computers, and image-processing software designed by Rokeby to translate movement into music and/or sound. Through an intuitive process...