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Paperback. This work investigates the power behind classical music and dance in Bangkok, the capital and sacred center of Buddhist Thailand. Focusing on the ritual of honouring teachers of music and dance, Deborah Wong reveals a complex network of connections among kings, teachers, knowledge and performance. Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology. Num Pages: 378 pages, 63 halftones, 1 line drawing, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1FMT; AS; AVGD; AVGW; HRE; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 530.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
378
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226905860
ISBN
9780226905860
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 41.09

Paperback. Takes you on an ethnographic journey into the New York salsa scene of the 1990s. Written by a musical insider and from the perspective of salsa musicians, this study offers detailed accounts of these musicians grappling with intercultural tensions and commercial pressures. It addresses a range of issues, musical and social. Series: Studies in Latin America & Caribbean Music. Num Pages: 272 pages, 7 line art, 19 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; AVGH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 149 x 15. Weight in Grams: 396.
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9781592133161
ISBN
9781592133161
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.70

Paperback. Traces the changing sounds of race across some of the best-known rap songs of the past thirty-five years, combining song-level analysis with historical contextualization to show how these representations of identity depend on specific artistic decisions, such as those related to how producers make beats. Num Pages: 224 pages, 5 tables, 5 examples, 27 figures. BIC Classification: AVGR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 151 x 16. Weight in Grams: 322.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520283992
ISBN
9780520283992
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.82

Paperback. Editor(s): Straus, Joseph; Lerner, Neil. Num Pages: 312 pages, 15 black & white halftones, 43 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: AV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780415979078
ISBN
9780415979078
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 74.04

Paperback. Examines the role of sound and audio in the development of media theory and practice, including technologies and performance art events, with particular emphasis on sound, embodiment, art, and technological interactions. This book takes an historical approach, focusing on technologies that became available in the mid-twentieth century-electronics. Num Pages: 262 pages, 8 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: AB; AV; JFD; TTA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 368. Immersion and Embodiment in the Arts and Culture. 262 pages, illustrations. Examines the role of sound and audio in the development of media theory and practice, including technologies and performance art events, with particular emphasis on sound, embodiment, art, and technological interactions. This book takes an historical approach, focusing on technologies that became available in the mid-twentieth century-electronics. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: AB; AV; JFD; TTA. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 18. Weight: 368.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
262
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520258990
ISBN
9780520258990
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.06

Hardback. This individual studies ask what specific sonorous qualities are capable of being registered by different modern media, and how sonic transpositions and transferences across media affect the ways in which human subjects attend to modern soundscapes. Editor(s): Murphet, Julian; Groth, Helen; Hone, Penelope. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: AP; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474416368
ISBN
9781474416368
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.95
€ 102.41

Paperback. This title explores the relationship between music, people and places through an analysis of Bolivian music performances by a non-governmental organization involved in musical activities, by a music performing ensemble and by the people living in two rural areas of Potosi. Num Pages: 302 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSL; AVA; AVGH; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 349.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Number of pages
302
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312240158
ISBN
9780312240158
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.23

Paperback. This volume covers all aspects of sound (including dialogue) and music as they have been utilised in comedy film. The volume looks at various subsets of the 'comedy film' from the post-War period, including black comedy, romantic comedy, slapstick, dialogue comedy, parody and spoofs. Editor(s): Evans, Mark; Hayward, Philip. Series: Genre, Music & Sound. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: APF; AV. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 852.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845536749
ISBN
9781845536749
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.34

Hardcover. This volume covers all aspects of sound (including dialogue) and music as they have been utilised in comedy film. The volume looks at various subsets of the 'comedy film' from the post-War period, including black comedy, romantic comedy, slapstick, dialogue comedy, parody and spoofs. Editor(s): Evans, Mark; Hayward, Philip. Series: Genre, Music & Sound. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJP; APFN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 852.
Publisher
Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781790991
ISBN
9781781790991
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 42.34

Book. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: AVRL1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 303 x 229 x 8. Weight in Grams: 420.
Publisher
Hal Leonard Corporation United States
Number of pages
120
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9781423433255
ISBN
9781423433255
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 27.07

Paperback. Demonstrating the transformative power of sound in film Editor(s): Kalinak, Kathryn. Series: Behind the Silver Screen. Num Pages: 232 pages, 13 bw integrated. BIC Classification: APFX; AVX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 376.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784534059
ISBN
9781784534059
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 29.93

Hardback. Appearing here in English for the first time, Michel Chion's Sound addresses the philosophical questions that inform our encounters with sound, stimulating our thinking about being open to new sounds and to explore the links between language, technology, culture, and hearing. Translator(s): Steintrager, James A. Num Pages: 309 pages, 25 illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA; AVX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 238 x 23. Weight in Grams: 584.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
309
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822360223
ISBN
9780822360223
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 114.89

Paperback. Appearing here in English for the first time, Michel Chion's Sound addresses the philosophical questions that inform our encounters with sound, stimulating our thinking about being open to new sounds and to explore the links between language, technology, culture, and hearing. Translator(s): Steintrager, James A. Num Pages: 312 pages, 25 illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA; AVX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 466.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822360391
ISBN
9780822360391
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.70

Paperback. Addressing the little-known theoretical and artistic experimentation with sound in Soviet cinema, changing practices of voice delivery and translation, and issues of aesthetic ideology and music theory, this book explores the cultural and historical factors that influenced the use of voice, music, and sound on Soviet and post-Soviet screens. Editor(s): Kaganovsky, Lilya; Salazkina, Masha. Num Pages: 314 pages, 24 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 488.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253011046
ISBN
9780253011046
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 33.91

Hardback. Addressing the little-known theoretical and artistic experimentation with sound in Soviet cinema, changing practices of voice delivery and translation, and issues of aesthetic ideology and music theory, this book explores the cultural and historical factors that influenced the use of voice, music, and sound on Soviet and post-Soviet screens. Editor(s): Kaganovsky, Lilya; Salazkina, Masha. Num Pages: 314 pages, 24 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 630.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253010957
ISBN
9780253010957
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 96.07

Paperback. Num Pages: 218 pages, 49 b/w & 8 colour illus. BIC Classification: AVC; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 226 x 17. Weight in Grams: 350.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Transcript Verlag Germany
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
SKU
V9783837625684
ISBN
9783837625684
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 32.49

Paperback. Sound Unseen explores the phenomenon of acousmatic sound - a sound that one hears without seeing its source-and presents a powerful argument for the central yet overlooked role of acousmatic sound in music aesthetics, sound studies, literature, philosophy and the history of the senses. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 234 x 27. Weight in Grams: 514.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780190632212
ISBN
9780190632212
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.74

Paperback. Setting out to broaden the previous field of research on sound, this book promises to renew the debate over the importance of sound to cinema, from a theoretical as well as an historical perspective. Editor(s): Altman, Rick. Series: AFI Film Readers. Num Pages: 298 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 16. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415904575
ISBN
9780415904575
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.78

Paperback. Representational technologies including photography, phonography, and the cinema have helped define modernity itself. This text seeks to examine these technologies, arguing that they allow us to track the relations between capital, science, and cultural practice. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, 15 halftones. BIC Classification: ANH; APF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231115179
ISBN
9780231115179
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.55

Paperback. Discusses about the place of music in the Iraq War and in contemporary American military culture in general. This book describes how American soldiers hear, share, use, and produce music both on and off duty. It studies the role of music from recruitment campaigns and basic training to its use 'in country' before and during missions. Num Pages: 240 pages, 16 b&w illus., 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; 1KBB; 3JMC; AVG; HBWS5; JWT. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Edition
1st
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253220875
ISBN
9780253220875
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 21.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 624 pages, 39 colour tables, 1 colour illustrations, 513 colour line drawings. BIC Classification: AVX; TTA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 279 x 216. .
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
3rd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415731010
ISBN
9780415731010
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 106.17

Paperback. The story of one musician's journey to discover how music can be used as a political tool, for good and bad. Series: Left Book Club. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: AV; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Pluto Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745399300
ISBN
9780745399300
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 18.90

Paperback. Offers a comprehensive introduction to the underlying principles and practical techniques applied to both commercial and research sound synthesizers. This book covers the technology and techniques in music production and sound design enabling the reader to get to grips with the shape of computer technology and music composition. Num Pages: 584 pages, Approx. 240 illustrations. BIC Classification: AVRS; AVX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 192 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1340.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
568
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
3rd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780240521053
ISBN
9780240521053
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 173.30

Paperback. For anyone with a modicum of electronics skills who wants to build an inexpensive sound studio from scratch. Num Pages: 298 pages, 240 illustrations. BIC Classification: AVX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 187 x 20. Weight in Grams: 534.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
298
Condition
New
SKU
V9780070213821
ISBN
9780070213821
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 57.50

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