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Modern Folksingers: Music Discovery (Bob Dylan Collection)

Explore the vast world of modern folk music with this guide, where the beauty of raw and emotive voices melds with the simplicity of acoustic instruments to transport listeners. Discover iconic folk singers like Bruce Springsteen, whose introspective albums and folk sensibility have added depth to his music. Dive into the legendary career of Phil Ochs, a masterful storyteller who used music to convey social and political messages.

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Make Music with AI Tools: Create Beats Mix and Master Smarter

Dive into the transformative world of AI-enhanced music production. This meticulously crafted book is your gateway to understanding and utilizing artificial intelligence in the creation, mixing, and mastering of music, no matter your level of expertise. Whether you're a novice or a seasoned producer, you'll discover the tools and techniques that AI offers to streamline and elevate your music production process.

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DJ Snake: L'incroyable Ascension d'un Prodige de la Musique Electronique (French Edition)

Plongez dans l’univers captivant de DJ Snake, l’une des figures les plus influentes de la musique électronique contemporaine. Ce livre retrace son incroyable parcours, de ses débuts modestes dans les rues d’Ermont à son ascension fulgurante en tant que superstar mondiale. Découvrez les coulisses de ses plus grands succès, comme "Turn Down for What", "Lean On" et "Taki Taki", ainsi que les collaborations légendaires avec des artistes tels que Justin Bieber, Cardi B, Selena Gomez et bien d’autres.

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Heaviness in Metal Music Production Volume II: Learn from the Masters

Heaviness in Metal Music Production, Volume II: Learn from the Masters details how the fundamental musical quality of metal, ‘heaviness’, is created during record production, offering unprecedented learning opportunities provided by eight world-leading producers mixing the same multi-track of the song ‘In Solitude’ and sharing insights into their creative visions and technical realizations.

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Rock Music Styles: A History 9th Edition

Rock Music Styles: A History takes students on a musical journey through the development of rock music from its origins to its most contemporary styles. Charlton uses in-depth summaries and descriptions paired with a historical background to help immerse students in different musical genres. Learning from featured performers throughout the text and exploring important songs in new and revised Listening Guides, students will be able to draw connections between musical developments throughout the decades. The ninth edition of Rock Music Styles: A History provides students a deeper understanding and appreciation of rock music styles in the 20th century and beyond.

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The Signs of the Times: The Intersection between Popular Culture and Political Theology

This book delves into the dynamic interplay of popular culture and political theology, examining three key areas of interaction: engagement with liturgy and scripture, film and television, and music. From depictions of Jesus in South Park and Family Guy to Beyoncé’s Lemonade, from cinematic scandals to portrayals of atheists and holy fools in film, from Islamic pop music to Bible-themed cookbooks and church yoga practices, this book explores how religious individuals and communities incorporate popular culture into their political theologies across diverse sets of beliefs and practices.

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A Critical Phenomenology of Music

Drawing a link between music and what Maurice Merleau-Ponty calls the habit body – a quasi-transcendental structure at the heart of our perceptual, social, and agential being – this book helps articulate why music has the power to express as well as shape our existence at a fundamental level. Using phenomenology, research in the cognitive sciences, and first-person descriptions of musical experiences, this book addresses topics such as the relationship of music to identity, the capacity of music to be personally and socially transformative, the role of music in our perception of others, the connection between music and trauma, and the possibility of engendering we-experiences through shared musical time.

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Mahler's Symphonic World: Music for the Age of Uncertainty

A new analysis of Mahler’s symphonies, placing each within the context of his musical way of being in and experiencing the world. Between 1888 and 1909 Gustav Mahler completed nine symphonies and the orchestral song cycle Das Lied von der Erde; his tenth symphony was left incomplete at his death in 1911.

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Music and Music Therapy Interventions in Clinical Practice

This textbook aims to provide practical and comprehensive guidance on the application of music and music therapy in clinical settings. The chapters are written with an evidence-based approach. The first part of the volume defines the psychological, biological, and neuroscientific basis of the therapeutic use of music.

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Songs of Nashville: The Real Stories Behind Country Music's Greatest Hits

Here are the untold stories behind country’s most influential songs from the tunesmiths themselves—featuring interviews with Jelly Roll, Taylor Swift cowriters Liz Rose and Lori McKenna, Luke Combs cowriter Drew Parker, Morgan Wallen hit writer Josh Thompson, chart-toppers Clint Black and Vince Gill, legends and trendsetters like the late Merle Haggard and Kinky Friedman, Americana troubadour Jim Lauderdale, and song crafters with scores in film and television like A Star Is Born Oscar nominees Hillary Lindsey and Natalie Hemby and Songland judge Shane McAnally.

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Sound N' Fury: Rock N' Roll Stories

Experience rock history through sharp, engaging stories featuring icons like Guns N’ Roses, The Rolling Stones, and Aerosmith Most rock ’n’ roll books are a bore. They all have the same narrative arc and are aimed at the dwindling following that now follows an artist that has long passed their AARP date.

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The AI Music Problem: Why Machine Learning Conflicts With Musical Creativity

Music poses unique and complex challenges for artificial intelligence, even as 21st-century AI grows ever more adept at generating compelling content. The AI Music Problem: Why Machine Learning Conflicts With Musical Creativity probes the challenges behind AI-generated music, with an investigation that straddles the technical, the musical, and the aesthetic.

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George Gershwin: An Intimate Portrait (Music in American Life)

George Gershwin lived his life with delight and vitality, but with melancholy as well, for he was unable to make a place for himself--no family of his own and no real home in music. He and his siblings received little love from their mother and no direction from their father.

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The Science of The Beatles: The Technology and Theory Behind the Music and Lyrics

An In-Depth Analysis of The Beatles' Music and the Theory, Techniques, and Technology That Made It Possible When people look back in two hundred years time at our culture, whose music will have survived from today?

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The AI Music Revolution: Creativity Controversy and Collaboration

The relationship between artificial intelligence and music is no longer a futuristic fantasy—it is a transformative reality. "The AI Music Revolution: Creativity, Controversy, and Collaboration" explores how AI is reshaping music creation, analysis, and experience, from generating complex symphonies to analyzing intricate musical patterns.

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A Perfect Harmony Music Mathematics and Science

From the earliest of civilisations, humans have found ways to make music, whether through makeshift drums or artfully drilled bone flutes. But how did music – effectively little more than a series of certain tones and rhythms – become so integral to the human experience?

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Handbook of Neurologic Music Therapy 2nd Edition

Neurologic Music Therapy (NMT) is a form of music therapy developed for people suffering from cognitive, sensory, or motor dysfunctions - arising from neurological diseases of the nervous system. People who can benefit from this therapy include sufferers from: stroke, traumatic brain injury, Parkinson's and Huntington's disease, cerebral palsy, Alzheimer's disease, autism, and other neurological diseases affecting cognition, movement, and communication (e.g., MS, Muscular Dystrophy, etc).

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Tearing Down the Orange Curtain: How Punk Rock Brought Orange County to the World

The untold story of OC punk—the loud, rebellious force behind the ‘90s explosion of the Orange County music scene, featuring stories about legendary bands. When it comes to punk communities across the world, the Orange County punk scene stands out as an undeniable trendsetter that helped define the sound and style of the rapidly evolving genre.

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The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies Volume 1

Improvisation informs a vast array of human activity, from creative practices in art, dance, music, and literature to everyday conversation and the relationships to natural and built environments that surround and sustain us.

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The Audio Circuits Cookbook: Building Blocks and Tools to Design Professional Audio Devices

The Audio Circuits Cookbook is a comprehensive collection of high-quality audio circuit modules―“building blocks” ―that readers can arrange to create complete audio devices. More than 80 featured circuits cover every aspect of audio, from basics such as active rectifiers, peak followers, and oscillators, to complete professional quality devices including compressors, equalizers, preamps, and an analog synthesizer.

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