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世界的哼唱：聆聽的哲學

The Hum of the World: A Philosophy of Listening

By Lawrence Kramer

Hardcover: 256 pages

Publisher: University of California

Press; First edition (March 19,2019)

ISBN-10: 0520303490

ISBN-13: 978-0520303492

Price: USD 29.95

The Hum of the Worldis an invitation to contemplate what would happen if we heard the world as attentively as we see it.Balancing big ideas with playful wit and lyrical prose, this imaginative volume identifies the role of sound in Western experience as the primary medium in which the presence and persistence of life acquire tangible form.The positive experience of aliveness is not merely in accord with sound,but inaccessible, even inconceivable, without it.Lawrence Kramer’s poetic book roves freely over music, media, language, philosophy, and science from the ancient world to the present, along the way revealing how life is apprehended through sounds ranging from pandemonium to the faint background hum of the world.

魏瑪共和國的古典音樂：孵化了納粹德國的文化與政治

Classical Music in Weimar Germany: Culture and Politics before the Third Reich

By Brendan Fay

Hardcover: 216 pages

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

(October 3, 2019)

ISBN-10: 1350114804

ISBN-13: 978-1350114807

Price: GBP 85

InClassical Music in Weimar Germany,Brendan Fay challenges this paradigm by reassessing the relationship between conservative musical culture and German politics.Drawing upon a range of archival sources, concert reviews and satirical cartoons, Fay maps the complex path of classical music culture from Weimar to Nazi Germany-a trajectory that was more crooked, uneven, or broken than straight.Through an examination of topics as varied as radio and race to nationalism, this book demonstrates the diversity of competing aesthetic, philosophical and political ideals held by German music critics that were a hallmark of Weimar Germany.

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Jazz from Detroit

By Mark Stryker

Hardcover: 358 pages

Publisher: University of Michigan

Press (July 8, 2019)

ISBN-10: 0472074261

ISBN-13: 978-0472074266

Price: USD 39.95

Jazz from Detroitexplores the city’s pivotal role in shaping the course of modern and contemporary jazz.With more than two dozen indepth profiles of remarkable Detroit-bred musicians, complemented by a generous selection of photographs, Mark Stryker makes Detroit jazz come alive as he draws out significant connections between the players, eras, styles, and Detroit’s distinctive history.

英國前衛搖滾：1970-1980

British Progressive Pop 1970-1980

By Andy Bennett

Hardcover: 176 pages

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

(February 6, 2020)

ISBN-10: 1501336630

ISBN-13: 978-1501336638

Price: GBP 96

Positioned between the psychedelic and counter-cultural music of the late 1960s and the punk and new wave styles of the late 1970s,early 1970s British popular music is often overlooked in pop music studies of the late 20th century, but it was, in fact, highly diverse with many artists displaying an eclecticism and flair for musical experimentation.'Progressive pop' artists such as Roxy Music,David Bowie, the early Queen, the Electric Light Orchestra, 10cc and Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel successfully straddled the album and singles markets, producing music that often drew on a variety of different musical styles and traditions.

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