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The Complete & Independent Guide to the Eurovision Song Contest 2024
Down River
In 1972, David Ackles's third album, American Gothic, was released to a flurry of press plaudits declaring it to be 'the Sgt Pepper of folk' and one of the greatest records ever made. Yet the album, like its two predecessors, failed to sell, and after one more record, its creator simply vanished. He found work, raised a family, and died a couple of decades later, having never made another record.Today, Ackles's music is largely consigned to the streaming netherworld. It is yet to be properly repackaged and reappraised, and he remains largely unknown. But there is no middle ground. You either love him or you've never heard of him. His admirers range from Black Flag's Greg Ginn to indie polymath Jim O'Rourke to Genesis drummer turned platinum-selling solo artist Phil Collins. In 2003, when Elvis Costello interviewed Elton John for the first episode of his television show Spectacle, the two spoke at some length, and with palpable respect, about Ackles's great talent, before performing a duet of his 'Down River'--the same song Collins had selected for Desert Island Discs a decade earlier.David Ackles did not make rock'n'roll music, and Down River is not a rock'n'roll story. It is a search for an artist who got lost. Not a pretty-good, I-wonder-what-happened-to-him sort of talent, but a man revered as one of the greats. Drawing on conversations with Ackles during the last year of his life as well as full access to archive material, it positions him as one of the great maverick talents of popular music--an equal of Scott Walker and Tom Waits. It seeks to understand the disconnect between his obvious gifts and his commercial failure, and wonders about the fickleness of fame and cult status.How does this process of retrospective recognition work, and why does it happen for some but not others? Was Ackles's music just too strange, or might his time yet come? And what do the answers to these questions say about the mythmaking of the popular music industry--and about us, the audience?
Transcending Nationalism?
The European music world at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century was characterised by national ideas and nationalistic ideologies. But the reality of the music itself seems quite different: inspiration did not stop at national borders, and composers sought out poetic material and artistic goals outside the traditions of their homeland. It was often music critics and later music historians who put the works and their creators in a strict national context. In Eastern Europe, traditions of national music writing have been particularly well preserved, with effects that continue to this day. The texts in this volume attempt to suggest alternative readings, to reveal nationalistic stereotypes, and to place the music back in the transnational complexity and richness of its origins.
Glasgow's Greatest Hits
Dive in to Glasgow's vibrant musical heritage with this entertaining guide to the people, places and events which have shaped the city's world-renowned music scene.Covering folk to funk, pop to punk, this bite-sized book celebrates the significant gigs, beloved venues and famous ( and infamous) musicians who have stayed, played and made music in the UK's first UNESCO City of Music.From Simple Minds to Sydney Devine, The Blue Nile to Belle & Sebastian, Alex Harvey to the Apollo, Glasgow's Greatest Hits gathers a host of tall tales and fascinating facts, big names and lesser-known legends in one pocket compendium.Join Fiona Shepherd, Alison Stroak and Jonathan Trew on this compelling voyage of discovery.
Maria Hester Park
This book offers a vital contribution to the study of women in classical music, focusing on composer Maria Hester Park. It addresses a significant gap in scholarship on late 18th- and early 19th-century women composers, examining Park's life, keyboard works, influence within London's cultural milieu, and professional networks within a male-dominated musical world. The book explores her performances, engagement with subscription publishing, and the societal expectations shaping female musical accomplishments, encouraging a broader recognition of women's artistic legacies from this period.
Essential Music Theory Level 11 Advanced Harmony and Counterpoint
Essential Music Theory Level 11 Advanced Harmony and Counterpoint is the final book in the Essential Music Theory series. It is designed to prepare students for the harmony and counterpoint diploma examination. This book covers chromatic harmony and includes topics such as modal mixture, the Neopolitan chord, augmented 6th chords, common-tone chords, figured bass realization and much more. The information is presented in a clear manner with plenty of exercises to practice the concepts covered in this book.
Modernization of Hydrodynamic Operating Modes of
The practical significance of the research results lies in the development of improved designs of self-regulating active elements of the confuser-diffuser type with improved hydrodynamic characteristics, as well as engineering methods for calculating self-regulating active elements and solar heating plants based on them. The results of the completed scientific research allow us to develop designs of the simplest self-regulating active elements that provide a significant increase in energy efficiency, cost-effectiveness and reliability of solar systems, a reduction in material consumption and the cost of individual elements and units, and a significant simplification of their operation compared to traditional solutions.
Sonic Circulations
The role music, sound, and voice played in modern knowledge production in the early twentieth century Derived from the Latin words circum (round) and ire (to go), a circuit can refer to any bounded area. For contemporary readers, it might evoke the course of an electric current, as well as the flow of global capital. Yet sound--an inherently temporal phenomenon--can only circulate in mediated forms. Tracing the pathways through and by which sound traveled in the early twentieth century, Sonic Circulations not only proposes a new account of the role of music, sound, and voice in modern knowledge production but also poses urgent questions about technology and empire, while also foregrounding the tensions and paradoxes involved in situating the sonic within any fixed regime or system. Exploring key moments in the development of disciplines including linguistics, sociology, and eugenics, as well as musicology itself, Sonic Circulations explores the many ways that sound has functioned as evidence and information, as both an object and an agent of scientific mastery. Contributors explore the processes by which sound has moved through a variety of conceptual, as well as physical domains, highlighting the richness of historical contingency. This volume shows that circulation happened in many spaces and through many technologies: through sound recording, but also through the trade magazine and in the classroom; through wireless broadcasting and international festivals, but also in the cozy spaces of the suburban home. Featuring scholars working at the borders of musicology, ethnomusicology, sound studies, and music theory, this volume's ten chapters and two epilogues illuminate an alternative genealogy of modernism, emphasizing the embeddedness of even the most abstract practices in the structures of imperial modernity. Contributors: Peter Asimov, Andrea F. Bohlman, Harriet Boyd-Bennett, Alexander W. Cowan, Emily I. Dolan, John Gabriel, Jonathan Hicks, Alexandra Kieffer, Gundula Kreuzer, Deirdre Loughridge, Emily MacGregor, Giles Masters, Arman Schwartz, Danielle Simon, John Tresch.
A Booke of Christmas Carols, Illuminated From Ancient Manuscripts in the British Museum
Memories of a Musician; Reminiscences of Seventy Years of Musical Life
The Vinyl Revival, Gender, and Collecting Aesthetics
The book considers record collecting and vinyl consumption in the 21st century and in the context of the vinyl revival. The book highlights gender, and how gender disparity is expressed in vinyl communities.Veronica Skrimsj繹 considers vinyl consumerism and collecting and how the collector identifies themselves within the socio-political environment of the Global North, with a particular focus on gender. The book includes considerations of Record Store Day, DIY and DI-together cultures, as well as the historic context needed to evaluate record collecting in the twenty-first century.The work is aimed at both an academic and a general readership, and as such strikes a more informal tone. Personal experiences are emphasised throughout because vinyl consumers are not a homogenous group, and it is only via personal experiences that we can understand the complexity of consumption. The personal also helps make the content more relatable, which is crucial as old stereotypes helped distance the collector for the everyday consumer. Readers will benefit from a different perspective on record collecting and consumptions as the book highlights active, creative consumption, and provides an in-depth, innovative analysis of how gender inequality is constructed within this context.
