Music - Philosophy and aesthetics
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The Birth of Tragedy and the Case of Wagner
$14.00 Read moreTwo representative and important works in one volume by one of the greatest German philosophers.
The Birth of Tragedy (1872) was Nietzsche’s first book. Its youthful faults were exposed by Nietzsche i- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 12 1967
- ISBN10: 0394703693
- Language: English
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The Great Psychic Outdoors: Adventures in Low Fidelity
$14.95 Read moreExplores the weird world of lo-fi music to investigate its revolutionary potential and its ability to subvert what we think music can do.
Homemade records, tape-hiss worship and a taste for a very pec- Author: Monacelli, Enrico
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1914420608
- Language: English
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Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll
$18.00 Add to cartThis epic cultural and historical odyssey unearths the full influence of occult traditions on rock and roll — from the Beatles to Black Sabbath — and shows how the marriage between mysticism and mus… [more below]
- Author: Bebergal, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 13 2015
- ISBN10: 0399174966
- Language: English
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Extreme Music: From Silence to Noise and Everything in Between
$29.95 Read moreExpand your aural and sensory experiences with Extreme Music. An exploration of tomorrow’s sounds (and silences) today.
Michael Tau had spent years obsessed by the extremes of musical expression. Extr
- Author: Tau, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1627311246
- Language: English
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Chants of a Lifetime: Searching for a Heart of Gold
$18.99 Add to cartChants of a Lifetime offers an intimate collection of stories, teachings, and insights from Krishna Das, who has been called “the chant master of American yoga” by the New York Times. Since 1994, the … [more below]
- Author: Das, Krishna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 23 2018
- ISBN10: 1401955932
- Language: English
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Zen Guitar
$19.99 Add to cartUnleash the song of your soul with Zen Guitar, a contemplative handbook that draws on ancient Eastern wisdom and applies it to music and performance.
Each of us carries a song inside us, the song that- Author: Sudo, Philip Toshio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 24, 1998
- ISBN10: 068483877X
- Language: English
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The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World
$16.95 Read moreThe soundscape–a term coined by the author–is our sonic environment, the ever-present array of noises with which we all live. Beginning with the primordial sounds of nature, we have experienced an e… [more below]
- Author: Schafer, R. Murray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0892814551
- Language: English
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Listen: On Music, Sound and Us
$30.00 Add to cart“I’m not here to change your mind about Dusty Springfield or Shostakovich or Tupac Shakur or synthpop. I’m here to change your mind about your mind.”
There are countless books on music with much anal- Author: Faber, Michel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1335000623
- Language: English
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How Music Works
$28.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – David Byrne’s incisive and enthusiastic look at the musical art form, from its very inceptions to the influences that shape it, whether acoustical, economic, social, or tec… [more below]
- Author: Byrne, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 02 2017
- ISBN10: 0804188939
- Language: English
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Music, the Brain, and Ecstasy: How Music Captures Our Imagination
$17.99 Add to cartWhat makes a distant oboe’s wail beautiful? Why do some kinds of music lift us to ecstasy, but not others? How can music make sense to an ear and brain evolved for detecting the approaching lion or tr
- Author: Jourdain, R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 01, 2008
- ISBN10: 038078209X
- Language: English
