Music Composition

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Hip-Hop Civics

Connected Learning in the Rap Classroom

By Jabari M. Evans
Subjects: Music, Music Composition, Education, Higher Education, Media Studies, New Media
Series: Music and Social Justice

How Hip-Hop-based education can engage Black and Brown students in civic education

Hold Me Down

By Ben Lauren
Subjects: Writing, Music, Music Composition
Series: Music and Social Justice

How the concept of feel is used to write songs

The Bastard Instrument

A Cultural History of the Electric Bass

By Brian F. Wright
Subjects: Music, Popular Music, American Studies, Music Theory, Music Composition, Jazz
Series: Tracking Pop

Centering the electric bass in popular music history

Opera for Everyone

The Industry's Experiments with American Opera in the Digital Age

By Megan Steigerwald Ille
Subjects: Music, Music Composition, Musicology, Theater and Performance, Cultural Studies

How one opera company represents the economic precarity and aesthetic possibilities of operatic performance in the twenty-first century U.S.

The Pop Palimpsest

Intertextuality in Recorded Popular Music

By Lori Burns & Serge Lacasse
Subjects: Music, Music Composition
Series: Tracking Pop

A fascinating interdisciplinary collection of essays on intertextual relationships in popular music

Uncharted

Creativity and the Expert Drummer

By Bill Bruford
Subjects: Music, Music Theory, Music Composition, Jazz
Series: Tracking Pop

Renowned rock drummer Bill Bruford analyzes the creative processes of drumming, using his own— and other famous musicians’— expertise and insights

Beyond Notation

The Music of Earle Brown

By Rebecca Y. Kim
Subjects: Music, Music Composition, Musicology, Music Theory, Composition

The first comprehensive survey of the groundbreaking work of Earle Brown, augmented with several newly published items from his personal archive

 

Bytes and Backbeats

Repurposing Music in the Digital Age

By Steve Savage
Subjects: Music, Music Composition, Music Theory, Digital Projects, Cultural Studies, Media Studies
Series: Tracking Pop

An examination of how musical activity has been transformed by contemporary production practices

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