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The Sound of Vultures' Wings
(January 2021)
The Tibetan Buddhist Chod Ritual Practice of the Female Buddha Machik Labdron
Jeffrey W. Cupchik - Author
Ven. Phuntsok Rabgey - Foreword by
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Explores the music of the Tibetan Chöd tradition.
The Sound of Vultures’ Wings offers the first in-depth exploration of the music of the Tibetan Chöd tradition, which is based on the liturgical song-poems of the twelfth-century Tibetan female ascetic Machik Labdrön (1055–1153). Chöd is a musical/meditative Vajrayāna method for cutting off the root of suffering, name...(Read More) |
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Sounds Like Helicopters
(October 2019)
Classical Music in Modernist Cinema
Matthew Lau - Author
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Explores how modernist films use classical music in ways that restore the music’s original subversive energy.
Classical music masterworks have long played a key supporting role in the movies—silent films were often accompanied by a pianist or even a full orchestra playing classical or theatrical repertory music—yet the complexity of this role has thus far been underappreciated. ...(Read More) |
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Word, Chant, and Song
(September 2019)
Spiritual Transformation in Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and Sikhism
Harold Coward - Author
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An accessible introduction to the centrality of word, chant, and song in the Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic, and Sikh traditions.
In academic religious studies and musicology, little attention has been given to chanted word, hymns, and songs, yet these are often the key spiritual practices for lay devotees. To address this gap in knowledge, Harold Coward presents a thematic study of sacred sound as it functions in word, chant, and so...(Read More) |
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Anti-Music
(June 2018)
Jazz and Racial Blackness in German Thought between the Wars
Mark Christian Thompson - Author
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Examines how African American jazz music was received in Germany both as a racial and cultural threat and as a partner in promoting the rise of Nazi totalitarian cultural politics.
Anti-Music examines the critical, literary, and political responses to African American jazz music in interwar Germany. During this time, jazz was the subject of overt political debate between le...(Read More) |
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Imagination, Music, and the Emotions
(September 2017)
A Philosophical Study
Saam Trivedi - Author
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Articulates an imaginationist solution to the question of how purely instrumental music can be perceived by a listener as having emotional content.
Both musicians and laypersons can perceive purely instrumental music without words or an associated story or program as expressing emotions such as happiness and sadness. But how? In this book, Saam Trivedi discusses and critiques the leading philosophical approaches to this question...(Read More) |
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Anarchism and Art
(March 2016)
Democracy in the Cracks and on the Margins
Mark Mattern - Author
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Interprets popular art forms as exhibiting core anarchist values and presaging a more democratic world.
Situated at the intersection of anarchist and democratic theory, Anarchism and Art focuses on four popular art forms—DIY (Do It Yourself) punk music, poetry slam, graffiti and street art, and flash mobs—found in the cracks between dominant political, economic, and cultural institutions and ...(Read More) |
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How to Escape
(November 2014)
Magic, Madness, Beauty, and Cynicism
Crispin Sartwell - Author
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Passionate and rollicking personal and intellectual essays by philosopher Crispin Sartwell.
Philosopher, music critic, and syndicated columnist Crispin Sartwell has forged a distinctive and fiercely original identity over the years as a cultural commentator. In books about anarchism, art and politics, Native American and African American thought and culture, Eastern spirituality, and American transcendentalism, Sa...(Read More) |
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Chinese through Song, Second Edition
(September 2014)
Hong Zhang - Author
Zu-yan Chen - Author
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An innovative approach to teaching Chinese language and culture, using folk and popular songs.
Offering an innovative approach to language learning, Chinese through Song helps students develop their language proficiency and music appreciation through the use of folk, popular, and art songs. Because songs emphasize the color, pronunciation, and intonation of every syllable, they can be a valuable tool for im...(Read More) |
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Improvisation, Creativity, and Consciousness
(June 2013)
Jazz as Integral Template for Music, Education, and Society
Edward W. Sarath - Author
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Using insights from Integral Theory, describes how the improvisational methods of jazz can inform education and other fields.
Jazz, America’s original art form, can be a catalyst for creative and spiritual development. With its unique emphasis on improvisation, jazz offers new paradigms for educational and societal change. In this provocative book, musician and educator Edward W. Sarath illuminates how jazz...(Read More) |
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The Guitar and the New World
(April 2013)
A Fugitive History
Joe Gioia - Author
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A transformative look at a popular instrument and a hidden chapter of American history.
The American guitar, that lightweight wooden box with a long neck, hourglass figure, and six metal strings, has evolved over five hundred years of social turmoil to become a nearly magical object—the most popular musical instrument in the world. In The Guitar and the New World, Joe Gioia offers a many-limbed soci...(Read More) |
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