Petar Janjatović: Ilustrovana YU Rock Enciklopedija 1960-1997 (1998–) [Serbo-Croatian]
Filed under book | Tags: · music, music history, new wave, punk, rock, socialism, yugoslavia
Features biographies and discographies of the rock scene of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
“Prva enciklopedija ove vrste kod nas, koja pokriva celokupni period jugoslovenskog rokenrola od njegovih začetaka ranih šezdesetih do raspada Jugoslavije 1991. godine. Za period od 1991-1997.g. u knjizi se, osim posebnog dela o SR Jugoslaviji, nalaze i podaci o grupama i pojedincima iz bivših jugoslovenskih republika. Enciklopedija je ispisana na više od 700 autorskih strana, obradjuje preko 350 jedinica, a opremljena je sa 250 crno-belih fotografija.”
Publisher Geopoetika, Belgrade, 1998
ISBN 8683053083, 9788683053087
226 pages
via Luka Pejić
PDF (85 MB)
Flash (New edition, 2007)
Celso Favaretto: Tropicália: Alegoria Alegria (1979–) [BR-PT]
Filed under book | Tags: · brazil, cultural history, music, music history, tropicalia
A classic study of the Tropicália movement.
“Lançado em 1979, este estudo de Celso Favaretto tornou-se um clássico sobre o movimento da Tropicália, leitura imprescindível aos interessados pelo tema. O autor reconstitui os nexos entre as composições, os arranjos e as cenas que caracterizam os gestos particulares dos tropicalistas. Explica também as tendências gerais do movimento e mostra como ele desenhou uma nova estética para a música brasileira. Esta reedição, revisada e ampliada, conta com prefácio do músico e linguista Luiz Tatit. ”
Publisher Kairos, 1979
Third edition, Ateliê Editorial, Cotia, 2000
ISBN 8585851031, 9788585851033
184 pages
PDF (4 MB)
Comment (0)Thomas Patteson: Instruments for New Music: Sound, Technology, and Modernism (2015)
Filed under book | Tags: · electric music, machine, media, media technology, modernism, music, music history, musical instruments, radio, sound, sound recording, technology, weimar republic
“Player pianos, radio-electric circuits, gramophone records, and optical sound film—these were the cutting-edge acoustic technologies of the early twentieth century, and for many musicians and artists of the time, these devices were also the implements of a musical revolution. Instruments for New Music traces a diffuse network of cultural agents who shared the belief that a truly modern music could be attained only through a radical challenge to the technological foundations of the art. Centered in Germany during the 1920s and 1930s, the movement to create new instruments encompassed a broad spectrum of experiments, from the exploration of microtonal tunings and exotic tone colors to the ability to compose directly for automatic musical machines. This movement comprised composers, inventors, and visual artists, including Paul Hindemith, Ernst Toch, Jörg Mager, Friedrich Trautwein, László Moholy-Nagy, Walter Ruttmann, and Oskar Fischinger. Patteson’s fascinating study combines an artifact-oriented history of new music in the early twentieth century with an astute revisiting of still-relevant debates about the relationship between technology and the arts.”
Publisher University of California Press, Nov 2015
Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial ShareAlike 4.0 license.
ISBN 9780520963122 (EPUB), 9780520963122 (PDF)
250 pages