Roll Over Rock: A Study of Music in Contemporary CultureStainer & Bell, 1981 - 175 pages |
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... present , the primitive imagination believes that things are present but invisible . Music was primitive man's means of communication with the invisible spirit world . It could heal the sick and appease the spirits of the dead ; it ...
... present , the primitive imagination believes that things are present but invisible . Music was primitive man's means of communication with the invisible spirit world . It could heal the sick and appease the spirits of the dead ; it ...
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... present culture , contemporary composers have tended to produce a kind of music that most people rightly consider to be the very antithesis of what they have come to know - and love — as music . It took a mere 60 years to devolve from ...
... present culture , contemporary composers have tended to produce a kind of music that most people rightly consider to be the very antithesis of what they have come to know - and love — as music . It took a mere 60 years to devolve from ...
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... present the computer can solve problems faster than man can devise them but , as we gradually come to terms with the machine we have created , computer music may yet become the spearhead for a new dimension in music . At this point we ...
... present the computer can solve problems faster than man can devise them but , as we gradually come to terms with the machine we have created , computer music may yet become the spearhead for a new dimension in music . At this point we ...
Contents
2100351 | 7 |
The Path to Elitism | 21 |
The Path to Chauvinism | 32 |
Copyright | |
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