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Their rhythms have influenced how we walk on the street, how we look in a mirror, and how we confront the world around us. Pop music has influenced our morals and customs; it has transformed our attitude towards race, gender, religion, and politics. In a revolutionary and ambition book, Peter Doggett shares the history of pop music from Bob Dylan and the Beatles to the stars of the 21st century and how technological advances (Spotify and other streaming services) have made pop music the vital blood of the modern world.

La música es un hecho social, no es únicamente un fenómeno acústico organizado sino también un signo, un símbolo, un código acerca del comportamiento social y un modo de interpretar la vida del ser humano, al igual que la economía, la política o la psicología. Así lo explica Christian Spencer, en la presentación de esta segunda edición de la obra que fue merecedora del premio Fidel Sepúlveda en 2016. En sus páginas el lector encontrará una etnografía musical centrada en los músicos de cueca urbana de Santiago de Chile, entre los años 1990 y 2010, es decir, una mirada desde...

Drawing on the work of leading experts from around the globe, Musicology and Sister Disciplines provides the definitive, authoritative statement on the scope of musicology today and its relationship to other fields of academic endeavour, including philosophy and aesthetics, literary studies, art history, mathematics, computer science, historiography, and sociology. These groundbreaking papers represent the outcome of a major musicological conference in 1997, and include contributions from the philosopher Bernard Williams and world-famous mathematician Roger Penrose.

Explores the history of hebrew music and the connection between music and the Bible, instruments, and mystical poetry, with a CD that contains 17 mystical songs.