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Music
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-83867-316-1

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Publication date: 30 September 2010

John Bryce Merrill

It's a simple idea, really: music has force. In The Mourning Bride, William Congreve famously wrote that music has “charms to soothe a savage beast, to soften rocks, or bend a…

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It's a simple idea, really: music has force. In The Mourning Bride, William Congreve famously wrote that music has “charms to soothe a savage beast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.” Just about anyone who's ever listened to music will agree with that. Upbeat songs energize us, and ballads bring us to tears. Music moves us in so many ways – to say nothing of the ways we use music to move people (see the U.S. Marine Corps use of heavy metal music to extract Manuel Noriega from Panama). It's simple, really.

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Studies in Symbolic Interaction
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-0-85724-361-4

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Publication date: 7 March 2019

Asya Draganova

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Popular Music in Contemporary Bulgaria: At the Crossroads
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-78743-697-8

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Publication date: 30 September 2010

Robert Owen Gardner

The ways that individuals interact with and through music have changed dramatically over the past 70 years. The advent of radio, television, and film brought strange and…

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The ways that individuals interact with and through music have changed dramatically over the past 70 years. The advent of radio, television, and film brought strange and unfamiliar forms of music into the most remote corners of the world (see Peterson, 2004), profoundly transforming the role of music in everyday life and the spaces in which it is consumed. The rise of the Internet in the past 20 years has highlighted an ever-increasing complexity in communication among people interacting in musical spaces. In the process, music subcultures have become less definitive, static, and exclusive; scenes have become increasingly archetypical and symbolic; while music communities have become more situational and recurring. While each concept highlights a different aspect of music-cultural space, it is important and useful to examine how their evolution highlights the relevance of interactionist approaches to the study of music.

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Studies in Symbolic Interaction
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-0-85724-361-4

Article
Publication date: 4 July 2008

Ana Dubnjakovic

The purpose of this paper is to present a variety of current resources associated with electroacoustic music suitable for updating academic and large public library collections.

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The purpose of this paper is to present a variety of current resources associated with electroacoustic music suitable for updating academic and large public library collections.

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The approach taken in the paper is to identify resources meant to provide guidance in locating appropriate resources and to identify specific resources regarding electroacoustic collections that are grouped in several categories for ease of reading.

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The complexity of definition of electroacoustic music and its interdisciplinary nature has had a negative impact on availability of collection development guides for electroacoustic music. Furthermore, resource formats associated with this type of music are heavily dependent on technology and change with great frequency which makes them challenging to keep up with.

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The paper offers practical advice about updating electroacoustic music collections.

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Collection Building, vol. 27 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0160-4953

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Publication date: 1 January 1979

Tony Reed and Jim Davey

The provision of music on ILL has long been a difficult area, with a lack of centralised Bibliographic control a particular problem. Although standards still vary rather widely…

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The provision of music on ILL has long been a difficult area, with a lack of centralised Bibliographic control a particular problem. Although standards still vary rather widely, advances are being made in the spheres of national provision of music and the number and quality of local inter/ending schemes.

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Interlending Review, vol. 7 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0140-2773

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Publication date: 31 May 2013

Youngjoo Na and Tove Agnhage

The recent influence of the mass media communication emphasized the visionary image of the music and eventually the close relationship between the music and fashion industries was…

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The recent influence of the mass media communication emphasized the visionary image of the music and eventually the close relationship between the music and fashion industries was formed. Consumers who share a similar taste in music could relate to each other more actively, and as a result, they began to develop similar aesthetic views and emotions. From this matter, the aim of this research is to conduct a survey that would go over a variety of music and fashion preferences of the consumers in order to analyze the relationship between the two. The main objective was to investigate how strongly the preference styles of music and fashion match each other and find similarity of their sensibility.

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The participants were directed to choose their preference styles of music and fashion, grade their interest in music and fashion and evaluate their sensibilities by grading their feelings about ten polar paired adjectives.

Findings

There indeed is a close relationship between music and fashion. People who are more interested in music and fashion tend to have a stronger correlation between their preferences.

Practical implications

Through the analysis of variance it was found that the sensibility associated with different music and fashion styles are not the same. Furthermore, the authors could group the sensibility words into three common factors. Here it was found that music requires more diverse expressional adjectives as representatives compared to fashion.

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The close relationship between preference styles of the two artistic elements and the similarity or their sensibility could be visualized through the distance of each style and adjectives in a correspondence map.

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International Journal of Clothing Science and Technology, vol. 25 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0955-6222

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Publication date: 1 January 1999

Katharine Hogg

Music Libraries Online is an eLib project to create a virtual union catalogue for music in the UK, based on the nine conservatoire libraries, using the Z39.50 protocol for…

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Music Libraries Online is an eLib project to create a virtual union catalogue for music in the UK, based on the nine conservatoire libraries, using the Z39.50 protocol for information retrieval. The project has particularly tackled issues of common bibliographical standards which have a significant impact on the quality of results.

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VINE, vol. 29 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0305-5728

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Publication date: 1 January 1945

O.E. DEUTSCH

Comparisons between continental and British music libraries on the one hand and British and American on the other give evidence of the richness of Great Britain in the field of…

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Comparisons between continental and British music libraries on the one hand and British and American on the other give evidence of the richness of Great Britain in the field of old printed music. Even here there is little realization or adequate means of knowing the extent of this wealth. Not that the older catalogues of the continent, especially in Italy, Austria, Germany, and France, or the newer ones of America, are much better, more consistent, or up to date than the British, although they are probably more numerous. On the whole the music libraries abroad are, however, better known—at least in their own countries. In this connexion we are not so much concerned with national music as with great music of all nations; the extent of the latter only is open to comparison. No difficulty would arise in gaining knowledge of a nation's accumulation of incunabula, collected in the general and the special libraries: there are lists proudly showing the national wealth in this sphere, and the British catalogues of incunabula are, perhaps, the best in the world. But it is nearly impossible to get, from the few existing printed music catalogues, exact knowledge about the distribution of rare music. The enterprise of R. Eitner, about 1900, in publishing single‐handed in ten volumes a world catalogue of old music partially failed because for the most part he undertook the task of collecting his titles by correspondence. He was handicapped also by the fact that the best catalogues were published only after he had completed his work. His references to music in Britain were collected without visiting the libraries and are very incomplete.

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Journal of Documentation, vol. 1 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0022-0418

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Publication date: 1 December 1994

Pamela Thompson

The problems surrounding music interlending formed a major part of theresearch for a library and information plan for music recentlyundertaken in the UK. Outlines the difficulties…

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The problems surrounding music interlending formed a major part of the research for a library and information plan for music recently undertaken in the UK. Outlines the difficulties encountered in music provision, including bibliographic inadequacies, lack of standards and expertise, and divergent policies and practices for the supply of both single scores and performance sets. Suggestions for improvement are put forward. Advocates the need for further research and for a national strategy based on co‐operation, and reports significant advances.

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Interlending & Document Supply, vol. 22 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0264-1615

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