From Tin Pan Alley to grand opera, player-pianos to phonograph records, David Suisman's "Selling Sounds" explores the rise of music as big business and the creation of a radically new musical culture. Around the turn of the twentieth century, music entrepreneurs laid the foundation for today's vast industry, with new products, technologies, and commercial strategies to incorpor...(展开全部)

From Tin Pan Alley to grand opera, player-pianos to phonograph records, David Suisman’s Selling Sounds explores the rise of music as big business and the creation of a radically new musical culture. Around the turn of the twentieth century, music entrepreneurs laid the foundation for today’s vast industry, with new products, technologies, and commercial strategies to incorporat...(展开全部)

Music＝Footage≠Music ◎帮音乐配影像难 还是影像配音乐难 其实这不重要 因为我都会 Is it harder creating music to go along with footage？ or creating footage to go along music ？ It’s not important , because I can do BOTH！ ◎ 继「D调的华丽」后 睽违六年 周杰伦首部MV导演全纪录写真图文书 MV侧录照+ 周导随笔 + 造型剖析+ 剧组人员谈导演 / 40多部音乐录影带 =周杰伦

With Understanding Music and The Aesthetics of Music (1997) Roger Scruton set a new standard of rigour and seriousness in the philosophy of music. This collection of wide-ranging essays covers all aspects of the theory and practice of music, showing the significance of music as an expression of the moral life. The book is split into two parts, the first is devoted to the aesthe...(展开全部)

Music Lessons marks the first publication in English of a groundbreaking group of writings by French composer Pierre Boulez, his yearly lectures prepared for the Collège de France between 1976 and 1995. The lectures presented here offer a sustained intellectual engagement with themes of creativity in music by a widely influential cultural figure, who has long been central to th...(展开全部)

Film music is as old as cinema itself. Years before synchronized sound became the norm, projected moving images were shown to musical accompaniment, whether performed by a lone piano player or a hundred-piece orchestra. Today film music has become its own industry, indispensable to the marketability of movies around the world. Film Music: A Very Short Introduction is a comp...(展开全部)

安德烈·德昂，1935年出生于阿尔及利亚，日后到巴黎留学，从国立巴黎艺大学毕业后，在巴黎装饰美术学校教书，目前与妻子及女儿居住在巴黎。德昂已发表二十多部作品，被译为十几种语言。

In the tradition of the greatest cyberpunk novels, Blood Music explores the imminent destruction of mankind and the fear of mass destruction by technological advancements. Blood Music follows present-day events in which the fears concerning the nuclear annihilation of the world subsided after the Cold War and the fear of chemical warfare spilled over into the empty void of nucl...(展开全部)

汉娜·阿伦特（1906—1975）美籍德国犹太哲学家，曾师从于海德格尔和雅斯贝尔斯，在海德堡大学获得博士学位。自1954年开始，阿伦特先后在美国加利福尼亚大学、普林斯顿大学、哥伦比亚大学、纽约布鲁克林学院开办讲座；她还担任过芝加哥大学教授、社会研究新学院教授。阿伦特以《极权主义的起源》(1951)、《在过去和未来之间》(1961)和《论革命》(1963)为代表的一系列著作，及其天才的洞见和隽永的智慧，为当代政治哲学做出了卓越的贡献，成为二十世纪政治思想史上令人瞩目的人物。

Tracing the gradual evolution of revolutions since the American and French examples, Arendt predicts the changing relationship between war and revolution and the crucial role such combustive movements will play in the future of international relations.