「美國書卷獎」得獎之作，「美國國家書評獎」決選作品。 最有成就的黑人音樂評論家針對震撼全世界的流行文化現象所做的權威剖析。──《華盛頓郵報》書評 少有嘻哈文化的記錄者像尼爾遜．喬治一般頭腦清晰、態度客觀。《嘻哈美國》交織評論與報導，成為極具可讀性的饒舌音樂及其文化震撼性的調查報告。──《費城詢問報》 引人入勝、資料豐富。它給嘻哈追隨者一個完整架構與歷史，給了畏懼嘻哈者詳盡解釋與理解途徑。──《休士頓記事報》 充滿知識、堅持己見，迷人……對嘻哈的熱情讓此書充滿生氣。──Michiko Kakutani，《紐約時報》 《嘻哈美國》一書裡，尼爾遜．喬治（舉世最具洞見的嘻哈文化作家──《滾石雜誌》語）以第一人稱帶領我們進行一場嘻哈歷史之旅。從它的七０年代源頭到它竄起成為一股文化力量，再到今日它的影響力顯現在電影、時裝、廣告與運動各領域裡。它探索黑人...(展开全部)

Electronic and Experimental Music provides a thorough treatment of the relevant history behind the marriage of technology and music that has led to the state of electronic music today. Drawing widely on innovations from the worlds of classical music, rock and roll, hip hop, popular music, jazz, and modern dance, it covers the chronology of electronic music in separate parts dev...(展开全部)

How does a work of music stir the senses, creating feelings of joy, sadness, elation, or nostalgia? Though sentiment and emotion play a vital role in the composition, performance, and appreciation of music, rarely have these elements been fully observed. In this succinct and penetrating book, Charles Rosen draws upon more than a half century as a performer and critic to reveal ...(展开全部)

Electronic and Experimental Music: Technology, Music, and Culture, Sixth Edition, presents an extensive history of electronic music—from its historical beginnings in the late nineteenth century to its everchanging present—recounting the musical ideas that arose in parallel with technological progress. In four parts, the author details the fundamentals of electronic music, its h...(展开全部)

"Writing with grace and clarity...he touches on everything from the evolution of the Western tonal system, to the Freudian theory of music as infantile escapism, to the differing roles o the right and left brain in perceiving music." WALL STREET JOURNAL Drawing on his own life long passion for music and synthesizing the theories of Plato, Schopenhauer, Stravinsky, Nietzsche, B...(展开全部)

"Electronic and Experimental Music" provides a thorough treatment of the relevant history behind the marriage of technology and music that has led to the state of electronic music today. Drawing widely on innovations from the worlds of classical music, rock and roll, hip hop, popular music, jazz, and modern dance, it covers the chronology of electronic music in separate parts d...(展开全部)

This long-awaited book, coauthored by Nobel laureate and Yale University emeritus professor Tobin, is the essential guide to monetary theory for those who need the best available, most authoritative economic explanations. This fundamental introduction includes authoritative coverage of the mechanisms of the Federal Reserve and how its policies affect investment activity via int...(展开全部)

This is a textbook on macroeconomic theory that attempts to rework the theory of macroeconomic relations through a re-examination of their microeconomic foundations. In the tradition of Keynes's General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (published in 1936), and Patinkin's Money, Interest, and Prices, published in 1956 and revised in 1965, this book represents a third ge...(展开全部)