Where Rivers and Mountains Sing takes readers on a journey through the rich sonic world of inner Asia, where the elemental energies of wind, water, and echo, the ubiquitous presence of birds and animals, and the legendary feats of heroes have inspired a remarkable art and technology of sound-making among nomadic pastoralists. For inner Asian pastoralists, sound and music form p...(展开全部)

Theodore Levin takes readers on a journey through the rich sonic world of inner Asia, where the elemental energies of wind, water, and echo; the ubiquitous presence of birds and animals; and the legendary feats of heroes have inspired a remarkable art and technology of sound-making among nomadic pastoralists. As performers from Tuva and other parts of inner Asia have responded ...(展开全部)

Where Rivers and Mountains Sing takes readers on a journey through the rich sonic world of inner Asia, where the elemental energies of wind, water, and echo, the ubiquitous presence of birds and animals, and the legendary feats of heroes have inspired a remarkable art and technology of sound-making among nomadic pastoralists. For inner Asian pastoralists, sound and music form p...(展开全部)

A surprising study reveals a plethora of attempts to communicate with non-humans in the modern era. In Interspecies Communication, music scholar Gavin Steingo examines significant cases of attempted communication beyond the human—cases in which the dualistic relationship of human to non-human is dramatically challenged. From singing whales to Sun Ra to searching for alien life...(展开全部)

Michael Nyman's book is a first-hand account of experimental music from 1950 to 1970. First published in 1974, it has remained the classic text on a significant form of music making and composing which developed alongside, and partly in opposition to, the post-war modernist tradition of composers such as Boulez, Berio, or Stockhausen. The experimentalist par excellence was John...(展开全部)

高本汉（Klas Bernhard Johannes Karlgren），瑞典汉学家，文字学家。担任瑞典皇家人文科学院院长、瑞典皇家学院丹麦皇家学院院士等职。1889年10月5日，高本汉出生于瑞典斯莫兰地区的荣彻平，他的父亲是一位中学教师，高本汉弟兄三人，他排行第二。大哥安东（Lars Anton Natanael）为斯德哥尔摩<新闻日报>的主编，以后在哥本哈根任斯拉夫语言学教授。弟弟希亚尔马（Gustaff Hjalmar Teodor）为隆德大学罗马法教授，后任瑞典最高法院法官。高本汉从小就对方言感兴趣，学习过当地的几种方言。在中学学习期间，他用方言写了一些小说，并且对家乡的方言进行调查，他对中国的兴趣也是从中学开始的。 1889年10月5日，生于瑞典延雪平。十几岁时就已对方言研究产生兴趣，并研读一些当地的方言著作。 1907年，高本汉进入乌普萨...(展开全部)

高本汉（Bernhard Karlgren, 1889-1978） 瑞典人，歌德堡大学教授、校长，远东考古博物馆馆长。主要著作有《中国音韵学研究》（1915-1926）、《中日汉字分析字典》（Analytic Dictionary of Chinese and Sino-Japanese, 1923）《藏语和汉语》（1931）、《诗经研究》（1932）、《汉语的词族》（Word Families in Chinese, 1934）、《汉文典》（Grammata Serica，Script and Phonetics in Chinese and Sino-Japanese ）（1940）、《汉语》（1949）、《中古及上古汉语语音学简论》（Compendium of Phonetics in Ancient and Archaic Chinese）（...(展开全部)

高本汉（Klas Bernhard Johannes Karlgren），瑞典汉学家，文字学家。担任瑞典皇家人文科学院院长、瑞典皇家学院丹麦皇家学院院士等职。1889年10月5日，高本汉出生于瑞典斯莫兰地区的荣彻平，他的父亲是一位中学教师，高本汉弟兄三人，他排行第二。大哥安东（Lars Anton Natanael）为斯德哥尔摩<新闻日报>的主编，以后在哥本哈根任斯拉夫语言学教授。弟弟希亚尔马（Gustaff Hjalmar Teodor）为隆德大学罗马法教授，后任瑞典最高法院法官。高本汉从小就对方言感兴趣，学习过当地的几种方言。在中学学习期间，他用方言写了一些小说，并且对家乡的方言进行调查，他对中国的兴趣也是从中学开始的。 1889年10月5日，生于瑞典延雪平。十几岁时就已对方言研究产生兴趣，并研读一些当地的方言著作。 1907年，高本汉进入乌普萨...(展开全部)

The groundbreaking mix CD that accompanies this book features Nam Jun Paik, the Dada Movement, John Cage, Sonic Youth, and many other examples of avant-garde music. Most of the CD's content comes from the archives of Sub Rosa, a legendary record label that has been the benchmark for archival sounds since the beginnings of electronic music. (For a complete list of audio credits,...(展开全部)

The groundbreaking mix CD that accompanies this book features Nam Jun Paik, the Dada Movement, John Cage, Sonic Youth, and many other examples of avant-garde music. Most of the CD's content comes from the archives of Sub Rosa, a legendary record label that has been the benchmark for archival sounds since the beginnings of electronic music. (For a complete list of audio credits,...(展开全部)