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Understanding music as Multimodal Discourse
No full textFor many scholars of language, discourse and society, multimodal analysis has come effectively to mean the interrelating analysis of text and image. Definitions of multimodality do of course make reference to other modes including sound, music, taste, gesture or somatic perception, but there has until now been very little attention to the social semiotics of sound within multimodal texts. Multimodal semiotics, and indeed social semiotic treatments of music have been theorized primarily upon the static, and interrelated modes of text and image. Much of this work in multimodality has relied on homologous relationships frozen in time although embedded in complex social life. Whilst we acknowledge that our own role as interpreters of signs changes in different contexts and times, much of the literature of multimodality considers fairly static texts such as posters, paintings or roadsigns. This is one reason why sound, and more specifically music, has not been fully theorized in multimodality and its significant social semiotic power is largely absent from many analyses of important social discourses about power, ethnicity, race, gender, nationalism, to name but a few. Musical experience is today very often multimodal, and has a powerfully affective role in contemporary society, and has inspired a wide range of semiotic, aesthetic and mystical theories of how it makes meaning in people’s lives. Moreover, much of the discourse of multimodal semiotics has until recently, relied upon linguistic models of musical meaning. This book however builds upon a growing interest in the work in this area of key scholars such as Theo Van Leeuwen and David Machin amongst others, who have been working within Social Semiotics or discourse analytical approaches to communication who have been dealing with musical sound as communication. Therefore, building upon this new surge of interest, the aim of this book is to bring together a collection of key scholars working in this area to demonstrate, across a range of distinct contexts, how music acts as a fundamental aspect of multimodal communication. We therefore believe that music and sound are not trivial concerns for scholars of communication and media, but that they play an important role both as a discrete mode in itself, but perhaps even more crucially, in dialogue with other modes of communication such as image and text
Charlie May Simon materials
No full textThis collection contains materials relating to Arkansas author Charlie May Simon
The Woodilee Collection of Traditional Music: Original Scottish and Irish Tunes and Airs for Bagpipe, Uilleann pipes, Fiddle, Banjo, Flute, Whistle, Accordion and Other Instruments
No full textMusic Collection DescriptionThis is a music collection of over 70 completely original tunes composed by the bagpiper Simon McKerrell. The tunes include everything from basic Scottish and Irish style slow airs, through to marches, jigs, reels and some more complex tunes including 2/4 marches, strathspeys and hornpipes. There are many tunes set for the Highland pipes and additionally some that go beyond that scale for fiddle, banjo, accordion, whistle or other instruments that play folk or traditional music. The book includes twenty-five of his original compositions from the 2007 McKerrell-MacDonald Collection plus forty eight brand new compositions.Biography Simon McKerrell is one of the leading players of Scottish Highland, Border and Irish Uilleann bagpipes in the world today. He has recorded twelve albums and was a founding member of \u27Back of the Moon\u27 and performs both as soloist and in folk ensembles, often being called upon for cross-genre and collaborative musical projects. He has won many bagpipe prizes at major international piping competitions and is a member of the Spirit of Scotland pipe band. He is a senior lecturer in music at Newcastle University and has previously held positions at The National Piping Centre in Glasgow, the Universities of Glasgow and Sheffield and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. More information on him and his music can be found at his website: www.simonmckerrell.com
The problem with 'traditional'
No full textThe terminology and definition ‘Scottish traditional music’ is prone to a variety of interpretation and misunderstanding, and can lead to the ring-fencing and labelling of practices and repertoires into a canon or ghetto. This chapter considers the interaction of oral and literate transmission in printed sources of notation from eighteenth and nineteenth century Scotland, and the fluid changes that occur in content, practice and genre in examples from the early development of the fiddle strathspey and the work of Nathaniel Gow. The chapter argues for a development of tradition-consciousness through an awareness of history
Music as multimodal discourse semiotics, power and protest
No full textWe communicate multimodally. Everyday communication involves not only words, but gestures, images, videos, sounds and of course, music. Music has traditionally been viewed as a separate object that we can isolate, discuss, perform and listen to. However, much of music's power lies in its use as multimodal communication. It is not just lyrics which lend songs their meaning, but images and musical sounds as well. The music industry, governments and artists have always relied on posters, films and album covers to enhance music's semiotic meaning. This book considers musical sound as multimodal communication, examining the interacting meaning potential of sonic aspects such as rhythm, instrumentation, pitch, tonality, melody and their interrelationships with text, image and other modes, drawing upon, and extending the conceptual territory of social semiotics. In so doing, this book brings together research from scholars to explore questions around how we communicate through musical discourse, and in the discourses of music. Methods in this collection are drawn from Critical Discourse Analysis, Social Semiotics and Music Studies to expose both the function and semiotic potential of the various modes used in songs and other musical texts. These analyses reveal how each mode works in various contexts from around the world often articulating counter-hegemonic and subversive discourses of identity and belonging. - Lyndon C. S. Way is Associate Professor of media and communications at Izmir University of Economics, Turkey Simon McKerrell is Senior Lecturer & Head of Music at Newcastle University, U
Simon Nyakot
Full text linkabstract: Simon Nyakot left his village when he was six years old.
“Lost Boys Found” is an ongoing, interdisciplinary project that is collecting, recording and archiving the oral histories of the Lost Boys/Girls of Sudan. The collection is a work-in-progress, seeking to record the oral history of as many Lost Boys/Girls as are willing, and will be used in a future book.Age: 27Region: LakeThis picture and bio was donated to the Lost Boys Found project from The Arizona Lost Boys Cente
Cahiers Saint-Simon
No full texthttps://www.persee.fr/renderCollectionCover/simon.pngThe Société Saint-Simon was founded in 1972 in order to promote studies about the Duke of Saint-Simon (1675-1755), namely about the work, life, and thinking of the Mémoires’s author. Each year it issues a Cahier Saint-Simon. It contains the Acts of the annual Journée d’étude in Versailles, but also Notes and Documents, News of the Society and Book reviews.Fondée en 1972, la Société Saint-Simon a pour but de développer les études concernant l'oeuvre, la personne et la pensée du duc de Saint-Simon (1675-1755), l’auteur des Mémoires. Chaque année, paraît un numéro de Cahiers Saint-Simon contenant les actes de la journée annuelle de Versailles, ainsi que des Mélanges, des Notes et Documents et une Chronique bibliographique détaillée
Cahiers Saint-Simon
No full texthttps://www.persee.fr/renderCollectionCover/simon.pngThe Société Saint-Simon was founded in 1972 in order to promote studies about the Duke of Saint-Simon (1675-1755), namely about the work, life, and thinking of the Mémoires’s author. Each year it issues a Cahier Saint-Simon. It contains the Acts of the annual Journée d’étude in Versailles, but also Notes and Documents, News of the Society and Book reviews.Fondée en 1972, la Société Saint-Simon a pour but de développer les études concernant l'oeuvre, la personne et la pensée du duc de Saint-Simon (1675-1755), l’auteur des Mémoires. Chaque année, paraît un numéro de Cahiers Saint-Simon contenant les actes de la journée annuelle de Versailles, ainsi que des Mélanges, des Notes et Documents et une Chronique bibliographique détaillée
Simon Weir - The Sydney Surrealist
No full textExhibition catalogue of "Simon Weir - The Sydney Surrealist", Exhibition at Disorder Gallery, Darlinghurst NSW, Australia, in April 2024. The catalogue contains images of exhibited works and statements by the artist Simon Weir, the gallery Director Elliott Cole, and author and journalist Margie Smithurst
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