The Philosopher's Song
Title | The Philosopher's Song PDF eBook |
Author | Kevin M. Crotty |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2009-12-29 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0739144081 |
The Philosopher's Song explores the complex and fruitful relation between the great poets of Greek culture and Plato's invention of philosophy, especially as this bears on Plato's treatment of justice. The author shows how the poets helped shape the development of Plato's thinking throughout the course of his philosophical career.
A Philosophy of Song and Singing
Title | A Philosophy of Song and Singing PDF eBook |
Author | Jeanette Bicknell |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 139 |
Release | 2015-07-03 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1317653130 |
In Philosophy of Song and Singing: An Introduction, Jeanette Bicknell explores key aesthetic, ethical, and other philosophical questions that have not yet been thoroughly researched by philosophers, musicologists, or scientists. Issues addressed include: The relationship between the meaning of a song’s words and its music The performer’s role and the ensuing gender complications, social ontology, and personal identity The performer’s ethical obligations to audiences, composers, lyricists, and those for whom the material holds particular significance The metaphysical status of isolated solo performances compared to the continuous singing of opera or the interrupted singing of stage and screen musicals Each chapter focuses on one major musical example and includes several shorter discussions of other selections. All have been chosen for their illustrative power and their accessibility for any interested reader and are readily available.
The Philosophy of Modern Song
Title | The Philosophy of Modern Song PDF eBook |
Author | Bob Dylan |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2022-11 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781398519411 |
The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan's first book of new writing since 2004's Chronicles: Volume One -- and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers a masterclass on the art and craft of songwriting. He writes over 60 essays focusing on songs by other artists, spanning from Stephen Foster to Elvis Costello, and in between ranging from Hank Williams to Nina Simone. He analyses what he calls the trap of easy rhymes, breaks down how the addition of a single syllable can diminish a song and even explains how bluegrass relates to heavy metal. These essays are written in Dylan's unique prose. They are mysterious and mercurial, poignant and profound, and often laugh-out-loud funny. And while they are ostensibly about music, they are really meditations and reflections on the human condition. Running throughout the book are nearly 150 carefully curated photos as well as a series of dream-like riffs that, taken together, resemble an epic poem and add to the work's transcendence. In 2020, with the release of his outstanding album Rough and Rowdy Ways, Dylan became the first artist to have an album hit the Billboard Top 40 in each decade since the 1960s. The Philosophy of Modern Song contains much of what he has learned about his craft in all those years and, like everything that Dylan does, it is a momentous artistic achievement.
The Book of Dead Philosophers
Title | The Book of Dead Philosophers PDF eBook |
Author | Simon Critchley |
Publisher | Melbourne Univ. Publishing |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Death |
ISBN | 0522855148 |
Diogenes died by holding his breath. Plato allegedly died of a lice infestation. Diderot choked to death on an apricot. Nietzsche made a long, soft-brained and dribbling descent into oblivion after kissing a horse in Turin. From the self-mocking haikus of Zen masters on their deathbeds to the last words (gasps) of modern-day sages, The Book of Dead Philosophers chronicles the deaths of almost 200 philosophers-tales of weirdness, madness, suicide, murder, pathos and bad luck. In this elegant and amusing book, Simon Critchley argues that the question of what constitutes a 'good death' has been the central preoccupation of philosophy since ancient times. As he brilliantly demonstrates, looking at what the great thinkers have said about death inspires a life-affirming enquiry into the meaning and possibility of human happiness. In learning how to die, we learn how to live.
Metaphysical Song
Title | Metaphysical Song PDF eBook |
Author | Gary Tomlinson |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 206 |
Release | 1999-02-21 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780691004099 |
The author "connects opera to shifting visions of metaphysics and selfhood across the last four hundred years."--Cover.
Tetralogue
Title | Tetralogue PDF eBook |
Author | Timothy Williamson |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 161 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0198728883 |
"For those new to philosophy, 'Tetralogue' is a marvellous way into the subject. For those who are old hands, it neatly poses serious questions about truth and falsity, relativism and dogma."--Dust jacket flap.
Monty Python and Philosophy
Title | Monty Python and Philosophy PDF eBook |
Author | Gary L. Hardcastle |
Publisher | ReadHowYouWant.com |
Pages | 454 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1459601033 |
Humour.