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  • Music and Capitalism

    A History of the Present

    by Timothy D. Taylor ...
    Timothy D. Taylor "deeply reveals the social organization of capitalism and its profound impact on music" (Jocelyne Guilbault, author of Governing Sound).iTunes. Spotify. Pandora. With these brief words one can map the landscape of music today, but these aren't musicians, songs, or anything else actually musical—they are products and brands. In Music and Capitalism, ethnomusicologist Timothy D. ... Read more

    $23.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Sounds of Capitalism

    Advertising, Music, and the Conquest of Culture

    by Timothy D. Taylor ...
    From the early days of radio through the rise of television after World War II to the present, music has been used more and more to sell goods and establish brand identities. And since the 1920s, songs originally written for commercials have become popular songs, and songs written for a popular audience have become irrevocably associated with specific brands and products. Today, musicians move ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Artificial Ape

    How Technology Changed the Course of Human Evolution

    by Timothy Taylor ...
    Series series MacSci
    A breakthrough theory that tools and technology are the real drivers of human evolutionAlthough humans are one of the great apes, along with chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans, we are remarkably different from them. Unlike our cousins who subsist on raw food, spend their days and nights outdoors, and wear a thick coat of hair, humans are entirely dependent on artificial things, such as clothing ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Darkest Winter [Dramatized Adaptation]

    The Frontiersman 3

    by William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone ...
    Narrated by A Full Cast, Ken Jackson, Jonathan Lee Taylor, Tim Getman, Nora Achrati, Thomas Keegan, Scott McCormick, Bradley Smith, Tia Shearer, Gregory Linington, Robbie Gay, Terence Aselford, Michael John Casey, Matthew Bassett, Rose Elizabeth Supan, David Jourdan, Richard Rohan, Katy Carkuff, Colleen Delany, Eric Messner, Drew Kopas, Timothy Lynch, Nanette Savard ...
    Series series Frontiersman

    Unabridged

    5 hours 23 min

    From America's most popular Western storytellers comes another adventure in the treacherous life of Breckenridge Wallace, a man as wild as the frontier he tries to conquer.DEATH STALKS THE FRONTIERSMAN,NO MATTER HOW FAR HE ROAMS.Exiled from the Smoky Mountains for gunning down a man in self-defense, Breck Wallace tries to make a new home in St. Louis, even tries his hand at romance, but some men ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Birds Opening:

    Detailed Coverage Of An Underrated And Dynamic Choice For White

    by Timothy Taylor ...
    Bird's Opening is an underrated and dynamic choice for White that immediately directs the game into relatively unexplored territory, setting Black players early problems and forcing them to think for themselves rather than having the luxury of relying on the theory of more mainstream openings. It's also a very flexible option that can lead to both sharp gambit play, such as the notorious From's ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Music and Globalization

    Critical Encounters

    by Steven Feld, Barbara Browning, Daniel Noveck, Ariana Hernandez-Reguant, Timothy D. Taylor, Rafael Jose de Menezes Bastos, Denis-Constant Martin, Richard M Shain, Philip R Hayward ...
    "World music" emerged as a commercial and musical category in the 1980s, but in some sense music has always been global. Through the metaphor of encounters, Music and Globalization explores the dynamics that enable or hinder cross-cultural communication through music. In the stories told by the contributors, we meet well-known players such as David Byrne, Peter Gabriel, Sting, Ry Cooder, Fela Kuti ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Instant Economist

    Everything You Need to Know About How the Economy Works

    by Timothy Taylor ...
    The Only Economics Book You Will Ever Need - A Library Journal 2012 Best Business Book of the YearEconomics isn't just about numbers: It's about politics, psychology, history, and so much more. We are all economists-when we work, save for the future, invest, pay taxes, and buy our groceries. Yet many of us feel lost when the subject arises. Award-winning professor Timothy Taylor tackles all the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Rise and Fall of Magic Wolf

    by Timothy Taylor ...
    **“A sumptuously written story about culinary ambition, restaurant-world vice, and the frailties of the heart.” — KEVIN CHONG, author of The Double Life of Benson YuRestaurateur Teo Wolf’s culinary fame is peaking just as a series of scandals and reckless decisions threaten to destroy everything.**Teo’s life as a Paris brasserie apprentice is filled with challenges and triumphs, as well as all the ... Read more

    $9.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Narratives of Wellbeing

    Edited by Tarryn Phillips, Natalie Araújo, Timothy Willem Jones, John Taylor ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book critically interrogates ‘wellbeing’, a concept that is exploding in popularity across the globe. The collection of essays asks not only how wellbeing can be defined and measured, but what is created and excluded in the process of striving for and articulating wellbeing. The editors propose a narrative framework as a novel and insightful lens through which to analyse wellbeing and ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Making Value

    Music, Capital, and the Social

    by Timothy D. Taylor ...
    In Making Value, Timothy D. Taylor examines how people’s conceptions of value inform and shape their production and consumption of music. Drawing on anthropological value theory, Taylor theorizes music’s economic and noneconomic forms of value both ethnographically and historically. He covers the creation and exchange of value in a wide range of contexts: indie rock scenes, an Irish traditional ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Working Musicians

    Labor and Creativity in Film and Television Production

    by Timothy D. Taylor ...
    In Working Musicians Timothy D. Taylor offers a behind-the-scenes look at the labor of the mostly unknown composers, music editors, orchestrators, recording engineers, and other workers involved in producing music for films, television, and video games. Drawing on dozens of interviews with music workers in Los Angeles, Taylor explores the nature of their work and how they understand their roles in ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Beyond Exoticism

    Western Music and the World

    by Timothy D. Taylor, Charles McGovern, Ronald Radano ...
    Series series Refiguring American Music
    In Beyond Exoticism, Timothy D. Taylor considers how western cultures’ understandings of racial, ethnic, and cultural differences have been incorporated into music from early operas to contemporary television advertisements, arguing that the commonly used term “exoticism” glosses over such differences in many studies of western music. Beyond Exoticism encompasses a range of musical genres and ... Read more

    $25.19 USD