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The sounds of capitalism
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 flexibly between the music and advertising worlds, while the line between commercial messages and popular music has become increasingly blurred.
Timothy D. Taylor tracks the use of music in American advertising for nearly a century, from variety shows like The Clicquot Club Eskimos to the rise of the jingle, the postwar upsurge in consumerism, and the more complete fusion of popular music and consumption in the 1980s and after. The Sounds of Capitalism is the first book to tell truly the history of music used in advertising in the United States and is an original contribution to this little-studied part of our cultural history.
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Music in the world : selected essays
In music studies, Timothy D. Taylor is known for his insightful essays on music, globalization, and capitalism. This is a collection of some of Taylor's most recent writings essays concerned with questions about music in capitalist cultures, covering a historical span that begins in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and continues to the present. These essays look at shifts in the production, dissemination, advertising, and consumption of music from the industrial capitalism of the nineteenth century to the globalized neoliberal capitalism of the past few decades. In addition to chapters on music, capitalism, and globalization, 'Music and the World' includes previously unpublished essays on the continuing utility of the culture of concept in the study of music, a historicization of treatments of affect, and an essay on value and music. Taken together, Taylor's essays chart the changes in different kinds of music in twentieth- and twenty-first-century music and culture from a variety of theoretical perspectives.
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The Sound of the Avant-Garde
The aestheticization of abstract sounds seems to have led the creators of these sounds, and their chroniclers in this volume, to overlook politics, or real people \"on the ground.\\n Hardly any musicologist deals with this issue (and most contemporary discussions of music aesthetics by philosophers are hopeless--unmusical, unmusicological, and unconcerned with social and performance issues), so it would seem that the range of professions practiced by the authors of these ten essays would include someone who would tackle the problem. [...]as a starting point or \"first word\" on the subject, we might have done better with a volume more firmly grounded in the everyday world, a world where wireless sound has served not merely as a conceptual and aesthetic challenge but as a concrete reality on the social field and, at times, as an effective weapon of political domination.
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Music and capitalism : a history of the present
\"In this book, Timothy D. Taylor explores just how pervasively capitalism has shaped music over the last few decades. Examining changes in the production, distribution, and consumption of music, he offers an incisive critique of the music industry's shift in focus from creativity to profits, as well as stories of those who are laboring to find and make musical meaning in the shadows of the mainstream cultural industries. Taylor explores everything from the branding of musicians to the globalization of music to the emergence of digital technologies in music production and consumption. Drawing on interviews with industry insiders, musicians, and indie label workers, he traces both the constricting forces of bottom-line economics and the revolutionary emergence of the affordable home studio, the global internet, and the mp3 that have shaped music in different ways. A sophisticated analysis of how music is made, repurposed, advertised, sold, pirated, and consumed, Music and Capitalism is a must read for anyone who cares about what they are listening to, how, and why\"--Provided by publisher.
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The voracious muse: Contemporary cross-cultural musical borrowings, culture, and postmodernism
One of the most noticeable trends in contemporary music is the inclusion of musics of other cultures. Composers have always borrowed music from other cultures, or other times within their own culture for use in their music, but since the 1960s this practice has become pervasive. Reasons for borrowing vary. Some composers use music from other cultures to make political statements, ranging from the global--world peace--to the local--racial harmony in South Africa, or democratic Socialism in the United Kingdom. Other musicians use music from other cultures in their own music for no other reason than their own attraction to that music. The works considered in this study date from the 1960s and after and were created within a vortex of cultural and aesthetic issues; these compositions will help raise many questions, for any use of cultural forms from another culture involves transferring, silencing, or transforming meanings. When borrowings occur across borders of race, class, gender, ethnicity, or nationality, questions about ownership and intention arise. Such questions and possible answers are investigated in this dissertation. Issues addressed include the nature of the meanings of the borrowed material in its original culture and context and the meanings produced and used by European and American composers. And since many of these composers borrow music from former colonized nations (South Africa, Indonesia, India), questions of postcolonialism are also considered. Composers studied include Kevin Volans (1949-), a white South African who quotes traditional African musics and styles in his music; Pauline Oliveros (1932-), who incorporates Native American beliefs and spiritual ideas from Tibetan Buddhism and Sufism; and Cornelius Cardew (1936-81) whose career shows a long interest in Chinese culture. The popular musicians studied are Paul Simon, the black South African men's chorus Ladysmith Black Mambazo, and the Indonesian popular musician Rhoma Irama. The methods employed include approaches from Marxism, post-structuralism, feminism, and postmodern and postcolonial theory. These help explicate the practices underlying the works considered, and aided in the formulation of the conclusion, which argues for collaborative, cross-cultural music-making rather than the earlier model of appropriation.
Dissertation
Book Reviews: Popular Music: \Music Scenes: Local, Translocal, and Virtual,\ Edited by Andy Bennett and Richard A. Peterson
A collection that offers portrait of a variety of music scenes, grouped as \"local,\" \"translocal,\" or \"virtual,\" is reviewed (Vanderbilt University Press, 2004).
Book Review
Music Scenes: Local, Translocal, and Virtual
Taylor reviews Music Scenes: Local, Translocal, and Virtual edited by Andy Bennett and Richard A. Peterson.
Book Review
A Randomized Trial of Adenotonsillectomy for Childhood Sleep Apnea
This randomized trial showed no effect of early adenotonsillectomy, as compared with watchful waiting, on the primary outcome of attention and executive functioning in children with obstructive sleep apnea. Many secondary outcomes favored early surgery.
The childhood obstructive sleep apnea syndrome is associated with numerous adverse health outcomes, including cognitive and behavioral deficits.
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The most commonly identified risk factor for the childhood obstructive sleep apnea syndrome is adenotonsillar hypertrophy. Thus, the primary treatment is adenotonsillectomy, which accounts for more than 500,000 procedures annually in the United States alone.
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Nevertheless, there has been no controlled study evaluating the benefits and risks of adenotonsillectomy, as compared with watchful waiting, for the management of the obstructive sleep apnea syndrome.
The Childhood Adenotonsillectomy Trial (CHAT) was designed to evaluate the efficacy of early adenotonsillectomy versus watchful waiting with supportive . . .
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