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Book 2017.0

Sounds, Societies, Significations

edited by Rima Povilionienė

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Music Springer Cham 9783319470597 Available

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Other title information: Numanistic Approaches to Music

Annotation: This edited book covers many topics in musicological literature, gathering various approaches to music studies that encapsulate the vivid relation music has to society. It focusses on repertoires and geographical areas that have not previously been well frequented in musicology. As readers will see, music has many roles to play in society. Music can be a generator of social phenomena, or a result of them; it can enhance or activate social actions, or simply co-habit with them. Above all, music has a stable position within society, in that it actively participates in it. Music can either describe or prescribe social aspects; musicians may have a certain position/role in society (e.g., the “popstar” as fashion leader, spokesman for political issues, etc.). Depending on the type of society, music may have a certain “meaning” or “function” (music does not mean the same thing everywhere in the world). Lastly, music can define a society, and it is not uncommon for it to best define a particular historical moment.

Identifier: 9783319470597

Status: Available

Book 2016.0

From Grammar to Discourse

Zdzisław Wąsik

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1 edition

Linguistics Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM 9788323230823 Available

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Other title information: Towards a Solipsistic Paradigm of Semiotics

Notes: One of the copies of this book was given to the library by Ludmila Lackova

Annotation: This publication traces the human capacity for sign use from its linguistic and cultural context. Such scholarship suggests the foundation of a discursive paradigm for semiotics stuck in mundane phenomenology, associated inter alia with the contributions of Leo Zawadovski and Ernst Cassirer drawing their inspiration from Karl Buhler.

Identifier: 9788323230823

Status: Available