Is Birdsong Music?: Outback Encounters With an Australian Songbird [Audiobook] download free by Hollis Taylor
- Listen audiobook: Is Birdsong Music?: Outback Encounters With an Australian Songbird
- Author: Hollis Taylor
- Release date: 2017/2/22
- Publisher: INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Natural History
- ISBN: 9780253026668
- Rating: 9.53 of 10
- Votes: 358
- Review by: Brantley Rowley
- Review rating: 8.04 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/17
- Duration: 4H25M49S in 256 kbps (72.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-04
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG4, MP3, WMA, FLAC, AAC, WAV (compression ZIP, TAR.XZ, RAR, TAR.BZ2)
- Total pages original book: 364
- Includes a PDF summary of 31 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 23M40S (6.2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: How and when does music become possible? Is it a matter of biology, or culture, or an interaction between the two? Revolutionizing the way we think about the core values of music and human exceptionalism, Hollis Taylor takes us on an outback road trip to meet the Australian pied butcherbird. Recognized for their distinct timbre, calls, and songs, both sexes of this songbird sing in duos, trios, and even larger choirs, transforming their flute-like songs annually. While birdsong has long inspired artists, writers, musicians, and philosophers, and enthralled listeners from all walks of life, researchers from the sciences have dominated its study. As a field musicologist, Taylor spends months each year in the Australian outback recording the songs of the pied butcherbird and chronicling their musical activities. She argues persuasively in these pages that their inventiveness in song surpasses biological necessity, compelling us to question the foundations of music and confront the remarkably entangled relationship between human and animal worlds. Equal parts nature essay, memoir, and scholarship, Is Birdsong Music? offers vivid portraits of the extreme locations where these avian choristers are found, quirky stories from the field, and an in-depth exploration of the vocalizations of the pied butcherbird.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Music, Wildlife: Birds & Birdwatching
- Download servers: 4Shared, EliteTorrent, Uploaded, SandCage, MEGA, Hotfile, Dropbox. Compressed in ZIP, TAR.XZ, RAR, TAR.BZ2
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 37.43 USD
- Dimensions: 152x229x20.32mm
- Weight: 490g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: Bloomington, IN, United States
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