"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain". Bob Marley.

The Circulation Desk of Foreign Literature (4 Turgeneva St., aud. 356) welcomes you to visit the exhibition «Phenomenology of music».

Music is an important part of almost every person's life. Someone listens to music in transport, on the way to school or work, someone uses it to relax after a hard day, and for someone music is a whole life.

Instrumental sounds and timbres, unusual effects and intonations of jazz performance actually are neither completely composed, predetermined music or completely improvised. Throughout almost its entire history F. Tirro «Jazz. A History» uses both creative approaches to one degree or another, and endless rearrangements.

Rock and Roll embodied revolutionary changes in mass culture and values for next decades. Famous rock-critic and musician Robert Palmer in his book «Rock & Roll: An Unruly History» illuminates the roots of rock and explores the rock and roll culture.

L. Lloyd’s «Folk Song in England» is a fundamental research of folk music of nations around the world. It provides insight into the evolution of the English traditional song, from the oldest ritual verse, through epic balladry, to development of lyrical song in the industrial era.

Music can be considered a social language expressing contradictions inside the society. The book «The Sociology of Music» studies the dependence of music on technical means and, at the same time, its impact on the social structure. Relationship between music, ideology and society might also capture you. Then turn to H. W. Henze’s «Music and Politics».

Those and other books are presented in English, German and Polish at the exhibition «Phenomenology of Music».

The exhibition will last until August 30.