Ucal pod jun 2012 (7 Ergebnisse)
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Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: UCAL POD Jun 2012, 2012
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - New York City has always been an important city in the history of jazz, and in many ways it is more important now than ever before. It is unique because of the high density of venues, recording studios, record labels, media outlets, and fans. Travis Jacksons book looks at jazz in New York Cit…y in the 1990s to show how jazz continues to thrive. He looks at the music itself, which has undergone a lot of growing pains in the past two decades as it has continued to develop a canon, while still innovating. He looks at the scene: who the musicians are, how they survive economically, who runs the clubs and how the manage (or dont) in such an expensive city; who the fans are, and what the music means to them. He looks at the media: the radio stations, record labels, writers, and culture vultures who keep jazz in the public eye. New York is the home of the debates over what jazz is ('Americas Classical Music' ) and who can lay claim to its heritage, and these debates are present throughout the book.
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - On an August evening in 1933, in a quiet, working-class neighborhood in Paris, eighteen-year-old Violette Nozière gave her mother and father glasses of barbiturate-laced 'medication,' which she told them had been prescribed by the family doctor; one of her parents died, the other barely survi…ved. Almost immediately Violettes act of 'double parricide' became the most sensational private crime of the French interwar era - discussed and debated so passionately that it was compared to the Dreyfus Affair. Why would the beloved only child of respectable parents do such a thing To understand the motives behind this crime and the reasons for its extraordinary impact, Sarah Maza delves into the abundant case records, re-creating the daily existence of Parisians whose lives were touched by the affair. This compulsively readable book brilliantly evokes the texture of life in 1930s Paris. It also makes an important argument about French society and culture while proposing new understandings of crime and social class in the years before World War II. 'Sarah Maza has written a vivid, gripping and clear-eyed account of the celebrated Violette Nozière case, which captivated French society in the 1930s. A bold and imaginative story, Violette Nozière opens an unexpected and revealing window onto interwar Parisian life. -- Colin Jones, author of Paris: Biography of a City'Sarah Maza's absorbing new book on Violette Nozière--flapper, fantasist, and perpetrator of one of the most sordid and sensational French homicides of the 1930s--is a scholarly 'true crime' tale of the most intelligent sort. Why might a seemingly respectable little mademoiselle from a 'nice' bourgeois family want to poison her maman et papa at the breakfast table Alongside her riveting account of the crime and its aftermath, Maza investigates the various pathologies--familial, social, economic, cultural, psychosexual--that may have figured in the mayhem. (At her trial Nozière claimed, among other things, that her father had sexually abused her for years.) The result is both a fascinating case history--Greek tragedy rewritten as seedy policier--and a chilling glimpse into the less salubrious aspects of French lower middle-class life between the wars.' -- Terry Castle, author of The Professor'One of those rare and sophisticated works that tells a gripping story while evoking a complex historical period. There exist very few cultural histories of the interwar years.'--Carolyn Dean, author of Aversion and Erasure: The Fate of the Victim after the Holocaust'Sarah Maza's book tells an arresting story that deftly combines conventional social history with a subtle analysis of gender and culture. Using all the arts of the best storytellers, she is careful not to give too much away, and it is only with time and a remarkable conclusion that we realize that Violette Nozière is no ordinary tale.' -- Ruth Harris, author of Dreyfus: Politics, Emotion, and the Scandal of the Century.
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Before countless audiences across the globe, the Dalai Lama has tried to refashion Tibetan Buddhism into a modern religion compatible with empirical science and founded on principles of nonviolence and 'universal compassion,' but how exactly has this project affected monastic education in exi…le This path-breaking study traces the career of the modern liberal subject in the Tibetan diaspora in India. Focusing on monastic debate and disciplinary practices such as corporeal punishment, Lempert shows how violence is used to make monks into educated, moral persons but in ways that trouble Tibetans who aspire to liberal ideals like individual autonomy and natural rights. He shows how efforts to act out liberal ideals - partially, fitfully and sometimes with acute ambivalence - are part of a broader drama of eliciting sympathy from spectators in the West and enlisting their aid in Tibets struggle with China.
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Of the Big Five Studios of Hollywoods golden age, RKO had the most interesting and troubled history. The studio itself, rather than the films or stars, is the focus of this book, and RKOs pattern of rapid change and management turnover gives Jewell an opportunity to look at virtually every ch…allenge a studio could face from the early days through the early 1940s. RKO was home to some of the greatest films and most glamourous stars, however, its management and finances were (even for Hollywood) unstable, and produced a 30-year roller-coaster of artistic gambles (not all of which paid off) and Punch-and-Judy management battles. Was it possible for a studio to have bankable properties like King Kong, Fred and Ginger, and Katherine Hepburn and still flirt regularly with bankruptcy It was. With access to now-off limits documents, Jewel creates a gripping narrative and definitive history from the studios trials and triumphs.
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this innovative ethnography of in vitro fertilization in Ecuador, Elizabeth Roberts shows how having children through biotechnological intervention is not only tolerated, it is embraced by the population, despite widespread poverty and official condemnation by the Catholic Church. Roberts…takes us into clinics, laboratories, and homes, providing a textured picture of the integration of these biotechnologies into Andean life. Intimate portraits of patients, donors, and practitioners reveal profoundly different understandings of nature and the self compared with those found in other countries. Andean understanding of the body as malleable resonates with cutting-edge theories of the material world put forth by contemporary scholars of science and technology. The Ecuadorian embrace of reproductive technology, however, is less a reflection of a desire to be 'modern', than it is a product of colonial racial history, Catholic theologies, and kinship systems. This clearly written account offers a grounded introduction to debates in science studies and medical anthropology, as well as nuanced ethnography of the mingling of science, religion, and history in Andean family life.
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Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: UCAL POD Jun 2012, 2012
Serie: Buch 7 von 23 - California Studies in 20th-Century Music
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Composers have been as invested as anyone in the myths of the American West. Levy looks at how American composers seized upon the West as a cornerstone on which to build a uniquely American identity. Levy looks at composers such as Aaron Copland, Roy Harris, Virgil Thomson, and Arthur Farwell… - city born and bred, educated in Europe, with little personal experience of life on the range, yet deeply invested in exploring how music could embody the sounds of the west. Levys work combines analysis of the music (what was the West supposed to sound like ) with investigations of what these composers knew (or thought they knew) of actual Indian music, the real life of farmers and cowboys, and the history of western expansion. She ranges from Mexican music at the Chicago Worlds Fair of 1893, Dvorak composing symphonies in Iowa, Frederick Jackson Turners frontier thesis, the music of Buffalo Bills Wild West shows and Hollywood westerns, Agnes DeMilles 'cowboy ballets,' and what the American West means to composers living more than a century after the close of the frontier.
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Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: UCAL POD Jun 2012, 2012
Serie: Buch 7 von 23 - California Studies in 20th-Century Music
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Frontier Figures is a tour-de-force exploration of how the American West, both as physical space and inspiration, animated American music. Examining the work of such composers as Aaron Copland, Roy Harris, Virgil Thomson, Charles Wakefield Cadman, and Arthur Farwell, Beth E. Levy addresses questions… of regionalism, race, and representation as well as changing relationships to the natural world to highlight the intersections between classical music and the diverse worlds of Indians, pioneers, and cowboys. Levy draws from an array of genres to show how different brands of western Americana were absorbed into American culture by way of sheet music, radio, lecture recitals, the concert hall, and film. Frontier Figures is a comprehensive illumination of what the West meant and still means to composers living and writing long after the close of the frontier.
