Sound, Society and the Geography of Popular Music By Ola Johansson, Thomas L. Bell, Ola Johansson, Thomas Bell
2009 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 0754675777 | PDF | 6 MB
Popular music is a cultural form much rooted in space and place. This book interprets the meaning of music from a spatial perspective and, in doing so it furthers our understanding of broader social relations and trends, including identity, attachment to place, cultural economies, social activism and politics. The book's editors have brought together a team of scholars to discuss the latest innovative thinking on music and its geographies, illustrated with a fascinating range of case studies from the USA, Canada, the Caribbean, Australia and Great Britain.
Sound and Music in Film and Visual Media: A Critical Overview By Graeme Harper, Ruth Doughty, Jochen Eisentraut
2009 | 896 Pages | ISBN: 0826458246 | PDF | 48 MB
Sound and Musicin Film and Visual Media: A Critical Overviewis a comprehensive work defining and encapsulating concepts, issues and applications in and around the use of sound in film and the cinema, media/broadcast and new media. Over thirty definitive full-lengthessays, which are linked by highlighted text and reference material, bring together original research by many of the world's top scholars in this emerging field. Complete with an extensive bibliography, Sound and Music in Film and Visual Media provides the most comprehensive and wide-ranging considerationof this subjectyet produced. >
Soul of Beijing Opera, The: Theatrical Creativity and Continuity in the Changing World By Ruru Li
2010 | 368 Pages | ISBN: 9622099947 | PDF | 10 MB
The book looks at the evolution of Beijing Opera's singing and performance styles, make-up and costume, audience demands, as well as stage and street presentation modes amid tumultuous social and political changes.
Soil Management for Sustainable Agriculture: New Research and Strategies
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1774630230 | 625 Pages | PDF True | 27 MB
Taking a sustainable approach, this volume explores the various soil management techniques. It begins with an overview of the elementary concepts of soil management and then delves into new research and novel soil management tools and techniques.
Klaus Hurrelmann, "Socialisation During the Life Course"
English | ISBN: 1138502189 | 2017 | 168 pages | PDF | 1280 KB
This comprehensive text highlights new developments in sociological, educational and psychological aspects of socialisation, examining how human beings as 'subjects' - experiencing, thinking and acting individuals - confront the material, social and cultural 'objects' of their environment and sustain their position. The authors provide an overview of the most important theories of socialisation, then integrate these using the Productive Processing of Reality (PPR) model. This novel approach is applied to a life course analysis, examining developmental tasks and the challenges of productive processing of the internal and external reality at various stages of development. The book also considers contexts, addressing the inequalities between different socio-economic and ethnic groups and genders, to consider how humans - with their genetic dispositions and their individual instincts and needs - solve the task of coping with the requirements of society, culture and economy while at the same time safeguarding their status as unique individuals.
Jacqueline Kelly, Teagan White, Jennifer L. Meyer, "Skunked!: Calpurnia Tate, Girl Vet"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1250129443, 1627798684 | EPUB | pages: 106 | 4.6 mb
From Newbery honor author Jacqueline Kelly comes Skunked!, a new illustrated chapter book series for younger readers featuring the beloved characters from The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate.
Skilled Visions: Between Apprenticeship and Standards By Cristina Grasseni (ed.)
2007 | 226 Pages | ISBN: 1845452100 | PDF | 5 MB
Most arguments for a rediscovery of the body and the senses hinge on a critique of "visualism" in our globalized, technified society. This approach has led to a lack of actual research on the processes of visual "enskillment." Providing a comprehensive spectrum of case studies in relevant contexts, this volume raises the issue of the rehabilitation of vision and contextualizes vision in the contemporary debate on the construction of local knowledge vs. the hegemony of the socio-technical network. By maintaining an ethnographic approach, the book provides practical examples that are both accessible to undergraduate students and informative for an academic audience.
Singing Exercises For Dummies by For Dummies
English | August 3, 2020 | ISBN: 111970104X | 240 pages | PDF | 13 Mb
Build your voice up-and bring the house down!
Silences, Neglected Feelings, and Blind-spots in Research Practice by Kathy Davis and Janice Irvine
English | May 12, 2022 | ISBN: 103207342X, 1032077336 | 224 pages | PDF | 4,6 MB
This book addresses wide-ranging dilemmas that social researchers may face as a result of silences, neglected feelings, and blind-spots in their research. In every research endeavour, thoughts, intuitions, biases, feelings or sensations may be left aside as the researcher attempts to come to terms with the complexities of material and figure out what the 'main issue' is. Researchers may pay attention to their own emotional responses during the interview, but often only in their field notes. Rarely do feelings of shock, irritation, boredom or, for that matter, amusement, excitement and delight find their way into the analysis itself. In addition, researchers are all susceptible to blind-spots, often unaware of what is being avoided in research or omitted from it. However, reflection about precisely these gaps or silences may prove essential for developing new and interesting questions as well as comprehensive, responsive, and responsible research practices. In this volume, an international, cross-disciplinary cohort of researchers think critically about the silences, neglected feelings, and blind-spots in their own work, and offer insights for enhancing research practices. As such, it will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in research methods and methodology.
Shmuel's Bridge: Following the Tracks to Auschwitz with My Survivor Father by Jason Sommer
English | March 15th, 2022 | ISBN: 1623545129 | 224 pages | True EPUB | 33.24 MB
A moving memoir of a son's relationship with his survivor father and of their Eastern European journey through a family history of incalculable loss.