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Get PDFHow do we learn to make music, to sing and play — alone or together with others? This anthology explores the question through practices that center on musical imitation-based learning. It highlights the value of learning music ""by ear"" — through active listening and with the body as the primary instrument. The chapters are written by musicians, educators, musicologists, pedagogues, and philosophers who share an interest in imitation-based learning and musical understanding across genres, traditions, and institutions. Drawing on recent research into pedagogical aspects of musicality development and creative interplay, the authors discuss:
- the role of aural imitation in higher education, and its potential influence on learning environment, artistic research, and policy-making;
- how teachers and music pedagogy students can engage younger learners with aural imitation in municipal music schools and through genre-transcending methods;
- how Sub-Saharan African traditions emphasize embodied, interactive musicking and imitation as pathways to shared musical flow states;
- how early imitation and rhythmic learning foster potent and open-ended musical learning later in life, as well as musical identities and communal bonds;
- how an emphasis on aural imitation indirectly offers critical perspectives on ‘aesthetic learning processes’ in primary and secondary education;
- and how different theoretical models of aural imitation can both reveal and obscure understandings of musicality as communicative, embodied, rhythmic, and relational practice.
The book also includes an instructive pedagogical text and a QR code linking to a video demonstrating how to learn music through imitation
Le metamorfosi di Astrea
Get PDFFor centuries law graduates have based their authority on the lesson of Bartolo da Sassoferrato, specifically Doctoratus est dignitas. How did these professionals react when the political, institutional and social changes in Early Modern times brought new problems? In a time of significant change, how did this profession rise to the challenges that put in crisis their traditional role in society? This book hopes to answer this and other specific questions using social, cultural and anthropological analysis concentrating on Bolognas’ law graduates. Observing the 16th-18th centuries, these lawyers’ education and choices will be investigated following various careers in Bologna, Rome and different European courts. The goal is to identify, with a prosopography method, their numerous choices in the context of the transformation occurring during this long period of time, until the 19th century
Transport Diplomacy
No full textThis book provides a concise guide to navigating, mapping, and understanding the complexity of political mechanisms and narratives behind transport cooperation.
Transport is a constant political object of conflict, cooperation, and negotiation, irrespective of the type of transport or the place where the mobility of people and goods is an issue. The number of actors engaged in transport decision-making, and the technical nature of the mobility issues, appears to make cooperation between transport stakeholders increasingly complex. Drawing on clear analytical devices, visual tools, and insightful illustrations, Transport Diplomacy navigates this complexity and considers a path towards a sounder dialogue in the transport arena. Providing accessible and digestible insights across six chapters, the book explores different semiotic dimensions of these transport planning narratives and cooperation processes.
This offers practitioners, decision-makers, and researchers a common conceptual approach to the diplomatic dimension of transport planning. In doing so, it envisages transport planning as not only a procedural set of techniques to implement informed mobility solutions but also a field of managing conflicting narratives and rhetoric by actors with diverging or compatible interests. This book will appeal to those working in transport, mobilities, and planning
Ending Impunity for International Law Violations
Get PDFThis open access edited collection is the first book-length academic publication on the Palestinian Bedouins at risk of forced displacement in the Central West Bank and Greater Jerusalem area. At its core are two questions: firstly; what are the humanitarian vulnerabilities they face and how are they produced/constructed? And secondly, how does protracted impunity for international law violations drive humanitarian protection risks for them? It interweaves international law, community-based empirical research and interdisciplinary perspectives, to offer the broadest possible framework for understanding these complex and complicated questions. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by UKRI
Élevages et pâturages sous tension — Nouveaux regards sur les territoires méditerranéens et tropicaux
No full textAfrica’s Strategic Partnerships with BRICS and Other Emerging Countries
Get PDFThis book examines Africa’s strategic partnerships with emerging powers, focusing on insights from the global South, such as BRICS countries, Iran, Turkey, Japan, and South Korea. With an emphasis on African agency, the book provides a platform for discussing the management, goals, and outcomes of Africa’s strategic partnerships. A recurrent theme is Africa’s evolving diplomatic strategy to balance these partnerships while safeguarding its broader developmental interests. The book aims to offer a comprehensive understanding of the opportunities and complexities in Africa’s strategic partnerships, and their bearing on Africa’s position in the global arena
Bride of Frankenstein
No full textThe inaugural volume in the film|minutes book series, this book offers a close, minute-by-minute analysis of director James Whale’s iconic 1935 masterpiece Bride of Frankenstein. Alternating between a variety of analytical lenses, including descriptive, historical, and philosophical, this study breaks from conventional forms of film-analytical writing and offers an experiment in defamiliarization and looking anew. In the 1930s, the film opened a space for reflection on the rapid normalization of filmic sound, which it both relies on and estranges. In the 2020s, Bride of Frankenstein brings forth questions of new technological mediums such as artificial intelligence and the transformation of human agency. Shane Denson argues that such associations should not be written off as mere anachronism, but seen, rather, as a strategy of serialization; that is, it is by means of such anachronism that a film like Bride of Frankenstein remains open to new developments and novel situations, and thus comes alive for future viewers. Volumes in the film|minutes series cut up films into segments of exactly one minute and transform each minute into an innovative tool for thinking with the film. Each volume works rigorously with the concept of “the minute” as a non-cinematic scale/quantity, a means to zoom in on (dis)orderly fragments that do not necessarily respect the confinements of cinematic form or meaning. As a critical practice, the focus on minutes causes disruptions and displacement that create novel connections and perspectives, and uncovers hidden traces, making it possible to watch each film anew
The Titan
Get PDFThis 1914 novel is a masterpiece of financial fiction that dramatically and meticulously captures the business practices of the Gilded Age. Here it is presented in a scholarly edition which draws deeply on archival sources. Following the text are informative commentaries, notes, emendations, and color images, all fully indexed.
For this volume in the Dreiser Edition, editor Roark Mulligan has gone back to a 1914 proof as copy-text, a version of the novel that, until now, was in a private collection, unknown to the public.
The Titan is the second volume in Dreiser’s Trilogy of Desire (The Financier, The Titan, and The Stoic). Written during an extremely productive period when Dreiser felt financial pressure to produce novels regularly, when he was experimenting with new techniques, and when he was publishing major works yearly, The Titan is a work of the Dreiser’s golden period.
Based closely on the life of Charles Tyson Yerkes (1837-1905), The Titan follows Dreiser’s financier (Frank Algernon Cowperwood) from Philadelphia to Chicago, where he builds a transportation empire while battling competitors and romancing women. Dreiser explores the vast cultural and economic forces that transformed American financial practices. The novel’s narration of interacting economic, financial, and social forces, its focus on a powerful and psychologically driven individual, and in particular its examination of the interaction between capitalist enterprise and public good, speak to issues of perennial importance