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Make It New: Reshaping Jazz in the 21st Century
No full textBill Beuttler’s book Make It New: Reshaping Jazz in the 21st Century explores new ways in which jazz is engaging with society through the vivid biographies and music of Jason Moran, Vijay Iyer, Rudresh Mahanthappa, The Bad Plus, Miguel Zenón, Anat Cohen, Robert Glasper, and Esperanza Spalding. Beuttler describes this new generation of jazz as increasingly international, more open to women as instrumentalists and bandleaders, and reasserting itself as a force for social change
Stars, argent et approbation : appuis politiques des célébrités au Canada et aux États-Unis: enjeux de communication politique
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The Social Order of Collective Action: The Wisconsin Uprising of 2011
No full textThe Wisconsin Uprising of 2011 was one of the largest sustained collective actions in the history of the United States. Newly-elected Governor Scott Walker introduced a shock proposal that threatened the existence of public unions and access to basic health care, then insisted on rapid passage. The protests that erupted were neither planned nor coordinated. The largest, in Madison, consolidated literally overnight into a horizontally organized leaderless and leaderful community. That community featured a high level of internal social order, complete with distribution of food and basic medical care, group assemblies for collective decision making, written rules and crowd marshaling to enforce them, and a moral community that made a profound emotional impact on its members. The resistance created a functioning commune inside the Wisconsin State Capitol Building. In contrast to what many social movement theories would predict, this round-the-clock protest grew to enormous size and lasted for weeks without direction from formal organizations. This book, written by a protest insider, argues based on immersive ethnographic observation and extensive interviewing that the movement had minimal direction from organizations or structure from political processes. Instead, it emerged interactively from collective effervescence, improvised non-hierarchical mechanisms of communication, and an escalating obligation for like-minded people to join and maintain their participation. Overall, the findings demonstrate that a large and complex collective action can occur without direction from formal organizations
Dressing the Other: Foreign Women in Moche Ceramic Art
No full textDefining foreignness is an important element of how cultures demarcate their own sense of being and identity, and artists translate these definitions into depictions of the foreign and Other. Analyzing depictions of the Other can also aid in understanding the ways cultures interacted with those outside their cultural sphere, and how they created stereotyped identities for them. Studying the representation of costume provides a way to understand how foreigners were perceived as Other, as well as how they might be perceived as similar. Two vessels excavated in 1899 hold the key to understanding a group of foreigners depicted in Moche ceramic art from Huaca de la Luna on the north coast of Peru (ca. 200–900 CE). Elements of dress and accessories point to a highland origin of these foreigners, who may themselves be indicators of trading ties between the Huacas de Moche site and their neighbors to the east
Eco–Art History in East and Southeast Asia
No full textThe essays in this anthology examine artwork and sites in East and Southeast Asia through the lens of eco–art history. In these regions, significant anthropogenic changes to terrain, watercourses, and ecosystems date back millennia, as do artwork and artefacts that both conceptualize and modify the natural world. The rising interest in earth-conscious modes of analysis, or “eco–art history,” informs this anthology, which explores the mutual impact of artistic expressions and local environments in East and Southeast Asia. Moreover, conceptual tools and case studies focused on these regions impart important insights bearing on the development of eco–art history. The book includes case studies examining the impact of the Little Ice Age on court painting and systems of representing marine life in the Joseon period in Korea. Other contributors consider contemporary artistic strategies, such as developing a “sustainability aesthetics” and focusing attention to non-human agents, to respond to environmental damage and climate change in the present. Additional essays analyse the complicated art historical ecology of heritage sites and question the underlying anthropocentrism in art historical priorities and practices. As a whole, this anthology argues for the importance of ecological considerations in art history
Fatechanger Book One: Penny Lost
No full textWhen fourteen-year-old Penelope Clark accidentally travels through time to 1915 Boston, she must disguise herself first as a pickpocket and then as a newsboy, learning how to thieve, fight, and broadcast headlines to survive in an era before antibiotics and open-heart surgeries. Stuck in the past with no way to get home, Penn makes her first friend ever, and many enemies. But when Penn is robbed and the pickpockets kidnap the head newsboy, she finds herself stuck in the middle of a dangerous rivalry, questioning her loyalties to either side and to herself. After a violent fistfight with a fellow pickpocket, Penn incurs a life-threatening infection. As her supposed enemy nurses her back to health—discovering she’s a girl and befriending her in the process—Penn realizes that someone else must have betrayed her. Her ensuing investigation reveals not only the truth of her betrayer’s identity but also her own
Conflict interaction; Insights from conversation analysis.
No full textA critical review of conversation analytic research on the actions and sequences that constitute conflict in ordinary interaction
My Baby Loves Christmas
No full textAn illustrated board book that celebrates all the things baby loves about Christmas
