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Nick Drake: Dreaming England
No full textSince his untimely death in 1974 at the age of twenty six, Nick Drake has not only gained a huge international audience, which eluded him during his lifetime, but has also come to represent the epitome of English romanticism. Drake's small but much-loved body of work has evoked comparisons with Blake, Keats, Vaughan Williams and Delius, placing him within a long line of English mystical romanticism. Yet upon closer inspection Drake's work betrays a myriad of international, cosmopolitan influences and approaches that seem to confound his status as archetypal English troubadour.
Nathan Wiseman-Trowse unravels the myths surrounding Nick Drake's music to show how audiences have come to think of his work as representing the very idea of Englishness itself. The music itself provides clues, hinting at a specific English landscape that Drake would have wandered through during his lifetime. Yet Drake's interest in blues, jazz, and eastern mysticism hint at a broader conception of English national identity in the late 1960s, far removed from mere parochial nostalgia. Similarly, the framing of Drake's music after his death has done much to situate him as a particular kind of English artist, integrating American counterculture, the English class system and a nostalgic re-imagining of the hippy era for contemporary audiences.
Nick Drake: Dreaming England explores how ideas of Englishness have come to be so intimately associated with the cult singer songwriter. Essential reading for any fan of Nick Drake, the book will also appeal to those interested in folk music or English national identit
Book launch and discussion
No full textBook launch event for Nick Drake: Dreaming England (Reaktion 2013) at the NN Cafe, Number 9 Guildhall Road, Northampton, NN1 1DP, Thursday 3rd October 2013.
Author Nathan Wiseman-Trowse talked about and read from his book on the musician Nick Drake. Music was provided by Gregg Cave and Ant Savage and the book's photographer Paul Hillery DJd. The event was publically promoted and around sixty attended
Nick Drake: Dreaming England
No full textAn invited presentation open to faculty staff and students and the public at Fitzwilliam College Cambridge on Thursday 21st November 2013 to talk about my book Nick Drake: Dreaming England (Reaktion 2013)at the university at which he studied in the late 1960s
Wakes and the dynamics of galaxy clusters
No full textThis thesis investigates the interaction of gaseous media in gravitationally-bound groups and clusters of galaxies; in particular, X-ray data are examined for the presence of 'wakes' of material created by the movement of galaxies within clusters.Theoretical models assume galactic wakes to be formed by one of two principal mechanisms: either the interstellar medium (ISM) of a galaxy is stripped by the ram pressure of the surrounding intracluster medium (ICM), causing X-ray-emitting material to trail out behind the galaxy; or the mass of the galaxy causes ICM gas to be accreted into a Bondi-Hoyle accretion wake. The effect of environment upon the physical characteristics of wakes is a key question explored in this thesis.A statistical, objective method is developed to search for wakes. The first systematic search for wakes in a cluster is made using data on the nearby, richness class 0 cluster Abell 160, acquired using the ROSAT satellite. This work reveals that a significant population of cluster galaxies appear to be associated with wake-like features; the most probable wake detections imply that their parent galaxies are on inward-bound orbits. A 'radial bias' model is proposed to explain this observation, noting that galaxies moving on elliptical orbits will spend a greater time away from the cluster centre than near it, and hence will be able to enhance their ISM through internal astrophysical processes, before having this material stripped as they fall towards the centre. Once past the centre, however, wakes cannot be formed through ram pressure stripping as the galaxies have not had time to replenish their gaseous content, and hence the brightest wakes are likely to be those accompanying galaxies on inward-radial orbits.</p
Preview of Nick Drake - Hanging on a Star, a tribute concert by local musician
No full textPreview of Nick Drake - Hanging on a Star, a tribute concert by local musicians that is being presented at the Skinny in Portland Nov. 25. Songwriter Nick Drake, born in 1948, died of a drug overdose in 1974
A Study of 190 Adults Enrolled in a High School Completion Program via Television
No full text38 leaves.The problem. This particular study was of a dual purpose. First, it was to derive the number of adults enrolled in a high completion program via television who successfully completed the necessary testing to earn an Iowa High School Equivalency Certificate as a result of the instruction they received. Secondly, it was to conduct a survey that would yield information pertaiing to the characteristics of participants for the possible planning and promotion of future television programs. Methodology. Des Moines Area Community College and six other Iowa area schools cooperatively sponsored the program and promoted it in their respective districts. They each developed the necessary educational materials to be utilized in conjunction with the televised tape presentations. As a result of the registration process, the division was able to obtain the mailing address of every enrollee with the exception of a small percentage. A suvey instrument was developed and mailed to 1106 participants with a 190 being returned for further study. Summary. A total of 109 persons successfully completed testing, 129 successfully completed partial testing while another 106 were approved by the State Department of Public Instruction to begin their testing at anytime. The division also gained considerable information regarding the characteristics of the participants; i.e., sex, age, occupation and last grade completed
2014 Advertising Senior Capstone: Se7en
No full textProfessors Dorothy Pisarski and Sandy Henry, advisorsThis Journalism and Mass Communication's class prepared plans books and presentations for a segment of the ACH Foods business, specifically, Tone's Spices. Students were divided into four ad agencies to plan and execute an advertising and marketing campaign for the sponsor, Tone's. The students were challenged to create an integrated campaign including social media. The plans book for the student ad agency, Se7en Advertising, is presented here
2014 Advertising Senior Capstone: IRIS
No full textProfessors, Dorothy Pisarski and Sandy Henry, advisors.This Journalism and Mass Communication's class prepared plans books and presentations for a segment of the ACH Foods business, specifically, Tone's Spices. Students were divided into four ad agencies to plan and execute an advertising and marketing campaign for the sponsor, Tone's. The students were challenged to create an integrated campaign including social media. The plans book for the student advertising agency, IRIS, is presented here
2011 National Student Advertising Competition ; "Your Move"
No full textBlue Inc. is composed of the following students: Megan Slyman, Stephanie Anderson, Sam Shanahan, Alex Battani, Amanda Newhouse, Evan McKenzie, Takunbo Pillot, Danielle White, Jon McDonald, Courtney Petty, Rachel Yancey, Ellen O'Byrne, Danielle Cheever, Allison George, Lydia Metzger, Benjamin Liu, Alison Wright, Erika Sevigny, Jacqueline Blank, Andrew Brice, Katlyn Malcomson, Benjamin Shoff, James Davis, Emily Pomsal, Jamie Bailey, Mary Brueggemann, April Meyer, Nicholas Sellers, Susan Clausen, Paige Fisher, Kelsey Mazer, Jenna Pate, Kara Rhodes, Nick Barger, Megan Fratzke, Andria Kelzenberg, Yoni Solomon, Tyler Tran, Stephanie Bruner, Sarah Chestnut, Whitley Kemble. Faculty advisors: Sandy Henry & Dorothy Pisarski.This Journalism and Mass Communication's class shows the presentation from Drake University competing in the National Student Advertising Competition. Students from college and university A.A.F. chapters competed in creating an advertising and marketing campaign for the contest sponsor, JCPenney. The students were challenged to create a marketing campaign emphasizing women shoppers, 25-34 years old and a choice strategy of where they shop
Slow culture: an introduction
No full text[Extract] There is a powerful message permeating our social lives today, found in our self-help networks, talkback television and radio shows, and online forums. It is a warning that, through technology and modernisation, our lifestyles have become increasingly hectic, fast, complex and immediate. 'Life', writes online author Leo Babauta (2009, para. 2), 'moves at such a fast pace that it seems to pass us by before we can really enjoy it'. We are encouraged to take a step back, to breathe deeply and 'slow down', in order to recapture the essence of 'real' living. By doing so, we can escape the seemingly endless stresses associated with our multi-tasked, time-compressed and instantaneous speed culture (Tomlinson 2007). This book presents illustrations of how people are beginning to disentangle themselves from a speed culture by embracing slowness. It is not simply a matter of slowing down, as the term implies, but of undertaking changes in the way we do things at an everyday level. Underpinning these transformations is a concern, as Babauta (2009) suggests, with the uniquely stressful lifestyles we are living in contemporary culture
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