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Book review: El Sistema: orchestrating Venezuela’s youth, by Geoffrey Baker
No full textBook review of: El Sistema: orchestrating Venezuela’s youth, by Geoffrey Baker.
New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2014; ISBN: 9780199341559
($35.00)Publisher PD
Geoffrey Robertson on the History of Human Rights
No full textQueen\u27s Counsel, broadcaster and author Geoffrey Robertson has achieved international fame by defending high-profile cases, often representing victims of alleged human rights abuses. Here, at an event organised by Amnesty Australia, he gives a short history of human rights, from the Magna Carta to the present
Potential gains from reducing trade barriers in manufacturing, services and agriculture; commentary
No full textTrade barriers
‘Like a Mason Addressing a Block’: Materiality and Design in Geoffrey Hill’s Poetry
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Shearsman Books via the ISBN in this recordNote change of chapter title between accepted and published versionsArguing against the notion that contemporary British poetry is either insular or apolitical, this essay takes a new, interdisciplinary approach to the twenty-first century poetic redeployment of European material culture. It takes as a case study the work of the contemporary British poet, Geoffrey Hill. Hill's poetry makes strategic use of the built environment, in order to negotiate both the European cultural inheritance and to foreground its importance in the British poetic imagination. Reinvesting in built structure on the page, Hill’s inter-artistic eye keeps his audience historically and politically attuned to the uses to which stones, tablets and building blocks are used and re-used across the arts (to attract new audience gazes; to both found and bolster artistic reputations). The powerful contribution of Italian, French and German design models to social, rhetorical and moral thought in British poetry have frequently been neglected in scholarship of contemporary British poetics. This essay offers a corrective, focusing on Hill's distinctive contemporary attention to this shared design politics. Hill's work foregrounds the importance of this European influence, and works consciously to redirect the way that contemporary British audiences understand poetry's complex cultural inheritance and its legacy
Creating a healthy community, Los Angeles, 1993
No full textCreating a healthy community, 1993, 3030 South Vermont Avenue (mural on 30th Street). Links imagery of immediate health care to a broader vision of good nutrition, housing and education. PacificCare Medical Group at Exposition Park. In acrylic, 20' x 140' by David Fichter with assistance from Kevin Reed, Mel Quinn, Sam Park, Mari Hulick and Geoffrey Normile. Sponsored by SPARC -- Dunitz, Street gallery, rev. 2nd ed., p. 220, #54
Listen to Nice
No full textIn describing Humphrey Jennings’ wartime documentary propaganda film, 'Listen to Britain' (1942), a film with an overtly poetic sensibility and dominantly musical soundtrack, John Corner asserts that ‘through listening to
Britain, we are enabled to properly look at it'. This idea of sound leading our attention to the images has underpinned much of the collaborative
work between composer and sound designer, Geoffrey Cox, and documentary filmmaker, Keith Marley. It is in this context that the article will analyse an extract of A Film About Nice (Marley and Cox 2010), a contemporary
re-imagining of Jean Vigo’s silent documentary, 'A propos de Nice' (1930). Reference will be made throughout to the historical context, and the filmic and theoretical influences that have informed the way music and creative sound design have been used to place emphasis on hearing a place, as much as seeing it
A challenge to publish books in Zambia!
No full textGeoffrey Musonda, author and engineer, about the challenge of publishing books in Zambia and to market Zambian literature globally.</p
Cultural appropriation and historiography in the works of Ishmael Reed
No full textThe purpose of this study is to explore the theme of cultural appropriation and its representation in Ishmael Reed's novels, while also situating this theme within his larger critiques of Western Eurocentric culture. While much critical work has been undertaken in regards to how Reed has confronted issues of Western historiography and the means by which the Western version of history is presented as unquestionably natural and orthodox, little writing has attempted to flesh out and describe the specific strategies by which such orthodoxy is constituted and legitimized. By exploring the recurrent presence of cultural appropriation and the various ways it manifests in Reed's work through satire, parody, allegory, symbolism and metaphor, this study attempts to enumerate and describe this specific effect of Western history making as cultural appropriation that Reed is bringing to light. This study undertakes a detailed analysis of Reed's novels as occasions for not only calling out cultural appropriation, but as textual mediums for expressing the strategies, forms and types of such appropriation
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