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Roseland Reads Together, Roseland Free Public Library (Roseland, N.J.), 2002
No full textAlbum chronicling the 30th Anniversary of the Roseland Library's Incorporation. The event was commemorated by a Borough-Wide reading activity. All families were invited to read the same book, "Homer Price" by Robert McCloskey. The festivities on May 11, 2002 at the Library included events from the stories in "Homer Price." A Proclamation from the Mayor regarding this event is issued dated April 23, 2002
Spontaneous music : the first generation British free improvisers
No full textThe British free improvisation scene originated in London and Sheffield during the
mid 1960s. In groups such as AMM, the Spontaneous Music Ensemble and Joseph
Holbrooke, a distinctive and ambitious musicality developed that still occupies most
of its protagonists forty years later.
Marked stylistic contrasts developed within the genre, notably the `atomistic' and
`laminar' methods of interaction. Nonetheless, a consistency of principle and practice
was also apparent that defined British free improvisation as unique. In some respects
the genre resembled its German, Dutch and American counterparts, and also the jazz
and classical avant-gardes that had inspired them. Both conceptually and practically,
however, clear differences remained.
The British free improvisers refined a method and an aesthetic of musical creativity,
which suggested an intimate perspective and a detailed analysis of that which we
accept as `music'. Its techniques and results were unconventional, but remained
consistent with music's defining concepts and experiences. As such, British free
improvisation suggested a more inclusive model of musicality than is common, and
implied a broad critique of the cultural values that define `music' at all. Though the
free improvisers themselves did not explicitly state the connection, their work may be
viewed in the context of Deconstruction: the post-structuralist analytical strategy
associated with philosopher Jacques Derrida.
British free improvisation culminated from innovations within the twentieth century
avant-garde. Referencing styles such as atonality and free jazz, it challenged the
aesthetic, technical and hierarchical standards of Western tradition in a form that was
striking and extreme, but also of logical development and focus. Free improvisation
owed explicit debt to a variety of other musics; its most singular achievement
however, was the redefinition of `rhythm' by which it disguised this fact.
The music of the first generation British free improvisers is reliant upon precise
conceptual and practical execution. But though this has enabled the genre to be
musically innovative, in the long term it has also become a logical problem. With
British free improvisation as its subject, the scrutiny of Deconstruction reveals
significant discrepancies between what `free improvisation' implies and what it
actually represents
Labor Saving Devices, inspired by Homer Price," Display, Roseland Free Public Library (Roseland, N.J.)
No full textAlbum chronicling the 30th Anniversary of the Roseland Library's Incorporation. The event was commemorated by a Borough-Wide reading activity. All families were invited to read the same book, "Homer Price" by Robert McCloskey. The festivities on May 11, 2002 at the Library included events from the stories in "Homer Price." A Proclamation from the Mayor regarding this event is issued dated April 23, 2002
Roseland Reads Together, Sign, Roseland Free Public Library (Roseland, N.J.), 2002
No full textAlbum chronicling the 30th Anniversary of the Roseland Library's Incorporation. The event was commemorated by a Borough-Wide reading activity. All families were invited to read the same book, "Homer Price" by Robert McCloskey. The festivities on May 11, 2002 at the Library included events from the stories in "Homer Price." A Proclamation from the Mayor regarding this event is issued dated April 23, 2002
Roseland Reads Together, Sign, Roseland Free Public Library (Roseland, N.J.), 2002
No full textAlbum chronicling the 30th Anniversary of the Roseland Library's Incorporation. The event was commemorated by a Borough-Wide reading activity. All families were invited to read the same book, "Homer Price" by Robert McCloskey. The festivities on May 11, 2002 at the Library included events from the stories in "Homer Price." A Proclamation from the Mayor regarding this event is issued dated April 23, 2002
Labor Saving Devices, inspired by Homer Price," Display, Roseland Free Public Library (Roseland, N.J.)
No full textAlbum chronicling the 30th Anniversary of the Roseland Library's Incorporation. The event was commemorated by a Borough-Wide reading activity. All families were invited to read the same book, "Homer Price" by Robert McCloskey. The festivities on May 11, 2002 at the Library included events from the stories in "Homer Price." A Proclamation from the Mayor regarding this event is issued dated April 23, 2002
Labor Saving Devices, inspired by Homer Price," Display, Roseland Free Public Library (Roseland, N.J.)
No full textAlbum chronicling the 30th Anniversary of the Roseland Library's Incorporation. The event was commemorated by a Borough-Wide reading activity. All families were invited to read the same book, "Homer Price" by Robert McCloskey. The festivities on May 11, 2002 at the Library included events from the stories in "Homer Price." A Proclamation from the Mayor regarding this event is issued dated April 23, 2002
Enhancing the contribution of open and distance e-learning in higher education : implications for the central university of technology, Free State
No full textPublished ArticleThe aims of this article are to describe the findings of the author over the last decade regarding traditional distance education which eventually became Open and Distance E-Learning (ODEL) at the Central University of Technology, Free State (CUT) and secondly, the integration of Open Education Resources (OER) within ODEL. Up for debate in Perspectives in Education is the question whether ODEL and OER have not already stimulated a new constellation for higher education? After attending several international conferences of the International Organization for Open and Distance Education (lODE), the National Association for Open Distance Education of South Africa (NADEOSA), Higher Education Learning and Teaching Association of Southern Africa (HELTASA) as well as the South African Association for Research Development in Higher Education (SMRDHE), it became evident to the author that global trends forced a number of changes onto the South African higher education system.
Subsequently, the CUT also had to reconsider the role of distance education within the Free State and Northern Cape provinces where it operates. In 2004 for example, students enrolled for distance education countrywide already constituted between 4% and 32% at traditional face-to-face universities while for universities of technology the figure was only 4,74% (CHE, 2004:185-186). However, universities of technology since expanded tremendously in using ODEL
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