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Harmony and discord within the English ‘counter-culture’, 1965-1975, with particular reference to the ‘rock operas’ Hair, Godspell, Tommy and Jesus Christ Superstar
No full textPhDThis thesis considers the discrete, historically-specific theatrical and musical sub-genre of ‘Rock Opera’ as a lens through which to examine the cultural, political and social changes that are widely assumed to have characterised ‘The Sixties’ in Britain. The musical and dramatic texts, creation and production of Hair (1967), Tommy (1969), Godspell (1971), Jesus Christ Superstar (1970) and other neglected ‘Rock Operas’ of the period are analysed. Their great popularity with ‘mainstream’ audiences is considered and contrasted with the overwhelmingly negative and often internally contradictory reaction towards them from the English ‘counter-culture’. This examination offers new insights into both the ‘counter-culture’ and the ‘mainstream’ against which it claimed to define and differentiate itself.
The four ‘Rock Operas’, two of which are based upon Christian scriptures, are considered as narratives of spiritual quest. The relationship between the often controversial quests for re-defined forms of faith and the apparently precipitous ‘secularization’ and ‘de-Christianization’ of British society during the 1960s and 1970s is considered.
The thesis therefore analyses the ‘Rock Operas’ as significant, enlightening prisms through which to view many of the profound societal debates – over ‘faith’ and ‘belief’ in the widest senses, sexuality, the Vietnam war, generational conflict, drugs and ‘spiritual enlightenment’, and race – which were, to some considerable extent, elevated onto the national, political agenda by the activities of the broadly-defined ‘counter-culture’. It considers subsequent representations of the ‘counter-culture’ as the root of a contested but enduring popular legacy of ‘The Sixties' as a period of profound cultural change
O jornalismo crítico musical da revista Bizz (1985-1989) na consolidação do rock brasileiro
No full textTCC (graduação) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Curso de Ciências Sociais.Este trabalho pretende analisar a crítica musical da Revista Bizz (1985- 1989) e as suas influências na consolidação do rock nacional. Inseridos no eixo paulista do campo de produção musical brasileiro, esses críticos pertenceram a uma rede de sociabilidade que envolvia músicos, produtores e jornalistas e fortaleceram os critérios de avaliação do rock nacional que se profissionalizava. Como consequência há mudanças no mercado de trabalho e a consolidação de uma linguagem profissional, que aliava uma narrativa com diferentes formas de contato: o rádio, a fotografia, o cinema, a partir do que se entendia como “publico jovem”. Inserida na lógica da grande indústria, a Bizz passa a criar tensões e aproximações entre o público leitor, músicos, produtores e suas matérias e estabelece um lugar específico de fala que tenta aliar o underground- experimental e o pop-rock.This paper discusses the Bizz Magazine´s critical musical (1985-1989) and their influences on the consolidation of the national rock. Inserted into the São Paulo musical production, these critics belonged to a networking sociability involving musicians, producers and journalists. Strengthened the evaluation criteria of the national rock who became professional as a result of changes in the labor marketing and the consolidation of a professional language, a narrative that combined with different contact forms: radio, photography, film, from what was understood as "young public." Inserted into the logic of big industry, Bizz shall create tensions and similarities between the readers, musicians, producers and their raw and establishes a specific place speech that attempts to combine experimental music and underground-pop-rock
Rock dos anos 1980, prefixo 48: um crime perfeito?
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas. Programa de Pós-Graduação em História.A presente dissertação tem como objetivo principal a análise sobre a formação de grupos de rock, no que chamo Mundo 48, durante a década de 1980, suas músicas e como estas ajudavam a criarem suas redes sociais. O termo Mundo 48 caracteriza um espaçogeográfico através do prefixo telefônico, abordando a grande Florianópolis e parte da região sul catarinense. Sendo as bandas catarinenses um tema inédito, recorri inicialmente em uma discussão historiográfica sobre algumas das bandas estudadas. Tendo como recorte temporal principal, a atuação da banda Expresso Rural (posteriormente apenas Expresso), entre 1982 e 1992, neste período são criadas novas comunidades emocionais e características próprias na composição de canções e apresentação em shows e televisão. Porém, a Expresso Rural não é vista como principal. Outras bandas são analisadas com a mesma importância como a Ratones/Tubarão, Decalco Mania, Burn, Bandalheia ou Stryx, apenas para citar algumas. This present dissertation has as its main objective the analysis about the formation of rock groups, what I call Mundo 48, during the 80#s, their music and the way it would help them to create their social connections. The term Mundo 48 refers to a geographic space between an area code that goes from the whole Florianópolis down to part of the south Santa Catarina State. Being the Santa Catarina#s band a subject never studied before, I firstly appealed in a historiographical discussion about some of the bands. Based on the action of the band Expresso Rural (lately Expresso), between the years of 1982 and 1992, new emotional communities are created and particular characteristics are developed on the way songs are created and shows and T.V. programs are presented. However, the band Expresso Rural is not seen as the main band of that time. Some other bands are classified with the same importance, such as Ratones/Tubarão, Decalco Mania, Burn, Bandalheia or Stryx, naming a few
Phylogeny of rock-inhabiting fungi related to Dothideomycetes
No full textThe class Dothideomycetes (along with Eurotiomycetes) includes numerous rock-inhabiting fungi (RIF), a group of ascomycetes that tolerates surprisingly well harsh conditions prevailing on rock surfaces. Despite their convergent morphology and physiology, RIF are phylogenetically highly diverse in Dothideomycetes. However, the positions of main groups of RIF in this class remain unclear due to the lack of a strong phylogenetic framework. Moreover, connections between rock-dwelling habit and other lifestyles found in Dothideomycetes such as plant pathogens, saprobes and lichen-forming fungi are still unexplored. Based on multigene phylogenetic analyses, we report that RIF belong to Capnodiales (particularly to the family Teratosphaeriaceae s.l.), Dothideales, Pleosporales, and Myriangiales, as well as some uncharacterised groups with affinities to Dothideomycetes. Moreover, one lineage consisting exclusively of RIF proved to be closely related to Arthoniomycetes, the sister class of Dothideomycetes. The broad phylogenetic amplitude of RIF in Dothideomycetes suggests that total species richness in this class remains underestimated. Composition of some RIF-rich lineages suggests that rock surfaces are reservoirs for plant-associated fungi or saprobes, although other data also agree with rocks as a primary substrate for ancient fungal lineages. According to the current sampling, long distance dispersal seems to be common for RIF. Dothideomycetes lineages comprising lichens also include RIF, suggesting a possible link between rock-dwelling habit and lichenisatio
Inscription in Nova Solyma, the ideal city; or, Jerusalem regained; an anonymous romance written in the time of Charles I
No full textProbable editor's gift inscription, "Jacobo Hiltonio Amico Suo Amicissimo D. D. D Libri hujus Editor et Interpres. W. B. A.D. CMMII".Nova Solyma, the ideal city; or, Jerusalem regained; an anonymous romance written in the time of Charles I. Now first drawn from obscurity, and attributed to the illustrious John Milton. With introduction, translation, literary essays and a bibliography by the Rev. Walter Begley.
Begley, Walter, 1845-1905, ed. and tr.
Gott, Samuel, 1613-1671, supposed author.
Milton, John, 1608-1674, supposed author
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Hedges, ed.: Rock Art Papers Volume I
No full textRock Art Papers Volume I. Ken Hedges, editor. San Diego: San Diego Museum Papers No. 16, 1983, 104 pp., 94 illustrations, $10.95 (paper)
Rock-eating mycorrhizas: their role in plant nutrition and biogeochemical cycles
No full textA decade ago, tunnels inside mineral grains were found that were likely formed by hyphae of ectomycorrhizal (EcM) fungi. This observation implied that EcM fungi can dissolve mineral grains. The observation raised several questions on the ecology of these ¿rock-eating¿ fungi. This review addresses the roles of these rock-eating EcM associations in plant nutrition, biogeochemical cycles and pedogenesis. Research approaches ranged from molecular to ecosystem level scales. Nutrient deficiencies change EcM seedling exudation patterns of organic anions and thus their potential to mobilise base cations from minerals. This response was fungal species-specific. Some EcM fungi accelerated mineral weathering. While mineral weathering could also increase the concentrations of phytotoxic aluminium in the soil solution, some EcM fungi increase Al tolerance through an enhanced exudation of oxalate. Through their contribution to Al transport, EcM hyphae could be agents in pedogenesis, especially podzolisation. A modelling study indicated that mineral tunnelling is less important than surface weathering by EcM fungi. With both processes taken together, the contribution of EcM fungi to weathering may be significant. In the field vertical niche differentiation of EcM fungi was shown for EcM root tips and extraradical mycelium. In the field EcM fungi and tunnel densities were correlated. Our results support a role of rock-eating EcM fungi in plant nutrition and biogeochemical cycles. EcM fungal species-specific differences indicate the need for further research with regard to this variation in functional traits
Program for the SCLA/SELA Joint Conference 2013, “Local Roots, Regional Reach
No full textDescribes the scope of the 2013 regional conference of both the South Carolina Library Association (SCLA) and Southeastern Library Association (SELA). Includes titles of conference sessions, names of presenters, descriptions of topicsand list of sponsors and exhibitors, as well as the overall conference program including keynote speakers Courtney Young, American Library Association (ALA) President-Elect; Michelle Stone, Author of The Iguana Tree; and George Singleton, Author of Stray Decorum
Finite element modelling of transportation tunnels
No full textThe aim of this thesis is to determine the ground deformation and stress distribution around highway tunnels at various stages of excavation and for several support conditions using finite element modelling techniques. When ground is excavated and material removed the subsequent redistribution of stress in the remaining surrounding material needs to be treated by one of three methods. These are the gravity difference method, the stress reversal technique and the relaxation approach. The first two methods were chosen for the simulation of excavation in this study. The tunnel data are in the form of the dimensions of the tunnel, heights of the rock layers, details of the shotcrete lining and tunnel support systems. A pre-processing program was written to transform this information into a finite element mesh in a format suitable for use by PAFEC-FE software. This enables different tunnel models and meshes to be produced with minimum error and time. The lack of adequate post-processing facilities available in PAFEC-FE dictated that computer programs needed to be written in order to reformat the textual output files and process the mesh stress and displacement outputs for graphical display using UNIRAS. In this way repeated use could be made of PAFEC-FE without time-consuming and error-prone manual retrieval of data. The tunnels were modelled at various stages of excavation and with such support provided at those stages as to allow the computed displacements to be compared with measurements made on highway tunnels in Turkey. The stresses generated in the tunnel supports and surrounding ground were also calculated to enable the possibility of damage or failure of the support structure or ground to be assessed and the selection of an optimal support system. Insertion of a support system into the model has a marginal effect on the development of rock strength around an excavation boundary
Canções de um fim de século: história, música e comportamento na década encontrada (1978-1991)
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas. Programa de Pós-Graduação em História.A presente dissertação de mestrado visa a análise e a compreensão das canções do rock brasileiro produzido nos anos de 1980, percebendo os sintomas dessa década. Em sua abordagem é possível perceber como a geração de jovens vinculada ao rock está captando as novas práticas de estar-no-mundo e externalizando seus sentimentos mais diversos através da música. Durante os anos 1980 é possível notar que jovens urbanos, dos extratos mediano e populares, agrupam-se em tribos, geralmente inspirados por algum ritmo musical,em algum estilo estético. Com isso criando uma outra forma de atuação política, diferente da que se atribuía à juventude até então, trazendo consigo também os sinais do fim do século XX, que segundo o historiador inglês Eric Hobsbawn deu-se nos anos de 1991, com o fim da União Soviética. Conferindo, portanto, à década de 1980 ares de fim de século. Dividida em três capítulos, a dissertação propõe uma reflexão historiográfica sobre o surgimento das bandas, suas idéias, comportamentos, elaboração do espaço público e vinculação de pertencimento. Além das canções das bandas de punk e principalmente do rock foram utilizados como fontes jornais, revistas depoimentos e sites da Interne
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