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Uncontrollable Bodies: Testimonies of Identity and Culture
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anthology featuring Trinh Mihn-ha, others
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This is the first book to focus on the role of education in relation to music and gender. Invoking a concept of musical patriarchy and a theory of the social construction of musical meaning, Lucy Green shows how women's musical practices and gendered musical meanings have been reproduced, hand-in-hand, through history. Dr. Green views the contemporary school music classroom as a microcosm of the wider society, and reveals the participation of music education in the continued production and reproduction of gendered musical practices and meanings.
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Punk Rockers' Revolution: A Pedagogy Of Race, Class, And Gender (Counterpoints: Studies in the Postmodern Theory of Education)
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The Philosophy of Punk: More Than Noise
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For punk rockers, music and art have often been used as tools for resisting and accommodating the interests of society's dominant classes. During the late 1970s, a predominantly white, male working/middle-class counterculture began to develop what is now known as punk rock. This book shows how punk rock serves to both subvert and accommodate the interest of late-capitalist American society by looking at the trends in the ideas, values, and beliefs transmitted through punk lyrical messages, specifically through the content of three punk record labels and how they have evolved over time. The impact of punk will continue because it is a product of the changing face of alternative cultural spaces-spaces that impact and are impacted by increasingly hostile and exploitive relationships between and within oppressor and oppressed groups.
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Popular Music, Gender and Postmodernism: Anger Is an Energy
Neil Nehring
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ASIN: 0761908358 |
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Popular Music, Gender, and Postmodernism begins by tracing the migration of cynical academic ideas about postmodernism into music journalism. The result has been a widespread fatalism over the presumed ability of the music industry to absorb any expression of defiance in hiphop and rock. Commercial "incorporation" supposedly makes a charade of musical outrage, somehow disconnecting anger in music from any meaning or significance. Author Neil Nehring documents the considerable damage done by the journalistic employment of this tenet of postmodern theory, particularly in the case of the late Kurt Cobain of Nirvana, whose emotional intensity was repeatedly belittled for its purported incoherence. As a rebuttal to academic postmodernism and its exploitation by the mass media, Popular Music, Gender, and Postmodernism emphasizes that emotion and reason are mutually interdependent. Though mistakes can occur in the conscious choice of an object at which to direct oneÆs feelings, the preverbal appraisal of social situations that generates emotions is always perfectly rational. Nehring also surveys work in literary criticism, psychology, and especially feminist philosophy that argues on the basis for the political significance of anger even prior to its full articulation. The emotional performance in popular music, he concludes, cannot be discounted on the grounds, for example, that lyrics such as CobainÆs are difficult to understand. After detailing more and less progressive approaches to emotion in music criticism, Nehring focuses on recent punk rock by women, including the Riot Grrrls.
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aaaaaaaaaaargh!.......2001-02-28
Amazing. A riot-grrl fan, postmodern-sceptic and feminism enthusiast has actually managed to write the dullest, most fatuous piece of study (although it hardly merits the title) I've read in a long time. The author wastes practically half of the book trying to impress us all with his vast knowledge of philosophical theories through the ages, to finally astound us with the revelation that...postmodernism is derivative of modernist theories. yaaaaaaaawn. Any discussion of the actual music on which the arguments are ostensibly based is sparse and pretty shaky, as there's barely any attempt at musical analysis. Still, he can have a star for good intentions...
poopoo.......2000-02-07
This book is horrible. it should be burned at the stake. dont buy it unless you like wasting money on books that resemble poo poo. thank you, good fight and good night.
Anger is an energy that achieves what?.......1998-12-10
Nehring takes to task the postmodernists who dismiss anger and strong emotion in rock music.These critics see rock as being simply a packaged consumer product, whereas Nehring would like to think angry rock has some sort of significance.He never explains exactly what are the positive things this anger can achieve.He shows a lack of knowledge of psychology and true initiation when he criticises Michael Ventura, and Robert Bly (author of The Sibling Society), who have written with insight about the predicament of modern youth.This book has hardly anything to say about actual music.It is mostly negative, being a shallow critique of "postmodernist" views on rock music.
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Music, Gender, Education. (book reviews): An article from: Notes
Barbara Coeyman
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This digital document is an article from Notes, published by Music Library Association, Inc. on September 1, 1998. The length of the article is 1084 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Music, Gender, Education. (book reviews)
Author: Barbara Coeyman
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Date: September 1, 1998
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A Small Selection of Karpov's Great Games.......2001-06-17
This contains 43 games of Karpov, covering 25 years of his career from 1969 to 1994. The games are brilliant, but the book is relatively short. Some of his famous victories, e.g. vs Topalov in Linares 94, are missing. Also notable is that Karpov has White in the vast majority of the selected games.
From one of the best chess players of all time!.......2001-03-13
Anatoly Karpov's chess are some of the best positional games of all time. While he has been accused of playing a very dull style this couldnt be the furthest thing from the truth! Anatoly's games are fantastic for instructional purposes and the collection of games in this book will definately help players with there game and understanding the theory and its application of positional chess. While a great many people, including myself, love attacking chess, after studying Karpov's games you soon learn that all tactical maneuvers are born from a sound position. A great book from one of the best of all time!
Brilliant!.......2000-04-27
Karpov's play is rich, deep, and brilliant. In fact, I have always considered him, in some ways, to be the successor of another great---Petrosian, whose deep strategic play and sharp tactics I have always admired. However, while the public has recognized the richness and depth of his play, Karpov has often been accused of being dull. This book finally puts an end to that pernicious lie. In this work, we see the full brilliance of Karpov's play demonstrated---much of which, sadly perhaps, occurred only in the latent variations of his games. Nonetheless, there is a wealth of real brilliance in this collection---just look at his games against Tatai, Korchnoi, and Kasparov. My Lord, Tatai-Karpov features a positional pawn sacrifice which is later followed by a queen sacrifice: If that is not brilliant, I don't know what is! Anatoly Karpov's Best Games's only flaw is that its selection of games is too limited! (Games from Karpov's 1974 candidates matches are conspicuously absent.) Yet this is hardly a significant flaw. If you get the chance, purchase this book: It is a collection of deeply annotated, richly strategic brilliancies from one of the greatest players of all time.
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Author's preface: "I have played a huge amount of tournament and match games during my long chess career, roughly 2,500 altogether. From those games, I have selected only three hundred for this book, - the games I consider my best and most instructive ones.
My goal was to represent my most valuable creative achievements of the thirty years that have passed, from 1966 till 1996. The selection was subordinated to the following three criteria: strong opponent, tense fight, and instructive value. Therefore this collection of games can be treated also as a modern chess instruction book, because the games were played mainly in the strongest events of the last thirty years.
Under such a strict selection procedure, many interesting and instructive games as well as simply beautiful fragments would have inevitably been missing in this book, if the games had been included into it only entirely. Therefore, the final chapter contains a number of my best combinations and finals which are essential for achieving the abovementioned goal; without them, this work would have been incomplete.
I still play a lot and still achieve tournament successes, so it would be premature to accept this book as my final account. I sincerely hope to play a number of good games in upcoming events and to raise my own account of tournament triumphs (I have over 140 of them recently - more than any player in chess history). However, so many chessfriends had expressed their desire to have this book right now that I decided to prepare this sort of an intermediate report on my 30 years in chess. Let reading this work bring you pleasure and improve your understanding of chess inner logic, depth and beauty."
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My Best Games
Anatoly Karpov
Manufacturer: R. H. M. Press
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ASIN: 0890580367 |
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Though most companies claim to be growth oriented, surprisingly few actually achieve double-digit growth-and over the past 10 years, that percentage has steadily decreased. In HOW TO GROW WHEN MARKETS DON'T, AdrianSlywotzky andRichardWise examine this problem and offer real solutions, including how to fully map customers' higher- order needs and ways to get investors to change their thinking. They also offer methods to enhance existing asset bases through acquisitions, partnerships, and licensing, and suggest that companies learn not to depend on the CEO to solve the growth crisis. Creating sustained growth in company value has never been an easy task-in fact, it's getting more and more difficult in today's economic climate-and HOW TO GROW WHEN MARKETS DON'T addresses the need for solid and sensible advice.
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A typical business book with a couple of good ideas and recommendations.......2007-04-23
Mr Slywotzky is a business consultant, who has written some books related to value creation and growth. In this case he gives alternative growth recipies.
According to the author after a certain time companies reach a limit of growth since they have exhausted all the obviuos moves: expand geographically, innovate products and make acquisitions. The solution is creating new offerings along the value chain of the existing customer base (the idea up to here not very innovative). To do so companies should concentrate in what Mr Slywotzky calls the hidden assets which is probably the best idea of the book. Hidden assets are not related to the accounting term but to things that a company does or owns during its normal business activity. An example are customer relationships that can be leveraged to create new growth if there are other companies that are interested in your existing customer base. The cooking list of hidden assets is quite comprehensive, you have to put some life in it. Later examples follow of companies using these concepts to create new growth are among others: GM, Air Liquide or John Deere.
The second part of the book deals with the hidden liabilities (all those things that impede growth) which sound more familiar, and how to implement new ideas in an existing organisation, probably the main reason for innovation failure. The author exposes some ideas on how a possible structure in the company might look like and showing the key role of the middle manager in implementation or a monday morning laundry list to make start easy.
As many business books it relies strongly in the personal experience of the author. Not the best, but the ideas of hidden assets and the how-to part have some value. Whether you think it might be workable in your organization is another issue.
Highly Recommended!.......2005-09-13
Leaders of established companies are now finding it harder to earn additional revenue. Authors Adrian Slywotzky and Richard Wise say managers must realize that the old reliable revenue sources - brand extensions, mergers, international growth - just aren't panaceas any more. The answer, they say, is "demand innovation." That means proactively making business more efficient for your suppliers upstream and your customers downstream. The authors bolster their argument with detailed, relevant case studies involving the likes of Cardinal Health, GM's OnStar, Virgin, Johnson Controls and many more. The case studies mostly manage to avoid the breathy, laudatory treatment that is virtually de rigueur when consultants write about their corporate subjects. The authors' "invisible balance sheet" concept is useful. They also provide seven immediate steps companies can take to improve earnings, even if they can't create fresh revenue streams. Because this book offers practical applications, as well as theoretical strategic insights, we recommends it to managers in established companies.
Grow by leveraging your HIDDEN ASSETS.......2005-04-05
I've read three of Adrian Slywotzky's books during the last twelve months and I'm deeply inspired by his bright ideas on the art of profitability. This book focuses on how to profit via growth.
The key chapters are those that lay out the concepts behind "hidden assets" (that can be exploited to create value in new markets) and "demand innovation" (how to explore new ways to solve unmet customer needs via external analysis).
This is the universe of HIDDEN ASSETS that may be leveraged in a growth strategy:
1) Traditional Intellectual assets (intellectual property, competency/skills, and brand).
2) Customer relationships (reach/many, interaction/deep or frequent contact, insight/knowledge, authority/reputation).
3) Strategic real estate (unique value chain position, competitive market position, portal/gateway).
4) Networks (third-party relationships/partners, installed base/post-sale owners, user community, and deal flow/preferential access to potential transactions/M&As).
5) Information (market window/superior insight, technical know-how, software and systems, by-product information).
I found many of the case stories very inspiring, although the well-explained out-of-the-box story of "Cardinal Health" stood out as the most exciting.
The book draws on Slywotzky's previous books. It pursues the eternal theme ... that the path to profitability lies in truly understanding your current and future customers.
Being a business development manager, I search for relevant tools to apply the growth ideas to my own business. The cases in the book are very good and on the website for this book - demandinnovation.com -, you'll find the core ideas in a graphical form as well as an excellent 32-page companion workbook on "Getting Started".
I also highly recommend Slywotzky's "Profit Zone" (1997/2002) and "Art of Profitability" (2002). Note that these books present the same 23 profit models, first as a standard business strategy book, then as an easy-to-read novel.
If you're interested in other strategy books on Growth, let me draw your attention to "Blue Ocean Strategy" by Kim & Mauborgne (2005), "Profitable Growth" by Charan (2004), and "Beyond the Core" by Zook (2004).
Peter Leerskov,
MSc in International Business (Marketing & Management) and Graduate Diploma in E-business
Grow by leveraging your HIDDEN ASSETS.......2005-04-05
I've read three of Adrian Slywotzky's books during the last twelve months and I'm deeply inspired by his bright ideas on the art of profitability. This book focuses on how to profit via growth.
The key chapters are those that lay out the concepts behind "hidden assets" (that can be exploited to create value in new markets) and "demand innovation" (how to explore new ways to solve customer problems via external analysis).
This is the universe of HIDDEN ASSETS that may be leveraged in a growth strategy:
1) Traditional Intellectual assets (intellectual property, competency/skills, and brand).
2) Customer relationships (reach/many, interaction/deep or frequent contact, insight/knowledge, authority/reputation).
3) Strategic real estate (unique value chain position, competitive market position, portal/gateway).
4) Networks (third-party relationships/partners, installed base/post-sale owners, user community, and deal flow/preferential access to potential transactions/M&As).
5) Information (market window, technical know-how, software and systems, by-product information).
I found many of the case stories very inspiring, although the well-explained out-of-the-box story of "Cardinal Health" stood out as the most exciting.
The book draws on Slywotzky's previous books. It pursues the eternal theme ... that the path to profitability lies in truly understanding your current and future customers.
Being a business development manager, I search for relevant tools to apply the growth ideas to my own business. The cases in the book are very good and on the website for this book - demandinnovation.com -, you'll find the core ideas in a graphical form as well as an excellent 32-page companion workbook on "Getting Started".
I also highly recommend Slywotzky's "Profit Zone" (1997/2002) and "Art of Profitability" (2002). Note that these books present the same 23 profit models, first as a standard business strategy book, then as an easy-to-read novel.
If you're interested in other strategy books on Growth, let me draw your attention to "Blue Ocean Strategy" by Kim & Mauborgne (2005), "Profitable Growth" by Charan (2004), and "Beyond the Core" by Zook (2004).
Peter Leerskov,
MSc in International Business (Marketing & Management) and Graduate Diploma in E-business
New growth for old companies.......2003-10-10
Slywotzky and Wise could have titled their new book, New Growth for Old Companies: A Comprehensive Compendium. If you've read their many previous papers and articles, you'll find the contents of this book familiar but will probably be delighted to find all those ideas and more gathered informatively in one place. The authors' audience consists of companies in mature industries struggling to grow - and to grow in a sustainable manner.
Inspired by examples such as General Motors, Clarke American, and Cardinal Health, Slywotzky and Wise mix their own thoughts with others floating around the world of business ideas to come up with a strategy they call "demand innovation". I agree that typical product innovation, while retaining value, is far from the final word in achieving growth. The authors' demand-centric approach instead focuses on the customer's context in using a product or service, and satisfying that with the company's intangible wealth - customer contacts, business models, technical expertise, human capital.
If you are like most customers, you have no trouble finding any number of innovative products. Your wish-list of new stuff is probably making your bank balance very nervous. Yet the experience of finding, buying, using, getting support, and other issues that surround the product itself can create enormous frustration. Slywotzky and Wise do us the favor (as businesses and customers) of bringing together a set of opportunities to grow by helping customers reduce complexity and by helping businesses make better decisions and reach their market faster - often a newly uncovered or created market. Some of the methods for companies are ensuring operational excellence, treating growth as a systematic discipline, developing lots of small ideas and a few big ones, mandating growth at the operating level, securing high-level support for growth initiatives, and building your capabilities through acquisitions and alliances.
You may not find many of these ideas to be radically new, but that's no reason to ignore this book. The authors have done a fine job of gathering diverse elements of new-growth practices and putting them in a sensible framework of "demand innovation". Keep this book on the shelf next to you and pull it down next time you get that not-so-fresh feeling about your business and your markets.
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