Music in East Africa: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture (Global Music Series)

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How musical performances interact with local social systems

Music in East Africa: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture (Global Music Series)
Gregory Barz
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Reading Rock and Roll

Manufacturer: Columbia University Press
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ASIN: 0231113994

Considering the work of such artists as Madonna, George Clinton, U2, Elvis Costello, and Nirvana, the contributors deftly combine the rigors of scholarship with the energy of rock journalism to provide an analysis at once critical, contextualized, and enthusiastic. While a number of scholars have recently turned their attention to rock and pop music, most of their work has focused on providing sweeping cultural contexts for its popularity rather than exploring the music itself. Now, in Reading Rock and Roll, Kevin Dettmar and William Richey have gathered a wealth of erudite, original, and clever writings that perform close readings of rock music -- often with surprising results.

The authors in this volume view rock and roll as having had affinities with postmodernism from its inception. With its mongrel pedigree -- drawing on blues, folk, R and B, and bluegrass -- and its relation to mass media and high-tech modes of production, rock music has been self-conscious and full of irony from the beginning. These essays regularly call attention to the allusiveness and intertextuality of rock and roll, whether it is Kurt Cobain undermining the Beatles, M. C. Hammer stealing from Rick James's "Super Freak," or U2's use of Johnny Cash's legendary voice.

From a careful examination of the roles of addictions and female sexuality in the remakings of Courtney Love and Madonna, to the politics of George Clinton's uses and abuses of language, to the referencing of Elvis Costello in two recent novels and the use of 1970s rock in several recent film soundtracks, these essays are as varied as the artists they consider. Informal and theoretically informed, Reading Rock and Roll is an important investigation of the music that more than any other has defined our century.

Bob and the team are going to the park to hear Farmer Pickles and his band! But when Farmer Pickles loses the music, can the machines step in to help?

Broken Hearts and Rock and Roll (High Impact)

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Broken Hearts and Rock and Roll (High Impact)
Jon Blake
Manufacturer: Heinemann Educational Publishers
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Living in the Rock N Roll Mystery: Reading Context, Self, and Others as Clues

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Living in the Rock N Roll Mystery: Reading Context, Self, and Others as Clues
H. L. Goodall
Manufacturer: Southern Illinois University
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Mystery, rather than “problem,” provides the context that the cultural ethnographer best uses to approach the experience of both the living and the writing of culture. In this work, H. L. Goodall, Jr., continues his discussion of the cultural ethnographer as detective through an investigation of what he calls the “rock n roll mystery.”

Using Bakhtin’s notion of “Carnival,” Goodall positions rock n roll as an important aspect of the American cultural experience using its lyrics and rhythm as a force of resistance to the dominant bureaucratic order. He argues that interpretive ethnography, where sentences use rhythms and emotions along with words to construct a work, parallels rock n roll in its creation of multiple voices struggling for creative and interpretive presence and space in the text. As there is no privileged text in the social life of rock n roll, there is no privileged voice in the writing of interpretive ethnography. It is, instead, a reading and writing method within the field of communication and the field of cultural studies that challenges the “existing wisdom.”

Goodall invites the reader to join him in the role of the detective who confronts, enters, and then participates in the mysteries of living. Through the use of his interpretive method, Goodall is able to move under the skin of experience to disclose the relationship among self, other(s), and context, an understanding only achieved by “going beneath the often cosmetic surfaces of cultural traffic to where symbols mingle with the driven stuff of life.” Because the “stuff of life” is laid out on the pages of this book, Goodall’s text is as compelling as a good novel and in some ways more intimate.

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The Other Glass Teat
Harlan Ellison
Manufacturer: Pyramid
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This is the second book of columns and the only one that I read. Highlights include a discussion on a new fuel additive that was supposed to save the environment but didn't really do much, a disgusted commentary of children's beauty pagents (which were televised at the time), criticism of the new television series (dismissal of The Mod Squad as an overreaching appeal to youth market, praise of All in the Family, praise of a bunch of shows that never lasted, attacks on more shows that also died out), vivisection of the treatment for a case worker show, and discussion of The Young Lawyers complete with a full screenplay and a couple of columns about getting it on the air and then hating the final product. The most hilarious one would have to be his story of being a contestant on the Dating Game and promising the poor woman that as bachelor # 3 his perfect date would be to go to the landfill and shoot rats.

Sometimes the criticism gets to be too much and you wonder if there is anything that Harlan Ellison likes. Sometimes he's a little too blinded by his own sense of right and wrong to give anyone else a chance. But at heart this is a man who still has a capacity to be disappointed in the human race and what the human race puts up as entertainment. While reading Ellison gives you the feeling of reading a Pit Bull's memoirs, you can't dismiss him.

The only caveat is that his script sucks. Maybe it was just the time and the restrictions that he worked in, but this is the man who did the quintessential Star Trek and whose original script still surpassed the television version. But it's one of those lawyer having trouble adjusting to his ex-girlfriend's drug habit and user-ways. It seemed to be a waste of pages, and even though the televised version was much worse, the stuff that he was upset about being cut - wasn't that great. It was better than most television scripts but that's not saying much.

And if upon reading this book you want to shoot your television, Mr. Ellison has succeeded. However, remember that there is the happy ending of Ellison being the consultant for Babylon 5 - a show that never compromised to the networks and became the greatest science fiction series of all time (unless of course you note that it's spinoff Crusade also never compromised and got cancelled by TNT and is still in Limbo). After reading this book you might want to read J. Michael Straczynski's book on screenwriting which gives a slightly less disgusted view of television.

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The Other Glass Teat
Harlan Ellison
Manufacturer: Pyramid Books
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The Other Glass Teat
Harland Ellison
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The Other Glass Teat
Harlan Ellison
Manufacturer: Charter Communications, Inc.
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Harlan Ellison
Manufacturer: Pyramid
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The Other Glass Teat
Harlan Ellison
Manufacturer: Pyramid Books
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Fails in achieving goals.
A good reference manual
SNMP MIBs is an essential reference work
Waste of money
The definative book on SNMP MIBs

Understanding SNMP MIBs
David T. Perkins , and Evan McGinnis
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall PTR
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