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The essays in Sound Judgment span the full career of Richard
Leppert, from his earliest to work that appears here for the first
time, on subjects drawn from early modernity to the present
concerning music both popular and classical, European and North
American. Noted for his path-breaking interdisciplinary scholarship
on music and visual culture, the collection includes key essays on
music's visualization in art practices in virtually all visual
media, including film. The fourteen essays comprising this volume
demonstrate Leppert's many contributions to critical musicology,
particularly in the areas of aesthetics as well as social and
intellectual history, all of it grounded in a heterodox body of
critical and cultural theory, with the work of Theodor W. Adorno
particularly noteworthy. The collection is preceded by an
introduction in which Leppert traces his intellectual development,
defined in large part by the social, cultural, and political
upheavals of the 1960s and their aftermath both in the academy and
in society at large.
The Nude explores some of the principal ways that paintings of the
nude function in the conflicted terrain of culture and society in
Europe and America from the fifteenth through twentieth centuries,
as set against questions about human sexuality that emerge around
differences of class, gender, age, and race. Author Richard Leppert
relates the visual history of how the naked body intersects with
the foundational characteristics of what it is to be human,
measured against a range of basic emotions (happiness, delight, and
desire; fear, anxiety, and abjection) and read in the context of
changing social and cultural realities. The bodies comprising the
Western nude are variously pleasured or tormented, ecstatic or
bored, pleased or horrified. In short, as this volume amply
demonstrates, the nude in Western art is a terrain on whose surface
is written a summation of Western history: its glory but also its
degradation.
In Art and the Committed Eye Richard Leppert examines Western
European and American art from the fifteenth to the twentieth
century. He studies the complex relation between the "look" of
images and the variety of social and cultural uses to which they
are put and demonstrates that the meaning of any image is
significantly determined by its function, which changes over time.
In particular, he emphasizes the ways in which visual culture is
called on to mediate social differences defined by gender, class,
and race. In , Leppert addresses the nature and task of
representation, discussing how meaning accrues to images and what
role vision and visuality play in the history of modernity. Here he
explains imagery's power to attract our gaze by triggering desire
and focuses on the long history of the use of representation to
enact a deception, whether in painting or advertising. explores
art's relation to the material world, to the ways in which images
mark our various physical and psychic ties to objects. The author
analyzes still life paintings whose subject matter is both
extraordinarily diverse and deeply paradoxical-from flower bouquets
to grotesque formal arrangements of human body parts. Leppert
demonstrates that even in "innocent" still lifes, formal design and
technical execution are imbued with cultural conflict and social
power. is devoted to the representation of the human body-as
subject to obsessive gazing and as an object of display, spectacle,
and transgression. The variety of body representation is enormous:
pleased or tortured, gorgeous or monstrous, modest or lascivious,
powerful or weak, in the bloom of life or under the anatomist's
knife, clothed or naked. But it is the sexual body, Leppert shows,
that has provided the West with its richest, most complex,
contradictory, conflicted, and paradoxical accounts of human
identity in relation to social ideals.
"The Nude" explores some of the principal ways that paintings of
the nude function in the conflicted terrain of culture and society
in Europe and America from the fifteenth through twentieth
centuries, as set against questions about human sexuality that
emerge around differences of class, gender, age, and race. Author
Richard Leppert relates the visual history of how the naked body
intersects with the foundational characteristics of what it is to
be human, measured against a range of basic emotions (happiness,
delight, and desire; fear, anxiety, and abjection) and read in the
context of changing social and cultural realities. The bodies
comprising the Western nude are variously pleasured or tormented,
ecstatic or bored, pleased or horrified. In short, as this volume
amply demonstrates, the nude in Western art is a terrain on whose
surface is written a summation of Western history: its glory but
also its degradation.
This innovative book examines the place and practice of musical life in eighteenth-century England among the upper classes. Focusing on the home, it shows how domestic music-making was shaped by socio-cultural forces while itself contributing to socio-cultural formation. Particular attention is given to visual representations of music in eighteenth-century paintings, drawings and prints. Other documentary material analyzed includes the music of the period, instruction manuals, tracts on education, courtesy and conduct books, sermons, diaries, letters and memoirs, fictional writing and journalism. Through these media the author examines the role played by construction, the human body via questions of physicality and sexuality in dancing, its agency in defining and replicating dominant ideologies of the family and its use in establishing and maintaining social and cultural boundaries.
This provocative volume of essays is now available in paperback.
The contributors to this volume - musicologists, sociologists,
cultural theorists - all challenge the view that music occupies an
autonomous aesthetic sphere. Recently, socially and politically
grounded enterprises such as feminism, semiotics and deconstruction
have effected a major transformation in the ways in which the arts
and humanities are studied, leading in turn to a systematic
investigation of the implicit assumptions underlying the critical
methods of the last two hundred years. Influenced by these
approaches, the writers here question a prevailing ideology that
insists there is a division between music and society and examine
the ways in which the two do in fact interact and mediate one
another within and across socio-cultural boundaries.
Featuring hundreds of high-quality Netter illustrations alongside
modern diagnostic images, Netter's Integrated Review of Medicine:
Pathogenesis to Treatment provides concise, visual overviews of the
basic science and mechanisms of disease. The integrated approach to
underlying principles helps students and clinicians understand why
best practices, evidence, and guidelines make sense in the context
of diagnosis and treatment. Short, to-the-point chapters focus on
common clinical situations and bridge the gap between basic science
summaries and the clinical thought process. Access to this product,
which may be at the discretion of your institution, is up to 3
years of online and perpetual offline access. Elsevier reserves the
right to restrict or remove access due to changes in product
portfolio or other market conditions. Reviews foundational science
in the context of frequently encountered point-of-care situations,
offering an excellent review. Presents 400 full-color Netter images
alongside diagnostic images, providing a memorable, highly visual
approach. Offers readable, practical content organized by clinical
topic, covering the basic sciences that are most relevant to each
disease or condition. Provides readers with a detailed, logically
organized framework for approaching patient care: the first part
focuses on evaluating a new patient, moving from history and
physical exam findings to integration of objective data used to
formulate a diagnosis; the second part proceeds from this diagnosis
to review its implications, further evaluation, and treatment.
Expert ConsultT eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced
eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, and
references from the book on a variety of devices.
Virginia Woolf famously claimed that, around December 1910, human
character changed. Aesthetic Technologies addresses how music
(especially opera), the phonograph, and film served as cultural
agents facilitating the many extraordinary social, artistic, and
cultural shifts that characterized the new century and much of what
followed long thereafter, even to the present. Three tropes are
central: the tensions and traumas-cultural, social, and
personal-associated with modernity; changes in human subjectivity
and its engagement and representation in music and film; and the
more general societal impact of modern media, sound recording (the
development of the phonograph in particular), and the critical role
played by early-century opera recording. A principal focus of the
book is the conflicted relationship in Western modernity to nature,
particularly as nature is perceived in opposition to culture and
articulated through music, film, and sound as agents of
fundamental, sometimes shocking transformation. The book considers
the sound/vision world of modernity filtered through the lens of
aesthetic modernism and rapid technological change, and the impact
of both, experienced with the prescient sense that there could be
no turning back.
During the 1980s, U.S. television experienced a reinvigoration of
the family sitcom genre. In TV Family Values, Alice Leppert focuses
on the impact the decade's television shows had on middle class
family structure. These sitcoms sought to appeal to upwardly mobile
"career women" and were often structured around non-nuclear
families and the reorganization of housework. Drawing on
Foucauldian and feminist theories, Leppert examines the nature of
sitcoms such as Full House, Family Ties, Growing Pains, The Cosby
Show, and Who's the Boss? against the backdrop of a time period
generally remembered as socially conservative and obsessed with
traditional family values.
This volume presents the recent developments in the field of
arsenic in soil and groundwater. Arranged into nine sections, the
text emphasizes the global occurrences of arsenic in the
environment, particularly on its source, pathways, behavior, and
effects it has on soils, plants, water, animals, and humans. It
also covers the diverse issues of arsenic in the mining
environment, arsenic emanating from hydrothermal springs, and the
geochemical modeling of arsenic adsorption to oxide surfaces.
Finally, the text includes different cost effective removal
mechanisms of arsenic from drinking water using natural red earth,
solar oxidation, and arsenic oxidation by ferrrate.
Written in simple English, and few technical terms, the book is
designed to create interest within the countries with occurrences
of arsenic in drinking water with
-an update the current status of knowledge on the dynamics of
natural arsenic from the aquifers through groundwater to food chain
and efficient techniques for arsenic removal.
-serve as a standard text book for graduate, postgraduate students
and researchers in the field of Environmental Sciences and
Hydrogeochemistry as well as researchers, environmental scientists
and chemists, toxicologists, medical scientists and even for
general public seeking an in-depth view of arsenic which had been
classed as a carcinogen.
-bring awareness, among administrators, policy makers and company
executives, on the problem and to improve the international
cooperation
Der Einstieg in die planspielrelevante Literatur ist aufwendig und
zeitraubend. Ma- terial uber die Methode Planspiel ist
verhaltnismassig weit gestreut, so dass zunachst einige Sucharbeit
erforderlich ist, um sich einen Uberblick zu verschaffen. Wir ver-
folgen daher mit der vorliegenden Arbeit im wesentlichen zwei
Ziele: Der einfuhrende Text versucht in knapper Form einen
Uberblick uber Eigenschaften, Moeglichkeiten und Einsatzbereiche
von Planspielen in der Raumplanung zu geben und setzt sich auch
kritisch mit der Methode auseinander. Hierbei haben wir uns um eine
moeglichst verstandliche, d. h. nicht mit Fachbegriffen
uberfrachtete Sprache bemuht, um auch denjenigen Lesern, die sich
bisher noch nicht mit Modellen und Modelltheorie im allgemeinen
bzw. mit Planspielen im besonderen beschaftigt haben, einen sehne!
len Einstieg zu ermoeglichen und ihr Interesse fur zu die Methode
wecken. Daruberhinaus enthalt das Buch -gleichrangig zum Text- zwei
Materialteile: eine Liste von Spielen und Spielbeschreibungen und
eine Zusammenstellung von uber 800 Titeln planspielrelevanter
Literatur. Beide Materialteile sollen fur die gezielte Auswahl bzw.
den Vergleich einzelner Spielmodelle und die Auffindung geeigneter
Literatur zur vertieften Bearbeitung spezieller Problemstellungen
eine Hilfe bieten. Wir hoffen dazu beigetragen zu haben, die
weitere Arbeit mit Planspielen und an Plan- spielen zu erleichtern
bzw. neues Interesse an der Methode Planspiel zu wecken. Unser
besonderer Dank gilt vor allem Ekkehard Brunn fur seine
Unterstutzung des Vor- habens und seinen Zuspruch, die wesentlich
zum Gelingen der Arbeit beigetragen haben und Frau Magdalene Haack,
die unsere -nicht immer gut lesbaren- Manuskripte in muhe- voller
Arbeit druckfertig geschrieben hat.
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Essays on Music (Paperback, New)
Theodor Adorno; Edited by Richard Leppert; Translated by Susan H. Gillespie
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"A book of landmark importance. It is unprecedented in its design:
a brilliantly selected group of essays on music coupled with lucid,
deeply incisive, and in every way masterly analysis of Adorno's
thinking about music. No one who studies Adorno and music will be
able to dispense with it; and if they can afford only one book on
Adorno and music, this will be the one. For in miniature, it
contains everything one needs: a collection of exceptionally
important writings on all the principal aspects of music and
musical life with which Adorno dealt; totally reliable scholarship;
and powerfully illuminating commentary that will help readers at
all levels read and re-read the essays in question."--Rose
Rosengard Subotnik, author of "Deconstructive Variations: Music and
Reason in Western Society
"An invaluable contribution to Adorno scholarship, with well
chosen essays on composers, works, the culture industry, popular
music, kitsch, and technology. Leppert's introduction and
commentaries are consistently useful; his attention to secondary
literature remarkable; his interpretation responsible. The new
translations by Susan Gillespie (and others) are outstanding not
only for their care and readability, but also for their sensitivity
to Adorno's forms and styles."--Lydia Goehr, author of "The Quest
for Voice: Music, Politics and the Limits of Philosophy
"With its careful, full edition of Adorno's important musical
texts and its exhaustive yet eminently readable commentaries,
Richard Leppert's magisterial book represents a brilliant solution
to the age-old dilemma of bringing together primary text and
interpretation in one volume."--James Deaville, Director, School of
the Arts, McMasterUniversity
"The developing variations of Adorno's life-long involvement
with musical themes are fully audible in this remarkable
collection. What might be called his 'literature on notes'
brilliantly complements the 'notes to literature' he devoted to the
written word. Richard Leppert's superb commentaries constitute a
book-length contribution in their own right, which will enlighten
and challenge even the most learned of Adorno scholars."--Martin
Jay, author of "The Dialectical Imagination: A History of The
Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research
"There is afoot in Anglo-American musicology today the first
wholesale reconsideration of Adorno's thought since the pioneering
work of Rose Rosengard Subotnik around 1980. "Essays on Music will
play a central role in this effort. It will do so because Richard
Leppert has culled Adorno's writings so as to make clear to
musicologists the place of music in the broad critique of modernity
that was Adorno's overarching project; and it will do so because
Leppert has explained these writings, in commentaries that amount
to a book-length study, so as to reveal to non-musicologists the
essentially musical foundation of this project. No one interested
in Adorno from any perspective--or, for that matter, in modernity
and music all told--can afford to ignore "Essays on Music."--Gary
Tomlinson, author of "Metaphysical Song: An Essay on Opera
"This book is both a major achievement by its author-editor and
a remarkable act of scholarly generosity for the rest of us. Until
now, English translations of Adorno's major essays on music have
been scattered and often unreliable. Until now, there has been no
comprehensive scholarly treatment ofAdorno's musical thinking. This
volume remedies both problems at a single stroke. It will be read
equally--and eagerly--for Adorno's texts and for Richard Leppert's
commentary on them, both of which will continue to be essential
resources as musical scholarship seeks increasingly to come to
grips with the social contexts and effects of music. No one knows
Adorno better than Leppert, and no one is better equipped to
clarify the complex interweaving of sociology, philosophy, and
musical aesthetics that is central to Adorno's work. From now on,
everyone who reads Adorno on music, whether a beginner or an
expert, is in Richard Leppert's debt for devoting his exceptional
gifts of learning and lucidity to this project."--Lawrence Kramer,
author of "Musical Meaning: Toward a Critical History
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