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Outcomes is a completely new general English course in which:
Natural, real-world grammar and vocabulary help students to succeed
in social, professional, and academic settings CEF goals are the
focus of communication activities where students learn and practise
the language they need to have conversations in English Clear
outcomes in every lesson of every unit provide students with a
sense of achievement as they progress through the course
At the height of the blues revival, Marina Bokelman and David
Evans, young graduate students from California, made two trips to
Louisiana and Mississippi and short trips in their home state to do
fieldwork for their studies at UCLA. While there, they made
recordings and interviews and took extensive field notes and
photographs of blues musicians and their families. Going Up the
Country: Adventures in Blues Fieldwork in the 1960s presents their
experiences in vivid detail through the field notes, the
photographs, and the retrospective views of these two passionate
researchers. The book includes historical material as well as
contemporary reflections by Bokelman and Evans on the times and the
people they met during their southern journeys. Their notes and
photographs take the reader into the midst of memorable encounters
with many obscure but no less important musicians, as well as blues
legends, including Robert Pete Williams, Mississippi Fred McDowell,
Al Wilson (cofounder of Canned Heat), Babe Stovall, Reverend Ruben
Lacy, and Jack Owens. This volume is not only an adventure story,
but also a scholarly discussion of fieldwork in folklore and
ethnomusicology. Including retrospective context and commentary,
the field note chapters describe searches for musicians, recording
situations, social and family dynamics of musicians, and race
relations and the racial environment, as well as the practical,
ethical, and logistical problems of doing fieldwork. The book
features over one hundred documentary photographs that depict the
field recording sessions and the activities, lives, and living
conditions of the artists and their families. These photographs
serve as a visual counterpart equivalent to the field notes. The
remaining chapters explain the authors' methodology, planning, and
motivations, as well as their personal backgrounds prior to going
into the field, their careers afterwards, and their thoughts about
fieldwork and folklore research in general. In this enlightening
book, Bokelman and Evans provide an exciting and honest portrayal
of blues field research in the 1960s.
The Ancient Schools of Gloucester traces the history of education
in the City of Gloucester from its origins in the cloister school
of St Peter's Abbey about a thousand years ago. Starting in the
early Middle Ages, the rivalries between the two Gloucester grammar
schools maintained by St Oswald's and Llanthony priories are
described. The contributions of the Benedictines, Augustinian
canons and founders of the medieval chantries are assessed. The
creation of new grammar schools in the reign of Henry VIII at the
Crypt and King's is fully documented along with the development of
these schools through the pivotal years of the Civil War and into
the 18th century. There is a special focus on the career of Maurice
Wheeler, Gloucester's most distinguished schoolmaster. As the
country began to move towards mass education during the 18th
century, the role of other initiatives, such as private schools for
girls, Sunday Schools and Sir Thomas Rich's Bluecoat school for
apprentice boys, is also covered. Whilst several histories have
been published in the past of individual schools, this
chronological and fully illustrated study is the first time an
author has brought together the early histories of the ancient
schools of the City into a single volume, which sets the Gloucester
experience in its national context.
Wasn't That a Mighty Day: African American Blues and Gospel Songs
on Disaster takes a comprehensive look at sacred and secular
disaster songs, shining a spotlight on their historical and
cultural importance. Featuring newly transcribed lyrics, the book
offers sustained attention to how both Black and white communities
responded to many of the tragic events that occurred before the
mid-1950s. Through detailed textual analysis, Luigi Monge explores
songs on natural disasters (hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, and
earthquakes); accidental disasters (sinkings, fires, train wrecks,
explosions, and air disasters); and infestations, epidemics, and
diseases (the boll weevil, the jake leg, and influenza). Analyzed
songs cover some of the most well-known disasters of the time
period from the sinking of the Titanic and the 1930 drought to the
Hindenburg accident, and more. Thirty previously unreleased African
American disaster songs appear in this volume for the first time,
revealing their pertinence to the relevant disasters. By comparing
the song lyrics to critical moments in history, Monge is able to
explore how deeply and directly these catastrophes affected Black
communities; how African Americans in general, and blues and gospel
singers in particular, faced and reacted to disaster; whether these
collective tragedies prompted different reactions among white
people and, if so, why; and more broadly, how the role of memory in
recounting and commenting on historical and cultural facts shaped
African American society from 1879 to 1955.
In 2015 University Press of Mississippi published Mississippi
Fiddle Tunes and Songs from the 1930s by Harry Bolick and Stephen
T. Austin to critical acclaim and commercial success. Roughly half
of Mississippi's rich, old-time fiddle tradition was documented in
that volume and Harry Bolick has spent the intervening years
working on this book, its sequel. Beginning with Tony Russell's
original mid-1970s fieldwork as a reference, and later working with
Russell, Bolick located and transcribed all of the Mississippi 78
rpm string band recordings. Some of the recording artists like the
Leake County Revelers, Hoyt Ming and His Pep Steppers, and Narmour
& Smith had been well known in the state. Others, like the
Collier Trio, were obscure. This collecting work was followed by
many field trips to Mississippi searching for and locating the
children and grandchildren of the musicians. Previously unheard
recordings and stories, unseen photographs and discoveries of
nearly unknown local fiddlers, such as Jabe Dillon, John Gatwood,
Claude Kennedy, and Homer Grice, followed. The results are now
available in this second, companion volume, Fiddle Tunes from
Mississippi: Commercial and Informal Recordings, 1920-2018. Two
hundred and seventy musical examples supplement the biographies and
photographs of the thirty-five artists documented here. Music comes
from commercial recordings and small pressings of 78 rpm, 45 rpm,
and LP records; collectors' field recordings; and the musicians'
own home tape and disc recordings. Taken together, these two
volumes represent a delightfully comprehensive survey of
Mississippi's fiddle tunes.
This book provides a highly informative yet concise overview of
special education and inclusive education that serves as a valuable
introduction to the field. Using a framework and relevant scenarios
in inclusive educational settings to help readers develop a basic
understanding of key concepts, it shares effective practices and
engages readers in discussions on current research. Further, it
highlights the commonalities between different levels of education
and explores transitions across them. The book addresses theory,
policy, practice and research issues in special education and
inclusive education from an Australian perspective, focusing on
current developments in Australian educational settings and
classrooms. It also examines international issues and developments
while highlighting the unique characteristics of the Australian
educational context. As such, it appeals to post-graduate students,
pre-service teachers, teachers and other professionals in the area.
More than 40,000 species of mites have been described, and up to 1
million may exist on earth. These tiny arachnids play many
ecological roles including acting as vectors of disease, vital
players in soil formation, and important agents of biological
control. But despite the grand diversity of mites, even trained
biologists are often unaware of their significance. Mites: Ecology,
Evolution and Behaviour (2nd edition) aims to fill the gaps in our
understanding of these intriguing creatures. It surveys life
cycles, feeding behaviour, reproductive biology and
host-associations of mites without requiring prior knowledge of
their morphology or taxonomy. Topics covered include evolution of
mites and other arachnids, mites in soil and water, mites on plants
and animals, sperm transfer and reproduction, mites and human
disease, and mites as models for ecological and evolutionary
theories.
Language not only expresses identities but also constructs them.
Starting from that point, Language and Identity examines the
interrelationships between language and identities. It finds that
they are so closely interwoven, that words themselves are inscribed
with ideological meanings. Words and language constitute meanings
within discourses and discourses vary in power. The powerful ones
reproduce more powerful meanings, colonize other discourses and
marginalize or silence the least powerful languages and cultures.
Language and culture death occur in extreme cases of
marginalization. This book also demonstrates the socio-economic
opportunities offered by language choice and the cultural
allegiances of language, where groups have been able to create new
lives for themselves by embracing new languages in new countries.
Language can be a 'double-edged sword' of opportunity and
marginalization. Language and Identity argues that bilingualism and
in some cases multilingualism can both promote socio-economic
opportunity and combat culture death and marginalization. With
sound theoretical perspectives drawing upon the work of Bakhtin,
Vygotsky, Gumperz, Foucault and others, this book provides readers
with a rationale to redress social injustice in the world by
supporting minority linguistic and cultural identities and an
acknowledgement that access to language can provide opportunity.
Pure Core 1 2 was written to provide thorough preparation for the
revised 2004 specification. Based on the first editions, this
series helps you to prepare for the new exams.
This was the third meeting in the series of special topical
conferences on Non-Metallic materials at low temperatures. The
first meeting was in Munich in 1978, the second in Geneva (1980)
and so Heidelberg 1984 seemed an obvious time to review some of the
hopes and objectives of the earlier meetings. It is also
appropriate to consider the changing needs of the cryogenic
community and how best the theory and practice of Non-metallic
materials can be applied to suit this dynamic young science. The
aims and objectives of the International Cryogenic Materials Board
in sponsoring this meeting remain the same. Namely, to provide a
forum where practicing Engineers can meet with materials suppliers
and researchers in an attempt to ensure that a real understanding
exists between the two sides of the Cryogenic Materials Community.
In this atmosphere, real problems can be addressed together with
full discussions of tried and tested practical solutions. It is in
this way that knowledge and confidence may grow hand in hand with
the logical growth of the industry.
Widely regarded as one of the foundational 'Unholy Trinity' of folk
horror film, The Blood on Satan's Claw (1971) has been
comparatively over-shadowed, if not maligned, when compared to
Witchfinder General (1968) and The Wicker Man (1973). While those
horror bedfellows are now accepted as classics of British cinema,
Piers Haggard's film remains undervalued, ironically so, given that
it was Haggard who coined the term 'folk horror' in relation to his
film. In this Devil's Advocate, David Evans-Powell explores the
place of the film in the wider context of the folk horror
sub-genre; its use of a seventeenth-century setting (which it
shares with contemporaries such as Witchfinder General and Cry of
the Banshee) in contrast to the generic nineteenth-century locales
of Hammer; the influences of contemporary counter-culture and youth
movement on the film; the importance of localism and landscape; and
the film as an expression of a wider contemporary crisis in English
identity (which can also be perceived in Witchfinder General, and
in contemporary TV serials such as Penda's Fen).
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