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Patterns for Jazz stands as a monument among jazz educational
materials. Condensed charts and pertinent explanations are
conveniently inserted throughout the book to give greater clarity
to the application of more than 400 patterns built on chords and
scales -- from simple (major) to complex (lydian augmented scales).
Emotion, Affective Practices, and the Past in the Present is a
response to debates in the humanities and social sciences about the
use of emotion. This timely and unique book explores the ways
emotion is embroiled and used in contemporary engagements with the
past, particularly in contexts such as heritage sites, museums,
commemorations, political rhetoric and ideology, debates over
issues of social memory, and touristic uses of heritage sites.
Including contributions from academics and practitioners in a range
of countries, the book reviews significant and conflicting academic
debates on the nature and expression of affect and emotion. As a
whole, the book makes an argument for a pragmatic understanding of
affect and, in doing so, outlines Wetherell's concept of affective
practice, a concept utilised in most of the chapters in this book.
Since debates about affect and emotion can often be confusing and
abstract, the book aims to clarify these debates and, through the
use of case studies, draw out their implications for theory and
practice within heritage and museum studies. Emotion, Affective
Practices, and the Past in the Present should be essential reading
for students, academics, and professionals in the fields of
heritage and museum studies. The book will also be of interest to
those in other disciplines, such as social psychology, education,
archaeology, tourism studies, cultural studies, media studies,
anthropology, sociology, and history.
Emotion, Affective Practices, and the Past in the Present is a
response to debates in the humanities and social sciences about the
use of emotion. This timely and unique book explores the ways
emotion is embroiled and used in contemporary engagements with the
past, particularly in contexts such as heritage sites, museums,
commemorations, political rhetoric and ideology, debates over
issues of social memory, and touristic uses of heritage sites.
Including contributions from academics and practitioners in a range
of countries, the book reviews significant and conflicting academic
debates on the nature and expression of affect and emotion. As a
whole, the book makes an argument for a pragmatic understanding of
affect and, in doing so, outlines Wetherell's concept of affective
practice, a concept utilised in most of the chapters in this book.
Since debates about affect and emotion can often be confusing and
abstract, the book aims to clarify these debates and, through the
use of case studies, draw out their implications for theory and
practice within heritage and museum studies. Emotion, Affective
Practices, and the Past in the Present should be essential reading
for students, academics, and professionals in the fields of
heritage and museum studies. The book will also be of interest to
those in other disciplines, such as social psychology, education,
archaeology, tourism studies, cultural studies, media studies,
anthropology, sociology, and history.
A little-known episode in North America's history, the 1839
Aroostook War was an undeclared war with no actual fighting. It had
its roots in the 1793 Treaty of Paris, which ended the American
Revolutionary War but left the border of Maine (then part of
Massachusetts) and British North America unsettled, and in the War
of 1812, when parts of northern Maine were occupied by Britain.
Fearing a negotiated border would negatively affect their claim for
the disputed territory, Maine occupied the Aroostook River valley
in early 1839, British regulars, New Brunswick militia, and Maine
militia were then deployed in the dead of winter, as the kindling
was laid for a third major Anglo-American conflagration.
Eventually, cooler heads prevailed, although they did not deter a
number of skirmishes between the Maine Land Agent posses and a
loosely organized group of New Brunswick lumbermen. A complex story
of friction, greed, land grabs, and rivalry, this border dispute
which nearly resulted in war was eventually settled by the
Ashburton-Webster Treaty of 1842 and told by Campbell in The
Aroostook War of 1839.The Aroostook War of 1839 is volume 20 in the
New Brunswick Military Heritage Series.
Since the last Ice Age, the only safe route into Canada's interior
during the winter started at the Bay of Fundy and followed the main
rivers north to the St. Lawrence River through what is now New
Brunswick. Aboriginal people used this route as a major highway in
all seasons and the great imperial powers followed their lead. The
Grand Communications Route, as it was then called, was the only
conduit for people, information and goods passing back and forth
between the interior settlements and the wider world and became the
backbone of empire for both England and France in their centuries
of warfare over this territory. It was Joseph Robineau de Villebon,
a commandant in Acadie, who first made strategic use of the route
in time of war because he understood its importance in the struggle
for North America. A strategic link between the Atlantic colonies
and Quebec, the French made extensive use of the route to
communicate and move troops between the northern settlements and
Fort Beausejour, Louisbourg, and Port-Royal. The British put great
effort into maintaining and fortifying the route, building major
coastal forts at Saint John to guard its entrance and erecting
garrisons and blockhouses all along the way to the St Lawrence,
first as a defence against the French and then to ward off the
Americans. The route also played a key role in the American
Revolution as well as the Aroostook War of 1839 that saw bodies of
troops lining each side of the border extending from St. Andrews
(NB) and Calais (ME) to Madawaska. In 1842, the Grand
Communications Route and the Webster-Ashburton Treaty determined
the location of the Canada--US border. It is still in use today:
the Trans-Canada Highway and Route 7 follow its path. As well as
telling the story of the Grand Communications Route from the
earliest human habitation of the area, The Road to Canada describes
the historic sites, forts, blockhouses and other historic remains
that can still be visited today, including Martello Tower (Saint
John), the Fort Hughes blockhouse (Oromocto), the Fort Fairfield
blockhouse (Fort Fairfield, ME), Le Fortin du Petit-Sault
(Edmundston), the Fort Kent blockhouse (Fort Kent, ME) and Fort
Ingall (Cabano, QC). The Road to Canada is volume 5 in the New
Brunswick Military Heritage Series.
Heritage, Labour and the Working Classes is both a celebration
and commemoration of working class culture. It contains sometimes
inspiring accounts of working class communities and people telling
their own stories, and weaves together examples of tangible and
intangible heritage, place, history, memory, music and
literature.
Rather than being framed in a 'social inclusion' framework,
which sees working class culture as a deficit, this book addresses
the question "What is labour and working class heritage, how does
it differ or stand in opposition to dominant ways of understanding
heritage and history, and in what ways is it used as a contemporary
resource?" It also explores how heritage is used in working class
communities and by labour organizations, and considers what
meanings and significance this heritage may have, while also
identifying how and why communities and their heritage have been
excluded. Drawing on new scholarship in heritage studies, social
memory, the public history of labour, and new working class
studies, this volume highlights the heritage of working people,
communities and organizations. Contributions are drawn from a
number of Western countries including the USA, UK, Spain, Sweden,
Australia and New Zealand, and from a range of disciplines
including heritage and museum studies, history, sociology,
politics, archaeology and anthropology.
Heritage, Labour and the Working Classes represents an
innovative and useful resource for heritage and museum
practitioners, students and academics concerned with understanding
community heritage and the debate on social inclusion/exclusion. It
offers new ways of understanding heritage, its values and
consequences, and presents a challenge to dominant and traditional
frameworks for understanding and identifying heritage and heritage
making.
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