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The Ideology of Competition in School Music (Hardcover): Sean Robert Powell The Ideology of Competition in School Music (Hardcover)
Sean Robert Powell
R2,585 Discovery Miles 25 850 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Ideology of Competition in School Music explores competition as a structuring force in school music and provides critiques of that system from multiple philosophical and theoretical perspectives. Competition is seen by many music teachers, students, and supporters as natural and inevitable—a taken-for-granted aspect of music education or an irresistible force, rather than a choice. This book uncovers this ideological nature of competition and examines its effect on student learning, teacher agency, and equity within music education. It considers ways in which music educators might reconsider the role of competition in their teaching practice and offers alternative frameworks for organizing school music. In this book, author Sean Robert Powell views competition as a microcosm of the wider neoliberal capitalist society, in which subjects are interpolated in an antagonistic competitive field as market logic dictates a system of accountability, reduction, and audit culture. Music teachers, students, and education administrators, consciously and unconsciously, reinforce, replicate, and sustain the competitive structure, even if they do so while expressing a cynical disavowal. Powell considers competition broadly, including, for example: formal competitions between schools in which ensembles are given numerical scores and ranked; "festivals" in which groups are given ratings based on pre-given criteria; state, regional, and national honor ensembles; hierarchical arrangements within school music programs; or simply the pursuit of social prestige, reputation, and ever-higher performance standards. Although the book provides examples from the competitive landscape of school music in the United States (and, especially, Texas, considered a "hyper" example of competitive culture), Powell's analyses and discussions are relevant to readers in any context around the world. Although the degree to which competitive achievement as an explicitly-stated aim of instruction varies from program to program and location to location, the "realism" of neoliberal capitalism—and its effect on all aspects of education—is a global phenomenon.

Evolution Of Language, The - Proceedings Of The 10th International Conference (Evolang10) (Hardcover): Erica A. Cartmill, Sean... Evolution Of Language, The - Proceedings Of The 10th International Conference (Evolang10) (Hardcover)
Erica A. Cartmill, Sean Roberts, Heidi Lyn, Hannah Cornish
R5,411 Discovery Miles 54 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume comprises refereed papers and abstracts of the 10th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (EVOLANGX), held in Vienna on 14-17th April 2014. As the leading international conference in the field, the biennial EVOLANG meeting is characterised by an invigorating, multidisciplinary approach to the origins and evolution of human language, and brings together researchers from many subject areas, including anthropology, archaeology, biology, cognitive science, computer science, genetics, linguistics, neuroscience, palaeontology, primatology and psychology.For this 10th conference, the proceedings will include a special perspectives section featuring prominent researchers reflecting on the history of the conference and its impact on the field of language evolution since the inaugural EVOLANG conference in 1996.

Sociological Thinking in Music Education - International Intersections (Hardcover): Carol Frierson-Campbell, Clare Hall, Sean... Sociological Thinking in Music Education - International Intersections (Hardcover)
Carol Frierson-Campbell, Clare Hall, Sean Robert Powell, Guillermo Rosabal-Coto
R3,708 R2,775 Discovery Miles 27 750 Save R933 (25%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Sociological Thinking in Music Education presents new ideas about music teaching and learning as important social, political, economic, ecological, and cultural ways of being. At the book's heart is the intersection between theory and practice where readers gain glimpses of intriguing social phenomena as lived through music learning and teaching. The vital roles played by music and music education in various societies around the world are illustrated through pivotal intersections between music education and sociology: community, schooling, and issues of decolonization. In this book, emerging as well as established scholars mobilize the links between applied sociology, music, education, and music education in ways that intersect the scholarly and the personal. These interdisciplinary vantage points fulfil the book's overarching aim to move beyond mere descriptions of what is, by analyzing how social inequalities and inequities, conflict and control, and power can be understood in and through music teaching and learning at both individual and collective levels. The result is not only encountering new ideas regarding the social construction of music education practices in specific places, but also seeing and hearing familiar ones in fresh ways. Digital assets enable readers to meet the authors and the points of their inquiry via various audiovisual media, including videos, a documentary music film, and multi-lingual video precis for each chapter in English as well as in each author's language of origin.

The Ideology of Competition in School Music (Paperback): Sean Robert Powell The Ideology of Competition in School Music (Paperback)
Sean Robert Powell
R911 R803 Discovery Miles 8 030 Save R108 (12%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Ideology of Competition in School Music explores competition as a structuring force in school music and provides critiques of that system from multiple philosophical and theoretical perspectives. Competition is seen by many music teachers, students, and supporters as natural and inevitable—a taken-for-granted aspect of music education or an irresistible force, rather than a choice. This book uncovers this ideological nature of competition and examines its effect on student learning, teacher agency, and equity within music education. It considers ways in which music educators might reconsider the role of competition in their teaching practice and offers alternative frameworks for organizing school music. In this book, author Sean Robert Powell views competition as a microcosm of the wider neoliberal capitalist society, in which subjects are interpolated in an antagonistic competitive field as market logic dictates a system of accountability, reduction, and audit culture. Music teachers, students, and education administrators, consciously and unconsciously, reinforce, replicate, and sustain the competitive structure, even if they do so while expressing a cynical disavowal. Powell considers competition broadly, including, for example: formal competitions between schools in which ensembles are given numerical scores and ranked; "festivals" in which groups are given ratings based on pre-given criteria; state, regional, and national honor ensembles; hierarchical arrangements within school music programs; or simply the pursuit of social prestige, reputation, and ever-higher performance standards. Although the book provides examples from the competitive landscape of school music in the United States (and, especially, Texas, considered a "hyper" example of competitive culture), Powell's analyses and discussions are relevant to readers in any context around the world. Although the degree to which competitive achievement as an explicitly-stated aim of instruction varies from program to program and location to location, the "realism" of neoliberal capitalism—and its effect on all aspects of education—is a global phenomenon.

The Seas and the Mobility of Islamic Art (Hardcover): Radha Dalal, Sean Roberts, Jochen Sokoly The Seas and the Mobility of Islamic Art (Hardcover)
Radha Dalal, Sean Roberts, Jochen Sokoly
R1,673 Discovery Miles 16 730 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Tracing the currents of change that unite the visual and material culture of the Islamic world across space and time The seas have long served as both connective tissue for and barriers between intellectual, social, and artistic traditions. Nowhere is this dual role more evident than within the visual and material cultures of the Islamic world. This remarkable new book brings together an international group of scholars and curators whose contributions address seafaring mobility's profound effect on Islamic art. Their case studies range across the globe and span a period from Islam's 1st century to today. Contributors examine the roles of importation and migration, travel, diplomacy, and gift giving in driving artistic innovation and changing the social, political, and religious institutions of an increasingly diverse Islamic world. Taken together, these chapters embody a distinctive big-picture approach, pulling an exceptional diversity of voices and topics into productive dialogue.

And The Horse You Rode In On - The Dead Tree Version (Paperback): Sean Robert Liddle And The Horse You Rode In On - The Dead Tree Version (Paperback)
Sean Robert Liddle
R285 Discovery Miles 2 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A barely edited, almost verbatim account of the voices in my head thrown at you from my Northern Fortress of Solitude. It started as a list. A list of 100 things I actively disliked written one afternoon in jest. It became a series of essays on each item in the list. It changed, I changed, it became less angry and more introspective, I became a tad lazy, I watched a lot of TV and ran a lot of miles late at night with wolves nipping at my heels. It ended up as a book.

The Woman Suffrage Cookbook (Paperback): Sean Robert Hilliard, Hattie a Burr The Woman Suffrage Cookbook (Paperback)
Sean Robert Hilliard, Hattie a Burr
R412 Discovery Miles 4 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
"Size 3?! Not For Me!" - How to Love Your BODY & YOURSELF - Unconditionally (Paperback): Naiomi Lin Pitre, Sean Robert Shuemate "Size 3?! Not For Me!" - How to Love Your BODY & YOURSELF - Unconditionally (Paperback)
Naiomi Lin Pitre, Sean Robert Shuemate
R310 Discovery Miles 3 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Just because you aren't where you want to be, doesn't mean you can't love where you are. Plus-sized women across the world have been waiting for someone to say the things that Sean Robert Shuemate expresses in this, his debut book about positive body image and high self-esteem. Unlike any other fitness book you have ever read, "Size 3? Not For Me " How to Love Your Body & Yourself - Unconditionally addresses more than just what to eat and how to exercise. It shows you how to love yourself, and that is better than getting into any size dress

The Environment and Ecology in Islamic Art and Culture (Hardcover): Radha Dalal, Sean Roberts, Jochen Sokoly The Environment and Ecology in Islamic Art and Culture (Hardcover)
Radha Dalal, Sean Roberts, Jochen Sokoly
R1,533 Discovery Miles 15 330 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The Islamic world finds itself increasingly at the epicenter of our escalating climate emergency, both as a locus of the petrochemical industry and as home to extraordinary landscapes in which the effects of environmental transformation are acutely felt. Yet, far from a solely twenty-first-century concern, engagement with changing, and often extreme, natural conditions has long characterized Islamic art and architecture in the central Islamic lands and beyond into the Muslim diaspora.  This new book brings together a diverse group of scholars and critics whose contributions address this profound ecological awareness through the dual lenses of Islamic culture and climate change. Their case studies range from the Gulf, Iraq, Syria, the Indian Subcontinent, North Africa, and even outer space. Contributors examine the optimistic, sustainable, and innovative responses adopted by artists and builders in the face of often irreversible and escalating environmental destruction that necessitates such ingenuity. Breaking traditional disciplinary boundaries, this timely book brings together a diverse range of perspectives to bear on this increasingly urgent problem.  

The Rangers of Taradoin - The Heritage: A Single and Multiplayer Roleplaying Game (Paperback): Sean-Robert Shaw The Rangers of Taradoin - The Heritage: A Single and Multiplayer Roleplaying Game (Paperback)
Sean-Robert Shaw
R430 R370 Discovery Miles 3 700 Save R60 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Rangers of Taradoin: Of Cuneral Larinon and the Scions--The Definitive Solo and Multiplayer Roleplaying Gamebook... The Rangers of Taradoin: Of Cuneral Larinon and the Scions--The Definitive Solo and Multiplayer Roleplaying Gamebook (Paperback)
Sean-Robert Shaw
R669 R582 Discovery Miles 5 820 Save R87 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Rangers of Taradoin - A Solo and Multiplayer Roleplaying Game (Paperback): Sean-Robert Shaw The Rangers of Taradoin - A Solo and Multiplayer Roleplaying Game (Paperback)
Sean-Robert Shaw
R559 R486 Discovery Miles 4 860 Save R73 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Printing a Mediterranean World - Florence, Constantinople, and the Renaissance of Geography (Hardcover): Sean Roberts Printing a Mediterranean World - Florence, Constantinople, and the Renaissance of Geography (Hardcover)
Sean Roberts
R1,306 Discovery Miles 13 060 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In 1482, the Florentine humanist and statesman Francesco Berlinghieri produced the Geographia, a book of over one hundred folio leaves describing the world in Italian verse, inspired by the ancient Greek geography of Ptolemy. The poem, divided into seven books (one for each day of the week the author “travels” the known world), is interleaved with lavishly engraved maps to accompany readers on this journey. Sean Roberts demonstrates that the Geographia represents the moment of transition between printing and manuscript culture, while forming a critical base for the rise of modern cartography. Simultaneously, the use of the Geographia as a diplomatic gift from Florence to the Ottoman Empire tells another story. This exchange expands our understanding of Mediterranean politics, European perceptions of the Ottomans, and Ottoman interest in mapping and print. The envoy to the Sultan represented the aspirations of the Florentine state, which chose not to bestow some other highly valued good, such as the city’s renowned textiles, but instead the best example of what Florentine visual, material, and intellectual culture had to offer.

Visual Cultures of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe (Paperback): Timothy McCall, Sean Roberts Visual Cultures of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe (Paperback)
Timothy McCall, Sean Roberts; Contributions by Giancarlo Fiorenza, Patricia Simons, William Eamon, …
R1,210 Discovery Miles 12 100 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Secrets in all their variety permeated early modern Europe, from the whispers of ambassadors at court to the emphatically publicised books of home remedies that flew from presses and booksellers shops. This interdisciplinary volume draws on approaches from art history and cultural studies to investigate the manifestations of secrecy in printed books and drawings, staircases and narrative paintings, ecclesiastical furnishings and engravers tools. Topics include how patrons of art and architecture deployed secrets to construct meanings and distinguish audiences, and how artists and patrons manipulated the content and display of the subject matter of artworks to create an aura of exclusive access and privilege. Essays examine the ways in which popes and princes skilfully deployed secrets in works of art to maximise social control, and how artists, printers, and folk healers promoted their wares through the impression of valuable, mysterious knowledge. The authors contributing to the volume represent both established authorities in their field as well as emerging voices. This volume will have wide appeal for historians, art historians, and literary scholars, introducing readers to a fascinating and often unexplored component of early modern culture.

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