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In Crossing Bar Lines: The Politics and Practices of Black Musical
Space James Gordon Williams reframes the nature and purpose of jazz
improvisation to illuminate the cultural work being done by five
creative musicians between 2005 and 2019. The political thought of
five African American improvisers-trumpeters Terence Blanchard and
Ambrose Akinmusire, drummers Billy Higgins and Terri Lyne
Carrington, and pianist Andrew Hill-is documented through
insightful, multilayered case studies that make explicit how these
musicians articulate their positionality in broader society.
Informed by Black feminist thought, these case studies unite around
the theory of Black musical space that comes from the lived
experiences of African Americans as they improvise through daily
life. The central argument builds upon the idea of space-making and
the geographic imagination in Black Geographies theory. Williams
considers how these musicians interface with contemporary social
movements like Black Lives Matter, build alternative institutional
models that challenge gender imbalance in improvisation culture,
and practice improvisation as joyful affirmation of Black value and
mobility. Both Terence Blanchard and Ambrose Akinmusire innovate
musical strategies to address systemic violence. Billy Higgins's
performance is discussed through the framework of breath to
understand his politics of inclusive space. Terri Lyne Carrington
confronts patriarchy in jazz culture through her Social Science
music project. The work of Andrew Hill is examined through the
context of his street theory, revealing his political stance on
performance and pedagogy. All readers will be elevated by this
innovative and timely book that speaks to issues that continue to
shape the lives of African Americans today.
The ability to anticipate and make accurate decisions in a timely
manner is fundamental to high-level performance in sport. This is
the first book to identify the underlying science behind
anticipation and decision making in sport, enhancing our scientific
understanding of these phenomena and helping practitioners to
develop interventions to facilitate the more rapid acquisition of
the perceptual-cognitive skills that underpin these judgements.
Adopting a multidisciplinary approach - encompassing research from
psychology, biomechanics, neuroscience, physiology, computing
science, and performance analysis - the book is divided into three
sections. The first section provides a comprehensive analysis of
the processes and mechanisms underpinning anticipation and skilled
perception in sport. In the second section, the focus shifts
towards exploring the science of decision making in sport. The
final section is more applied, outlining how the key skills that
impact on anticipation and decision making may be facilitated
through various training interventions. With chapters written by
leading experts from a vast range of countries and continents, no
other book offers such a synthesis of the historical development of
the field, contemporary research, and future areas for
investigation in anticipation and decision making in sport. This is
a fascinating and important text for students and researchers in
sport psychology, skill acquisition, expert performance, motor
learning, motor behaviour, and coaching science, as well as
practicing coaches from any sport.
We often get asked about books to support the 'Awesome Earth' or
'Natural Disasters' topics for KS2 and we think we may have just
found the perfect one. -- Books for Topics Featuring clear
information about a comprehensive range of events, this colourful
and fascinating guide is a real eye-opener. -- BookTrust An atlas
of the most extreme meteorological and geological disasters that
nature has to offer! We humans take our domination of the planet
for granted, but sometimes nature reminds us that this is an
illusion. Tectonics rip open the earth, vast waves sweep away
coastal towns, magma spews from volcanoes and hurricanes lay waste
to entire countries. This book explores nature at its most
destructive. Clear, coherent explanations break down the science
behind phenomena including hurricanes, tornadoes, avalanches,
earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanoes, alongside fascinating facts
about the biggest and the worst. Informative, accessible
illustrations by Sophie Williams make this so much more than your
standard geography book.
The ability to anticipate and make accurate decisions in a timely
manner is fundamental to high-level performance in sport. This is
the first book to identify the underlying science behind
anticipation and decision making in sport, enhancing our scientific
understanding of these phenomena and helping practitioners to
develop interventions to facilitate the more rapid acquisition of
the perceptual-cognitive skills that underpin these judgements.
Adopting a multidisciplinary approach - encompassing research from
psychology, biomechanics, neuroscience, physiology, computing
science, and performance analysis - the book is divided into three
sections. The first section provides a comprehensive analysis of
the processes and mechanisms underpinning anticipation and skilled
perception in sport. In the second section, the focus shifts
towards exploring the science of decision making in sport. The
final section is more applied, outlining how the key skills that
impact on anticipation and decision making may be facilitated
through various training interventions. With chapters written by
leading experts from a vast range of countries and continents, no
other book offers such a synthesis of the historical development of
the field, contemporary research, and future areas for
investigation in anticipation and decision making in sport. This is
a fascinating and important text for students and researchers in
sport psychology, skill acquisition, expert performance, motor
learning, motor behaviour, and coaching science, as well as
practicing coaches from any sport.
Georgia Williams’ murder at the hands of college pal Jamie
Reynolds was a crime that shocked the nation: chillingly executed
and horrific in its sexual depravity. But when Georgia’s
devastated mother, Lynnette, and father, Steve, questioned the
events leading to their daughter’s death, they discovered it was
also entirely preventable. At the time of Georgia’s
disappearance, Steve was – ironically – a highly-commended
murder squad detective serving with West Mercia Police. The same
force, Steve and Lynnette discovered, had had Reynolds in its
sights for years before Georgia’s murder, but let him slip their
net. Drawing on Steve’s inside police knowledge, the couple
exposed the litany of failures that let Reynolds infiltrate their
daughter’s life, and allowed him to kill. Now, in her powerful
and moving memoir, Lynnette tries to get beyond the platitudes of
‘mistakes made and lessons learned’ to effect real change, and
also details the heartbreaking aftermath of a crime that should
never have happened.
A revisionist history of minimalism's transformative rise, through
the voices of the musicians who created it. When composers like
Philip Glass and Steve Reich began creating hypnotically repetitive
music in the 1960s, it upended the world of American composition.
But minimalism was more than a classical phenomenon—minimalism
changed everything. Its static harmonies and groovy pulses swept
through the broader avant-garde landscape, informing the work of
Yoko Ono and Brian Eno, John and Alice Coltrane, Pauline Oliveros
and Julius Eastman, and many others. Â On Minimalism moves
from the style's beginnings in psychedelic counterculture through
its present-day influences on ambient jazz, doom metal, and
electronic music. The editors look beyond the major figures to
highlight crucial and diverse voices—especially women, people of
color, and LGBTQ+ musicians—that have shaped the genre. Featuring
more than a hundred rare historical sources, On Minimalism curates
this history anew, documenting one of the most important musical
movements of our time.
Amidst the heated fray of the Culture Wars emerged a scrappy
festival in downtown New York City called Bang on a Can. Presenting
eclectic, irreverent marathons of experimental music in crumbling
venues on the Lower East Side, Bang on a Can sold out concerts for
a genre that had been long considered box office poison. Through
the 1980s and 1990s, three young, visionary composers-David Lang,
Michael Gordon, and Julia Wolfe-nurtured Bang on a Can into a
multifaceted organization with a major record deal, a virtuosic
in-house ensemble, and a seat at the table at Lincoln Center, and
in the process changed the landscape of avant-garde music in the
United States. Bang on a Can captured a new public for new music.
But they did not do so alone. As the twentieth century came to a
close, the world of American composition pivoted away from the
insular academy and towards the broader marketplace. In the wake of
the unexpected popularity of Steve Reich and Philip Glass,
classical presenters looked to contemporary music for relevance and
record labels scrambled to reap its potential profits, all while
government funding was imperilled by the evangelical right. Other
institutions faltered amidst the vagaries of late capitalism, but
the renegade Bang on a Can survived-and thrived-in a tumultuous and
idealistic moment that made new music what it is today.
Divided into ten days of ten novellas each, Boccaccio's Decameron
is one of the literary gems of the fourteenth century. The
Decameron Eighth Day in Perspective is an interpretive guide to the
stories of the text's Day Eight - a day dedicated to tales of
tricks and practical jokes. By drawing on literary precursors such
as fabliaux, epic, philosophy, exempla, Dante's Commedia, and
scripture, and by meditating on the dynamics of civic engagement in
fourteenth-century Florence, Boccaccio develops in these stories of
jests a self-consciously literary representation of the Florentine
social imaginary. The essays in this volume, all written by
prominent scholars, survey previous scholarship and open up new
cultural and historical perspectives on Boccaccio's sophisticated
art of storytelling. They analyze both the literary sources that
Boccaccio's comic narratives transform, as well as the political,
legal, and ethical contexts with which they engage. Each
contributor tackles a single tale, yet their essays also register
major themes and concerns that recur throughout Day Eight, allowing
for close connections among the essays.
Fantasy fans, rejoice! Seven years after writer and editor Robert
Silverberg made publishing history with "Legends," his acclaimed
anthology of original short novels by some of the greatest writers
in fantasy fiction, the long-awaited second volume is here.
"Legends II" picks up where its illustrious predecessor left off.
All of the bestselling writers represented in "Legends II" return
to the special universe of the imagination that its author has made
famous throughout the world. Whether set before or after events
already recounted elsewhere, whether featuring beloved characters
or compelling new creations, these masterful short novels are both
mesmerizing stand-alones--perfect introductions to the work of
their authors--and indispensable additions to the epics on which
they are based. Beyond any doubt, "Legends II" is the fantasy event
of the season.
ROBIN HOBB returns to the Realm of the Elderlings with
"Homecoming," a powerful tale in which exiles sent to colonize the
Cursed Shores find themselves sinking into an intoxicating but
deadly dream . . . or is it a memory?
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN continues the adventures of Dunk, a young hedge
knight, and his unusual squire, Egg, in "The Sworn Sword," set a
generation before the events in "A Song of Ice and Fire.
"ORSON SCOTT CARD tells a tale of Alvin Maker and the mighty
Mississippi, featuring a couple of ne'er-do-wells named Jim Bowie
and Abe Lincoln, in "The Yazoo Queen."
DIANE GABALDON turns to an important character from her Outlander
saga--Lord John Grey--in "Lord John and the Succubus," a
supernatural thriller set in the early days of the Seven Years
War.
ROBERT SILVERBERG spins an enthralling tale of Majipoor's early
history--and remote future--as seen through the eyes of a
dilettantish poet who discovers an unexpected destiny in "The Book
of Changes."
TAD WILLIAMS explores the strange afterlife of Orlando Gardiner,
from his Otherland saga, in "The Happiest Dead Boy in the
World."
ANNE McCAFFREY shines a light into the most mysterious and wondrous
of all places on Pern in the heartwarming "Beyond Between."
RAYMOND E. FEIST turns from the great battles of the Riftwar to the
story of one soldier, a young man about to embark on the ride of
his life, in "The Messenger."
ELIZABETH HAYDON tells of the destruction of Serendair and the fate
of its last defenders in "Threshold," set at the end of the Third
Age of her Symphony of Ages series.
NEIL GAIMAN gives us a glimpse into what befalls the man called
Shadow after the events of his Hugo Award-winning novel "American
Gods" in "The Monarch of the Glen."
TERRY BROOKS adds an exciting epilogue to "The Wishsong of
Shannara" in "Indomitable," the tale of Jair Ohmsford's desperate
quest to complete the destruction of the evil Ildatch . . . armed
only with the magic of illusion.
"From the Hardcover edition."
A revisionist history of minimalism's transformative rise, through
the voices of the musicians who created it. When composers like
Philip Glass and Steve Reich began creating hypnotically repetitive
music in the 1960s, it upended the world of American composition.
But minimalism was more than a classical phenomenon—minimalism
changed everything. Its static harmonies and groovy pulses swept
through the broader avant-garde landscape, informing the work of
Yoko Ono and Brian Eno, John and Alice Coltrane, Pauline Oliveros
and Julius Eastman, and many others. Â On Minimalism moves
from the style's beginnings in psychedelic counterculture through
its present-day influences on ambient jazz, doom metal, and
electronic music. The editors look beyond the major figures to
highlight crucial and diverse voices—especially women, people of
color, and LGBTQ+ musicians—that have shaped the genre. Featuring
more than a hundred rare historical sources, On Minimalism curates
this history anew, documenting one of the most important musical
movements of our time.
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In Crossing Bar Lines: The Politics and Practices of Black Musical
Space James Gordon Williams reframes the nature and purpose of jazz
improvisation to illuminate the cultural work being done by five
creative musicians between 2005 and 2019. The political thought of
five African American improvisers-trumpeters Terence Blanchard and
Ambrose Akinmusire, drummers Billy Higgins and Terri Lyne
Carrington, and pianist Andrew Hill-is documented through
insightful, multilayered case studies that make explicit how these
musicians articulate their positionality in broader society.
Informed by Black feminist thought, these case studies unite around
the theory of Black musical space that comes from the lived
experiences of African Americans as they improvise through daily
life. The central argument builds upon the idea of space-making and
the geographic imagination in Black Geographies theory. Williams
considers how these musicians interface with contemporary social
movements like Black Lives Matter, build alternative institutional
models that challenge gender imbalance in improvisation culture,
and practice improvisation as joyful affirmation of Black value and
mobility. Both Terence Blanchard and Ambrose Akinmusire innovate
musical strategies to address systemic violence. Billy Higgins's
performance is discussed through the framework of breath to
understand his politics of inclusive space. Terri Lyne Carrington
confronts patriarchy in jazz culture through her Social Science
music project. The work of Andrew Hill is examined through the
context of his street theory, revealing his political stance on
performance and pedagogy. All readers will be elevated by this
innovative and timely book that speaks to issues that continue to
shape the lives of African Americans today.
Raymond Williams possessed unique authority as Britain's foremost
cultural theorist and public intellectual. Informed by an
unparalleled range of reference and the resources of deep personal
experience, his life's work represents a patient, exemplary
commitment to the building of a socialist future. This book brings
together important early writings including "Culture is Ordinary,"
"The British Left," "Welsh Culture" and "Why Do I Demonstrate?"
with major essays and talks of the last decade. It includes work on
such central themes as the nature of a democratic culture, the
value of community, Green socialism, the nuclear threat, and the
relation between the state and the arts. Here too, collected for
the first time, are the important later political essays which
undertake a thorough revaluation of the principles fundamental to
the idea of socialist democracy, and confirm Williams as a shrewd
and imaginative political theorist. In a sober yet constructive
assessment of the possibilities for socialist advance, Williams-in
the face of much recent intellectual fashion-powerfully reasserts
his lifelong commitment to "making hope practical, rather than
despair convincing." This valuable collection confirms Raymond
Williams as a thinker of rare versatility and one of the
outstanding intellectuals of our century.
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