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I Want to Be Ready

Author : Danielle Goldman
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472026615
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book I Want to Be Ready written by Danielle Goldman and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-05-18 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Danielle Goldman's contribution to the theory and history of improvisation in dance is rich, beautiful and extraordinary. In her careful, rigorously imaginative analysis of the discipline of choreography in real time, Goldman both compels and allows us to become initiates in the mysteries of flight and preparation. She studies the massive volitional resources that one unleashes in giving oneself over to being unleashed. It is customary to say of such a text that it is 'long-awaited' or 'much anticipated'; because of Goldman's work we now know something about the potenza, the kinetic explosion, those terms carry. Reader, get ready to move and be moved." ---Fred Moten, Duke University "In this careful, intelligent, and theoretically rigorous book, Danielle Goldman attends to the 'tight spaces' within which improvised dance explores both its limitations and its capacity to press back against them. While doing this, Goldman also allows herself---and us---to be moved by dance itself. The poignant conclusion, evoking specific moments of embodied elegance, vulnerability, and courage, asks the reader: 'Does it make you feel like dancing?' Whether taken literally or figuratively, I can't imagine any other response to this beautiful book." ---Barbara Browning, New York University "This book will become the single most important reflection on the question of improvisation, a question which has become foundational to dance itself. The achievement of I Want to Be Ready lies not simply in its mastery of the relevant literature within dance, but in its capacity to engage dance in a deep and abiding dialogue with other expressive forms, to think improvisation through myriad sites and a rich vein of cultural diversity, and to join improvisation in dance with its manifestations in life so as to consider what constitutes dance's own politics." ---Randy Martin, Tisch School of Arts at New York University I Want To Be Ready draws on original archival research, careful readings of individual performances, and a thorough knowledge of dance scholarship to offer an understanding of the "freedom" of improvisational dance. While scholars often celebrate the freedom of improvised performances, they are generally focusing on freedom from formal constraints. Drawing on the work of Michel Foucault and Houston Baker, among others, Danielle Goldman argues that this negative idea of freedom elides improvisation's greatest power. Far from representing an escape from the necessities of genre, gender, class, and race, the most skillful improvisations negotiate an ever shifting landscape of constraints. This work will appeal to those interested in dance history and criticism and also interdisciplinary audiences in the fields of American and cultural studies. Danielle Goldman is Assistant Professor of Dance at The New School and a professional dancer in New York City, where she recently has danced for DD Dorvillier and Beth Gill. Cover art: Still from Ghostcatching, 1999, by Bill T. Jones, Paul Kaiser, and Shelley Eshkar. Image courtesy of Kaiser/Eshkar.

Free Jazz

Author : Jeff Schwartz
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438490321
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Free Jazz written by Jeff Schwartz and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2022-10-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1950s, free jazz broke all the rules, liberating musicians both to create completely spontaneous and unplanned performances and to develop unique personal musical systems. This genre emerged alongside the radical changes of the 1960s, particularly the Civil Rights, Black Arts, and Black Power movements. Free Jazz is a new and accessible introduction to this exciting, controversial, and often misunderstood music, drawing on extensive research, close listening, and the author’s experience as a performer. More than a catalog of artists and albums, the book explores the conceptual areas they opened: freedom, spirituality, energy, experimentalism, and self-determination. These are discussed in relation to both the political and artistic currents of the times and to specific musical techniques, explained in language clear to ordinary readers but also useful for musicians.

Evolutionary Biology

Author : Max K. Hecht
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461310431
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (613 download)

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Download or read book Evolutionary Biology written by Max K. Hecht and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evolutionary Biology, of which this is the twenty-second volume, continues to offer its readers a wide range of original articles, reviews, and commentaries on evolution, in the broadest sense of that term. The topics of the reviews range from anthropology, molecular evolution, and paleobiology to principles of systematics. In recent volumes, a broad spectrum of articles have appeared on such subjects as asymmetric sexual isolation, biochemical systematics in plants, species selection, DNA hybridization and phylogenetics, modes of evolution in Pleistocene rodents, and development and evolution of the vertebrate limb. We have also attempted to provide a forum for conƯ flicting ideas. Articles such as these, often too long for standard journals, are the material for Evolutionary Biology. The editors continue to solicit manuscripts on an international scale in an effort to see that everyone ofthe many facets of biological evolution is covered. Manuscripts should be sent to anyone of the following: Max K. Hecht, Department of Biology, Queens College of the City University of New York, Flushing, New York 11367; Bruce Wallace, Department of Biology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, BlacksƯ burg, Virginia 24061; GhilleanT. Prance, New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, New York 10458. The Editors vii Contents 1. Phylogeny of Early Vertebrate Skeletal Induction and Ossification Patterns ... 1 John G. Maisey Introduction: The Fossil Record.. .. .. ... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 1.

Sound Commitments

Author : Robert Adlington
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190450657
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Sound Commitments written by Robert Adlington and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-19 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of popular music is widely recognized in giving voice to radical political views, the plight of the oppressed, and the desire for social change. Avant-garde music, by contrast, is often thought to prioritize the pursuit of new technical or conceptual territory over issues of human and social concern. Yet throughout the activist 1960s, many avant-garde musicians were convinced that aesthetic experiment and social progressiveness made natural bedfellows. Intensely involved in the era's social and political upheavals, they often sought to reflect this engagement in their music. Yet how could avant-garde musicians make a meaningful contribution to social change if their music remained the preserve of a tiny, initiated clique? In answer, Sound Commitments, examines the encounter of avant-garde music and "the Sixties" across a range of genres, aesthetic positions and geographical locations. Through music for the concert hall, tape and electronic music, jazz and improvisation, participatory "events," performance art, and experimental popular music, the essays in this volume explore developments in the United States, France, West Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, the Soviet Union, Japan and parts of the "Third World," delving into the deep richness of avant-garde musicians' response to the decade's defining cultural shifts. Featuring new archival research and/or interviews with significant figures of the period in each chapter, Sound Commitments will appeal to researchers and advanced students in the fields of post-war music, cultures of the 1960s, and the avant-garde, as well as to an informed general readership.

Ghosts of the ETO

Author : Jonathan Gawne
Publisher : Casemate
ISBN 13 : 193514992X
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book Ghosts of the ETO written by Jonathan Gawne and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2007-08-20 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An excellent, balanced history of the 23rd Special Troops . . . may be one of the most important books to come out of World War II.” —Engineer Magazine No history of the war in Europe has ever taken into account the actions of the men of the US 23rd Special Troops. These men took part in over twenty-two deception operations against the German army. Some of these operations had tremendous impact upon how the battles in Europe were fought. The men who participated in these actions were sworn to secrecy for fifty years and are only now willing to talk about their role. The 23rd was composed of four main units. A signal deception unit to broadcast fake radio signals, an engineer camouflage unit to set up rubber dummies of tanks and trucks, a combat engineer unit to construct emplacements and provide local security, and a sonic deception company. The sonic unit was developed to fool German listening posts by playing audio recordings of various sounds, such as tanks moving up or bridges being built. The 23rd was the only tactical deception unit of the American Army in World War II combining all aspects of deception. This book also covers the birthplace of sonic deception, the Army Experimental Station at Pine Camp, and the 23rd’s smaller sister unit, the 3133rd Sonic Deception company that saw action for fourteen days in Italy. “Highly recommended reading as being a simply fascinating military history of a hidden aspect of World War II that would have a profound and lasting influence on military strategy and tactics.” —Midwest Book Review

Department of Agriculture and Related Agencies Appropriations

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2040 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Department of Agriculture and Related Agencies Appropriations written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 2040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Department of Agriculture and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1971

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2066 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Department of Agriculture and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1971 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 2066 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Australian Entomologist

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Australian Entomologist written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Department of Agriculture and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1971

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Agriculture--Environmental and Consumer Protection Appropriations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2042 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Department of Agriculture and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1971 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Agriculture--Environmental and Consumer Protection Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 2042 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Dog Fancier

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 982 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Dog Fancier written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Agricultural Appropriations for ...

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2042 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agricultural Appropriations for ... written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 2042 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Secret Soldiers

Author : Philip Gerard
Publisher : Dutton Books
ISBN 13 : 9780525946649
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (466 download)

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Download or read book Secret Soldiers written by Philip Gerard and published by Dutton Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Secret Solders" reveals how an extraordinary group of American artists, designers, and engineering wizards became America's unsung heroes of the Second World War. Photo inserts.

The Wacky Misadventures of Warble Mcgorkle

Author : Clay Shannon
Publisher : Clay Shannon
ISBN 13 : 1588989682
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (889 download)

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Download or read book The Wacky Misadventures of Warble Mcgorkle written by Clay Shannon and published by Clay Shannon. This book was released on 2004-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'the Wacky Misadventures of Warble McGorkle' is a picaresque satire that traces its literary lineage back to 'Don Quixote', 'Huckleberry Finn', and 'A Confederacy of Dunces'. Through the protagonist's zany antics, it pokes fun at the 'get rich quick' and 'get rich by any means possible' philosophies prevalent in today's society.Warble McGorkle, the protagonist, considers himself a genius. In reality, he is a jumble-headed, paranoid megalomaniac. My novel is the (somewhat darkly) humorous account of his meteoric rise from drifter to President of the United States. Warble and his wife Mary crisscross the U.S.A. at breakneck speed, as Warble endeavors to stay one step ahead of pursuers (most of them imaginary). Everywhere he and Mary go, Warble concocts a cockamamie scheme to get fabulously rich and to propel himself to the pinnacle of society, where his fame--so he reasons, anyway--will make him safe from the forces supposedly arrayed against him. Among several other ventures, Warble: Forms a polka punk band in St. Augustine, Florida; Creates a reality-TV show named 'Bad Boyz Behind Barz', which makes use of webcams in federal penitentiaries; Markets himself as a super-hero, 'The Color-Blind Chameleon', using his manufactured fame to land lucrative endorsement contracts; and founds a biotech firm that produces and sells a pill which transforms the pill ingester's personality. Finally, after serving a term as governor of the state of Wisconsin, Warble, along with his wife Mary as his Vice Presidential running mate, is elected President of the United States.

America's Corner Store

Author : John U. Bacon
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0471675083
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (716 download)

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Download or read book America's Corner Store written by John U. Bacon and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2004-11-04 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for America's Corner Store "Who would have thought the story of a drugstore chain could encompass so much vital and fascinating American history? With superb storytelling skills, John Bacon gives us a vivid and insightful chronicle of matters both large and small, from the birth of the milkshake to the rise of America's consumer culture. America's Corner Store is a genuine treat." -James Tobin the National Book Critics' Circle--Award winner, and author of To Conquer the Air: The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight "Run the business with your head. Lead the family with your heart. Walgreens' history is filled with good values, strong principles, and immense courage. A family business classic." -Howard "Howdy" S. Holmes President and CEO, "Jiffy" Mixes "John Bacon has crafted a thorough, insightful, readable, and fascinating account of the development of Walgreens: one of the world's most compelling examples of the creation of shareholder value in conjunction with good corporate governance... all in a company run in a highly unique fashion as a 'family' business. As the store that everyone knows, Walgreens has become the envy of corporate America and the darling of shareholders, consistently producing investor returns that place it at the very top among its peers. This book will be required reading in my private equity class at Michigan Business School." -Professor David Brophy Director, Center for Venture Capital and Private Equity Finance, University of Michigan Business School

Experimentalism Otherwise

Author : Benjamin Piekut
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520948424
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Experimentalism Otherwise written by Benjamin Piekut and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-04-04 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Experimental Otherwise, Benjamin Piekut takes the reader into the heart of what we mean by "experimental" in avant-garde music. Focusing on one place and time—New York City, 1964—Piekut examines five disparate events: the New York Philharmonic’s disastrous performance of John Cage’s Atlas Eclipticalis; Henry Flynt’s demonstrations against the downtown avant-garde; Charlotte Moorman’s Avant Garde Festival; the founding of the Jazz Composers Guild; and the emergence of Iggy Pop. Drawing together a colorful array of personalities, Piekut argues that each of these examples points to a failure and marks a limit or boundary of canonical experimentalism. What emerges from these marginal moments is an accurate picture of the avant-garde, not as a style or genre, but as a network defined by disagreements, struggles, and exclusions.

Bulletin

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1290 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Appropriations

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2032 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Appropriations written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 2032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: