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Geek Rock

Author : Alex DiBlasi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442229764
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Geek Rock written by Alex DiBlasi and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-08-14 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geek Rock: An Exploration of Music and Subculture examines the relationship between geek culture and popular music, tracing a history from the late 1960s to the present day. The term “geek rock” refers to forms of popular music that celebrate all things campy, kitschy, and quirky. In this collection of essays, contributors explore the evolution of this music genre, from writing songs about poodles, girls, monster movies, and outer space to just what it means to be “white and nerdy.” Editors Alex DiBlasi and Victoria Willis have gathered eleven essays from across the world, covering every facet of geek culture from its earliest influences, including Frank Zappa Captain Beefheart Devo They Might Be Giants Weird Al Yankovic Present-day advocates of “Nerdcore” Geek Rock offers a working history of this subgenre, which has finally begun to come under academic study. The essays take a variety of scholarly approaches, encompassing musicology, race, gender studies, sociology, and Lacanian psychoanalysis. Geek Rock will be of interest to readers of all backgrounds: music scholars, college and university professors, sociologists, and die-hard fans.

Alternative Rock

Author :
Publisher : PediaPress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alternative Rock written by and published by PediaPress. This book was released on with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Infosec Rock Star

Author : Ted Demopoulos
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1683504836
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (835 download)

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Download or read book Infosec Rock Star written by Ted Demopoulos and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you noticed that some people in infosec simply have more success than others, however they may define success? Some people are simply more listened too, more prominent, make more of a difference, have more flexibility with work, more freedom, choices of the best projects, and yes, make more money. They are not just lucky. They make their luck. The most successful are not necessarily the most technical, although technical or "geek" skills are essential. They are an absolute must, and we naturally build technical skills through experience. They are essential, but not for Rock Star level success. The most successful, the Infosec Rock Stars, have a slew of other equally valuable skills, ones most people never develop nor even understand. They include skills such as self direction, communication, business understanding, leadership, time management, project management, influence, negotiation, results orientation, and lots more . . . Infosec Rock Star will start you on your journey of mastering these skills and the journey of moving toward Rock Star status and all its benefits. Maybe you think you can’t be a Rock Star, but everyone can MOVE towards it and reap the benefits of vastly increased success. Remember, “Geek” will only get you so far . . .

Gods of Rock

Author : Rob Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781402736735
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Gods of Rock written by Rob Fitzpatrick and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Uncanny Magazine Issue Two

Author : Hao Jingfang
Publisher : Uncanny Magazine
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Uncanny Magazine Issue Two written by Hao Jingfang and published by Uncanny Magazine. This book was released on 2015-01-05 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The January/February 2015 issue of Uncanny Magazine. Featuring new fiction by Hao Jingfang (translated by Ken Liu), Sam J. Miller, Amal El-Mohtar, Richard Bowes, and Sunny Moraine, classic fiction by Ann Leckie, essays by Jim C. Hines, Erika McGillivray, Michi Trota, and Keidra Chaney, poetry by Isabel Yap, Mari Ness, and Rose Lemberg, interviews with Hao Jingfang (translated by Ken Liu) and Ann Leckie, by Deborah Stanish, a cover by Julie Dillon, and an editoral by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas.

Rush, Rock Music, and the Middle Class

Author : Christopher J. McDonald
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253004047
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Rush, Rock Music, and the Middle Class written by Christopher J. McDonald and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2009-11-02 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canadian progressive rock band Rush was the voice of the suburban middle class. In this book, Chris McDonald assesses the band's impact on popular music and its legacy for legions of fans. McDonald explores the ways in which Rush's critique of suburban life -- and its strategies for escape -- reflected middle-class aspirations and anxieties, while its performances manifested the dialectic in prog rock between discipline and austerity, and the desire for spectacle and excess. The band's reception reflected the internal struggles of the middle class over cultural status. Critics cavalierly dismissed, or apologetically praised, Rush's music for its middlebrow leanings. McDonald's wide-ranging musical and cultural analysis sheds light on one of the most successful and enduring rock bands of the 1970s and 1980s.

Age of the Geek

Author : Kathryn E. Lane
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319657445
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Age of the Geek written by Kathryn E. Lane and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-29 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection examines the nerd and/or geek stereotype in popular culture today. Utilizing the media—film, TV, YouTube, Twitter, fiction—that often defines daily lives, the contributors interrogate what it means to be labeled a “nerd” or “geek.” While the nerd/geek that is so easily recognized now is assuredly a twenty-first century construct, an examination of the terms’ history brings a greater understanding of their evolution. From sports to slasher films, Age of the Geek establishes a dialogue with texts as varied as the depictions of “nerd” or “geek” stereotypes.

Geektastic

Author : Holly Black
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0316052620
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Geektastic written by Holly Black and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed authors Holly Black (Ironside)and Cecil Castellucci (Boy Proof) have united in geekdom to edit short stories from some of the best selling and most promising geeks in young adult literature: M.T. Anderson, Libba Bray, Cassandra Clare, John Green, Tracy Lynn, Cynthia and Greg Leitich Smith, David Levithan, Kelly Link, Barry Lyga, Wendy Mass, Garth Nix, Scott Westerfield, Lisa Yee, and Sara Zarr. With illustrated interstitials from comic book artists Hope Larson and Bryan Lee O'Malley, Geektastic covers all things geeky, from Klingons and Jedi Knights to fan fiction, theater geeks, and cosplayers. Whether you're a former, current, or future geek, or if you just want to get in touch with your inner geek, Geektastic will help you get your geek on!

Geek Mom

Author : Kathy Ceceri
Publisher : Clarkson Potter
ISBN 13 : 0823085929
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Geek Mom written by Kathy Ceceri and published by Clarkson Potter. This book was released on 2012 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The editors of GeekMom, sister site to Wired's GeekDad blog, offer a range of cool projects and parenting advice centered around raising kids in the tech age.

They Might Be Giants' Flood

Author : S. Alexander Reed
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1623568293
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (235 download)

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Download or read book They Might Be Giants' Flood written by S. Alexander Reed and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-11-28 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a few decades now, They Might Be Giants' album Flood has been a beacon (or at least a nightlight) for people who might rather read than rock out, who care more about science fiction than Slayer, who are more often called clever than cool. Neither the band's hip origins in the Lower East Side scene nor Flood's platinum certification can cover up the record's singular importance at the geek fringes of culture. Flood's significance to this audience helps us understand a certain way of being: it shows that geek identity doesn't depend on references to Hobbits or Spock ears, but can instead be a set of creative and interpretive practices marked by playful excess-a flood of ideas. The album also clarifies an historical moment. The brainy sort of kids who listened to They Might Be Giants saw their own cultural options grow explosively during the late 1980s and early 1990s amid the early tech boom and America's advancing leftist social tides. Whether or not it was the band's intention, Flood's jubilant proclamation of an identity unconcerned with coolness found an ideal audience at an ideal turning point. This book tells the story.

The Soul of A New Machine

Author : Tracy Kidder
Publisher : Back Bay Books
ISBN 13 : 0316204552
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book The Soul of A New Machine written by Tracy Kidder and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2011-08-23 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracy Kidder's "riveting" (Washington Post) story of one company's efforts to bring a new microcomputer to market won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and has become essential reading for understanding the history of the American tech industry. Computers have changed since 1981, when The Soul of a New Machine first examined the culture of the computer revolution. What has not changed is the feverish pace of the high-tech industry, the go-for-broke approach to business that has caused so many computer companies to win big (or go belly up), and the cult of pursuing mind-bending technological innovations. The Soul of a New Machine is an essential chapter in the history of the machine that revolutionized the world in the twentieth century. "Fascinating...A surprisingly gripping account of people at work." --Wall Street Journal

Music, Sound, and Silence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Author : Janet K. Halfyard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351557025
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Music, Sound, and Silence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer written by Janet K. Halfyard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intense and continuing popularity of the long-running television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003) has long been matched by the range and depth of the academic critical response. This volume, the first devoted to the show's imaginative and widely varied use of music, sound, and silence, helps to develop an increasingly important and inadequately covered area of research - the many roles of music in contemporary television. In addressing this significant gap, this book provides an exemplary overview of the functions of music and sound in the interpretation of a television show. This is done through analyses that focus on scoring and source music, the title theme, the music production process, the critically acclaimed musical episode (voted number 13 in Channel Four's One Hundred Greatest Musicals), the symbolic and dramatic use of silence, and the popular reception of the show by its international fan base. In keeping with contemporary trends in the study of popular musics, a variety of critical approaches are taken from musicology, cultural studies, and media and communication studies, specifically employing critique, musical analysis, industry studies, and hermeneutics.

The Ghost of Madame Curie

Author : James Piazza
Publisher : James Piazza
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1716 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ghost of Madame Curie written by James Piazza and published by James Piazza. This book was released on 2022-06-29 with total page 1716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Piazza is a Western New York-based archivist and music historian. He developed a series of multimedia presentations on experimental music, ambient sound, archival techniques for digital audio, and lectures on personal media servers for large file libraries. His primary goal is to create a greater public understanding and awareness of 20th century music and sound. Piazza founded Innerspace Labs as an independent music archive chiefly communicating with the public via The Innerspace Connection music blog. He manages a library of over 300,000 soundworks focusing on ambient and experimental recordings. This book comprises the first 12 years of our publications showcasing highlights of the Archive, as well as select previously unpublished works.

Geek Wisdom

Author : N. K. Jemisin
Publisher : Quirk Books
ISBN 13 : 1594745307
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (947 download)

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Download or read book Geek Wisdom written by N. K. Jemisin and published by Quirk Books. This book was released on 2011-08-02 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essential companion for the geek era: a fusion of inspirational quotes, philosophy, and pop culture drawn from the entire cult-classic canon of film, TV, books, comics, and science. Celebrate nerd culture by taking a page out of your all-time favorites, like Star Wars and Star Trek, The Lord of the Rings and Dune—and much more! Computer nerds are our titans of industry; comic-book superheroes are our Hollywood idols; the Internet is our night on the town. Clearly, geeks know something about life in the 21st century that other folks don’t—something we all can learn from. Geek Wisdom takes as gospel some 200 of the most powerful and oft-cited quotes from movies (“Where we’re going, we don’t need roads”), television (“Now we know—and knowing is half the battle”), literature (“All that is gold does not glitter”), games, science, the Internet, and more. Now these beloved pearls of modern-day culture have been painstakingly interpreted by a diverse team of hardcore nerds with their imaginations turned up to 11. Yes, this collection of mini-essays is by, for, and about geeks—but it’s just so surprisingly profound, the rest of us would have to be dorks not to read it. So say we all.

WordPress

Author : Jessica Neuman Beck
Publisher : Peachpit Press
ISBN 13 : 0321702891
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (217 download)

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Download or read book WordPress written by Jessica Neuman Beck and published by Peachpit Press. This book was released on 2009-11-12 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives readers the tools they need to create beautiful, functional WordPress-powered sites with minimal hassle. Using the WordPress user interface as a baseline, authors Jessica Neuman Beck and Matt Beck walk new users through the installation and setup process while providing valuable tips and tricks for more experienced users. With no other resource but this guide, readers can set up a fully-functional and well-designed WordPress site that takes advantage of all the features WordPress has to offer.

Everything is Everything

Author : Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1935904582
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Everything is Everything written by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her fifth collection of poetry, Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz polishes her obsessions until they gleam. Whether she is exhuming the bizarre ("Cryptozoology" and "A Short History of Unusual Fish"), exorcising her demons, ("Hog Butcher of Workshop Table" and "On Why I Shouldn't Read Books") or celebrating the uncelebrated oddballs of the world ("Little Heard True Stories of Benjamin Franklin" and "Crack Squirrels"), Aptowicz's poetry sings and singes. Everything is Everything illuminates the dark corners of the curiosity cabinet, shining the light on everything that is utterly strange, wonderfully absurd and 100% true.

Cyberbullies, Cyberactivists, Cyberpredators

Author : Lauren Rosewarne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Cyberbullies, Cyberactivists, Cyberpredators written by Lauren Rosewarne and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-01-25 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by an expert in media, popular culture, gender, and sexuality, this book surveys the common archetypes of Internet users—from geeks, nerds, and gamers to hackers, scammers, and predators—and assesses what these stereotypes reveal about our culture's attitudes regarding gender, technology, intimacy, and identity. The Internet has enabled an exponentially larger number of people—individuals who are members of numerous and vastly different subgroups—to be exposed to one other. As a result, instead of the simple "jocks versus geeks" paradigm of previous eras, our society now has more detailed stereotypes of the undesirable, the under-the-radar, and the ostracized: cyberpervs, neckbeards, goths, tech nerds, and anyone with a non-heterosexual identity. Each chapter of this book explores a different stereotype of the Internet user, with key themes—such as gender, technophobia, and sexuality—explored with regard to that specific characterization of online users. Author Lauren Rosewarne, PhD, supplies a highly interdisciplinary perspective that draws on research and theories from a range of fields—psychology, sociology, and communications studies as well as feminist theory, film theory, political science, and philosophy—to analyze what these stereotypes mean in the context of broader social and cultural issues. From cyberbullies to chronically masturbating porn addicts to desperate online-daters, readers will see the paradox in popular culture's message: that while Internet use is universal, actual Internet users are somehow subpar—less desirable, less cool, less friendly—than everybody else.