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Living in The Merry Ghetto

Author : Trever Hagen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190948884
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Living in The Merry Ghetto written by Trever Hagen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-06 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living in the Merry Ghetto reframes how people use music to build resistance. Author Trever Hagen addresses the social context of illegal music-making in Czechoslovakia during state socialism. He tells the story of a group of rock'n'roll musicians who went underground after 1968, building a parallel world from where they could flourish: the Merry Ghetto. The book examines the case of the Czech Underground and the politics of their music and their way of life, paying close attention to the development of the ensemble The Plastic People of the Universe. Taking in multiple political transitions from the 1940s-2000s, the story focuses on non-official cultural practices such as listening to foreign radio broadcasts, seeking out copied cassette tapes, listening to banned LPs, growing long hair, attending clandestine concerts, smuggling albums via diplomats, recording in home-studios and being thrown in prison for any of these activities. Drawing on ethnographic interviews with Undergrounders, archival research and participant observation, Hagen shows how these practices shaped consciousness, informed bodies and promoted collective action, all of which contributed to an Underground identity.

Hope

Author : Tia DeNora
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303069870X
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Hope written by Tia DeNora and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-04-21 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a concise, interdisciplinary perspective on the emotion and practice of ‘hope'. Based on the idea that hope is a dream that we carry in different ways, the five chapters draw on the author’s original research and align it with literature on the sociology of culture and emotion, to explore the concept in relation to cultural and community practices and mental health. The climate crisis, violence, hostility, pandemics, homelessness, displacement, conflict, slavery, economic hardship and economic downturn, loneliness, anxiety, mental illness – are intensifying. There is a need for hope. There is also a need to confront hope - what is hope and what can, and cannot, be achieved by hoping. This confrontation includes distinguishing hope from wishful thinking and blind optimism. Using examples from different spheres of social life, including health, religion, music therapy, migration and social displacement, the book sets the idea of hope in context of situations of uncertainty, challenge and pain, and goes on to highlight the practical application of these ideas and outline an agenda for further research on ‘hope'.

Underground Modernity

Author : Alfrun Kliems
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 9633863988
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (338 download)

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Download or read book Underground Modernity written by Alfrun Kliems and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The literary scholar Alfrun Kliems explores the aesthetic strategies of Eastern European underground literature, art, film and music in the decades before and after the fall of communism, ranging from the ‘father’ of Prague Underground, Egon Bondy, to the neo-Dada Club of Polish Losers in Berlin. The works she considers are "underground" in the sense that they were produced illegally, or were received as subversive after the regimes had fallen. Her study challenges common notions of ‘underground’ as an umbrella term for nonconformism. Rather, it depicts it as a sociopoetic reflection of modernity, intimately linked to urban settings, with tropes and aesthetic procedures related to Surrealism, Dadaism, Expressionism, and, above all, pop and counterculture. The author discusses these commonalities and distinctions in Czech, Polish, Slovak, Ukrainian, Russian, and German authors, musicians, and filmmakers. She identifies intertextual relations across languages and generations, and situates her findings in a transatlantic context (including the Beat Generation, Susan Sontag, Neil Young) and the historical framework of Romanticism and modernity (including Baudelaire and Brecht). Despite this wide brief, the book never loses sight of its core message: Underground is no arbitrary expression of discontent, but rather the result of a fundamental conflict at the socio-philosophical roots of modernity.

The Science and Psychology of Music

Author : William Forde Thompson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book The Science and Psychology of Music written by William Forde Thompson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a broad introduction to the scientific and psychological study of music, exploring how music is processed by our brains, affects us emotionally, shapes our personal and cultural identities, and can be used in therapeutic and educational contexts. Why are some people tone deaf and others musical savants? What do our musical preferences say about our personality and the culture in which we were raised? Why do certain songs remind us so strongly of particular people, places, or events? How can music be therapeutically used to help those with autism, Parkinson's, and other medical conditions? The Science and Psychology of Music: From Beethoven at the Office to Beyoncé at the Gym answers these and other questions. This book provides a broad and accessible introduction to the fascinating field of music psychology. Despite its name, music psychology includes a number of fields, including neuroscience, psychology, social psychology, sociology, and health. Through a collection of thematically organized chapters, readers will discover how our brains recognize elements of music, how music can affect us and shape our identities, and the many real-world applications for such information.

Modern Czech Literature: Writing in Times of Political Trauma

Author : Andrew M. Drozd
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (819 download)

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Download or read book Modern Czech Literature: Writing in Times of Political Trauma written by Andrew M. Drozd and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2025-05-20 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Czech culture has experienced a series of political traumas starting in the 1930s. Despite the difficult, shifting conditions, Czech writers have not only managed to contend with the situation, but have produced many fine literary efforts. This volume consists of seven articles by an international team of authors who are specialists in Czech literature. The first four chapters treat very well-known writers. There is one chapter on Karel Čapek and his play "The White Plague." There are three chapters on Milan Kundera, the internationally best-known Czech writer, with one of these chapters covering both Kundera and Bohumil Hrabal. The last three chapters deal with more recent and/or lesser-known writers. One chapter treats the Brothers Topol and the music underground, one chapter treats Czech literary responses to the period of the Normalization, and the final chapter treats Eda Kriseová. This volume presents new perspectives on Czech literature and will be of interest to specialists in Czech literature and history, Central European literature and history, Nazism and Communism. For example, although much has been written about Kundera, the three articles provide further treatments of three different aspects of his work: his ties to Russian literature, his misogyny, and the philosophical content of his novels. Specialists interested in the period of the Normalization (and after) will find the last three chapters particularly useful. The chapters are suitable for classroom use in courses in both Czech literature and Czech (or Central European) history. All material from Czech-language sources presented in the chapters is given in English translation.

Living London; Its Work and Its Play, Its Humour and and Its Pathos, Its Sights and Its Scenes

Author : George R. Sims
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Living London; Its Work and Its Play, Its Humour and and Its Pathos, Its Sights and Its Scenes written by George R. Sims and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Routledge International Handbook of Memory Studies

Author : Anna Lisa Tota
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134477562
Total Pages : 783 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Routledge International Handbook of Memory Studies written by Anna Lisa Tota and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page 783 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge International Handbook of Memory Studies offers students and researchers original contributions that comprise the debates, intersections and future courses of the field. It is divided in six themed sections: 1)Theories and Perspectives, 2) Cultural artefacts, Symbols and Social practices, 3) Public, Transnational, and Transitional Memories 4) Technologies of Memory, 5) Terror, Violence and Disasters, 6) and Body and Ecosystems. A strong emphasis is placed on the interdisciplinary breadth of Memory Studies with contributions from leading international scholars in sociology, anthropology, philosophy, biology, film studies, media studies, archive studies, literature and history. The Handbook addresses the core concerns and foundations of the field while indicating new directions in Memory Studies.

Littell's Living Age

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 862 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Littell's Living Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Neighbors Respond

Author : Antony Polonsky
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400825814
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Neighbors Respond written by Antony Polonsky and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-11 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neighbors--Jan Gross's stunning account of the brutal mass murder of the Jews of Jedwabne by their Polish neighbors--was met with international critical acclaim and was a finalist for the National Book Award in the United States. It has also been, from the moment of its publication, the occasion of intense controversy and painful reckoning. This book captures some of the most important voices in the ensuing debate, including those of residents of Jedwabne itself as well as those of journalists, intellectuals, politicians, Catholic clergy, and historians both within and well beyond Poland's borders. Antony Polonsky and Joanna Michlic introduce the debate, focusing particularly on how Neighbors rubbed against difficult old and new issues of Polish social memory and national identity. The editors then present a variety of Polish voices grappling with the role of the massacre and of Polish-Jewish relations in Polish history. They include samples of the various strategies used by Polish intellectuals and political elites as they have attempted to deal with their country's dark past, to overcome the legacy of the Holocaust, and to respond to Gross's book. The Neighbors Respond makes the debate over Neighbors available to an English-speaking audience--and is an excellent tool for bringing the discussion into the classroom. It constitutes an engrossing contribution to modern Jewish history, to our understanding of Polish modern history and identity, and to our bank of Holocaust memory.

The Living Age

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 932 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Living Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Cats in Krasinski Square

Author : Karen Hesse
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781845079055
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book The Cats in Krasinski Square written by Karen Hesse and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cats in Krasinski Square once belonged to someone… and so did a young girl, whose family has been destroyed by war. Even as she and her sister struggle to survive amid the war's chaos, they risk their lives for a plan to help those still trapped behind Warsaw's infamous Ghetto walls. Newbery Medallist Karen Hesse has written a beautiful story about the courage of brave young women and men who, at great risk, fought not with weapons, but with their hearts and souls. Wendy Watson's luminous paintings inspire a visual journey to a time and place that should never be forgotten.

Living London

Author : George R. Sims
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Living London written by George R. Sims and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Yapanchitra, a Profile of Life

Author : Prabālakumāra Basu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Yapanchitra, a Profile of Life written by Prabālakumāra Basu and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chiefly on the works of American, Australian, European, Indic, Japanese, New Zealand poets; includes selected works translated from Spanish, Czech, Japanese, Malayalam, Gujarati, Bengali, and other languages; conceived by the editor.

Music in Conflict

Author : Nili Belkind
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000204006
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Music in Conflict written by Nili Belkind and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music in Conflict studies the complex relationship of musical culture to political life in Palestine-Israel, where conflict has both shaped and claimed the lives of Palestinians and Jews. In the context of the geography of violence that characterizes the conflict, borders and boundaries are material and social manifestations of the ways in which the production of knowledge is conditioned by political and structural violence. Ethical and aesthetic positions that shape artistic production in this context are informed by profound imbalances of power and contingent exposure to violence. Viewing expressive culture as a potent site for understanding these dynamics, the book examines the politics of sound to show how music-making reflects and forms identities, and in the process, shapes communities. The ethnography is based on fieldwork conducted in Israel and the West Bank in 2011–2012 and other excursions since then. Author has "followed the conflict" by "following the music," from concert halls to demonstrations, mixed-city community centers to Palestinian refugee camp children’s clubs, alternative urban scenes and even a checkpoint. In all the different contexts presented, the monograph is thematically and theoretically underpinned by the ways in which music is used to culturally assert or reterritorialize both spatial and social boundaries in a situation of conflict.

Modern Hungers

Author : Alice Autumn Weinreb
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019060509X
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Modern Hungers written by Alice Autumn Weinreb and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text explores Germany's role in the two world wars and the Cold War to analyze the food economy of the twentieth century. It argues that controlling food supply and determining how and what people ate shaped the course of these three wars

A Strategic Nature

Author : Melissa Aronczyk
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190055340
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book A Strategic Nature written by Melissa Aronczyk and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Strategic Nature shows how public relations has dominated public understanding of the natural environment for over one hundred years. More than spin or misinformation, PR is a social and political force that shapes how we understand and address the environmental crises we now face. Drawing on interviews, ethnography, and archival research, Melissa Aronczyk and Maria I. Espinoza offer an original account of the promotional agents who have influenced public perception of the environment since the beginning of the twentieth century, revealing how professional communicators affect how we think about public knowledge and who can legitimately produce it. Instead of focusing on just the messages or the campaigns, this book provides a conceptual framework for understanding the promotional culture around the meaning of the environment. A Strategic Nature argues that it is not possible to understand the role of the environment in our everyday lives without understanding how something called "the environment" has been invented and communicated to us throughout history. To tell this story properly requires a careful account of the evolution of the institutions, norms and movements that have pushed environmental concerns to the fore of public opinion and political action. But it also demands an examination of the simultaneous evolution of professional communicators and the formation of their institutions, norms and movements. Without this piece of the puzzle, we miss crucial ways that struggles are won, resources allocated, and beliefs fostered about environmental problems"--

Other Schindlers

Author : Agnes Grunwald-Spier
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752462431
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book Other Schindlers written by Agnes Grunwald-Spier and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2010-12-26 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thanks to Thomas Keneally’s book Schindler’s Ark, and the film based on it, Schindler’s List, we have become more aware of the fact that, in the midst of Hitler’s extermination of the Jews, courage and humanity could still overcome evil. While 6 million Jews were murdered by the Nazi regime, some were saved through the actions of non-Jews whose consciences would not allow them to pass by on the other side, and many are honoured by Yad Vashem as ‘Righteous Among the Nations’ for their actions.As a baby, Agnes Grunwald-Spier was herself saved from the horrors of Auschwitz by an unknown official, and is now a trustee of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust. She has collected together the stories of thirty individuals who rescued Jews, and these provide a new insight into why these people were prepared to risk so much for their fellow men and women. With a foreword by Sir Martin Gilbert, one of the leading experts on the subject, this is an ultimately uplifting account of how some good deeds really do shine in a weary world.