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Music Downtown Eastside

Author : Klisala Harrison
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197535089
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Music Downtown Eastside written by Klisala Harrison and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music Downtown Eastside draws on two decades of research in one of North America's poorest urban areas to illustrate how human rights can be promoted through music. Harrison's examination of how gentrification, grant funding, and community organizations affect the success or failure of human rights-focused musical initiatives offers insights into the complex relationship between culture, poverty, and human rights that have global implications and applicability. The book takes the reader into popular music jams and music therapy sessions offered to the poor in churches, community centers and health organizations. Harrison analyzes the capabilities music-making develops, and musical moments where human rights are respected, promoted, threatened, or violated. The book offers insights on the relationship between music and poverty, a social deprivation that diminishes capabilities and rights. It contributes to the human rights literature by examining critically how human rights can be strengthened in cultural practices and policy.

Music Downtown Eastside

Author : Klisala Harrison
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197535097
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Music Downtown Eastside written by Klisala Harrison and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music Downtown Eastside draws on two decades of research in one of North America's poorest urban areas to illustrate how human rights can be promoted through music. Harrison's examination of how gentrification, grant funding, and community organizations affect the success or failure of human rights-focused musical initiatives offers insights into the complex relationship between culture, poverty, and human rights that have global implications and applicability. The book takes the reader into popular music jams and music therapy sessions offered to the poor in churches, community centers and health organizations. Harrison analyzes the capabilities music-making develops, and musical moments where human rights are respected, promoted, threatened, or violated. The book offers insights on the relationship between music and poverty, a social deprivation that diminishes capabilities and rights. It contributes to the human rights literature by examining critically how human rights can be strengthened in cultural practices and policy.

Music, Health and Wellbeing

Author : Naomi Sunderland
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349952842
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (499 download)

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Download or read book Music, Health and Wellbeing written by Naomi Sunderland and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the power music has to address health inequalities and the social determinants of health and wellbeing. It examines music participation as a determinant of wellbeing and as a transformative tool to impact on wider social, cultural and environmental conditions. Uniquely, in this volume health and wellbeing outcomes are conceptualised on a continuum, with potential effects identified in relation to individual participants, their communities but also society at large. While arts therapy approaches have a clear place in the text, the emphasis is on music making outside of clinical contexts and the broader roles musicians, music facilitators and educators can play in enhancing wellbeing in a range of settings beyond the therapy room. This innovative edited collection will be of great interest to scholars and practitioners of music, social services, medical humanities, education and the broader health field in the social and medical sciences.

A Thousand Dreams

Author : Larry Campbell
Publisher : Greystone Books
ISBN 13 : 192681228X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book A Thousand Dreams written by Larry Campbell and published by Greystone Books. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this mix of history, journalism, political analysis, and first-person accounts, former chief coroner and Vancouver mayor Larry Campbell, renowned criminologist Neil Boyd, and investigative journalist Lori Culbert, offer a portrait of one of North America’s poorest, most drug-challenged neighbourhoods: Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. A Thousand Dreams raises provocative questions about the challenges confronting not only Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside but also all of North America’s major cities and offers concrete, urgently needed solutions, including: Continued support for Insite, the safe injection site Decriminalization of prostitution and drugs The transfer of addiction services to the Health Ministry, allowing detox into the medical system More government-funded SROs and more affordable social housing

The Oxford Handbook of Applied Ethnomusicology

Author : Svanibor Pettan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190273135
Total Pages : 864 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Applied Ethnomusicology written by Svanibor Pettan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-27 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applied studies scholarship has triggered a not-so-quiet revolution in the discipline of ethnomusicology. The current generation of applied ethnomusicologists has moved toward participatory action research, involving themselves in musical communities and working directly on their behalf. The essays in The Oxford Handbook of Applied Ethnomusicology, edited by Svanibor Pettan and Jeff Todd Titon, theorize applied ethnomusicology, offer histories, and detail practical examples with the goal of stimulating further development in the field. The essays in the book, all newly commissioned for the volume, reflect scholarship and data gleaned from eleven countries by over twenty contributors. Themes and locations of the research discussed encompass all world continents. The authors present case studies encompassing multiple places; other that discuss circumstances within a geopolitical unit, either near or far. Many of the authors consider marginalized peoples and communities; others argue for participatory action research. All are united in their interest in overarching themes such as conflict, education, archives, and the status of indigenous peoples and immigrants. A volume that at once defines its field, advances it, and even acts as a large-scale applied ethnomusicology project in the way it connects ideas and methodology, The Oxford Handbook of Applied Ethnomusicology is a seminal contribution to the study of ethnomusicology, theoretical and applied.

Theory, Method, Sustainability, and Conflict

Author : Svanibor Pettan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019088570X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Theory, Method, Sustainability, and Conflict written by Svanibor Pettan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-20 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nine ethnomusicologists who contributed to this volume, balanced in age and gender and hailing from a diverse array of countries, share the goal of stimulating further development in the field of ethnomusicology. By theorizing applied ethnomusicology, offering histories, and detailing practical examples, they explore the themes of peace and conflict studies, ecology, sustainability, and the theoretical and methodological considerations that accompany them. Theory, Method, Sustainability, and Conflict is the first of three paperback volumes derived from the original Oxford Handbook of Applied Ethnomusicology, which can be understood as an applied ethnomusicology project: as a medium of getting to know the thoughts and experiences of global ethnomusicologists, of enriching general knowledge and understanding about ethnomusicologies and applied ethnomusicologies in various parts of the world, and of inspiring readers to put the accumulated knowledge, understanding, and skills into good use for the betterment of our world.

The Routledge Companion to Applied Musicology

Author : Chris Dromey
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100089682X
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Applied Musicology written by Chris Dromey and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Applied Musicology brings together academics, artist-researchers, and practitioners to provide readers with an extensive and authoritative overview of applied musicology. Once a field that addressed music’s socio-political or performative contexts, applied musicology today encompasses study and practice in areas as diverse as psychology, ecomusicology, organology, forensic musicology, music therapy, health and well-being, and other public-oriented musicologies. These rapid advances have created a fast-changing field whose scholarship and activities tend to take place in isolation from each other. This volume addresses that shortcoming, bringing together a wide-ranging survey of current approaches. Featuring 39 authors, The Routledge Companion to Applied Musicology falls into five parts—Defining and Theorising Applied Musicology; Public Engagement; New Approaches and Research Methods; Representation and Inclusion; and Musicology in/for Performance—that chronicle the subject’s rich history and consider the connections that will characterise its future. The book offers an essential resource for anyone exploring applied musicology.

A Room in the City

Author : Gabor Gasztonyi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781897535288
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book A Room in the City written by Gabor Gasztonyi and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gasztonyi's style continues in the great documentary tradition of Anders Petersen and Josef Koudelka, the photographer of the Roma. --Book Jacket.

Fighting for Space

Author : Travis Lupick
Publisher : arsenal pulp press
ISBN 13 : 1551527138
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Fighting for Space written by Travis Lupick and published by arsenal pulp press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: North America is in the grips of a drug epidemic; with the introduction of fentanyl, the chances of a fatal overdose are greater than ever, prompting many to rethink the war on drugs. Public opinion has slowly begun to turn against prohibition, and policy-makers are finally beginning to look at addiction as a health issue as opposed to one for the criminal justice system. While deaths across the continent continue to climb, Fighting for Space explains the concept of harm reduction as a crucial component of a city’s response to the drug crisis. It tells the story of a grassroots group of addicts in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside who waged a political street fight for two decades to transform how the city treats its most marginalized citizens. Over the past twenty-five years, this group of residents from Canada's poorest neighborhood organized themselves in response to the growing number of overdose deaths and demanded that addicts be given the same rights as any other citizen; against all odds, they eventually won. But just as their battle came to an end, fentanyl arrived and opioid deaths across North America reached an all-time high. The "genocide" in Vancouver finally sparked government action. Twenty years later, as the same pattern plays out in other cities, there is much that advocates for reform can learn from Vancouver's experience. Fighting for Space tells that story—including case studies in Ohio, Florida, New York, California, Massachusetts, and Washington state—with the same passionate fervor as the activists whose tireless work gave dignity to addicts and saved countless lives. This publication meets the EPUB Accessibility requirements and it also meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG-AA). It is screen-reader friendly and is accessible to persons with disabilities. A Simple book with few images, which is defined with accessible structural markup. This book contains various accessibility features such as alternative text for images, table of contents, page-list, landmark, reading order and semantic structure.

In Plain Sight

Author : Leslie A. Robertson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book In Plain Sight written by Leslie A. Robertson and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This collection of seven life stories from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, sets out to create a space for the voices of women who are seldom heard on their own terms - the words of people who are publicly visible yet who, due to the blur of preconceptions that surround the inner city, remain unseen. To many, these women who offer their stories here are "people without history," defined only by belonging to a neighbourhood branded by layers of stigma." "Leslie Robertson's and Dara Culhane's introductions to both the collection and the individual stories provoke an ethnographic context for complex individuals too often hidden in plain sight within contemporary Western society which defines people more by what they have as consumers, than by who they are as people."--BOOK JACKET.

Hope in Shadows

Author : Brad Cran
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458754987
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)

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Download or read book Hope in Shadows written by Brad Cran and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Residents of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside are not bound by poverty or addiction but rather driven by a sense of community, kinship, and above all, hope. For each of the past five years, Pivot Legal Society's annual Hope in Shadows photography contest has empowered residents of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside by providing them with 200 disposable cameras to document their lives - thus giving them an artistic means to enter the ongoing and often stormy dialogue over the place they call home. Since the contest's inception, DTES residents have taken over 20,000 images of their neighbor hood. Working with this archive, Brad Cran and Gillian Jerome have collected the personal stories behind these stunning photographs. Hope in Shadows offers readers an intimate and honest look at what it really means to live in Canada's poorest neighbor hood. The result is not at all bleak, but rather is full of grace, dignity, and plain simple truths that put a human face on the single most misunderstood community in Canada. This, then, is its story: about First Nations people who survived the residential school system; sex workers whose poor treatment at the hands of authorities precipitated the murder of dozens of women; those who cope with addiction and inadequate living conditions; those who overcome loss and search for loved ones; and the transformative power of hope and forgiveness. In surprising and astounding ways, Hope n Shadows will not only change the way you think about the Downtown Eastside and other impoverished neighbor hoods; it will also change your view of society as we know it, and of those who are forced to live in its shadows. A co-publication with Pivot Legal Society, a nonprofit legal advocacy organization located in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Its mandate is to take a strategic approach to social change, using the law to address the root causes that undermine the quality of life of those most on the margins. Pivot believes that everyone, regardless of income, benefits from a healthy and inclusive community where values such as respect and equality are strongly rooted in the law.

Totally Amazing

Author : Teresa Heartchild
Publisher : James Gang, Iconclasts Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781999406141
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Totally Amazing written by Teresa Heartchild and published by James Gang, Iconclasts Incorporated. This book was released on 2023-10-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does a person with Down syndrome assert her right to be herself in an Ableist society? It's not easy. However, artist Teresa Heartchild shows us how she has successfully advocated for herself. From writing to government officials for an apology for her wrongful placement in a long-term care institution, to asserting her rights for more of what she loves in life-like more mayonnaise-Teresa uses her vibrant art and poetry to advocate for the right to be... Totally Amazing!

Heroines

Author : Lincoln Clarkes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781895636451
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (364 download)

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Download or read book Heroines written by Lincoln Clarkes and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Heroines Series is an epic photographic documentary of the addicted women of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. In 1997, fashion and portrait photographer Lincoln Clarkes turned his lens away from the world of glamour and began documenting the dire circumstances being endured by the marginalized women living and working on the streets of Vancouver's most troubled neighbourhood. The Heroines Series consists of over 400 portraits of addicted women in Vancouver's notorious Downtown Eastside, and has garnered national and international media attention. Peace Arch Entertainment produced a one-hour documentary film, 'Heroines: A Photographic Obsession', earlier this year for BRAVO! and Women's Television Network. The film "is a study in pain and intimacy, artistic expression fuelled by passion and moral outrage" and is accompanied by original poems written and narrated by Susan Musgrave. The documentary opened the Leipzig Documentary Film Festival and has been screened at several other festivals since its premiere in June of 2001.Winner of the City of Vancouver Book Award"Beauty in a beastly place" - London Observer (UK)"One of the most timely, necessary and respectful books ever published in British Columbia" - BC Bookworld"Intimate, compelling and undeniably unsettling" - The Globe & Mail"Images [that] unsettled many people in a country that prides itself on its polite order and tightly woven social safety net" - L.A. Times Magazine

Bulletin of the International Council for Traditional Music

Author : International Council for Traditional Music
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Bulletin of the International Council for Traditional Music written by International Council for Traditional Music and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

If I Fall, If I Die

Author : Michael Christie
Publisher : Hogarth
ISBN 13 : 0804140812
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book If I Fall, If I Die written by Michael Christie and published by Hogarth. This book was released on 2015-01-20 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heartfelt and wondrous debut about family, fear, and skateboarding, that Karen Russell calls "A bruiser of a tale . . . a death-defying coming-of-age story." Will has never been outside, at least not since he can remember. And he has certainly never gotten to know anyone other than his mother, a fiercely loving yet wildly eccentric agoraphobe who panics at the thought of opening the front door. Their world is rich and fun- loving—full of art, science experiments, and music—and all confined to their small house. But Will’s thirst for adventure can’t be contained. Clad in a protective helmet and unsure of how to talk to other kids, he finally ventures outside. At his new school he meets Jonah, an artsy loner who introduces Will to the high-flying freedoms of skateboarding. Together, they search for a missing local boy, help a bedraggled vagabond, and evade a dangerous bootlegger. The adventure is more than Will ever expected, pulling him far from the confines of his closed-off world and into the throes of early adulthood, and all the risks that everyday life offers. In buoyant, kinetic prose, Michael Christie has written an emotionally resonant and keenly observed novel about mothers and sons, fears and uncertainties, and the lengths we’ll go for those we love.

Dear Current Occupant

Author : Chelene Knight
Publisher : Book Thug
ISBN 13 : 9781771663908
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (639 download)

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Download or read book Dear Current Occupant written by Chelene Knight and published by Book Thug. This book was released on 2018-03 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary Nonfiction. From Vancouver-based writer Chelene Knight, DEAR CURRENT OCCUPANT is a creative nonfiction memoir about home and belonging set in the 80s and 90s of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Using a variety of forms including letters, essays and poems, Knight reflects on her childhood through a series of letters addressed to all of the current occupants now living in the twenty different houses she moved in and out of with her mother and brother. From blurry and fragmented non-chronological memories of trying to fit in with her own family as the only mixed East Indian/Black child, to crystal clear recollections of parental drug use, Knight draws a vivid portrait of memory that still longs for a place and a home. Peering through windows and doors into intimate, remembered spaces now occupied by strangers, Knight writes to them in order to deconstruct her own past. From the rubble of memory she then builds a real place in order to bring herself back home. "Knight is a poet at heart, somewhat disinclined to follow the dusty rules of prose writing, and we are all richer for it. This memoir is built from shards of pure resilience, expertly pieced together into a compelling--and at times devastating--chronicle of youth, family, and sense of place. From Clark Drive to Commercial and Broadway, DEAR CURRENT OCCUPANT is a love song to East Vancouver--it is a map of scars, and as everyone knows, scars make for good storytelling."--Carleigh Baker "I want to thank Chelene Knight for not forcing her memoir into a point 'a' to 'b' narrative. Too often complex and stigmatized stories are dumbed-down, but Knight elevates! She uplifts both her her experiences and the poetic prose and hybrid forms used to share these experiences. DEAR CURRENT OCCUPANT will surely become a nuanced creative touchstone that shows us how our stories of survival can and should be told."--Amber Dawn "DEAR CURRENT OCCUPANT is an astonishing book: haunting, intimate, and deeply rendered. A lyrical memoir set against the backdrop of Vancouver's gritty East Side, it triumphantly melds together prose, poetry, letters and imagery, to illuminate the pain of un-belonging, the search for a home, and the power of words to heal and transform us. It is a book that boldly takes risks, unafraid and brimming with raw energy, tenderness, and heartbreaking beauty. Chelene Knight emerges as a fierce new voice in Canadian literature, deserving of our full attention."--Ayelet Tsabari

On the Farm

Author : Stevie Cameron
Publisher : Knopf Canada
ISBN 13 : 0676978657
Total Pages : 763 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (769 download)

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Download or read book On the Farm written by Stevie Cameron and published by Knopf Canada. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 763 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Verteran investigative journalist Stevie Cameron first began following the story of missing women in 1998, when the odd newspaper piece appeared chronicling the disappearances of drug-addicted sex trade workers from Vancouver's notorious Downtown Eastside. It was not until February 2002 that pig farmer Robert William Pickton would be arrested, and 2008 before he was found guilty, on six counts of second-degree murder. These counts were appealed and in 2010, the Supreme Court of Canada rendered its conclusion. The guilty verdict was upheld, and finally this unprecedented tale of true crime could be told. Covering the case of one of North America's most prolific serial killers gave Stevie Cameron access not only to the story as it unfolded over many years in two British Columbia courthouses, but also to information unknown to the police - and not in the transcripts of their interviews with Pickton - such as from Pickton's long-time best friend, Lisa Yelds, and from several women who survived terrifying encounters with him. Cameron uncovers what was behind law enforcement's refusal to believe that a serial killer was at work.