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Book Inflamed Invisible

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Toop
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 2019-12-17
  • ISBN : 1912685248
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Inflamed Invisible written by David Toop and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich collection of essays tracing the relationship between art and sound. In the 1970s David Toop became preoccupied with the possibility that music was no longer bounded by formalities of audience: the clapping, the booing, the short attention span, the demand for instant gratification. Considering sound and listening as foundational practices in themselves leads music into a thrilling new territory: stretched time, wilderness, video monitors, singing sculptures, weather, meditations, vibration and the interior resonance of objects, interspecies communications, instructional texts, silent actions, and performance art. Toop sought to document the originality and unfamiliarity of this work from his perspective as a practitioner and writer. The challenge was to do so without being drawn back into the domain of music while still acknowledging the vitality and hybridity of twentieth-century musics as they moved toward art galleries, museums, and site-specificity. Toop focused on practitioners, whose stories are as compelling as the theoretical and abstract implications of their works. Inflamed Invisible collects more than four decades of David Toop's essays, reviews, interviews, and experimental texts, drawing us into the company of artists and their concerns, not forgetting the quieter, unsung voices. The volume is an offering, an exploration of strata of sound that are the crossing points of sensory, intellectual, and philosophical preoccupations, layers through which objects, thoughts and air itself come alive as the inflamed invisible.

Book Transactions of the American Institute of the City of New York

Download or read book Transactions of the American Institute of the City of New York written by American Institute of the City of New York and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1st-32d 1841-1871/72 issued also as Legislative documents.

Book British Journal of Ophthalmology

Download or read book British Journal of Ophthalmology written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cyclopadic Science Simplified

Download or read book Cyclopadic Science Simplified written by John Henry Pepper and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Pharmaceutical Journal

Download or read book The Pharmaceutical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Take This Hammer

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  • Author : Paul Rekret
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 2024-08-27
  • ISBN : 1913380157
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book Take This Hammer written by Paul Rekret and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2024-08-27 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of contemporary music in light of transformations to work and social life. The emergence of the popular music industry in the early twentieth century not only drove a wedge between music production and consumption, it also underscored a wider separation of labor from leisure and of the workplace from the domestic sphere. These were changes characteristic of an industrial society where pleasure was to be sought outside of work, but these categories have grown increasingly porous today. As the working day extends into the home or becomes indistinguishable from leisure time, so the role and meaning of music in everyday life changes too. In arguing that the experience of popular music is partly conditioned by its segregation from work and its restriction to the time and space of leisure—the evening, the weekend, the dancehall—Take This Hammer shows how changes to work as it grows increasingly precarious, part-time, and temporary in recent decades, are related to transformations in popular music. Connecting contemporary changes in work and the economy to tendencies in popular music, Take This Hammer shows how song-form has both reflected developments in contemporary capitalism while also intimating a horizon beyond it. From online streaming and the extension of the working day to gentrification, unemployment and the emergence of trap rap, from ecological crisis and field recording to automation and trends in dance music, by exploring the intersections of work and song in the current era, not only do we gain a new understanding of contemporary musical culture, we also see how music might gesture towards a horizon beyond the alienating experience of work in capitalism itself.

Book The London  Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science

Download or read book The London Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Inflamed

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  • Author : Anne E. Belden
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2023-10-31
  • ISBN : 1642939374
  • Pages : 438 pages

Download or read book Inflamed written by Anne E. Belden and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic story of hundreds of senior citizens left in the path of a ferocious firestorm and what the quest for accountability reveals about the increasing risks to our most vulnerable population. “…a powerful work of investigative journalism about a particularly vulnerable segment of the population…. Alongside an engrossing account of the emergency as it unfolded in Sonoma County, Belden and Gullixson provide a definitive account of management’s woefully inadequate response at the two sister facilities. Their findings are a lesson to other care facilities —here’s what not to do.” —San Francisco Chronicle Just after midnight on October 9, 2017, as one of the nation’s deadliest and most destructive firestorms swept over California’s Wine Country, hundreds of elderly residents from two posh senior living facilities were caught in its path. The frailest were blind, in wheelchairs, or diagnosed with dementia, and their community quickly transformed from a palatial complex that pledged to care for them to one that threatened to entomb them. The rescue of the final 105 seniors left behind on an inflamed hillside depended not on employees, but strangers whose lives intersected in a riveting tale of terror and heroism. Headlines blamed caregivers for abandonment and neglect, but the truth proved far more complex—leading to a battle for accountability that stretched from the courtroom to the state legislature, and ultimately, to the ballot box. Inflamed: Abandonment, Heroism, and Outrage in Wine Country’s Deadliest Firestorm is the gripping and emotional narrative detailing what happened to these seniors, employees, and rescuers before, during, and after the Tubbs Fire decimated portions of Santa Rosa, including Oakmont Senior Living Villa Capri and part of Varenna at Fountaingrove. Anne Belden and Paul Gullixson are professional journalists and Sonoma County residents who spent three years recording each phase of the disaster in agonizing detail—from the botched evacuation and its excruciating aftermath to the investigations, lawsuits, and breakdowns that followed. They tell this harrowing story with a veracity and compassion only achieved by experienced reporters with local roots. Their narrative revisits the horrors of 2017 but also asks the reader to look to the future and consider how their community’s most vulnerable will fare as ten thousand Baby Boomers retire each day, the for-profit assisted living industry rapidly expands, and the climate becomes more volatile. If this travesty can happen at high-end senior living complexes, it can happen anywhere.

Book Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York

Download or read book Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York written by New York (State). Legislature. Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Philosophical Magazine

Download or read book Philosophical Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Teklife  Ghettoville  Eski

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  • Author : Dhanveer Singh Brar
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 2021-04-27
  • ISBN : 1912685795
  • Pages : 184 pages

Download or read book Teklife Ghettoville Eski written by Dhanveer Singh Brar and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How black electronic dance music makes it possible to reorganize life within the contemporary city. Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski argues that Black electronic dance music produces sonic ecologies of Blackness that expose and reorder the contemporary racialization of the urban--ecologies that can never simply be reduced to their geographical and racial context. Dhanveer Singh Brar makes the case for Black electronic dance music as the cutting-edge aesthetic project of the diaspora, which due to the music's class character makes it possible to reorganize life within the contemporary city. Closely analysing the Footwork scene in South and West Chicago, the Grime scene in East London, and the output of the South London producer Actress, Brar pays attention to the way each of these critically acclaimed musical projects experiment with aesthetic form through an experimentation of the social. Through explicitly theoretical means, Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski foregrounds the sonic specificity of 12" records, EPs, albums, radio broadcasts, and recorded performances to make the case that Footwork, Grime, and Actress dissolve racialized spatial constraints that are thought to surround Black social life. Pushing the critical debates concerning the phonic materiality of blackness, undercommons, and aesthetic sociality in new directions, Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski rethinks these concepts through concrete examples of contemporary black electronic dance music production that allows for a theorization of the way Footwork, Grime, and Actress have--through their experiments in blackness--generated genuine alternatives to the functioning of the city under financialized racial capitalism.

Book Annual Report of the American Institute  of the City of New York

Download or read book Annual Report of the American Institute of the City of New York written by American Institute of the City of New York and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The England No One Cares About

Download or read book The England No One Cares About written by George Musgrave and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2024-07-23 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the much-derided English suburbs through rap music. There are many different Englands. From the much-romanticized rolling countryside, to the cosmopolitanism of the inner cities (embraced by some as progressive, multicultural enlightenment and derided by others as the playground of a self-righteous metropolitan elite), or the disparagingly named "left behind" communities which, post-Brexit, have so interested political parties and pundits, demographers and statisticians. But there is also an England no one cares about. The England of semi-detached houses and clean driveways for multiple cars devotedly washed on Sundays, of "twitching curtains" and Laura Ashley sofas; of cul-de-sacs to nowhere and exaggerated accents; of late night drives to petrol stations on A roads, fake IDs tested in Harvesters, and faded tracksuits and over-gelled hair in Toby Carverys; of questionable hash from a "mate of a mate" and two-litre bottles of White Lightning from Budgens consumed in a kids playground. Much derided. Unglamorous, ordinary; cultural vacuity and small "c" conservatism. A hodgepodge. An—apparently—middling, middle-of-the-road middle-England of middle-class middle-mindedness. Part poetry anthology, part academic study into placemaking, and part autoethnography, The England No One Cares About innovatively brings together academic discussions of the ethnographic potential of lyrics, scholastic representations of suburbia, and thematic analysis to explore how rap music can illuminate the experiences of young men growing up in suburbia. This takes place by exploring the author’s own annotated lyrics from his career as a musician known as Context where he was referred to by the BBC as "Middle England’s Poet Laureate."

Book The Pharmaceutical Journal and Transactions

Download or read book The Pharmaceutical Journal and Transactions written by and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Friends  Intelligencer

Download or read book Friends Intelligencer written by and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Transactions of the Pharmaceutical Meetings

Download or read book Transactions of the Pharmaceutical Meetings written by and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: