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Book SynopsisFrom the former faith adviser to President Obama comes an inspirational guide for those who seek to promote positive social change and build a more diverse and just democracyThe goal of social change work is not a more ferocious revolution; it is a more beautiful social order. It is harder to organize a fair trial than it is to fire up a crowd, more challenging to build a good school than it is to tell others they are doing education all wrong. But every decent society requires fair trials and good schools, and that’s just the beginning of the list of institutions and structures that need to be efficiently created and effectively run in large-scale diverse democracy.  We Need to Build is a call to create those institutions and a guide for how to run them well.   In his youth, Eboo Patel was inspired by love-based activists like John Lewis, Martin Luther King Jr., Badshah Khan, Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Ter

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Book SynopsisThis text traces popular music back to its roots in jazz, blues, and country through the rise of rock 'n' roll and the emergence of heavy metal, punk, and rap. The author argues that despite the balance of these origins, something has gone seriously wrong with the sound and sensibility of music.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Pt. 1: The Weird Music of the New World 1: Introduction 2: Why Music Is the Wild Card 3: The Three Strains of Modernism 4: The Obstacle of Race 5: The Taint of Commerce 6: Cubists and Squares: Jazz as Modernism Pt. 2: From Rock 'n' Roll to Rock 7: The Strange Career of 1950s Rock 'n' Roll 8: Rock 'n' Rollers or Holy Rollers? 9: Reaction and Revitalization 10: Another Country Heard From 11: Blues, Blacks, and Brits Pt. 3: Inspiration and Polarization 12: Words and Music: The Rise of the Counterculture 13: Art and Religion, 1960s Style 14: Hard Rock Becomes a Hard Place 15: Soul Loses Its Soul Pt. 4: The Triumph of Perversity 16: Their Art Belongs to Dada 17: Punk: The Great Avant-Garde Swindle 18: High on High Tech 19: Rap: Trying to Make it Real (Compared to What?) 20: You Don't Miss Your Water (Till Your Well Runs Dry) 21: Coda: Escape from Postmodernism Notes Index

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Book SynopsisOffers the first history of African American AIDS activism in all of its depth and breadth. Dan Royles introduces a diverse constellation of activists who pursued a wide array of grassroots approaches to slow the epidemic's spread and address its impacts.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Focusing on indigenous creativity, Dimock develops a methodology rooted simultaneously in elemental loss and indomitable salvage. Weak Planet: Literature and Assisted Survival traces a crisis-responsive art form, moving purposefully through multiple literary genres, critical theories, cultural geographies, and temporalities in order to tease out suppressed familiarities and cautious optimism for the Anthropocene’s as-yet-unwritten futures." -- Melanie Benson Taylor * PMLA *“Although Weak Planet proceeds from the standpoint that ‘susceptibility to harm’ is a ‘baseline condition,’ it is ultimately a hopeful book, demonstrating that each of these texts offers a ‘green print’ for ‘preserving what remains,’ reinvigorating the pastoral as a mode to move beyond elegy to propose a way forward, keeping extinction a live prospect and a deferred end, always before us but not so close as to silence the future.” -- Matthew J C Cella * Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment *"A scholar who maneuvers across the fields of science, technology, sexuality, medicine, and literature, [Dimock] dazes as well as dazzles us with leapfrogging arguments about our collective future." -- John Whittier Treat * Modern Language Quarterly *“‘Weak theory’ is an influential and relatively new kind of thought; it values tentative and inconclusive explanations. Dimock’s brilliant and deeply learned book uses the weak-theory approach in a bifurcated manner, developing approaches that on the one hand explore the ecological crisis and on the other show literary bridges between humans and between humans and the natural world. Her task is to bring two approaches together: modest climate change hope and modest hope in daily living. . . . Dimock's book is an unusual and valuable defense of the humanities.” * Choice *“Weak Planet displays Dimock’s erudition and ambition, as well as her subtlety and insight. Exploring weakness and vulnerability from the origins of American literature to the present, she provocatively argues for ‘collateral resilience.’ A method of hope and survival, collateral resilience may be exactly what we need now.” * Viet Thanh Nguyen, University of Southern California *"Two classes of people have emerged in the present moment: those who have been thinking and planning for pandemic, and those who have not. Dimock clearly belongs to the former. Weak Planet invites us to reflect on the deep interconnections between two threatened extinctions: that of the humanities and that of a host of animal species (not least our own). The book is nothing short of a radical reorientation of literary history, away from the historicist stress on past damage and toward the forms of resilience and durability that will be required of the field in the future." * Stephen Best, University of California, Berkeley *“Weak Planet is a powerful, hugely insightful book that engages with a range of disciplines across the humanities and social sciences and is especially relevant in the era of COVID-19. Dimock astutely analyzes an admirable diversity of narratives that speak to arcs of vulnerability and provide guidance on finding the strength, or at least the resilience, to stay in the fray against all odds. Weak Planet speaks about collateral resilience, the other side of the spectrum from collateral damage. This book is essential reading at a time when we collectively are being forced more than ever before to reshape priorities and societies.” * Karen Thornber, Harvard University *"Weak Planet expands on Dimock's previous work on 'weak theory' by offering an inspiring and subtle reading of a variety of literature, historical and contemporary, drawn from across the world. All in search of a spirit of resilience and non-despair in the face of our planetary vulnerability. A mesmerizing and virtuoso performance that speaks to our times." * Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago *Table of ContentsList of Figures Introduction EndangeredIRevamped Genres 1 Still Hungry Louise Erdrich and Sherman Alexie Edit Mary Rowlandson 2 Almost Extinct Elegy, Pastoral, and Sounds in and out of Thoreau 3 Less Than Tragic C. L. R. James, Frank Stella, and Amitav Ghosh Dilute MelvilleII Rebuilt Networks 4 Contagiously Irish Colm Tóibín, W. B. Yeats, and Gish Jen Infect Henry James 5 Vaguely Islamic Henri Matisse, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, and Langston Hughes, with Paul Bowles 6 Remotely Japanese William Faulkner Indigenous and Trans-Pacific Afterword Not Paralyzed  Acknowledgments  Notes  Index 

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Book SynopsisThe inspiring people and grassroots organizations that are on the front lines of the battle to save the planet As the world's scientists have come together and declared a "climate emergency," the fight to protect our planet's ecological resources and the people that depend on them is more urgent than ever. But the real battles for our future are taking place far from the headlines and international conferences, in mostly forgotten American communities where the brutal realities of industrial pollution and environmental degradation have long been playing out. The World We Need provides a vivid introduction to America's largely unsung grassroots environmental groups—often led by activists of color and the poor—valiantly fighting back in America's so-called sacrifice zones against industries poisoning our skies and waterways and heating our planet. Through original reporting, profiles, artwork, and interviews, we learn how these activist groups, almost always working on shoestring budgets, are devising creative new tactics; building sustainable projects to transform local economies; and organizing people long overlooked by the environmental movement—changing its face along the way. Capturing the riveting stories and hard-won strategies from a broad cross section of pivotal environmental actions—from Standing Rock to Puerto Rico—The World We Need offers a powerful new model for the larger environmental movement, and inspiration for concerned citizens everywhere.Trade ReviewPraise for The World We Need:"[An] illuminating anthology. . . . Lim crisscrosses the country and selects her profile subjects wisely, resulting in an invigorating survey that breaks down stereotypes about tree-hugging coastal elites and highlights just how much change can be achieved at the local level. Progressive policy makers and environmental activists should take note.”—Publishers Weekly “A gripping new anthology. . . . [The World We Need] expertly shows how and why environmental science and social justice activism must work together.”—Forbes “This book is a testament to the idea that choosing people over profits is environmental justice.”—Catherine Coleman Flowers, author of Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret and a 2020 MacArthur “genius” fellow “This is a truly important book, piecing together the story of what is, cumulatively, a massive uprising for environmental justice. I’ve gotten to know and work with many of these activists, and everyone should get a charge of optimism from their stories, as well as a sense of the daunting odds they face down so skillfully. We use the word ‘heroes’ a little loosely sometimes, but these people surely are!”—Bill McKibben, author of Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?

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Book SynopsisThe field of weak arithmetics is an application of logical methods to number theory that was developed by mathematicians, philosophers, and theoretical computer scientists. New Studies in Weak Arithmetics is dedicated to late Australian mathematician Alan Robert Woods (1953-2011), whose seminal thesis is published here for the first time. This volume also contains the unpublished but significant thesis of Hamid Lesan (1951-2006) as well as other original papers on topics addressed in Woods' thesis and life's work that were first presented at the 31st Journees sur les Arithmetiques Faibles meeting held in Samos, Greece, in 2012.

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Book SynopsisThis year marks the golden anniversary of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, the flagship band of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. Formed in 1966 and flourishing until 2010, the Art Ensemble distinguished itself by its unique performance practices members played hundreds of instruments on stage, recited poetry, performed theatrical sketches, and wore face paint, masks, lab coats, and traditional African and Asian dress. The group, which built a global audience and toured across six continents, presented their work as experimental performance art, in opposition to the jazz industry's traditionalist aesthetics. In Message to Our Folks, Paul Steinbeck combines musical analysis and historical inquiry to give us the definitive study of the Art Ensemble. In the book, he proposes a new theory of group improvisation that explains how the band members were able to improvise together in so many different styles while also drawing on an extensive repertoire of notated composit

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Book SynopsisIn "Ecce Homo" (1888), Nietzsche quoted that before him `... there simply was no psychology'. This study focuses on this pronouncement, examining the contours of Nietzsche's psychology in the context of his life, work and psychological make-up.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Focusing on indigenous creativity, Dimock develops a methodology rooted simultaneously in elemental loss and indomitable salvage. Weak Planet: Literature and Assisted Survival traces a crisis-responsive art form, moving purposefully through multiple literary genres, critical theories, cultural geographies, and temporalities in order to tease out suppressed familiarities and cautious optimism for the Anthropocene’s as-yet-unwritten futures." -- Melanie Benson Taylor * PMLA *“Although Weak Planet proceeds from the standpoint that ‘susceptibility to harm’ is a ‘baseline condition,’ it is ultimately a hopeful book, demonstrating that each of these texts offers a ‘green print’ for ‘preserving what remains,’ reinvigorating the pastoral as a mode to move beyond elegy to propose a way forward, keeping extinction a live prospect and a deferred end, always before us but not so close as to silence the future.” -- Matthew J C Cella * Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment *"A scholar who maneuvers across the fields of science, technology, sexuality, medicine, and literature, [Dimock] dazes as well as dazzles us with leapfrogging arguments about our collective future." -- John Whittier Treat * Modern Language Quarterly *“‘Weak theory’ is an influential and relatively new kind of thought; it values tentative and inconclusive explanations. Dimock’s brilliant and deeply learned book uses the weak-theory approach in a bifurcated manner, developing approaches that on the one hand explore the ecological crisis and on the other show literary bridges between humans and between humans and the natural world. Her task is to bring two approaches together: modest climate change hope and modest hope in daily living. . . . Dimock's book is an unusual and valuable defense of the humanities.” * Choice *“Weak Planet displays Dimock’s erudition and ambition, as well as her subtlety and insight. Exploring weakness and vulnerability from the origins of American literature to the present, she provocatively argues for ‘collateral resilience.’ A method of hope and survival, collateral resilience may be exactly what we need now.” * Viet Thanh Nguyen, University of Southern California *"Two classes of people have emerged in the present moment: those who have been thinking and planning for pandemic, and those who have not. Dimock clearly belongs to the former. Weak Planet invites us to reflect on the deep interconnections between two threatened extinctions: that of the humanities and that of a host of animal species (not least our own). The book is nothing short of a radical reorientation of literary history, away from the historicist stress on past damage and toward the forms of resilience and durability that will be required of the field in the future." * Stephen Best, University of California, Berkeley *“Weak Planet is a powerful, hugely insightful book that engages with a range of disciplines across the humanities and social sciences and is especially relevant in the era of COVID-19. Dimock astutely analyzes an admirable diversity of narratives that speak to arcs of vulnerability and provide guidance on finding the strength, or at least the resilience, to stay in the fray against all odds. Weak Planet speaks about collateral resilience, the other side of the spectrum from collateral damage. This book is essential reading at a time when we collectively are being forced more than ever before to reshape priorities and societies.” * Karen Thornber, Harvard University *"Weak Planet expands on Dimock's previous work on 'weak theory' by offering an inspiring and subtle reading of a variety of literature, historical and contemporary, drawn from across the world. All in search of a spirit of resilience and non-despair in the face of our planetary vulnerability. A mesmerizing and virtuoso performance that speaks to our times." * Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago *Table of ContentsList of Figures Introduction EndangeredIRevamped Genres 1 Still Hungry Louise Erdrich and Sherman Alexie Edit Mary Rowlandson 2 Almost Extinct Elegy, Pastoral, and Sounds in and out of Thoreau 3 Less Than Tragic C. L. R. James, Frank Stella, and Amitav Ghosh Dilute MelvilleII Rebuilt Networks 4 Contagiously Irish Colm Tóibín, W. B. Yeats, and Gish Jen Infect Henry James 5 Vaguely Islamic Henri Matisse, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, and Langston Hughes, with Paul Bowles 6 Remotely Japanese William Faulkner Indigenous and Trans-Pacific Afterword Not Paralyzed  Acknowledgments  Notes  Index 

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Book SynopsisAudio production is an incredibly rewarding craft. To take the raw, basic tracks of a fledgling idea and shape them into one glorious stereophonic sound wave is an amazing feat. The transformation from analogue to digital dominance has brought many advances in sound quality and new techniques, but producing digital music with only a standard computer and DAW can be problematic, time-consuming and sometimes disappointing without the right approach and skills. In Template Mixing and Mastering, renowned mix engineer Billy Decker tackles the challenges of in-the-box production through his innovative template approach. He shares his passion and knowledge from over twenty years of industry experience, including an introduction to templates and a step-by-step guide to their set-up and a discussion of drum replacement technology. Channel and setting information for each of the drum, instrument and vocal sections of his template is discussed along with the master channel and his methodology of mixing and mastering. Finally, he gives professional advice and best practice. This book features the full template used on sixteen No 1 records!Trade ReviewThis book is a gift of gratitude to anyone that wants to take a step into out-of-this-world sounding songs. -- Rodney Atkins, multi-million selling recording artistThis book is accessible and engaging, with plenty of pithy one-liners that make serious and thought-provoking points. Essential reading for anyone interested in improving their mixing skills, and streamlining their working methods. -- Paul Tingen * Sound on Sound *Some absolute gems of advice to pick up here. The brilliant and clear way everything is presented and the actual (hallelujah!) settings for your template laid out for you, make this essential for any mix engineer, or anyone striving to be one. * Computer Music Review *The book is also an excellent reference for identifying frequencies a pro mixer will often cut or boost on certain instruments; I always nodded my head at Billy’s choices. Throughout the book there are a lot of thoughts and practices that will help a mix engineer keep their focus, searching for “feel” as opposed to “perfection.” There really is a lot of information packed into these 126 pages. -- Larry Crane reviewer Tape Op * Tape Op *

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Book SynopsisDiscover your next read with this carefully curated list from We Need Diverse Books.Check out 100 must-read books to try before you''re 12! Packed with reviews, recommendations, and exclusive author interviews, The Reading Adventure: 100 Books To Check Out Before You''re 12 will inspire young readers to discover a diverse range of books beyond the curriculum.From mystery to autobiography, the book is organised by genre, so you can jump to the section that interests you the most. Each entry has a key theme box so you can immediately see if the book is something you''ll enjoy. Helpful signposts lead readers to another book the author thinks they''ll enjoy. Hidden gems, award-winners, classics, and current bestsellers are brought to life by vibrant illustrations. There''s truly something for everyone!Vibrant and educational, you can explore:- 15 exclusive author interviews, including Jason Reynolds, Meg Medina and Linda Sue Park- Organi

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Book SynopsisArgues that contemporary language-oriented writing implies a marked change in the way we think about our poetic tradition on one hand and in the future of criticism on the other. This book focuses on Walter Benjamin and Gertrude Stein as important intellectual resources because both see the history of poetry as a crisis of the present.Trade ReviewA very fine collection.... McGann's writing will help to re-situate the reading of contemporary experimental writing within a broader context that includes the writing and thinking of poets such as Blake, Byron, and Shelley. - Hank Lazer, author of What Is a Poet? and Days

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Book SynopsisExamines how school curriculum-based representations of Dominican identity navigate black racial identity, its relatedness to Haiti, and the culturally entrenched pejorative image of the Haitian Other in Dominican society.Trade ReviewExamining the concept of race within the Dominican national rhetoric through the analysis of textbooks, Wigginton and Middleton offer an appropriate and rational interpretation of Dominican textbooks in public schools that is easy to follow and provides clear examples of racialist inculcation."" - Dawn F. Stinchcomb, author of The Development of Literary Blackness in the Dominican Republic""Through their examination of textbooks, Wigginton and Middleton reveal a shift taking place in the Dominican Republic surrounding ideas of blackness. They provide a rich example and show how blackness continues to be reconsidered in the Dominican Republic, reconstructing a sense of being Afro-Dominican."" - Kimberly Eison Simmons, author of Reconstructing Racial Identity and the African Past in the Dominican Republic

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Book SynopsisLook Where We’re Going is a book of revelation and revolution. Written by someone who has been at the centre of British government and international affairs for half a century, it looks afresh at the ideas, hopes, lessons and largely unintended consequences of successive generations of political leaders; it shows us how to Look Where We’re Going. Based on deep personal experience – the author is one of the few left who served in Margaret Thatcher’s first Cabinet of just over forty years ago – Howell gives us a new picture of the dramas deep inside government and how yesterday’s clashes of ideology and personality have led to today’s unanticipated turmoil. Old assumptions are torn apart and accepted versions of what occurred are unravelled. Howell shows how technology has made much of our conventional political vocabulary obsolete, how we now need quite different types of leadership serving new priorities and how, while we wrestle with the issues just before our eyes, much bigger forces are at work which are re-shaping our lives and our future.

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Book SynopsisMillions of people have learned to draw using the methods of Dr. Betty Edwards''s bestseller The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. Now much as artists progress from drawing to painting Edwards moves from black-and-white into colour. Using techniques tested and honed in her five-day intensive colour workshops Edwards provides a basic understanding of how to see colour how to use it and - for those involved in art painting or design - how to mix and combine hues. Including more than 125 colour images and exercises that move from simple to challenging this volume explains how to:see what is really there rather than what you know in your mind about coloured objects perceive how light affects colour and how colours affect one another manipulate hue value and intensity of colour and transform colours into their opposites balance colour in still-life landscape figure and portrait painting understand the psychology of colour harmonize colour in your surroundings While we recognize and treasure the beautiful use of colour reproducing what we see can be a challenge. Accessibly un-weaving colour''s complexity this must-have primer is destined to be an instant classic.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Tilley has written one of the most important monographs in the field of music in general, and ethnomusicology in particular, that I have encountered in the last fifty years. In my mind there is no question that in the future, scholars, students, and readers interested in music, music performance, and musical behavior in cultural context will ensure they are grounded in a study of her work and how she has framed it here." * Notes *“Both a closely argued and densely textured work on Balinese musical practices and an inter-/multi-musical exploration of collective improvisation as a process, Making It Up Together is a demonstration of and argument for music theory and analysis as a method for ethnomusicological and comparative research.” -- Gabriel Solis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, author of "Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall" and "Monk’s Music: Thelonious Monk and Jazz History in the Making"“In this innovative book, Tilley employs two Balinese gamelan-based case studies as the basis of a broadly cross-cultural examination of collective musical improvisation. This is highly original work that importantly expands the scope of research on gamelan, cross-cultural improvisation, ethnomusicology, and analytical approaches to world music. A game-changer!” -- Michael B. Bakan, Florida State University, author of "Speaking for Ourselves: Conversations on Life, Music, and Autism" and "Music of Death and New Creation: Experiences in the World of Balinese Gamelan Beleganjur"Table of ContentsNotes on Pronunciation Prelude 1 The Complicated Story of Improvisation: Models and Methods, Creativity and Conceptual Space 2 Finding an Unspoken Model: The Boundaries of Reyong Norot 3 Analyzing Improvisations on a Known Model: The Freedom of Reyong Norot 4 Analyzing Collectivity: Models and Interactions in Practice 5 Unraveling Unconscious Models: The Boundaries of Kendang Arja 6 Beyond Generalizations: The Freedom of Kendang Arja Postlude Acknowledgments Glossary of Frequently Used Terms Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisWe need to talk about racism before it destroys our democracy. And that conversation needs to start with an acknowledgement that racism is coded into even the most ordinary interactions. Every time we interact with another human being, we unconsciously draw on a set of expectations to guide us through the encounter. What many of us in the United Statesespecially white peopledo not recognize is that centuries of institutional racism have inescapably molded those expectations. This leads us to act with implicit biases that can shape everything from how we greet our neighbors to whether we take a second look at a resume. This is tacit racism, and it is one of the most pernicious threats to our nation. In Tacit Racism, Anne Warfield Rawls and Waverly Duck illustrate the many ways in which racism is coded into the everyday social expectations of Americans, in what they call Interaction Orders of Race. They argue that these interactions can produce racial inequality, whether the peopleTrade Review“While many Americans continue to celebrate the collapse of the old Jim Crow order as a relic of the past, Tacit Racism reminds us of the myriad ways that racism continues to influence everyday life in US society and represents what the authors describe as a ‘clear and present danger’ to American democracy today.” -- Joe William Trotter, Jr., author of Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America“Tacit Racism is a very, very important book. It will inform, challenge, disturb, and inspire. Anne Rawls and Waverly Duck bring to the project similar aptitudes for original research and theory joined by constructive differences—the one, Rawls, is a leading expert in applied ethnomethodology; the other, Duck, is a leader in the tradition of new ethnography. She is a bit more the philosopher; he the social theorist. Tacit Racism plows the terrain from Du Bois to Garfinkel and Goffman and sows it with the seeds of rich interview data and compelling field work.” -- Charles Lemert, author of Dark Thoughts: Race and the Eclipse of Society"Tacit Racism ends with a strong and urgent call for the activation of what authors Rawls and Duck refer to as a 'White double consciousness.' The authors contend that learning about the reality of a racialized interaction order could compel White Americans to develop an awareness, or a White double consciousness, of how White Americans are so deeply invested in creating inequitable social environments for Blacks and other communities of color. Overall, Tacit Racism is an interesting and thought-provoking read. As a text to introduce students to the array of interactional dynamics of white supremacy, and the ways that Whites from various backgrounds are complicit in these practices, it is a success." * Symbolic Interaction *"Tacit Racism deepens our understanding of White supremacy by documenting its 'torrential' qualities, its pervasiveness and capacity for self-perpetuation in everyday life....The research [goes] far deeper than [commonplace understandings] of 'systemic racism.'" * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Racism Is a Clear and Present Danger Chapter 1. “White People Are Nosey” and “Black People Are Rude”: Black and White Greetings and Introductory Talk Chapter 2.  “Fractured Reflections” of High-Status Black Men’s Presentations of Self: Non-Recognition of Identity as a Tacit Form of Institutional Racism Chapter 3. Clashing Conceptions of Honesty: Black American “Honesty” in the White Workplace Chapter 4.  “A Man Is One Who Is Responsible for Others”: Achieving Black Masculinity in the Face of Institutionalized Stigma and Racism Chapter 5. The White Self-Interested “Strong Man” Ideal vs. the Black Ideal of “Submissive Civility”: In a Black/White Police Encounter with Jason Turowetz Chapter 6. “Do You Eat Cats and Dogs?”: Student Observations of Racism in Their Everyday Lives Chapter 7. The Interaction Order of a Poor Black American Space: Creating Respect, Recognition, and Value in Response to Collective Punishment Conclusion Digging out the Lies by Making the Ordinary Strange Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe field of weak arithmetics is an application of logical methods to number theory that was developed by mathematicians, philosophers, and theoretical computer scientists. In this volume, after a general presentation of weak arithmetics, the following topics are studied: the properties of integers of a real closed field equipped with exponentiation; conservation results for the induction schema restricted to first-order formulas with a finite number of alternations of quantifiers; a survey on a class of tools called pebble games; the fact that the reals e and pi have approximations expressed by first-order formulas using bounded quantifiers; properties of infinite pictures depending on the universe of sets used; a language that simulates in a sufficiently nice manner all algorithms of a certain restricted class; the logical complexity of the axiom of infinity in some variants of set theory without the axiom of foundation; and the complexity to determine whether a trace is included in another one.

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Book SynopsisAs Democrats and Republicans continue to vie for political advantage, Congress remains paralyzed by partisan conflict. That the last two decades have seen some of the least productive Congresses in recent history is usually explained by the growing ideological gulf between the parties, but this explanation misses another fundamental factor influencing the dynamic. In contrast to politics through most of the twentieth century, the contemporary Democratic and Republican parties compete for control of Congress at relative parity, and this has dramatically changed the parties' incentives and strategies in ways that have driven the contentious partisanship characteristic of contemporary American politics. With Insecure Majorities, Frances E. Lee offers a controversial new perspective on the rise of congressional party conflict, showing how the shift in competitive circumstances has had a profound impact on how Democrats and Republicans interact. For nearly half a century, Democrats were the majority party, usually maintaining control of the presidency, the House, and the Senate. Republicans did not stand much chance of winning majority status, and Democrats could not conceive of losing it. Under such uncompetitive conditions, scant collective action was exerted by either party toward building or preserving a majority. Beginning in the 1980s, that changed, and most elections since have offered the prospect of a change of party control. Lee shows, through an impressive range of interviews and analysis, how competition for control of the government drives members of both parties to participate in actions that promote their own party's image and undercut that of the opposition, including the perpetual hunt for issues that can score political points by putting the opposing party on the wrong side of public opinion. More often than not, this strategy stands in the way of productive bipartisan cooperation and it is also unlikely to change as long as control of the government remains within reach for both parties.

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Book SynopsisAs Democrats and Republicans continue to vie for political advantage, Congress rema ins paralyzed by partisan conflict. That the last two decades have seen some of the least productive Congresses in recent history is usually explained by the growing ideological gulf between the parties, but this explanation misses another fundamental factor influencing the dynamic. In contrast to politics through most of the twentieth century, the contemporary Democratic and Republican parties compete for control of Congress at relative parity, and this has dramatically changed the parties' incentives and strategies in ways that have driven the contentious partisanship characteristic of contemporary American politics. With Insecure Majorities, Frances E. Lee offers a controversial new perspective on the rise of congressional party conflict, showing how the shift in competitive circumstances has had a profound impact on how Democrats and Republicans interact. For nearly half a century, Democrats were the majority party, usually maintaining control of the presidency, the House, and the Senate. Republicans did not stand much chance of winning majority status, and Democrats could not conceive of losing it. Under such uncompetitive conditions, scant collective action was exerted by either party toward building or preserving a majority. Beginning in the 1980s, that changed, and most elections since have offered the prospect of a change of party control. Lee shows, through an impressive range of interviews and analysis, how competition for control of the government drives members of both parties to participate in actions that promote their own party's image and undercut that of the opposition, including the perpetual hunt for issues that can score political points by putting the opposing party on the wrong side of public opinion. More often than not, this strategy stands in the way of productive bipartisan cooperation and it is also unlikely to change as long as control of the government remains within reach for both parties.

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Book SynopsisDiscover the vital relationship that will take your company from "What's next?" to "We have liftoff!" Visionaries have groundbreaking ideas. Integrators make those ideas a reality. This explosive combination is the key to getting everything you want out of your business. It worked for Disney. It worked for McDonald's. It worked for Ford. It can work for you. From the author of the bestselling Traction, Rocket Fuel details the integral roles of the Visionary and Integrator and explains how an effective relationship between the two can help your business thrive. Offering advice to help Visionary-minded and Integrator-minded individuals find one another, Rocket Fuel also features assessments so you're able to determine whether you're a Visionary or an Integrator. Without an Integrator, a Visionary is far less likely to succeed long-term ,and realize the company's ultimate goals--likewise, with no Visionary, an Integrator can't rise to his or her full potential. When these two people come together to share their natural talents and innate skill sets, it's like rocket fuel--they have the power to reach new heights for virtually any company or organization.Trade Review"Rocket Fuel is a powerful model for freeing up entrepreneurial visionaries to do what they do best. Gino and Mark provide a practical gameplan for building an organization that perfectly combines vision and integration." --Dan Sullivan, President and Founder of Strategic Coach(R) "In this brilliant book, Gino Wickman and Mark C. Winters explain the vital importance of having both a visionary and an integrator--and show how that relationship can provide the 'rocket fuel' your company needs to achieve its full potential." --Bo Burlingham, Editor-at-Large of Inc. magazine and author of Small Giants and Finish Big: How Great Entrepreneurs Exit Their Companies on Top

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Book SynopsisAfrican American voters are a key demographic to the modern Democratic base, and conventional wisdom has it that there is political cost to racialized dog whistles, especially for Democratic candidates. However, politicians from both parties and from all racial backgrounds continually appeal to negative racial attitudes for political gain. Challenging what we think we know about race and politics, LaFleur Stephens-Dougan argues that candidates across the racial and political spectrum engage in racial distancing, or using negative racial appeals to communicate to racially moderate and conservative whites--the overwhelming majority of whites--that they will not disrupt the racial status quo. Race to the Bottom closely examines empirical data on racialized partisan stereotypes to show that engaging in racial distancing through political platforms that do not address the needs of nonwhite communities and charged rhetoric that targets African Americans, immigrants, and others can be poliTrade Review"Stephens-Dougan lays out a novel theoretical framework for understanding how candidates and politicians might strategically use racial messaging to gain the support of white voters. Departing from earlier research on racial priming, which examined the use of racial messaging primarily by white Republican candidates, Stephens-Dougan argues that the electoral incentives that exist for candidates to engage in racially inflammatory messaging are so great that even candidates of color running in these districts often find racially derogatory campaign appeals effectively. This book makes an important contribution to the study of American political behavior and race and ethnic politics." -- Ismail K. White, Duke UniversityTable of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The Theory of Racial Distancing Chapter 3: Obama as Racial Signaler Chapter 4: Racial Distancing on the Campaign Trail and in the Lab Chapter 5: Race, Partisanship, and Rhetoric Chapter 6: Racial Distancing and Racial Imagery Chapter 7: Conclusion Appendix Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Deftly blending insights drawn from anthropology, history, science, animal husbandry, and current politics, Sarah Franklin has written an imaginative and illuminating account of the iconic Dolly and her many meanings.”—Harriet Ritvo, author of The Platypus and the Mermaid: And Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination“Sarah Franklin’s timely, highly original book tracks sheep and sheep-human associations through their many pathways in deep and recent pasts and near futures; in economies and markets, in research institutes and pharmaceutical houses, in British national and colonial ventures; in the transcontinental traffic between agricultural sciences and human medicine, especially reproductive medicine; in kin-making within and between species; in the transit of famous animals from laboratory subjects to popular cultural icons; and in the trajectories from sheep breeding to human embryonic stem cell research.”—Donna Haraway, author of Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium.FemaleMan©_Meets_OncoMouse™: Feminism and Technoscience“[D]olly Mixtures lays an important foundation for engagement with Dolly—and other lab made/modified organism—as well as with more general contemporary practices of biomedicine, agriculture and capital accumulation (and their intersections). More than this, it is a wonderfully informative and enjoyable read - for sheep lovers and the non-ovine-informed alike.” -- Thom van Dooren * Australian Humanities Review *“[T]his book is classic Franklin, a wolf in sheep’s clothing; it sneaks up on you and one emerges with a rich understanding of the sheep worlds she portrays. Franklin’s book does not make her readers better investors or better able to preempt the next sheep epidemic or draw the line on cloning acceptability. Instead it succeeds wonderfully at the very different task of making us better and more interesting thinkers about Dolly and her genealogies, from the hetero-chronicity unleashed by the enucleated family of cloning to the continued significance of life-stock in and as nation and capital.” -- Charis Thompson * British Journal of Sociology *“A challenging yet pleasurable read, [Dolly Mixtures] is well paced, impeccably organized, and infused with an array of intriguing illustrations, refreshing subtlety and a sense of humour. . . .” -- Joyce M. Youmans * Interventions *“Franklin shows the importance of sheep farming for the early settler economy and the consequent displacement of indigenous people and their subsistence economy by ‘waves of white sheep and settlers’.… [S]ociologists, cultural anthropologists, philosophers and historians as well as bio-scientists.…will find it a rich, detailed, and thought-provoking genealogical reading of Dolly, which successfully locates her significance within wider historical trajectories.” -- Hannah Farrimond * Metascience *“In her stimulating quest to spin a ‘thickened’ genealogy for Dolly the Sheep, a series of reflections on the meanings of Dolly’s birth, fertility, and mortality that might offer new ways to think about the significance of breeding present, past, and future, Franklin twists together ruminations on a spectrum of sheep-related topics far-flung in space and time. . . ” -- Francesca Bray * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *“With Dolly Mixtures, an ethnographic monograph instantiating the ‘animal turn’ in social studies of health science, Franklin makes a watershed contribution. . . . Franklin’s approachable language makes this text suitable for upper-level undergraduate and graduate-level analysis. She provides much ‘fodder’ for thought, opening avenues for empirically grounded and theoretically astute discourses to help make sense of contemporary human-animal relations.” -- Gwendolyn Blue and Melanie Rock * Health *[D]ifficult and theoretically complex . . . but with such ease of writing and presentation that [Franklin] skillfully threads deep analysis with personal narrative, punctuated by photographs and jokes. I do not know how many writers could carry this book off, but Franklin successfully reinterprets biology, genetics, and technology through the stories she spins around Dolly. Until I read Dolly Mixtures, I would not have believed that innovative feminist theory on technology could be found in a book that covers the history of British capital, empire, nation, genetics, popular culture, and reproduction with a sheep unashamedly at its center. . . . Read it. You will never approach feminist theory (or sheep) in the same way again.” -- Wendy Harcourt * Signs *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Origins 1 1. Sex 19 2. Capital 46 3. Nation 73 4. Colony 118 5. Death 158 Breeds 195 Notes 209 Bibliography 231 Index 245

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Book SynopsisAnalogue recordings sound better, don''t they? But it was never all about tape recorders, valves or vinyl. It is a way of working and a way of thinking. Digital recording encourages you to click on a plugin to solve a problem or look for a new idea; with analogue, you make decisions and find creative solutions using your own imagination and inventiveness. Recording needn''t be complicated, even if everything that surrounds it seems to make it so. There are many misconceptions. You definitely do not have to use twelve mics on the drums, EQ and compress every track, or wade through sixty-four alternate takes and repairs when you mix really! The Analogue Approach to Digital Recording and Mixing is a complete, comprehensive guide to the entire process of recording, from setting up your studio to mastering a final mix. It explains how traditional analogue techniques and methods can be adapted to any digital recording system, without the need for any new equipment or software.

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Book SynopsisReorienting the history of US expansion around Native American and African American histories, Samantha Seeley provides a much-needed reconsideration of early nation building.

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Book SynopsisA National Bestseller “If we first recognize that we are in a war, and then learn the lessons and follow the lead of those who have shown they know how to prevail, we can definitely win the Civil War, secure a multiracial democracy, and end white supremacy for good.” —from the introduction The bestselling author and national political commentator pulls no punches on what America needs to do to strengthen its multiracial democracySteve Phillips’s first book, Brown Is the New White, helped shift the national conversation around race and electoral politics, earning a spot on the New York Times and Washington Post bestseller lists and launching Phillips into the upper ranks of trusted observers of the nation’s changing demographics and their implications for our political future. Now, in How We Win the Civil War, Phillips charts the way forward for progressives and people of color after four years of Trump, arguing that Democrats must recognize the nature of the fight we’re in, which is a contest between democracy and white supremacy left unresolved after the Civil War. We will not overcome, Phillips writes, until we govern as though we are under attack—until we finally recognize that the time has come to finish the conquest of the Confederacy and all that it represents. With his trademark blend of political analysis and historical argument, Phillips lays out razor-sharp prescriptions for 2022 and beyond, from increasing voter participation and demolishing racist immigration policies to reviving the Great Society programs of the 1960s—all of them geared toward strengthening a new multiracial democracy and ridding our politics of white supremacy, once and for all.Trade ReviewPraise for How We Win the Civil War:“Politically charged, thoughtfully reasoned.”—Kirkus Reviews“Spirited and persuasive, this is a rousing call for change.”—Publishers Weekly"How We Win the Civil War is well positioned to shape election outcomes, policy outcomes, and debates about the future of multiracial democracy.”—ACS Expert Forum“Steve Phillips reminds us that the Civil War was a war for democracy, and that the struggle against racism in American society and politics has always been a struggle for democracy. He shows, further, that in our own time, we can save democracy from right wing authoritarianism by mobilizing Black, Latino, and Asian American voters rather than chasing the elusive ‘middle’ of the electorate. It’s not only good politics, it’s a strategy that has worked.”—Mae Ngai, author of The Chinese Question"How We Win the Civil War by Steve Phillips is a seminal and urgent work. It is both a practical guide and a call to our moral imagination to rise to the challenge of completing the unfinished business of America. It is truly valuable for anyone committed to building a multiracial democracy that leaves no one behind."—Senator Cory Booker

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Book SynopsisWith Barack Obama, Ben Carson, Kamala Harris, and Donald Trump as case studies, Tracks on the Trail: Popular Music, Race, and the US Presidency sheds light on the factors that motivate candidates and constituents alike to articulate race through music on the campaign trail.Trade Review"Tracks on the Trail is a virtuosic exploration of the relationship between race, music, and our understanding of the (re)presentation(s) of power within the realm of the public discourse surrounding the US presidency. This book not only theorizes race, but looks at how it has made a direct impact in the everyday lives of individuals (of all races) within the US context. As such, this book is perfectly positioned to speak to the musicologies in a wholly unique way. At the same time, it eschews overly complicated musical discussions and jargon in favor of language that is approachable for those outside of music, as well. It is a consummate example of public musicology." - Charles D. Carson, University of Texas at Austin""Tracks on the Trail ​​explores the changing nature of political engagement through a tangential analysis of how the emergence of social media and streaming platforms widened possibilities of garnering new constituents for political candidates. It is a timely study of the ways in which music has been engaged as a means of projecting identity, policy, and ideology during presidential campaigns and administrations." - Tammy Kernodle, Miami University in OhioTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Tracks on the Trail: Popular Music, Race, and the US Presidency Chapter One: Keepin’ It Real (Respectable): Barack Obama’s Music Strategy and the Formation of Presidential Identity Chapter Two: Anatomy of a Campaign Launch: Heal, Inspire, Revive, Erase with Ben Carson Chapter Three: Kamala Harris Rap Genius? Chapter Four: Girls “Make America Great”: Singing the White Stuff for Donald Trump Chapter Five: Settling the Score: Pop Songs, Protest, and Punishment Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHistorians have chronicled language, madness, gender, and sexuality and have experimented with fresh forms of presentation. This work suggests that there is confusion among historians about what counts as a justified account of the past. It dispels some of the confusion, and also discusses issues of narrative, objectivity, and memory.Trade Review"Historical Knowledge, Historical Error represents a major and much-needed intervention in the debates that have engaged historians and philosophers of history in the last two or three decades.... Megill's argument deserves attention from everybody who wonders about where the discipline of history might be headed once the dust has settled on the tired debates over objectivity versus relativist skepticism." - Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago"

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Book SynopsisWith a new afterword by the authorsA powerful, intimate collection of conversations with Indigenous Americans on the climate crisis and the Earth’s future Although for a great many people, the human impact on the Earth—countless species becoming extinct, pandemics claiming millions of lives, and climate crisis causing worldwide social and environmental upheaval—was not apparent until recently, this is not the case for all people or cultures. For the Indigenous people of the world, radical alteration of the planet, and of life itself, is a story that is many generations long. They have had to adapt, to persevere, and to be courageous and resourceful in the face of genocide and destruction—and their experience has given them a unique understanding of civilizational devastation. An American Library Association Notable Book, We Are the Middle of Forever places Indigenous voices at the ce

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Book SynopsisDrawing on a combined expertise in improvisational theatre and psychiatry, author team Dan O''Connor and Dr. Jeff Katzman show readers how improv skills are the perfect antidote to loneliness and isolation.I know what you''re thinking: Hold on...improv? Like getting on a stage in front of an audience? What if that''s not my thing?Don''t worry: this isn''t a book about becoming an improv theater expert, and it''s not really a book about performing. It''s a book about loneliness--about our feelings of disconnection and isolation, ones that we may have been experiencing since long before the pandemic. More importantly, it''s a book about becoming unlonely--by borrowing from the collaborative and creative tools of improv.Authors of Life Unscripted Jeff Katzman, a professor of psychiatry at the University of New Mexico, and Dan O''Connor, multifaceted actor, writer, and director, have created a process they call Ensembling that helps us build an ensemble of relationships in our lives and more deeply enjoy the groups we already belong to. This is a process of becoming a little vulnerable with each other, and of embracing the moment in which we find ourselves. Drawing on concepts from narrative improvisational theatre and depth psychology, the authors present us with the skills we need to connect with each other more actively and meaningfully. To ensemble or not to ensemble--that is not a question. With the rise of loneliness and isolation in an increasingly virtually connected society, we must find ways to come together. We must ensemble!

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Book SynopsisThe bestselling Cupcake Diaries series is now available in graphic novel format! In this adaptation of the second book, new girl Mia tries to find her place at the Cupcake Club’s school.When Mia arrives at her new school, her goal is to be open to and friendly with everyone, but everyone at Park Street School fits into a clique. When the Popular Girls Club takes an interest in Mia’s awesome fashion style and wants to recruit her, Mia must decide between them and her great new Cupcake Club friends. It’s like choosing between her divorced mom and dad and her old house and new house. Is it always going to be Mia in the middle, or can she mix it up? Fun, bright, full-color graphic panels tell the story with the same humor and heart as the original novel.Trade Review"This new graphic novel series is a smooth adaptation from the original series of novels. The artwork is bright and colorful, capturing the energy and emotion of the story." --School Library Journal, review of Katie and the Cupcake Cure, The Graphic Novel. * School Library Journal *"A delightful story of friendship and starting middle school." --Kirkus Reviews, review of Katie and the Cupcake Cure, The Graphic Novel * KIrkus Reviews *

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Book SynopsisThe former special assistant for legislative affairs to President Clinton, president of the American Constitution Society, and author of the damn fine (Elle) Under the Bus shows how the left can undo the right''s damage and take the country back Despite representing the beliefs of a minority of the American public on many issues, conservatives are in power not just in Washington, DC, but also in state capitals and courtrooms across the country. They got there because, while progressives fought to death over the nuances of policy and to bring attention to specific issues, conservatives focused on simply gaining power by gaming our democracy. They understood that policy follows power, not the other way around.Now, in a sensational new book, Caroline Fredricksonwho has had a front-row seat on the political drama in DC for decades while working to shape progressive policies as special assistant for legislative affairs to President Clinton, chief of staff

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Book SynopsisExamines weakness of will, or incontinence - the phenomenon of acting contrary to one's better judgment. This volume covers various major periods of western philosophy, from antiquity through the Middle Ages and from the modern period onwards. It addresses the issue from the vantage point of Libertarianism.

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Book SynopsisBrush up on the Preamble to the Constitution with this patriotic picture book—and have a couple of good laughs while you''re at it!A long time ago some smart guys wrote the Preamble to the Constitution. You have probably read it before, but do you know what it means? And did it ever make you laugh? Now it will! Perfect for inspiring discussion in classrooms and around kitchen tables, this fun-filled and cheerfully illustrated look at the Preamble provides an accessible introduction to America''s founding ideals for citizens of all ages. Includes a glossary of terms and a foreword by the artist.This zany, patriotic paean offers kids lighthearted but meaningful incentive to reflect further on the relevance of those ''big words'' and ''big ideas.''—Publishers Weekly

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Book SynopsisThere are no simple answers to life’s challenges, so how do we integrate our most testing experiences into our faith in a way which strengthens rather than weakens it? When we are at our weakest, when we feel we most need God and yet have no idea how to talk to him, it is the Psalms which leap to our rescue. With the psalmists as our guides, we learn to draw closer to God, to hear his voice in fresh ways, and to identify what it is that troubles us. Borrowing their words, we find that we are able to articulate our most painful feelings and walk through suffering with honesty, hope, and confidence in the God who travels beside us. Here is an opportunity to read the Psalms differently: an invitation to embark on a new journey.

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Book SynopsisThis book deals with the ritualist controversy (approximately 1850 - 1900) from the perspective of its evangelical participants and considers the divisive effects it had on the party

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Book SynopsisDriven from their homes in Russia, Poland, and Romania by pogroms and poverty, many Jews who went to Canada in the wave of immigration after the 1905 Russian revolution were committed radicals. This book brings to life the rich and multi-layered lives of a dissident political community, their shared experiences and community-building cultural proj

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Book SynopsisFrom the earliest days of rock and roll, white artists regularly achieved fame, wealth, and success that eluded the Black artists whose work had preceded and inspired them. This dynamic continued into the 1960s, even as the music and its fans grew to be more engaged with political issues regarding race. In Tear Down the Walls, Patrick Burke tells the story of white American and British rock musicians' engagement with Black Power politics and African American music during the volatile years of 1968 and 1969. The book sheds new light on a significant but overlooked facet of 1960s rockwhite musicians and audiences casting themselves as political revolutionaries by enacting a romanticized vision of African American identity. These artists' attempts to cast themselves as revolutionary were often naïve, misguided, or arrogant, but they could also reflect genuine interest in African American music and culture and sincere investment in anti-racist politics. White musicians such as those in popTrade Review"Thoughtful, well-researched. . . .There is nothing soothing about the sometimes-overwhelming white noise of late 1960s rock, but Burke will not let the music’s radical roar fade to silence below its problematically persistent hum of racial retrenchment. The dissonances that emerge from his carefully wrought ambivalences are a good thing." * The Sixties *"Burke takes an even-keeled approach to Black-influenced revolutionary music in the 1960s created by white musicians within a white-centric industry, shedding light on an under-researched aspect of the music of the period." * Choice *"As a whole, the book reveals that the walls of race have not been torn down. This is hardly the fault of music and musicians, however. In fact, those making claims to 'race music' include a diversity of interested parties." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"Incisive and even-handed, Tear Down the Walls is bound to enrich ongoing discussions of the enigmatic relationship between rock and race. Its findings pave the way for future studies to understand these categories more holistically and further analyze the discrepancies between artistic intent and cultural consequence." * Rock Music Studies *"Tear Down the Walls successfully problematizes ideas of musical and political appropriation and authenticity, as well as white radical politics and its organization, messaging, and relationship to white rock groups of the late 1960s. Burke’s text is clearly rooted in extensive research and built on established theoretical ideas, but he avoids overly technical musical analysis and writes engagingly, widening the prospective audience. Tear Down the Walls is recommended for public and academic libraries, and should be accessible and of interest to readers in the humanities as well as in music." -- Alyssa Nance * Music Reference Services Quarterly *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Honkie Soul: The MC5 at the Democratic National Convention—Lincoln Park, Chicago, August 25, 1968 2 Blue Eyes and a Black Face: Jefferson Airplane and the Rock Revolution—The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (CBS-TV), November 10, 1968 3 One Plus One: Jean-Luc Godard Meets the Rolling Stones—London Film Festival, November 29, 1968 4 The Seats Belong to the People: The Battle of the Fillmore East—Lower East Side, Manhattan, December 26, 1968 5 Declare the Nation into Being: Woodstock and the Movement—Woodstock Music & Art Fair, White Lake, NY, August 15–18, 1969 Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThe cassette tape was revolutionary. Cheap, portable, and reusable, this small plastic rectangle changed music history. This entertaining book charts the journey of the cassette from its invention in the early 1960s to its Walkman-led domination in the 1980s to decline at the birth of compact discs to resurgence among independent music makers.Trade ReviewAn affectionate ode . . . Masters constructs a lively and detailed case for the cassette as a vital driver of cultural creation. This charming history is sure to please anyone nostalgic for the mixtapes of yesteryear."—Publishers Weekly A thoroughly enjoyable romp . . . With energy, insight, and wit, Masters provides a welcome examination of an often overlooked cultural turning point."—Kirkus Reviews (STARRED review) This accessible primer unravels past and present uses and misuses of cassettes. . . . Masters builds a generous lineage, where it is clear that as much as 'sounds realign magnetic particles on a tape . . . the tape realigns your brain.'"—The Wire Knowingly written from the perspective of an entangled enthusiast rather than a distanced observer, [High Bias] carries an awareness that an objective history of the impact of a piece of technology isn't possible, all we can do is collect the stories we tell through it. . . . High Bias is a material history, but it's also a folk history."—The Quietus "Masters, whose work often goes far below the surface of all things sonic . . . offers a fascinating look at the shifting role of cassettes over the years—and some of the fascinating ways in which people have used them."—InsideHook A wonderful book, whose title is derived from the term for tape quality."—The Goo

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