Author: Gail Ellis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140810165
Category : Education, Primary
Languages : en
Pages : 275

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Publisher: R.I.C. Publications
ISBN: 1741267641
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 95

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Designed to introduce students to parts of speech, ways to understand and choose words, punctuation and figure of speech.

Author: Simon Frith
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674247310
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 363

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Who's better? Billie Holiday or P. J. Harvey? Blur or Oasis? Dylan or Keats? And how many friendships have ridden on the answer? Such questions aren't merely the stuff of fanzines and idle talk; they inform our most passionate arguments, distill our most deeply held values, make meaning of our ever-changing culture. In Performing Rites, one of the most influential writers on popular music asks what we talk about when we talk about music. What's good, what's bad? What's high, what's low? Why do such distinctions matter? Instead of dismissing emotional response and personal taste as inaccessible to the academic critic, Simon Frith takes these forms of engagement as his subject--and discloses their place at the very center of the aesthetics that structure our culture and color our lives. Taking up hundreds of songs and writers, Frith insists on acts of evaluation of popular music as music. Ranging through and beyond the twentieth century, Performing Rites puts the Pet Shop Boys and Puccini, rhythm and lyric, voice and technology, into a dialogue about the undeniable impact of popular aesthetics on our lives. How we nod our heads or tap our feet, grin or grimace or flip the dial; how we determine what's sublime and what's "for real"--these are part of the way we construct our social identities, and an essential response to the performance of all music. Frith argues that listening itself is a performance, both social gesture and bodily response. From how they are made to how they are received, popular songs appear here as not only meriting aesthetic judgments but also demanding them, and shaping our understanding of what all music means.

Author: Noah Roderick
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781785420221
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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In The Being of Analogy, Noah Roderick unleashes similarity onto the world of objects. Inspired by object-oriented theories of causality, Roderick argues that similarity is ever present at the birth of new objects. This includes the emergent similarity of new mental objects, such as categories-a phenomenon we recognize as analogy. Analogy, Roderick contends, is at the very heart of cognition and communication, and it is through analogy that we can begin dismantling the impossible wall between knowing and being.

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Publisher:
ISBN: 9780953517206
Category : Clydebank (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 189

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Author: R. Mark (CRT) Rogers
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781581060966
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16

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Southern Music

Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3846051764
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 686

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.

Author: Pauline Payne
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780646301570
Category : Thebarton (S. Aust.)
Languages : en
Pages : 231

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