Ark Ii

Author : Danielle Fosler-Lussier
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520959787
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music in America's Cold War Diplomacy written by Danielle Fosler-Lussier and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-04-30 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Cold War, thousands of musicians from the United States traveled the world, sponsored by the U.S. State Department’s Cultural Presentations program. Performances of music in many styles—classical, rock ’n’ roll, folk, blues, and jazz—competed with those by traveling Soviet and mainland Chinese artists, enhancing the prestige of American culture. These concerts offered audiences around the world evidence of America’s improving race relations, excellent musicianship, and generosity toward other peoples. Through personal contacts and the media, musical diplomacy also created subtle musical, social, and political relationships on a global scale. Although born of state-sponsored tours often conceived as propaganda ventures, these relationships were in themselves great diplomatic achievements and constituted the essence of America’s soft power. Using archival documents and newly collected oral histories, Danielle Fosler-Lussier shows that musical diplomacy had vastly different meanings for its various participants, including government officials, musicians, concert promoters, and audiences. Through the stories of musicians from Louis Armstrong and Marian Anderson to orchestras and college choirs, Fosler-Lussier deftly explores the value and consequences of "musical diplomacy."

Author : Robert Adlington
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199714360
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sound Commitments written by Robert Adlington and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-19 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of popular music is widely recognized in giving voice to radical political views, the plight of the oppressed, and the desire for social change. Avant-garde music, by contrast, is often thought to prioritize the pursuit of new technical or conceptual territory over issues of human and social concern. Yet throughout the activist 1960s, many avant-garde musicians were convinced that aesthetic experiment and social progressiveness made natural bedfellows. Intensely involved in the era's social and political upheavals, they often sought to reflect this engagement in their music. Yet how could avant-garde musicians make a meaningful contribution to social change if their music remained the preserve of a tiny, initiated clique? In answer, Sound Commitments, examines the encounter of avant-garde music and "the Sixties" across a range of genres, aesthetic positions and geographical locations. Through music for the concert hall, tape and electronic music, jazz and improvisation, participatory "events," performance art, and experimental popular music, the essays in this volume explore developments in the United States, France, West Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, the Soviet Union, Japan and parts of the "Third World," delving into the deep richness of avant-garde musicians' response to the decade's defining cultural shifts. Featuring new archival research and/or interviews with significant figures of the period in each chapter, Sound Commitments will appeal to researchers and advanced students in the fields of post-war music, cultures of the 1960s, and the avant-garde, as well as to an informed general readership.

Author : Tobin Marks
Publisher : Boyle & Dalton
ISBN 13 : 9781633372375
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ark of the Apocalypse written by Tobin Marks and published by Boyle & Dalton. This book was released on 2021-03-08 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earth is on the verge of becoming a dead planet. The polar ice caps melted long ago, and it's been decades since the last raindrop fell. Ocean levels rise a dozen meters, and forest fires rage on a global scale. Eleven billion people dying of thirst wage water wars against each other as extinction looms. Humanity needs a new planet. As Earth deteriorates, the nation states desperately work together to build a mechanism for recolonization. And so the Magellan II is born, the first starship capable of interstellar travel. The future of the human race is tasked to ten thousand colonists-now homeless but for the vastness of space and the decks of Magellan II. A distant planet offers hope of survival, but it's a strange, watery world inhabited by giant reptiles. Humanity is starting over, but survival isn't guaranteed.

Author : Stephen Baxter
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101187573
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ark written by Stephen Baxter and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-05-04 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the year 2030. The oceans have risen rapidly, and soon the entire planet will be submerged. But the discovery of another life-sustaining planet light years away gives those who remain alive hope. Only a few will be able to make the journey-Holle Groundwater is one of the candidates. If she makes the cut, she will live. If not, she will be left to face a watery death...

Author : Alexander Victor Prusin
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817358889
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nationalizing a Borderland written by Alexander Victor Prusin and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2016-12-13 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A careful, well-documented description of an important moment in the history of Eastern Europe.

Author : Vance Randolph
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826203007
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British ballads and songs written by Vance Randolph and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas William
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1583485902
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Alaskan Saga of Thomas Churchill O'Brien written by Thomas William and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 1999-12 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hilariously funny satire of life in Alaska as seen through the misadventures of a warm-hearted but bumbling neophyte.

Author : United States. War Department
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1304 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The War of the Rebellion written by United States. War Department and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 1304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Corinne Stanley
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0359334423
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Walk Into The Holy Of Holies - Part 2 written by Corinne Stanley and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part Two "A Walk into the Holy of Holies" begins at the "Kings table" known as the Bread of Presence. Moving beyond the Table, we encounter a chosen priest who would stand before the Golden Altar offering sacred incense upon blood dripped coals. The study progresses past the Golden Altar, through the heavy Veil, where only the high priest could enter this most coveted place once a year. Here within the holy chamber we see the LORD enthroned upon the Mercy Seat. It is beyond this sacred barrier where the LORD said, "there I will meet with you; and speak to you". Today, believers can enter through the torn Veil where they are presented as a bride "holy, blameless and beyond reproach."

Author : Sara Japhet
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 1611645891
Total Pages : 1105 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I And II Chronicles written by Sara Japhet and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1993-11-01 with total page 1105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, a part of the Old Testament Library series, explores the books of I and II Chronicles. The Old Testament Library provides fresh and authoritative treatments of important aspects of Old Testament study through commentaries and general surveys. The contributors are scholars of international standing.