How To Sound Cultured

Author : Hubert Van Den Bergh
Publisher : Icon Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1848319312
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Sound Cultured written by Hubert Van Den Bergh and published by Icon Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015-11-05 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Damn, all my cheating secrets revealed. In book form' Stephen Fry Which philosopher had the maddest hairstyle? Which novelist drank 50 cups of black coffee every day? What on earth did Simone de Beauvoir see in Jean-Paul Sartre? How to Sound Cultured offers a wry and yet profoundly useful look inside the mirrored palaces of high culture. Covering such inscrutable characters as Heidegger, Montaigne, Kahlo and Lévi-Strauss (apparently not just a designer of jeans), inscrutable polymaths Thomas W. Hodgkinson and Hubert van den Bergh – the author of the acclaimed How to Sound Clever – have done the hard work of sorting the cultural wheat from the chaff. Read this book and you'll never again mistake Rimbaud for Rambo or Georg Lukacs for George Lucas, you'll know precisely when to drop Foucault's name into a conversation and how to pronounce 'Borgesian', and you'll learn many more essential pointers for the intellectual life.

Author : Laura Brueck
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472054341
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indian Sound Cultures, Indian Sound Citizenship written by Laura Brueck and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the cinema to the recording studio to public festival grounds, the range and sonic richness of Indian cultures can be heard across the subcontinent. Sound articulates communal difference and embodies specific identities for multiple publics. This diversity of sounds has been and continues to be crucial to the ideological construction of a unifying postcolonial Indian nation-state. Indian Sound Cultures, Indian Sound Citizenship addresses the multifaceted roles sound plays in Indian cultures and media, and enacts a sonic turn in South Asian Studies by understanding sound in its own social and cultural contexts. “Scapes, Sites, and Circulations” considers the spatial and circulatory ways in which sound “happens” in and around Indian sound cultures, including diasporic cultures. “Voice” emphasizes voices that embody a variety of struggles and ambiguities, particularly around gender and performance. Finally, “Cinema Sound” make specific arguments about film sound in the Indian context, from the earliest days of talkie technology to contemporary Hindi films and experimental art installations. Integrating interdisciplinary scholarship at the nexus of sound studies and South Asian Studies by questions of nation/nationalism, postcolonialism, cinema, and popular culture in India, Indian Sound Cultures, Indian Sound Citizenship offers fresh and sophisticated approaches to the sonic world of the subcontinent.

Author : Thomas Hodgkinson
Publisher : Icon Books
ISBN 13 : 1785781634
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to be Cool written by Thomas Hodgkinson and published by Icon Books. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cool can’t be taught. That’s the received wisdom, yet this wry, entertaining compendium by Thomas W. Hodgkinson (author of the indispensable How to Sound Cultured) shows that, on the contrary, anyone can increase their cool quotient by learning from the masters and the methods of the past. It’s never an easy journey. But to set yourself on the path to true cool, you’ll need this invaluable roadmap.

Author : David Jeevendrampillai
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000181081
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Material Culture of Failure written by David Jeevendrampillai and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-27 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when objects behave unexpectedly or fail to do what they ‘should’? Who defines failure? Is failure always bad? Rather than viewing concepts such as failure, incoherence or incompetence as antithetical to social life, this innovative new book examines the unexpected and surprising ways in which failure can lead to positive and creative results. Combining both theoretical and ethnographic approaches to failure, The Material Culture of Failure explores how failure manifests itself and operates in a variety of contexts. The editors present ten ethnographic encounters of failure – from areas as diverse as design, textiles, religion, beauty, and physical failure – covering Europe, North America, Asia, Africa, and the Arabian Gulf. Identifying common themes such as interpersonal, national and religious articulations of power and identity, the book shows some of the underlying assumptions that are revealed when materials fail, designs crumble, or things develop unexpectedly.The first anthropological study dedicated to theorizing failure, this innovative collection offers fresh insights based on the latest scholarship. Destined to stimulate a new area of research, the book makes a vital contribution to material culture studies and related social science theory.

Author : Sara Luck
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476713162
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hearts Unbound written by Sara Luck and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forced to seek a doctor's care after being assaulted in her emigrant parents' boarding house, spirited Pia Caranza bonds with respected doctor Bart Wilson, who avoids relationships after tragically losing his wife in childbirth.

Author : james bryce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Author : James Bryce Bryce (Viscount)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 982 pages
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Download or read book The party system. Public opinion. Illustrations and reflections. Social institutions written by James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Bryce Bryce (Viscount)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Institutions of the United States written by James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Bryce Bryce (Viscount)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 982 pages
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Download or read book The American Commonwealth written by James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 498 pages
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