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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “laura minor”
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  • Flowers as Mind Control

    poems

    by Laura Minor ...
    This book, which was selected by poet John Hodgen for the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry, ranges across rural Florida and Georgia as well as Los Angeles and New York City, include considerations of homesickness, memory, music, alcohol, love, and loss. With a voice at once inquisitive and prescient, Minor meditates on consumption, vice, homesickness, memory, family, and the landscape. Minor’s writing ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Television Goes Back to the Future

    Rethinking TV’s Streaming Revolution

    by Anthony N. Smith, Laura Minor ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book examines the extent to which the practices of television’s past are shaping its online future. Challenging industry and scholarly claims of digital disruption, it demonstrates how streaming giants like Netflix, Disney+, and Amazon Prime Video, alongside public service broadcasters like the BBC and Channel 4, maintain deep continuities with television history, adapting established ... Read more

    $51.29 CAD

  • The Routledge Companion to Women and Musical Leadership

    The Nineteenth Century and Beyond

    Edited by Laura Hamer, Helen Julia Minors ...
    Series series Routledge Music Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Women and Musical Leadership: The Nineteenth Century and Beyond provides a comprehensive exploration of women’s participation in musical leadership from the nineteenth century to the present. Global in scope, with contributors from over thirty countries, this book reveals the wide range of ways in which women have taken leadership roles across musical genres and contexts ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD

  • Paul Dukas: Legacies of a French Musician

    Edited by Helen Julia Minors, Laura Watson ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Music
    This book appraises the contribution of Paul Dukas (1865–1935) to a wide variety of French musical practices. As a composer, critic, artistic collaborator and teacher, Dukas was central to the fin de siècle and early twentieth-century Paris musical scene (and more broadly to the French scene). Significantly, his compositional style mediated tradition through the modern language of his present, ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

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  • Thanks for Watching

    An Anthropological Study of Video Sharing on YouTube

    by Patricia G. Lange ...
    YouTube hosts one billion visitors monthly and sees more than 400 hours of video uploaded every minute. In her award winning book, Thanks for Watching, Patricia G. Lange offers an anthropological perspective on this heavily mediated social environment by analyzing videos and the emotions that motivate sharing them. She demonstrates how core concepts from anthropology—participant-observation, ... Read more

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  • Music

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Nicholas Cook ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The world teems with different kinds of music - traditional, folk, classical, jazz, rock, pop - and each type of music tends to come with its own way of thinking. Drawing on a wealth of accessible examples ranging from Beethoven to Chinese zither music, this Very Short Introduction considers the history of music and thinking about music, ... Read more

    $7.59 CAD

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  • The World Doesn't End

    A Poetry Collection

    by Charles Simic ...
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  • YouTube

    Online Video and Participatory Culture

    by Jean Burgess, Joshua Green, Henry Jenkins, John Hartley ...
    Series series Digital Media and Society
    YouTube is one of the most well-known and widely discussed sites of participatory media in the contemporary online environment, and it is the first genuinely mass-popular platform for user-created video. In this timely and comprehensive introduction to how YouTube is being used and why it matters, Burgess and Green discuss the ways that it relates to wider transformations in culture, society and ... Read more

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  • Watching YouTube

    Extraordinary Videos by Ordinary People

    by Michael Strangelove ...
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  • Women & Music

    A History

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    The second edition of the "milestone" work of history that focuses on female musicians through the ages ( College Music Symposium).This updated, expanded, and reorganized edition of Women and Music features even more women composers, performers, and patrons, even more musical contexts, and an expanded view of women in music outside Europe and North America.A popular university textbook, Women and ... Read more

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