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Music and the Elusive Revolution

Cultural Politics and Political Culture in France, 1968–1981

By: Eric Drott

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Music and the Elusive Revolution

Cultural Politics and Political Culture in France, 1968–1981

By: Eric Drott

In May 1968, France teetered on the brink of revolution as a series of student protests spiraled into the largest general strike the country has ever known. Drott examines the social, political, and cultural effects of May '68 on a variety of music in France.

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Univ of California Press

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0520268962

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9780520268968

Streaming Music, Streaming Capital

By: Eric Drott

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Streaming Music, Streaming Capital

By: Eric Drott

In Streaming Music, Streaming Capital, Eric Drott analyzes the political economy of online music streaming platforms. Attentive to the way streaming has reordered the production, circulation, and consumption of music, Drott examines key features of this new musical economy, including the roles played by data collection, playlisting, new methods of copyright enforcement, and the calculation of listening metrics. Yet because streaming underscores how uneasily music sits within existing regimes of private property, its rise calls for a broader reconsideration of music’s complex and contradictory relation to capitalism. Drott's analysis is not simply a matter of how music is formatted in line with dominant measures of economic value; equally important is how music eludes such measures, a situation that threatens to reduce music to a cheap, abundant resource. By interrogating the tensions between streaming’s benefits and pitfalls, Drott sheds light on music’s situation within digital capitalism, from growing concentrations of monopoly power and music’s use in corporate surveillance to issues of musical value, labor, and artist pay.

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230

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Duke University Press

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1478027878

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9781478027874

Moments of Decision

Political History and the Crises of Radicalism

By: Stephen Eric Bronner

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Moments of Decision

Political History and the Crises of Radicalism

By: Stephen Eric Bronner

In this expanded second edition, the radical classic Moments of Decision has been updated more than 20 years since it was first published and received the Michael Harrington Book Award. Reexamining observations made after the fall of communism, Stephen Eric Bronner blends political meditation, philosophical critique, and history lessons to illuminate the monumental crises that shaped the 20th and 21st centuries. A cosmopolitan work that touches on the implications of conflicts ranging from World War I to the Arab Spring, Moments of Decision explores the assumptions of socialist historiography and the character of modernity. In clear, accessible prose, Bronner has revived and revised a seminal work that is ideal for students, scholars, and anyone interested in political history, theory, and international relations. PRAISE FOR THE PREVIOUS EDITION: “To guess about the future Bronner has rightly looked into the past, going back to the first world war and the momentous split in the labor movement. His book is a learned, lively and inevitably controversial contribution to the political and historical debates of our age.” - Daniel Singer, THE NATION “Stephen Bronner is a distinctive voice on the American left. He combines a deep understanding of working class political history with a passionate interest in devising a democratic strategy for our time, and is willing to take risks in saying just what that strategy should be. Bronner's analysis is both principled and shrewd, unsparing and hopeful. Even where one disagrees with it, one learns.” - Joel Rogers, University of Wisconsin Law School, Editor, POLITICS AND SOCIETY

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209

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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162356414X

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9781623564148

Making Stereo Fit

The History of a Disquieting Film Technology

By: Eric Dienstfrey

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Making Stereo Fit

The History of a Disquieting Film Technology

By: Eric Dienstfrey

Surround sound is often mistaken as a relatively new phenomenon in cinemas, one that emerged in the 1970s with the arrival of Dolby. Making Stereo Fit shows how Hollywood studios have instead been implementing surround-sound techniques for the past century and argues that their endurance owes primarily to the long-standing economic tension between stereophonic and monophonic sound. Throughout the book, Eric Dienstfrey analyzes newly discovered archival materials, as well as a myriad of stereo releases from Hell's Angels (1930) to Get Out (2017), to examine how Hollywood's dependence on single-channel sound left filmmakers unable to fully realize the aesthetic potential of surround sound. Though studios initially experimented with stereo's unique affordances, Dienstfrey details how film sound designers eventually codified a conservative set of surround-sound conventions that prevail today, despite the arrival of more immersive technologies"--

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Univ of California Press

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0520379543

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9780520379541

Intents and Purposes

Philosophy and the Aesthetics of Improvisation

By: Eric Lewis

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Intents and Purposes

Philosophy and the Aesthetics of Improvisation

By: Eric Lewis

How do we define improvised music? What is the relationship of highly improvised performances to the work they are performances of? How do we decide what are the important parts of an improvised musical work? In Intents and Purposes, Eric Lewis uses a series of case studies to challenge assumptions about what defines a musical work and musical performance, seeking to go beyond philosophical and aesthetic templates from Western classical music to foreground the distinctive practices and aesthetics of jazz. Pushing aside the assumption that composition and improvisation are different (or even opposed) musical practices, Lewis’s philosophically informed approach revisits key topics in musical ontology, such as how to define the triangle of composer-performer-listener, and the status of live performances in relation to scores and recordings. Drawing on critical race theory, feminist theory, new musicology, sociology, cognitive science, and genre theory, Lewis opens up new questions about agency in performance, as well as new ways of considering the historical relationships between improvisational practices with roots in different cultural frameworks. By showing how jazz can be both art, idea, and action all at the same time, Lewis offers a new way of seeing any improvised musical performance in a new culturally and aesthetically rich context.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472125087

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9780472125081

Euclid and Terex Earth-moving Machines

By: Eric C. Orlemann

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Euclid and Terex Earth-moving Machines

By: Eric C. Orlemann

Sensational archival photography of enormous modern equipment. Enthusiasts will find great detail in the text which traces the evolution of the Euclid and Terex vehicles, provides technical specifications, and lists fascinating operating and hauling capacities.

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Motorbooks International

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0760302936

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Music and the Elusive Revolution

Cultural Politics and Political Culture in France, 1968–1981

By: Eric Drott

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Music and the Elusive Revolution

Cultural Politics and Political Culture in France, 1968–1981

By: Eric Drott

In May 1968, France teetered on the brink of revolution as a series of student protests spiraled into the largest general strike the country has ever known. In the forty years since, May ’68 has come to occupy a singular place in the modern political imagination, not just in France but across the world. Eric Drott examines the social, political, and cultural effects of May ’68 on a wide variety of music in France, from the initial shock of 1968 through the "long" 1970s and the election of Mitterrand and the socialists in 1981. Drott’s detailed account of how diverse music communities developed in response to 1968 and his pathbreaking reflections on the nature and significance of musical genre come together to provide insights into the relationships that link music, identity, and politics.

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Univ of California Press

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0520950089

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Music and the Elusive Revolution

Music and the Elusive Revolution

Streaming Music, Streaming Capital

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Moments of Decision

Moments of Decision

Making Stereo Fit

Making Stereo Fit

Intents and Purposes

Intents and Purposes

Euclid and Terex Earth-moving Machines

Euclid and Terex Earth-moving Machines

Music and the Elusive Revolution

Music and the Elusive Revolution

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