Liz Garnett's Books

Choral Conducting and the Construction of Meaning

Gesture, Voice, Identity

By: Liz Garnett

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Choral Conducting and the Construction of Meaning

Gesture, Voice, Identity

By: Liz Garnett

It is a truism in teaching choral conducting that the director should look like s/he wishes the choir to sound. The conductor's physical demeanour has a direct effect on how the choir sings, at a level that is largely unconscious and involuntary. It is also a matter of simple observation that different choral traditions exhibit not only different styles of vocal production and delivery, but also different gestural vocabularies which are shared not only between conductors within that tradition, but also with the singers. It is as possible to distinguish a gospel choir from a barbershop chorus or a cathedral choir by visual cues alone as it is simply by listening. But how can these forms of physical communication be explained? Do they belong to a pre-cultural realm of primate social bonding, or do they rely on the context and conventions of a particular choral culture? Is body language an inherent part of musical performance styles, or does it come afterwards, in response to music? At a practical level, to what extent can a practitioner from one tradition mandate an approach as 'good practice', and to what extent can another refuse it on the grounds that 'we don't do it that way'? This book explores these questions at both theoretical and practical levels. It examines textual and ethnographic sources, and draws on theories from critical musicology and nonverbal communication studies to analyse them. By comparing a variety of choral traditions, it investigates the extent to which the connections between conductor demeanour and choral sound operate at a general level, and in what ways they are constructed within a specific idiom. Its findings will be of interest both to those engaged in the study of music as a cultural practice, and to practitioners involved in a choral conducting context that increasingly demands fluency in a variety of styles.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

211

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1351571923

ISBN 13

9781351571920

Journey

By: Liz Garnett

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Journey

By: Liz Garnett

Artist Aggie is running out of money and ideas for a new style of art. There is only one solution. Aggie and her 16-year-old son, Miles head off to France on a road trip. For Aggie, it is a chance to reinvent herself and her work as well as spend some quality time with Miles. The trip takes in the Tro Breiz pilgrimage route around Brittany. Comedy moments abound as their journey takes in the highs and lows of camping and travelling around Brittany. Along the way, Aggie meets colourful characters and begins to start believing in herself again.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

196

Publisher

Lulu.com

Published Date

ISBN 10

0993560342

ISBN 13

9780993560347

French Holiday Cookery

By: Liz Garnett

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

French Holiday Cookery

By: Liz Garnett

Revised Edition with more comprehensive information in the fish and shellfish section. Over 60 simple recipes for a self catering holiday to France.Recipes require no more than two rings to create delicious meals using ingredients readily available in France. All ingredients are translated into French and there is a glossary of produce to make negotiating the markets and supermarkets easy. Liz Garnett is a travel photographer specialising in France. Since 1994 she has been regularly visiting France including living in Northern France for two years. Her photographs have been published in books and magazines internationally. Full colour cover, black and white inside.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

Publisher

Lulu.com

Published Date

ISBN 10

1291363335

ISBN 13

9781291363333

The British Barbershopper

A Study in Socio-Musical Values

By: Liz Garnett

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The British Barbershopper

A Study in Socio-Musical Values

By: Liz Garnett

Barbershop singing is a distinctive and under-documented facet of Britain's musical landscape. Imported from the USA in the 1960s, it has developed into an active and highly organized musical community characterized by strong social support structures and a proselytizing passion for its particular style. This style is defined, within the community, in largely music-theoretical terms and is both highly prescriptive and continually contested, but there is also a host of performance traditions that articulate barbershop's identity as a distinct and specific genre. Liz Garnett documents and analyses the social and musical practices of this specialized community of music-makers, and extends this analysis to theorize the relationship between music and self-identity. The book engages with a range of sociological and musicological theoretical frameworks in order to explore the role of harmony, ritual, sexual politics, performance styles and 'tag-singing' in barbershop. This analysis shows how musical style and cultural discourses can be seen to interact in the formation of identity. Garnett provides the first in-depth scholarly insight into the British barbershop community, and contributes to ongoing debates in the semiotics and the sociology of music.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

315

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1351545884

ISBN 13

9781351545884

Linking Picture Book Biographies to National Content Standards

200+ Lives to Explore

By: Liz Deskins,Christina H. Dorr

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Linking Picture Book Biographies to National Content Standards

200+ Lives to Explore

By: Liz Deskins,Christina H. Dorr

Presenting beautifully illustrated picture book biographies, this book pairs narrative nonfiction biographies rich in language and illustrations with national content standards in the social studies, science, and the arts. The current focus on promoting nonfiction reading at all ages has brought to attention the value of narrative nonfiction in the form of new picture book biographies. But which of the thousands of these types of titles will have maximum teaching impact and be interesting to students? This book identifies the "best of the best" in new picture book biographies that are rich in language and illustrations and best support national content standards in science, social studies, and the arts. Written by authors with a combined experience of more than 50 years in teaching as well as extensive knowledge of children's literature and the review of such books, the book provides—in a single resource—the best in recently published picture book biographies that rely on primary and secondary sources, the best in storytelling styles, and the most engaging illustrations. The unit and lesson ideas within can be used as is or modified as needed. The selected biographies enable connections between the stories of individuals' lives in history and required areas of study.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

178

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published Date

ISBN 13

9798216111870

The Smart Girl's Guide to Sports

An Essential Handbook for Women Who Don't Know a Slam Dunk from a Grand Slam

By: Liz Hartman Musiker

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Smart Girl's Guide to Sports

An Essential Handbook for Women Who Don't Know a Slam Dunk from a Grand Slam

By: Liz Hartman Musiker

Written for the significant others of sports buffs, a guide to all of the major professional sports outlines the rules and basics of each, with profiles of top historical and contemporary players and a humorous glossary of key terms.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

356

Publisher

Penguin

Published Date

ISBN 10

0452289505

ISBN 13

9780452289505

Social Work with Children

By: Liz Trinder,Marian Brandon,Gillian Schofield

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Social Work with Children

By: Liz Trinder,Marian Brandon,Gillian Schofield

How can social workers enable vulnerable children to have a voice in the complex systems designed to protect them and promote their welfare? How can children be helped to make sense of complicated and disrupted lives? This core text addresses these and other challenging questions, setting out the principles and practice of social work with children and demonstrating the diversity of the work through carefully chosen case material. It will be essential reading for all social workers in training and practice involved with children.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

222

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1349140430

ISBN 13

9781349140435

Communication and Economic Life

By: Liz Moor

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Communication and Economic Life

By: Liz Moor

When we talk about media and the economy, 'the economy' is usually understood as the macro economy or GDP, while 'the media' usually refers to television and print news, or the digital output of mainstream news providers. But communication about money and the economy in everyday life is far more wide-ranging than this. It is also changing: opportunities to discuss economic matters – whether public or personal – have proliferated online, while new payment systems and shopping platforms embed economic behaviour more deeply into communications infrastructures. Challenging earlier narrow definitions, this ambitious book offers a new framework for thinking about the role of communication in our economic lives. Foregrounding the broader category of communicative practices, the book understands economic life not only in terms of the macro economy, but more sociologically as a set of processes of providing for material wants and needs. How we talk about these wants and needs, and our means for meeting them, is how we come to understand our economic lives as meaningful. The book explores how our economic lives are constructed communicatively in a variety of modes that move through, but also exceed, mass media – from the symbolism of credit cards to the language used by economists, and from social media promotion to debates in online forums. Communication and Economic Life is a vital resource for students and scholars in media and communications and sociology, and for anyone interested in how we talk about economic lives.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

131

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons

Published Date

ISBN 10

0745687059

ISBN 13

9780745687056

Devising Consumption

Cultural Economies of Insurance, Credit and Spending

By: Liz Mcfall

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Devising Consumption

Cultural Economies of Insurance, Credit and Spending

By: Liz Mcfall

The book explores the vital role played by the financial service industries in enabling the poor to consume over the last hundred and fifty years. Spending requires means, but these industries offered something else as well – they offered practical marketing devices that captured, captivated and enticed poor consumers. Consumption and consumer markets depend on such devices but their role has been poorly understood both in the social sciences and in business studies and marketing. While the analysis of consumption and markets has been carved up between academics and practitioners who have been interested in either their social and cultural life or their economic and commercial organisation, consumption continues to be driven by their combination. Devising consumption requires practical mixtures of commerce and art whether the product is an insurance policy or the next gadget in the internet of things . By making the case for a pragmatic understanding of how ordinary, everyday consumption is orchestrated, the book offers an alternative to orthodox approaches, which should appeal to interdisciplinary audiences interested in questions about how markets work and why it matters.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

212

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1136511792

ISBN 13

9781136511790

Nanoscale Materials

By: Luis M. Liz-Marzán,Prashant V. Kamat

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Nanoscale Materials

By: Luis M. Liz-Marzán,Prashant V. Kamat

Organized nanoassemblies of inorganic nanoparticles and organic molecules are building blocks of nanodevices, whether they are designed to perform molecular level computing, sense the environment or improve the catalytic properties of a material. The key to creation of these hybrid nanostructures lies in understanding the chemistry at a fundamental level. This book serves as a reference book for researchers by providing fundamental understanding of many nanoscopic materials.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

506

Publisher

Springer Science & Business Media

Published Date

ISBN 10

0306481081

ISBN 13

9780306481086

Questioning Allegiance

Resituating Civic Education

By: Liz Jackson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Questioning Allegiance

Resituating Civic Education

By: Liz Jackson

Education about living in society and in the world is a vital task of schools. Yet such civic education is not always critically examined, and few among us have been encouraged to reflect on our civic education experiences. Around the world, one’s civic education most often looks like a black box. How it works is unclear. When human harm, violence, and oppression can be seen in a wide variety of contexts, it is worth critically examining civic education. Could it be that civic education is not playing a helpful role in society? Can it be done differently and better? As one reflects on the contemporary social world, it is helpful to examine the assumptions surrounding education for living together, to think about current modes and possible alternatives. Otherwise, one might end up promoting allegiance to civic and partisan entities which are themselves black boxes (the ‘nation’, the ‘people’), failing to notice when and how what goes on in civic education is morally questionable. This book aims to elucidate some of the black box of civic education, and focuses on some of its main operations across contexts. Offering a new framework for students and academics, this book questions existing thinking and shifts the focus of attention from the right balance to strike between local, national, and global allegiances to the more fundamental question of what counts as ‘local’, ‘national’, and ‘global’, and what might be involved in cultivating allegiances to them. It looks at allegiance to not just transnational but also sub-global ‘civilisations’ and it problematises the notion of the ‘local community’ in new ways.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

269

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

0429788150

ISBN 13

9780429788154

Shanghai Sacred

The Religious Landscape of a Global City

By: Benoît Vermander,Liz Hingley,Liang Zhang

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Shanghai Sacred

The Religious Landscape of a Global City

By: Benoît Vermander,Liz Hingley,Liang Zhang

Shanghai, a dynamic world metropolis, is home to a multitude of religions, from Buddhism and Islam, to Christianity and Baha’ism, to Hinduism and Daoism, and many more. In this city of 24 million inhabitants, new religious groups and older faiths together claim and reclaim spiritual space. Shanghai Sacred explores the spaces, rituals, and daily practices that make up the religious landscape of the city, offering a new paradigm for the study of Chinese spirituality that reflects the global trends shaping Chinese culture and civil society. Based on years of fieldwork, incorporating both comparative and methodological perspectives, Shanghai Sacred demonstrates how religions are lived, constructed, and thus inscribed into the social imaginary of the metropolis. Evocative photographs by Liz Hingley enrich and interact with the narrative, making the book an innovative contribution to religious visual ethnography.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

325

Publisher

University of Washington Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0295741694

ISBN 13

9780295741697

People or Property

Legal Contradictions, Climate Resettlement, and the View from Shifting Ground

By: Alessandra Jerolleman,Elizabeth Marino,Nathan Jessee,Liz Koslov,Chantel Comardelle,Melissa Villarreal,Daniel de Vries,Simon Manda

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

People or Property

Legal Contradictions, Climate Resettlement, and the View from Shifting Ground

By: Alessandra Jerolleman,Elizabeth Marino,Nathan Jessee,Liz Koslov,Chantel Comardelle,Melissa Villarreal,Daniel de Vries,Simon Manda

This open access book explores the intersection of property law, relocation, and resettlement processes in the United States and among communities that grapple with migration as an adaptation strategy. As communities face the prospect of relocating because of rising seas, policy makers, disaster specialists, and community leaders are scrambling to understand what adaptation pathways are legally possible. While in its ideal application, law functions blindly and without variation, the authors find that legal contradictions come to bear on resettlement processes and place certain communities further in harm’s way. This book will unearth these contradictions in order to understand why successful community-based resettlement has presented such a challenge to communities that are experiencing increasing land deterioration as a result of climate change.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

251

Publisher

Springer Nature

Published Date

ISBN 10

303136872X

ISBN 13

9783031368721

Our Betty

By: Liz Smith

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Our Betty

By: Liz Smith

Liz Smith, once called the nation's favourite fictional grandmother, is a familiar face to all TV and cinema viewers. She is most often recognised for her role of Nana in The Royle Family and has appeared in numerous productions over the years. OUR BETTY is Liz's life story - from her cosseted yet lonely childhood with her beloved grandparents (her mother died giving birth to Liz's stillborn sibling), through the war with the WRENS, marriage and children, divorce and poverty, long years working in dead-end jobs such as in a plastic bag factory, until her heavenly escape of evening acting classes provided the chance for a career. While working at Hamley's one Christmas ('I was one of those tiresome people who stop you and beg you to try samples of this and that'), she received a phone call from a young director who wanted to make an improvised film. His name was Mike Leigh and the film Bleak Moments. From that point, when Liz was 50, her career took off and she has worked with some of the most famous names in the entertainment business. OUR BETTY is, like its author, original, amusing and fascinating on the struggles, hopes and successes endemic of a life in front of the camera.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

226

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

1847395015

ISBN 13

9781847395016

Still Standing

From Debutante to Detox

By: Liz Jamieson-Hastings

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Still Standing

From Debutante to Detox

By: Liz Jamieson-Hastings

the dressing gown was pink candlewick. Old brown vomit stains on the lapels tried to hide themselves in shame as I swept into the room, weaving my way towards the silver drinks tray with its Waterford crystal decanters of whisky and brandy. By the time I raised the decanter to toast the elite of Auckland, the dressing gown was flapping around my naked body like a spinnaker without its sheets. that Liz Jamieson-Hastings is sane, sober and still standing is a miracle. At 21 she was a hopeless alcoholic; now she is a respected counsellor, decorated for her services to the community, which include substance abuse programmes in schools, prisons and even the US Navy. Her inspirational story is one of privilege and social advantage preceding a spectacular fall from grace. Her battle against anorexia and alcohol should have killed her - her fight back to normality, only to watch her first husband succumb to cancer, should have sent her spiralling back into self-abuse. It didn't. She's still standing, and her amazing life exemplifies the incredible strength of the human spirit. Her lively, hard-hitting story includes strategies for fellow sufferers and their families. In her devastatingly honest tale of personal survival, Liz shows what hope, honesty, hard work and the generous help of true friends can achieve.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

277

Publisher

HarperCollins Australia

Published Date

ISBN 10

0730400530

ISBN 13

9780730400530

French Holiday Cookery - Camping Lite

By: Liz Garnett

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

French Holiday Cookery - Camping Lite

By: Liz Garnett

An essential book for anyone camping or on a self-catering holiday in France. This book is packed with simple recipes; ideas and inspiration for meals; and an appendix of food translated into French. The recipes combine basic store cupboard essentials with food bought from the local market or supermarket. Each recipe has the ingredients translated into French to make it easier to buy produce. Recipes require no more than two rings to create delicious meals using ingredients readily available in France. Liz Garnett is a travel photographer specialising in France. Since 1994 she has been regularly visiting France including living in Northern France for two years. Her photographs have been published in books and magazines internationally. Further information about Liz Garnett can be found at: www.lizgarnett.com.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

110

Publisher

Lulu.com

Published Date

ISBN 10

0993560326

ISBN 13

9780993560323

The British Barbershopper

A Study in Socio-Musical Values

By: Liz Garnett

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The British Barbershopper

A Study in Socio-Musical Values

By: Liz Garnett

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

315

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1351545884

ISBN 13

9781351545884

Baby, Baby

By: Elizabeth Nickles,Liz Nickles

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Baby, Baby

By: Elizabeth Nickles,Liz Nickles

When a successful, 39-year-old New York magazine publisher decides to have a baby, the calendars, thermometers, and sex-on-schedule routine breaks up her marriage. Pregnant Kate dates a big-hearted sportscaster who comes to her Lamaze class. But so does her husband. A rollicking comedy.--People.

Average ratings

N/A