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Recorded Music in American Life

The Phonograph and Popular Memory, 1890-1945

By: William Howland Kenney

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Recorded Music in American Life

The Phonograph and Popular Memory, 1890-1945

By: William Howland Kenney

Have records, compact discs, and other sound reproduction equipment merely provided American listeners with pleasant diversions, or have more important historical and cultural influences flowed through them? Do recording machines simply capture what's already out there, or is the music somehow transformed in the dual process of documentation and dissemination? How would our lives be different without these machines? Such are the questions that arise when we stop taking for granted the phenomenon of recorded music and the phonograph itself. Now comes an in-depth cultural history of the phonograph in the United States from 1890 to 1945. William Howland Kenney offers a full account of what he calls "the 78 r.p.m. era"--from the formative early decades in which the giants of the record industry reigned supreme in the absence of radio, to the postwar proliferation of independent labels, disk jockeys, and changes in popular taste and opinion. By examining the interplay between recorded music and the key social, political, and economic forces in America during the phonograph's rise and fall as the dominant medium of popular recorded sound, he addresses such vital issues as the place of multiculturalism in the phonograph's history, the roles of women as record-player listeners and performers, the belated commercial legitimacy of rhythm-and-blues recordings, the "hit record" phenomenon in the wake of the Great Depression, the origins of the rock-and-roll revolution, and the shifting place of popular recorded music in America's personal and cultural memories. Throughout the book, Kenney argues that the phonograph and the recording industry served neither to impose a preference for high culture nor a degraded popular taste, but rather expressed a diverse set of sensibilities in which various sorts of people found a new kind of pleasure. To this end, Recorded Music in American Life effectively illustrates how recorded music provided the focus for active recorded sound cultures, in which listeners shared what they heard, and expressed crucial dimensions of their private lives, by way of their involvement with records and record-players. Students and scholars of American music, culture, commerce, and history--as well as fans and collectors interested in this phase of our rich artistic past--will find a great deal of thorough research and fresh scholarship to enjoy in these pages.

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Oxford University Press

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019988014X

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Redefining Well-Being in Nations and Organizations

A Process of Improvement

By: Ali Qassim Jawad,William Scott-Jackson

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Redefining Well-Being in Nations and Organizations

A Process of Improvement

By: Ali Qassim Jawad,William Scott-Jackson

Redefining Well-Being in Nations and Organizations is an essential book for researchers, policy makers and managers. It provides a new multi-disciplinary perspective on wellbeing and engagement, reviewing the latest research from several previously unrelated disciplines to develop a process for active committed enthusiasm (PACE), encompassing theory and clarifying the definitions of, and relationships between, wellbeing, engagement and related concepts. PACE allows researchers to model causal relationships, and policy makers and managers to analyze the potential impact of possible interventions. It demonstrates that, as nations, organizations and individuals fulfil their basic material needs, the impact of individual optimism, and other aspects of positive psychology, become paramount in maximizing wellbeing and engagement.

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243

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Springer

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1137572450

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9781137572455

The Nitty-Gritty in the Life of a University

By: William J. Adams

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The Nitty-Gritty in the Life of a University

By: William J. Adams

An esteemed professor and one-time chairman of the mathematics department at New York's Pace University, Adams, interested in all facets of university administration, has produced an almost Jeffersonian volume of correspondence from his tenure. His views on textbook selection, collective bargaining and the proper role of the university have all flowed from his notebook, and no problem was too minute to evade his scope The frivolity of some of these papers is balanced by Adams's opinions on weightier issues, including sexual harassment and compensation in higher education. His approach and forward manner on these situations, despite how genuine, sometimes engendered resentment from his fellow faculty. But for those interested in the particulars of an academic career, this book offers a glimpse of what life may really be like inside the ivory tower. - Kirkus Discoveries-

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445

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Xlibris Corporation

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1425709141

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Buick Muscle Cars

By: William G. Holder Phillip Kunz

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Buick Muscle Cars

By: William G. Holder Phillip Kunz

Design, production, and service histories of our most popular subjects combined with top-notch color photograph.

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130

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1610608364

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9781610608367

Women and Underrepresented Minorities in Computing

A Historical and Social Study

By: William Aspray

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Women and Underrepresented Minorities in Computing

A Historical and Social Study

By: William Aspray

This text examines in detail the issue of the underrepresentation of women, African Americans, American Indians, and Hispanics in the computing disciplines in the U.S. The work reviews the underlying causes, as well as the efforts of various nonprofit organizations to correct the situation, in order to both improve social equity and address the shortage of skilled workers in this area. Topics and features: presents a digest and historical overview of the relevant literature from a range of disciplines, including leading historical and social science sources; discusses the social and political factors that have affected the demographics of the workforce from the end of WWII to the present day; provides historical case studies on organizations that have sought to broaden participation in computing and the STEM disciplines; reviews the different approaches that have been applied to address underrepresentation, at the individual, system-wide, and pathway-focused level; profiles the colleges and universities that have been successful in opening up computer science or engineering to female students; describes the impact of individual change-agents as well as whole organizations.

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Springer

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3319248111

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Related Families of Botetourt County, Virginia

By: John William Austin,Rebecca H. R. Austin

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Related Families of Botetourt County, Virginia

By: John William Austin,Rebecca H. R. Austin

This is the definitive work on Americans taken prisoner during the Revolutionary War. The bulk of the book is devoted to personal accounts, many of them moving, of the conditions endured by U.S. prisoners at the hands of the British, as preserved in journals or diaries kept by physicians, ships' captains, and the prisoners themselves. Of greater genealogical interest is the alphabetical list of 8,000 men who were imprisoned on the British vessel The Old Jersey, which the author copied from the papers of the British War Department and incorporated in the appendix to the work. Also included is a Muster Roll of Captain Abraham Shepherd's Company of Virginia Riflemen and a section on soldiers of the Pennsylvania Flying Camp who perished in prison, 1776-1777.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806350237

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9780806350233

School-Based Interventions for Students with Behavior Problems

By: Julie Bowen,William R. Jenson,Elaine Clark

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School-Based Interventions for Students with Behavior Problems

By: Julie Bowen,William R. Jenson,Elaine Clark

- Although there are several books published on behavioral problems, this is the first book that provides a variety of proven classroom strategies in a step-by-step format that educators can implement and incorporate into their classroom routine and curriculum - A helpful reference and instructional guide of over 100 interventions for managing and reducing behavior and learning problems in children and adolescents - Each intervention is written in an easy-to-follow format, which includes: the targeted behavior, age group, goal, materials needed, implementation steps, and troubleshooting ideas

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1441991026

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9781441991027

Market Structure and Technological Change

By: William Lee Baldwin,John T. Scott

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Market Structure and Technological Change

By: William Lee Baldwin,John T. Scott

This book provides a survey of the theory and of the empirical knowledge about the links between market structure and technological change.

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Psychology Press

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0415269334

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9780415269339

Divided Friends

By: William L. Portier

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Divided Friends

By: William L. Portier

In two sets of intertwined biographical portraits, spanning two generations, Divided Friends dramatizes the theological issues of the modernist crisis, highlighting their personal dimensions and extensively reinterpreting their long-range effects. The four protagonists are Bishop Denis J. O?Connell, Josephite founder John R. Slattery, together with the Paulists William L. Sullivan and Joseph McSorley. Their lives span the decades from the Americanist crisis of the 1890s right up to the eve of Vatican II. In each set, one leaves the church and one stays. The two who leave come to see their former companions as fundamentally dishonest. Divided Friends entails a reinterpretation of the intellectual fallout from the modernist crisis and a reframing of the 20th century debate about Catholic intellectual life.

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CUA Press

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0813221641

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My Best for the Kingdom: History and Autobiography of John Lowe Butler, a Mormon Frontiersman

By: William G. Hartley

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My Best for the Kingdom: History and Autobiography of John Lowe Butler, a Mormon Frontiersman

By: William G. Hartley

My Best for the Kingdom provides a valuable history of several little-known events in early Mormon history--the Church in Tennessee and Kentucky in the 1830s, the Danites in Missouri, Mormon resistance to Missouri persecutions, ... the James Emmett expedition, [and] pioneer Spanish Fork, Utah...John L. Butler's autobiography, given here in full, rivals and adds to the accounts of Hosea Stout and John D. Lee in telling the Mormon story of the 1830s, '40s, and '50s. Butler was a valiant militiaman, missionary, frontiersman, and bishop. A fast-moving, informative, well-researched and well-told account of Mormonism on the frontier...and pioneer Utah.""--Leonard J. Arrington quoted on the back outside jacket. This is the 3rd printing of My Best for the Kingdom (ISBN 978-1-365-73968-2) and is the same as the 2nd printing (ISBN 978-0-9843965-2-8) and 1st printing (ISBN 1-56236-212-7) versions except that the front & end papers (family chart and map) on the previous versions are now included as the final two pages.

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Lulu.com

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1365739686

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9781365739682

Criminal Justice in England and the United States

By: David Hirschel,William Wakefield

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Criminal Justice in England and the United States

By: David Hirschel,William Wakefield

Hirschel and Wakefield provide their readers with an informed and interesting view of two criminal justice systems. The discussion revolves around the history and development of the criminal justice systems of England and the United States. The authors draw comparisions between the two with a view toward policy implications for the administration of criminal justice. The discussion includes areas of law enforcement, judicial systems, correctional systems, and ends with an evaluation of the English criminal justice system and lessons for both the United States and England.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313388490

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9780313388491

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Recorded Music in American Life

Recorded Music in American Life

Redefining Well-Being in Nations and Organizations

Redefining Well-Being in Nations and Organizations

The Nitty-Gritty in the Life of a University

The Nitty-Gritty in the Life of a University

Buick Muscle Cars

Buick Muscle Cars

Women and Underrepresented Minorities in Computing

Women and Underrepresented Minorities in Computing

Related Families of Botetourt County, Virginia

Related Families of Botetourt County, Virginia

School-Based Interventions for Students with Behavior Problems

School-Based Interventions for Students with Behavior Problems

Market Structure and Technological Change

Market Structure and Technological Change

Divided Friends

Divided Friends

My Best for the Kingdom: History and Autobiography of John Lowe Butler, a Mormon Frontiersman

My Best for the Kingdom: History and Autobiography of John Lowe Butler, a Mormon Frontiersman

Criminal Justice in England and the United States

Criminal Justice in England and the United States

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