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Les sources du plain-chant et de la musique médiévale

Les sources du plain-chant et de la musique médiévale

The origin and development of Western plainchant and of the genres of liturgical book in which it is recorded have occupied Michel Huglo throughout his long career which has taken him to libraries in every corner of Europe and the United States. This volume the first in a set of four to appear in the Variorum series brings together analyses of manuscripts dating from the 9th to the 13th century including Huglo's pathbreaking studies of the antiphoner of Compiègne the first troper-prosers and of alleluia lists as clues to place of origin. The consequences of the Treaty of Verdun (843) for the diffusion of the plainchant repertory research in medieval musicology in the 20th century the utility of codicology for musicological manuscript studies and the critical edition of the Gregorian antiphoner are addressed in other studies included here. Les origines et le développement du plain-chant en Occident et l'étude des genres de livres liturgiques qui le contiennent ont occupé Michel Huglo durant sa longue carrière et l'ont conduit visiter des bibliothèques partout en Europe et aux Etats-Unis. Ce volume le premier d'une série de quatre dans la collection Variorum comprend des analyses de manuscrits du neuvième au treizième siècle notamment des études novatrices relan§ant les recherches sur l'antiphonaire de Compiègne les premiers tropaires-prosaires et les listes d'alleluias comme moyen d'identification des manuscrits de chant. Les conséquences du traité de Verdun (843) pour la diffusion du répertoire de plain-chant les recherches en musicologie médiévale au XXe siècle l'application des méthodes de la codicologie l'étude des manuscrits notés et l'édition critique de l'Antiphonaire grégorien forment les sujets d'autres études réunies dans ce volume. | Les sources du plain-chant et de la musique médiévale

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Illustrated Souls of Black Folk

Illustrated Souls of Black Folk

This prophetic statement made by W. E. B. Du Bois over a century ago is from The Souls of Black Folk. One hundred years later Souls remains the most important treatment of African-American life and culture published in the twentieth century. Richly illustrated this special edition of Du Bois's seminal work includes historical woodcuts and engravings photos and documents. Most of the photos engravings and documents are from the 19th and early 20th century and depict American slavery and its legacy African-American life and the prominent figures and events associated with the book's content. Assembled by Eugene F. Provenzo Jr. this illustrated edition of The Souls of Black Folk also offers extensive annotations commentary and related materials from government the media advertising and popular culture. Documents include the Act Establishing the Freedman's Bureau Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Exposition Speech W. E. B. Du Bois's essay The Talented Tenth Ida B. Wells-Barnett's The Lynch Law in Georgia W. E. B. Du Bois's report The Negro in the Black Belt Alexander Crummell's sermon Common Sense and Schooling W. E. B. Du Bois's story The Black Man Brings His Gifts Thomas Wentworth Higginson's article Negro Spirituals and more. | Illustrated Souls of Black Folk

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Medieval Narbonne A City at the Heart of the Troubadour World

Medieval Narbonne A City at the Heart of the Troubadour World

This volume presents a series of studies by Jacqueline Caille acknowledged as the leading expert on medieval Narbonne which chart the development and history of the city from its Roman origins to its decline in the late Middle Ages. They focus on the period of Narbonne's heyday from the mid-11th to the mid-14th centuries and a central place is held by Ermengarde viscountess for half the 12th century and celebrated figure in the 'world of the troubadours'. The book opens with an important new introductory survey in English setting the context for the detailed studies which follow several of which also appear in English for the first time and all being updated with additional notes. These articles cover the physical growth of the great medieval centre the relations and conflicts between its secular and ecclesiastical lords its administrative and religious life and its political and commercial connections with the areas around. Ce volume regroupe une série d'études de Jacqueline Caille spécialiste reconnue de l'histoire de Narbonne au Moyen Age. L'antique cité y est présentée depuis ses origines romaines jusqu' la fin du XVe siècle en insistant particulièrement sur la période la plus brillante des siècles médiévaux du milieu du XIe au milieu du XIVe siècle. Le recueil s'ouvre par un long survol historique inédit en anglais brossant le contexte général o¹ s'insèrent les études spécialisées qui suivent réactualisées par des notes additionnelles. Les principaux thèmes pouvant ªtre dégagés des ces articles concernent le développement topographique de cette grande ville médiévale les relations et les conflits entre les seigneurs qui la dirigent (archevªques et vicomtes) la vie administrative et religieuse de l'agglomération ainsi que ses relations politiques et commerciales avec les régions environnantes. Enfin une place de choix est faite l'une des éminentes figures du monde des troubadours la victomtesse | Medieval Narbonne A City at the Heart of the Troubadour World

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On African-American Rhetoric

On African-American Rhetoric

On African-American Rhetoric traces the arc of strategic language use by African Americans from rhetorical forms such as slave narratives and the spirituals to Black digital expression and contemporary activism. The governing idea is to illustrate the basic call-response process of African-American culture and to demonstrate how this dynamic has been and continues to be central to the language used by African Americans to make collective cultural and political statements. Ranging across genres and disciplines including rhetorical theory poetry fiction folklore speeches music film pedagogy and memes Gilyard and Banks consider language developments that have occurred both inside and outside of organizations and institutions. Along with paying attention to recent events this book incorporates discussion of important forerunners who have carried the rhetorical baton. These include Frederick Douglass Harriet Jacobs Sojourner Truth Anna Julia Cooper W. E. B. Du Bois Zora Neale Hurston Malcolm X Martin Luther King Jr. Toni Cade Bambara Molefi Asante Alice Walker and Geneva Smitherman. Written for students and professionals alike this book is powerful and instructive regarding the long African-American quest for freedom and dignity.

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Pina Bausch’s Aggressive Tenderness Repurposing Theater through Dance

Pina Bausch’s Aggressive Tenderness Repurposing Theater through Dance

Pina Bausch’s Aggressive Tenderness: Repurposing Theater through Dance maps Bausch’s pieces alongside methodologies of key theater and film practitioners. This book includes discussion of a variety of Bausch pieces including Sacre du Printemps (Rite of Spring 1975) Kontakthof (Meeting Place 1978) Café Müller (Café Mueller 1978) Nelken (Carnations 1982) Arien (Arias 1985) and Vollmond (Full Moon 2006). Beginning with her approach as one avenue of dance dramaturgy the author connects the content expressed in these pieces with theoretical conversations works from other artists inspired by Bausch and her own experiences providing an examination that is both academic and personally insightful. Arendell reads all of these theatrical and film approaches into Bausch’s work to highlight how the time frame involves a cross-pollination between Bausch and the other artists that looks both backward and forward in its influences. Ideal for students of dance and theater Pina Bausch’s Aggressive Tenderness shows how Bausch’s Tanztheater speaks a kinaesthetic language one that Arendell translates into a somaesthetic exploration to pair a repurposed body ethic with movements that present new forms of embodiment. | Pina Bausch’s Aggressive Tenderness Repurposing Theater through Dance

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Kwame Anthony Appiah

Kwame Anthony Appiah

This clear and engaging introduction is the first book to assess the ideas of Kwame Anthony Appiah the Ghanaian-British philosopher who is a leading public intellectual today. The book focuses on the theme of ‘identity’ and is structured around five main topics corresponding to the subjects of his major works: race culture liberalism cosmopolitanism and moral revolutions. This helpful book: • Teaches students about the sources opportunities and dilemmas of personal and social identity—whether on the basis of race gender sexuality or class among others—in the purview of Appiah. • Locates Appiah within a broader tradition of intellectual engagement with these issues—involving such thinkers as W. E. B. Du Bois John Stuart Mill and Martha Nussbaum—and thus how Appiah is both an inheritor and innovator of preceding ideas. • Seeks to inspire students on how to approach and negotiate identity politics in the present. This book ultimately imparts a more diverse and wider-reaching geographic sense of philosophy through the lens of Appiah and his intellectual contributions as well as emphasizing the continuing social relevance of philosophy and critical theory more generally to everyday life today.

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Sensing the World An Anthropology of the Senses

Sensing the World An Anthropology of the Senses

Sensing the World: An Anthropology of the Senses is a highly original and comprehensive overview of the anthropology and sociology of the body and the senses. Discussing each sense in turn – seeing hearing touch smell and taste – Le Breton has written a truly monumental work vast in scope and deeply engaging in style. Among other pioneering moves he gives equal attention to light and darkness sound and silence and his disputation of taste explores aspects of disgust and revulsion. Part phenomenological part historical this is above all a cultural account of perception which returns the body and the senses to the center of social life. Le Breton is the leading authority on the anthropology of the body and the senses in French academia. With a repute comparable to the late Pierre Bourdieu his 30+ books have been translated into numerous languages. This is the first of his works to be made available in English. This sensuously nuanced translation of La Saveur du monde is accompanied by a spicy preface from series editor David Howes who introduces Le Breton's work to an English-speaking audience and highlights its implications for the disciplines of anthropology sociology and the cross-disciplinary field of sensory studies. | Sensing the World An Anthropology of the Senses

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New Directions in Children's Gothic Debatable Lands

New Directions in Children's Gothic Debatable Lands

Children’s literature today is dominated by the gothic mode and it is in children’s gothic fictions that we find the implications of cultural change most radically questioned and explored. This collection of essays looks at what is happening in the children’s Gothic now when traditional monsters have become the heroes when new monsters have come into play when globalisation brings Harry Potter into China and yaoguai into the children’s Gothic and when childhood itself and children’s literature as a genre can no longer be thought of as an uncontested space apart from the debates and power struggles of an adult domain. We look in detail at series such as The Mortal Instruments Twilight Chaos Walking The Power of Five Skulduggery Pleasant and Cirque du Freak; at novels about witches and novels about changelings; at the Gothic in China Japan and Oceania; and at authors including Celia Rees Frances Hardinge Alan Garner and Laini Taylor amongst many others. At a time when the energies and anxieties of children’s novels can barely be contained anymore within the genre of children’s literature spilling over into YA and adult literature we need to pay attention. Weird things are happening and they matter. | New Directions in Children's Gothic Debatable Lands

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French Grammar in Context

French Grammar in Context

Now in its fifth edition French Grammar in Context presents a unique and exciting approach to learning grammar. Authentic texts from a rich variety of sources literary and journalistic are used as the starting point for the illustration and explanation of key areas of French grammar. Each point is consolidated with a wide range of written and spoken exercises. Grammar is presented not as an end in itself but as a tool essential to enjoying French understanding native speakers and communicating effectively with them. Literary texts and poems are taken from renowned French authors such as Albert Camus Émile Zola André Malraux Alain Robbe-Grillet Stendhal and Jacques Prévert. News sources include Libération Le Point Marianne and Le Monde Diplomatique in addition to articles from regional papers such as Ouest-France and La Voix du Nord. Lifestyle articles are included from magazines such as Elle. This fifth edition has been updated to include new texts for Chapters 24 and 25 and two new revision texts. In addition this new edition is supported by a revised and extended companion website that offers a wealth of additional interactive exercises to practise and reinforce the material covered. French Grammar in Context is aimed at intermediate and advanced students and is ideal for both independent and class-based study.

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Contesting ‘Race’ and Sport Shaming the Colour Line

Contesting ‘Race’ and Sport Shaming the Colour Line

In the decade since Kevin Hylton’s seminal book ‘Race’ and Sport: Critical Race Theory was published racialised issues have remained at the forefront of sport and leisure studies. In this important new book Hylton draws on original research in contemporary contexts from sport coaching to cyberspace to show once again that Critical Race Theory is an insightful and productive tool for interrogating problematic social phenomena. Inspired by W. E. B. Du Bois’ statement that the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the colour line this book sheds a critical light on the way sport perpetuates racism while identifying opportunities to challenge its insidious presence. Exploring and explaining the ways in which notions of ‘race’ are expressed and contested at individual institutional and societal levels it addresses key topics such as whiteness diversity colourblindness unconscious bias identity leadership humour and discourse to investigate how language can be used as a device for resistance against racism in sport. Contesting ‘Race’ and Sport: Shaming the Colour Line is vital reading for all sport studies students academics and those with an interest in race ethnicity and society. Chapter 7 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license. | Contesting ‘Race’ and Sport Shaming the Colour Line

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What Makes a Philosopher Great? Thirteen Arguments for Twelve Philosophers

What Makes a Philosopher Great? Thirteen Arguments for Twelve Philosophers

This book is inspired by a single powerful question. What is it to be great as a philosopher? No single grand answer is presumed to be possible; instead rewardingly close studies of philosophical greatness are developed. This is a scholarly yet accessible volume blending metaphilosophy with the long history of philosophy and traversing centuries and continents. The result is a series of case studies by accomplished scholars each chapter trying to understand and convey a particular philosopher’s greatness: Lloyd P. Gerson on Plato Karyn Lai on Zhuangzi David Bronstein on Aristotle Jonardon Ganeri on Buddhaghosa Jeffrey Hause on Aquinas Gary Hatfield on Descartes Karen Detlefsen on du Chtelet Don Garrett on Hume Allen Wood on Kant (as a moral philosopher) Nicholas F. Stang on Kant (as a metaphysician) Ken Gemes on Nietzsche Cheryl Misak on Peirce David Macarthur on Wittgenstein This also serves a larger philosophical purpose. Might we gain increased clarity about what philosophy is in the first place? After all in practice we individuate philosophy partly through its greatest practitioners’ greatest contributions. The book does not discuss every philosopher who has been regarded as great. The point is not to offer a definitive list of The Great Philosophers but rather to learn something about what great philosophy is and might be from illuminated examples of past greatness. | What Makes a Philosopher Great? Thirteen Arguments for Twelve Philosophers

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Sociology and Military Studies Classical and Current Foundations

Sociology and Military Studies Classical and Current Foundations

This book examines the connection between sociology and the challenges faced by the modern military. Military sociology has received little attention in the broader academic world and is mostly focused on civil-military relations. This book seeks to address this gap and combines ideas theories and insights from sociology’s founding authors with each chapter focusing on a specific thinker. There are chapters on Max Weber Emile Durkheim Karl Marx Georg Simmel Jane Addams W. E. B. Du Bois Erving Goffman Michel Foucault Morris Janowitz Norbert Elias Cornelis Lammers Arlie Russell Hochschild Cynthia Enloe and Bruno Latour and each essay discusses their ideas and theories in relation to topics that are of concern in and around the military today. Military studies are taken in a broad sense here so the volume encompasses a wide range of issues including civil-military relations military-political affairs performance and outcomes of military operations and organizational arrangements including technology and the composition performance and well-being of personnel. The book intends to provide views and insights that will help the military to innovate their organizations and practices not necessarily in the usual functional way of innovating (i. e. faster more precise etc. ) but in a broader way. This book will be of great interest to students of sociology military studies civil-military relations war and conflict studies and IR in general. | Sociology and Military Studies Classical and Current Foundations

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The Theoretical Foundations of Criminology Place Time and Context

The Theoretical Foundations of Criminology Place Time and Context

To confront the challenges criminologists face today and to satisfactorily critique the theories on which criminology is founded we need to learn from the past. To do this we must give context to both theorist and theory. Written from a critical perspective this book brings criminological theory to life. It presents the core theories of criminology as historical and cultural products and theorists as producers of culture located in particular places writing in specific historical periods and situated in precise intellectual networks and philosophical controversies. This book illustrates that theory does not arise ‘out of the blue’ and highlights the importance of understanding how and why ideas emerge at certain points in time why they gained currency and the influence that they have had. It follows the trajectory of criminology from pre-Enlightenment society through to the present day and the proliferation of criminological thinking. It explores: Setting the Stage for the Emergence of Criminology Classicist Criminology: The Search for Justice Equality and the Rational ‘Man’ The Positivist Revolution Physiognomy Phrenology and the Science of ‘Othering’ Chicago School of Sociology: An Explosion of Ideas Developing a Sociological Criminology: Durkheim Du Bois Merton and Tannenbaum Feminism: Redressing the Gender Imbalance Confronting the Establishment: The Emergence of Critical Criminology From Theoretical Innovations to Political Engagement The Theoretical Foundations of Criminology provides an invaluable contribution to the growing conversation about criminology’s ‘origin story’ and the level that this is grounded in the idiosyncrasies of the North Atlantic world and its historical development. This book will be invaluable reading to students and academics engaged in studies of criminology and criminal justice. | The Theoretical Foundations of Criminology Place Time and Context

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Does the U.S. Need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission? A Philosophical Investigation

Does the U.S. Need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission? A Philosophical Investigation

Written from the perspective of a philosopher and African immigrant this book makes a forceful moral argument for the need for a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in the United States to address the long history of injustice to African-Americans. It shows that a TRC—similar to those established in South Africa and Chile—would rescue the ideals embodied in the U. S. Constitution while expanding their promise. Rejecting more recent views of the country’s founding as an embodiment of incorrigible racial oppression Olúfẹmi Táíwò sees in the U. S. Constitution and the original utopia that was at its foundation the best available means for achieving liberty and justice. But he simultaneously shows how only a TRC can successfully open the path to moving the U. S. past its long legacy of anti-black racism in particular and racial oppression generally towards a more perfect union. Written with an immigrant’s love of his new homeland but a clear-eyed view of its major shortcomings the book rejects the idea of American exceptionalism in prescribing a solution that has worked elsewhere. Key Features A clear view of the wide chasm between the ideals established at the U. S. ’s founding and the subsequent society that developed. Combines first-person experiences of the author with close readings of modern political philosophy W. E. B. Du Bois Martin Luther King Jr. Derrick Bell and others. Traces the link between the denial of citizenship to Blacks both historically and today and anti-Black violence. Shows how an obsession with the law and legal reform will never adequately address the fundamental problem of anti-Black oppression. Shows philosophically the necessity of establishing a consensual view of the truth and how it must precede any effective reconciliation. | Does the U. S. Need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission? A Philosophical Investigation

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Ibbs and Tillett The Rise and Fall of a Musical Empire

Ibbs and Tillett The Rise and Fall of a Musical Empire

For the greater part of the twentieth century Ibbs and Tillett's concert agency was to the British music industry what Marks and Spencer is to the world of the department store. The roll-call of famous musicians on its books was unmatched and included such international stars as Clara Butt Fritz Kreisler Pablo Casals Sergei Rachmaninov Andr Segovia Kathleen Ferrier Myra Hess Jacqueline du Pr Clifford Curzon and Vladimir Ashkenazy to name but a handful. From 1906 the success of the company was due to the dedication of its founders Robert Leigh Ibbs and John Tillett. After their deaths the agency was run by the latter's wife Emmie who dubbed the 'Duchess of Wigmore Street' became one of the most formidable yet respected women in British music. The history of this unique institution and its owners is told here for the first time often through the fascinating letters that were exchanged between the artists themselves and the agency. It begins in the latter years of the 19th century with the concert and theatrical manager Narciso Vert for whom both Ibbs and Tillett worked until his death in 1905. The story then becomes a history of musical life in twentieth-century Britain illuminating aspects of the day-to-day management of concerts and festivals the lives and livelihoods of professional musicians as well as those who strove to join their ranks through audition or recommendation. The changing profile and particularly the onset and development of personal management of artists represented by Ibbs and Tillett and their reception in the press can be viewed as a barometer of musical taste. The demise of the agency in 1990 was indicative of just how much the world of British music had changed by the end of the century but despite its loss to the profession the legacy and influence of Ibbs and Tillett has remained a benchmark in today's highly competitive world of artist management and concert promotion many of whose principal operators began | Ibbs and Tillett The Rise and Fall of a Musical Empire

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