Street Sounds

Street Sounds
Author: Ziad Fahmy
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 395
Release: 2020-08-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 1503613046

As the twentieth century roared on, transformative technologies—from trains, trams, and automobiles to radios and loudspeakers—fundamentally changed the sounds of the Egyptian streets. The cacophony of everyday life grew louder, and the Egyptian press featured editorials calling for the regulation of not only mechanized and amplified sounds, but also the voices of street vendors, the music of wedding processions, and even the traditional funerary wails. Ziad Fahmy offers the first historical examination of the changing soundscapes of urban Egypt, highlighting the mundane sounds of street life, while "listening" to the voices of ordinary people as they struggle with state authorities for ownership of the streets. Interweaving infrastructural, cultural, and social history, Fahmy analyzes the sounds of modernity, using sounded sources as an analytical tool for examining the past. Street Sounds also reveals a political dimension of noise by demonstrating how the growing middle classes used sound to distinguish themselves from the Egyptian masses. This book contextualizes sound, layering historical analysis with a sensory dimension, bringing us closer to the Egyptian streets as lived and embodied by everyday people.

Power Born of Dreams

Power Born of Dreams
Author: Mohammad Sabaaneh
Publisher:
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2021-09-21
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 9781951491147

What does freedom look like from inside an Israeli prison? The walls of the cell are etched with the names of the prisoners who came before. A bird perches on the cell window and offers a deal: "You bring the pencil, and I will bring the stories," stories of family, of community, of Gaza, of Palestine. Mohammad Sabaaneh brings uses his striking linocut artwork to help the world see Palestinian people as human, not as superheroes or political symbols.

SPIN

SPIN
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 80
Release: 1987-01
Genre:
ISBN:

From the concert stage to the dressing room, from the recording studio to the digital realm, SPIN surveys the modern musical landscape and the culture around it with authoritative reporting, provocative interviews, and a discerning critical ear. With dynamic photography, bold graphic design, and informed irreverence, the pages of SPIN pulsate with the energy of today's most innovative sounds. Whether covering what's new or what's next, SPIN is your monthly VIP pass to all that rocks.

Ed Bullins

Ed Bullins
Author: Samuel A. Hay
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Total Pages: 322
Release: 1997
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780814326169

This book on the prize-winning African American playwright Ed Bullins is the first to chronicle the life and work of the man who dominated the New York theatre scene between 1968 and 1982. With his presentations of street life, Bullins transformed the Protest and Art-theatre traditions founded by W. E. B. DuBois and Alain Locke and made important contributions to black theatre.

Wayfinding and Navigation: Strengths and Weaknesses in Atypical and Clinical Populations

Wayfinding and Navigation: Strengths and Weaknesses in Atypical and Clinical Populations
Author: Chiara Meneghetti
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2020-12-09
Genre: Science
ISBN: 2889661881

This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact.

The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Anthropology of Sound

The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Anthropology of Sound
Author: Holger Schulze
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 577
Release: 2020-12-10
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1501335421

The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Anthropology of Sound presents the key subjects and approaches of anthropological research into sound cultures. What are the common characteristics as well as the inconsistencies of living with and around sound in everyday life? This question drives research in this interdisciplinary area of sound studies: it propels each main chapter of this handbook into a thoroughly different world of listening, experiencing, receiving, sensing, dreaming, naming, desiring, and crafting sound. This handbook is composed of six sections: sonic artifacts; sounds and the body; habitat and sound; sonic desires; sounds and machines; and overarching sensologies. The individual chapters explore exemplary research objects and put them in the context of methodological approaches, historical predecessors, research practices, and contemporary research gaps. This volume offers therefore one of the broadest, most detailed, and instructive overviews on current research in this area of sensory anthropology.

Postfoundational Approaches to Qualitative Inquiry

Postfoundational Approaches to Qualitative Inquiry
Author: Lisa A. Mazzei
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2023-09-29
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1000932117

Postfoundational Approaches to Qualitative Inquiry is an edited collection that aims to move beyond a critique and deconstruction of method in order to present an engagement with various postfoundational frameworks and approaches that produce new concepts and enactments. What makes this book innovative is the singular focus on postfoundational paradigms, borrowed from the humanities and sciences, that are enveloped in what is referred to as the ontological turn, the new empiricisms, and the new materialisms. Postfoundational inquiry is conceived by the editors as emergent, relational, responsive, involuntary, and inventive. While the editors name the facets of these contingent approaches and explain how they work, they do so not in order to fix a new method, but to spur new connectives. In this collection, authors take up a range of postfoundational theories such as poststructuralism, posthumanism, postcolonialism, feminist new materialism, speculative/ new empiricism, agential realism, immanent ontologies, and affect theory. Provoked by a series of reorienting questions, chapters in the book offer enactments as a way of unfurling what is unthought, not yet, and becoming. The chapters are organized according to four Openings: Atmospheres, Affects, and Hauntings; Archives, Worldings, and Sketchings; Escaping Tradition, Beginning Elsewhere, and the Politics of Doing Otherwise; Pre-personal Agencies and Thought Taking Flight. This book can be used as a standalone text in advanced qualitative inquiry courses, or as a supplementary text in courses that examine the use of theory in research.

City of Noise

City of Noise
Author: Aimee Boutin
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2015-05-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0252097262

Beloved as the city of light, Paris in the nineteenth century sparked the acclaim of poets and the odium of the bourgeois with its distinctive sounds. Street vendors bellowed songs known as the Cris de Paris that had been associated with their trades since the Middle Ages; musicians itinerant and otherwise played for change; and flâneurs-writers, fascinated with the city's underside, listened and recorded much about what they heard. Aimée Boutin tours the sonic space that orchestrated the different, often conflicting sound cultures that defined the street ambience of Paris. Mining accounts that range from guidebooks to verse, Boutin braids literary, cultural, and social history to reconstruct a lost auditory environment. Throughout, impressions of street noise shape writers' sense of place and perception of modern social relations. As Boutin shows, the din of the Cris contrasted economic abundance with the disparities of the capital, old and new traditions, and the vibrancy of street commerce with an increasing bourgeois demand for quiet. In time, peddlers who provided the soundtrack for Paris's narrow streets yielded to modernity, with its taciturn shopkeepers and wide-open boulevards, and the fading songs of the Cris became a dirge for the passing of old ways.

Theatre Sound

Theatre Sound
Author: John A. Leonard
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2001-06-26
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1136746498

Theatre Sound includes a brief history of the use of sound in the theatre, discussions of musicals, sound effects, and the recording studio, and even an introduction to the physics and math of sound design. A bibliography and online reference section make this the new essential work for students of theatre and practicing sound designers.

Yet Again

Yet Again
Author: Max Beerbohm
Publisher: Namaskar Book
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2024-02-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Immerse yourself in the wit and charm of Max Beerbohm's writing with "Yet Again." Join Max Beerbohm as he regales readers with a collection of essays and reflections that showcase his keen observations and delightful humor. As Beerbohm invites you into his world, prepare to be entertained by his unique perspective on life, literature, and the human condition. From witty anecdotes to insightful commentary, each essay in "Yet Again" offers a glimpse into the mind of one of the great literary humorists of the 20th century. But amidst the laughter and levity, a deeper truth emerges: the enduring relevance of Beerbohm's wit and wisdom. Prepare to be charmed by his timeless observations on art, society, and the quirks of human nature. Hook: Will Beerbohm's wit and wisdom stand the test of time, yet again? Experience the joy of Max Beerbohm's prose in "Yet Again." With each essay, you'll find yourself drawn deeper into a world of humor, insight, and literary delight. Join Max Beerbohm on a journey of wit and whimsy in "Yet Again." Will you be enchanted by his clever turns of phrase and astute observations? Discover the timeless appeal of Max Beerbohm's writing in this delightful collection. Whether you're a fan of satire or simply appreciate a well-turned phrase, "Yet Again" promises to entertain and delight. Are you ready to rediscover the joy of Max Beerbohm's writing? Order your copy of "Yet Again by Max Beerbohm" today and experience the wit and charm of one of literature's great humorists. Indulge in literary wit. Purchase your copy now.