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Acoustic Blues Guitar Styles

Acoustic Blues Guitar Styles

Acoustic Blues Guitar Styles is an introduction to fingerstyle acoustic blues guitar the style made popular by Robert Johnson Bill Broonzy and Mance Lipscomb. Following the success of the popular Acoustic Guitar Styles Larry Sandberg’s Acoustic Blues Guitar Styles is an instructional book geared towards the intermediate guitar player not only to teach fingerstyle blues technique but also to approach the music creatively and with feeling and rhythm. Part One teaches you the preliminaries such as reading a chord chart and working out a 12-bar blues in different keys. Part Two teaches you touch timing and basic fingerpicking technique. Part Three teaches you how to play stylistically with lessons on how to incorporate bends vibrato alternating bassnotes and rhythmic variations into your playing. All musical exercises are presented in both standard notation and tablature and are supported by audio tracks. Customers purchasing the eBook version of this title will be able to download the supporting audio tracks. Instructions on downloading the files can be found on the contents page.

GBP 105.00
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How Britain Got the Blues: The Transmission and Reception of American Blues Style in the United Kingdom

How Britain Got the Blues: The Transmission and Reception of American Blues Style in the United Kingdom

This book explores how and why the blues became a central component of English popular music in the 1960s. It is commonly known that many 'British invasion' rock bands were heavily influenced by Chicago and Delta blues styles. But how exactly did Britain get the blues? Blues records by African American artists were released in the United States in substantial numbers between 1920 and the late 1930s but were sold primarily to black consumers in large urban centres and the rural south. How then in an era before globalization when multinational record releases were rare did English teenagers in the early 1960s encounter the music of Robert Johnson Blind Boy Fuller Memphis Minnie and Barbecue Bob? Roberta Schwartz analyses the transmission of blues records to England from the first recordings to hit English shores to the end of the sixties. How did the blues largely banned from the BBC until the mid 1960s become popular enough to create a demand for re-released material by American artists? When did the British blues subculture begin and how did it develop? Most significantly how did the music become a part of the popular consciousness and how did it change music and expectations? The way that the blues and various blues styles were received by critics is a central concern of the book as their writings greatly affected which artists and recordings were distributed and reified particularly in the early years of the revival. 'Hot' cultural issues such as authenticity assimilation appropriation and cultural transgression were also part of the revival; these topics and more were interrogated in music periodicals by critics and fans alike even as English musicians began incorporating elements of the blues into their common musical language. The vinyl record itself under-represented in previous studies plays a major part in the story of the blues in Britain. Not only did recordings shape perceptions and listening habits but which artists were available at any given time also had an enormous impact on the British blues. Schwartz maps the influences on British blues and blues-rock performers and thereby illuminates the stylistic evolution of many genres of British popular music. | How Britain Got the Blues: The Transmission and Reception of American Blues Style in the United Kingdom

GBP 48.99
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A Blues Bibliography Second Edition: Volume 2

A Blues Bibliography Second Edition: Volume 2

This book provides a sequel to Robert Ford's comprehensive reference work A Blues Bibliography the second edition of which was published in 2007. Bringing Ford's bibliography of resources up to date this volume covers works published since 2005 complementing the first volume by extending coverage through twelve years of new publications. As in the previous volume this work includes entries on the history and background of the blues instruments record labels reference sources regional variations and lyric transcriptions and musical analysis. With extensive listings of print and online articles in scholarly and trade journals books and recordings this bibliography offers the most thorough resource for all researchers studying the blues. | A Blues Bibliography Second Edition: Volume 2

GBP 38.99
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English Rhythm and Blues Where Language and Music Come Together

English Rhythm and Blues Where Language and Music Come Together

Patrice Larroque hypothesizes that early blues singers may have been influenced by the trochaic rhythm of English. English is stressed and timed which means that there is a regular beat to the language just like there is a beat in a blues song. This regular beat falls on important words in the sentence and unimportant ones do not get stressed. They are “squeezed” between the salient words to keep the rhythm. The apparent contradiction between the fundamentally trochaic rhythm of spoken English and the syncopated ternary rhythm of blues may be resolved as the stressed syllables of the trochee (a stressed-unstressed sequence) is naturally lengthened and assumes the role of one strongly and one weakly stressed syllable in a ternary rhythm. The book suggests investigating the rhythm of English and the rhythm of blues in order to show how the linguistic rhythm of a culture can be reflected in the rhythm of its music. | English Rhythm and Blues Where Language and Music Come Together

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Persian Blues Psychoanalysis and Mourning

Persian Blues Psychoanalysis and Mourning

In Persian Blues Psychoanalysis and Mourning Gohar Homayounpour plays a theme and variations on loss love and family against the backdrop of Iran’s chaotic recent past. Homayounpour is simultaneously Shahrzad the fearless storyteller and Shahrzad’s analyst: subjecting fairy tales to fierce new insights while weaving an indigo thread through her own devastation on the death of her father and the wonders and horrors of motherhood. A blue thread or melody runs though the separations and emigrations of her family and patients driven or broken apart by war and likewise through the fraught world inhabited by Persian women. This book breaks new psychoanalytic ground offering a radical rejection of traditional clichés about Iran and Iranian women but its unsparing elegance transcends any political agenda bridging the ocean of a shared and tragic humanity. Persian Blues Psychoanalysis and Mourning will be of great interest to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytically informed readers as well as those interested in grief Iran and women’s experiences.

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The Periodical Press Revolution E. S. Dallas and the Nineteenth-Century British Media System

The Periodical Press Revolution E. S. Dallas and the Nineteenth-Century British Media System

This book explores a key aspect of journalism history from a sociological perspective: the rise of the periodical press. With a focus not on the economic and technological causes of this revolution but on the social and political consequences the book takes a global look at this key development in the British press. Taking as a point of departure the theory of E. S. Dallas who defined the periodical as 'the great event in modern history' the book explores these premises and conclusions regarding authorship publishing and readership considering the nineteenth century as a whole. After an introductory section discussing questions of theory and method the analysis first offers an overview of the quantitative growth of the periodical market whether measured in terms of publications readership or authorship before turning to a more detailed consideration of its qualitative determinants and effects again distinguishing the same three aspects. Offering new insight into this key turning point in journalism history this book will be of interest to all students and scholars of journalism and journalism history media history media and communication studies British history and modern history. | The Periodical Press Revolution E. S. Dallas and the Nineteenth-Century British Media System

GBP 130.00
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Music and Irish Identity Celtic Tiger Blues

Music and Irish Identity Celtic Tiger Blues

Music and Irish Identity represents the latest stage in a life-long project for Gerry Smyth focusing here on the ways in which music engages with particular aspects of Irish identity. The nature of popular music and the Irish identity it supposedly articulates have both undergone profound change in recent years: the first as a result of technological and wider industrial changes in the organisation and dissemination of music as seen for example with digital platforms such as YouTube Spotify and iTunes. A second factor has been Ireland’s spectacular fall from economic grace after the demise of the Celtic Tiger and the ensuing crisis of national identity. Smyth argues that if as the stereotypical association would have it the Irish have always been a musical race then that association needs re-examination in the light of developments in relation to both cultural practice and political identity. This book contributes to that process through a series of related case studies that are both scholarly and accessible. Some of the principal ideas broached in the text include the (re-)establishment of music as a key object of Irish cultural studies; the theoretical limitations of traditional musicology; the development of new methodologies specifically designed to address the demands of Irish music in all its aspects; and the impact of economic austerity on musical negotiations of Irish identity. The book will be of seminal importance to all those interested in popular music cultural studies and the wider fate of Ireland in the twenty-first century. | Music and Irish Identity Celtic Tiger Blues

GBP 39.99
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To Be Gifted and Learning Disabled Strength-Based Strategies for Helping Twice-Exceptional Students With LD ADHD ASD and More

To Be Gifted and Learning Disabled Strength-Based Strategies for Helping Twice-Exceptional Students With LD ADHD ASD and More

To Be Gifted and Learning Disabled is one of the most popular resources available on identifying and meeting the needs of twice-exceptional students. This updated third edition provides a comprehensive look at the complex world of students with remarkable gifts talents and interests who simultaneously face learning attention or social challenges from LD ADHD ASD and other disorders. Through case studies and years of research the authors present a rationale for using a strength-based talent-focused approach to meeting the needs of this special population. From a thorough description of twice-exceptionality and the unique learning patterns of these students to strategies for identification comprehensive programming talent development and instructional strategies this book explores the distinguishing strengths (yellows) and complex challenges (blues) that these students face. In painting green is a mix of yellows and blues. Because of their individual characteristics twice-exceptional students come in a remarkable range of greens. 2018 NAGC Book of the Year Award Winner | To Be Gifted and Learning Disabled Strength-Based Strategies for Helping Twice-Exceptional Students With LD ADHD ASD and More

GBP 26.99
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August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone

August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone

Herald Loomis you shining! You shining like new money! - Bynum Walker August Wilson considered Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (1984) to be his favourite play of the ten in his award-winning Pittsburgh Cycle. It is a drama that truly examines the roots crossroads and intersections of African American and African American culture. Its characters and choral griots interweave the intricate tropes of migration from the south to the north the effects of slavery black feminism and masculinity and Wilson's theme of finding one's song or identity. This book gives readers an overview of the work from its inception on through its revisions and stagings in regional theatres and on Broadway exploring its use of African American vernacular genres—blues music folk songs folk tales and dance—and nineteenth-century southern post-Reconstruction history. Ladrica Menson-Furr presents Joe Turner's Come and Gone as a historical drama a blues drama an American drama a Great Migration drama and the finest example of Wilson's gift for relocating the African American experience in urban southern cities at the beginning and not the end of the African American experience. | August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone

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Analyzing and Securing Social Networks

Analyzing and Securing Social Networks

Analyzing and Securing Social Networks focuses on the two major technologies that have been developed for online social networks (OSNs): (i) data mining technologies for analyzing these networks and extracting useful information such as location demographics and sentiments of the participants of the network and (ii) security and privacy technologies that ensure the privacy of the participants of the network as well as provide controlled access to the information posted and exchanged by the participants. The authors explore security and privacy issues for social media systems analyze such systems and discuss prototypes they have developed for social media systems whose data are represented using semantic web technologies. These experimental systems have been developed at The University of Texas at Dallas. The material in this book together with the numerous references listed in each chapter have been used for a graduate-level course at The University of Texas at Dallas on analyzing and securing social media. Several experimental systems developed by graduate students are also provided. The book is divided into nine main sections: (1) supporting technologies (2) basics of analyzing and securing social networks (3) the authors’ design and implementation of various social network analytics tools (4) privacy aspects of social networks (5) access control and inference control for social networks (6) experimental systems designed or developed by the authors on analyzing and securing social networks (7) social media application systems developed by the authors (8) secure social media systems developed by the authors and (9) some of the authors’ exploratory work and further directions.

GBP 42.99
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Beggars Banquet and the Rolling Stones' Rock and Roll Revolution ‘They Call My Name Disturbance'

Beggars Banquet and the Rolling Stones' Rock and Roll Revolution ‘They Call My Name Disturbance'

The Rolling Stones’ Beggars Banquet is one of the seminal albums in rock history. Arguably it not only marks the advent of the ‘mature’ sound of the Rolling Stones but lays out a new blueprint for an approach to blues-based rock music that would endure for several decades. From its title to the dark themes that pervade some of its songs Beggars Banquet reflected and helped define a moment marked by violence decay and upheaval. It marked a move away from the artistic sonic flourishes of psychedelic rock towards an embrace of foundational streams of American music – blues country – that had always underpinned the music of the Stones but assumed new primacy in their music after 1968. This move coincided with and anticipated the ‘roots’ moves that many leading popular music artists made as the 1960s turned toward a new decade; but unlike many of their peers whose music grew more ‘soft’ and subdued as they embraced traditional styles the music and attitude of the Stones only grew harder and more menacing and their status as representatives of the dark underside of the 60s rock counterculture assumed new solidity. For the Rolling Stones the 1960s ended and the 1970s began with the release of this album in 1968. | Beggars Banquet and the Rolling Stones' Rock and Roll Revolution ‘They Call My Name Disturbance'

GBP 38.99
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Disability and Accessibility in the Music Classroom A Teacher's Guide

Disability and Accessibility in the Music Classroom A Teacher's Guide

Disability and Accessibility in the Music Classroom provides college music history instructors with a concise guide on how to create an accessible and inclusive classroom environment. In addition to providing a concise overview of disability studies highlighting definitions theories and national and international policies related to disability this book offers practical applications for implementing accessibility measures in the music history classroom. The latter half of this text provides case studies of well-known disabled composers and musicians from the Western Art Music canon from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century as well as popular music genres such as the blues jazz R&B pop country and hip hop. These examples provide opportunities to integrate discussions of disability into a standard music history curriculum. | Disability and Accessibility in the Music Classroom A Teacher's Guide

GBP 48.99
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Roots Music

Roots Music

When we talk about roots music what do we mean and what is at stake? Ethnomusicologist Mark F. DeWitt delves into these questions in an introductory bibliographic essay and selects twenty-one articles published between 1974 and 2010 that have advanced our knowledge and insight about this topic. The collection focuses on the nexus between popular musics in North America and Europe and the traditional musics that have been their foundation on both the real and imagined connections between the present and past: Olly Wilson and Gerhard Kubik on African American music Aaron Fox on country music Eric Lott on blackface minstrelsy Barry Shank on the elusive Bob Dylan. Works by Sara Cohen Beverley Diamond Peter Manuel Svanibor Pettan and others range on subjects from the accordion balladry and blues to Bulgarian folk orchestras flamenco gospel Irish sessions Native American women musicians the Roma Tex-Mex music and zydeco.

GBP 42.99
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Rock: The Primary Text Developing a Musicology of Rock

Rock: The Primary Text Developing a Musicology of Rock

This thoroughly revised third edition of Allan F. Moore's ground-breaking book now co-authored with Remy Martin incorporates new material on rock music theory style change and the hermeneutic method developed in Moore’s Song Means (2012). An even larger array of musicians is discussed bringing the book right into the 21st century. Rock's 'primary text' – its sounds – is the focus of attention here. The authors argue for the development of a musicology particular to rock within the context of the background to the genres the beat and rhythm and blues styles of the early 1960s 'progressive' rock punk rock metal and subsequent styles. They also explore the fundamental issue of rock as a medium for self-expression and the relationship of this to changing musical styles. Rock: The Primary Text remains innovative in its exploration of an aesthetics of rock. | Rock: The Primary Text Developing a Musicology of Rock

GBP 36.99
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Hip-Hop Authenticity and the London Scene Living Out Authenticity in Popular Music

Hip-Hop Authenticity and the London Scene Living Out Authenticity in Popular Music

This book explores the highly-valued and often highly-charged ideal of authenticity in hip-hop — what it is why it is important and how it affects the day-to-day life of rap artists. By analyzing the practices identities and struggles that shape the lives of rappers in the London scene the study exposes the strategies and tactics that hip-hop practitioners engage in to negotiate authenticity on an everyday basis. In-depth interviews and fieldwork provide insight into the nature of authenticity in global hip-hop and the dynamics of cultural appropriation globalization marketization and digitization through a combined set of ethnographic theoretical and cultural analysis. Despite growing attention to authenticity in popular music this book is the first to offer a comprehensive theoretical model explaining the reflexive approaches hip-hop artists adopt to ‘live out’ authenticity in everyday life. This model will act as a blueprint for new studies in global hip-hop and be generative in other authenticity research and for other music genres such as punk rock and roll country and blues that share similar issues surrounding contested artist authenticity. | Hip-Hop Authenticity and the London Scene Living Out Authenticity in Popular Music

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Art Into Pop

Art Into Pop

This book first published in 1987 tells the intriguing and culturally complex story of the art school influence on postwar British popular music. Following Romantic attitudes from life class to recording studio it focuses on two key moments – the early 1960s when art students like John Lennon and Eric Clapton begin to play their own versions of American rock and blues and inflected youth music with Bohemian dreams and the late 1970s when punk musicians emerged from design courses and fashion departments to disrupt what were by then art-rock routines. Sixties rock Bohemians and seventies pop Situationists were in their different ways trying to solve the art students’ perennial problem – how to make a living from their art. Art Into Pop shows how this problem has been shaped by the history of British art education from its nineteenth-century origins to current arguments about ‘pure’ and ‘applied’ training. In their simultaneous pursuit of authenticity and artifice art school musicians exemplify the postmodern condition the collapse of any distinction between ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture the confusions of personal and commercial creativity. And so high pop theorists rub shoulders here with low pop practitioners experimental musicians debate avant-garde ideas with corporate packagers and artistic integrity becomes a matter of making oneself up.

GBP 35.99
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The Disappearance of Moral Knowledge

The Disappearance of Moral Knowledge

Based on an unfinished manuscript by the late philosopher Dallas Willard this book makes the case that the 20th century saw a massive shift in Western beliefs and attitudes concerning the possibility of moral knowledge such that knowledge of the moral life and of its conduct is no longer routinely available from the social institutions long thought to be responsible for it. In this sense moral knowledge—as a publicly available resource for living—has disappeared. Via a detailed survey of main developments in ethical theory from the late 19th through the late 20th centuries Willard explains philosophy’s role in this shift. In pointing out the shortcomings of these developments he shows that the shift was not the result of rational argument or discovery but largely of arational social forces—in other words there was no good reason for moral knowledge to have disappeared. The Disappearance of Moral Knowledge is a unique contribution to the literature on the history of ethics and social morality. Its review of historical work on moral knowledge covers a wide range of thinkers including T. H Green G. E Moore Charles L. Stevenson John Rawls and Alasdair MacIntyre. But most importantly it concludes with a novel proposal for how we might reclaim moral knowledge that is inspired by the phenomenological approach of Knud Logstrup and Emmanuel Levinas. Edited and eventually completed by three of Willard’s former graduate students this book marks the culmination of Willard’s project to find a secure basis in knowledge for the moral life.

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Technology and the Stylistic Evolution of the Jazz Bass

Technology and the Stylistic Evolution of the Jazz Bass

Technology and the Stylistic Evolution of the Jazz Bass traces the stylistic evolution of jazz from the bass player’s perspective. Historical works to date have tended to pursue a ‘top down’ reading one that emphasizes the influence of the treble instruments on the melodic and harmonic trajectory of jazz. This book augments that reading by examining the music’s development from the bottom up. It re-contextualizes the bass and its role in the evolution of jazz (and by extension popular music in general) by situating it alongside emerging music technologies. The bass and its technological mediation are shown to have driven changes in jazz language and musical style and even transformed creative hierarchies in ways that have been largely overlooked. The book’s narrative is also informed by investigations into more commercial musical styles such as blues and rock in order to assess how and the degree to which technological advances first deployed in these areas gradually became incorporated into general jazz praxis. Technology and the Jazz Bass reconciles technology more thoroughly into jazz historiography by detailing and evaluating those that are intrinsic to the instrument (including its eventual electrification) and those extrinsic to it (most notably evolving recording and digital technologies). The author illustrates how the implementation of these technologies has transformed the role of the bass in jazz and with that jazz music as an art form.

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Independent Female Filmmakers A Chronicle through Interviews Profiles and Manifestos

Independent Female Filmmakers A Chronicle through Interviews Profiles and Manifestos

Independent Female Filmmakers collects original and previously published essays interviews and manifestos from some of the most defining and groundbreaking independent female filmmakers of the last 40 years. Featuring material from the seminal magazine The Independent Film and Video Monthly—a leading publication for independent filmmakers for several decades—as well as new interviews conducted with the filmmakers this book edited by Michele Meek presents a unique perspective into the ethnically and culturally diverse voices of women filmmakers whose films span narrative documentary and experimental genres and whose work remains integral to independent film history from the 1970s to the present. Independent Female Filmmakers also includes a biographical profile of each filmmaker as well as an online resource with links to additonal interviews and a sample course syllabus. The filmmakers in this book include: • Lisa Cholodenko (High Art The Kids Are All Right) • Martha Coolidge (Valley Girl Real Genius Introducing Dorothy Dandridge) • Cheryl Dunye (The Watermelon Woman Stranger Inside) • Miranda July (The Future Me And You And Everyone We Know) • Barbara Kopple (Harlan County USA Wild Man Blues) • Maria Maggenti (The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls in Love) • Deepa Mehta (Fire Earth Water) • Trinh T. Minh-ha (Surname Viet Given Name Nam Night Passage) . and more! | Independent Female Filmmakers A Chronicle through Interviews Profiles and Manifestos

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Mathematical Conundrums

Mathematical Conundrums

Want to sharpen your mathematical wits? If so then Mathematical Conundrums is for you. Daily Telegraph enigmatologist Barry R. Clarke presents over 120 fiendish problems that will test both your ingenuity and persistence. Between these covers are puzzles in geometry arithmetic and algebra (there is even a section for computer programmers). And for the smartest readers who wish to stretch their mind to its limits a selection of engaging logic and visual lateral puzzles is included. Although no puzzle requires a greater knowledge of mathematics than the high school curriculum this collection will take you to the edge. But are you equal to the challenge? Features High-school level of mathematics is the only pre-requisite Variety of algebraic route-drawing and geometrical conundrums Hints section for the lateral puzzles Warm-up excercises to sharpen the wits Full solutions to every problem Barry R. Clarke has published over 1 500 puzzles in The Daily Telegraph and has contributed enigmas to New Scientist The Sunday Times Reader’s Digest The Sunday Telegraph and Prospect magazine. His book Challenging Logic Puzzles Mensa has sold over 100 000 copies. As well as a PhD in Shakespeare Studies Barry has a master’s degree and academic publications in quantum physics. He is now working on a revised theory of the hydrogen atom. Other skills include mathematics tutor filmmaker comedy-sketch writer cartoonist computer programmer and blues guitarist! For more information please visit http://barryispuzzled. com.

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Law Culture and Africana Studies

Law Culture and Africana Studies

Ever since the first contacts between Europe and Africa African people have been confined to the fringes of Eurocentric experience in the Western mind. Much of what we have studied in African history and culture or literature and linguistics or politics and economics has been orchestrated from the standpoint of Europe's interests. Whether it is a matter of economics history politics geographical concepts or art Africans have been seen as peripheral. This volume reviews the past in order to evaluate the present and move ahead with appropriate policies for the future. The authors focus on issues of affirmative action legal culture theories of black culture and methodologies of scholarly work in Africana studies. Contents include: Cecil Blake The Culture Nexus Construct in Africana Studies Ronald Turner On Palatable Palliative and Paralytic Affirmative Action Grutter-Style Winston A. Van Horne Three Concepts of Legitimacy Robert E. Weems Jr. Africana Studies and the Quest for Black Economic Empowerment: What Can be Done Ula Y. Taylor Elijah Muhammad's Nation of Islam: Separatism Regendering and a Secular Approach to Black Power after Malcolm X Lewis R. Gordon Must Revolutionaries Sing the Blues? Thinking through Fanon and the Leitmotif of the Black Arts Movement Delores P. Aldridge Race Gender and Africana Theorizing and James L. Conyers Biography and Africology: Method and Interpretation. The volume concludes with reviews of significant recent scholarship on black history and culture. Law Culture and Africana Studies will have particular interest for scholars in the fields of American and European studies cultural studies history sociology and specialists in African-American studies.

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The Impact of Immigration on African Americans

The Impact of Immigration on African Americans

Immigration has significant consequences for all Americans but especially for African Americans. áThe sheer magnitude of immigration-it is the primary factor driving population growth-is so large that it directly or indirectly affects the economic political social and environmental circumstances of most Americans. áBut the geographic concentration of immigrants in urban areas and the economic concentration of immigrants in the low-wage sector of the labor market have special consequences for African Americans since they are especially likely to live in urban areas and to be low-wage workers. These effects can be both negative and positive. Immigration has sharply increased the supply of labor into the low-wage sector of the labor market which tends to reduce wages and employment opportunities for low-wage native workers. Employers may prefer hiring immigrants who are perceived to be hard working and uncomplaining to hiring African Americans. Immigrants can also increase the competition for scarce public services (especially education) on which African Americans depend. Yet immigration can also stimulate economic growth and urban revitalization which can increase job opportunities and spread an ideology of multiculturalism. Immigration can dilute the political power of African Americans but it can also strengthen the civil rights coalition. Immigration can benefit some groups while hurting others. This volume presents research and analysis that reflects and advances the debates about the economic and political consequences of immigration for African Americans. The contributors include Gerald Jaynes (Yale University) Vernon Briggs (Cornell University) Frank Bean and Jennifer Lee (University of California Irvine) Robert Cherry (Brooklyn College) Manuel Pastor (University of California Santa Cruz) and Enrique Marcelli (University of Massachusetts Boston) Steven Camarota (Center for Immigration Studies) Frank Morris (University of Texas Dallas) Steven Shulman (Colorado State University) and Hannes Johannsson (Office of the Comptroller of the Currency) and Lisa Catanzarite (University of California Los Angeles). | The Impact of Immigration on African Americans

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Handbook of Approximation Algorithms and Metaheuristics Methologies and Traditional Applications Volume 1

Handbook of Approximation Algorithms and Metaheuristics Methologies and Traditional Applications Volume 1

Handbook of Approximation Algorithms and Metaheuristics Second Edition reflects the tremendous growth in the field over the past two decades. Through contributions from leading experts this handbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the underlying theory and methodologies as well as the various applications of approximation algorithms and metaheuristics. Volume 1 of this two-volume set deals primarily with methodologies and traditional applications. It includes restriction relaxation local ratio approximation schemes randomization tabu search evolutionary computation local search neural networks and other metaheuristics. It also explores multi-objective optimization reoptimization sensitivity analysis and stability. Traditional applications covered include: bin packing multi-dimensional packing Steiner trees traveling salesperson scheduling and related problems. Volume 2 focuses on the contemporary and emerging applications of methodologies to problems in combinatorial optimization computational geometry and graphs problems as well as in large-scale and emerging application areas. It includes approximation algorithms and heuristics for clustering networks (sensor and wireless) communication bioinformatics search streams virtual communities and more. About the EditorTeofilo F. Gonzalez is a professor emeritus of computer science at the University of California Santa Barbara. He completed his Ph. D. in 1975 from the University of Minnesota. He taught at the University of Oklahoma the Pennsylvania State University and the University of Texas at Dallas before joining the UCSB computer science faculty in 1984. He spent sabbatical leaves at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education and Utrecht University. He is known for his highly cited pioneering research in the hardness of approximation; for his sublinear and best possible approximation algorithm for k-tMM clustering; for introducing the open-shop scheduling problem as well as algorithms for its solution that have found applications in numerous research areas; as well as for his research on problems in the areas of job scheduling graph algorithms computational geometry message communication wire routing etc. | Handbook of Approximation Algorithms and Metaheuristics Methologies and Traditional Applications Volume 1

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Statistical Machine Learning A Unified Framework

Statistical Machine Learning A Unified Framework

The recent rapid growth in the variety and complexity of new machine learning architectures requires the development of improved methods for designing analyzing evaluating and communicating machine learning technologies. Statistical Machine Learning: A Unified Framework provides students engineers and scientists with tools from mathematical statistics and nonlinear optimization theory to become experts in the field of machine learning. In particular the material in this text directly supports the mathematical analysis and design of old new and not-yet-invented nonlinear high-dimensional machine learning algorithms. Features: Unified empirical risk minimization framework supports rigorous mathematical analyses of widely used supervised unsupervised and reinforcement machine learning algorithms Matrix calculus methods for supporting machine learning analysis and design applications Explicit conditions for ensuring convergence of adaptive batch minibatch MCEM and MCMC learning algorithms that minimize both unimodal and multimodal objective functions Explicit conditions for characterizing asymptotic properties of M-estimators and model selection criteria such as AIC and BIC in the presence of possible model misspecification This advanced text is suitable for graduate students or highly motivated undergraduate students in statistics computer science electrical engineering and applied mathematics. The text is self-contained and only assumes knowledge of lower-division linear algebra and upper-division probability theory. Students professional engineers and multidisciplinary scientists possessing these minimal prerequisites will find this text challenging yet accessible. About the Author: Richard M. Golden (Ph. D. M. S. E. E. B. S. E. E. ) is Professor of Cognitive Science and Participating Faculty Member in Electrical Engineering at the University of Texas at Dallas. Dr. Golden has published articles and given talks at scientific conferences on a wide range of topics in the fields of both statistics and machine learning over the past three decades. His long-term research interests include identifying conditions for the convergence of deterministic and stochastic machine learning algorithms and investigating estimation and inference in the presence of possibly misspecified probability models. | Statistical Machine Learning A Unified Framework

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Bayesian Applications in Pharmaceutical Development

Bayesian Applications in Pharmaceutical Development

The cost for bringing new medicine from discovery to market has nearly doubled in the last decade and has now reached $2. 6 billion. There is an urgent need to make drug development less time-consuming and less costly. Innovative trial designs/ analyses such as the Bayesian approach are essential to meet this need. This book will be the first to provide comprehensive coverage of Bayesian applications across the span of drug development from discovery to clinical trial to manufacturing with practical examples. This book will have a wide appeal to statisticians scientists and physicians working in drug development who are motivated to accelerate and streamline the drug development process as well as students who aspire to work in this field. The advantages of this book are: Provides motivating worked practical case examples with easy to grasp models technical details and computational codes to run the analyses Balances practical examples with best practices on trial simulation and reporting as well as regulatory perspectives Chapters written by authors who are individual contributors in their respective topics Dr. Mani Lakshminarayanan is a researcher and statistical consultant with more than 30 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry. He has published over 50 articles technical reports and book chapters besides serving as a referee for several journals. He has a PhD in Statistics from Southern Methodist University Dallas Texas and is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. Dr. Fanni Natanegara has over 15 years of pharmaceutical experience and is currently Principal Research Scientist and Group Leader for the Early Phase Neuroscience Statistics team at Eli Lilly and Company. She played a key role in the Advanced Analytics team to provide Bayesian education and statistical consultation at Eli Lilly. Dr. Natanegara is the chair of the cross industry-regulatory-academic DIA BSWG to ensure that Bayesian methods are appropriately utilized for design and analysis throughout the drug-development process. | Bayesian Applications in Pharmaceutical Development

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