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Vocal Tracks
This entertaining and innovative book focuses on vocal performance styles that developed in tandem with the sound technologies of the phonograph, radio, and sound film. Writing in a clear and lively style, Jacob Smith looks at these media technologies and industries through the lens of performance, bringing to light a fascinating nexus of performer, technology, and audience. Combining theories of film sound, cultural histories of sound technologies and industries, and theories of performance, Smith convincingly connects disparate and largely neglected performance niches to explore the development of a modern vocal performance. Vocal Tracks: Performance and Sound Media demonstrates the voice to be a vehicle of performance, identity, and culture and illustrates both the interconnection of all these categories and their relation to the media technologies of the past century.
Minority Party Misery
Introduction -- A theory of minority party status -- I'm out of here! : minority party status and the decision to retire from Congress -- How does this make cents? : party fundraising and the congressional minority -- Minority party status and the decision to run for office -- To meddle or not to meddle? : minority party status, party leaders, and candidate recruitment -- Political ambition, electoral engagement, and the U.S. Senate -- Laboratories of ambition? : the legislative minority in U.S. states -- Conclusion -- Appendixes -- Appendix A: Notes on interview subjects and methods -- Appendix B: Discussion of data collection for campaign finance data in Chapter 3 -- Appendix C: Detailed discussion of methods for content analysis.
Book of Champions
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Jacob's Pass
It is the turn of the twentieth century, and Joseph Tooley is a scorned man. Ten years ago, Joseph's father Jacob went missing in the hills now known as Jacob's Pass, and in those ten years Joseph has descended into a pit of whiskey-fueled isolation. He's never given up hope on finding his father, and spends his days avoiding the townspeople of the neighboring Hapsburg.But one day, a mysterious note appears on his door: If you want to find your father, stop looking and open your eyes.When a stranger arrives on his property the following day, he lets slip something he shouldn't have known and, in the heat of the moment, Joseph kills the man and buries him on his property. But when he goes into town to get answers, the carefully constructed reality that is Joseph's life begins to unravel...What is real? What is a dream? Who is the stranger controlling the puppet strings? In this gripping debut thriller, nobody is who they seem.
The Daring Trader
A fur trader in the Michigan Territory and confidant of both the U.S. government and local Indian tribes, Jacob Smith could have stepped out of a James Fenimore Cooper novel. Controversial, mysterious, and bold during his lifetime, in death Smith has not, until now, received the attention he deserves as a pivotal figure in Michigan’s American period and the War of 1812. This is the exciting and unlikely story of a man at the frontier’s edge, whose missions during both war and peace laid the groundwork for Michigan to accommodate settlers and farmers moving west. The book investigates Smith’s many pursuits, including his role as an advisor to the Indians, from whom the federal government would gradually gain millions of acres of land, due in large part to Smith’s work as an agent of influence. Crawford paints a colorful portrait of a complicated man during a dynamic period of change in Michigan’s history.
Eco-Sonic Media
The negative environmental effects of media culture are not often acknowledged: the fuel required to keep huge server farms in operation, landfills full of high tech junk, and the extraction of rare minerals for devices reliant on them are just some of the hidden costs of the contemporary mediascape. Eco-Sonic Media brings an ecological critique to the history of sound media technologies in order to amplify the environmental undertones in sound studies and turn up the audio in discussions of greening the media. By looking at early and neglected forms of sound technology, Jacob Smith seeks to create a revisionist, ecologically aware history of sound media. Delving into the history of pre-elec...
The Georgia Frontier
Vol. 1 : Colonial families to the Revolutionary War period.-- Vol. 2 : Revolutionary War families to the mid-1800s. -- Vol. 3 : Descendants of Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina families.
Quakers Living in the Lion's Mouth
This examination of a Quaker community in northern Virginia, between its first settlement in 1730 and the end of the Civil War, explores how an antislavery, pacifist, and equalitarian religious minority maintained its ideals and campaigned for social justice in a society that violated those values on a daily basis. By tracing the evolution of white Virginians’ attitudes toward the Quaker community, Glenn Crothers exposes the increasing hostility Quakers faced as the sectional crisis deepened, revealing how a border region like northern Virginia looked increasingly to the Deep South for its cultural values and social and economic ties. Although this is an examination of a small community over time, the work deals with larger historical issues, such as how religious values are formed and evolve among a group and how these beliefs shape behavior even in the face of increasing hostility and isolation. As one of the most thorough studies of a pre–Civil War southern religious community of any kind, Quakers Living in the Lion’s Mouth provides a fresh understanding of the diversity of southern culture as well as the diversity of viewpoints among anti-slavery activists.
Blood Force Trauma
BLOOD FORCE TRAUMA It’s America’s past time of the future! Brutal hand to hand combat, two fighters enter, one walks out. The other? Gets scraped up off the arena floor! BLOOD FORCE TRAUMA It’s full of laser skull guys, kung fu masters, and mutant shark dudes from another dimension! It’s somewhere a normal kid like Zap Daniels just doesn’t belong. Too bad he’s the new world champ! BLOOD FORCE TRAUMA It’s the comic you’re holding right now! And if you want to find out more, I guess you’re gonna have to give it a read… if you dare!
