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Engaging Students with Music Education
Engaging Students with Music Education is a groundbreaking book about using DJ decks and urban music in mainstream schools to re-engage disaffected learners and develop a curriculum which better reflects overall contemporary tastes. Many young learners are ‘at risk’ of exclusion; this book argues that for such individuals, the implications of such a shift in the music curriculum could be especially positive. Drawing extensively on the author’s own wealth of teaching experience, and bridging the gap between practice and theory, this book demonstrates through case studies that DJ decks can prove extremely valuable in mainstream classroom situations across the secondary school age ranges....
Bringing Home a Bachelor
Once pastry chef Melinda Edgeworth begins working at hotelier Pete Dale's hotel, their one-night stand after her brother's wedding may turn into something more.
Popular Music and the Politics of Novelty
Popular music, today, has supposedly collapsed into a 'retromania' which, according to leading critic Simon Reynolds, has brought a 'slow and steady fading of the artistic imperative to be original.' Meanwhile, in the estimation of philosopher Alain Badiou, a significant political event will always require 'the dictatorial power of a creation ex nihilo'. Everywhere, it seems, at least amongst commentators of a certain age and type, pessimism prevails with regards to the predominant aesthetic preferences of the twenty first century: popular music, supposedly, is in a rut. Yet when, if ever, did the political engagement kindled by popular music amount to more than it does today? The sixties? T...
Anyone Can Do It: Empowerment, Tradition and the Punk Underground
For more than three decades, a punk underground has repeatedly insisted that 'anyone can do it'. This underground punk movement has evolved via several micro-traditions, each offering distinct and novel presentations of what punk is, isn't, or should be. Underlying all these punk micro-traditions is a politics of empowerment that claims to be anarchistic in character, in the sense that it is contingent upon a spontaneous will to liberty (anyone can do it - in theory). How valid, though, is punk's faith in anarchistic empowerment? Exploring theories from Derrida and Marx, Anyone Can Do It: Empowerment, Tradition and the Punk Underground examines the cultural history and politics of punk. In i...
The Right to Belong
In the powerful family story The Right to Belong, thirty-eight-year-old New Yorker Pete Mitchell declares to his sons how fortunate they are to be growing up with a father, since he did not have that opportunity. Pete seeks the help of his cousin, Nigel, to help him find his father, who was born in Jamaica.Through Nigel, Pete finds out his father now lives in London. When Nigel visits relatives there, he promises to see Pete's father. Pete anxiously waits for Nigel to send him contact information. However, when Nigel returns, Pete experiences yet another disappointment.Pete does learn about his father's other children, Dale and Ella. He also discovers that his seventy-two-year old father had a stroke and is now a widower. Pete finally tracks down his father on the Internet and arranges to travel to London to meet him.What should be a happy family reunion is marred by bitterness between the siblings, who resent Pete re-entering their father's life. When there is a struggle over inheritance, all hell breaks loose and family matters end up in court. All along, Pete was only looking for The Right to Belong.
Spirit of the Herd
Every person deserves a second chance. But, do other creatures of this Earth derserve them, too? This story tells of a thirteen-year-old girl, named Fen, whose love of horses could lead to tragedy; her brother, challenged by Autism; a stallion, who was so abused he may be too dangerous to train; a lone wild mare and her foal, who are dodging the paws of predators as they search for their herd; the mare's herd, lead by her strong stallion, as they gallop through the rocky mountains and lush valleys of Montana, outrunning ranch hands, who only want money from the capture of wild horses. Each of them will learn that a second chance is the only path to survival. Each will learn that second chances come only to those who have courage, hope, persistence, and people who love them enough to rish everything to save them.
The Bitter-Sweet Search for a Father
Thirty-eight-year-old Pete Mitchell declares to his sons how fortunate they are to grow up with their father. He reveals to his first and third-grade boys that he does not know his dad. He seeks the help of Nigel, his cousin, to find the man who shares the responsibility of his coming into the world. His father left the Caribbean community where he grew up before Pete was born. In his attempts to locate his father, Pete realizes that cooperation from Nigel and other family members is hard to get. With the lack of assistance, in finding his father, Pete gets creative with his search. Soon, he learns his absent father lives in England. In addition, he discovers Nigel plans to visit his own rel...
The Orchestra World
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An innovative history of British youth culture during the 1970s and 1980s, charting the full spectrum of punk's cultural development.
