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Women in Music: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography emerging from more than twenty-five years of feminist scholarship on music. This book testifies to the great variety of subjects and approaches represented in over two decades of published writings on women, their work, and the important roles that feminist outlooks have played in formerly male-oriented academic scholarship or journalistic musings on women and music.
Provides statistical information on the worldwide population of people 65 years old or older.
Das Bücherverzeichnis unfasst 4.400 Titel zum Themenkreis "Musik - Frauen - Gender". Es beinhaltet neben wissenschaftlichen Veröffentlichungen auch belletristische Darstellungen, Erinnerungs- und sogenannte Fan-Literatur, sowohl Dissertationen als auch Magister- und Examensarbeiten, soweit ermittelbar. Eine bedeutende Erweiterung gegenüber dem 1995 erschienenen und vergriffenen "Bücherverzeichnis Frau und Musik" besteht in der Aufnahme von genderfokussierter Literatur über Komponisten und Interpreten aller Musikrichtungen - Claudio Monteverdi ebenso wie Led Zeppelin oder Charles Mingus. Auch die Beschränkung auf deutsch-, englisch- oder französischsprachige Publikationen wurde aufgehoben. Mit diesem neuen Bücherverzeichnis möchten wir vielen Musikwissenschaftlerlnnen, Musikerlnnen, Studierenden und Bibliotheken ein nützliches Werkzeug an die Hand geben.
Kim Fowler grew up on Chicago's South Side, the only child of successful black professionals. When her parents separated, the family still held its center-until her mother's stroke at age 79. Then the sky fell, broke apart. Pieces were lost. Others no longer fit. As this tale of family and dementia teaches us, sometimes the only constant is love.
When Gary Jackson, a bright academic student, suffers life changing injuries in a road traffic accident, his world begins to unravel. Having taught himself to lucid dream, he now spends considerable time in bed, living out fantasies in his own mind that he could never experience in the waking world. However, when a relative with dementia claims to have witnessed a murder he committed in a dream, Gary starts to question the nature of reality, and wonders if his actions in the dream world have real life consequences. Meanwhile, in another place, Physics student Gary Jackson finds himself in prison for a murder he has no memory of committing. Can the dreamer help the student get acquitted for a murder everyone saw him commit? Or will Gary spend his life in prison for someone else's crime?
Israel G. "Izzy" Young was the proprietor of the Folklore Center in Greenwich Village from the late 1950s to the early 1970s. The literal center of the New York folk music scene, the Center not only sold records, books, and guitar strings but served as a concert hall, meeting spot, and information kiosk for all folk scene events. Among Young's first customers was Harry Belafonte; among his regular visitors were Alan Lomax and Pete Seeger. Shortly after his arrival in New York City in 1961, an unknown Bob Dyan banged away at songs on Young's typewriter. Young would also stage Dylan's first concert, as well as shows by Joni Mitchell, the Fugs, Emmylou Harris, and Tim Buckley, Doc Watson, Son H...