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 Border Ireland: From Partition to Brexit (Routledge Borderlands Studies) by Cathal McCall English | May 6th, 2021 | ISBN: 1138587044 | 114 pages | True EPUB | 2.49 MB When the 1998 Good Friday Agreement brought an end to decades of conflict, which was mainly focused on the existence of the Irish border, most breathed a sigh of relief. Then came Brexit. Border Ireland: From Partition to Brexit introduces readers to the Irish border. It considers the process of bordering after the partition of Ireland, to the Good Friday Agreement and attendant debordering to the post-Brexit landscape. The UK's departure from the EU meant rebordering in some form. That departure also reinvigorated the push for a 'united Ireland' and borderlessness on the Island.  Body Parts on Planet Slum: Women and Telenovelas in Brazil By Lisa Beljuli Brown 2011 | 182 Pages | ISBN: 0857287974 | PDF | 2 MB Based on a year's research from within a Brazilian slum, this study follows a series of unemployed women who watch up to six hours of telenovelas a day, often in the midst of arduous physical labour in the home. The women suffer in relation to their bodies, but simultaneously invest in a masochistic glorification of suffering that links their lives to the soap operas, revealing disturbing valuations of the female body that traverse reality and fiction. Through its exploration of this daily integration of real suffering and fictional glamour and wealth, 'Body Parts on Planet Slum' reveals how fantasy and social exclusion can together induce a form of psychological survivalism, enabling these women to reconfigure the central features of their existence - their suffering, pleasure, sexuality and embodiment.
 Blixa Bargeld and Einstürzende Neubauten: German Experimental Music: Evading Do-re-mi By Jennifer Shryane 2011 | 270 Pages | ISBN: 1409421562 | PDF | 3 MB At the end of his life, Pierre Schaeffer commented that his musical and sound experiments had attempted to go beyond 'do-re-mi'. This had a direct bearing on Einsturzende Neubauten's musical philosophy and work, with the musicians always striving to extend the boundaries of music in sound, instrumentation and purpose. The group are one of the few examples of 'rock-based' artists who have been able to sustain a breadth and depth of work in a variety of media over a number of years while remaining experimental and open to development. Jennifer Shryane provides a much-needed analysis of the group's important place in popular/experimental music history. She illustrates their innovations with found- and self-constructed instrumentation, their Artaudian performance strategies and textual concerns, as well as their methods of independence. Einsturzende Neubauten has also made a consistent and unique contribution to the development of the independent German Language Contemporary Music scene, which although often acknowledged as influential, is still rarely examined.  Polly Powers Stramm, "Bless Your Heart & Mind Your Mama: Sassy, Sweet and Silly Southernisms" English | 2018 | pages: 129 | ISBN: 1493034200 | PDF | 4,3 mb Y'all best be fixin' to be a grinnin' like a possum eatin' a sweet tater.
 Natalia Balo, "Bird Anatomy for Artists -Comprehensive Guide to Drawing Birds for Artists and Bird Lovers" English | 2019 | pages: 132 | ISBN: 0987337319 | PDF | 50,6 mb [center]  Paulo Pepe, "Beyond Binaries: Sex, Sexualities and Gender in the Lusophone World " English | ISBN: 1787076156 | 2019 | 314 pages | PDF | 3 MB This volume sets out to investigate queer literature and cinema, exploring in particular the intersection of issues of gender and Lusophone culture. The essays collected here present individual case studies within a queer theoretical framework, examining the ways in which queer identities are constructed and addressed through different types of cultural production. More specifically, they consider Portuguese and Lusophone socio-cultural contexts and the representation of gender in popular culture, as well as the centrality of literature and cinema in the subversion of heteronormative social norms.  Julia A. Stern, "Bette Davis Black and White" English | ISBN: 022681369X | 2021 | 256 pages | PDF | 16 MB Bette Davis's career becomes a vehicle for a deep examination of American race relations.  Nathan R. Kozuskanich, "Benjamin Franklin: American Founder, Atlantic Citizen " English | ISBN: 0415531969 | 2014 | 178 pages | PDF | 1365 KB Known for his influential role in the debates that established the founding documents of the United States, Benjamin Franklin was not only an astute politician, but also an Atlantic citizen whose commitment to the American cause was informed by years spent in England and France. The life of this iconic founder provides an ideal opportunity for students to take a closer look at eighteenth century colonial society and the contested formation of the early American nation.  Beethoven's Symphonies Arranged for the Chamber: Sociability, Reception, and Canon Formation English | 2021 | ISBN: 1108831753 | 277 Pages | PDF | 13 MB Early nineteenth-century composers, publishers and writers evolved influential ideals of Beethoven's symphonies as untouchable masterpieces. Meanwhile, many and various arrangements of symphonies, principally for amateur performers, supported diverse and 'hands-on' cultivation of the same works. Now mostly forgotten, these arrangements served a vital function in nineteenth-century musical life, extending works' meanings and reach, especially to women in the home. This book places domestic music-making back into the history of the classical symphony. It investigates a largely untapped wealth of early nineteenth-century arrangements of symphonies by Beethoven - for piano, string quartet, mixed quintet and other ensembles. The study focuses on three key agents in the nineteenth-century culture of musical arrangement: arrangers, publishers and performers. It investigates significant functions of those musical arrangements in the era: sociability, reception and canon formation. The volume also explores how conceptions of Beethoven's symphonies, and their arrangement, changed across the era with changing conception of musical works.
 Beauty and the Beast: Human-Animal Relations as Revealed in Real Photo Postcards, 1905-1935 By Arnold Arluke 2010 | 276 Pages | ISBN: 0815609817 | PDF | 54 MB From fairy tales to photography, nowhere is the complexity of human-animal relationships more apparent than in the creative arts. Art illuminates the nature and significance of animals in modern, Western thought, capturing the complicated union that has long existed between the animal kingdom and us. In Beauty and the Beast, authors Arluke and Bogdan explore this relationship through the unique lens of photo postcards. This visual medium offers an enormous and relatively untapped archive to compelling document their subject. |
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