Author: Sig Langegger File Type: pdf This book examines the roles that public space plays in gentrification. Considering both cultural norms of public behavior and the municipal regulation of behavior in public, it shows how commonplace acts in everyday public spaces like sidewalks, streets, and parks work to establish neighborhood legitimacy for newcomers while delegitimizing once authentic public practices of long-timers. With evidence drawn from the formerly Latino neighborhood of Highland in Denver, Colorado, this ethnographic study demonstrates how the regulation of public space plays a pivotal role in neighborhood change. First, there is often a profound disharmony between how people from different cultural complexes interpret and sanction behavior in everyday public spaces. Second, because regulations, codes, urban design, and enforcement protocols are deliberately changed, commonplace activities longtime neighborhood residents feel they have a right to do along sidewalks and streets and within their neighborhood parks sometimes unexpectedly misalign with what is actually possible or legal to do in these publicly accessible spaces. **From the Back Cover This book examines the roles that public space plays in gentrification. Considering both cultural norms of public behavior and the municipal regulation of behavior in public, it shows how commonplace acts in everyday public spaces like sidewalks, streets, and parks work to establish neighborhood legitimacy for newcomers while delegitimizing once authentic public practices of long-timers. With evidence drawn from the formerly Latino neighborhood of Highland in Denver, Colorado, this ethnographic study demonstrates how the regulation of public space plays a pivotal role in neighborhood change. First, there is often a profound disharmony between how people from different cultural complexes interpret and sanction behavior in everyday public spaces. Second, because regulations, codes, urban design, and enforcement protocols are deliberately changed, commonplace activities longtime neighborhood residents feel they have a right to do along sidewalks and streets and within their neighborhood parks sometimes unexpectedly misalign with what is actually possible or legal to do in these publicly accessible spaces. About the Author Sig Langegger is Assistant Professor of Geography at Akita International University, Japan. His work examines the spatial conditions that affect peoples lives as well as the urban plans and policies producing these conditions. Sig researches public space, property rights, social and environmental justice, gentrification, and the criminalization of homelessness.

Author: John Brewer File Type: pdf Running is a deceptively simple sport. At its most basic, you need only shoes and comfortable clothes you dont mind getting sweaty. Yet each time you lace up, all your bodys moving parts must work together to achieve a gait that will keep you injury-free. Many other factors also affect your performance, from the weather and the surface you run on to your shoes, your diet, and even your mental and emotional state. Science plays an important role in most, if not all, of these factors. As a sports scientist and Running Fitness columnist, John Brewer has reviewed hundreds of scientific studies, and he offers runners the benefit of their findings in Running Science. Each chapter explores a different aspect of the sport through a series of questions. Many of the questions address practicalmatters Do you really need to stretch? Which running shoes best suit your form and foot strike? Does carbo-loading lore stand up to scientific scrutinycould a big bowl of spaghetti be the difference between a PR and a DNF? Other questions enhance appreciation for the incredible feats of the sports great athletes. (What would it take to run a two-hour marathon? Perfect weather, a straight, flat course, competition, and a lot of luck!) The answer to each question is presented in a straightforward, accessible manner, with accompanying infographics. Whether youre a beginner or a seasoned runner with many miles and medals behind you, Running Science is a must-have for anyone interested in the fascinating science behind the sport. **

Author: Benjamin Piekut File Type: pdf In Experimental Otherwise, Benjamin Piekut takes the reader into the heart of what we mean by experimental in avant-garde music. Focusing on one place and timeNew York City, 1964Piekut examines five disparate events the New York Philharmonics disastrous performance of John Cages Atlas Eclipticalis Henry Flynts demonstrations against the downtown avant-garde Charlotte Moormans Avant Garde Festival the founding of the Jazz Composers Guild and the emergence of Iggy Pop. Drawing together a colorful array of personalities, Piekut argues that each of these examples points to a failure and marks a limit or boundary of canonical experimentalism. What emerges from these marginal moments is an accurate picture of the avant-garde, not as a style or genre, but as a network defined by disagreements, struggles, and exclusions. **Review Objective, insightful prose--All About Jazz Richly deserving superlatives, [Experimentalism Otherwise] is a memorable, exciting, rigorous, and beautifully written book of considerable importance.--Edward Crooks, University of YorkTacet (03062013) This is an important book, and should be part of every academic music library.--Clemens GreeserNotes (Music Library Assoc) (03072012) An original and important book. . . . Impressive in its scope. . . . A concise and focused account.--Thomas FoggCurrent Musicology (03012013) Experimental Otherwise crafts a surprisingly strong narrative.--Dave CantorSkyscraper (06222011) Richly deserving superlatives, [Experimentalism Otherwise] is a memorable, exciting, rigorous, and beautifully written book of considerable importance. --Edward Crooks, University of YorkTacet (03062013) This is an important book, and should be part of every academic music library. --Clemens GreeserNotes (Music Library Assoc) (03072012) An original and important book. . . . Impressive in its scope. . . . A concise and focused account. --Thomas FoggCurrent Musicology (03012013) Experimental Otherwise crafts a surprisingly strong narrative. --Dave CantorSkyscraper (06222011) From the Inside Flap Benjamin Piekut takes scholarship on late twentieth century music to new heights with this inventive and compelling study of the networks of experimental music. Weaving a historical ethnography of performances, practices, sounds, and subjectivities together with insights from recent social and anthropological theory, uncovering new perspectives on key figures from John Cage and Henry Flynt to Carla Bley and Charlotte Moorman, he gives us actually existing experimentalism free from idealization or dilution. Georgina Born, author of Rationalizing Culture IRCAM, Boulez, and the Institutionalization of the Musical Avant-Garde Ben Piekuts methodologically astute history of actually existing experimentalism provides a brilliantly focused, yet ultimately expansive interrogation of the musical networks that flourished in New York City around the year 1964. Engaging, insightful, and important, Experimentalism Otherwise is certain to prove an indispensable reference not only for musicologists, but for anyone interested in the tangled cultural history of the period at large. Branden W. Joseph, author of Beyond the Dream Syndicate Tony Conrad and the Arts After Cage Buttressed by interviews with surviving participants and close examination of scores, texts, images, and ephemera, Piekut erects a framework within which the sometimes poignant, sometimes absurd network of semi-failed interactions that defined the space of experimental music can take shape in the mind of a delighted reader. Experimentalism Otherwise deftly escapes the hagiographic mode figures like John Cage, Henry Flynt, and Charlotte Moorman appear in its pages as scrappy improvisers of aesthetic contingency, not plaster saints of the avant-garde. This is late-twentieth-century music history as it ought to be written! Robert Fink, author of Repeating Ourselves American Minimal Music as Cultural Practice Experimentalism is never only that, is the meta-argument of Experimentalism Otherwise. With a focus on participants of four moments in four explicitly experimental music scenes in a single year and in a single city, Piekut follows the actors not only to their appointments with the new as isolated from other events, but along historically grounded routes too ordinary to have received prior notice. In doing so, he achieves something of an anti-experimentalism for experimentalisms sake historiography of select New York experimental music events of the 1960s. That this gripping analysis of historical experimentalism is so rich with difference and contradiction, so illuminating of the challenges of producing the new in the now is precisely due to Piekuts diligence in opening a world of the ordinary where we didnt expect it. This book is a revelation of the relationship between ordinariness and newness that will change how cultural historians think about experimentalism. Sherrie Tucker, author of Swing Shift

Author: Tripudians Stella File Type: pdf Brief annotated bibliography of manuscript and printed magick-related works.