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Embracing Restlessness: Cultural Musicology.

Embracing Restlessness: Cultural Musicology.

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Contents. Acknowledgments VI Birgit Abels Restless, Risky, Dirty (An Introduction ) 1 Birgit Abels Sketching Cultural Musicology 17 Eva-Maria Alexandra van Straaten It Slaps and It Embraces! On Psytrance, Immersion, and Potential Facets of ...
Austronesian Soundscapes: Performing Arts in Oceania and ...

Austronesian Soundscapes: Performing Arts in Oceania and ...

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Birgit Abels is a cultural musicologist at the University of Amsterdam and the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Birgit's projects have explored performing arts traditions in the Southeast Asian island ...
Sounds of articulating identity: tradition and transition in ...

Sounds of articulating identity: tradition and transition in ...

Birgit Abels

As the ethnomusicological exploration of the Palauan world proceeds, the book demonstrates how a study of the music of a small island nation is capable of transcending the boundaries of ethnomusicology as an academic discipline, and it adds ...
Embracing Restlessness: Cultural Musicology

Embracing Restlessness: Cultural Musicology

Birgit Abels

The Oxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aesthetics, edited by John Richardson , Claudia Gorbman & Carol Vernallis, 622–27. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Manovich, Lev. The Language of New Media. Cambridge : MIT ...
Logical grammar, with special consideration of topics in ...

Logical grammar, with special consideration of topics in ...

Thomas T. Ballmer

(39a) r -H- 1 I l TV } \ ES TRIFFT IHN, DASS ANNA PETER GESTEHT, DASS BIRGIT FRITZ HASST. (it bothers him, that Anna to-Peter confesses, that Birgit acc-Fritz hates) (39b) ES TRIFFT PETER, DASS ANNA IHM GESTEHT, DASS BIRGIT ...
Protest in Hitler's “National Community”: Popular Unrest and ...

Protest in Hitler's “National Community”: Popular Unrest and ...

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Popular Unrest and the Nazi Response Nathan Stoltzfus, Birgit Maier-Katkin ... Nathan Stoltzfus and Birgit Maier-Katkin Nathan Stoltzfus is the Dorothy and Jonathan Rintels Professor of Holocaust Studies at Florida State University and the ...
Multilingualism at Work: From Policies to Practices in ...

Multilingualism at Work: From Policies to Practices in ...

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From Policies to Practices in Public, Medical and Business Settings Bernd Meyer, Birgit Apfelbaum. Table. of. contents. Multilingualism at work: A brief introduction 1 Birgit Apfelbaum and Bernd Meyer Public sector Linguistic competence and ...
Partners on Wheels

Partners on Wheels

Harriette Sheffer Abels

Vicki almost loses her boyfriend in her efforts to impress another boy who is looking for a skating partner.
The last meet

The last meet

Harriette Sheffer Abels

Kurt competes against his best friend for standing in the pre-Olympic gymnastic trials and also for his girl.
Emmy, beware!

Emmy, beware!

Harriette Sheffer Abels

Although her first few days at Bartell's have gone smoothly, a young sales clerk begins to suspect that all is not well in her department.
Forty Thieves

Forty Thieves

Thomas Perry

As the book races toward a high-octane climax, the Abels must fend for their own lives as they circle ever closer to the truth" --
Dollhouse miniatures

Dollhouse miniatures

Harriette Sheffer Abels

Follows the activities of a family as they restore an old Victorian dollhouse and collect miniature furnishings for it.
Unwanted Visitors

Unwanted Visitors

Harriette Sheffer Abels

The crew of Emergency Spaceship EM 88 discovers that the mysterious object that they have been sent to investigate is a vehicle for a group of amorphous blobs fleeing from their galaxy.
Stonehenge

Stonehenge

Harriette Sheffer Abels

Examines the various mysteries of the ancient megalithic monument Stonehenge, discussing the possibilities regarding who built it, how they constructed it, and what its purpose was.
Call me clown

Call me clown

Harriette Sheffer Abels

Through her volunteer work at the hospital, Lilybelle inadvertently comes to appreciate the importance of her real job as a circus clown.
The creature of Saxony Woods

The creature of Saxony Woods

Harriette Sheffer Abels

Spending the summer at a logging operation in the North Woods, Rusty Grant and his friend Len Drover encounter a family of Bigfoot.
Bermuda Triangle

Bermuda Triangle

Harriette Sheffer Abels

Recounts some of the mysterious disappearances of ships and planes in that area of the Atlantic Ocean called the Bermuda Triangle.
Loch Ness monster

Loch Ness monster

Harriette Sheffer Abels

Suggests theories relating to a large creature inhabiting Scotland's Loch Ness, reportedly sighted 3000 times since 1933.
Future travel

Future travel

Harriette Sheffer Abels

Describes some of the likely means of transportation to be expected in the future including electric cars, double-decker airplanes, and light rail transit vehicles and discusses the effects of these innovations on people's attitudes toward ...

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