How do keyboards make music playable? Drawing on theories of media, systems, and cultural techniques, Keys to Play spans Greek myth and contemporary Japanese digital games to chart a genealogy of musical play and its animation via improvisation, performance, and recreation. As a paradigmatic digital interface, the keyboard forms a field of play on which the book’s diverse objects of inquiryâ€â€¦
Player pianos, radio-electric circuits, gramophone records, and optical sound film—these were the cutting-edge acoustic technologies of the early twentieth century, and for many musicians and artists of the time, these devices were also the implements of a musical revolution. Instruments for New Music traces a diffuse network of cultural agents who shared the belief that a truly modern music …
In the 1990s, Los Angeles was home to numerous radical social and environmental eruptions. In the face of several major earthquakes and floods, riots and economic insecurity, police brutality and mass incarceration, some young black Angelenos turned to holy hip hop—a movement merging Christianity and hip hop culture—to “save” themselves and the city. Converting street corners to open-ai…
We believe that calculus can be for students what it was for Euler and the Bernoullis: a language and a tool for exploring the whole fabric of science.
Calculus is designed for the typical two- or three-semester general calculus course, incorporating innovative features to enhance student learning.
Calculus is designed for the typical two- or three-semester general calculus course, incorporating innovative features to enhance student learning.
Calculus is designed for the typical two- or three-semester general calculus course, incorporating innovative features to enhance student learning.
Content adapted from “Beginning Excel”
This is the first edition of the open text book Building a Competitive Investment Climate on First Nation Lands.