Voices of Kensington
Author : Jean Seder
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Page : 106 pages
File Size : 26,92 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Business & Economics
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Author : Jean Seder
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Page : 106 pages
File Size : 26,92 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Business & Economics
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Author : Hugh Sinclair
Publisher :
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 37,27 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Clergy
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Author : Nikhil Goyal
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 12,27 MB
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 125085007X
An indelible portrait of three children struggling to survive in the poorest neighborhood of the poorest large city in America Kensington, Philadelphia, is distinguished only by its poverty. It is home to Ryan, Giancarlos, and Emmanuel, three Puerto Rican children who live among the most marginalized families in the United States. This is the story of their coming-of-age, which is beset by violence—the violence of homelessness, hunger, incarceration, stray bullets, sexual and physical assault, the hypermasculine logic of the streets, and the drug trade. In Kensington, eighteenth birthdays are not rites of passage but statistical miracles. One mistake drives Ryan out of middle school and into the juvenile justice pipeline. For Emmanuel, his queerness means his mother’s rejection and sleeping in shelters. School closures and budget cuts inspire Giancarlos to lead walkouts, which get him kicked out of the system. Although all three are high school dropouts, they are on a quest to defy their fate and their neighborhood and get high school diplomas. In a triumph of empathy and drawing on nearly a decade of reporting, sociologist and policymaker Nikhil Goyal follows Ryan, Giancarlos, and Emmanuel on their mission, plunging deep into their lives as they strive to resist their designated place in the social hierarchy. In the process, Live to See the Day confronts a new age of American poverty, after the end of “welfare as we know it,” after “zero tolerance” in schools criminalized a generation of students, after the odds of making it out are ever slighter.
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Page : 822 pages
File Size : 39,2 MB
Release : 1873
Category : Music
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Page : 1440 pages
File Size : 15,98 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Music
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Page : 364 pages
File Size : 23,20 MB
Release : 1887
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Author : Emma Marshall
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Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,65 MB
Release : 1895
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Author : Mark Lemon
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Page : 670 pages
File Size : 18,21 MB
Release : 1885
Category : Caricatures and cartoons
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Page : 1050 pages
File Size : 34,55 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Music
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Author : Jonathan Sterne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 10,91 MB
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 113576235X
The Sound Studies Reader blends recent work that self-consciously describes itself as ‘sound studies’ along with earlier and lesser-known scholarship on sound from across the humanities and social sciences. The Sound Studies Reader touches on key themes like noise and silence; architecture, acoustics and space; media and reproducibility; listening, voices and disability; culture, community, power and difference; and shifts in the form and meaning of sound across cultures, contexts and centuries. Writers reflect on crucial historical moments, difficult definitions, and competing accounts of the role of sound in culture and everyday life. Across the essays, readers will gain a sense of the range and history of key debates and discussions in sound studies. The collection begins with an introduction to welcome novice readers to the field and acquaint them the main issues in sound studies. Individual section introductions give readers further background on the essays and an extensive up to date bibliography for further reading in sound studies make this an original and accessible guide to the field. Contributors: Rick Altman, Jacques Attali, Roland Barthes, Jody Berland, Karin Bijsterveld, Barry Blesser, Georgina Born, Michael Bull, Adriana Cavarero, Michel Chion, Kate Crawford, Richard Cullen Rath, Jacques Derrida, Mladen Dolar, John Durham Peters, Kodwo Eshun, Frantz Fanon, Lisa Gitelman, Gerard Goggin, Steve Goodman, Stefan Helmreich, Michelle Hilmes, Charles Hirschkind, Shuhei Hosokawa, Don Ihde, Douglas Kahn, Friedrich Kittler, Brandon LaBelle, James Lastra, Richard Leppert, Michèle Martin, Louise Meintjes, Mara Mills, John Mowitt, R. Murray Schafer, Ana María Ochoa Gautier, John Picker, Benjamin Piekut, Trevor Pinch, Tara Rodgers, Linda-Ruth Salter, Jacob Smith, Jason Stanyek, Jonathan Sterne, Emily Thompson, Frank Trocco, Michael Veal, Alexander Weheliye