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UNINA9910784879403321 |
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Music, electronic media, and culture [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Simon Emmerson |
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Aldershot ; ; Burlington, USA, : Ashgate, c2000 |
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1-315-59687-3 |
1-317-09171-X |
1-281-09865-5 |
9786611098650 |
0-7546-8632-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (263 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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306.4’84 |
306.484 |
786.7 |
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Electronic music - History and criticism |
Music and technology |
Music - 20th century - History and criticism |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Contents; Notes on contributors; Introduction; Part One: Listening and interpreting; 1 Through and around the acousmatic: the interpretation of electroacoustic sounds; 2 Simulation and reality: the new sonic objects; 3 Beyond the acousmatic: hybrid tendencies in electroacoustic music; Part Two: Cultural noise; 4 Plunderphonics; 5 Crossing cultural boundaries through technology?; 6 Cacophony; Part Three: New places, spaces and narratives; 7 Art on air: a profile of new radio art; 8 'Losing touch?': the human performer and electronics |
9 Stepping outside for a moment: narrative space in two works for sound aloneIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z |
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Technology revolutionised the ways that music was produced in the twentieth century. As that century drew to a close and a new century begins a new revolution in roles is underway. The separate categories |
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of composer, performer, distributor and listener are being challenged, while the sounds of the world itself become available for musical use. All kinds of sounds are now brought into the remit of composition, enabling the music of others to be sampled (or plundered), including that of unwitting musicians from non-western cultures. This sound world may appear contradictory - stimulating and in |
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UNINA9910163184803321 |
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Autore |
Veeder Timothy A |
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An Evaluation of the Aerial Interdiction Campaign Known As the Transportation Plan for the d-Day Invasion : Early January 1944 to Late June 1944 |
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Waipu : , : Pickle Partners Publishing, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (44 p.) |
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Air interdiction |
Strategy |
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The various airmen leading the air war had great differences of opinion regarding what to target in the European theater of operations in support of Operation Overlord. The central leadership figures were Lt. General Carl Spaatz, USSTAF commander, and Air Chief Marshal Trafford Leigh-Mallory, AEAF commander. Each of these military men obviously wanted to support the planned Allied invasion, but they held differing opinions in regard to how to best support the invasion troops. They were greatly influenced by both personal experience and the advice of their respective scientific advisors, Walt W. Rostow and Dr. Solly Zuckerman. Also, Air Marshal Tedder, Deputy Supreme Allied Commander, and Air Marshal Harris, Commander of the RAF Bomber |
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Command, contributed to the decisions to carry out the transportation interdiction campaign.This research focuses on the period January 1944 through the end of June 1944. It includes a literature review of published memoirs and historic accounts of the individuals involved in the decision to implement the transportation plan. The archives of the Air Force Historical Research Agency were accessed to obtain actual accounts and directives implementing the pre-D-Day interdiction campaign. Numerous facts support a discussion of each of the airmen's interests and the controversy that surrounded the transportation campaign.The implementation of the transportation interdiction campaign resulted in the successful denial of German reinforcements to the Normandy beachhead. |
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