Destructive desires : rhythm and blues culture and the politics of racial equality / / Robert J. Patterson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910467814703321
• Autore: Patterson Robert J. <1980->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New Brunswick, New Jersey : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• ISBN: 1-9788-0361-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 246 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 306.484243
• Soggetti: Rhythm and blues music - Social aspects - United States - History; Rhythm and blues music - Political aspects - United States - History; Rhythm and blues music - History and criticism; African Americans - Attitudes; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-236) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Preface: RJP and the Rhythm and Blues Imagination -- 1. Reading Race, Gender, and Sex: Black Intimate Relations, Black Inequality, and the Rhythm and Blues Imagination -- 2. "Whip Appeal": Reading Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds -- 3. "Freak Like Me": Reading Adina Howard -- 4. "Didn't We Almost Have It All?": Reading Whitney Houston -- Epilogue: "It's Just Another Sad Love Song": Reading Toni Braxton -- Appendix A: Select List of Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds's Songs -- Appendix B: Select Awards and Honors -- Appendix C: Robert J. Patterson Interviews Adina Howard -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author
• Sommario/riassunto: Despite rhythm and blues culture's undeniable role in molding, reflecting, and reshaping black cultural production, consciousness, and politics, it has yet to receive the serious scholarly examination it deserves. Destructive Desires corrects this omission by analyzing how post-Civil Rights era rhythm and blues culture articulates competing and conflicting political, social, familial, and economic desires within and for African American communities. As an important form of black ; cultural production, rhythm and blues music helps us to understand black political and cultural desires and longings in light of neo-liberalism's increased codification in America's racial politics and policies since the 1970's. Robert J. Patterson provides a thorough analysis of four artists-Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, Adina Howard, Whitney Houston, and Toni Braxton-to examine black cultural longings by demonstrating how our reading of specific moments in their lives, careers, and performances serve as metacommentaries for broader issues in black culture and politics.

Analytical Design of PID Controllers / / by Iván D. Díaz-Rodríguez, Sangjin Han, Shankar P. Bhattacharyya

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910483615003321
• Autore: Díaz-Rodríguez Iván D
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019
• ISBN: 3-030-18228-2
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2019.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (304 pages)
• Disciplina: 670.427; 629.8
• Soggetti: Automatic control; Chemical engineering; Robotics; System theory; Aerospace engineering; Astronautics; Control and Systems Theory; Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering; Systems Theory, Control; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction to Control -- Stabilizing Sets for Linear Time Invariant Continuous-Time Plants -- Stabilizing Sets for Ziegler-Nichols Plants -- Stabilizing Sets for Linear Time Invariant Discrete-Time Plants -- Computation of Stabilizing Sets From Frequency Response Data -- Gain and Phase Margin Based Design for Continuous-Time Plants -- Gain-Phase Margin Based Design of Discrete Time Controllers -- PID Control of Multivariable Systems -- H∞ Optimal Synthesis for Continuous-Time Systems -- H∞ Optimal Synthesis for Discrete-Time Systems.
• Sommario/riassunto: This monograph presents a new analytical approach to the design of proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controllers for linear time-invariant plants. The authors develop a computer-aided procedure, to ; synthesize PID controllers that satisfy multiple design specifications. A geometric approach, which can be used to determine such designs methodically using 2- and 3-D computer graphics is the result. The text expands on the computation of the complete stabilizing set previously developed by the authors and presented here. This set is then systematically exploited to achieve multiple design specifications simultaneously. These specifications include classical gain and phase margins, time-delay tolerance, settling time and H-infinity norm bounds. The results are developed for continuous- and discrete-time systems. An extension to multivariable systems is also included. Analytical Design of PID Controllers provides a novel method of designing PID controllers, which makes it ideal for both researchers and professionals working in traditional industries as well as those connected with unmanned aerial vehicles, driverless cars and autonomous robots. .