B-sides, undercurrents and overtones [[electronic resource] ] : peripheries to popular in music, 1960 to the present / / George Plasketes

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910453990303321
• Autore: Plasketes George
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Farnham, England ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, c2009
• ISBN: 1-317-17112-8; 1-282-24339-X; 9786612243394; 0-7546-9382-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (222 p.)
• Collana: Ashgate popular and folk music series
• Disciplina: 781.640973/09045
• Soggetti: Popular music - United States - History and criticism; Music - United States - History and criticism; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-201) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; General Editor's Preface; Preface: My Back Pages; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Flip Side: Let It B; 1 Get Your 45's On: Terry Melcher, Lost in the Surf and Sun of the 1960's Sound Waves; 2 How the Midwest Was Won: The Chicago Suburbs Seven, a Mid-1960's Regional Rotation; 3 Covering Outside the Lines: Hans Fenger and the Langley Schools Music Project; 4 Geffen Records v. Neil Young: The Battle of the Brands; 5 Music and Movie Mutuality: Ry Cooder, the Involved Bystander; 6 World Music Missionaries: Cross Cultural Convergences; 7 The Vital Visual Voice of the Videotape Editor: Seamlessly Sculpting Graceland: The African Concert 8 Rock Around the Cop: Bochco's Broadway Blue Print as Television Musical Muse and Martyr; 9 Must Sing TV: Pop Rock Sitcom Cameo Obscuras; 10 Umbilical Musical Chords: Lineage, Legacy and Mom and Pop Pedigree; 11 Die Another Day: Warren Zevon's Desperado "Deteriorata"; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: There are undercurrents and peripheral taste preferences that are a defining part of our individual and collective cultural experience. Music ; is no exception. Professor George Plasketes adapts the iconic 'A-side/B-side' dichotomy from the 45 r.p.m. for use as a unique conceptual, critical, historical, and cultural framework for exploring and threading together a variety of popular music and media texts. The profiles and perspectives focus on the peripheries; on texts which might be considered 'B-sides' - overlooked, underappreciated, and unsung cases, creators, patterns and productions that...

Introduction to the statistical physics of integrable many-body systems / / Ladislav Šamaj, Zoltán Bajnok [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910786730003321
• Autore: Šamaj Ladislav <1959->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
• ISBN: 1-107-06541-0; 1-139-88961-3; 1-107-05694-2; 1-107-05479-6; 1-107-05809-0; 1-139-34348-3; 1-107-05940-2; 1-107-05587-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xix, 504 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Classificazione: SCI040000
• Disciplina: 530.12015195
• Soggetti: Quantum theory - Statistical methods; Many-body problem
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Part I. Spinless Bose and Fermi Gases. 1. Particles with nearest-neighbour interactions: Bethe ansatz and the ground state; 2. Bethe ansatz: zero-temperature thermodynamics and excitations; 3. Bethe ansatz: finite-temperature thermodynamics; 4. Particles with inverse-square interactions; Part II. Quantum Inverse Scattering Method. 5. QISM: Yang-Baxter equation; 6. QISM: transfer matrix and its ; diagonalization; 7. QISM: treatment of boundary conditions; 8. Nested Bethe ansatz for spin-1/2 fermions with delta interactions; 9. Thermodynamics of spin-1/2 fermions with delta interactions; Part III. Quantum Spin Chains. 10. Quantum Ising chain in a transverse field; 11. XXZ Heisenberg chain: Bethe ansatz and the ground state; 12. XXZ Heisenberg chain: ground state in the presence of magnetic field; 13. XXZ Heisenberg chain: excited states; 14. XXX Heisenberg chain: thermodynamics with strings; 15. XXZ Heisenberg chain: thermodynamics without strings; 16. XYZ Heisenberg chain; 17. Integrable isotropic chains with arbitrary spin; Part IV. Strongly Correlated Electrons. 18. Hubbard model; 19. Kondo effect; 20. Luttinger many-fermion model; 21. Integrable BCS superconductors; Part V. Sine-Gordon Model. 22. Classical sine-Gordon theory; 23. Conformal quantization; 24. Lagrangian quantization; 25. Bootstrap quantization; 26. UV-IR relation; 27. Exact finite volume description from XXZ; 28. Two-dimensional Coulomb gas.
• Sommario/riassunto: Including topics not traditionally covered in literature, such as (1+1)-dimensional QFT and classical 2D Coulomb gases, this book considers a wide range of models and demonstrates a number of situations to which they can be applied. Beginning with a treatise of nonrelativistic 1D continuum Fermi and Bose quantum gases of identical spinless particles, the book describes the quantum inverse scattering method and the analysis of the related Yang-Baxter equation and integrable quantum Heisenberg models. It also discusses systems within condensed matter physics, the complete solution of the sine-Gordon model and modern trends in the thermodynamic Bethe ansatz. Each chapter concludes with problems and solutions to help consolidate the reader's understanding of the theory and its applications. Basic knowledge of quantum mechanics and equilibrium statistical physics is assumed, making this book suitable for graduate students and researchers in statistical physics, quantum mechanics and mathematical and theoretical physics.