1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452839503321

Autore

Taylor Timothy Dean

Titolo

The sounds of capitalism [[electronic resource] ] : advertising, music, and the conquest of culture / / Timothy D. Taylor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago ; ; London, : University of Chicago Press, 2012

ISBN

1-280-99451-7

9786613766120

0-226-79114-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (367 p.)

Disciplina

306.48420973

Soggetti

Music in advertising - United States

Advertising - United States - History - 20th century

Mass media and music - United States

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Examples -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Capitalism, Consumption, Commerce, and Music -- 1. Music and Advertising in Early Radio -- 2. The Classes and the Masses in the 1920s and 1930s -- 3. The Great Depression and the Rise of the Radio Jingle -- 4. Music, Mood, and Television: The Use of Emotion in Advertising Music in the 1950s and 1960s -- 5. The Standardization of Jingle Production in the 1950s and After -- 6. The Discovery of Youth in the 1960s -- 7. Consumption, Corporatization, and Youth in the 1980s -- 8. Conquering (the) Culture: The Changing Shape of the Cultural Industries in the 1990s and After -- 9. New Capitalism, Creativity, and the New Petite Bourgeoisie -- Notes -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

From the early days of radio through the rise of television after World War II to the present, music has been used more and more to sell goods and establish brand identities. And since the 1920s, songs originally written for commercials have become popular songs, and songs written for a popular audience have become irrevocably associated with specific brands and products. Today, musicians move



flexibly between the music and advertising worlds, while the line between commercial messages and popular music has become increasingly blurred. Timothy D. Taylor tracks the use of music in American advertising for nearly a century, from variety shows like The Clic" Club Eskimos to the rise of the jingle, the postwar upsurge in consumerism, and the more complete fusion of popular music and consumption in the 1980s and after. The Sounds of Capitalism is the first book to tell truly the history of music used in advertising in the United States and is an original contribution to this little-studied part of our cultural history.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910465987003321

Autore

Gallegos Raul <1973->

Titolo

Crude nation : how oil riches ruined Venezuela / / Raul Gallegos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln : , : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

1-61234-857-2

1-61234-859-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (255 p.)

Disciplina

330.987

Soggetti

Petroleum industry and trade - Venezuela - History - 21st century

Financial crises - Venezuela - History - 21st century

Electronic books.

Venezuela Economic conditions 21st century

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Author's Note; Prologue; 1. 1- 800- LEO; 2. Infinite Wants; 3. Let There Be Oil; 4. Everyman; 5. Funny Business; 6. Oil for the People; 7. Mango Management; Afterword; Chronology; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

"Beneath Venezuelan soil lies an ocean of crude--the world's largest



reserves--an oil patch that shaped the nature of the global energy business. Unfortunately, a dysfunctional anti-American, leftist government controls this vast resource and has used its wealth to foster voter support, ultimately wreaking economic havoc. Crude Nation reveals the ways in which this mismanagement has led to Venezuela's economic ruin and turned the country into a cautionary tale for the world. Ra&uacute;l Gallegos, a former Caracas-based oil correspondent, paints a picture both vivid and analytical of the country's economic decline, the government's foolhardy economic policies, and the wrecked lives of Venezuelans. Without transparency, the Venezuelan government uses oil money to subsidize life for its citizens in myriad unsustainable ways, while regulating nearly every aspect of day-to-day existence in Venezuela. This has created a paradox in which citizens can fill up the tanks of their SUVs for less than one American dollar while simultaneously enduring nationwide shortages of staples such as milk, sugar, and toilet paper. Gallegos's insightful analysis shows how mismanagement has ruined Venezuela again and again over the past century and lays out how Venezuelans can begin to fix their country, a nation that can play an important role in the global energy industry"--

"Crude Nation tells the story of how ruinous mismanagement has resulted in the economic implosion of Venezuela, the country with the largest oil reserves in the world"--



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910972325403321

Autore

Battiato Sebastiano

Titolo

Image processing for embedded devices : from CFA data to image/video coding / / editors, Sebastiano Battiato ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[S.l.], : Bentham e Books, [2010]

ISBN

9781608051700

1608051706

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (388 p.)

Collana

Applied digital imaging

Altri autori (Persone)

BattiatoSebastiano

Disciplina

621.39/9

621.399

Soggetti

Image processing

Embedded computer systems

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

01 Title.pdf; 02 Cover Page; 03 Content; 04 Foreword; 05 Preface; 06 Biographies; 07 Contributors; 08 Acknowledgement; 09 Chapter 01; 10 Chapter 02; 11 Chapter 03; 12 Chapter 04; 13 Chapter 05; 14 Chapter 06; 15 Chapter 07; 16 Chapter 08; 17 Chapter 09; 18 Chapter 10; 19 Chapter 11; 20 Chapter 12; 21 Chapter 13; 22 Index

Sommario/riassunto

Embedded imaging devices such as digital still and video cameras, mobile phones, personal digital assistants, and visual sensors for surveillance and automotive applications make use of the single-sensor technology approach. An electronic sensor (Charge Coupled Device/Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor) is used to acquire the spatial variations in light intensity and then use image processing algorithms to reconstruct a color picture from the data provided by the sensor. This book is devoted to cover algorithms and methods for the processing of digital images acquired by single-sensor ima