What is this thing called jazz? : African American musicians as artists, critics, and activists / / Eric Porter

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911106828703321
• Autore: Porter Eric (Eric C.)
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, c2002
• ISBN: 9786612759048; 9781282759046; 1282759043; 9780520928404; 0520928407; 9781597349970; 1597349976
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (442 p.)
• Collana: Music of the African diaspora ; ; 6
• Disciplina: 781.65/089/96073
• Soggetti: Jazz - History and criticism; African American jazz musicians; African Americans - Intellectual life - 20th 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 (p. 337-382) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: A marvel of paradox : jazz and African American modernity -- Dizzy atmosphere : the challenge of bebop -- Passions of a man : the poetics and politics of Charles Mingus -- Straight ahead : Abbey Lincoln and the challenge of jazz singing -- Practicing "creative music" : the black arts imperative in the jazz community -- Writing "creative music" : theorizing the art and politics of improvisation -- The majesty of the blues : Wynton Marsalis's jazz canon.
• Sommario/riassunto: Despite the plethora of writing about jazz, little attention has been paid to what musicians themselves wrote and said about their practice. An implicit division of labor has emerged where, for the most part, black artists invent and play music while white writers provide the commentary. Eric Porter overturns this tendency in his creative intellectual history of African American musicians. He foregrounds the often-ignored ideas of these artists, analyzing them in the context of ; meanings circulating around jazz, as well as in relationship to broader currents in African American thought. Porter examines several crucial moments in the history of jazz: the formative years of the 1920's and 1930's; the emergence of bebop; the political and experimental projects of the 1950's, 1960's and 1970's; and the debates surrounding Jazz at Lincoln Center under the direction of Wynton Marsalis. Louis Armstrong, Anthony Braxton, Marion Brown, Duke Ellington, W.C. Handy, Yusef Lateef, Abbey Lincoln, Charles Mingus, Archie Shepp, Wadada Leo Smith, Mary Lou Williams, and Reggie Workman also feature prominently in this book. The wealth of information Porter uncovers shows how these musicians have expressed themselves in print; actively shaped the institutional structures through which the music is created, distributed, and consumed, and how they aligned themselves with other artists and activists, and how they were influenced by forces of class and gender. What Is This Thing Called Jazz? challenges interpretive orthodoxies by showing how much black jazz musicians have struggled against both the racism of the dominant culture and the prescriptive definitions of racial authenticity propagated by the music's supporters, both white and black.

Global biopiracy : patents, plants and indigenous knowledge / / Ikechi Mgbeoji

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911136851903321
• Autore: Mgbeoji Ikechi <1968->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Vancouver, : UBC Press, c2006
• ISBN: 1-282-74079-2; 9786612740794; 0-7748-5170-8
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: xvi, 311 p. ; ; 24 cm
• Collana: Law and society series
• Disciplina: 346.04/86
• Soggetti: Patents (International law); Plants, Cultivated; Traditional ecological knowledge; Plant biotechnology; Eurocentrism; Biodiversity
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms -- Introduction -- Patents, Indigenous and Traditional Knowledge, and Biopiracy -- Implications of Biopiracy for Biological and Cultural Diversity -- The Appropriative Aspects of Biopiracy -- Patent Regimes and Biopiracy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- Law and Society
• Sommario/riassunto: Legal control and ownership of plants and traditional knowledge of the uses of plants (TKUP) is a vexing issue. The phenomenon of appropriation of plants and TKUP, otherwise known as biopiracy, thrives in a cultural milieu where non-Western forms of knowledge are systemically marginalized and devalued as "folk knowledge" or characterized as inferior. Global Biopiracy rethinks the role of international law and legal concepts, the Western-based, Eurocentric patent systems of the world, and international agricultural research institutions as they affect legal ownership and control of plants and TKUP. The analysis is cast in various contexts and examined at multiple ; levels. The first deals with the Eurocentric character of the patent system, international law, and institutions. The second involves the cultural and economic dichotomy between the industrialized Western world and the westernizing, developing world. The third level of analysis considers the phenomenal loss of human cultures and plant diversity. Exhaustively researched and eloquently argued, Global Biopiracy sheds new light on a contentious topic. The impact of intellectual property law on indigenous peoples and informal or traditional innovations is a field of study that currently includes only a handful of scholars. Biopiracy will be an invaluable resource for students, teachers, and legal practitioners.

Die Axiome der Anschauung in Kants Kritik der reinen Vernunft / / Oliver Schliemann

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911150453003321
• Autore: Schliemann Oliver
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin ; ; New York, : De Gruyter, c2010
• ISBN: 1-282-91202-X; 9786612912023; 3-11-022843-2
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (163 p.)
• Collana: Kantstudien Erganzungshefte, , 0340-6059 ; ; 162
• Classificazione: CF 5015
• Disciplina: 121
• Soggetti: Intuition; Knowledge, Theory of; Reason; Causation
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Tedesco
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Originally presented as the author's thesis--Universitat Bielefeld, 2009.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Inhalt -- Einleitung -- Teil I: Die Rekonstruktion der Axiome der Anschauung -- 1. Axiome der Anschauung und Schematismus des reinen Verstandes -- 2. Grundsätze des reinen Verstandes und Subsumtion -- Teil II: Zur Bedeutung der Axiome der Anschauung -- 3. Die Gewissheit der Axiome der Anschauung -- 4. Die ; Axiome der Anschauung und die Möglichkeitder Mathematik -- Zusammenfassung und Ausblick -- Zusammenfassung -- Ausblick -- Backmatter
• Sommario/riassunto: Bekanntlich hat Kant in seiner Kritik der reinen Vernunft das System der Grundsätze des reinen Verstandes nicht vollständig ausgeführt. Die vorliegende Arbeit rekonstruiert die fehlende erste Klasse dieser Grundsätze, die Axiome der Anschauung, in einer eingehenden Textanalyse und unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des kantischen Systemgedankens. Im Zuge dieser Untersuchung wird im Anschluss an eine Stelle der Prolegomena die allgemeine Form eines Verstandesgrundsatzes als die Subsumtion von Erscheinungen unter Kategorien gemäß dem jeweils korrespondierenden transzendentalen Schema bestimmt. Ausführlich erläutert wird dabei der Begriff der Subsumtion, das Zusammenwirken der Größenkategorien mit den ihnen korrespondierenden Schemata, der Begriff der Erscheinung sowie Kants Begriff der Objektivität. Ebenso wird erklärt, dass und weshalb entgegen einer verbreiteten Meinung die Axiome der Anschauung nicht mit den Axiomen der Mathematik gleichzusetzen sind und gleichwohl grundlegend für Mathematik und Erfahrung.