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Lesson No. 1
Following a spectacular rise to cult fame with his No Wave band Theoretical Girls, Glenn Branca made his first steps in composition with an album called Lesson No. 1 released in 1980. As you'd expect from a former member of an underground rock band, Lesson No. 1 was unlike anything any other composer had ever composer before. Monstrously loud and bold, it also in some ways fit the minimalist archetype, focusing as it did on rhythm and repetition. But this time it was also unashamedly rock 'n' roll. The eponymous Lesson No. 1 sees two guitars oscillate steadily on an interval of a fifth. Drones swing in, as do drums. Neither completely loosen the bonds of the insistent but peppy ostinato. The work was the start of some even more adventurous compositions. In 1983 he wrote his first symphony for electric guitars, which was again uncompromisingly loud. It didn't endear him to the established classical avant-garde. John Cage called his music fascist. Branca didn't let this lie: "If you don't know what it means to be into rock music. If you don't know what it means to go to a concert because it's going to be loud, and intense, and beating right through your chest, if you don't understand that you're getting up there to have a physical experience, then you're going to have trouble with my music."


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New Law E-Books Available
We have purchased the 2017 Hart Collection from Bloomsbury. We have already added 61 titles to DiscoverEd and the remaining titles will be added as they are published. A full list of the 125 titles are listed here and the status column K will show the available titles already added to DiscoverEd.
This entry was posted in New e-resources and tagged Bloomsbury, e-books, Hart, Law on June 21, 2017 by eresources.
Bloomsbury E-Books – more added
Earlier this year we purchased Hart 2014 and 2015 collection e-book packages, we have now purchased a further 3 collections – Hart 2016, Education 2015 and Second Language Acquisition Archive 2001-2012.
These have all been added to DiscoverEd. Hart 2016 titles will continue to be added to DiscoverEd until the end of the year.
The Hart 2014, 2015, 2016, Education 2015 and Second Language Acquisition Archive title lists can be found here.
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Bloomsbury E-Books added to DiscoverEd
All of our recent Bloomsbury e-book collection purchases have now been added to DiscoverEd. See the full list here.
Collections purchased include: Anthropology Archive 1993-2013, Anthropology 2014, Biblical Studies 2013, 2014, Christian Doctrines Archive 1988-2013, Christology Archive 1982-2011, Churchill Collection, International Critical Commentary 1901-2014, International Relations Archive 1998-2013, Political Theory and Philosophy Archive 1998-2013, Politics and International Relations 2014, Politics Archive 1993-2013, Religious Studies Archive 2008-2012, Religious Studies 2013, 2014 and 2015. Religious Studies 2015 collection titles will be added to DiscoverEd as new titles become available.
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Trial – Bloomsbury e-books
We have trial access to several e-book collections on the Bloomsbury e-book platform until the end of the year.
Bloomsbury Collections delivers access to quality research across the humanities and social sciences. Trial includes many of the 4,000 titles which will be on the platform by early 2015, featuring content from Bloomsbury's latest research publications as well as a 100+ year legacy including Continuum, T&T Clark, Bristol Classical Press, Berg, The Arden Shakespeare and the recently acquired Hart Publishing.
The collections we are trialling are:
Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Ancient History Archive 1983-2012
Classical Literature Archive 1994-2012
Classical Studies & Archaeology 2013
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Prezentare This volume of Euripides' plays offers new translations of the three great war plays Trojan Women, Hecuba, and Andromache, in which the sufferings of Troy's survivors are harrowingly depicted. With unparalleled intensity, Euripides--whom Aristotle called the most tragic of poets--describes the horrific brutality that both women and children undergo during war. Yet, in the war's aftermath, this brutality is challenged and a new battleground is revealed where the women of Troy evince an overwhelming greatness of spirit.
We weep for the aged Hecuba in her name play and in Trojan Women, while at the same time we admire her resilience amid unrelieved suffering. Andromache, the slave-concubine of her husband's killer, endures her existence in the victor's country with a stoic nobility. Of their time yet timeless, these plays insist on the victory of the female spirit amid the horrors visited on them by the gods and men during war.