David Beard presents the first definitive survey of Harrison Birtwistle's music for the opera house and theatre, from his smaller-scale works, such as Down by the Greenwood Side and Bow Down, to the full-length operas, such as Punch and Judy, The Mask of Orpheus and Gawain. Blending source study with both music analysis and cultural criticism, the book focuses on the sometimes tense but always revealing relationship between abstract musical processes and the practical demands of narrative ...

What everyone needs to know NOW about health, fitness and living well in the second half of a great life!If you think growing old is all about walking frames and heart pills, think again.David Beard is a highly qualified physiologist specialising in ageing and well-being. Having worked with people from 25 to 105 he knows that maintaining a healthy and active lifestyle is not only essential to enjoying life at any age, it's not as hard as you might think.This book co...

Bloomsbury presents All Summer Long by David Beard, read by Danny Montooth.This unforgettable and in-depth exploration of The Beach Boys’ incredible output during their early to peak years, from 1961 to 1967, interweaves recollections by group members, family, friends, and musical colleagues.David Beard compiles a wide range of fascinating and eye-opening conversations and original interviews with the group and integral figures in the band’s histor...

David Beard has been drawn to short fiction throughout his very literary life.With Dora’s Curse and Other Stories he pulls together a collection of overa dozen of his favourites.In the cover story, a tribute to James Joyce set in Paris, Dora, a devotedmother, places a curse upon Jack, her profligate husband. In “The StoryThat Couldn’t Be Told” the narrator finds himself drawn to memories andto stories: and a story within a story within th...

Ned Rubie is 14 years old, growing up in the rural Australian town of Smithville during the Great Depression. The most important people in his life are his parents and his Aunt Lily. His father is the town’s lawyer but it’s his mother who is the head of the family.Aunt Lily, his mother’s dearest friend, dotes on Ned. Her only child, Teddy O’Rourke, is Ned’s idol, a couple of years older, “grown, handsome, and blessed with the ease of talking about love and desire and forbidden thin...

Now in an updated 2nd edition, Musicology: The Key Concepts is a handy A-Z reference guide to the terms and concepts associated with contemporary musicology. Drawing on critical theory with a focus on new musicology, this updated edition contains over 35 new entries including:AutobiographyMusic and ConflictDeconstructionPostcolonialismDisabilityMusic...

This book of empirical studies analyzes examples of televisual shared universes since the 1960s to understand how the nature of televised serial narratives and network corporate policies have long created shared storyworlds. While there has been much discussion about shared cinematic universes and comic book universes, the concept has had limited exploration in other media, such as those seen on the smaller screen. By applying convergence culture and other contemporary media studies concep...

Once deemed an unworthy research endeavor, the study of sports fandom has garnered the attention of seasoned scholars from a variety of academic disciplines. Identity and socialization among sports fans are particular burgeoning areas of study among a growing cadre of specialists in the social sciences. Sports Fans, Identity, and Socialization, edited by Adam C. Earnheardt, Paul Haridakis, and Barbara Hugenberg, captures an eclectic collection of new studies from accomplished scholars in t...

This collection of essays celebrates the work of Sir Harrison Birtwistle, one of the key figures in European contemporary music. Representing current research on Birtwistle's music, this book reflects the diversity of his work in terms of periods, genres, forms, techniques and related issues through a wide range of critical, theoretical and analytical interpretations and perspectives. Written by a team of international scholars, all of whom bring a deep research-based knowledge and insight...

This book examines mass communication and civic participation in the age of oil, analyzing the rhetorical and discursive ways that governments and corporations shape public opinion and public policy and activists attempt to reframe public debates to resist corporate framing.In the twenty-first century, oil has become a subject of civic deliberation. Environmental concerns have intensified, questions of indigenous rights have arisen, and private and public investment in energy compa...

Unlock Wesleyan insights today.What is distinctive about how Christians in the Wesleyan tradition interpret the Bible? How can Wesleyans read Scripture in ways that are true to their theological heritage and that can also discern in its pages a guiding witness to a faithful Christian life amid contemporary challenges? Put simply, what is Wesleyan about Wesleyan biblical theology?Discover the essence of Wesleyan biblical interpretation—a reflection of histor...

This is not a book about a great mountaineer, challenging what is conceived to be possible, in a coliseum of battle with nature, in its most sublime and terrifying aspect. It is a book about an amateur; a nitwit if you have it, who blunders and blusters his way through some of the most beautiful, but far friendlier gardens of wonder that the Pacific Southwest has to offer. This is not a compendium of tales of conquest, it is the joyous remembrances of a fool, but one desperately in love wi...