Legions Of Boom

Author : Oliver Wang
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780822375487

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Legions of Boom by Oliver Wang Pdf

Armed with speakers, turntables, light systems, and records, Filipino American mobile DJ crews, such as Ultimate Creations, Spintronix, and Images, Inc., rocked dance floors throughout the San Francisco Bay Area from the late 1970s through the mid-1990s. In Legions of Boom noted music and pop culture writer and scholar Oliver Wang chronicles this remarkable scene that eventually became the cradle for turntablism. These crews, which were instrumental in helping to create and unify the Bay Area's Filipino American community, gave young men opportunities to assert their masculinity and gain social status. While crews regularly spun records for school dances, weddings, birthdays, or garage parties, the scene's centerpieces were showcases—or multi-crew performances—which drew crowds of hundreds, or even thousands. By the mid-1990s the scene was in decline, as single DJs became popular, recruitment to crews fell off, and aspiring scratch DJs branched off into their own scene. As the training ground for a generation of DJs, including DJ Q-Bert, Shortkut, and Mix Master Mike, the mobile scene left an indelible mark on its community that eventually grew to have a global impact.

Author : Duncan McDuie-Ra
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811656996

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Skateboard Video by Duncan McDuie-Ra Pdf

This book is about skateboard video and experimental ways of thinking about cities. It makes a provocative argument to consider skate video as an archive of the city from below. Here ‘below’ has a dual meaning. First, below refers to an unofficial archive, a subaltern history of urban space. Second, below refers to the angle from which skateboarders and filmers gaze upon, capture, and consume the city—from the ground up. Since taking to the streets in the early 1980s, skateboarding has been captured on film, video tape and digital memory cards, edited into consumable forms and circulated around the world. Videos are objects amenable to ethnographic analysis while also archiving exercises in urban ethnography by their creators. I advocate for taking skate video seriously as a (fragile) archive of the urban backstage, collective memory across time and space, creative urban practice, urban encounters (people-to-people and people-to-object/s), and the globalization of a subculture at once delinquent and magnificent.

Author : Mark R. Villegas
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252052682

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Manifest Technique by Mark R. Villegas Pdf

An obscured vanguard in hip hop Filipino Americans have been innovators and collaborators in hip hop since the culture’s early days. But despite the success of artists like Apl.de.Ap of the Black Eyed Peas and superstar producer Chad Hugo, the genre’s significance in Filipino American communities is often overlooked. Mark R. Villegas considers sprawling coast-to-coast hip hop networks to reveal how Filipino Americans have used music, dance, and visual art to create their worlds. Filipino Americans have been exploring their racial position in the world in embracing hip hop’s connections to memories of colonial and racial violence. Villegas scrutinizes practitioners’ language of defiance, placing the cultural grammar of hip hop within a larger legacy of decolonization. An important investigation of hip hop as a movement of racial consciousness, Manifest Technique shows how the genre has inspired Filipino Americans to envision and enact new ideas of their bodies, their history, and their dignity.

Author : Liu ShuiBuXi
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781648974090

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Hermit by Liu ShuiBuXi Pdf

"If there comes a day when you will die and your name is qualified to be carved on top of an Emperor, how will you choose?" Close]

Author : Christopher Anvil
Publisher : Baen Books
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Life on other planets
ISBN : 9780671318611

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Pandora's Legions by Christopher Anvil Pdf

Complacently expanding for centuries without major obstacles, the benevolent Centran Empire comes across Earth. In spite of the Centran superiority in technology, the conquest is a nightmare. As a result, a Centran leader has an idea--since humans are so good at fighting, why not send teams of them to planets proving difficult for the Centran Empire?

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : UCD:31175035824468

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The Virginia Quarterly Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : James W. Hughes,David Listokin
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813588322

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Population Trends in New Jersey by James W. Hughes,David Listokin Pdf

To fully understand New Jersey in the 2020s and beyond, it is crucial to understand its ever-changing population. This book examines the twenty-first century demographic trends that are reshaping the state now and will continue to do so in the future. But trend analysis requires a deep historical context. Present-day New Jersey is the result of a long demographic and economic journey that has taken place over centuries, constantly influenced by national and global forces. This book provides a detailed examination of this journey. The result is present-day New Jersey. The authors also highlight key trends that will continue to transform the state: domestic migration out of the state and immigration into it; increasing diversity; slower overall population growth; contracting fertility; the household revolution and changing living arrangements; generational disruptions; and suburbanization versus re-urbanization. All of these factors help place in context the result of the 2020 decennial U.S. Census. While the book focuses on New Jersey, the Garden State is a template of demographic, economic, social, and other forces characterizing the United States in the twenty-first century.

Author : Joel Adam Struthers
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781771121064

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Appel by Joel Adam Struthers Pdf

Appel: A Canadian in the French Foreign Legion is the first-hand account of the author’s six years as a professional soldier during the 1990s, and his experience in the Legion's elite Groupe des Commandos Parachutistes (GCP). Joel Struthers recounts the dangers and demands of military life, from the rigours of recruitment and operational training in the rugged mountains of France, to face-to-face combat in the grasslands of some of Africa’s most troubled nations. Told through the eyes of a soldier, and interspersed with humorous anecdotes, Appel is a fascinating story that debunks myths about the French Foreign Legion and shows it more accurately as a professional arm of the French military. Struthers provides insight into the rigorous discipline that the Legion instills in its young recruits, – who trade their identities as individuals for a life of adventure and a role in a unified fighting force whose motto is “Honour and Loyalty.” Foreword by Col. Benoit Desmeulles, former commanding officer of the Legions 2e Régiment Étranger Parachutistes.

Author : Jim Stanford
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1550286560

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Paper Boom by Jim Stanford Pdf

Preface and Acknowledgement Chapter 1 Introduction: Lots of Money, Not Enough Jobs Part I - Money in Motion: Investment and Job-Creation Chapter 2 Money and Reality: Canada's Two Economies Chapter 3 What Does th

Author : Anonim
Publisher : FPR-Books Ltd
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781874082491

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The Snowmelt River by Anonim Pdf

Author : Frank P. Ryan,Ryan, Frank P.
Publisher : Jo Fletcher Books
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-02
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781780877396

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The Snowmelt River by Frank P. Ryan,Ryan, Frank P. Pdf

Four teenagers are drawn from an Irish mountaintop into an enchanted land and gifted with great powers: but with power comes responsibility, and a vast evil has noticed their arrival . . . On the summit of the fabled mountain Slievenamon in Ireland there is a doorway to an ancient land of terrible power. The gate of Feimhin has lain closed for centuries, the secret of its opening long lost - until four orphans drawn together by Fate pass through the portal and find the enchanted but war-ravaged world of Tír, a strange land peopled by beings of magic. Here death waits at every corner, and they must learn to fight if they are to survive. And they'd better learn quickly, because their enemy, the Tyrant of the Wastelands, is growing in power. 'The best fantasy novel I've ever read . . . an epic adventure that just does not stop!' said Glenda A. Bixler on Authorsden!

Author : Brian R. Solomon
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781773058825

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Blood and Fire by Brian R. Solomon Pdf

The captivating story of how The Sheik captured the imagination of a generation, conquered the wrestling business, and lost it all in a blaze of flame and glory He was the most vicious, bloodthirsty, reviled villain in the history of the ring. During the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, he drew record crowds everywhere he went and left a trail of burned and bloody opponents in his wake. He was The Sheik: the mysterious and terrifying madman from Syria whose wanton destruction and mayhem are the stuff of wrestling legend. But what those legions of fans screaming for his head never knew was that The Sheik was really Eddie Farhat. From Lansing, Michigan, and the son of Arab immigrants, Farhat served his country proudly in World War II and was fulfilling the American dream through hard work and tireless dedication to his craft. And when he wasn’t screaming unintelligibly and attacking his enemies with sharp objects, he was busy being the owner and operator of World Wide Sports, one of the most successful wrestling companies in North America. This is Blood and Fire: The Unbelievable Real-Life Story of Wrestling’s Original Sheik.

Author : Brandon Sanderson
Publisher : Dragonsteel, LLC
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781938570018

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Legion by Brandon Sanderson Pdf

Now also available in the complete collection Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds. A novella from #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, Legion is a fast-paced, witty, and supremely fun thriller with a psychological bent. Stephen Leeds is perfectly sane. It’s his hallucinations who are mad. A genius of unrivaled aptitude, Stephen can learn any new skill, vocation, or art in a matter of hours. However, to contain all of this, his mind creates hallucinatory people—Stephen calls them aspects—to hold and manifest the information. Wherever he goes, he is joined by a team of imaginary experts to give advice, interpretation, and explanation. He uses them to solve problems…for a price. His brain is getting a little crowded, however, and the aspects have a tendency of taking on lives of their own. When a company hires him to recover stolen property—a camera that can allegedly take pictures of the past—Stephen finds himself in an adventure crossing oceans and fighting terrorists. What he discovers may upend the foundation of three major world religions—and, perhaps, give him a vital clue into the true nature of his aspects. -------------------- A note from the publisher: Brandon will send a free copy of this ebook to anyone who purchased the Subterranean Press hardcover. See the title page in the ebook preview for details.

Author : John French
Publisher : Games Workshop
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1784968773

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Tallarn by John French Pdf

The Iron Warriors came from nowhere, falling upon the world of Tallarn in a flash and devastating it with deadly virus weapons. A verdant world was transformed in a heartbeat into a radioactive wasteland... but that was only the beginning.It's a collection of all John French's tales from Tallarn… do you really need any more convincing? Okay then. Millions of tanks clashing in desperate battle on a dying world. As the Warmaster's campaign of galactic domination continues, his generals seek out fresh battlefields to conquer. After leaving the Crone World of Iydris behind, Perturabo strikes for Tallarn. A bitter, vengeful primarch, the lord of the Iron Warriors unleashes a deadly bombardment against the world, killing millions but entrenching the survivors. A brutal, all-consuming armoured conflict ensues, the greatest of the war, and one that grinds down all combatants over more than a year of relentless battles. But Perturabo's reasons for the attack are about more than unleashing punitive destruction against the Imperium - he has an entirely darker purpose in mind.

Author : Adrian Goldsworthy,Dr Adrian Goldsworthy Ltd
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780297864004

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Caesar by Adrian Goldsworthy,Dr Adrian Goldsworthy Ltd Pdf

The story of one of the most brilliant, flamboyant and historically important men who ever lived. 'A superb achievement' LITERARY REVIEW 'Combines scholarship with storytelling to bring the ancient world to life: in his masterly new CAESAR he shows us the greatest Roman as man, statesman, soldier and lover' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'Magnificent' DAILY TELEGRAPH From the very beginning, Caesar's story makes dazzling reading. In his late teens he narrowly avoided execution for opposing the military dictator Sulla. He was decorated for valour in battle, captured and held to ransom by pirates, and almost bankrupted himself by staging games for the masses. As a politician, he quickly gained a reputation as a dangerously ambitious maverick. By his early 30s he had risen to the position of Consul, and was already beginning to dominate the Senate. His affairs with noblewomen were both frequent and scandalous. His greatest skill, outside the bedroom, was as a military commander. In a string of spectacular victories he conquered all of Gaul, invaded Germany, and twice landed in Britain - an achievement which in 55BC was greeted with a public euphoria comparable to that generated by the moon landing in 1969. In just thirty years he had risen from a position of virtual obscurity to become one of the richest men in the world, with the power single-handedly to overthrow the Republic. By his death he was effectively emperor of most of the known world.