Big Ears

Big Ears

Author: Nichole T. Rustin

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2008-11-07

Total Pages: 474

ISBN-13: 0822389223

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In jazz circles, players and listeners with “big ears” hear and engage complexity in the moment, as it unfolds. Taking gender as part of the intricate, unpredictable action in jazz culture, this interdisciplinary collection explores the terrain opened up by listening, with big ears, for gender in jazz. Essays range from a reflection on the female boogie-woogie pianists who played at Café Society in New York during the 1930s and 1940s to interpretations of how the jazzman is represented in Dorothy Baker’s novel Young Man with a Horn (1938) and Michael Curtiz’s film adaptation (1950). Taken together, the essays enrich the field of jazz studies by showing how gender dynamics have shaped the production, reception, and criticism of jazz culture. Scholars of music, ethnomusicology, American studies, literature, anthropology, and cultural studies approach the question of gender in jazz from multiple perspectives. One contributor scrutinizes the tendency of jazz historiography to treat singing as subordinate to the predominantly male domain of instrumental music, while another reflects on her doubly inappropriate position as a female trumpet player and a white jazz musician and scholar. Other essays explore the composer George Russell’s Lydian Chromatic Concept as a critique of mid-twentieth-century discourses of embodiment, madness, and black masculinity; performances of “female hysteria” by Les Diaboliques, a feminist improvising trio; and the BBC radio broadcasts of Ivy Benson and Her Ladies’ Dance Orchestra during the Second World War. By incorporating gender analysis into jazz studies, Big Ears transforms ideas of who counts as a subject of study and even of what counts as jazz. Contributors: Christina Baade, Jayna Brown, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Monica Hairston, Kristin McGee, Tracy McMullen, Ingrid Monson, Lara Pellegrinelli, Eric Porter, Nichole T. Rustin, Ursel Schlicht, Julie Dawn Smith, Jeffrey Taylor, Sherrie Tucker, João H. Costa Vargas


Johnny Big-Ears, the Feel Good Friend

Johnny Big-Ears, the Feel Good Friend

Author: John Paul Padilla

Publisher:

Published: 2009-08-15

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 9780985313715

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Johnny BIG-EARS is just like every other five-year-old child, but when he starts his first day of kindergarten, children begin to tease him because of his enormously large ears. Follow Johnny as he faces the challenges that being different presents. How will Johnny react to being teased? Find out why Johnny turns out to be a winner in this endearing, thoughtful book that addresses typical childhood bullying and offers children advice on how to deal with teasing. Whether you're a parent or an educator, now you will be able to encourage your kids or students through this special book and help motivate all young kids to start feeling good about themselves no matter who they are, or what they look like!


Why Elephants Have Big Ears

Why Elephants Have Big Ears

Author: Chris Lavers

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2002-11-16

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0312303335

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Why Elephants Have Big Ears is the result of one man's lifelong quest to understand why the creatures of the earth appear and act as they do. In a wry manner and personal tone, Chris Lavers explores and solves some of nature's most challenging evolutionary mysteries, such as why birds are small and plentiful, why rivers and lakes are dominated by the few remaining large reptiles, why most of the large land-dwellers are mammals, and many more.


Finn Beloomey and His Great Big Giant Ears

Finn Beloomey and His Great Big Giant Ears

Author: Deena Sullivan

Publisher: Mascot Books

Published: 2018-09-04

Total Pages: 38

ISBN-13: 9781684010615

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Finn Beloomey is a regular, happy, 7-year-old boy. Except he has GREAT BIG GIANT EARS. He starts to get made fun of by his not-so-nice neighbors, Timmy and Tammy. He comes home from school a little blue one day and then his parents teach him THE MAGIC WORDS! Will Finn use the power of the magic words to make the bullies disappear, or will Timmy and Tammy have the last laugh?


Why Hares Have Big Ears

Why Hares Have Big Ears

Author: Rosie Brown

Publisher: Austin Macauley

Published: 2019-08

Total Pages: 22

ISBN-13: 9781528937801

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Why are foxes red? How did giraffes get such a long neck? And why do wolves howl at the moon? In this book series, children can discover fun and imaginative answers that explain just how animals are the way they are.


Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears

Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears

Author: Verna Aardema

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1975-01-01

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 0803760892

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"In this Caldecott Medal winner, Mosquito tells a story that causes a jungle disaster. "Elegance has become the Dillons' hallmark. . . . Matching the art is Aardema's uniquely onomatopoeic text . . . An impressive showpiece." -Booklist, starred review. Winner of Caldecott Medal in 1976 and the Brooklyn Art Books for Children Award in 1977.


Big-Ears

Big-Ears

Author: Enid Blyton

Publisher: HarperCollins UK

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 0007258984

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A brand new story format and a new adventure for Noddy - this time with his best friend, Big-Ears, the magical brownie.


Henry's Big Ears (Childrens Books)

Henry's Big Ears (Childrens Books)

Author: Joshua McManus

Publisher:

Published: 2021-09-06

Total Pages: 49

ISBN-13:

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Henry's Big Ears Henry has a problem, his ears are rather huge! What if you had really big ears? Would it bother you? Well, beware, Hold tight and Join Joshua McManus on his most amazing tale yet.


The Amazing Human Body

The Amazing Human Body

Author: Shar Levine

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13: 9781402724374

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Learn about the human body by doing simple experiments and activities.


All Ears

All Ears

Author: Peter Szendy

Publisher: Fordham Univ Press

Published: 2016-12-01

Total Pages: 167

ISBN-13: 0823273970

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The world of international politics has recently been rocked by a seemingly endless series of scandals involving auditory surveillance: the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping is merely the most sensational example of what appears to be a universal practice today. What is the source of this generalized principle of eavesdropping? All Ears: The Aesthetics of Espionage traces the long history of moles from the Bible, through Jeremy Bentham’s “panacoustic” project, all the way to the intelligence-gathering network called “Echelon.” Together with this archeology of auditory surveillance, Szendy offers an engaging account of spycraft’s representations in literature (Sophocles, Shakespeare, Joyce, Kafka, Borges), opera (Monteverdi, Mozart, Berg), and film (Lang, Hitchcock, Coppola, De Palma). Following in the footsteps of Orpheus, the book proposes a new concept of “overhearing” that connects the act of spying to an excessive intensification of listening. At the heart of listening Szendy locates the ear of the Other that manifests itself as the originary division of a “split-hearing” that turns the drive for mastery and surveillance into the death drive.