Summer vacation loans

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From Saturday 9 June 2012 three week loans and one week loans will be issued over the vacation period to be returned during the week beginning Monday 24 September 2012.



To ensure we have a wide range of books available for all students before the start of the vacation loans, from Friday 25 May until Friday 8 June 3 week loans will be issued to a fixed date of Friday 15 June 2012.

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Hip-hop on trial - Intelligence Squared debate at the Barbican Tuesday 26th June

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Intelligence Squared is teaming up with Google  for a never-before-seen global debate on hip-hop on Tuesday 26th June at Barbican Centre.

See celebrated civil rights activist Jesse Jackson, computer scientist and composer Jaron Lanier, hip-hop pioneer and legend KRS-One, Tricia Rose Chair of the Department of Africana Studies at Brown University and many more stars lock horns in the unique Versus courtroom debate format. Some of the speakers will be on stage in London, others beamed in from around the world. Buy tickets here.
 More information on Intelligence Squared at http://www.intelligencesquared.com/about

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Pod Academy - podcasts of current academic research

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Listen to the podcast of the interview with Sujatha Fernandes (associate professor of sociology at Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York) talking about her research on the globalisation of hip-hop including the impact of rap on the Arab Spring . Her research is published in a book "Close to the edge in search of a global hip hop generation" . The book will be available soon in the library - search for it and request it on Library Search.
Read an opinion piece in the Times Higher Education Supplement about the Pod Academy by Sally Feldman .

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A special issue of the journal Popular Music on the topic of "music dance and ageing" is now available via Library Search. To access it , search for "Popular Music" in Library Search and you can read articles on topics such as "Popular music and the aesthetics of ageing" or "How we feel the music: popular music for elders by elders".

The editors of the journal Murray Forman and Jan Fairley write:

"Notions of music such as rock and pop being ‘youth musics’ shift when, in 2011, we consider that The Beatles' Paul McCartney is five years past the rhetorical age of 64, giving the song new meaning when he sings it on tour – and, yes, like many of his pivotal generation, McCartney is still touring. It is 46 years since The Who released ‘My Generation’ in 1965 with Pete Townshend's (now 66) once provocative lyrics, ‘I hope I die before I get old’. From a different era, Tony Martin, US vocalist, film and television star, now 99 years old, performed live club dates as recently as three years ago. Tony Bennett, the great interpreter of song ‘standards’, is also still actively touring and recording at 85 years of age, releasing his CD Duets II in 2011. Indeed, in 2006 the American Association for Retired People (AARP) sponsored Bennett's US tour, while the 2007 AARP national convention featured performances by UK star Rod Stewart and the US group Earth, Wind and Fire".



New feature for Kindle users


You now have thel option of being able to download the articles from Popular Music to read on your kindle . Chose the HTML option to view the journal article - there's a send to kindle icon and full instructions.

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Welcome back from the Easter break ready to finish off this semester's work.

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John Peel's record collection has gone online in The Space.
Today the first 100 As have been released, on 8th May the first 100 Bs, 15th May first 100 Cs, and so on until October 2012 when the project ends.

When you come to the website you will see John Peel’s home studio, from which you will be able to access the contents of the record collection as it is added to each week, as well as  videos , photos, Peel sessions and radio shows. Once in the collection you will be able to move up and down the shelves of the record collection, picking out certain choice records and going through the first 100 as though you were standing in front of the shelves in John’s studio. 

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