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Revolutionary Prudence Wright : leading the Minute Women in the fight for independence / Beth Anderson ; illustrated by Susan Reagan.

Anderson, Beth, 1954- (author.). Reagan, Susan, (illustrator.).

Summary:

This first-ever picture book biography about female Revolutionary War activist Prudence Wright shows how she assembled the first and only group of "minute women" to fight the British, forever changing history.

Record details

ISBN: 9781644720578
ISBN: 1644720574
Physical Description: 48 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 25 x 28 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers, [2022]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction. The Blessings of Noise Music / Mark Delaere -- PART I. The Joys of Noise : Historical, Theoretical, Aesthetic and Cultural Perspectives. Noise Annoys, Noise is the Future : Noise in Communication and Cybernetic Theories and Popular Music Practices / Michael N. Goddard ; Save Our Noise : When Sound Out of Place Deserves Our Protection / Karin Bijsterveld ; Tracing Earlines in Ethnomusicology / Barbara Titus ; Noise, Not Music / Paul Hegarty ; Between Morphological Research and Social Criticism : Notes on the Aesthetics of Noise in Avant-Garde Music / Makis Solomos -- PART II. Music-Analytical Case Studies. Analysing Non-Score Based Music / Simon Emmerson / Noise in Spectral Music / Ingrid Pustijanac ; Is There Noise in Helmut Lachenmann's Music? Temporal Form and Moments of Presence in the String Quartet Gran Torso / Christian Utz ; The Mic as a Scalpel : Skinning the Voice in Henri Chopin's Sound Poetry / Jannis Van de Sande ; Noise as Ground in Improvised Music : The Case of Chris Corsano / Diederik Mark de Ceuster ; Stretching Musicality to the Extreme : Vertical Composition in Merzbow's Noise Music / Marina Sudo.