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  • Between Montmartre and the Mudd Club

    Popular Music and the Avant-Garde

    by Bernard Gendron ...
    During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, popular music was considered nothing but vulgar entertainment. Today, jazz and rock music are seen as forms of art, and their practitioners are regularly accorded a status on par with the cultural and political elite. To take just one recent example, Bono, lead singer and lyricist of the rock band U2, got equal and sometimes higher billing ... Read more

    $15.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Network Design with Applications to Transportation and Logistics

    Edited by Teodor Gabriel Crainic, Michel Gendreau, Bernard Gendron ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book explores the methodological and application developments of network design in transportation and logistics. It identifies trends, challenges and research perspectives in network design for these areas. Network design is a major class of problems in operations research where network flow, combinatorial and mixed integer optimization meet. The analysis and planning of transportation and ... Read more

    $224.09 USD

  • Combinatorial Optimization

    6th International Symposium, ISCO 2020, Montreal, QC, Canada, May 4–6, 2020, Revised Selected Papers

    Edited by Mourad Baïou, Bernard Gendron, Oktay Günlük, A. Ridha Mahjoub ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Combinatorial Optimization, ISCO 2020, which was due to be held in Montreal, Canada, in May 2020. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The 24 revised full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 66 submissions.They were organized ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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    Queueing Theory in Action

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  • The Jazz Scene

    by Eric Hobsbawm ...
    From 1955-65 the historian Eric Hobsbawm took the pseudonym 'Francis Newton' and wrote a monthly column for the New Statesman on jazz - music he had loved ever since discovering it as a boy in 1933 ('the year Adolf Hitler took power in Germany'). Hobsbawm's column led to his writing a critical history, The Jazz Scene (1959). This enhanced edition from 1993 adds later writings by Hobsbawm in which ... Read more

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    Models, Algorithms, and Applications

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  • Just around Midnight

    Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination

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    By the time Jimi Hendrix died in 1970, the idea of a black man playing lead guitar in a rock band seemed exotic. Yet a mere ten years earlier, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley had stood among the most influential rock and roll performers. Why did rock and roll become “white”? Just around Midnight reveals the interplay of popular music and racial thought that was responsible for this shift within the ... Read more

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  • Running with the Devil

    Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music

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