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“michael sy uy”

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  • Ask the Experts

    How Ford, Rockefeller, and the NEA Changed American Music

    by Michael Sy Uy ...
    From the end of the Second World War through the U.S. Bicentennial, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Ford Foundation granted close to $300 million (approximately $2.3 billion in 2017 dollars) in the field of music alone. In deciding what to fund, these three grantmaking institutions decided to "ask the experts," adopting seemingly objective, scientific ... Read more

    $47.19 CAD

  • Musical Capital

    Sound and Power in Washington, D.C.

    Edited by Emily Abrams Ansari, Daniel F. Boomhower, Michael Sy Uy ...
    Musical Capital: Sound and Power in Washington, D.C. brings together a collection of thirteen essays developed by twenty-nine authors and musicians to create an expansive story of musical life in Washington, D.C. It examines D.C.’s music as an articulation of both the city’s symbolic importance on the global stage and the quotidian realities of lived experiences on a human scale. A telling of the ... Read more

    $82.49 CAD

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  • A Consumers' Republic

    The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America

    by Lizabeth Cohen ...
    In this signal work of history, Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lizabeth Cohen shows how the pursuit of prosperity after World War II fueled our pervasive consumer mentality and transformed American life.Trumpeted as a means to promote the general welfare, mass consumption quickly outgrew its economic objectives and became synonymous with patriotism, social equality, and the ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • The Problem of the Media

    U.S. Communication Politics in the Twenty-First Century

    by Robert D. McChesney ...
    The symptoms of the crisis of the U.S. media are well-known—a decline in hard news, the growth of info-tainment and advertorials, staff cuts and concentration of ownership, increasing conformity of viewpoint and suppression of genuine debate. McChesney's new book, The Problem of the Media, gets to the roots of this crisis, explains it, and points a way forward for the growing media reform movement ... Read more

    $14.29 CAD

  • The Great Divergence

    America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do about It

    by Timothy Noah ...
    For the past three decades, America has steadily become a nation of haves and have-nots. Our incomes are increasingly unequal. This steady growing apart is often mentioned as a troubling indicator by scholars and policy analysts, though seldom addressed by politicians. What economics Nobelist Paul Krugman terms "the Great Divergence" has till now been treated as little more than a talking point, a ... Read more

    $18.49 CAD

  • Rich Media, Poor Democracy

    Communication Politics in Dubious Times

    by Robert W. McChesney ...
    An updated edition of the "penetrating study" examining how the current state of mass media puts our democracy at risk (Noam Chomsky).What happens when a few conglomerates dominate all major aspects of mass media, from newspapers and magazines to radio and broadcast television? After all the hype about the democratizing power of the internet, is this new technology living up to its promise? Since ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Invisible Hands

    The Businessmen's Crusade Against the New Deal

    by Kim Phillips-Fein ...
    “A compelling and readable story of resistance to the new economic order.” —Boston GlobeIn the wake of the profound economic crisis known as the Great Depression, a group of high-powered individuals joined forces to campaign against the New Deal—not just its practical policies but the foundations of its economic philosophy. The titans of the National Association of Manufacturers and the chemicals ... Read more

    $18.19 CAD

  • Digital Disconnect

    How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy

    by Robert W. McChesney ...
    Celebrants and skeptics alike have produced valuable analyses of the Internet's effect on us and our world, oscillating between utopian bliss and dystopian hell. But according to Robert W. McChesney, arguments on both sides fail to address the relationship between economic power and the digital world.McChesney's award-winning Rich Media, Poor Democracy skewered the assumption that a society ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Middle Out

    The Rise of Progressive Economics and a Return to Shared Prosperity

    by Michael Tomasky ...
    **Political journalist Michael Tomasky tracks an exciting change among progressive economists who are overturning decades of conservative dogma and offering an alternative version of capitalism that can serve broadly shared prosperity to all."Engaging, briskly paced ... On balance, history appears to be on Tomasky’s side." —The New York Times Book Review**In the first half of the twentieth century ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Canadian Content

    Culture and the Quest for Nationhood

    by Ryan Edwardson ...
    A nation is given shape in large part through the cultural activities of its builders. Historically, nationalists have turned to the arts and media to articulate and institute a sense of unique national identity. This was certainly true of Canada in the twentieth century. Canadian Content explores ways in which nationhood was defined and pursued through cultural means in Canada throughout the last ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Informing the News

    by Thomas E. Patterson ...
    As the journalist Walter Lippmann noted nearly a century ago, democracy falters “if there is no steady supply of trustworthy and relevant news.” Today’s journalists are not providing it. Too often, reporters give equal weight to facts and biased opinion, stir up small controversies, and substitute infotainment for real news. Even when they get the facts rights, they often misjudge the context in ... Read more

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  • The Death and Life of American Journalism

    The Media Revolution That Will Begin the World Again

    by John Nichols, Robert W. McChesney ...
    Daily newspapers are closing across America. Washington bureaus are shuttering; whole areas of the federal government are now operating with no press coverage. International bureaus are going, going, gone.Journalism, the counterbalance to corporate and political power, the lifeblood of American democracy, is not just threatened. It is in meltdown.In The Death and Life of American Journalism, ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD