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Introduction to music theory 2: pitch and notation
History & The Arts

Introduction to music theory 2: pitch and notation

...Central Africa, Sundanese gamelan music from Indonesia, and Arab classical music from Syria. The course explores how notes are represented through words and symbols, devoting special attention to Western staff notation while also considering Arab and Sundanese notation. You will have opportunities to read and write notes and to sing and play short musical extracts with...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology
Education & Development

Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology

...central and defining colonial force of the planet (Chakrabarty, 2000). As a result, the political alliances of Whiteness have entered an unsteady state which brings them more into view and closer to personal experience. The phenotypical Whiteness of past and present prominent political figures, such as Boris Johnson, Donald Trump, Nigel Farage and the British royal family...
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Video 30 mins
Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle
History & The Arts

Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle

...centrality of infrastructural and logistical registers to piratical practices cuts across public/private distinctions and calls for a parametric sense of the political, rather than the fall-back on a public sphere model that always-already depoliticizes piratical practices as private acts of appropriation without authorization. There is no necessarily progressive vision...
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Article 15 mins
Fair shares? Why sharing needs a democratic revolution
Society, Politics & Law

Fair shares? Why sharing needs a democratic revolution

...central Freecycle management over the erosion of Freecycle’s grassroots ethos. So, first and foremost, Freegle provides some promising evidence that democratic sharing economy platforms, at least in the non-profit sector, can emerge from well-established centralised platforms. Freegle has also been successful in building a community of hundreds of volunteers across the...
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Article 5 mins
Strangers on a train platform: Refugees feel the hostility of Hungary
Society, Politics & Law

Strangers on a train platform: Refugees feel the hostility of Hungary

...central Europe, you might think Hungary would have little to fear from prospective refugees. But the number of immigrants rarely bears any relationship to the fear of them. Right after the EU accession, a 2007 opinion survey saw 80% of Hungarians say they would not welcome ethnic groups such as Arabs, Chinese and Russians into their country. The same refusal rate applied...
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Article 10 mins
Why is there a tax on tampons - and why is it so hard to make sanitary protection tax free?
Society, Politics & Law

Why is there a tax on tampons - and why is it so hard to make sanitary protection tax free?

...central treasury. The government should consider waiving the income generated from VAT on sanitary products if possible. If this is the case the chancellor may be able to allocate funds raised by the tax to good causes. In the spring and summer budgets of 2015, Osborne allocated revenue accrued from Libor fines to specified good causes. The government could negotiate with...
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Article 5 mins
Why are the Paris attacks given greater attention than the ISIS killings in Beirut?
Society, Politics & Law

Why are the Paris attacks given greater attention than the ISIS killings in Beirut?

...Central African Republic’s (CAR) displaced Muslim population is also ignored. This, even though the United Nations has equated the CAR’s actions to ethnic cleansing. In this context of marginalisation, ignorance and deprivation, the message that some lives matter more finds some sort of validation. Giving outsiders a sense of value The world’s marginalised have been...
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Article 5 mins
RIP, LEA: The local education authority vanishes
Education & Development

RIP, LEA: The local education authority vanishes

...central government, local authorities will lose much of their funding as a result of the push to academise. This may well put some of these services at risk or increase their cost. If they are large enough, some MATs may be able to replicate the cost savings of local authorities by clubbing together and contracting such services. But small rural schools who depend on...
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Article 5 mins