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Effect of Precipitation Aging Temperatures on Reheat Treated Microstructures and its Phase Stability after Long-Term Exposure in Cast Nickel Base Superalloy, Grade Inconel 738
Authors: Kontikame Nattapol , Polsilapa Sureerat , Wangyao Panyawat
Published: March 2017

This research work has an aim to investigate the effect of precipitation aging temperatures of 845°C, 865°C, 885°C and 905°C for 24 hours after solutioning treatment at temperature of 1145°C for 4 hours on final microstructure of cast nickel base superalloy, grade Inconel 738, which is used as a material for turbine blades in land base gas turbine engines to generate electricity in power plants. Further interesting is also extended to study and evaluate the phase stability of precipitated gamma prime particles after long-term heating at tempeatures of 900°C and 1000°C for 200 hours of all received final microstructures after various reheat treatment conditions. From all obtained results, it was found that the higher precipitation aging temperatures provided the more coarsening size of both coarse and fine gamma prime particles. Furthermore, after long-term exposure at high temperatures, this resulted in an increasing of both area density and size of gamma prime particles.
Temperature Dependent Yield Strength, Strain Hardening and Failure of the CoCrFeNiMnVx High Entropy Alloys
Authors: Podolskiy Aleksey V. , Tabachnikova Elena D. , Laktionova Marina O. , Bereznaia Natalia A. , Tikhonovsky Mikhail A. , Tortika Aleksandr S. , Miškuf Jozef , Csach Kornel , Juríková Alena , Hurakova Maria
Published: March 2017

Several structural states of the CoCrFeNiMnVx (x=0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75) high entropy alloys with different content of the intermetallic σ phase are studied in uniaxial compression in temperature range 4.2-300 K. Peculiarities of strain hardening stages and temperature dependences of the yield strength are registered and analyzed considering dislocation sliding as main deformation mechanism in matrix fcc phase. Influence of σ phase particles, deformation twins and stacking faults on the deformation behavior of the CoCrFeNiMnVx alloy is discussed.
Crack Propagation in Metallic Glass Ribbon as a Function of the Position of Stress Concentrators
Authors: Hurakova Maria , Csach Kornel , Miškuf Jozef , Juríková Alena , Ocelík Václav , de Hosson Jeff T.M.
Published: March 2017

An amorphous metallic ribbon of Fe40Ni40B20 was used for in-situ observation of the crack propagation and shear band formation during tensile tests. Prior to the tensile tests, two holes (with different positions with respect to the tensile axis) were made by laser ablation as stress concentrators. The nucleation and propagation of shear bands on the ribbon surface during tensile tests were analysed with scanning electron microscopy (SEM). At room temperature inhomogeneous plastic deformation of amorphous alloy occurs via the development of primary and secondary shear bands. The influence of the different loading geometry on the topology of shear bands and crack propagation was studied.
Fracture Analysis and Mechanical Properties of Magnesium Based Composites
Authors: Ballóková Beáta , Jakubéczyová Dagmar
Published: March 2017

Mechanical properties and microstructure and fracture analysis of a magnesium alloys based composite series with different volume fraction of alumina dispersoid nanoparticles were studied. The initial states of the composites were further treated by severe plastic deformation (SPD) using equal channel angular pressing (ECAP) in order to achieve microstructures with very fine grains of matrix. Microstructure parameters, in particular the matrix grain size, average size of the dispersed particles and their distribution, were observed using optical microscopy. The average grain sizes of MMCs decreased evidently with the increase of the weight percentage of Al2O3 particles additions and ECAP passes. The heat deformation process of such materials, besides the formation of incorporated Al2O3 particles, also leads to the creation of intermetallic compound Mg17Al12. Fracture surfaces after tensile tests at room and elevated temperature were studied by SEM. The fracture of studying materials were characterized as the ductile fracture due to the existence of a large number of dimples.In summary, it has been shown that mechanical properties are affected by lattice, physical parameters of phases within the composite systems. They are also affected by microstructure and substructure, which depend on the technology of compaction and densification.
The Analyse of Nanocomposite Thin Coatings Using Specimens Prepared by Focused Ion Beam Milling
Authors: Jakubéczyová Dagmar , Ballóková Beáta
Published: March 2017

The microstructure of physical vapour deposition (PVD) coatings deposited by duplex technology was investigated by Dual Beam FIB/SEM system (focused ion beam / scanning electron microscope), which allows one to examine cross sections of specimens from their surface down to the substrate. Examined were PVD coatings of nanocomposite type: duplex AlXN3 (X=Cr) and duplex nACRo3, deposited by LARC and CERC technologies. Duplex coating is a modern technology, which combines plasma nitriding and PVD coating in one cycle. The FIB analysis can be widely used in the field of study of basic materials and technological applications as it is based on highly focused ion beam which enables accurate machining of the investigated specimens and flexible processing at a micro/nanometric level. Cross sections of specimens obtained by FIB-SEMs document the arrangement of individual deposited nanomultilayers within the nanocomposite coatings and their EDS analysis in specific locations.
Optimization of Surface Properties for Nanoindentation Studies on Nuclear Structural Materials
Authors: Bublíková Petra , Namburi Hygreeva Kiran , Marušáková Daniela
Published: March 2017

Nanoindentation using static loading of indenter tip is one of versatile methods used for evaluation of materials in smaller volume. It includes investigation of structural phases and thin layers on substrates etc. In the field of nuclear core and structural materials, nanoindentation has become an important tool to assess mechanical properties and correlate to the level of radiation damage at elevated and room temperatures. Nanoindentation, ideally in combination with Transmission Electron Microscopy, can describe the extent of damage and behaviour from the nanoand micro scale. Due to the high sensitivity of nanoindentation system, that typically uses loads in the range of tens of nN up to several tens of mN, the precise sample preparation is challenging and to be performed especially to understand behaviour of bulk materials.
In the current study, samples from Austenitic Stainless Steel (ASS) 321, which is the representative structural material used for reactor internals, were prepared by standard methods - fine polishing, chemical etching, electrolytic etching, electrolytic polishing, electrolytic polishing & etching and ion polishing. Firstly, non-irradiated samples were used for optimization of the sample preparation methodology and then it will be applied on irradiated samples to obtain local mechanical properties. After each preparation step, nanoindentation was performed and load was optimized leading to the minimum standard deviation, also taking into account an indent size and pile-up mechanism. Scanning Probe Microscopy (SPM imaging) and nanoindentation results showed the multi-grained austenitic structure with minimal roughness. Local mechanical properties can be measured according to the knowledge of radiation damage type and location, with focus on grain boundaries to be evaluated. This study shows that advanced methods such as ion polishing are not suitable for ASS preparation, but standard methods based on chemical reaction with structure, especially electrolytic polishing and etching, are highly recommended.
Preparation of Samples for In Situ Deformation Testing and Analysis of Microstructure Development
Authors: Kučerová Ludmila , Bunda Zbyněk , Procházka Jan
Published: March 2017

In- situ testing is a new and progressive method of material analysis, which can offer new information about behavior of individual phases and structural components in metals. Local mechanical properties or strain distribution can be directly obtained for fine multiphase microstructures. The second application of in-situ stages lies in observation of phase transformations that occur either during heating, cooling or straining of metals. EBSD analysis can be also performed during in-situ testing if the stage allows tilting of the sample toward EBSD detector. Preparation of samples for in-situ testing is of the utmost importance for successful analysis. This work concentrated on sample preparation techniques used for flat samples of 42SiCr steel. Preliminary in-situ cold deformation tests of this steel with EBSD acquisition and observation of microstructure development were also carried out.
The Influence of γ/γ′ Morphology on the Rafting and Stress Distribution of Nickel-Based Superalloys Loaded in [0 0 1] Direction
Authors: Wang Xin Mei , Cao M.Y. , Li S.W. , Yu Z.Y. , Yue Z.F.
Published: March 2017

Two kinds of representative volume elements (RVEs) are introduced to represent the experimental γ/γ′ morphology to study the influences of microstructures on the creep behavior of [0 0 1]-oriented single crystal nickel-based superalloys under tensile loading. One RVE (RVE1) is consisted with one cuboidal γ′ phase surrounded by γ phase. The other (RVE2) is constructed by two cuboidal γ′ phases and one rectangle γ′ phase. A raft criterion is implemented into a user subroutine to predict the rafting type. The misfit stress is considered by different thermal expansion coefficients of the two phases. The rafting type is correctly predicted. The evolutions of the stresses distributions are discussed.
Effect of Temperature on the Microstructure and Electrical Conductivity of Microcrystalline Si Films
Authors: Cheng Hua , Wang Di , Li Feng Li
Published: March 2017

Micro-Si films were deposited using Ar diluted SiH4 gaseous mixture by electron cyclotron resonance plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (ECR-PECVD). The effects of the substrate temperature on microstructure and electrical conductivity of micro-Si film were investigated. The results show that, with the increasing of substrate temperature, crystallinity and grain size increased monotonously, of which a competing balance would determine the electrical conductivity of micro-Si films. Based on these results, relatively small grain size and appropriate crystallinity would be beneficial to improve the electrical properties of micro-Si films.
Study the Effect of Coating Thickness from Silica Nanocomposite Deposited on Poly(Methyl Methacrylate) Sheets via Spray Coating Technique
Authors: Jirathampradhab Taksorn , Lhosupasirirat Siraprapa , Kumnorkaew Pisist , Akhadejdamrong Thananan , Rojanapitayakorn Pichet , Srikhirin Toemsak
Published: March 2017

The development of hard coating based on colloidal silica nanoparticles on polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) sheet was reported. The colloidal silica was surface-modified with methyltrimethoxysilane (MTMS) and formulated to hard coating solution via sol-gel process. The hard coating solution was applied to PMMA surface by spray deposition technique. Spraying process was carried out from spray nozzle outlet diameter of 0.35 mm and air compress pressure at 0.2 MPa with nozzle to substrate distance at 10 cm. The different coating thicknesses were obtained by adjusting the amount of coating applied. The optimal coating thickness that gives the highest pencil-hardness at 7H and 100% adhesion for adhesion tape test is 10 μm.
Modelling of Tensile Behaviour of NiTinol SMA Wire by Finite Element Analysis
Authors: Adarsh S.H. , Sampath Vedamanickam
Published: March 2017

Shape Memory Alloys (SMA) are used in diverse engineering and medical applications capitalizing on their sensing and actuation capabilities. This is attributed to the high magnitude of recovery strain and recovery stress that they are capable of generating. But shape memory alloys exhibit complex behaviour in the presence of electrical and magnetic fields as well as mechanical stress. Their behaviour in these domains is to be rightly and comprehensively understood if these are to be used in these applications. Over the years finite element analysis has proved to be a powerful tool for studying the behaviour of SMAs under different conditions and has therefore been applied in many important applications. In this paper an attempt has therefore been made to understand the behaviour of an equiatomic NiTi alloy wire under mechanical stress by finite element analysis using commercially available software MSC Marc.Simulation of an SMA wire with 0.5 mm diameter and 351 mm length was carried out in uniaxial tension by finite element analysis. The simulation involves three stages: geometric modelling using the software MSC.Patran. Finite element modelling also uses the same software, and finally arriving at the solution using the software MSC.Marc.The finte element model is created by meshing the geometric model using Element type Tetmesh4. Boundary conditions are then applied using MSC Mentat software followed by arriving at the solution using Auricchio model. The stress-strain behaviour of the equiatomic NiTinol wire under simple uniaxial tensile loading at different temperatures was simulated.
Two Step Deposition of Ag Doped ZnO Film
Authors: Wang Li Na , Zhou Dan , Yu You , Luan Zhong Qi , Qu Bing , Bai Ya Xiang , Pan Chao , Tang De Long , Zhu Na , Gao Zhao Hui , Zou Ai Ling , Hu Li Zhong
Published: March 2017

Because of the different melting point, it is difficult to doped Ag element in ZnO film. Ag dopant can adjust the properties of ZnO materials. In this paper, we deposited Ag doped ZnO film using two step vapour evaporation method on c-plane sapphire substrate. The SEM image shows that the doped film was composed of small grain which compact in order and the Ag microwires was dispersed on the surface. The EDX graph proves that the Ag was indeed in the film. The XRD pattern reveals that the doped film has prefer orientation along the c-axis with wurtzite structure and the dopants have not effect the crystal quality.
Technology to Support Integrated Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs: A User Centered and Stakeholder Driven Development Approach
Authors: Beerlage-de Jong Nienke , Van Gemert-Pijnen Lisette , Wentzel Jobke , Hendrix Ron , Siemons Liseth
Published: March 2017

The rise of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a severe global health problem. Tackling this problem requires the prudent prescribing of antimicrobials. This is promoted through Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs (ASPs). In this position paper we describe i) how a socio-technical multidisciplinary approach (based on the CeHRes Roadmap) can be applied in the development and implementation of Antimicrobial Stewardship technologies and ii) how this approach can be of value to support Antimicrobial Stewardship in practice. The CeHRes Roadmap entails five different phases to explore and test how an eHealth technology can be tailored to the target group and successfully implemented in practice: i) contextual inquiry, ii) value specification, iii) design, iv) operationalization, v) evaluation. In this position paper we describe the lessons learned from research and practice to guide future developments of technology based ASP interventions. Since AMR is a huge wicked problem on a global level, it requires innovative methods and models to empower general public and professionals to be proactive rather than reactive in a digitalized world. We highlight how to combat the dangerous rise of antimicrobial resistance in the future.
Psychosocial challenges affecting the quality of life in adults with epilepsy and their carers in Africa: A review of published evidence between 1994 and 2014
Authors: Keikelame Mpoe J. , Suliaman Tamzyn , Hendriksz Marleen , Swartz Leslie
Published: March 2017

Background: Little attention has been paid to the psychosocial challenges of adult patients with epilepsy and their carers in Africa in published studies conducted between 1994 and 2014 – yet these psychosocial challenges have been reported to have a major impact on the quality of life (QOL) of people living with the illness and those who care for them. Aim: This review aimed to examine the literature on published studies conducted in Africa between 1994 and 2014 that examined psychosocial challenges of adult people with epilepsy and their carers. The aim was to examine the kind of psychosocial challenges from published evidence and to identify gaps in current knowledge. Methods: MEDLINE, PubMed, ERIC, Web of Science, Scopus, Cochrane Library, Africa Wide, PsycINFO, EMBASE, PASCAL, SABINET and Google Scholar databases and hand searches of Epilepsy & Behavior, Epilepsia, South African Medical Journal, African Journal of Disability, African Journal of Primary Health Care and Family Medicine were reviewed. Results: Very few studies in Africa have examined psychosocial challenges affecting the adult patients with epilepsy and their carers. This review reported the existence of evidence of such challenges and the insights into the psychosocial and economic factors that underpin them. There is evidence that where these have been addressed, there were valuable insights on the types of psychosocial, socio-cultural and socio-economic challenges. Collaborative empowering interventions are needed to enable the attainment of good QOL for those affected. Conclusion: Research on psychosocial challenges of adult patients with epilepsy and their carers from different sectors of healthcare to inform the design of appropriate models is needed.
The difficulty level of a national assessment of Grade 9 mathematics: The case of five schools
Authors: Bansilal Sarah
Published: March 2017

The introduction of the Annual National Assessment (ANA) programme by the South African education department was met with much resistance from unions with some stating that it is not matched well to the curriculum. In this small-scale study, I compare the differences in outcomes between the internal summative assessment and the ANA for Grade 9 learners from five schools. The results indicate that the learners’ results from the final exam were statistically significantly higher than that from the ANA for all five schools. This suggests that the ANA was considerably more difficult than the schools’ assessments. However, the learners’ scores in each of the two assessments were strongly correlated, suggesting that both tests assessed similar skills. Interviews with the teachers suggested that some of the reasons for the lower results in the ANA were that the test was too long, some instructions were not clear, the timing in September was not ideal and there were too many higher level questions. It is hoped that the results from this study could be used by the education department to improve the functioning of the assessment programme.
HIV sero-conversion during late pregnancy – when to retest
Authors: Kalk Emma , Slogrove Amy , Speert David P , Bettinger Julie A , Cotton Mark F , Esser Monika
Published: March 2017

The South African National Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV programme has resulted in significant reductions in vertical transmission, but new infant HIV infections continue to occur. We present two cases of HIV seroconversion during late pregnancy, demonstrating the limitations of the current programme. These could be mitigated by expanding the programme to include maternal testing at delivery and at immunisation clinic visits as we pursue the elimination of mother-to-child transmission.
Wire Roughness Assessment of 0.016″ × 0.022″ the Technique Lingual Orthodontics
Authors: Facchini Fátima MM , Filho Mario Vedovello , Vedovello Silvia AS , Cotrim Flávio A , Cotrim-Ferreira Andréa , Tubel Carlos AM
Published: March 2017

Objective

To evaluate the difference in surface roughness of stainless steel archwires of different commercial brands used in lingual orthodontics.

Materials and methods

Precontoured arches measuring 0.016″ × 0.022″ were selected of the following brands: Tecnident, Adenta, G&H, Highland Metals Inc., Ormco, Incognito, and Ebraces. Quantitative evaluation of the surface roughness of archwires was performed by means of an atomic force microscope in contact mode. Three surface readouts were taken of each sample, analyzing areas of 20 × 20 μm. Each scan of the samples produced a readout of 512 lines, generating threedimensional images of the wires. The analysis of variance statistical test was applied to prove significant variables (p > 0.05), with H0 being rejected and H1 accepted.

Results

The Incognito brand showed the lowest surface roughness. The archwires of brands Adenta, Tecnident, Highland, and Ormco showed similar values among them, and all close to these obtained by the Incognito brand. The archwires of the Ebraces brand showed the highest surface roughness, with values being close to those of the G&H Brand.

Conclusion

There was a statistical difference in surface roughness of orthodontic archwires among the brands studied.

Clinical significance

Companies should pay attention to the quality control of their materials, as these may directly affect the quality of orthodontic treatment.

How to cite this article

Facchini FMM, Filho MV, Vedovello SAS, Cotrim FA, Cotrim-Ferreira A, Tubel CAM. Wire Roughness Assessment of 0.016″ × 0.022″ the Technique Lingual Orthodontics. J Contemp Dent Pract 2017;18(4):295-299.
Israel and Empire
Authors: Perdue Leo G. , Carter Warren
Published: March 2017

Israel and Empire introduces students to the history, literature, and theology of the Hebrew Bible and texts of early Judaism, enabling them to read these texts through the lens of postcolonial interpretation. This approach should allow students to recognize not only how cultural and socio-political forces shaped ancient Israel and the worldviews of the early Jews but also the impact of imperialism on modern readings of the Bible.

Perdue and Carter cover a broad sweep of history, from 1300 BCE to 72 CE, including the late Bronze age, Egyptian imperialism, Israel's entrance into Canaan, the Davidic-Solomonic Empire, the Assyrian Empire, the Babylonian Empire, the Persian Empire, the Greek Empire, the Maccabean Empire, and Roman rule. Additionally the authors show how earlier examples of imperialism in the Ancient Near East provide a window through which to see the forces and effects of imperialism in modern history.
The New Nature Writing
Authors: Smith Jos
Published: March 2017

In the last decade there has been a proliferation of landscape writing in Britain and Ireland, often referred to as ‘The New Nature Writing’. Rooted in the work of an older generation of environment–focused authors and activists, this new form is both stylistically innovative and mindful of ecology and conservation practice. The New Nature Writing: Rethinking the Literature of Place connects these two generations to show that the contemporary energy around the cultures of landscape and place is the outcome of a long–standing relationship between environmentalism and the arts.

Drawing on original interviews with authors, archival research, and scholarly work in the fields of literary geographies, ecocriticism and archipelagic criticism, the book covers the work of such writers as Robert Macfarlane, Richard Mabey, Tim Robinson and Alice Oswald. Examining the ways in which these authors have engaged with a wide range of different environments, from the edgelands to island spaces, Jos Smith reveals how they recreate a resourceful and dynamic sense of localism in rebellion against the homogenizing growth of ‘clone town Britain’.
Metallica's Metallica
Authors: Masciotra David
Published: March 2017

In 1991, Metallica released their fifth studio album that would become known and beloved around the world as “The Black Album.” Since its release, it has sold 30 million copies, and become a towering monument in the pantheon of rock’s greatest records. Readers will get unprecedented insight into the story behind an iconic album from one of the world’s most iconic bands through interviews with James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett, Jason Newsted, and “Black Album” producer Bob Rock.

Masciotra takes readers into the recording studio, giving them Metallica’s account of how their most successful and famous record was born and learned to walk into every radio station and stadium stage around the world. Masciotra not only talks to the band about the making of the album, but also the stories that inspired the songs. Readers will not only learn about “The Black Album,” but they will also gain greater knowledge and familiarity with the men who created it.

With direct access to the band, Masciotra offers a fascinating and inspiring account of the creation of one of music’s best and best-selling albums.
The Jesus and Mary Chain's Psychocandy
Authors: Mejia Paula
Published: March 2017

The Jesus and Mary Chain’s swooning debut Psychocandy seared through the underground and to the top of the pop charts, shifting the role of noise within pop music forever. Post-punk and pro-confusion, Psychocandy became the sound of a generation poised on the brink of revolution, establishing Creation Records as a taste making entity in the process. The Scottish band’s notorious live performances were both punishingly loud and riot-spurring, simultaneously acting as socio-political commentary on tensions emergent in mid-1980s Britain. Through caustic clangs and feedback channeling the rage of the working-class generation who’d had enough, Psychocandy gestures toward the perverse pleasure in having your eardrums exploded and loudness as a politics within itself--not unlike the S&M pleasure of noisecore.

Yet Psychocandy’s blackened candy heart center – calling out to phantoms Candy and Honey with an unsettling charm and feminist bent – makes it a pop record to the core, not unlike The Ronettes late ’60s croons. Drawing from the sweetness of ’60s girl groups, The Stooges’ masochistic stage antics and Lou Reed’s feedback-laced guitar swells, The Jesus and Mary Chain expertly carved out a place where depravity and sweetness entwined, emerging from the isolating underground of suburban Scotland grasping the distinct sound of a generation, apathetic and uncertain. The record’s cult popularity became embedded within the sacred canon of pop music. The irresistible Psychocandy emerged as a clairvoyant account of pop mastery that still causes us to grapple with pop’s relation to ourselves.
Sleater-Kinney's Dig Me Out
Authors: Babović Jovana
Published: March 2017

Sleater-Kinney’s 1997 album Dig Me Out is built on Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein’s competing guitars, Janet Weiss’s muscular rhythms, and layered vocals that teeter between an urgent, banshee-like vibrato and a lower accompaniment. Dig Me Out was the band’s third studio album, but the first one written and recoded with Weiss. It inaugurated Sleater-Kinney into a lineup that would span its two-decade career.

This 33 1/3 follows the narrative of Dig Me Out from its inception in Olympia to its recording in Seattle and its reception across the United States. It’s anchored in a short period of time – roughly from mid-1996 to mid-1998 – but it encompasses a series of battles over meaning that continued to preoccupy Sleater-Kinney in the coming decades. The band wrestled with the media about how they would be presented to the public, it contended with technicians about how their sound would be heard in clubs, and they struggled with pervasive social hierarchies about how their work would be understood in popular culture. The only instance where the band didn’t have to put up much of a fight was when it came to their fans. The acclaim Sleater-Kinney received from their listeners in the late 1990s, and continue to receive today, speaks to a need for icons who challenged normative notions of culture and gender. This story of Dig Me Out chronicles how Sleater-Kinney won the fight to define themselves on their own terms – as women and as musicians – and, in the process, how they redefined the parameters rock.
Popular Music and the Politics of Novelty
Authors: Dale Pete
Published: March 2017

Popular music, today, has supposedly collapsed into a ‘retromania’ which, according to leading critic Simon Reynolds, has brought a ‘slow and steady fading of the artistic imperative to be original.’ Meanwhile, in the estimation of philosopher Alain Badiou, a significant political event will always require ‘the dictatorial power of a creation ex nihilo’. Everywhere, it seems, at least amongst commentators of a certain age and type, pessimism prevails with regards to the predominant aesthetic preferences of the twenty first century: popular music, supposedly, is in a rut.

Yet when, if ever, did the political engagement kindled by popular music amount to more than it does today? The sixties? The punk explosion of the late 1970s? Despite an on-going fixation upon these periods in much rock journalism and academic writing, this book demonstrates that the utilisation of popular music to promote political causes, on the one hand, and the expression of dissent through the medium of ‘popular song’, on the other hand, remain widely in practice today.

This is not to argue, however, for complacency with regards to the need for expressions of political dissent through popular culture. Rather, the book looks carefully at actual usages of popular music in political processes, as well as expressions of political feeling through song, and argues that there is much to encourage us to think that the demand for radical change remains in circulation. The question is, though, how necessary is it for politically-motivated popular music to offer aesthetic novelty?
Can's Tago Mago
Authors: Warner Alan
Published: March 2017

Finally, a brilliant exploration of the German rock band Can’s 1971 album Tago Mago. This hugely unique and influential album deserves close analysis from a fan, rather than a musicologist. Novelist Alan Warner details the concrete music we hear on the album, how it was composed, executed and recorded--including the history of the album in terms of its release, promotion and art work. This tale of Tago Mago is also the tale of a young man obsessed with record collecting in the dark and mysterious period of pop music before Google. Warner includes a backtracking of the history of the band up to that point and also some description of Can’s unique recording approach taking into account their home studio set up.

Interviews with the two surviving members: drummer Jaki Liebezeit, keyboardist Irmin Schmidt and bassist Holger Czukay make this a hilariously personal and illuminating picture of Can.
Hip-Hop Headphones
Authors: Peterson James Braxton
Published: March 2017

Hip Hop Headphones is a crash course in Hip Hop culture. Featuring definitions, lectures, academic essays, and other scholarly discussions and resources, Hip Hop Headphones documents the scholarship of Dr. James B. Peterson, founder of Hip Hop Scholars-an organization devoted to developing the educational potential of Hip Hop.

Defining Hip Hop from multi-disciplinary perspectives that embrace the elemental forms of Hip Hop Culture (b-boying, dj-ing, rapping, and graffiti art), Hip Hop Headphones is the definitive guide to how Hip Hop culture can be used in the classroom to engage and inspire students.
The Late Voice
Authors: Elliott Richard
Published: March 2017

Popular music artists, as performers in the public eye, offer a privileged site for the witnessing and analysis of ageing and its mediation. The Late Voice will undertake such an analysis by considering issues of time, memory, innocence and experience in modern Anglophone popular song and the use by singers and songwriters of a ‘late voice’. Lateness here refers to five primary issues: chronology (the stage in an artist’s career); the vocal act (the ability to convincingly portray experience); afterlife (posthumous careers made possible by recorded sound); retrospection (how voices ‘look back’ or anticipate looking back); and the writing of age, experience, lateness and loss into song texts.

There has been recent growth in research on ageing and the experience of later stages of life, focussing on physical health, lifestyle and psychology, with work in the latter field intersecting with the field of memory studies. The Late Voice seeks to connect age, experience and lateness with particular performers and performance traditions via the identification and analysis of a late voice in singers and songwriters of mid-late twentieth century popular music.
Popkiss
Authors: White Michael
Published: March 2017

From 1987 to 1995, Bristol, England's Sarah Records was a modest underground success and, for the most part, a critical laughingstock in its native country–sneeringly dismissed as the sad, final repository for a fringe style of music (variously referred to as “indie-pop,” “C86,” “cutie” and “twee”) whose moment had passed. Yet now, more than 20 years after its founders symbolically “destroyed” it, Sarah is among the most passionately fetishized record labels of all time. Its rare releases command hundreds of dollars, devotees around the world hungrily seek out any information they can find about its poorly documented history, and young musicians–some of them not yet born when Sarah shut down–claim its bands (such as Blueboy, the Field Mice, Heavenly, and the Wake) as major influences.

Featuring dozens of exclusive interviews with the music-makers, producers, writers and assorted eyewitnesses who played a part in Sarah's eight-year odyssey, Popkiss: The Life and Afterlife of Sarah Records is the first authorised biography of an unlikely cult legend.
The Arena Concert
Authors: Edgar Robert , Fairclough-Isaacs Kirsty , Halligan Benjamin , Spelman Nicola
Published: March 2017

The Arena Concert: Music, Media and Mass Entertainment is the first sustained engagement with what might said to be - in its melding of concert and gathering, in its evolving relationship with digital and social media, in its delivery of event, experience, technology and star - the art form of the 21st century.

This volume offers interviews with key designers, discussions of the practicalities of mounting arena concerts, mixing and performing live to a mass audience, recollections of the giants of late twentieth century music in performance, and critiques of latter-day pretenders to the throne. The authors track the evolution of the arena concert, consider design and architecture, celebrity and fashion, and turn to feminism, ethnographic research, and ideas of humour, liveness and authenticity, in order to explore and frame the arena concert.

The arena concert becomes the “real time” centre of a global digital network, and the gig-goer pays not only for an immersion in (and, indeed, role in) its spectacular nature, but also for a close encounter with the performers, in this contained and exalted space. The spectacular nature of the arena concert raises challenges that have yet to be fully technologically overcome, and has given rise to a reinvention of what live music actually means.

Love it or loathe it, the arena concert is a major presence in the cultural landscape of the 21st century. This volume finds out why.
LCD Soundsystem’s Sound Of Silver
Authors: Leas Ryan
Published: March 2017

When LCD Soundsystem broke up in 2011, they left behind a small but remarkable catalog of music. On top of the genius singles and a longform composition for Nike, there was a trilogy of full-length albums. During that initial run, LCD Soundsystem—and the project's mastermind, James Murphy—were at the center of several 21st century developments in pop culture: indie music's growing mainstream clout, Brooklyn surpassing Manhattan as an epicenter of creativity in America, the collision and eventual erosion of genre perceptions, and the rapid and profound growth and impact of digital culture. Amidst this storm, Murphy crafted Sound Of Silver, the centerpiece of LCD's work.

At the time of Sound Of Silver’s creation and release, Murphy was a man closing in on 40 while fronting a critically-adored band still on the ascent. This album was the first place where he earnestly grappled with questions of aging, of being an artist, and the decisions we make with the time we have left. Anchored by a series of colossal, intense dance-rock songs, Sound Of Silver called upon the rhythms of New York City in order to draw out, dissect, and ultimately rip open these meditations. By the time LCD Soundsystem reunited in 2016, Sound Of Silver had already proven to be a generational touchstone, living on as a document of what it's like to be alive in the 21st century.
Hits and Misses
Authors: Toft Robert
Published: March 2017

Hits and Misses examines a selection of songs and recordings through the lens of textual criticism and delineates the creative process as it unfolds from the initial conception of a song to the final mix presented on disc. The book takes as its subject top 40 singles released between 1963 and 1971 in the USA, Britain, and Canada, and considers the songs themselves and their transformation in the studio. Robert Toft studies the methods by which recordists (songwriters, arrangers, band members, producers, and engineers) impart their ideas to audiences.

The first part of the book concentrates on songs and examines lyrics and the strategies songwriters employ to develop a story, as well as the music that enhances the telling of those stories. The second part of the book investigates the sonic surface of recordings and considers how recordists fashion musical material into effective musical discourse. Hits and Misses will be an invaluable text for all those who are studying the sound, craft, and context of pop music.
Jerry Lee Lewis
Authors: Bonomo Joe
Published: March 2017

A superb new study of Jerry Lee Lewis that’s as intense and fast paced as the life of “The Killer” himself, from the height of fame to the bumpy road that followed.

“The category in which Jerry Lee Lewis truly belongs is ‘Jerry Lee Lewis.’ The Killer is as big as Mount Rushmore, and he’s also as American, as revered, as clichéd, as misunderstood, as corny, and as taken for granted as that monument. The curse of iconoclastic American success. Elvis felt it, so does Dylan. So will others who haven’t been born yet.”

The story of Louisiana hellcat Jerry Lee Lewis and his 1958 wedding scandal-it was discovered that at 22 he had married his 13-year old second cousin, Myra, before he was divorced from his second wife-long ago took precedence over the man himself and the music he makes. In Jerry Lee Lewis: Lost and Found, author Joe Bonomo lets others focus on the scandal and delves more deeply into the accidental intersection between fading American Rockabilly and ascending Beatlemania. By first taking a look at the critical years before his famed night in 1964 at West Germany’s Star-Club - what that meant not only for him but the entire live album-making world - then the tumultuous years that follow, culminating in his time on the American Country charts in the late 60s/ early 70s, Bonomo brings Jerry Lee Lewis to life in new and fascinating ways.

In spite of plummeting record sales and concert fees, a media savaging of his personal character, a change of record labels and management, and a considerable upturn in his drug and alcohol abuse, Jerry Lee Lewis has persevered. In between being betrayed and ignored, he would record one of the greatest rock & roll performances in history. Bonomo’s thorough research includes new interviews with Live at the Star-Club producer Sigi Loch, members of the Nashville Teens, and other musicians and fans who were at the Star-Club performance, as well as with music industry figures ranging from famed Nashville producer Jerry Kennedy and legendary Memphis stalwart Jim Dickinson to Killer-influenced contemporaries John Doe and Dave Alvin. This passionate book examines and explains the almighty impact of the Father of Rock’n’Roll.
Long and Winding Roads
Authors: Womack Kenneth
Published: March 2017

In Long and Winding Roads: The Evolving Artistry of the Beatles, Kenneth Womack brings the band’s story vividly to life-from their salad days as a Liverpool Skiffle group and their apprenticeship in the nightclubs and mean streets of Hamburg through their early triumphs at the legendary Cavern Club and the massive onslaught of Beatlemania itself. By mapping the group’s development as an artistic fusion, Womack traces the Beatles’ creative arc from their first, primitive recordings through Abbey Road and the twilight of their career.

In order to communicate the nature and power of the band’s remarkable achievement, Womack examines the Beatles’ body of work as an evolving art object. He investigates the origins and creation of the group’s compositions, as well as the songwriting and recording practices that brought them to fruition. Womack’s analysis of the Beatles’ albums transports readers on a journey through the Beatles’ heyday as recording artists between 1962 and 1969, when the band enjoyed a staggering musical and lyrical leap that took them from their first album Please Please Me, which they recorded in the space of a single day, to Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, the White Album, and Abbey Road-albums that collectively required literally thousands of hours to produce. In addition to considering the band’s increasing self-consciousness about the overall production, design, and presentation of their art, Womack explores the Beatles’ albums as a collection of musical and lyrical impressions that finds them working towards a sense of aesthetic unity. In Long and Winding Roads, Womack reveals the ways in which the Beatles gave life to a musical synthesis that would change the world.
Andrew W.K.’s I Get Wet
Authors: Crandall Phillip
Published: March 2017

“It’s Time To Party,” the first track off of I Get Wet, opens with a rapid-fire guitar line - nothing fancy, just a couple crunchy power chords to acclimate the ears - repeated twice before a booming bass drum joins in to provide a quarter-note countdown. A faint, swirling effect intensifies with each bass kick and, by the eighth one, the ears have prepped themselves for the metal mayhem they are about to receive. When it all drops, and the joyous onslaught of a hundred guitars is finally realized, you'll have to forgive your ears for being duped into a false sense of security, because it's that second intensified drop a few seconds later - the one where yet more guitars manifest and Andrew W.K. slam-plants his vocal flag by screaming the song's titular line - that really floods the brain with endorphins, serotonin, dopamine, and whatever else formulates invincibility.

Polished to a bright overdubbed-to-oblivion sheen, the party-preaching I Get Wet didn’t capture the zeitgeist of rock at the turn of the century; it captured the timelessness of youth, as energized, awesome, and unapologetically stupid as ever. With insights from friends and unprecedented help from the mythological maniac himself - whose sermon and pop sensibilities continue to polarize - this book chronicles the sound's evolution, uncovers the relevance of Steev Mike, and examines how Andrew W.K.'s inviting, inclusive lyrics create the ultimate shared experience between artist and audience.
Aretha Franklin's Amazing Grace
Authors: Cohen Aaron
Published: March 2017

A fascinating and thoroughly researched exploration of the best-selling gospel album of all time.
Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited
Authors: Polizzotti Mark
Published: March 2017

Highway 61 Revisited resonates because of its enduring emotional appeal. Few songwriters before Dylan or since have combined so effectively the intensely personal with the spectacularly universal. In “Like a Rolling Stone,“ his gleeful excoriation of Miss Lonely (Edie Sedgwick? Joan Baez? a composite “type”?) fuses with the evocation of a hip new zeitgeist to produce a veritable anthem. In “Ballad of a Thin Man,” the younger generation’s confusion is thrown back in the Establishment’s face, even as Dylan vents his disgust with the critics who labored to catalogue him. And in “Desolation Row,” he reaches the zenith of his own brand of surrealist paranoia, that here attains the atmospheric intensity of a full-fledged nightmare. Between its many flourishes of gallows humor, this is one of the most immaculately frightful songs ever recorded, with its relentless imagery of communal executions, its parade of fallen giants and triumphant local losers, its epic length and even the mournful sweetness of Bloomfield's flamenco-inspired fills.

In this book, Mark Polizzotti examines just what makes the songs on Highway 61 Revisited so affecting, how they work together as a suite, and how lyrics, melody, and arrangements combine to create an unusually potent mix. He blends musical and literary analysis of the songs themselves, biography (where appropriate) and recording information (where helpful). And he focuses on Dylan's mythic presence in the mid-60s, when he emerged from his proletarian incarnation to become the American Rimbaud. The comparison has been made by others, including Dylan, and it illuminates much about his mid-sixties career, for in many respects Highway 61 is rock ‘n’ roll’s answer to A Season in Hell.
Bruce Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A.
Authors: Himes Geoffrey
Published: March 2017

When Bruce Springsteen went back on the road in 1984, he opened every show by shouting out, “one, two, one, two, three, four,” followed by the droning synth chords of Born in the U.S.A. Max Weinberg hit his drums with a two-fisted physicality that cut through the swelling chords. With a rolled-up red kerchief around his head and heavy black boots under his faded jeans, Springsteen looked like the character of the song, and from the very first line (“Born down in a dead man’s town”) he sang with the throat-scraping desperation of a man with his back against the wall.

When he reached the crucial lines, though, the guitars and bass dropped out and Weinberg switched to just the hi-hat. Springsteen’s voice grew a bit more private and reluctant as he sang, “Nowhere to run. Nowhere to go.” It was as if he weren’t sure if this were an admission of defeat or the drawing of a line in the sand. But when the band came crashing back at full strength-building a crescendo that fell apart in the cacophony of Springsteen’s and Weinberg’s wild soloing, paused and then came together again in the determined, marching riff-it was clear that the singer was ready to make a stand.
Celine Dion's Let’s Talk About Love
Authors: Wilson Carl
Published: March 2017

Non-fans regard Céline Dion as ersatz and plastic, yet to those who love her, no one could be more real, with her impoverished childhood, her (creepy) manager-husband's struggle with cancer, her knack for howling out raw emotion. There's nothing cool about Céline Dion, and nothing clever. That's part of her appeal as an object of love or hatred - with most critics and committed music fans taking pleasure (or at least geeky solace) in their lofty contempt. This book documents Carl Wilson's brave and unprecedented year-long quest to find his inner Céline Dion fan, and explores how we define ourselves in the light of what we call good and bad, what we love and what we hate.
James Brown's Live at the Apollo
Authors: Wolk Douglas
Published: March 2017

In this remarkable book, Douglas Wolk brings to life an October evening in 1962, at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem – an evening at the height of Cold War tensions. In great detail, Wolk pieces together what took place (and what was recorded) that night, and illustrates beautifully the enduring power of one of James Brown’s – and popular music’s – defining moments: Live at the Apollo.
Jeff Buckley's Grace
Authors: Brooks Daphne A.
Published: March 2017

The power and influence of Grace increases with each passing year. Here, Daphne Brooks traces Jeff Buckley’s fascinating musical development through the earliest stages of his career, up to the release of the album. With access to rare archival material, Brooks illustrates Buckley’s passion for life and hunger for musical knowledge, and shows just why he was such a crucial figure in the American music scene of the 1990s.