In 1825, the opening of the Erie Canal triggered a migration of pioneer families from America's East Coast to the Michigan territory. By 1836, entrepreneurs had dug a mill race and platted a village that would eventually become Battle Creek. The town was first known as a farm implement center for the Midwest, then became the "Health City" (for its connection to the Seventh-day Adventist Church and Dr. J. H. Kellogg's Battle Creek Sanitarium), and eventually became known as the "Cereal City," because it was the birthplace of ready-to-eat breakfast foods. By pairing archival and modern photographs, this book documents how Battle Creek advanced from a small settlement to a thriving community. This comparative perspective reveals many changes and advancements in Battle Creek's physical and cultural landscape.

Battle Creek (MI) (Then & Now)

History

Ashley, Martin

Thornton, Kurt

Americas

Arcadia Publishing

How High Should Boys Sing?: Gender, Authenticity and Credibility in the Young Male Voice

'A boy sings...a beautiful thing' (www.boychoirs.org), but is it? What kinds of boy, singing what kinds of music and to whom? Martin Ashley presents a unique consideration of boys' singing that shows the high voice to be historically, culturally and physiologically more problematic even than is commonly assumed. Through Ashley's extensive conversations with young performers and analysis of their reception by 'peer audiences', the research reveals that the common supposition that 'boys don't want to sound like girls' is far from adequate in explaining the 'missing males' syndrome that can perplex choir directors. The book intertwines the study of singing with the study of identity to create a rich resource for musicians, scholars, teachers and all those concerned with young male involvement in music through singing. The conclusions of the book will challenge many attitudes and unconsidered positions through its argument that many boys actually want to sing but are discouraged by a failure of the adult world to understand the boy mind. Ashley intends the book to stand as an indictment of much complacency and myopia with regard to the young male voice. A substantial grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council has enabled the production of a multi-media resource for schools, choirs and youth organizations called Boys Keep Singing. Based on the contents of this book, the resource shows how, once the interest of boys is captured in primary schools, their singing can be sustained and developed through the difficult but vital early secondary years of ages 11 - 14, about which this book says so much. The resource is lavishly illustrated by short films of boys singing, supported by interviews with boys and their teachers, and a wealth of of animated diagrams and cartoons. It is available to schools and organizations involved in musical education through registration at www.boys-keep-singing.com.

Arts & Photography

Music

Routledge

This is the first empirical study to examine the complicated relationship between voice and masculinity for young male singers.It has long been known that singing is perceived as an 'uncool' activity by many boys, a source of angst for those concerned with development of music and the equal participation of the two genders. Boys' attitudes toward singing disadvantage them significantly. The 'uncool' image relates to the frequent confusion of the unchanged, high voice of young males with that of the female high voice and it is commonly imagined that boys' antipathy is towards 'sounding like a girl.'The study has looked simultaneously at the core fields of masculinity and singing and concludes that this is an over-simplification. It is also necessary to take into account differences between the boy child and the older boy who begins to undergo voice change from about the age of ten. Whilst drawing on the literature of both disciplines, it is primarily an empirical study that has obtained the views of young performers about their audiences, and the views of young audiences about the performers. These confirm the imperative of creating singing opportunities for the 10-14 age group that permit an authentic construction of boyhood that is distinct from children's singing.

Teaching Singing to Boys and Teenagers: The Young Male Voice and the Problem of Masculinity

Edwin Mellen Pr

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Massage: A Career at Your Fingertips

Business & Money

Job Hunting & Careers

Station Hill Pr

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Independent Pub Group

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How to Improve at Karate

Sports & Outdoors

Ticktock Media, Ltd.

Ever since the achievement of boys became an issue, the media have made much of the "shortage" of male teachers. This book is essential reading for all primary teaching professionals, including trainees, classroom teachers, principals, trainers and school boards. It will provide them with an authoritative reference source on the "problem with boys" and the "feminization of primary schooling". Because it seen as caring rather than academic, primary teaching has been disparaged as low status women's work. Male teachers are encouraged at first but are then regarded as suspect because of the caring role. This book challenges much of the accepted wisdom about boys and men. Drawing on the authority of the boys’ own voices, it redefines the profile of a good primary teacher as one which men and women, it seems, are equally capable of matching. The refreshing conclusion is that feminization is not to blame for the "problem" with boys. The authors are both experienced teacher trainers at the University of the West of England. With contributions to this book by their female colleagues, they bring an insightful new vision to an area of research that has until now been dominated by women. This is a book for primary school teachers, parents, teacher educators and education policy makers.

Women Teaching Boys: Caring and Working in the Primary School

Politics & Social Sciences

Lee, John

Social Sciences

Trentham Books

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Battle Creek (MI) (Then & Now)

How High Should Boys Sing?: Gender, Authenticity and Credibility in the Young Male Voice

Teaching Singing to Boys and Teenagers: The Young Male Voice and the Problem of Masculinity

Massage: A Career at Your Fingertips

Massage: A Career at Your Fingertips

How High Should Boys Sing?: Gender, Authenticity and Credibility in the Young Male Voice

How to Improve at Karate

Women Teaching Boys: Caring and Working in the Primary School