divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/58486?ns=guardianpageName=Books%3A+Resounding+Guardian+first+book+award+victory+for+The+Rest+Is+Noisech=Booksc3=guardian.co.ukc4=Guardian+first+book+award%2CHistory+%28Books+genre%29%2CBooks%2CMusic+%28Books+genre%29%2CAwards+and+prizes+%28Culture%29%2CCulture+sectionc5=Not+commercially+usefulc6=Charlotte+Higginsc7=2008_12_03c8=1128219c9=articlec10=GUc11=Booksc12=Guardian+first+book+awardc13=c14=h2=GU%2FBooks%2FGuardian+first+book+award" width="1" height="1" //divpAn intricate, kaleidoscopic, all-embracing history of 20th-century music from Mahler to La Monte Young is the winner of this year's a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/guardianfirstbookaward"Guardian first book award/a. Alex Ross's The Rest Is Noise was the clear and undisputed winner of the £10,000 prize, which has been presented at a ceremony in central London tonight./ppThe chair of the judging panel, Guardian literary editor Claire Armitstead, said: "In some quarters this book has been seen as not having a popular appeal. Our prize – which, uniquely, relies on readers' groups in the early stages of judging – proves that, on the contrary, there is a huge appetite among readers for clear, serious but accessible books."/ppAccording to one judge: "Where Ross lifts his book above the 'expert' and impressive to the 'good read' category is in the way he wears his learning lightly, never clutches for false or contrived ways of explaining music, and never dumbs down in order to explain."/ppOne of the members of the Waterstone's reading groups, who helped in the judging process, said: "Every time I felt overwhelmed by the technicalities, along came a sublime metaphor or simile that would light up the prose."/ppRoss, who is the music critic of the New Yorker, has distilled a lifetime's enthusiasm and learning into a rich narrative of musical history, setting the works of Mahler, Schoenberg, John Cage and the rest into their cultural and political contexts – but also giving a vivid sense of what the music he describes actually sounds and feels like./ppOf all the artforms, modern and contemporary classical music is often seen as the most rebarbative. Ross brushes aside the mythology of 20th-century music's "inaccessibility" as he charts its meandering histories. Along the way, fascinating connections are made: hip-hop has more in common with Janacek than you might think; Arnold Schoenberg and George Gershwin were tennis partners; Gershwin, in turn, was an ardent fan of Alban Berg and kept an autographed photo of the composer of Lulu in his apartment. If there is an overarching idea to the book, it is perhaps contained in Berg's pronouncement to Gershwin: "Mr Gershwin, music is music." /ppRoss, 40, was born in Washington DC, and studied English and history at Harvard. An enthusiastic teenage musician and student broadcaster, he began writing music criticism after university and in 1996 was appointed music critic of the New Yorker. His blog – also called a href="http://www.therestisnoise.com/"The Rest Is Noise/a – has been a trailblazer in harnessing the internet as a way of amplifying (often literally) his writing on music./ppThe New York Review of Books described The Rest Is Noise as "by far the liveliest and smartest popular introduction yet written to a century of diverse music". The Economist noted: "No other critic writing in English can so effectively explain why you like a piece, or beguile you to reconsider it, or prompt you to hurry online and buy a recording." /ppNicholas Kenyon, managing director of the Barbican and a former Observer music critic, said: "At a time when people are still talking about 20th-century music as if it were a problem, here is a lucid and entertaining book about what I regard as some of the greatest music ever written. It's a wonderful way to advance the cause of 20th-century music to an ordinary, intelligent general reader. It's the ideal mix of enthusiasm and information."/ppThis year's judging panel comprised novelist Roddy Doyle; broadcaster and novelist Francine Stock; poet Daljit Nagra; the historian David Kynaston; novelist Kate Mosse and Guardian deputy editor, Katharine Viner. Stuart Broom of Waterstone's also joined the deliberations, speaking as the representative of the readers' groups./ppThe other books on the shortlist were Mohammed Hanif's A Case of Exploding Mangoes; Ross Raisin's God's Own Country; Steve Toltz's A Fraction of the Whole (which was also shortlisted for the Man Booker prize) and Owen Matthews's Stalin's Children. /ppPrevious winners of the prize have included Stuart: A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters (2005) and Zadie Smith's White Teeth (2000)./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/guardianfirstbookaward"Guardian first book award/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/history"History/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/music"Music/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/awardsandprizes"Awards and prizes/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/LvxSI0fDeFmuEcTR4flMsmdIllY/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/LvxSI0fDeFmuEcTR4flMsmdIllY/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

Le C.E.R.C.I.C (Centre d'études et de recherches sur la littérature italienne contemporaine) de l'Université Stendhal – Grenoble 3, organise les 23 et 24 avril 2009, en collaboration avec le Centro Studi – Archivio Pasolini de Bologne et la Revue internationale Studi Pasoliniani (dirigée par le professeur Guido Santato, Pisa-Roma, Ed. Fabrizio Serra) un colloque international centré sur les personnages et les acteurs dans l'oeuvre de Pasolini. Deux rendez-vous importants ont déjà eu lieu – des journées d'étude (23-24 mai 2007) et un colloque international (3-4 avril 2008) – qui ont pu témoigner de la place de premier ordre réservée à cet auteur au sein de notre centre de recherche et de l'intérêt toujours vif et grandissant que l'oeuvre de Pasolini suscite encore aujourd'hui. Cette année, nous proposons aux intervenants d'articuler leurs travaux autour de ce titre : Les corps en scène : personnages et acteurs pasoliniens. Cette question permettra de prendre en compte les différents langages artistiques utilisés par Pasolini (théâtre, cinéma, prose, poésie) autour d'un thème qui n'a jamais été traité de façon unitaire. La façon tout à fait particulière dont Pasolini dirigeait ses propres acteurs en faisant se cotoyer sur le set des acteurs professionnels (voire des stars du cinéma italien et internationnal) avec des acteurs non-professionnels mais aussi des écrivains, poètes, philosophes circulant d'un film à l'autre et le plus souvent utilisés à contre-emploi, la manière dont il utilisait les voix (notamment dans le doublage) et mettait en scène les corps – présents ou absents, réels ou rêvés (comme dans son théâtre) – ou encore sa manière de s'interroger sur l'identité et la fonction de ses personnages, sur leur réalité charnelle et historique... autant de questions qui pourront ouvrir de nouvelles pistes de lecture et nourrir le débat. Un débat qui sera particulièrement fécond, car nous aurons l'honneur et l'immense plaisir de recevoir, durant le colloque, Ninetto Davoli (figure centrale de toute l'oeuvre et la vie de Pasolini) et Enrique Irazoqui (qui incarna le Christ dans L'Évangile selon Saint Matthieu) qui témoigneront de leur expérience directe. Enfin, le Centro Studi – Archivio Pasolini de Bologne mettra à notre disposition des interviews de Pasolini et d'acteurs pasoliniens inédites qui seront projetées durant le colloque ainsi qu'une série de photographies. Les communications pourront se faire en italien ou français. p style="text-align: justify;" [...]

!-- pageType= magazinewide slug= pl_print section= culture subsection= education headline= How Comics Can Save Us From Scientific Ignorance authorName= Barry Harbaugh -- pWhat's the solution to America's crisis in science education? More comic books. In December comes citea href="http://us.macmillan.com/thestuffoflife"The Stuff of Life/a: A Graphic Guide to Genetics and DNA/cite, a remarkably thorough explanation of the science of genetics, from Mendel to Venter, with a strand of social urgency spliced in. "If there was ever a time that we needed a push to make science a priority, it's now," says Howard Zimmerman, the book's editor and, not coincidentally, a former elementary-school science teacher. "Advances in treatments for disease cannot take place in a society that shuns science." Zimmerman works with the New York literary publishing house Hill and Wang, which discovered Elie Weisel and has been creating a new niche for itself as one of the premiere producers of major graphic "nonfiction novels" like the war on terror primer citeAfter 9/11/cite and the bio-comic citeRonald Reagan/cite./p pciteStuff of Life/cite is the first in a series dedicated to the hard sciences. The author is Mark Schultz, a DC Comics veteran and creator of the postapocalyptic classic citea href="http://www.darkhorse.com/Books/11-653/Xenozoic-Tales-Volume-1-TPB"Xenozoic Tales/a/cite. The 160-page work, illustrated by Kevin Cannon and Zander Cannon (improbably, no genetic relation), covers the regenerative processes of DNA, human migratory patterns, cloned apples, and stem cells. In a rapidly changing field, it's as up-to-date and accurate as possible./p pSchultz, like Zimmerman, was attracted by the possibilities of using comics as an educational medium. "It's not prose, and it's not documentary film," Schultz says. "It's kind of its own animal." And the graphic novel market is drawing in different readers than he's accustomed to at DC. "The manga phenomenon," he notes as one example, "is attracting new demographics, like younger women, who weren't picking up on traditional comics."/p pNot that this is the first time comics have been enlisted for educational purposes. The field goes back to the 1940s, when Will Eisner turned Army instruction manuals into a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/05/books/05eisner.html"graphic guides for soldiers/a. Also, there's Larry Gonick's citeCartoon Guides/cite of the '80s, with his citeCartoon Guide to Genetics/cite being the most obvious precursor here. citeStuff of Life/cite builds on Gonick, updating his science and employing a silly yet more effective narrativemdash;alien scientist Bloort 183 presents a PowerPoint on human genetics to his slow-learning leader./p pUp next? Possibly evolution. After all, Zimmerman says, "more than half of adult Americans think Earth is about 6,000 years old."/pbr style="clear: both;"/ a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http://www.pheedo.com/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:c697aae688cafb8ebff3f3dfc81ef4b1:kWNqo0CWaxUCPlQ862WjV%2Balw1dDPHHbxsG5R6RLNumBA6dqmaUzJ0rIFAtYHrLeXcoxw9t1S6%2FvCQ%3D%3D'img border='0' title='Add to Facebook' alt='Add to Facebook' src='http://www.pheedo.com/images/mm/facebook.gif'//a a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http://www.pheedo.com/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:86c1fbc9187e4f24cf9a5a5eafe0fdc5:5XGKbzvUKAI0Kx5FZes5y1sqRuGVnkfa%2F2GMTmuae6avdXHUZlvetqQSSbkB8N4HZsdWYM%2FFKPm0'img border='0' title='Add to Reddit' alt='Add to Reddit' src='http://www.pheedo.com/images/mm/reddit.png'//a a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http://www.pheedo.com/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:ff53e8831b23a3ca1b664762b4ec2d64:qdsrAbd53IpU3uv9X3yTGy9dDBJt3P8FLT42bezjy2bBgstcBO4kp8FLCSXp9eAosvHFSzqJUCEA'img border='0' title='Add to digg' alt='Add to digg' src='http://www.pheedo.com/images/mm/digg.gif'//a a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http://www.pheedo.com/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:2bda3dd732da236562d797c09f1f3069:OweWO7olqgIAwBtWs9rgqwXhRLUB2O%2FRVl5j0vSP1mK9xWueXeIrmcj9pOzR%2FjUccmEfqd%2F1fTx2'img border='0' title='Add to Google' alt='Add to Google' src='http://www.pheedo.com/images/mm/google.png'//a br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=ca0551678d4065f628e3993770cdbd2fp=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=ca0551678d4065f628e3993770cdbd2fp=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=ca0551678d4065f628e3993770cdbd2f" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/ pa href="http://feeds.wired.com/~a/wired/index?a=ZuR1VA"img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~a/wired/index?i=ZuR1VA" border="0"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~4/473261696" height="1" width="1"/