Acclaimed scholar rethinks the nature and meaning of music. Extending the inquiry of his
early groundbreaking books, Christopher Small strikes at the heart of traditional studies of …

A groundbreaking work expanding our view of music beyond the Western classical tradition.
Cited by Soundpost as" remarkable and revolutionary" upon its publication in 1977, Music, …

The essence of music lies not in musical works but in taking part in performance, in social
action. Music is thus not so much a noun as a verb, ‘to music’. To music is to take part in any …

Recent improvements in mapping of global population distribution makes it possible to estimate
the number and distribution of people near coasts with greater accuracy than previously …

In this paper we survey a sequence of papers whose primary aim is the generalization of the
concept of the median into higher dimensional settings. While a variety of distinct definitions …

Previous studies of DMSP-OLS stable night lights have shown encouraging agreement
between temporally stable lighted areas and various definitions of urban extent. However, these …

… with a relatively small number of landmarks. Nevertheless, small numbers of landmarks can
provide the basis for comparisons of important shape differences. Just as a small number of …

The rapidly expanding urban areas of the world constitute an environmental challenge for
the 21st century that requires both new analytic approaches and new sources of data and …

In clear and elegant prose, Music of the Common Tongue, first published in 1987, argues
that by any reasonable reckoning of the function of music in human life the African American …

<p>The spatio-temporal distribution of vegetation is a fundamental component of the urban
environment that can be quantified using multispectral imagery. However, spectral …