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This book analyses the relationships between contemporary media and popular music, both via the mediation of music, and music as mediator. It does so through a series of original interviews with key practitioners: musicians, writers, magazine editors, radio presenters and major and independent label bosses. Those interviewed include Mark Ellen, editor of Smash Hits, Q, Mojo and currently Word magazines; Mark Cooper, producer of Laterwith Jools Holland and CEO of Music Entertainment at the BBC; Ben Watt, half of Everything But The Girl and owner of independent label Buzzin' Fly; and Fiona Talkington, original and current presenter of the Sony Award winning Late Junction on BBC Radio 3. Through these interviews, theory and practice are measured against each other and the book considers their experiences and observations in order to explore the ways popular music is produced, marketed and mediated. Examining visual, print, radio and new media, Media and Popular Music draws together disparate elements odisparate elements of music and media which formerly have not been considered together, and provides a fresh and innovative contribution to the swiftly growing field of popular music studies.

This book is designed as a core textbook for graduate students and advanced undergraduates of development economics. Richard Pomfret uses the theme of the diverse experiences of developing countries to illustrate the full range of topics conventionally studied in development economics courses - industrialization, agriculture, labour, trade policy, and others. Too often "the Third World" or "developing countries" are grouped together as a single entity. In fact, the countries conventionally considered to form this group contain counties with widely divergent circumstances and prospects. The "newly industrialized countries" of South-East Asia have as much in common, if not more, with Western Europe as they do with the poverty stricken countries of sub-Saharan Africa. The problems faced by Latin American countries are very different from those of the Middle East or the Indian sub-Continent. Pomfret's extensive use of case studies from a wide variety of countries demonstrates these different paths of economic development and brings the subject alive for students.

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Text and movable illustrations retell the Bible story of how Daniel relied on God even when his enemies had him put into a den of lions

Text and movable illustrations tell the Bible story of Jonah and the consequences of his disobedience to God.

Text and movable illustrations retell the Bible story of Noah and his ark.