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Remarkable 20th Century volume 10
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With the turn of a new century breathing down its neck, the 1990's were recognizable by the inevitable presence of a new millenium breathing down its neck. With science and technology's capabilities amplifying with each given year, the 1990's were ideal as any for active choices to be made on what future the world wanted going forward, especially in light of the past 100 years of trial and error as evidence.
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Remarkable 20th Century volume 7
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The 1960's served as a pivotal transition period, filled with revolutions ranging from social to governmental. With disillusionment growing towards the many outdated facets of contemporary life, protests and systematic demands for change instigated transformations to the worldscape on both local and global levels.
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Remarkable 20th Century volume 1
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After the turn of a century marked by mass innovations released more rapidly than any time period prior, the world's populous was anxious and impatient for what the next could bring, making way for economic, social, and scientific, political, and artistic cultures unparalleled by anything prior.
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Remarkable 20th Century volume 4
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Following a seemingly worldwide regression, a decidedly active collective effort initiated to establish and balance the increasingly unpredictable nature of modernity. New world orders dominated what had otherwise been a static and (recently) stagnant global fluidity, instead opting for their idealistic visions of preferred ways of life.
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Remarkable 20th Century volume 9
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The 1980's were a time of technological progress, which naturally implemented changes ranging from oppressive regimes to improvements in daily life. Populaces demanded the best that they felt were conceivable, and a widespread need to rid the combative regimes of their fascist stems led to innumerable changes, most notably the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
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Remarkable 20th Century volume 5
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A decade intrinsically linked to the infamous iconography that defined it, the 1940's have become almost synonymous with all things WWII and Holocaust-related, as these years saw the natural order of things reevaluate themselves and adapt to an era full of perpetually evolving complications in the eternal search for global peace.
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Remarkable 20th Century volume 2
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A decade significantly defined by what was then the most deathly and international war in human history, equivalent progressions were demanded by the times in parallel fields, such as art, philosophy and science, during years that necessitated perpetual improvements in all industries upstaged by the backdrop of a worldwide catastrophe.
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Remarkable 20th Century volume 3
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In the 1920's, following the "War to End All Wars," countries that were already amid reforming their semblances of peacetime, found themselves confronted with the need to reinvent and solidify decidedly solidified cultural identities, from the way citizens dressed, to the way they shopped, to the places they traveled.
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Remarkable 20th Century volume 6
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With cultures and world identities solidifying themselves identifiers later recognized as staples of the times (and the countries) beginning to form, the 1950's became a widely identifiable starting point of what we now colloquially refer to as pop culture. With the new advent of mass media, mongered fears were able to spread about foreign ideals and plans to infiltrate one another's ways of life, and with that nationalism began to provoke a more...
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Remarkable 20th Century volume 8
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With tensions mounting over America's imperial presence in all corners of the planet, combined with juxtaposing dissatisfactions over domestic policy, fear was a recursive staple of daily life in what would be known as a decade of military upheaval, many with no clear good guys and bad guys.
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One Kris Kringle, a department-store Santa Claus, causes quite a commotion by suggesting customers go to a rival store for their purchases. But this is nothing to the stir he causes by announcing that he is not merely a make-believe St. Nick, but the real McCoy!. This special rendering of this Yuletide fantasy is a heartwarming treat for the entire family.
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Dictators of the 20th Century volume 4
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The Iron Fist, Dictators of the 20th Century explores the lives of the most notorious tyrants of the modern era such The Sinews of Peace, On the Run, The Long March, Comrade Walter, Tito's Partisans, Bringer of Light, People's Republic.
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Dictators of the 20th Century volume 1
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Chapters: Machiavelli, The Hot Head, King Emperor, The Last Emperor, The Prince & the Iron Chancellor, Nicholas, A Man of Peace, Bloody Sunday, Battleship Potemkin, A Fleet of My Own, If My Grandmother had been Alive, The Great War, Revolution is in the Air, Down with the Tsar, Abdication, What's in a Name, What? What?, Fallen Crown, I am Ashamed to be a German, Moving Towards its Close.
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Dictators of the 20th Century volume 5
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The Iron Fist, Dictators of the 20th Century explores the lives of the most notorious tyrants of the modern era in chapters such Shirtless One, Trujillo, Evita, Invitation to Revolution, Guerrillas in the Mist, Communist Cuba, Return from Limbo, Butcher of Uganda, Islamic Socialism.
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Dictators of the 20th Century volume 3
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In this episode, The Iron Fist, Dictators of the 20th Century explores the lives of the most notorious tyrants of the modern era such Fascism, Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, General Francisco Franco, Hirohito.
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Dictators of the 20th Century volume 2
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Chapters: Karl Marx; Friedrich Engels; Lenin; Leon Trotsky; Joseph Stalin; Alexander Kerensky.
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Great Music of the 20th Century volume 16
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Trace Schoenberg's period of great creative output and professional flowering in the late 1920s - years which coincided with the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party in Germany. Following Schoenberg's self-exile to the United States, take note of his efforts on behalf of European Jews, and study two war-inspired masterworks; his Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte and A Survivor from Warsaw.
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Great Music of the 20th Century volume 5
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Relive The Rite of Spring's riotous premiere, and examine the qualities that made it the most influential musical work of the 20th century. Observe how Stravinsky evoked ancient pagan rituals through stunning rhythmic asymmetry, bi-tonal harmony, and other daring compositional techniques. Take account of how the Rite changed the way composers thought about rhythm, melody, and orchestration.
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Great Music of the 20th Century volume 22
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Postmodernism in music represented both a return to the musical values of Romanticism and an amalgam of diverse musical influences. Investigate the music of George Rochberg and David del Tredici, both of whom embraced musical styles from the past. Then explore "pastiche" - direct quotation from earlier works - in the phenomenal music of Luciano Berio, Peter Maxwell Davies, and George Crumb.
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Great Music of the 20th Century volume 1
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Look first at the goals of this course, as it will explore the principal trends in 20th-century concert music, and the historical issues and events that shaped them. As background, delve into the history of musical notation as it gave rise to composed music, and take account of the upheavals, political and social catastrophes, and paradigm shifts that affected music in the 20th century.