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Hearing Maskanda

Musical Epistemologies in South Africa

by Professor Barbara Titus ...

Hearing Maskanda outlines how people make sense of their world through practicing and hearing maskanda music in South Africa. Having emerged in response to the experience of forced labour migration in the early 20th century, maskanda continues to straddle a wide range of cultural and musical universes. Maskanda musicians reground ideas, (hi)stories, norms, speech and beliefs that have been ... Read more

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Hearing Maskanda outlines how people make sense of their world through practicing and hearing maskanda music in South Africa. Having emerged in response to the experience of forced labour migration in the early 20th century, maskanda continues to straddle a wide range of cultural and musical universes. Maskanda musicians reground ideas, (hi)stories, norms, speech and beliefs that have been
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Why not Eddie?

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This is the somewhat true story of Eddie, a little shelter dog-unloved, unwanted, and labeled as 'unadoptable.' He was about to receive an opportunity to prove himself and find his forever home with a loving family, so Eddie thought to himself, "Why not?" The question is; can he? Will he?Barbara Titus began her career with pets in Michigan working at a small animal hospital and later opened her ... Read more

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This is the somewhat true story of Eddie, a little shelter dog-unloved, unwanted, and labeled as 'unadoptable.' He was about to receive an opportunity to prove himself and find his forever home with a loving family, so Eddie thought to himself, "Why not?" The question is; can he? Will he?Barbara Titus began her career with pets in Michigan working at a small animal hospital and later opened her
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Why Not Eddie?

by Barbara Titus ...

This is the somewhat true story of Eddie, a little shelter dogunloved, unwanted, and labeled as unadoptable. He was about to receive an opportunity to prove himself and find his forever home with a loving family, so Eddie thought to himself, Why not? The question is; can he? Will he? ... Read more

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This is the somewhat true story of Eddie, a little shelter dogunloved, unwanted, and labeled as unadoptable. He was about to receive an opportunity to prove himself and find his forever home with a loving family, so Eddie thought to himself, Why not? The question is; can he? Will he?
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A History of African Popular Culture

by Karin Barber ...

Series Book 11 - New Approaches to African History
Popular culture in Africa is the product of everyday life: the unofficial, the non-canonical. And it is the dynamism of this culture that makes Africa what it is. In this book, Karin Barber offers a journey through the history of music, theatre, fiction, song, dance, poetry, and film from the seventeenth century to the present day. From satires created by those living in West African coastal towns ... Read more

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Popular culture in Africa is the product of everyday life: the unofficial, the non-canonical. And it is the dynamism of this culture that makes Africa what it is. In this book, Karin Barber offers a journey through the history of music, theatre, fiction, song, dance, poetry, and film from the seventeenth century to the present day. From satires created by those living in West African coastal towns
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Global Englishes and Transcultural Flows

by Alastair Pennycook ...

The English language is spreading across the world, and so too is hip-hop culture: both are being altered, developed, reinterpreted, reclaimed. This timely book explores the relationship between global Englishes (the spread and use of diverse forms of English within processes of globalization) and transcultural flows (the movements, changes and reuses of cultural forms in disparate contexts).This ... Read more

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The English language is spreading across the world, and so too is hip-hop culture: both are being altered, developed, reinterpreted, reclaimed. This timely book explores the relationship between global Englishes (the spread and use of diverse forms of English within processes of globalization) and transcultural flows (the movements, changes and reuses of cultural forms in disparate contexts).This
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Africa and the Blues

by Gerhard Kubik ...

In 1969 Gerhard Kubik chanced to encounter a Mozambican labor migrant, a miner in Transvaal, South Africa, tapping a cipendani, a mouth-resonated musical bow. A comparable instrument was seen in the hands of a white Appalachian musician who claimed it as part of his own cultural heritage. Through connections like these Kubik realized that the link between these two far-flung musicians is African ... Read more

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In 1969 Gerhard Kubik chanced to encounter a Mozambican labor migrant, a miner in Transvaal, South Africa, tapping a cipendani, a mouth-resonated musical bow. A comparable instrument was seen in the hands of a white Appalachian musician who claimed it as part of his own cultural heritage. Through connections like these Kubik realized that the link between these two far-flung musicians is African
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Global Metal Music and Culture

Current Directions in Metal Studies

Edited by Karl Spracklen, Keith Kahn-Harris, Niall Scott, Andy Brown ...

Series series Routledge Studies in Popular Music
This book defines the key ideas, scholarly debates, and research activities that have contributed to the formation of the international and interdisciplinary field of Metal Studies. Drawing on insights from a wide range of disciplines including popular music, cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, and ethics, this volume offers new and innovative research on metal musicology, ... Read more

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This book defines the key ideas, scholarly debates, and research activities that have contributed to the formation of the international and interdisciplinary field of Metal Studies. Drawing on insights from a wide range of disciplines including popular music, cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, and ethics, this volume offers new and innovative research on metal musicology,
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Neil Young and the Poetics of Energy

by William Echard ...

"This book uniquely and successfully sustains a cohesive analysis of the work, career, and reception of a single artist . . . Neil Young." —Daniel Cavicchi, author of Tramps Like UsAs a writer in Wired magazine puts it, Neil Young is a "folk-country-grunge dinosaur [who has been] reborn (again) as an Internet-friendly, biodiesel-driven, multimedia machine." In Neil Young and the Poetics of Energy, ... Read more

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"This book uniquely and successfully sustains a cohesive analysis of the work, career, and reception of a single artist . . . Neil Young." —Daniel Cavicchi, author of Tramps Like UsAs a writer in Wired magazine puts it, Neil Young is a "folk-country-grunge dinosaur [who has been] reborn (again) as an Internet-friendly, biodiesel-driven, multimedia machine." In Neil Young and the Poetics of Energy,
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Hip Hop Africa

New African Music in a Globalizing World

by Rainer Polak, Jesse Weaver Shipley, Lee Watkins, Patricia Tang, Daniel B. Reed, John Fenn, Stephanie Shonekan, Jean Ngoya Kidula, Alex Perullo, John Collins, Jochen Seebode ...

Hip Hop Africa explores a new generation of Africans who are not only consumers of global musical currents, but also active and creative participants. Eric Charry and an international group of contributors look carefully at youth culture and the explosion of hip hop in Africa, the embrace of other contemporary genres, including reggae, ragga, and gospel music, and the continued vitality of ... Read more

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Hip Hop Africa explores a new generation of Africans who are not only consumers of global musical currents, but also active and creative participants. Eric Charry and an international group of contributors look carefully at youth culture and the explosion of hip hop in Africa, the embrace of other contemporary genres, including reggae, ragga, and gospel music, and the continued vitality of
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Representing African Music

Postcolonial Notes, Queries, Positions

by Kofi Agawu ...

The aim of this book is to stimulate debate by offering a critique of discourse about African music. Who writes about African music, how, and why? What assumptions and prejudices influence the presentation of ethnographic data? Even the term "African music" suggests there is an agreed-upon meaning, but African music signifies differently to different people. This book also poses the question then, ... Read more

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The aim of this book is to stimulate debate by offering a critique of discourse about African music. Who writes about African music, how, and why? What assumptions and prejudices influence the presentation of ethnographic data? Even the term "African music" suggests there is an agreed-upon meaning, but African music signifies differently to different people. This book also poses the question then,
... Read more
The African Imagination in Music

by Kofi Agawu ...

The world of Sub-Saharan African music is immensely rich and diverse, containing a plethora of repertoires and traditions. In The African Imagination in Music, renowned music scholar Kofi Agawu offers an introduction to the major dimensions of this music and the values upon which it rests. Agawu leads his readers through an exploration of the traditions, structural elements, instruments, and ... Read more

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The world of Sub-Saharan African music is immensely rich and diverse, containing a plethora of repertoires and traditions. In The African Imagination in Music, renowned music scholar Kofi Agawu offers an introduction to the major dimensions of this music and the values upon which it rests. Agawu leads his readers through an exploration of the traditions, structural elements, instruments, and
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Discographies

Dance, Music, Culture and the Politics of Sound

by Jeremy Gilbert, Ewan Pearson ...

Experiencing disco, hip hop, house, techno, drum 'n' bass and garage, Discographies plots a course through the transatlantic dance scene of the last last twenty-five years. It discusses the problems posed by contemporary dance culture of both academic and cultural study and finds these origins in the history of opposition to music as a source of sensory pleasure.Discussing such issues as ... Read more

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Experiencing disco, hip hop, house, techno, drum 'n' bass and garage, Discographies plots a course through the transatlantic dance scene of the last last twenty-five years. It discusses the problems posed by contemporary dance culture of both academic and cultural study and finds these origins in the history of opposition to music as a source of sensory pleasure.Discussing such issues as
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