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  • Tourism, Indigeneity, and the Importance of Place

    Fighting for Heritage at Australia’s Last Frontier

    by Carsten Wergin ...
    Series series The Anthropology of Tourism: Heritage, Mobility, and Society
    The book presents a long-term ethnographic study of arguably the largest environmental protest action in Australian history: The Walmadany / James Price Point conflict.Carsten Wergin offers a detailed account of how local community members, Indigenous custodians, heritage preservationists, environmentalists, and tourists collaboratively joined forces to successfully oppose the construction of a ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Ecocritical Concerns and the Australian Continent

    by Dany Adone, Katrin Althans, Eva Bischoff, Melanie Brück, Norbert Finzsch, Ken Gelder, Helen Gilbert, Anna Haebich, Victoria Herche, Bentley James, David Kern, Catherine Laudine, Philip Mead, Anke Tonnaer, Rachael Weaver, Carsten Wergin, Sandra Williams, Alexis Wright, C.A. Cranston ...
    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    Ecocritical Concerns and the Australian Continent investigates literary, historical, anthropological, and linguistic perspectives in connection with activist engagements. The necessary cross-fertilization between these different perspectives throughout this volume emerges in the resonances between essays exploring recurring concerns ranging from biodiversity and preservation policies to the ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

  • Musical Performance and the Changing City

    Post-industrial Contexts in Europe and the United States

    Edited by Fabian Holt, Carsten Wergin ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Music
    A contribution to the field of urban music studies, this book presents new interdisciplinary approaches to the study of music in urban social life. It takes musical performance as its key focus, exploring how and why different kinds of performance are evolving in contemporary cities in the interaction among social groups, commercial entrepreneurs, and institutions. From conventional concerts in ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

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  • Altered State

    The Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House

    by Matthew Collin ...
    From its first publication in 1997, Altered State established itself as the definitive text on Ecstasy and dance culture. This new edition sees Matthew Collin cast a fresh eye on the heady events of the acid house 'Summer of Love' and the rave scene's euphoric escalation into commercial excess as MDMA became a mass-market narcotic. Altered State is the best-selling book on Ecstasy culture, using a ... Read more

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  • Israel Kamakawiwo'ole's Facing Future

    by Dan Kois ...
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    Even at four in the morning, the strip clubs and watering holes surrounding the Honolulu studio were still hopping. The recording engineer heard a car pull into the lot, and soon the biggest man he had ever seen walked in. When he stepped into the studio, the floated floor shifted beneath the engineer's feet. Israel Kamakawiwo'ole engulfed the engineer's hand in his and said, "Hi, bruddah."The ... Read more

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  • The 70s Pop Music Quiz Book

    by Paul Andrews ...
    Series Book 3 - The Music Quiz Books
    How well do you know your 70's Pop Music? This Quiz book will test even the most avid fan, with questions that span the 70's bands and songs! Test yourself and your friends with this 70's Pop Music Quiz Book. ... Read more

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  • Urban Blues

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    Charles Keil examines the expressive role of blues bands and performers and stresses the intense interaction between performer and audience. Profiling bluesmen Bobby Bland and B. B. King, Keil argues that they are symbols for the black community, embodying important attitudes and roles—success, strong egos, and close ties to the community. While writing Urban Blues in the mid-1960s, Keil ... Read more

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  • Staging the New Berlin

    Place Marketing and the Politics of Urban Reinvention Post-1989

    by Claire Colomb ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    This book explores the politics of place marketing and the process of ‘urban reinvention’ in Berlin between 1989 and 2011. In the context of the dramatic socio-economic restructuring processes, changes in urban governance and physical transformation of the city following the Fall of the Wall, the ‘new’ Berlin was not only being built physically, but staged for visitors and Berliners and marketed ... Read more

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  • Music and Urban Geography

    by Adam Krims ...
    Music and Urban Geography is the first book to theorize musical aspects of the tremendous changes that have overtaken major cities in the developed world over the past few decades. Drawing on musicology, music theory, urban geography, and historical materialism, Krims maps changes not only in how music represents cities, but also in how music sounds and is deployed socially in new urban contexts. ... Read more

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  • Resounding Afro Asia

    Interracial Music and the Politics of Collaboration

    by Tamara Roberts ...
    Series series American Musicspheres
    Cultural hybridity is a celebrated hallmark of U.S. American music and identity. Yet hybrid music is all too often marked -and marketed - under a single racial label. Resounding Afro Asia examines music projects that counter this convention; these projects instead foreground racial mixture in players, audiences, and sound in the very face of the ghettoizing culture industry. Giving voice to four ... Read more

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  • Globalization and Popular Music in South Korea

    Sounding Out K-Pop

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    Series series Routledge Studies in Popular Music
    This book offers an in-depth study of the globalization of contemporary South Korean idol pop music, or K-Pop, visiting K-Pop and its multiple intersections with political, economic, and cultural formations and transformations. It provides detailed insights into the transformative process in and around the field of Korean pop music since the 1990s, which paved the way for the recent international ... Read more

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