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“daniel noveck”

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  • Music and Globalization

    Critical Encounters

    by Steven Feld, Barbara Browning, Daniel Noveck, Ariana Hernandez-Reguant, Timothy D. Taylor, Rafael Jose de Menezes Bastos, Denis-Constant Martin, Richard M Shain, Philip R Hayward ...
    "World music" emerged as a commercial and musical category in the 1980s, but in some sense music has always been global. Through the metaphor of encounters, Music and Globalization explores the dynamics that enable or hinder cross-cultural communication through music. In the stories told by the contributors, we meet well-known players such as David Byrne, Peter Gabriel, Sting, Ry Cooder, Fela Kuti ... Read more

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  • Creative Destruction

    How Globalization Is Changing the World's Cultures

    by Tyler Cowen ...
    "Argued neatly . . . cultural products that [we] think of as indigenous owe their existence to the cultural exchange brought about by trade." — Wall Street JournalA Frenchman rents a Hollywood movie. A Thai schoolgirl mimics Madonna. Saddam Hussein chooses Frank Sinatra's "My Way" as the theme song for his fifty-fourth birthday. It is a commonplace that globalization is subverting local culture. ... Read more

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  • Making Intangible Heritage

    El Condor Pasa and Other Stories from UNESCO

    by Valdimar Hafstein ...
    In Making Intangible Heritage, Valdimar Tr. Hafstein—folklorist and official delegate to UNESCO—tells the story of UNESCO's Intangible Heritage Convention. In the ethnographic tradition, Hafstein peers underneath the official account, revealing the context important for understanding UNESCO as an organization, the concept of intangible heritage, and the global impact of both. Looking beyond ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Brazilian Popular Music and Globalization

    Edited by Charles A. Perrone, Christopher Dunn ...
    This collection of articles by leading scholars traces the history of Brazilian pop music through the twentieth-century. ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Roots in Reverse

    Senegalese Afro-Cuban Music and Tropical Cosmopolitanism

    by Richard M. Shain ...
    A study of the impact of Cuban music on Senegalese music and modernityRoots in Reverse explores how Latin music contributed to the formation of the négritude movement in the 1930s. Taking Senegal and Cuba as its primary research areas, this work uses oral histories, participant observation, and archival research to examine the ways Afro-Cuban music has influenced Senegalese debates about cultural ... Read more

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  • Dancing Cultures

    Globalization, Tourism and Identity in the Anthropology of Dance

    Edited by Hélène Neveu Kringelbach, Jonathan Skinner ...
    Series Book 4 - Dance and Performance Studies
    Dance is more than an aesthetic of life – dance embodies life. This is evident from the social history of jive, the marketing of trans-national ballet, ritual healing dances in Italy or folk dances performed for tourists in Mexico, Panama and Canada. Dance often captures those essential dimensions of social life that cannot be easily put into words. What are the flows and movements of dance ... Read more

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  • Art Activism for an Anticolonial Future

    by Carlos Garrido Castellano ...
    Series series SUNY Press Open Access
    Analyzing the confluence between coloniality and activist art, Art Activism for an Anticolonial Future argues that there is much to gain from approaching contemporary politically committed art practices from the angle of anticolonial, postcolonial, and decolonial struggles. These struggles inspired a vast yet underexplored set of ideas about art and cultural practices and did so decades before the ... Read more

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  • River of Tears

    Country Music, Memory, and Modernity in Brazil

    by Alexander Dent ...
    River of Tears is the first ethnography of Brazilian country music, one of the most popular genres in Brazil yet least-known outside it. Beginning in the mid-1980s, commercial musical duos practicing música sertaneja reached beyond their home in Brazil’s central-southern region to become national bestsellers. Rodeo events revolving around country music came to rival soccer matches in attendance. A ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Music and the Making of Portugal and Spain

    Nationalism and Identity Politics in the Iberian Peninsula

    by Paulo Ferreira de Castro, Igor Contreras Zubillaga, Vera Marques Alves, Eva Moreda Rodríguez, Leonor Losa, Pedro Moreira, Hugo Castro, Diego García-Peinazo, Ricardo Andrade, Héctor Fouce, Fernán del Val, Josep Martí, Cristina Sánchez-Carretero, Cristina Cruces Roldán ...
    How music embodies and contributes to historical and contemporary nationalismWhat does music in Portugal and Spain reveal about the relationship between national and regional identity building? How do various actors use music to advance nationalism? How have state and international heritage regimes contributed to nationalist and regionalist projects? In this collection, contributors explore these ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • In the Spirit of a New People

    The Cultural Politics of the Chicano Movement

    by Randy J Ontiveros ...
    Series series American Literatures Initiative
    Reexamining the Chicano civil rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s, In the Spirit of a New People brings to light new insights about social activism in the twentieth-century and new lessons for progressive politics in the twenty-first. Randy J. Ontiveros explores the ways in which Chicano/a artists and activists used fiction, poetry, visual arts, theater, and other expressive forms to forge a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • African Migration Narratives

    Politics, Race, and Space

    Edited by Cajetan Iheka, Professor Jack Taylor ...
    This essay collection examines the representations of migration in African literature, film, and other visual media. Inspired by the proliferation of texts focused on this theme and the ongoing migration crises, essays in the volume probe the ways in which African cultural productions shape and are shaped by the migration debates, the contributions these productions make to an understanding of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Diaspora Without Displacement

    The Coloniality and Promise of Capoeira in Senegal

    by Celina de Sá ...
    Capoeira—a game of combat primarily developed by enslaved West Central Africans—has become an icon of both Brazilian national culture and pride in the country’s diasporic African heritage. Yet the sport remains less accessible in Africa itself, overshadowed in large part by participants in the Global North. In Diaspora Without Displacement, Celina de Sá tells the story of capoeira as it "returns" ... Read more

    $21.59 USD