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“david coplan”

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  • Project Management for Healthcare Information Technology

    by Scott Coplan,David Masuda ...

    $89.09 USD

  • Go Home or Die Here

    Violence, Xenophobia and the Reinvention of Difference in South Africa

    by Shireen Hassim, Tawana Kupe, Eric Worby, Alex Eliseev, Rolf Maruping, Daryl Glaser, Noor Nieftagodien0, Stephen Gelb1, Devan Pillay2, Loren Landau3, David Coplan4, Julia Hornberger5, Melinda Silverman6, Tanya Zack7, Anton Harber8, Cathi Albertyn9, Andile Mngxitama0, Pumla Dineo Gqola1, Véronique Tadjo2 ...
    The xenophobic attacks that started in Alexandra, Johannesburg in May 2008 before quickly spreading around the country caused an outcry across the world and raised many fundamental questions: Of what profound social malaise is xenophobia – and the violence that it inspires – a symptom? Have our economic and political choices created new forms of exclusion that fuel anger and distrust? What ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Composing Apartheid

    Music for and against apartheid

    by Gary Baines, Ingrid Byerly, Christopher Cockburn, David Coplan ...
    Composing Apartheid is the first book ever to chart the musical world of a notorious period in world history, apartheid South Africa. It explores how music was produced through, and was productive of, key features of apartheid’s social and political topography, as well as how music and musicians contested and even helped to conquer apartheid. The collection of essays is intentionally broad, and ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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  • Routledge Handbook of African Popular Culture

    Edited by Grace A Musila ...
    This handbook brings together an international team of scholars from different disciplines to reflect on African popular cultural imaginaries. These imaginaries – in the sense of cultural productions, contexts, consumers, producers, platforms, and the material, affective and discursive resources they circulate – are influential in shaping African realities. Collectively, the chapters assembled in ... Read more

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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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  • Desire Lines

    Space, Memory and Identity in the Post-Apartheid City

    Edited by Noëleen Murray, Nick Shepherd, Martin Hall ...
    Series series Architext
    This ground breaking new work draws together a cross-section of South African scholars to provide a lively and comprehensive review of the under-researched area of heritage practice following the introduction of the National Heritage Resources Act.Looking at the daily heritage debates, from naming streets to projects such as the Gateway to Robben Island, Desire Lines addresses the innovative ... Read more

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  • Johannesburg

    The Elusive Metropolis

    by AbdouMaliq Simone ...
    Series series a Public Culture Book
    Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis is a pioneering effort to insert South Africa’s largest city into urban theory, on its own terms. Johannesburg is Africa’s premier metropolis. Yet theories of urbanization have cast it as an emblem of irresolvable crisis, the spatial embodiment of unequal economic relations and segregationist policies, and a city that responds to but does not contribute to ... Read more

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  • South African Drama and Theatre from Pre-Colonial Times to the 1990S: an Alternative Reading

    by Mzo Sirayi ...
    Mzo Sirayi has embarked on a highly impressive and daring enterprise with theunfl inching boldness of a scholar who is driven by a passionate pursuit to set therecord straight. He manages to pull no punches and make no apologies by being trueto his convictions, especially within the context of a new South Africa. The bookadopts a largely historicized, critical and analytical perspective, which ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • 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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  • 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 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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