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Defiant Sounds

Heavy Metal Music in the Global South

by Esther Clinton, Sage Bond, Pasqualina Eckerström, Kobi Farhi, Kevin Fellezs, Manuel Gagneux, Susana González-Martínez, Didier Goossens, Amine Hamma, Susane Hécate0, Adil Johan1, Mark LeVine2, Paula Rowe3, Brian Trott4, Azmyl Yusof5, Jeremy Wallach7, Daniel Nevárez Araújo9, Augustinus Aryo Lukisworo0, Manuela Belén Calvo1, Oki Rahadianto Sutopo2, Anthony J. Thibodeau3, Tshomarelo "Vulture" Mosaka4, Edward Banchs5, Nelson Varas-Díaz6 ...

Series series Extreme Sounds Studies: Global Socio-Cultural Explorations
Defiant Sounds: Heavy Metal Music in the Global South brings together authors working from and/or with the Global South to reflect on the roles of metal music throughout their respective regions. The essays position metal music at the epicenter of region-specific experiences of oppression marked by colonialism, ethnic extermination, political persecution, and war. More importantly, the authors ... Read more

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Defiant Sounds: Heavy Metal Music in the Global South brings together authors working from and/or with the Global South to reflect on the roles of metal music throughout their respective regions. The essays position metal music at the epicenter of region-specific experiences of oppression marked by colonialism, ethnic extermination, political persecution, and war. More importantly, the authors
... Read more
On Extremity

From Music to Images, Words, and Experiences

by Nelson Varas-Díaz, Alixida Ramos-Pibernus, Anna Chilewska, Robin Purves, Jason Wallin, Jeffrey Podoshen, Ross Hagen, Vivek Venkatesh, Bradley J. Nelson, Jasmine Hazel Shadrack0, Luis Javier Cintrón-Gutiérrez1, Niall W.R. Scott2, Edward Banchs4, Professor Bryan A Bardine5, Prof. Sheilla R. Madera7 ...

Series series Extreme Sounds Studies: Global Socio-Cultural Explorations
On Extremity: From Music to Images, Words, and Experiences brings together transdisciplinary scholarship on sounds, images, words, and experiences (human and non-human) to reflect on the polysemic and polymorphic characteristics of extremity and the category of the extreme. The editors and authors aim to contribute to a living, breathing, and expanding definition of extremity that helps us ... Read more

$89.09 USD

On Extremity: From Music to Images, Words, and Experiences brings together transdisciplinary scholarship on sounds, images, words, and experiences (human and non-human) to reflect on the polysemic and polymorphic characteristics of extremity and the category of the extreme. The editors and authors aim to contribute to a living, breathing, and expanding definition of extremity that helps us
... Read more
Scream for Me, Africa!

Heavy Metal Identities in Post-Colonial Africa

by Edward Banchs ...

Series series Advances in Metal Music and Culture
Scream for Me Africa! examines the hard rock and metal scenes in five African countries: Botswana, Togo, South Africa, Kenya and Ghana. Banchs spent significant time in each country interviewing musicians, producers and fans to create vivid pictures of each of these rarely discussed scenes. These scenes are 'a disruption of the norm, a disruption of what we have come to expect from Africa and rock ... Read more

$67.49 USD

Scream for Me Africa! examines the hard rock and metal scenes in five African countries: Botswana, Togo, South Africa, Kenya and Ghana. Banchs spent significant time in each country interviewing musicians, producers and fans to create vivid pictures of each of these rarely discussed scenes. These scenes are 'a disruption of the norm, a disruption of what we have come to expect from Africa and rock
... Read more

Our Own Worst Enemy

The Assault from within on Modern Democracy

by Tom Nichols ...

A contrarian yet highly engaging account of the spread of illiberal and anti-democratic sentiment throughout our culture that places responsibility on the citizens themselves. Over the past three decades, citizens of democracies who claim to value freedom, tolerance, and the rule of law have increasingly embraced illiberal politicians and platforms. Democracy is in trouble--but who is really to ... Read more

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A contrarian yet highly engaging account of the spread of illiberal and anti-democratic sentiment throughout our culture that places responsibility on the citizens themselves. Over the past three decades, citizens of democracies who claim to value freedom, tolerance, and the rule of law have increasingly embraced illiberal politicians and platforms. Democracy is in trouble--but who is really to
... Read more

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Fire and Ashes

Success and Failure in Politics

by Michael Ignatieff ...

In 2005 Michael Ignatieff left his life as a writer and professor at Harvard University to enter the combative world of politics back home in Canada. By 2008, he was leader of the country’s Liberal Party and poised—should the governing Conservatives falter—to become Canada’s next Prime Minister. It never happened. Today, after a bruising electoral defeat, Ignatieff is back where he started, ... Read more

$30.29 USD

In 2005 Michael Ignatieff left his life as a writer and professor at Harvard University to enter the combative world of politics back home in Canada. By 2008, he was leader of the country’s Liberal Party and poised—should the governing Conservatives falter—to become Canada’s next Prime Minister. It never happened. Today, after a bruising electoral defeat, Ignatieff is back where he started,
... Read more
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

$62.99 USD

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
The Other Eighties

A Secret History of America in the Age of Reagan

by Bradford Martin ...

In this engaging new book, Bradford Martin illuminates a different 1980s than many remember—one whose history has been buried under the celebratory narrative of conservative ascendancy. Ronald Reagan looms large in most accounts of the period, encouraging Americans to renounce the activist and liberal politics of the 1960s and '70s and embrace the resurgent conservative wave. But a closer look ... Read more

$12.99 USD

In this engaging new book, Bradford Martin illuminates a different 1980s than many remember—one whose history has been buried under the celebratory narrative of conservative ascendancy. Ronald Reagan looms large in most accounts of the period, encouraging Americans to renounce the activist and liberal politics of the 1960s and '70s and embrace the resurgent conservative wave. But a closer look
... Read more
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

$27.89 USD

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
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

$9.99 USD

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
Kwaito's Promise

Music and the Aesthetics of Freedom in South Africa

by Gavin Steingo ...

In mid-1990s South Africa, apartheid ended, Nelson Mandela was elected president, and the country's urban black youth developed kwaito—a form of electronic music (redolent of North American house) that came to represent the post-struggle generation. In this book, Gavin Steingo examines kwaito as it has developed alongside the democratization of South Africa over the past two decades. Tracking the ... Read more

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In mid-1990s South Africa, apartheid ended, Nelson Mandela was elected president, and the country's urban black youth developed kwaito—a form of electronic music (redolent of North American house) that came to represent the post-struggle generation. In this book, Gavin Steingo examines kwaito as it has developed alongside the democratization of South Africa over the past two decades. Tracking the
... Read more
Until We Have Won Our Liberty

South Africa after Apartheid

by Evan Lieberman ...

A compelling account of South Africa’s post-Apartheid democracyAt a time when many democracies are under strain around the world, Until We Have Won Our Liberty shines new light on the signal achievements of one of the contemporary era’s most closely watched transitions away from minority rule. South Africa’s democratic development has been messy, fiercely contested, and sometimes violent. But as ... Read more

$17.99 USD

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A compelling account of South Africa’s post-Apartheid democracyAt a time when many democracies are under strain around the world, Until We Have Won Our Liberty shines new light on the signal achievements of one of the contemporary era’s most closely watched transitions away from minority rule. South Africa’s democratic development has been messy, fiercely contested, and sometimes violent. But as
... Read more

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The Anti-Capitalist Resistance Comic Book

From the WTO to the G20

by Gord Hill ...

In recent years the world has borne witness to numerous confrontations, many of them violent, between protesters and authorities at pivotal gatherings of the world’s political and economic leaders. While police and the media are quick to paint participants as anarchistic thugs, accurate accounts of their ubsequent treatment at the hands of authorities often go untold-as well as the myriad stories ... Read more

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In recent years the world has borne witness to numerous confrontations, many of them violent, between protesters and authorities at pivotal gatherings of the world’s political and economic leaders. While police and the media are quick to paint participants as anarchistic thugs, accurate accounts of their ubsequent treatment at the hands of authorities often go untold-as well as the myriad stories
... Read more

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