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  • Festival Activism

    by David A. McDonald, Jeremy Reed, Oladele Ayorinde, Filippo Bonini Baraldi, Louise Barrière, Eric Fillion, Jennie Gubner, Deonte L. Harris0, Steven Hatcher1, Ajay Heble2, Serene Huleileh3, Kimberly Marshall4, Ruthie Meadows5, Miguel Moniz6, James Nissen7, Andrew G. Snyder8 ...
    Series series Activist Encounters in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
    For decades, festivals have been important sites of inquiry for folklorists and ethnomusicologists alike as celebrations of culture. Moving beyond traditional discussions of staged culture and multiculturalism, however, this edited volume explores how festivals may be mobilized as strategic forms of direct action.Festival Activism is a diverse collection of case studies from scholars, performers, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Statesman of the Piano

    Jazz, Race, and History in the Life of Lou Hooper

    Edited by Sean Mills, Eric Fillion, Désirée Rochat ...
    Series Book 266 - Carleton Library Series
    Ontario-born jazz pianist Lou Hooper (1894–1977) began his professional career in Detroit, accompanying blues singers such as Ma Rainey at the legendary Koppin Theatre. In 1921 he moved to Harlem, performing alongside Paul Robeson and recording extensively in and around Tin Pan Alley, before moving to Montreal in the 1930s.Prolific and influential, Hooper was an early teacher of Oscar Peterson and ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Distant Stage

    Quebec, Brazil, and the Making of Canada’s Cultural Diplomacy

    by Eric Fillion ...
    Series Book 13 - Rethinking Canada in the World
    It is a little-known fact that the first cultural agreement Canada signed was with Brazil in 1944. The two countries’ rapprochement launched a flurry of activity connecting Montreal to Rio de Janeiro amid the turbulence of war and its aftermath. Why Brazil? And what could songs and paintings achieve that traditional diplomacy could not?Distant Stage examines the neglected histories of Canada ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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    "Performance" has multiple and often overlapping meanings that signify a wide variety of social behaviors. In this invitation to reflect on the power of performance, Diana Taylor explores many of its uses and iterations: artistic, economic, sexual, political, and technological performance; the performance of everyday life; and the gendered, sexed, and racialized performance of bodies. This book ... Read more

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  • Making Intangible Heritage

    El Condor Pasa and Other Stories from UNESCO

    by Valdimar Tr. 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

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  • The Paulo Freire Handbook - Everything You Need To Know About Paulo Freire

    by Jasmine Collins ...
    This book is your ultimate Paulo Freire resource. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, facts, quotes and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Paulo Freire's whole picture right away. Get countless Paulo Freire facts right at your fingertips with this essential resource.The Paulo Freire Handbook is the ... Read more

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  • Other Cities, Other Worlds

    Urban Imaginaries in a Globalizing Age

    Edited by Andreas Huyssen ...
    Other Cities, Other Worlds brings together leading scholars of cultural theory, urban studies, art, anthropology, literature, film, architecture, and history to look at non-Western global cities. The contributors focus on urban imaginaries, the ways that city dwellers perceive or imagine their own cities. Paying particular attention to the historical and cultural dimensions of urban life, they ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Keywords for Latina/o Studies

    Edited by Nancy Raquel Mirabal, Deborah R. Vargas, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes ...
    Series Book 6 - Keywords
    2018 Outstanding Academic Title, given by CHOICE MagazineIntroduces key terms, concepts, debates, and histories for Latinx StudiesKeywords for Latina/o Studies is a generative text that enhances the ongoing dialogue within a rapidly growing and changing field. The keywords included in this collection represent established and emergent terms, categories, and concepts that undergird Latina/o studies ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • 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

    $9.99 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to the Study of Local Musicking

    Edited by Suzel A. Reily, Katherine Brucher ...
    Series series Routledge Music Companions
    WINNER OF THE 2019 SOCIETY OF ETHNOMUSICLOGY ELLEN KOSKOFF PRIZE FOR EDITED COLLECTIONSThe Routledge Companion to the Study of Local Musicking provides a reference to how, cross-culturally, musicking constructs locality and how locality is constructed by the musicking that takes place within it, that is, how people engage with ideas of community and place through music. The term "musicking" has ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Spatializing Culture

    The Ethnography of Space and Place

    by Setha Low ...
    This book demonstrates the value of ethnographic theory and methods in understanding space and place, and considers how ethnographically-based spatial analyses can yield insight into prejudices, inequalities and social exclusion as well as offering people the means for understanding the places where they live, work, shop and socialize. In developing the concept of spatializing culture, Setha Low ... Read more

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  • Consumers And Citizens

    Globalization and Multicultural Conflicts

    by Nestor Garcia Canclini ...
    Series series Cultural Studies of the Americas
    An essential analysis of the ways consumerism and globalization intersect with political power.In Consumers and Citizens, Néstor García Canclini, the best-known and most innovative cultural studies scholar in Latin America, maps the critical effects of urban sprawl and global media and commodity markets on citizens-and shows at the same time that the complex results mean not only a shrinkage of ... Read more

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