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“gavin steingo”

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  • Interspecies Communication

    Sound & Music Beyond Humanity

    by Gavin Steingo ...
    A surprising study reveals a plethora of attempts to communicate with non-humans in the modern era.In Interspecies Communication, music scholar Gavin Steingo examines significant cases of attempted communication beyond the human—cases in which the dualistic relationship of human to non-human is dramatically challenged. From singing whales to Sun Ra to searching for alien life, Steingo charts the ... Read more

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  • 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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  • Remapping Sound Studies

    Edited by Gavin Steingo, Jim Sykes ...
    The contributors to Remapping Sound Studies intervene in current trends and practices in sound studies by reorienting the field toward the global South. Attending to disparate aspects of sound in Africa, South and Southeast Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, Micronesia, and a Southern outpost in the global North, this volume broadens the scope of sound studies and challenges some of the field's ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • When Languages Die

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  • The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction

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  • The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics

    Edited by Julia Fiedorczuk, Mary Newell, Bernard Quetchenbach, Orchid Tierney ...
    Series series Routledge Literature Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics offers comprehensive coverage of the vital and growing movement of ecopoetics. This volume begins with a general introduction to the field, followed by six sections:Perspectives: broad overviews engaging fields such as biosemiosis, kinship praxis, and philosophical approachesExperiments: formal innovations developed by poets in response to planetary ... Read more

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  • Time

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    Edited by Joel Burges, Amy Elias ...
    The critical condition and historical motivation behind Time Studies The concept of time in the post-millennial age is undergoing a radical rethinking within the humanities. Time: A Vocabulary of the Present newly theorizes our experiences of time in relation to developments in post-1945 cultural theory and arts practices. Wide ranging and theoretically provocative, the volume introduces readers ... Read more

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  • Novels by Aliens

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    by Kate Marshall ...
    A wide-ranging account of the twenty-first century's fascination with the weird.Twenty-first-century fiction and theory have taken a decidedly weird turn. They both show a marked interest in the nonhuman and in the preternatural moods that the nonhuman often evokes. Writers of fiction and criticism are avidly experimenting with strange, even alien perspectives and protagonists. Kate Marshall's ... Read more

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  • Encounters with the Posthuman and the Environment

    by Inci Bilgin Tekin, Zeynep Talay Turner, Onur E. Böle, Nazim Çapkin, Ferdi Çetin, Ebru Thwaites Diken, Özge Ejder, Enis Gümüs0, Cihangir Gu¨ndog?du1, Deniz Karaca2, Müge Özbek3, Charles Turner4, Can Türe5 ...
    Series series Environment and Society
    With the advent of posthumanism, many scholars in the humanities have started to explore a transforming conception of the “human,” recognizing the limits of “anthropocentricism” both within and between disciplines. Posthumanism may be defined in various ways but the emphasis in this volume is on the idea of constitutive alterity, not simply in the relationship between human beings and other human ... Read more

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  • Tripping the World Fantastic

    A Journey Through the Music of Our Planet

    by Glenn Dixon ...
    Every culture on Earth has music. Every culture that's ever existed has had it, but we don't exactly know why. Music is not like food, shelter, or having opposable thumbs. We don't need it to live, and yet we can't seem to live without it. Glenn Dixon travels the globe exploring how and why people make music. From a tour of Bob Marley's house to sitar lessons in India, he experiences music around ... Read more

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  • The Other Classical Musics

    Fifteen Great Traditions

    by Michael Church, Scott DeVeaux, Ivan Hewett, Dwight Reynolds, Scott Marcus, Robert Labaree, Ameneh Youssefzadeh, Will Sumits, Terry E. Miller, Neil Sorrell0, David Hughes1, Frank Kouwenhoven2, Richard Widdess3, Jonathan Katz4, Roderic Knight5 ...
    Winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award for Creative Communication 2015There is a treasure trove of underappreciated music out there; this book will convince many to explore it. The EconomistWhatis classical music? This book answers the question in a manner never before attempted, by presenting the history of fifteen parallel traditions, of which Western classical music is just one. ... Read more

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