Diaspora Blues

Diaspora Blues
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 234
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015039428357
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Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Synopsis Diaspora Blues by : Clive Sinclair

"Diaspora blues is both the story of Sinclair's 'coming home' and a portrait of Israel since the Six Day War, seen through the eyes of some of the country's most outspoken artists, poets, novelists and playwrights." --book jacket.

Diaspora Blues

Diaspora Blues
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Publisher : Red Sea Press(NJ)
Total Pages : 85
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ISBN-10 : 1569022399
ISBN-13 : 9781569022399
Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Synopsis Diaspora Blues by : Ali Jimale Ahmed

'Timeless and timely, there is verse and music in Diaspora Blues tuned by acute intelligence. Ali Jimale Ahmed's pithy and elegant lines span the range from the classical Arab jewels of an al-Ma'ari to the kind of ironies that grace the discursive English Restoration wit of Pope and Swift.' - Ammiel Alcalay. 'Somali poet Ali Jimale Ahmed recounts a lyrical odyssey, confronting the world's monsters, storms and temptations with the glittering safe harbour of his visionary poetic strength.' - Charles Cantalupo.

Diaspora and Multiculturalism

Diaspora and Multiculturalism
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 461
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ISBN-10 : 9789004486539
ISBN-13 : 9004486534
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis Diaspora and Multiculturalism by :

In postcolonial theory we have now reached a new stage in the succession of key concepts. After the celebrations of hybridity in the work of Homi Bhabha and Gayatri Spivak, it is now the concept of diaspora that has sparked animated debates among postcolonial critics. This collection intervenes in the current discussion about the 'new' diaspora by placing the rise of diaspora within the politics of multiculturalism and its supercession by a politics of difference and cultural-rights theory. The essays present recent developments in Jewish negotiations of diasporic tradition and experience, discussing the reinterpretation of concepts of the 'old' diaspora in late twentieth- century British and American Jewish literature. The second part of the volume comprises theoretical and critical essays on the South Asian diaspora and on multicultural settings between Australia, Africa, the Caribbean and North America. The South Asian and Caribbean diasporas are compared to the Jewish prototype and contrasted with the Turkish diaspora in Germany. All essays deal with literary reflections on, and thematizations of, the diasporic predicament.

Difficult Diasporas

Difficult Diasporas
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Publisher : NYU Press
Total Pages : 283
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ISBN-10 : 9780814771280
ISBN-13 : 0814771289
Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

Synopsis Difficult Diasporas by : Samantha Pinto

Winner of the 2013 Modern Language Association's William Sanders Scarborough Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Study of Black American Literature In this comparative study of contemporary Black Atlantic women writers, Samantha Pinto demonstrates the crucial role of aesthetics in defining the relationship between race, gender, and location. Thinking beyond national identity to include African, African American, Afro-Caribbean, and Black British literature, Difficult Diasporas brings together an innovative archive of twentieth-century texts marked by their break with conventional literary structures. These understudied resources mix genres, as in the memoir/ethnography/travel narrative Tell My Horse by Zora Neale Hurston, and eschew linear narratives, as illustrated in the book-length, non-narrative poem by M. Nourbese Philip, She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks. Such an aesthetics, which protests against stable categories and fixed divisions, both reveals and obscures that which it seeks to represent: the experiences of Black women writers in the African Diaspora. Drawing on postcolonial and feminist scholarship in her study of authors such as Jackie Kay, Elizabeth Alexander, Erna Brodber, Ama Ata Aidoo, among others, Pinto argues for the critical importance of cultural form and demands that we resist the impulse to prioritize traditional notions of geographic boundaries. Locating correspondences between seemingly disparate times and places, and across genres, Pinto fully engages the unique possibilities of literature and culture to redefine race and gender studies.

The African Diaspora

The African Diaspora
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Publisher : Psychology Press
Total Pages : 370
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ISBN-10 : 9780415967693
ISBN-13 : 0415967694
Rating : 4/5 (93 Downloads)

Synopsis The African Diaspora by : Ingrid Tolia Monson

The African Diaspora presents musical case studies from various regions of the African diaspora, including Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, and Europe, that engage with broader interdisciplinary discussions about race, gender, politics, nationalism, and music.

Diasporas and Exiles

Diasporas and Exiles
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 302
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ISBN-10 : 9780520228641
ISBN-13 : 0520228642
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis Diasporas and Exiles by : Howard Wettstein

"Rarely have I encountered a collection of essays that coheres so well around an overarching theme. This will be an important resource."—Hillel J. Kieval, author of Languages of Community

Perspectives on Jewish Music

Perspectives on Jewish Music
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 171
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ISBN-10 : 9780739141540
ISBN-13 : 0739141546
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Synopsis Perspectives on Jewish Music by : Jonathan L. Friedmann

Perspectives on Jewish Music presents five unique and engaging explorations of Jewish music. Areas covered include self-expression in contemporary Jewish secular music, the rise of popular music in the American synagogue, the theological requirements of the cantor, the role of women in Sephardic music and society, and the personal reflections of a leading figure in American synagogue music. Its wide-ranging topics and disciplinary approaches give evidence for the centrality of music in Jewish religious and secular life, and demonstrate that Jewish music is as diverse as the Jews themselves. From these studies, readers will gain an appreciation of both what Jewish music is and what it does. This book will be useful for students, practitioners, and scholars of Jewish secular and religious music and Jewish cultural studies, as well as ethnomusicologists specializing in Jewish or religious music.

Staging the Blues

Staging the Blues
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Publisher : Duke University Press
Total Pages : 328
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ISBN-10 : 9780822376316
ISBN-13 : 0822376318
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis Staging the Blues by : Paige A. McGinley

Singing was just one element of blues performance in the early twentieth century. Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and other classic blues singers also tapped, joked, and flaunted extravagant costumes on tent show and black vaudeville stages. The press even described these women as "actresses" long before they achieved worldwide fame for their musical recordings. In Staging the Blues, Paige A. McGinley shows that even though folklorists, record producers, and festival promoters set the theatricality of early blues aside in favor of notions of authenticity, it remained creatively vibrant throughout the twentieth century. Highlighting performances by Rainey, Smith, Lead Belly, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Sonny Terry, and Brownie McGhee in small Mississippi towns, Harlem theaters, and the industrial British North, this pioneering study foregrounds virtuoso blues artists who used the conventions of the theater, including dance, comedy, and costume, to stage black mobility, to challenge narratives of racial authenticity, and to fight for racial and economic justice.

Introducing Human Geographies

Introducing Human Geographies
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 666
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ISBN-10 : 9780340882764
ISBN-13 : 034088276X
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis Introducing Human Geographies by : Paul J. Cloke

A comprehensive, stimulating and innovative introduction to human geography.

The Southern Diaspora

The Southern Diaspora
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Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages : 478
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105126850481
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Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis The Southern Diaspora by : James Noble Gregory

Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America