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Author |
: Andrew Burke |
Publisher |
: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages |
: 203 |
Release |
: 2019-11-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780773559721 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0773559728 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hinterland Remixed by : Andrew Burke
Like the flute melody from Hinterland Who's Who, the 1970s haunt Canadian cultural memory. Though the decade often feels lost to history, Hinterland Remixed focuses on boldly innovative works as well as popular film, television, and music to show that Canada never fully left the 1970s behind. Andrew Burke reveals how contemporary artists and filmmakers have revisited the era's cinematic and televisual residues to uncover what has been lost over the years. Investigating how the traces of an analogue past circulate in a digital age, Burke digs through the remnants of 1970s Canadiana and examines key audiovisual works from this overlooked decade, uncovering the period's aspirations, desires, fears, and anxieties. He then looks to contemporary projects that remix, remediate, and reanimate the period. Exploring an idiosyncratic selection of works – from Michael Snow's experimental landscape film La Région Centrale, to SCTV's satirical skewering of network television, to L'Atelier national du Manitoba's video lament for the Winnipeg Jets – this book asks key questions about nation, nostalgia, media, and memory. A timely intervention, Hinterland Remixed demands we recognize the ways in which the unrealized cultural ambitions and unresolved anxieties of a previous decade continue to resonate in our current lives.
Author |
: |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 293 |
Release |
: 2019-10-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004400061 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004400060 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis Aphoristic Modernity by :
The collected essays of Aphoristic Modernity: 1880 to the Present showcase aphoristic and epigrammatic writing as both a reflection of, and influence upon, the fragmented culture of modernity from the late nineteenth- to the twenty-first century.
Author |
: Mark Katz |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 256 |
Release |
: 2019-10-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190056131 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190056134 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Build by : Mark Katz
Since 2001, the U.S. Department of State has been sending hip hop artists abroad to perform and teach as goodwill ambassadors. There are good reasons for this: hip hop is known and loved across the globe, acknowledged and appreciated as a product of American culture. Hip hop has from its beginning been a means of creating community through artistic collaboration, fostering what hip hop artists call building. A timely study of U.S. diplomacy, Build: The Power of Hip Hop Diplomacy in a Divided World reveals the power of art to bridge cultural divides, facilitate understanding, and express and heal trauma. Yet power is never single-edged, and the story of hip hop diplomacy is deeply fraught. Drawing from nearly 150 interviews with hip hop artists, diplomats, and others in more than 30 countries, Build explores the inescapable tensions and ambiguities in the relationship between art and the state, revealing the ethical complexities that lurk behind what might seem mere goodwill tours. Author Mark Katz makes the case that hip hop, at its best, can promote positive, productive international relations between people and nations. A U.S.-born art form that has become a voice of struggle and celebration worldwide, hip hop has the power to build global community when it is so desperately needed. Cover image: Sylvester Shonhiwa, aka Bboy Sly, Harare, Zimbabwe, February 2015. Photograph by Paul Rockower.
Author |
: Mark V. Campbell |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages |
: 160 |
Release |
: 2022-02-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501379314 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1501379313 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis Afrosonic Life by : Mark V. Campbell
Afrosonic Life explores the role sonic innovations in the African diaspora play in articulating methodologies for living the afterlife of slavery. Developing and extending debates on Afrosonic cultures, the book attends to the ways in which the acts of technological subversion, experimentation and production complement and interrupt the intellectual project of modernity. Music making processes such as dub, turntablism, hip-hop dj techniques and the remix, innovate methods of expressing subjecthoods beyond the dominant language of Western “Man” and the market. These sonic innovations utilize sound as a methodology to institute a rehumanizing subjectivity in which sound dislodges the hierarchical ordering of racial schemas. Afrosonic Life is invested in excavating and elaborating the nuanced and novel ways of music making and sound creation found in the African diaspora.
Author |
: Timothy D. Taylor |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 236 |
Release |
: 2016 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226311975 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022631197X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis Music and Capitalism by : Timothy D. Taylor
iTunes. Spotify. Pandora. With these brief words one can map the landscape of music today, but these aren’t musicians, songs, or anything else actually musical—they are products and brands. In this book, Timothy D. Taylor explores just how pervasively capitalism has shaped music over the last few decades. Examining changes in the production, distribution, and consumption of music, he offers an incisive critique of the music industry’s shift in focus from creativity to profits, as well as stories of those who are laboring to find and make musical meaning in the shadows of the mainstream cultural industries. Taylor explores everything from the branding of musicians to the globalization of music to the emergence of digital technologies in music production and consumption. Drawing on interviews with industry insiders, musicians, and indie label workers, he traces both the constricting forces of bottom-line economics and the revolutionary emergence of the affordable home studio, the global internet, and the mp3 that have shaped music in different ways. A sophisticated analysis of how music is made, repurposed, advertised, sold, pirated, and consumed, Music and Capitalism is a must read for anyone who cares about what they are listening to, how, and why.
Author |
: Megen de Bruin-Molé |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 357 |
Release |
: 2019-11-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781350103078 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1350103071 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gothic Remixed by : Megen de Bruin-Molé
Longlisted for the 2022 International Gothic Association's Allan Lloyd Smith Prize The bestselling genre of Frankenfiction sees classic literature turned into commercial narratives invaded by zombies, vampires, werewolves, and other fantastical monsters. Too engaged with tradition for some and not traditional enough for others, these 'monster mashups' are often criticized as a sign of the artistic and moral degeneration of contemporary culture. These hybrid creations are the 'monsters' of our age, lurking at the limits of responsible consumption and acceptable appropriation. This book explores the boundaries and connections between contemporary remix and related modes, including adaptation, parody, the Gothic, Romanticism, and postmodernism. Taking a multimedia approach, case studies range from novels like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club series, to television programmes such as Penny Dreadful, to popular visual artworks like Kevin J. Weir's Flux Machine GIFs. Megen de Bruin-Molé uses these monstrous and liminal works to show how the thrill of transgression has been contained within safe and familiar formats, resulting in the mashups that dominate Western popular culture.
Author |
: Abiodun Salawu |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 411 |
Release |
: 2022-05-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783030978846 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3030978842 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis Indigenous African Popular Music, Volume 1 by : Abiodun Salawu
This volume explores the nature, philosophies and genres of indigenous African popular music, focusing on how indigenous African popular music artistes are seen as prophets and philosophers, and how indigenous African popular music depicts the world. Indigenous African popular music has long been under-appreciated in communication scholarship. However, understanding the nature and philosophies of indigenous African popular music reveals an untapped diversity which only be unraveled by knowledge of the myriad cultural backgrounds from which its genres originate. Indigenous African popular musicians have become repositories of indigenous cultural traditions and cosmologies.With a particular focus on scholarship from Nigeria, Zimbabwe and South Africa, this volume explores the work of these pioneering artists and their protégés who are resiliently sustaining, recreating and popularising indigenous popular music in their respective African communities, and at the same time propagating the communal views about African philosophies and the temporal and spiritual worlds in which they exist.
Author |
: Victor Burgin |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 352 |
Release |
: 1996-12-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0520202996 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780520202993 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis In/Different Spaces by : Victor Burgin
Book on art and philosophy
Author |
: Bonnie B. McConnell |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 130 |
Release |
: 2019-11-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000712063 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000712060 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis Music, Health, and Power by : Bonnie B. McConnell
Music, Health, and Power offers an original, on-the-ground analysis of the role that music plays in promoting healthy communities. The book brings the reader inside the world of kanyeleng fertility societies and HIV/AIDS support groups, where women use music to leverage stigma and marginality into new forms of power. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted over a period of 13 years (2006–2019), the author articulates a strengths-based framework for research on music and health that pushes beyond deficit narratives to emphasize the creativity and resilience of Gambian performers in responding to health disparities. Examples from Ebola prevention programs, the former President’s AIDS “cure,” and a legendary underwear theft demonstrate the high stakes of women’s performances as they are caught up in broader contestations over political and medical authority. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of ethnomusicology, medical anthropology, and African studies. The accompanying audio examples provide access to the women’s performances discussed in the text.
Author |
: Petra R. Rivera-Rideau |
Publisher |
: Duke University Press |
Total Pages |
: 246 |
Release |
: 2015-09-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780822375258 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0822375257 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis Remixing Reggaetón by : Petra R. Rivera-Rideau
Puerto Rico is often depicted as a "racial democracy" in which a history of race mixture has produced a racially harmonious society. In Remixing Reggaetón, Petra R. Rivera-Rideau shows how reggaetón musicians critique racial democracy's privileging of whiteness and concealment of racism by expressing identities that center blackness and African diasporic belonging. Stars such as Tego Calderón criticize the Puerto Rican mainstream's tendency to praise black culture but neglecting and marginalizing the island's black population, while Ivy Queen, the genre's most visible woman, disrupts the associations between whiteness and respectability that support official discourses of racial democracy. From censorship campaigns on the island that sought to devalue reggaetón, to its subsequent mass marketing to U.S. Latino listeners, Rivera-Rideau traces reggaetón's origins and its transformation from the music of San Juan's slums into a global pop phenomenon. Reggaetón, she demonstrates, provides a language to speak about the black presence in Puerto Rico and a way to build links between the island and the African diaspora.