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“sylvia bruinders”

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  • Music Making Community

    by Stefan Fiol, Bruno Nettl, Ioannis Tsekouras, Donna A Buchanan, Veit Erlmann, Eduardo Herrera, Joanna Bosse, Thomas Solomon, Sylvia Bruinders0, David A McDonald1, Rick Deja2, Stephen Blum3 ...
    Making music offers enormous possibilities--and faces significant limitations--in its power to generate belonging and advance social justice. Tony Perman and Stefan Fiol edit essays focused on the forms of interplay between music-making and community-making as mutually creative processes. Contributors in the first section look at cases where music arrived in settings with little or no sense of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Parading Respectability

    The cultural and moral aesthetics of the Christmas Bands Movement in the Western Cape, South Africa

    by Sylvia Bruinders ...
    Parading respectability: The cultural and moral aesthetics of the Christmas Bands Movement in the Western Cape, South Africa is an intimate and incisive portrait of the Christmas Bands Movement in the Western Cape of South Africa. Drawing on her own on background as well as her extended research study period during which she became a band member and was closely involved in its day-to-day affairs, ... Read more

    $139.79 USD

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    Ethnomusicologists believe that all humans, not just those we call musicians, are musical, and that musicality is one of the essential touchstones of the human experience. This insight raises big questions about the nature of music and the nature of humankind, and ethnomusicologists argue that to properly address these questions, we must study music in all its geographical and historical diversity ... Read more

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  • Vulnerability in Resistance

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    Vulnerability and resistance have often been seen as opposites, with the assumption that vulnerability requires protection and the strengthening of paternalistic power at the expense of collective resistance. Focusing on political movements and cultural practices in different global locations, including Turkey, Palestine, France, and the former Yugoslavia, the contributors to Vulnerability in ... Read more

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  • The One and the Many

    Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context

    by Grant H. Kester ...
    Collaborative and collective art practices have proliferated around the world over the past fifteen years. In The One and the Many, Grant H. Kester provides an overview of the broader continuum of collaborative art, ranging from the work of artists and groups widely celebrated in the mainstream art world, such as Thomas Hirschhorn, Superflex, Francis Alÿs, and Santiago Sierra, to the less ... 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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  • Design in Crisis

    New Worlds, Philosophies and Practices

    Edited by Tony Fry, Adam Nocek ...
    This book is an essential contribution to the transdisciplinary field of critical design studies.The essays in this collection locate design at the center of a series of interrelated planetary crises, from climate change, nuclear war, and racial and geopolitical violence to education, computational culture, and the loss of the commons. In doing so, the essays propose a range of needed ... Read more

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  • The Cultural Study of Music

    A Critical Introduction

    Edited by Martin Clayton, Trevor Herbert, Richard Middleton ...
    What is the relationship between music and culture? The first edition of The Cultural Study of Music: A Critical Introduction explored this question with groundbreaking rigor and breadth. Now this second edition refines that original analysis while examining the ways the field has developed in the years since the book’s initial publication. Including contributions from scholars of music, cultural ... Read more

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  • Religion and Public Discourse in an Age of Transition

    Reflections on Bahá’í Practice and Thought

    Edited by Geoffrey Cameron, Benjamin Schewel ...
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    Technology, tourism, politics, and law have connected human beings around the world more closely than ever before, but this closeness has, paradoxically, given rise to fear, distrust, and misunderstanding between nation-states and religions. In light of the tensions and conflicts that arise from these complex relationships, many search for ways to find peace and understanding through a “global ... Read more

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  • Impulse to Act

    A New Anthropology of Resistance and Social Justice

    by Jessica Greenberg, Eirine Avramapoulou, Irene Peano, James D. Faubion, Neni Panourgia, Tania Ahmad, Cymene Howe, Petra Rethmann, John Postill, Marianne Maeckelbergh, Alex Khasnabish, Athanasiou Athena ...
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  • Profession 2014

    Edited by Rosemary G. Feal ...
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    This issue of Profession opens with pieces on the Common Core State Standards by Gerald Graff, Diane Ravitch, and Catharine R. Stimpson. It also features a series of essays that stem from 2013â€"14 MLA President Marianne Hirsch’s Presidential Forum and sessions related to her theme, Vulnerable Times. Introduced by Hirsch are pieces by the forum participants Ariella Azoulay, Judith Butler, David ... Read more

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  • 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

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