Описание: Slavery, Memory and Religion in Southeastern Ghana, c.1850-Present aims to reconstruct the religious history of the Anlo-Ewe peoples from the 1850s. In particular, it focuses on a corpus of cultic practices collectively known as `Fofie`, which derived their legitimacy from engaging with the memory of the slave-holding past.
Автор: Olsen, Dale A. Название: Popular music of vietnam ISBN: 0415883970 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415883979 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7654.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Based on the author`s research in Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, and other urban areas in Vietnam, this study of contemporary Vietnamese popular music explores the ways globalization and free market economics have influenced the music and subcultures of Vietnamese youth.
Описание: 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 fall of South African hope into the disenchantment that often characterizes the outlook of its youth today--who face high unemployment, extreme inequality, and widespread crime--Steingo looks to kwaito as a powerful tool that paradoxically engages South Africa's crucial social and political problems by, in fact, seeming to ignore them.
Politicians and cultural critics have long criticized kwaito for failing to provide any meaningful contribution to a society that desperately needs direction. As Steingo shows, however, these criticisms are built on problematic assumptions about the political function of music. Interacting with kwaito artists and fans, he shows that youth aren't escaping their social condition through kwaito but rather using it to expand their sensory realities and generate new possibilities. Resisting the truism that "music is always political," Steingo elucidates a music that thrives on its radically ambiguous relationship with politics, power, and the state.
Автор: Hill, Polly Название: Studies in rural capitalism in west africa ISBN: 0521109213 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521109215 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Originally published in 1970, this is a collection of studies of indigenous economies in Ghana and Nigeria by an author with an unusual interdisciplinary approach. The sophistication of the picture of certain sectors of rural life that emerges from the whole book will surprise many readers.
Описание: Originally published in French under title: Une histoire de la violence. Editions du Seuil, c2008.
Автор: McNeill Название: AIDS, Politics, and Music in South Africa ISBN: 1107417562 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107417564 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 4118.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book offers an original anthropological approach to the AIDS epidemic in South Africa, demonstrating why AIDS interventions in the former homeland of Venda have failed. Through the songs of female initiation, AIDS education and wandering minstrels, the book argues that music is central to understanding how AIDS interventions operate.
Автор: Engelhardt Jeffers, Bohlman Philip Vilas Название: Resounding Transcendence: Transitions in Music, Religion, and Ritual ISBN: 0199737657 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199737659 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 4750.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Resounding Transcendence is a pathbreaking volume exploring how sacred music effects religious and social transitions. It covers Christian, Muslim, Jewish, and Buddhist practices in Asia, North America, Africa, and Europe.
Описание: Music for Life: Music Participation and Quality of Life of Senior Citizens presents a fresh, new exploration of the impact of musical experiences on the quality of life of senior citizens, and charts a new direction in the facilitation of the musical lives of people of all ages.
Автор: Grant Catherine Название: Music Endangerment: How Language Maintenance Can Help ISBN: 0199352186 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199352180 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5622.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In response to increased focus on the preservation of intangible cultural heritage across the world, Music Endangerment offers the first practical approach to assessing, advocating, and assisting the sustainability of musical genres.
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