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Popular Music in Southeast Asia: banal beats, muted histories
From the 1920s on, popular music in Southeast Asia was a mass-audience phenomenon that drew new connections between indigenous musical styles and contemporary genres from elsewhere to create new, hybrid forms. This book presents a cultural history of modern Southeast Asia from the vantage point of popular music, considering not just singers and musicians but their fans as well, showing how the …
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- 9789048534555
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- 780
Music Worlding in Palau: chanting, atmospheres, and meaningfulness
Music Worlding in Palau: Chanting, Atmospheres, and Meaningfulness is a detailed study of the performing arts in Palau, Micronesia as holistic techniques enabling the experiential corporeality of music’s meaningfulness—that distinctly musical way of making sense of the world with which the felt body immediately resonates but which, to a significant extent, escapes interpretive techniques. D…
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- 9789048550517
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The Illiterate Listener: on music cognition, musicality and methodology
We have known for some time that babies possess a keen perceptual sensitivity for the melodic, rhythmic and dynamic aspects of speech and music: aspects that linguists are inclined to categorize under the term ‘prosody’, but which are in fact the building blocks of music. Only much later in a child’s development does he make use of this ‘musical prosody’, for instance in delineating a…
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- 9789048526987
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Online Hate and Harmful Content; Cross-National Perspectives
Over the past few decades, various types of hate material have caused increasing concern.
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- 9781317240846, 1317240847
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- T 364.15 NAS o c
Oil Spaces; Exploring the Global Petroleumscape
Oil Spaces traces petroleum’s impact through a range of territories from across the world, showing how industrially drilled petroleum and its refined products have played a major role in transforming the built environment in ways that are often not visible or recognized.
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- 9781000449495
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- T 338.27282 HEI o c
Nuussuarmiut (Vol. 345); Hunting Families On The Big Headland
This book describes life in a small hunting community in Northwest Greenland.
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- 9788763530712
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Nourish the People, The State Civilian Granary System in China, 1650–1850
The Qing state, driven by Confucian precepts of good government and urgent practical needs, committed vast resources to its granaries.
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- 9780472901821
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- T 338.1951 WON n c
The Nivison Annals
In his last essay just weeks before his death at the age of 91, David S. Nivison says, "Breaking into a formal system - such as a chronology - must be like breaking into a code.
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- 9781501505393
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- T 069.07 NIV n c
Nichtstun als politische Praxis, Literarische Reflexionen von Untätigkeit in…
In der Moderne gilt das Nichtstun gemeinhin als wertlos oder gefährlich.
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- 9783839457399
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- T 801.95 FRI n c
The New Russian Nationalism, Imperialism, Ethnicity and Authoritarianism, 200…
Assessing the transformation of Russian nationalist discourse in the 21st century Russian nationalism, previously dominated by "imperial" tendencies— pride in a large,
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- 9781474410427
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