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  • Bloch, Maurice  (4)
  • Williams, Justin A.  (4)
  • Baker, C. Edwin  (3)
  • Banton, Michael  (3)
  • Cambridge : Cambridge University Press  (14)
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316569207
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 366 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Notenbeispiele
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Cambridge companions to music
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    DDC: 782.4209
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    Keywords: Popular music History and criticism ; Popular music Writing and publishing ; Songs History and criticism ; Sänger ; Songwriting ; Musiksoziologie ; Popmusik ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Popmusik ; Sänger ; Songwriting ; Musiksoziologie
    Abstract: Most often associated with modern artists such as Bob Dylan, Elton John, Don McLean, Neil Diamond, and Carole King, the singer-songwriter tradition in fact has a long and complex history dating back to the medieval troubadour and earlier. This Companion explains the historical contexts, musical analyses, and theoretical frameworks of the singer-songwriter tradition. Divided into five parts, the book explores the tradition in the context of issues including authenticity, gender, queer studies, musical analysis, and performance. The contributors reveal how the tradition has been expressed around the world and throughout its history to the present day. Essential reading for enthusiasts, practitioners, students, and scholars, this book features case studies of a wide range of both well and lesser-known singer-songwriters, from Thomas d'Urfey through to Carole King and Kanye West
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction / Katherine Williams and Justin A. Williams -- Establishing a tradition -- The emergence of the singer-songwriter / David R. Shumway -- Singer-songwriters of the German Lied / Natasha Loges and Katy Hamilton -- Bill Monroe, bluegrass music, and the politics of authorship / Mark Finch -- Singer-songwriters and the English folk tradition / Allan F. Moore -- The Brill Building and the creative labour of the professional songwriter / Simon Barber -- Forging the singer-songwriter at the Los Angeles Troubadour / Christa Anne Bentley -- The 'professional' singer-songwriter in the 1970s / Michael Borshuk -- Individuals -- Thomas D'Urfey / Tōru Mitsui -- Leadbelly / Josep Pedro -- Region and identity in Dolly Parton's songwriting / Jada Watson -- Authorship and performance in the music of Elton John / Phil Allcock -- Depicting the working class in the music of Billy Joel / Joshua S. Duchan -- Musical gesture in the songs of Nick Drake / Timothy Koozin --
    Description / Table of Contents: Sampling and storytelling: Kanye West's vocal and sonic narratives / Lori Burns, Alyssa Woods, and Marc Lafrance -- James Blake, digital lion / madison moore -- Outside voices and the construction of Adele's singer-songwriter persona / Sarah Suhadolnik -- Joanna Newsom's 'Only skin': authenticity, 'becoming-other', and the relationship between 'New' and 'Old Weird America' / Jo Collinson Scott -- Men and women -- Gender, race, and the ma(s)king of 'Joni Mitchell' / Kevin Fellezs -- Gender, genre, and diversity at Lilith Fair / Jennifer Taylor -- Changing openness and tolerance towards LGBTQ singer-songwriters / Katherine Williams -- Tori Amos as shaman / Chris McDonald -- Gender identity, the queer gaze, and female singer-songwriters / Megan Berry -- The female singer-songwriter in the 1990s / Sarah Boak -- Frameworks and methods -- Reconciling theory with practice in the teaching of songwriting / Mark Marrington -- Singer-songwriters and open mics / Marcus Aldredge --
    Description / Table of Contents: Singer-songwriter authenticity, the unconscious and emotions (feat. Adele's 'Someone Like You') / Rupert Till -- Global perspectives -- Don McGlashan and local authenticity / Nick Braae -- Italian canzone d'autore and Greek entechno tragoudi: a comparative overview / Franco Fabbri and Ioannis Tsioulakis -- Singer-songwriters and fandom in the digital age / Lucy Bennett
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    ISBN: 9781107680913 , 9781107063648
    Language: English
    Pages: xvi, 366 Seiten , Illustrationen, Notenbeispiele
    Series Statement: Cambridge companions to music
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    Keywords: Liedermacher ; Popmusik ; Sänger ; Songwriting ; Musiksoziologie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139775298
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 349 Seiten)
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    DDC: 782.421649
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    Keywords: Rap (Music) History and criticism ; Rap ; Hip-Hop ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Rap ; Hip-Hop
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107643864 , 9781107037465
    Language: English
    Pages: XV, 349 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme, Notenbeispiele
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    Keywords: Rap (Music) History and criticism ; Hip-Hop ; Rap ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Rap ; Hip-Hop
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511261489 , 0511810997 , 9780511261480 , 9780511810992
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 256 pages)
    Edition: [Place of publication not identified] HathiTrust Digital Library 2010 Electronic reproduction
    Series Statement: Communication, society, and politics
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Baker, C. Edwin Media concentration and democracy
    DDC: 302.230973
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    Keywords: Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer ; Mass media Ownership ; Freedom of the press ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Media Studies ; Mass media ; Ownership ; United States ; Freedom of the press ; United States ; Freedom of the press ; Mass media ; Ownership ; Demokratie ; Massenmedien ; Unternehmenskonzentration ; Eigentümer ; Pressefreiheit ; Mediekoncentration ; United States ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "Objections to concentrated ownership of the mass media are widespread. Often, however, critics merely point to the fact of huge and growing media conglomerates without explaining precisely why this is bad. This book fills the gap in the critique of concentration. Firmly rooting its argument in democratic and economic theory, the book argues that a more democratic distribution of communicative power within the public sphere and a structure that provides safeguards against abuse of media power provide two of three primary arguments for ownership dispersal. It also shows that dispersal is likely to result in more owners who will reasonably pursue socially valuable journalistic or creative objectives rather than a socially dysfunctional focus on the "bottom line." The middle chapters answer those, including the current Federal Communications Commission, who favor "deregulation" and who argue that existing or foreseeable ownership concentration is not a problem. The final chapter evaluates the constitutionality and desirability of various policy responses to concentration, including strict limits on media mergers."--Jacket
    Abstract: Democracy at the crossroads: why ownership matters -- Not a real problem: many owners, many sources -- Not a real problem: the market or the internet will provide -- The First Amendment guarantee of a free press: an objection to regulation? -- Solutions and responses -- Postscript: policy opportunism.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-248) and index , Electronic reproduction
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511613227
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiv, 377 pages)
    Series Statement: Communication, society and politics
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    DDC: 302.23
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    Keywords: Massenmedien ; Politik ; Mass media / Marketing ; Mass media / Political aspects ; Democracy ; Freedom of the press ; Demokratie ; Massenmedien ; Presse ; Massenmedien ; Demokratie ; Demokratie ; Presse
    Abstract: Government interventions in media markets are often criticized for preventing audiences from getting the media products they want. A free press is often asserted to be essential for democracy. The first point is incorrect and the second is inadequate as a policy guide. Part I of this book shows that unique aspects of media products prevent markets from providing for audience desires. Part II shows that four prominent, but different, theories of democracy lead to different conceptions of good journalistic practice, media policy, and proper constitutional principles. Part II makes clear that the choice among democratic theories is crucial for understanding what should be meant by free press. Part III explores international free trade in media products. Contrary to the dominant American position, it shows that Parts I and II's economic and democratic theory justify deviations from free trade in media products
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511041659 , 9780511041655
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xiv, 377 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Communication, society, and politics
    Parallel Title: Print version Media, markets, and democracy
    DDC: 302.23
    Keywords: Mass media Marketing ; Mass media Political aspects ; Médias Marketing ; Médias Aspect politique ; Démocratie ; Liberté de la presse ; Democracy ; Freedom of the press ; Mass media Marketing ; Mass media Political aspects ; Freedom of the press ; Democracy ; Mass media Political aspects ; Mass media Marketing ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Media Studies ; Democracy ; Freedom of the press ; Mass media ; Marketing ; Mass media ; Political aspects ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Baker challenges the premises of deregulation of the media and government interventions in this sphere. While arguing for a constitutional conception of freedom of the press, he argues that economic and democratic theories justify deviations from free trade in media products
    Abstract: Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; PART I Serving Audiences; PART II Serving Citizens; PART III An Illustration: International Trade; Conclusion; Notes; Index.
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  • 8
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511583407
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 253 pages)
    Edition: Second edition
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    DDC: 305.8001
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    Keywords: Race ; Race relations ; Rassentheorie ; Rassenfrage ; Geschichte ; Rassentheorie ; Geschichte ; Rassenfrage
    Abstract: This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Michael Banton's classic book reviews historical theories of racial and ethnic relations and contemporary struggles to supersede them. It shows how eighteenth- and nineteenth-century concepts of race attempted to explain human difference in terms of race as a permanent type and how these were followed by social scientific conceptions of race as a form of status. In a new concluding chapter, 'Race as social construct', Michael Banton makes the case for a historically sensitive social scientific understanding of racial and ethnic groupings which operates within a more general theory of collective action and is, therefore, able to replace racial explanations as effectively as they have been replaced in biological science. This book is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand contemporary debates about racial and ethnic conflict
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Race as designation -- 2. Race as lineage -- 3. Race as type -- 4. Race as subspecies -- 5. Race as status -- 6. Race as class -- 7. Race as social construct
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511007361 , 9780511007361
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (x, 253 pages)
    Edition: 2nd ed.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Banton, Michael, 1926- Racial theories
    DDC: 305.8
    Keywords: Race ; Race relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; Race ; Race relations ; Geschichte ; Rassentheorie ; Rassentheorieën ; Racisme ; Relations interethniques ; Race ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Race as designation -- Race as lineage -- Race as type -- Race as subspecies -- Race as status -- Race as class -- Race as social construct.
    Abstract: This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Michael Banton's classic book reviews historical theories of racial and ethnic relations and contemporary struggles to supersede them. It shows how eighteenth- and nineteenth-century concepts of race attempted to explain human difference in terms of race as a permanent type and how these were followed by social scientific conceptions of race as a form of status. In a new concluding chapter, 'Race as social construct', Michael Banton makes the case for a historically sensitive social scientific understanding of racial and ethnic groupings which operates within a more general theory of collective action and is, therefore, able to replace racial explanations as effectively as they have been replaced in biological science. This book is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand contemporary debates about racial and ethnic conflict
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511621581
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 117 pages)
    Series Statement: Lewis Henry Morgan lectures
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    DDC: 291.3/4
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    Keywords: Religion ; Violence / Religious aspects ; Sacrifice ; Experience (Religion) ; Religion and civilization ; Gewalt ; Religiöse Erfahrung ; Opfer ; Religion ; Gewalt ; Religion ; Opfer ; Religion ; Religiöse Erfahrung
    Abstract: Maurice Bloch has for many years been developing an original and influential theory of ritual. In this book he synthesises a radical theory of religion. Rituals in a great many societies deny the transience of life and of human institutions. Bloch argues that they enact this denial by symbolically sacrificing the participants themselves, so allowing them to participate in the immortality of a transcendent entity. Such sacrifices are achieved through acts of symbolic violence, ranging from bodily mutilations to the killing of animals. The theme is developed with reference to rituals of many types, from a variety of ethnographic sources, and Bloch shows that even exogamous marriage rituals can be reinterpreted in the light of this thesis. He concludes by considering the indirect relation of symbolic and ritual violence to political violence
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511621659
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (viii, 276 pages)
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Exchange / Cross-cultural studies ; Money / Social aspects / Cross-cultural studies ; Economic anthropology ; Geld ; Ökonomische Anthropologie ; Kulturanthropologie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Geld ; Ökonomische Anthropologie ; Geld ; Kulturanthropologie
    Abstract: This volume deals with the way in which money is symbolically represented in a range of different cultures, from South and South-east Asia, Africa and South America. It is also concerned with the moral evaluation of monetary and commercial exchanges as against exchanges of other kinds. The essays cast radical doubt on many Western assumptions about money: that it is the acid which corrodes community, depersonalises human relationships, and reduces differences of quality to those of mere quantity; that it is the instrument of man's freedom, and so on. Rather than supporting the proposition that money produces easily specifiable changes in world view, the emphasis here is on the way in which existing world views and economic systems give rise to particular ways of representing money. But this highly relativistic conclusion is qualified once we shift the focus from money to the system of exchange as a whole. One rather general pattern that then begins to emerge is of two separate but related transactional orders, the majority of systems making some ideological space for relatively impersonal, competitive and individual acquisitive activity. This implies that even in a non-monetary economy these features are likely to exist within a certain sphere of activity, and that it is therefore misleading to attribute them to money. By so doing, a contrast within cultures is turned into a contrast between cultures, thereby reinforcing the notion that money itself has the power to transform the nature of social relationships
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) , Introduction: Money and the morality of exchange , Misconceiving the grain heap: a critique of the concept of the Indian jajmani system , On the moral perils of exchange , Money, men and women , Cooking money: gender and the symbolic transformation of means of exchange in a Malay fishing community , Drinking cash: the purification of money through ceremonial exchange in Fiji , The symbolism of money in Imerina , Resistance to the present by the past: mediums and money in Zimbabwe , Precious metals in the Andean moral economy , The earth and the state: the sources and meanings of money in Northern Potosi, Bolivia
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    ISBN: 9780511621673
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 214 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology 61
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Merina (Malagasy people) / Rites and ceremonies ; Circumcision / Madagascar ; Merina (Malagasy people) / History ; Beschneidung ; Ritual ; Merina ; Hova ; Merina ; Ritual ; Beschneidung ; Merina ; Hova ; Beschneidung ; Hova ; Ritual
    Abstract: The circumcision ritual of the Merina of Madagascar is seen by them primarily as a blessing, involving the transfer of the love and concern of the ancestors of their descendants. Yet the ritual ends in an act of ciolent wounding of the child. Similarily, while the ritual involves a symbolic assault on women, it is nonetheless welcomed by them as a mark of receiving the blessing of the ancestors. In this book, Maurice Bloch provides a detailed description and analysis of the Merina circumcision ritual today, offers an account of its history, and discusses the significance of his analysis for anthropological theories of ritual in general. Pursuing the theme of the combination of religious joy and illumination with violence, Professor Bloch explains how, at various times, the circumcision ceremony can be a familial ritual as well as glorification of a militarist and expansionist state, or associated with anti-colonial nationalism. Describing changes that have occurred in the form of the ritual over two centuries, Professor Bloch argues that in order to understand the properties of ritual in general, it is necessary to view it over a longer time scale than anthropologists have tended to do previously. Adopting such an historical perspective enables him to identify the stability of the Merina ritual's symbolic content, despite changes in its organisation, and dramatically changing politico-economic contexts. As well as presenting an original historical approach to the anthropological study of ritua;, Professor Bloch discusses a range of general theoretical issues, including the nature of ideology, and the relationship between images created in ritual and other types of knowledge. The book will appeal widely to scholars and students of anthropology, history, African studies, and comparative religion
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    ISBN: 9780511557811
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    Pages: 1 online resource (xi, 135 pages)
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    DDC: 305.8/00941
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    Keywords: Minderheit ; Politik ; Minorities / Government policy / Great Britain ; Rassenpolitik ; Großbritannien ; Great Britain / Race relations ; Great Britain / Ethnic relations ; Großbritannien ; Großbritannien ; Rassenpolitik
    Abstract: The years 1965–8 were the 'liberal hour' for race relations policy in Britain. Laws were then enacted, enforcement agencies created, and community relations councils established. These bodies, and their personnel, have been called 'the race relations industry'. To many people, the output of this 'industry' appears disappointing relative to the input into it. This book examines a variety of optimistic assumptions about the speed with which immigrants adjust to a new environment; inadequate minority bargaining power; insufficiently speedy and decisive action by the central government; unwillingness on the part of the white majority to accept the desirability of such action; and the difficulty of fitting a race relations policy into an administrative system created to serve an ethnically homogeneous population. The policies initiated in 1965 reflected the ascendancy of liberal over conservative assumptions about race relations. Now these are under sharp attack from a radical standpoint. Promoting Racial Harmony shows how the debate has changed, drawing upon recent economic theory to formulate the issues in an original but non-technical manner
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    ISBN: 9780511607646
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    Keywords: Funeral rites and ceremonies ; Death ; Religion ; Fertility cults ; Anthropologie ; Ethnologie ; Wiedergeburt ; Tod ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Tod ; Ethnologie ; Tod ; Anthropologie ; Wiedergeburt
    Abstract: It is a classical anthropological paradox that symbols of rebirth and fertility are frequently found in funerary rituals throughout the world. The original essays collected here re-examine this phenomenon through insights from China, India, New Guinea, Latin America, and Africa. The contributors, each a specialist in one of these areas, have worked in close collaboration to produce a genuinely innovative theoretical approach to the study of the symbolism surrounding death, an outline of which is provided in an important introduction by the editors. The major concern of the volume is the way in which funerary rituals dramatically transform the image of life as a dialectic flux involving exchange and transaction, marriage and procreation, into an image of a still, transcendental order in which oppositions such as those between self and other, wife-giver and wife-taker, Brahmin and untouchable, birth and therefore death have been abolished. This transformation often involves a general devaluation of biology, and, particularly, of sexuality, which is contrasted with a more spiritual and controlled source of life. The role of women, who are frequently associated with biological processes, mourning and death pollution, is often predominant in funerary rituals, and in examining this book makes a further contribution to the understanding of the symbolism of gender. The death rituals and the symbolism of rebirth are also analysed in the context of the political processes of the different societies considered, and it is argued that social order and political organisation may be legitimated through an exploitation of the emotions and biology
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction / Maurice Bloch and Jonathan Parry -- The dead and the devils among the Bolivian Laymi / Olivia Harris -- Sacrificial death and the necrophagous ascetic / Jonathan Parry -- Witchcraft, greed, cannibalism and death / Andrew Strathern -- Lugbara death / John Middleton -- Of flesh and bones / James L. Watson -- Social dimensions of death in four African hunting and gathering societies / James Woodburn -- Death, women, and power / Maurice Bloch
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