Search Results - "world music"

The end all around us apocalyptic texts and popular culture /

Table of Contents: “…Newport -- Songs of fate, hope and oblivion : Bob Dylan's dystopianism and apocalyticism / Gary Baines -- End of the world music : is extreme metal the sound of the apocalypse? …”
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Songs and stories from Uganda / by Serwadda, W. Moses

Music, national identity and the politics of location between the global and the local /

Table of Contents: “…National identity and music in transition : issues of authenticity in a global setting / John O'Flynn -- Where does world music come from? : globalization, Afropop and the question of cultural identity / David Murphy -- Voicing risk : migration, transgression and relocation in Spanish/Moroccan raï / Parvati Nair -- Banda, a new sound from the barrios of Los Angeles : transmigration and transcultural production / Helena Simonett -- Rapping at the margins : musical constructions of identities in contemporary France / Brian George -- The quest for national unity in Uyghur popular song : barren chickens, stray dogs, fake immortals and thieves / Joanne Smith -- The singer and the mask : voices of Brazil in Antônio Nóbrega's Madeira que cupim não rói / Robin Warner and Regina Nascimento -- Popular music, tradition and Serbian nationalism / Robert Hudson -- Those Norwegians : deconstructing the nation-state in Europe through fixity and indifference in Norwegian club music / Stan Hawkins.…”
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