Search Results - Popular culture

Sandra Cisneros's woman hollering creek

Table of Contents: “…Toys, tiny candies and telenovelas : popular and material culture as storytelling agents -- 3. …”
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Sandra Cisneros's woman hollering creek

Table of Contents: “…Toys, tiny candies and telenovelas : popular and material culture as storytelling agents -- 3. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

The new media environment : an introduction / by Press, Andrea Lee

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: modern life is a media experience -- Ownership and control in the new media environment -- Media and democracy -- Studying popular culture: texts, reception, and cultural studies -- Studying inequalities: class, gender, race, and sexuality in media studies -- Studying media texts and their reception in the new media environment -- Conclusion.…”

The new media environment : an introduction / by Press, Andrea Lee

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: modern life is a media experience -- Ownership and control in the new media environment -- Media and democracy -- Studying popular culture: texts, reception, and cultural studies -- Studying inequalities: class, gender, race, and sexuality in media studies -- Studying media texts and their reception in the new media environment -- Conclusion.…”

The Dervishes of the North : Rumi, Whirling, and the Making of Sufism in Canada / by Xavier, Merin Shobhana

Table of Contents: “…Situating the Study of Sufism in Canada -- Early Sufi Communities in Canada -- Sama, Shab-i arus, and Rituals of Remembrance -- The Politics of Consuming Popular and Cultural Expressions of Rumi -- Gender Dynamics in Sufi Rituals, Praxis, and Authority.…”
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The Dervishes of the North : Rumi, Whirling, and the Making of Sufism in Canada / by Xavier, Merin Shobhana

Table of Contents: “…Situating the Study of Sufism in Canada -- Early Sufi Communities in Canada -- Sama, Shab-i arus, and Rituals of Remembrance -- The Politics of Consuming Popular and Cultural Expressions of Rumi -- Gender Dynamics in Sufi Rituals, Praxis, and Authority.…”
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On strike and on film Mexican American families and blacklisted filmmakers in Cold War America / by Baker, Ellen R.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Grant County's mining district -- Class conflict in the mines, 1930-1950 -- Competing models of unionism -- Political consciousness and community formation -- Household relations -- The blacklist -- A progressive vision of popular culture -- Anticommunist assaults -- Conclusion.…”
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On strike and on film Mexican American families and blacklisted filmmakers in Cold War America / by Baker, Ellen R.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Grant County's mining district -- Class conflict in the mines, 1930-1950 -- Competing models of unionism -- Political consciousness and community formation -- Household relations -- The blacklist -- A progressive vision of popular culture -- Anticommunist assaults -- Conclusion.…”
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Writing the South Seas : imagining the Nanyang in Chinese and Southeast Asian postcolonial literature / by Bernards, Brian

Table of Contents: “…Modern Chinese impressions of the South Seas other -- Transcolonial challenges to diasporic ethno-nationalism -- Creolizing the Sinophone from Malaysia to Taiwan -- An ecopoetics of the Borneo rainforest -- De-racializing cultural legibility in postcolonial Singapore -- Popular Sino-Thai integration narratives.…”
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Writing the South Seas : imagining the Nanyang in Chinese and Southeast Asian postcolonial literature / by Bernards, Brian

Table of Contents: “…Modern Chinese impressions of the South Seas other -- Transcolonial challenges to diasporic ethno-nationalism -- Creolizing the Sinophone from Malaysia to Taiwan -- An ecopoetics of the Borneo rainforest -- De-racializing cultural legibility in postcolonial Singapore -- Popular Sino-Thai integration narratives.…”
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All shook up how rock 'n' roll changed America / by Altschuler, Glenn C.

Table of Contents: “…All shook up : popular music and American culture, 1945-1955 -- Brown-eyed handsome man : rock 'n' roll and race -- Great balls of fire : rock 'n' roll and sexuality -- Yakety yak, don't talk back : rock 'n' roll and generational conflict -- Roll over Beethoven, tell Tchaikovsky the news : rock 'n' roll and the pop culture wars -- The day the music died : rock 'n' roll's lull and revival.…”
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All shook up how rock 'n' roll changed America / by Altschuler, Glenn C.

Table of Contents: “…All shook up : popular music and American culture, 1945-1955 -- Brown-eyed handsome man : rock 'n' roll and race -- Great balls of fire : rock 'n' roll and sexuality -- Yakety yak, don't talk back : rock 'n' roll and generational conflict -- Roll over Beethoven, tell Tchaikovsky the news : rock 'n' roll and the pop culture wars -- The day the music died : rock 'n' roll's lull and revival.…”
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Open Access Musicology : Volume One /

Table of Contents: “…Andrew Granade -- Ancient Mesopotamian music, the politics of reconstruction, and extreme early music / Samuel Dorf -- An intermedia approach to seventeenth-century English popular song culture / Sarah F. Williams -- Instrumental music in early seventeenth-century Italy: instruments as vehicles of discovery / Rebecca Cypess -- MacDowell's vanishing Indians / Dan Blim -- Jenny Lind and the making of mainstream American popular music / Julia Chybowski -- Listening to music history / Nathan C. …”
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Open Access Musicology : Volume One /

Table of Contents: “…Andrew Granade -- Ancient Mesopotamian music, the politics of reconstruction, and extreme early music / Samuel Dorf -- An intermedia approach to seventeenth-century English popular song culture / Sarah F. Williams -- Instrumental music in early seventeenth-century Italy: instruments as vehicles of discovery / Rebecca Cypess -- MacDowell's vanishing Indians / Dan Blim -- Jenny Lind and the making of mainstream American popular music / Julia Chybowski -- Listening to music history / Nathan C. …”
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Maternal Bodies : Redefining Motherhood in Early America / by Doyle, Nora

Table of Contents: “…In search of the maternal body -- The tyrannical womb and the disappearing mother: the maternal body in medical literature -- Writing the body: the work of the body in women's childbearing narratives -- The highest pleasure of which woman's nature is capable: breastfeeding and the emergence of the sentimental mother -- Good mothers and wet nurses: breastfeeding and the fracturing of sentimental motherhood -- The fantasy of the transcendent mother: the disembodiment of the mother in popular feminine print culture -- Imagining the slave mother: sentimentalism and embodiment in antislavery print culture -- In search of the maternal body past and present.…”
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Maternal Bodies : Redefining Motherhood in Early America / by Doyle, Nora

Table of Contents: “…In search of the maternal body -- The tyrannical womb and the disappearing mother: the maternal body in medical literature -- Writing the body: the work of the body in women's childbearing narratives -- The highest pleasure of which woman's nature is capable: breastfeeding and the emergence of the sentimental mother -- Good mothers and wet nurses: breastfeeding and the fracturing of sentimental motherhood -- The fantasy of the transcendent mother: the disembodiment of the mother in popular feminine print culture -- Imagining the slave mother: sentimentalism and embodiment in antislavery print culture -- In search of the maternal body past and present.…”
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A different shade of colonialism Egypt, Great Britain, and the mastery of the Sudan / by Powell, Eve Troutt

Table of Contents: “…Journeys from the fantastic to the colonial -- Black servants and saviors : the domestic empire of Egypt -- The lived experience of contradiction : Ibrahīm Fawzī's narrative of the Sudan -- The tools of the master : slavery, family, and the unity of the Nile Valley -- Egyptians in blackface : revolution and popular culture, World War I to 1925.…”
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Japanese animation : East Asian perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…Animation Studies and Animation History in Japan -- Pioneers of Japanese Animation -- Popular Culture, East-West Expressions, and Tezuka Osamu -- Female Characters and Transnational Identities -- Artistic Animation and Expression in Japan -- Japan's First Commercial Animation Studio after the Second World War: Toei.…”
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Japanese animation : East Asian perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…Animation Studies and Animation History in Japan -- Pioneers of Japanese Animation -- Popular Culture, East-West Expressions, and Tezuka Osamu -- Female Characters and Transnational Identities -- Artistic Animation and Expression in Japan -- Japan's First Commercial Animation Studio after the Second World War: Toei.…”
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A different shade of colonialism Egypt, Great Britain, and the mastery of the Sudan / by Powell, Eve Troutt

Table of Contents: “…Journeys from the fantastic to the colonial -- Black servants and saviors : the domestic empire of Egypt -- The lived experience of contradiction : Ibrahīm Fawzī's narrative of the Sudan -- The tools of the master : slavery, family, and the unity of the Nile Valley -- Egyptians in blackface : revolution and popular culture, World War I to 1925.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view