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The Different Faces of Politics in Literature and Music

The Different Faces of Politics in Literature and Music

This book highlights the links between politics and governance and the arts. The essays in the volume show how literature and music have challenged those in power risking political censure. In addition they also try to delineate how patronage has been used for propaganda or to stir up national fervour. They focus on the tension and symbiosis between the politician and the artist foregrounding how they have always tried to influence challenge and in some cases undermine one another. This volume will serve as an indispensable source for researchers and academics in political science the humanities and performing arts. | The Different Faces of Politics in Literature and Music

GBP 130.00
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Veena Dhanammal The Making of a Legend

Veena Dhanammal The Making of a Legend

This book looks at the life and music of Veena Dhanammal (1866–1938) considered the embodiment of ‘classicism’ in Karnatik music. It locates her art within the cultural social and intellectual milieu she inhabited allowing readers to track the changing musical landscape of southern India as a process of urbanisation — beginning in the late nineteenth century — resulted in Karnatik music’s movement from a ritual and courtly location to a modern secular form of entertainment in the city space. | Veena Dhanammal The Making of a Legend

GBP 160.00
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Globalization and Sense-Making Practices Phenomenologies of the Global Local and Glocal

Globalization and Sense-Making Practices Phenomenologies of the Global Local and Glocal

This book presents a critical analysis of sense-making practices through an exploration of acoustic creative and artistic spaces. It studies how local cultures of sight hearing smell taste and touch are impacted by global discourses and media such as television popular music digital media and literature. The authors look at sense-making practices and spatial discourses through an interconnected discussion on thought and experience that seeks to present a multidimensional cartography of the global the local and the glocal to closely analyze the phenomenon of globalization. The volume is an investigation of the possibilities of alternate sustainable modes of being and existing in a world which requires a unified ethical biopolitical worldview that challenges the disparity of its fragments while speculating on their synesthetic conditionality. A unique contribution the book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of English literature media studies cultural studies literary cultures post-colonial studies globalization studies philosophy critical theory sociology and social anthropology. | Globalization and Sense-Making Practices Phenomenologies of the Global Local and Glocal

GBP 130.00
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Media and the Global South Narrative Territorialities Cross-Cultural Currents

Media and the Global South Narrative Territorialities Cross-Cultural Currents

What does the notion of the ‘global south’ mean to media studies today?This book interrogates the possibilities of global thinking from the south in the field of media communication and cultural studies. Through lenses of millennial media cultures it refocuses the praxis of the global south in relation to the established ideas of globalization development and conditions of postcoloniality. Bringing together original empirical work from media scholars from across the global south the volume highlights how contemporary thinking about the region as theoretical framework ・ an emerging area of theory in its own right ・ is incomplete without due consideration being placed on narrative forms both analogue and digital traditional and sub-cultural. From news to music cultures from journalism to visual culture from screen forms to culture-jamming the chapters in the volume explore contemporary popular forms of communication as manifested in diverse global south contexts. A significant contribution to cultural theory and communications research this book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of media and culture studies literary and critical theory digital humanities science and technology studies and sociology and social anthropology. | Media and the Global South Narrative Territorialities Cross-Cultural Currents

GBP 38.99
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Literature and the War on Terror Nation Democracy and Liberalisation

Literature and the War on Terror Nation Democracy and Liberalisation

This book examines cultural imaginations post 9/11. It explores the idea of a religious community and its multifaceted representations in literature and popular culture. The essays in the volume focus on the role of literature film music television shows and other cultural forms in opening up spaces for complex reflections on identities and cultures and how they enable us to rethink the ‘trauma of familiarity’ post-traumatic heterotopias religious extremism and the idea of the ‘neighbour’ in post-9/11 literary and cultural imagination. The volume also probes the intersections of religion popular media televised simulacrum and digital martyrdom in the wake of 9/11. It also probes the simulation of new- age media images with reference to the creation and dissemination of ‘martyrs’ the languages of grief religionisation of terrorism islamophobia religious stereotypes and the reading of comics in writing the terror. An essential read the book reclaims and reinterprets the alternative to a Eurocentric/Americentric understanding of cultural and geopolitical structures of global designs. It will be of great interest to researchers of literature and cultural studies media studies politics film studies and South Asian studies. | Literature and the War on Terror Nation Democracy and Liberalisation

GBP 36.99
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