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Decline and Reimagination in Cinematic New York

Decline and Reimagination in Cinematic New York

Decline and Reimagination in Cinematic New York examines the cinematic representation of New York from the mid-1960s through the mid-1980s placing the dominant discourse of urban decline in dialogue with marginal perspectives that reimagine the city along alternative paths as a resilient adaptive and endlessly inspiring place. Drawing on mainstream independent documentary and experimental films the book offers a multifaceted account of the power of film to imagine the city’s decline and reimagine its potential. The book analyzes how filmmakers mobilized derelict space and various articulations of “nature” as settings and signifiers that decenter traditional understandings of the city to represent New York alternately as a desolate wasteland a hostile wilderness a refuge and playground for outcasts a home to resilient and resourceful communities a studio for artistic experimentation an arcadia conducive to alternative social arrangements and a complex ecosystem. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of film studies media studies urban cinema urban studies and eco-cinema.

GBP 130.00
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Planning and Zoning New York City

Planning and Zoning New York City

Two unique events shaped the magnificent unnatural geography of New York City and created its sense of place: the Commissioners' Plan of 1811 and the zoning resolution of 1916. The first imprinted Manhattan with a two-dimensional plan a rectangular grid defined by broad north-south avenues multiple east-west cross streets and by its standard units: blocks of two hundred feet by six hundred to eight hundred feet. The second determined the city's three-dimensional form by restricting uses by district by limiting the maximum mass of a building allowed on a given site. This book addresses the fundamental challenge facing every American municipality: Can zoning - the basic tool of municipal land-use control - balance growth and equity? As New York plans for the future the nation's foremost commentators on urban planning architecture land-use law and design discuss the accomplishments of New York's zoning laws and explore alternative scenarios for guiding the city's future development. The chapters in this book were originally prepared for a symposium on the history and future of planning in New York City. The authors provide a skillful blend of urban history architectural review economic analysis and social commentary. Contributors include such experts as Jonathan Barnett Sigurd Grava Frances Halsband Jerold Kayden Brian Kintish Eric Kober Michael Kwartler Larry Littlefield Norman Marcus R. Susan Motley Richard A. Plunz Peter D. Salins Richard L. Schaffer John Shapiro Robert A. M. Stern Roy Strickland Marilyn Taylor Robert F. Wagner Jr. and Carol Willis. This book is essential reading for planners architects historians developers and municipal officials concerned with guiding the future of America's cities. Its lessons are vital for every city in America. | Planning and Zoning New York City

GBP 38.99
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The Restless City A Short History of New York from Colonial Times to the Present

The Restless City A Short History of New York from Colonial Times to the Present

The Restless City: A Short History of New York from Colonial Times to the Present is a brief insightful and lively history of the peoples events and interactions that have formed New York City. Weaving together the shifting currents of economic political social and cultural life Joanne Reitano shows how New York has acted both as an indicator and a driver of the American experience in its negotiation of evolving urban challenges. The third edition of The Restless City has been updated to include new material on early settler/Native American interactions and to be more fully inclusive of the outer boroughs of New York. Each chapter features at least two primary sources accompanied by discussion questions for students. Authoritative and comprehensive The Restless City remains a superior resource for students and scholars interested in the rich history of the nation’s premier urban center. | The Restless City A Short History of New York from Colonial Times to the Present

GBP 52.99
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Pestilence Insanity and Trees How Stephen Smith Changed New York

Pestilence Insanity and Trees How Stephen Smith Changed New York

This is the first full-length biography of New York surgeon and social activist Stephen Smith (1823–1922) who was appointed to fifty years of public service by three mayors seven governors and two U. S. presidents. The book presents the complex life of Stephen Smith a consistent figure in the history of public health mental health housing reform in New York and even urban reforestation. Utilizing Smith’s writings public records and recently discovered personal correspondence this research shows how Smith succeeded where others failed. It also acknowledges that Smith was unsuccessful in convincing his fellow professionals to fight for a cabinet level public health department or to resist the rise of custodial care for the mentally impaired. Given Smith’s many accomplishments the book asks us to consider if what stopped him stops us highlighting the relevance of Smith’s story to contemporary debates. Pestilence Insanity and Trees is a readable and well-documented narrative and a resource for students and scholars filling gaps in the history of American medicine public health mental health and New York social reform. | Pestilence Insanity and Trees How Stephen Smith Changed New York

GBP 130.00
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The Broken Apple New York City in the 1980's

The Broken Apple New York City in the 1980's

On the brink of bankruptcy in the 1970s New York City has been restored as a center of economic and cultural vitality in the 1980s. But it has also become an increasingly brutal place where incivility reigns drugs lace the streets and crime is so pervasive that most New Yorkers now consider it a permanent fixture like gray skies and impossible traffic. What is it that continues to draw people to this city of contradictions?Born and educated in New York Herbert London knows this city of dreams as few do. The Broken Apple is based on his keen observations of New York's social political and cultural life over the critical decade of the 1980s. London examines the city's continuing failures including a city administration unable to meet the most basic citizen needs or to assure safety and security. He sees schools that have become mean-spirited with teachers unable to teach administrators unable to maintain order and students unable to learn. He describes the new slaves of New York as those in search of a place to live in a city where housing is in shorter supply than in any other major city in the nation. London asks why despite all this everything is bigger than life in New York and finds the answer in New York's role as the nation's communications hub and the measuring rod by which other cities are judged. London writes with knowledgeable affection about this very special place where the mundane is freely converted into the metaphorical. His book is an excursion a guide to what is good what is bad and what is awful in the city. It is a montage of the years of Mayor Koch the period many have described as the city's fin de siecle. But it is also a perscriptive book pointing out what can be done in practical ways to improve life. The Broken Apple will be of interest to urban specialists as well as those for whom New York is an aspiration or a reality. Like the city itself the book has something for everyone from visions of political corruption to acts of redemption. Above all it captures the pulsating rhythm of this unique city | The Broken Apple New York City in the 1980's

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Rebel in Radio The Story of the New York Times 'Commercial' Radio Station

Rebel in Radio The Story of the New York Times 'Commercial' Radio Station

Rebel in Radio (1973) looks at the story of WQXR the rebel New York commercial radio station. It examines WQXR’s place in broadcasting history and how at a time when American commercial radio had become but a pawn of the advertising industry it showed that a radio station could be competitive and still maintain high programme and advertising standards. | Rebel in Radio The Story of the New York Times 'Commercial' Radio Station

GBP 85.00
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The Ecology of Welfare Housing and the Welfare Crisis in New York City

The Ecology of Welfare Housing and the Welfare Crisis in New York City

The basic ecology of human groups the relationship between the distribution of population and material resources and the resultant social and cultural patterns is a subject which has occasioned far more talk than down-to-earth research. Filling this gap George Sternlieb and Bernard Indik consider one dimension of human ecology the interplay between housing and outlook between the physical realities of a dwelling unit and the attitudes and responses of its inhabitants. Their book The Ecology of Welfare presents a detailed description of the housing and housing problems of one special subgroup-New York City's welfare recipients in the 1970's. | The Ecology of Welfare Housing and the Welfare Crisis in New York City

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New York: Art and Cultural Capital of the Gilded Age

New York: Art and Cultural Capital of the Gilded Age

Fueled by a flourishing capitalist economy undergirded by advancements in architectural design and urban infrastructure and patronized by growing bourgeois and elite classes New York’s built environment was dramatically transformed in the 1870s and 1880s. This book argues that this constituted the formative period of New York’s modernization and cosmopolitanism—the product of a vital self-consciousness and a deliberate intent on the part of its elite citizenry to create a world-class cultural metropolis reflecting the city’s economic and political preeminence. The interdisciplinary essays in this book examine New York’s late nineteenth-century evolution not simply as a question of its physical layout but also in terms of its radically new social composition comprising the individuals institutions and organizations that played determining roles in the city’s cultural ascendancy. | New York: Art and Cultural Capital of the Gilded Age

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The New York City Police Department The Impact of Its Policies and Practices

The New York City Police Department The Impact of Its Policies and Practices

Studying the flagship New York City Police Department is critical to understanding policing and democratic society. An examination of the department by experts who have been studying it for years The New York City Police Department: The Impact of Its Policies and Practices provides a frank and open discussion about the NYPD from an elite group of scholars with varying viewpoints and concerns. The authors in this book are uniquely qualified to discuss and analyze the intricacies of policies and their impact. Researchers working the streets of Brooklyn expose stop-and-frisk policies. An expert academic covers marijuana arrest policies and their implications on citizens. The impact of the NYPD‘s development of innovative technology is demonstrated by a recently retired captain who worked on developing the department‘s real-time crime center. Presenting the insight of these and other experts the book explores critical questions such as: How are victims of crime faring in the NYPD‘s performance management system? Does the NYPD manipulate crime reports to make them appear better? How does the NYPD handle mass demonstrations? How does the community view the NYPD? How can an individual start a grassroots movement to influence policy and practices? The book explores hiring firing and retention; analyzes crime-fighting strategies; discusses the drop in homicide rate in recent years; and reviews legal concerns and the response to public demonstrations such as the Occupy Wall Street movement. The final chapter evaluates implications of the policies the NYPD follows and analyzes how it affects policing worldwide. A scintillating expos n police culture and resistance to change the book is destined to encourage enhanced social discourse on the topic for years to come. | The New York City Police Department The Impact of Its Policies and Practices

GBP 175.00
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Planning for a City of Culture Creative Urbanism in Toronto and New York

Planning for a City of Culture Creative Urbanism in Toronto and New York

Planning for a City of Culture gives us a new way to understand how cities use arts and culture in planning fostering livable communities and creating economic development strategies to build their brand attract residents and tourists and distinguish themselves from other urban centers worldwide. While the common thinking on creative cities may coalesce around the idea of one goal––economic development and branding––this book turns this idea on its head. Goldberg-Miller brings a new fresh perspective to the study of creative cities by using policy theory as an underlying construct to understand what happened in Toronto and New York in the 2000s. She demystifies the processes and outcomes of stakeholder involvement exogenous and endogenous shocks and research and strategic planning as well as warning us about the many pitfalls of neglecting critical community voices in the burgeoning practice of creative placemaking. This book is an essential resource in examining the development and sustainability of the global trend of integrating arts and culture in city planning and urban design that has become an international phenomenon. Perfect for students scholars and city-lovers alike Planning for a City of Culture illuminates the ways that this creative city trend went global with the two case study cities serving as perfect illustrations of the power and promise of arts and culture in current and future municipal strategies. Please visit Shoshanah Goldberg-Miller's website for more information and research: www. goldberg-miller. com | Planning for a City of Culture Creative Urbanism in Toronto and New York

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The Political Afterlife of Sites of Monumental Destruction Reconstructing Affect in Mostar and New York

The Political Afterlife of Sites of Monumental Destruction Reconstructing Affect in Mostar and New York

What happens when a monumental thing is physically destroyed? Is its life as a socially significant presencing thing at an end? Or might the process of destruction work to enhance its symbolic force mediating work and presencing power? In this book Andrea Connor traces the ‘afterlife’ of two exemplary examples of monumental destruction and their re-investment with cultural value and symbolic significance. In 1993 during the Bosnian war the Mostar Bridge was completely destroyed. Reconstructed in 2004 as an exact copy of the original this new Old Bridge has assumed an afterlife as an intentional monument to reconciliation. The World Trade Centre in New York has also been transformed since its destruction in 2001 as a place of national mourning and remembrance a symbolic void marking a singular act of terrorism. Using recent work on affect and object agency Connor considers their contested reconfiguration as sites of collective remembering and forgetting in new highly charged political contexts. She argues for a more expansive notion of reconstruction – encompassing not only the material and symbolic afterlife of both things but also their affecting afterlives as they are re-assembled in the present. Provoking a reconsideration of the way monuments and heritage sites even in their absence become powerful agents of historical narrativization this work will be of interest to students and scholars in a range of fields including international relations cultural studies critical heritage studies and material culture studies. | The Political Afterlife of Sites of Monumental Destruction Reconstructing Affect in Mostar and New York

GBP 38.99
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Landscape Architecture for Sea Level Rise Innovative Global Solutions

Landscape Architecture for Sea Level Rise Innovative Global Solutions

This book assesses and illustrates innovative and practical world-wide measures for combating sea level rise from the profession of landscape architecture. The work explores how the appropriate mixture of integrated multi-scalar flood protection mechanisms can reduce risks associated with flood events including sea level rise. Because sea level rise is a global issue illustrative case studies performed from the United States Korea Australia New Zealand Thailand Japan China and the Netherlands identify the structural (engineered) non-structural (nature-based) and hybrid mechanisms (mixed) used to combat sea level rise and increase flood resilience. The alternative flood risk reduction mechanisms are extracted and analyzed from each case study to develop and explain a set of design-based typologies to combat sea level rise which can then be applied to help proctor new and existing communities. It is important for those located within the current or future floodplain considering sea level rise and those responsible for land use developmental and population-related activities within these areas to strategically implement a series of integrated constructed and green infrastructure-based flood risk reduction mechanisms to adequately protect threatened areas. As a result this book is beneficial to both academics and practitioners related to multiple design professions such as urban designers urban planners architects real estate developers and landscape architects. | Landscape Architecture for Sea Level Rise Innovative Global Solutions

GBP 31.99
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The Red Sea Prospects for Stability

The Red Sea Prospects for Stability

First published in 1984 The Red Sea shines light on one of the world’s most important strategic waterways: Red Sea. A large proportion of Europe’s energy requirements are transported through the Red Sea and provides a vital navigation for western military transport. It is also at the heart of an area of volatile regional conflict. This book reviews the economic political and strategic prospects for the Red Sea and the countries which adjoin it. There is also discussion of the wider international implications of conflict in the Red Sea in particular the strategic concerns of the United States and the erstwhile USSR. This book will be of interest to students of history geography and international relations. | The Red Sea Prospects for Stability

GBP 89.99
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Security Strategies Power Disparity and Identity The Baltic Sea Region

Security Strategies Power Disparity and Identity The Baltic Sea Region

What is power and how is it effective? This volume responds to these questions in terms of regional international relations with a particular focus on the Baltic Sea region an area still charged with a residue of Cold War conflict and power disparity in a setting of new cooperative ventures. Each contributor examines the region from a different angle and discusses how its actors coped with the new situation facing them after 1991. The volume looks at how governments have defined their new circumstances how they have dealt with the opportunity to shift to a new mode of coexistence and collaboration and how they have tackled the challenge of peacefully converting their region to a security community. The book breaks with tradition by adopting a new thematic approach based on regional issues and functions rather than a country-by-country discourse. It will be of critical value to readers interested in security studies and European politics. | Security Strategies Power Disparity and Identity The Baltic Sea Region

GBP 11.99
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China's Policy towards the South China Sea When Geopolitics Meets the Law of the Sea

China's Policy towards the South China Sea When Geopolitics Meets the Law of the Sea

This book provides an explanation of Chinese policy towards the South China Sea and argues that this has been sculpted by the changing dynamics of the law of the sea in conjunction with regional geopolitical flux. The past few decades have witnessed a bifurcated trend in China’s management of territorial disputes. Over the years while China gradually calmed and settled most land-border disputes with its neighbors disputes on the ocean frontier continued to simmer in a seething cauldron. China's Policy towards the South China Sea attributes the distinctive path of China’s approach to maritime disputes to a unique factor – the law of the sea (LOS) as the rules of the road in the ocean. By deconstructing the concept of sovereignty and treating the LOS as an evolving regime the book examines how the changing dynamics of the LOS regime have complicated and reshaped the nature and content of sovereign disputes in the ocean regime as well as the options of settlement. Applying the findings to the South China Sea case the author traces the learning curve on which China has embarked to comprehend the complexity of the dispute accordingly and finds that it is the dynamic interaction of the law of the sea regime and the geopolitical conditions that has driven the evolution of China’s South China Sea policy. This book will be of great interest to students of Chinese and Asian politics international law international relations and security studies. | China's Policy towards the South China Sea When Geopolitics Meets the Law of the Sea

GBP 38.99
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Why Nations Put to Sea Technology and the Changing Character of Sea Power in the Twenty-First Century

Why Nations Put to Sea Technology and the Changing Character of Sea Power in the Twenty-First Century

Originally published in 2000 this book describes the relation between technology and the exercise of sea power. It emphasizes the importance of mastering and maintaining technology for the means of exercising maritime power whether the USA is at peace or in a time of conflict. The changing character of maritime power is evaluated through an examination of current trends historical precedent and deductive logic. Many factors influence sea power but it is the exponential growth in the use of science and technology which the author believes is the key to understanding the future of sea power. | Why Nations Put to Sea Technology and the Changing Character of Sea Power in the Twenty-First Century

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Civil Society in the Baltic Sea Region

Civil Society in the Baltic Sea Region

This title was first published in 2003. The Baltic Sea region offers exceptionally rich material for the discussion of civil society. This is because it has witnessed the erosion of communist regimes the crisis of the welfare state the increasing importance of new social movements and the shift from a centralist paradigm to one oriented towards networks. This engaging book focuses on the phenomena and prospects for civil society in north-eastern Europe which have had a major impact on political and scholarly debates since 1989. Nineteen experts from the region provide a comprehensive and comparative account of the history the present state and the perspectives of civil society in the Baltic Sea area. The reader will learn that civil society should not only be seen in opposition to the state and that it has a major impact on current developments of European integration. | Civil Society in the Baltic Sea Region

GBP 105.00
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Civil Society in the Baltic Sea Region

Civil Society in the Baltic Sea Region

This title was first published in 2003. The Baltic Sea region offers exceptionally rich material for the discussion of civil society. This is because it has witnessed the erosion of communist regimes the crisis of the welfare state the increasing importance of new social movements and the shift from a centralist paradigm to one oriented towards networks. This engaging book focuses on the phenomena and prospects for civil society in north-eastern Europe which have had a major impact on political and scholarly debates since 1989. Nineteen experts from the region provide a comprehensive and comparative account of the history the present state and the perspectives of civil society in the Baltic Sea area. The reader will learn that civil society should not only be seen in opposition to the state and that it has a major impact on current developments of European integration. | Civil Society in the Baltic Sea Region

GBP 29.99
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Maritime Strategy and Sea Denial Theory and Practice

Maritime Strategy and Sea Denial Theory and Practice

This book focuses on the theory and practice of maritime strategy and operations by the weaker powers at sea. Illustrated by examples from naval and military history the book explains and analyzes the strategies of the weaker side at sea in both peacetime and wartime; in defense versus offense; the main prerequisites for disputing control of the sea; and the conceptual framework of disputing control of the sea. It also explains and analyzes in some detail the main methods of disputing sea control – avoiding/seeking decisive encounters weakening enemy naval forces over time counter-containment of enemy naval forces destroying the enemy’s military-economic potential at sea attacks on the enemy coast defense of the coast defense/capturing important positions/basing areas and defense/capturing of a choke point. A majority of the world’s navies are currently of small or medium-size. In the case of a war with a much stronger opponent they would be strategically on the defensive and their main objective then would be to dispute control of the sea by a stronger side at sea. This book provides a practical guide to such a strategy. This book would be of much interest to students of naval power maritime security strategic studies and military/naval history. | Maritime Strategy and Sea Denial Theory and Practice

GBP 39.99
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Routledge Handbook of the South China Sea

Routledge Handbook of the South China Sea

The Routledge Handbook of the South China Sea presents a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of South China Sea issues. It evaluates the dynamics of the latest developments and identifies factors that contribute to dispute settlement and a cooperative management regime of one of the most important seas in the world – one which not only contains rich marine resources and distinctive biodiversity but is also a critical sea route for global trade and communications. The Handbook is divided into six parts each representing a focused area of enquiry: • History and geostrategic landscape • Sovereignty and maritime entitlements • South China Sea policies of major claimants • Natural resources and environment • Cooperation and institutions • Challenges and prospects Written by world-renowned experts and scholars with specialisms from geography to international law the volume’s 25 chapters contribute interdisciplinary perspectives reflecting the impact of how South China Sea policies are shaped by national governments and international organizations. As such the Handbook provides an authoritative reference to South China Sea Studies useful for students and scholars of international relations history maritime and Asian studies.

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The Law of the Sea Normative Context and Interactions with other Legal Regimes

The Law of the Sea Normative Context and Interactions with other Legal Regimes

The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea follows a comprehensive approach and can be interpreted dynamically to include the regulation of all potential human uses of the ocean but the law of the sea cannot be viewed in isolation from other fields of international law. International law does not resemble a hierarchically structured legal system; its different parts interact when different rules address the same activity or situation. The academic discussion concerning the specialization and proliferation of international legal rules and dispute settlement bodies has theoretical as well as practical relevance for the law of the sea and its interaction with other parts of international law. The intensified use of the oceans for different purposes and the ongoing proliferation of international rules addressing different activities from different perspectives and with distinct foci require a more thorough evaluation of how the law of the sea relates to other fields of international law how the normative context can be approached theoretically and if interdisciplinary interfaces can be adequately addressed. This book discusses the normative context of the law of the sea and the interactions of the law of the sea with other legal regimes. By connecting high-quality research with new ideas and perspectives this book offers expertise from different fields and perspectives in which the interaction between the law of the sea and other fields of international law becomes particularly relevant. | The Law of the Sea Normative Context and Interactions with other Legal Regimes

GBP 130.00
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Maritime Strategy and Sea Control Theory and Practice

Maritime Strategy and Sea Control Theory and Practice

This book focuses on the key naval strategic objectives of obtaining and maintaining sea control. During times of war sea control or the ability of combatants to enjoy naval dominance plays a crucial role in that side’s ability to attain overall victory. This book explains and analyzes in much greater detail sea control in all its complexities and describes the main methods of obtaining and maintaining it. Building on the views of naval classical thinkers this book utilizes historical examples to illustrate the main methods of sea control. Each chapter focuses on a particular method including destroying the enemy forces by a decisive action destroying enemy forces over time-attrition containing enemy fleet choke point control and capturing important enemy's positions/basing area The aim is to provide a comprehensive theory and practice of the struggle for sea control at the operational level. It should therefore provide a guide to practitioners on how to plan and conduct operational warfare at sea. The book will be of much interest to students of naval strategy defence studies and security studies. | Maritime Strategy and Sea Control Theory and Practice

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Music and Encounter at the Mediterranean Crossroads A Sea of Voices

Music and Encounter at the Mediterranean Crossroads A Sea of Voices

Music and Encounter at the Mediterranean Crossroads: A Sea of Voices explores the musical practices that circulate the Mediterranean Sea. Collectively the authors relate this musical flow to broader transnational flows of people and power that generate complex encounters bringing the diverse cultures of Europe Africa and the Middle East into new and challenging forms of contact. Individually the chapters offer detailed ethnographic and historiographic studies of music’s multifaceted roles in such interactions. From collaborations between Moroccan migrant and Spanish Muslim convert musicians in Granada to the incorporation of West African sonorities and Hasidic melodies in the musical liturgy of Abu Ghosh Abbey Jerusalem these communities sing play dance listen and record their diverse experiences of encounter at the Mediterranean crossroads. | Music and Encounter at the Mediterranean Crossroads A Sea of Voices

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