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  Bant Singh can still sing

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  Jyotsna Kapur Southern Illinois University

  February 02, 2007

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  Bant Singh can still sing Featured globalization Youtube music India otherness Bant Singh caste activism Curator's Note Posted on YouTube, this unforgettable video-letter by Sanjay Kak and Anurag Singh sears the brain. Here, Bant Singh, a lower-caste ...
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  Girl Power: Revisited

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  Elizabeth Franko University of Houston

  June 15, 2007

  2 comments

  of Shampoo significantly shift the traditional construction of femininity and offer a possible source ...
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  In The Cloud and Out of Synch: The Question of Asynchronous Media and Media Studies

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  Tim Anderson Old Dominion University

  September 30, 2007

  5 comments

  In The Cloud and Out of Synch: The Question of Asynchronous Media and Media Studies archiving asynchronous auto-ethnography end users Google Docs music on demand space/place temporality Web 2.0 Curator's Note I just recently moved twice within a week ...
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  Advertising Hillbillies: Genre, Authorship and Audience

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  Kyle Barnett Bellarmine University

  November 28, 2007

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  Advertising Hillbillies: Genre, Authorship and Audience advertising music corporate authorship genres recording industry talent scouts country 1920s generative mechanisms Gennett Chubby Parker Dock Roberts Okeh Fiddlin' John Carson Henry Whitter Cura ...
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  Transgression, Confession, and Ying Yang Twins’s “Wait (The Whisper Song)”

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  Michael Z. Newman University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

  February 20, 2008

  1 comment

  cultural values and norms. I think this last benefit in particular is what I’m getting from telling you how ...
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  Righteous Anger and the Fear of a Black Planet in Taxi Driver

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  Greg Oguss University of Southern California

  March 20, 2008

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  a commentary on the “Black is Beautiful” era, which dates back to James Brown’s 1968 hit “Say It Loud (I’m ... Black and I’m Proud),” a song that became the soundtrack to the following decade, featuring ...
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  Asians Can Dance ~ Check out: JabbaWockeeZ, Kaba Modern, and Planet B-Boy

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  L.S. Kim University of California, Santa Cruz

  April 29, 2008

  9 comments

  Asians Can Dance ~ Check out: JabbaWockeeZ, Kaba Modern, and Planet B-Boy America’s Best Dance Crew Asian American dance genre JabbaWockeeZ Korean American masks MTV music PLANET B-BOY race the body The Sound of Music Curator's Note One of my interes ...
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  (Asian American?) Hip Hop: Cool Calm Pete’s “Black Friday”

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  Jane Park University of Oklahoma

  April 29, 2008

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  (Asian American?) Hip Hop: Cool Calm Pete’s “Black Friday” globalization race hip hop Asian American representation music video consumerism music Cool Calm Pete Black Friday Korean American Babbletron Curator's Note Cool Calm Pete is a Korean America ...
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  Located in Transit: Music and the Mobile Phone

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  Ben Aslinger Bentley University

  February 15, 2010

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  Located in Transit: Music and the Mobile Phone visual culture urban space music mobile media listening Curator's Note In this collection of ads for Sony Ericsson Walkman phones, Bollywood hunk Hrithik Roshan activates the “thump” as audio visualizati ...
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  Could I Hear That on YouCode?

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  Nick Montfort MIT

  February 09, 2012

  3 comments

  Could I Hear That on YouCode? Sound programming music distribution digital literature demoscene computation Curator's Note The basic idea of this video is to display a series of very short C programs and JavaScript expressions that produce music. Thi ...

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