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  Bant Singh can still sing

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  Jyotsna Kapur Southern Illinois University

  February 02, 2007

  15 comments

  about copyright, finding a home wherever needed. At the very least, from which ever degree of isolation ...
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  ABBA 1974: The Birth of Swedish Modernity?

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  Christian Christensen Karlstad University — Sweden

  November 05, 2007

  7 comments

  ABBA 1974: The Birth of Swedish Modernity? globalization marketing nostalgia competition nationalism music Sweden 1970s Eurovision ABBA Scandinavia Bjorn Borg IKEA Curator's Note For me, this clip of ABBA's winning performance at the 1974 Eurovi ...
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  Amateur?

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  Espen Ytreberg University of Oslo — Norway

  November 07, 2007

  3 comments

  something of an international YouTube celebrity, Lasse Gjertsen. At least he is considered as such in his ... the very least Gjertsen needs to be a musically gifted person to put together something like this. ...
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  Advertising Hillbillies: Genre, Authorship and Audience

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  Kyle Barnett Bellarmine University

  November 28, 2007

  4 comments

  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

  Transgression, Confession, and Ying Yang Twins’s “Wait (The Whisper Song)” Ying Yang Twins whiteness transgression taste race music masculinity hip hop guilty pleasures cultural capital affect Curator's Note Owning up to a guilty pleasure is a perfor ...
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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

  9 comments

  Righteous Anger and the Fear of a Black Planet in Taxi Driver race masculinity music 1970s Taxi Driver Robert Deniro Martin Scorsese blaxploitation Melvin Van Peebles Richard Roundtree miscegenation baclash Joan Mellen Kris Kristofferson Rolling Stones Cu ...
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  Projecting Nigeria

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  Brian Larkin Barnard College

  April 08, 2008

  3 comments

  Projecting Nigeria Uzodinma Okpechi The Master representation Orientalism Nollywood Nkem Oweh Nigeria music media capitals I Go Chop Your Money globalization corruption controversy Afrocentrism Africa Curator's Note In 2005 a controversy broke out on ...
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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

  dance. We feel the primal rhythm of a beat and begin to bounce our head almost by instinct; the deep ...
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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

  6 comments

  I thought I'd post it here to perhaps begin complicating what we mean by "Asian American" ...
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  Located in Transit: Music and the Mobile Phone

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  Ben Aslinger Bentley University

  February 15, 2010

  6 comments

  moves.  If we view these media experiences as designed for and located in transit, we might begin to think ... listening that is tethered to a particular device or a particular location.  In doing so, we might begin to ...

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