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Re: What is so comical about old choreography?

Really interesting points

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Mari Pajala University of Turku (Finland)

Tuesday, November 13, 2007 — 3:55 pm

indicate the clip is from the same year, so it is possible that the Grease reference was intentional, ...

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Will the Wolf Survive, Los Lobos

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Joseph Straubhaar University of Texas at Austin

November 13, 2007

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Will the Wolf Survive, Los Lobos immigration Latinos Los Lobos memory music video Youtube Curator's Note This video reminds me of my own process of discovery about Latino culture. I grew up in a small farming town in rural Southwest Idaho with severa ...

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Re: After Macaca: Virginia’s Next Youtube Moment

I am glad that Ms. Oren shed

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007 — 12:57 am

another civil rights movement and possibly even riots similar to those in Los Angeles in the early 90s. ...

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Re: After Macaca: Virginia’s Next Youtube Moment

George Allen’s ‘06

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007 — 12:26 am

a thoughtless, racist comment seemed to be almost too good to be true. I’m pretty sure that deep down we all know ...

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Re: After Macaca: Virginia’s Next Youtube Moment

Seem to be 2 sets of

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Monday, November 12, 2007 — 7:23 pm

is kept at bay. As a side note on the significance of media, YouTube is a public tool. The following ...

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Latino Hip Hop: The Complexity of Challenging the Status Quo

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Mari Castaneda University of Massachusetts at Amherst

November 12, 2007

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Latino Hip Hop: The Complexity of Challenging the Status Quo transnationalism sexism race patriarchy music video Latinos Kinto Sol immigration hip hop demographics consumer citizenship Curator's Note Latina/o media and popular culture is in a moment ...

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What is so comical about old choreography?

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Mari Pajala University of Turku (Finland)

November 09, 2007

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What is so comical about old choreography? history globalization nostalgia music video Scandanavia Finland Armi & Danny 1970s Grease dance comedy Gregorious YMCA context Curator's Note Many of the most widely circulated clips of old Finnish telev ...

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Katarina Löfström’s ”High Noon”: The Materiality of a Medium

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Anna Orrghen Södertörn University College– Sweden

November 08, 2007

it. But how far is it possible to focus a picture before it transforms into an abstract pattern? And ... how many times is it possible to enlarge an image before it turns into a completely new image? These ... and it disappears. In other words: is it possible to get too close? ...

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Re: ABBA 1974: The Birth of Swedish Modernity?

I'm interested in how this

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Kathleen Fitzpatrick Michigan State University

Monday, November 5, 2007 — 10:03 pm

I'm interested in how this moment gets re-read around the world, as it's almost impossible for me to hear/see this now without thinking of this: Another talent contest, another emergence into the international mainstream of previously national s ...

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