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Musical Gentrification : Popular Music, Distincion and Social Mobility
Musical Gentrification is an exploration of the role of popular music in processes of socio-cultural inclusion and exclusion in a variety of contexts. Twelve chapters by international scholars reveal how cultural objects of relatively lower status, in this case popular musics, are made objects of acquisition by subjects or institutions of higher social status, thereby playing an important role …
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- 9780429325076
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- x, 185p
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- -
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- 780 MUS m
Exploring 'Unseen' Social Capital in Community Participation : Everyday Lives…
This book argues that using social capital to eradicate poverty is less likely to succeed because the mainstream neoinstitutional approach mistakenly assumes that social capital necessarily benefits poor people. This inadequacy calls for a re-assessment of human motivations, institutional dynamics and structural complexity in social capital building. Using ethnographic and participatory methods…
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- 9789053560341
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- 220p
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- Call Number
- 306.095125 WON
Modes of esports engagement in Overwatch
This Open Access book provides a comprehensive review of the rapidly developing esport phenomenon by examining one of its contemporary flagship titles, Overwatch (Blizzard Entertainment 2016), through three central themes and from a rich variety of research methods and perspectives. As a game with more than 40 million individual players, an annual international World Cup, and a franchised profe…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9783030827670
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- XVII, 229
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- 794.8 Mod
Wanderers : literature, culture and the open road
This book introduces the idea and experience of wandering, as re-fected in cultural texts from popular songs to philosophical anal-ysis, providing both a fascinating informal history and a necessary vantage point for understanding—in our era—the emergence of new wanderers. Wanderers offers a fast-paced, wide-ranging, and compelling in-troduction to this s…
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- 9781003255307
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- xii + 143 p
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- 809.93352691 MOR w
Feeling Threatened : Muslim-Christian Relations in Indonesia's New Order
Muslim-Christian relations were an important element of the social and political dynamics of Indonesia and an ever-sensitive subject of government policy during the New Order period (1966-1998). Tense relations and mutual suspicions between Indonesia's Muslim majority and its significant Christian minority were reflected in Christian fear of Muslim efforts to turn the country into an Islamic st…
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- 9789053569382
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- 428. : ill
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- 9789053569382
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- 261.27 MUJ f
Diasporic Hallyu : The Korean Wave in Korean Canadian Youth Culture
This open access book examines the lived experiences of diasporic Korean youth in light of the transnational flows of South Korean popular culture, known as the Korean Wave, or Hallyu. Drawing on an ethnographic study of Korean Canadian youth and their engagement with the Korean Wave, the book proposes a critical understanding of the interactions between diasporic youth audiences and popular cu…
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- 9783030949648
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- xii, 152 p.
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- 306.095 DIA K
Diasporic Hallyu : The Korean Wave in Korean Canadian Youth Culture
This open access book examines the lived experiences of diasporic Korean youth in light of the transnational flows of South Korean popular culture, known as the Korean Wave, or Hallyu. Drawing on an ethnographic study of Korean Canadian youth and their engagement with the Korean Wave, the book proposes a critical understanding of the interactions between diasporic youth audiences and popular cu…
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- 9
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- 9783030949648
- Collation
- ix; 152p;
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- -
- Call Number
- 305.2350971 DIA K
What's France got to do with it? : contemporary memoirs of Australians in France
While only one book-length memoir recounting the sojourn of an Australian in France was published in the 1990s, well over 40 have been published since 2000, overwhelmingly written by women. Although we might expect a focus on travel, intercultural adjustment and communication in these texts, this is the case only in a minority of accounts. More frequently, France serves as a backdrop to a proje…
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- 9781760463632
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- xi, 204 p. ill;
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- 820.9994 WHA J
Railways & Music
When the Stockton & Darlington Railway opened in 1825, it was the first steam-powered railway to carry passengers. Since then there has been no shortage of music connected with trains and railways: orchestral pieces and popular songs describing railway journeys; those that celebrate the opening of a new line; worksongs and blues describing the hardship of building the railroads, even the first …
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- 9781862182035
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- Trains & railways: general interes
Making media matter : critical literacy, popular culture, and creative produc…
This book is an essential resource for media educators working to promote critical thinking, creativity, and civic engagement through their teaching. Connecting theory and research with creative projects and analyses of pop culture, it models an integrated and practical approach to media education. Making Media Matter is an engaging and accessible read for educators and scholars in the areas…
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- 9781003057925
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- viii, 253 p. : ill
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- -
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- 302.23 THE m
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