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Breaking, popping, locking, waacking, and hip-hop dance are practiced widely in contemporary Vietnam. Considering the dance practices in the larger context of post-socialist transformation, urban restructuring, and changing gender relations, Sandra Kurfürst examines youth's aspirations and desires embodied in dance. Drawing on a rich and diverse range of qualitative data, including interviews, sensory and digital ethnography, she shows how dancers confront social and gender norms while following their passion. As a contribution to area and global studies, the book illuminates the translocal spatialities of hip hop, produced through the circulation of objects and the movement of people.
Hip-hop dance. --- Cultural History. --- Culture. --- Gender. --- Globalization. --- Hip Hop. --- Popular Culture. --- Post-Socialist. --- Society. --- Sociology of Culture. --- Sociology. --- Southeast Asia. --- Urban Culture. --- Vietnam. --- Youth.
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'Women Art Workers' provides a social and cultural history of the Arts and Crafts movement which offers unprecedented insight into how women constructed alternative, creative lifestyles and disseminated the ethos of the social importance of the Arts and Crafts across new local, national, and international spheres of influence.
Women artists --- Arts and crafts movement --- History --- History.. --- Art. --- Arts and Crafts movement. --- Expertise. --- Gender. --- Professions. --- Space. --- Suffrage. --- Urban Culture. --- Women. --- Work.
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With Singapore serving as the subject of exploration, the volume explores the purview of imaginative representations of the city. Alongside the physical structures and associated practices that make up our lived environment, and the conceptualised space engineered into material form by bureaucrats, experts and commercial interests, a perceptual layer of space is conjured out of people's everyday life experiences. While such imaginative projections may not be as tangible as its functional designations, they are nonetheless equally vital and palpable. The richness of its inhabitants' memories, aspirations and meaningful interpretations challenges the reduction of Singapore as a Generic City. Taking the imaginative field as the point of departure, the forms and modes of intellectual and creative articulations of Singapore's urban condition probe the resilience of cities, and the people who reside in them, through the images they convey or evoke as a means for collective expressions of human agency in placemaking.
Cities and towns --- City planning --- Global cities --- Municipalities --- Towns --- Urban areas --- Urban systems --- Human settlements --- Sociology, Urban --- Singapore --- Social life and customs. --- Singapore State-civil society relations Urban culture Place-making Human agency.
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'Madrid on the Move' offers an account of illustrated print culture and the urban experience in nineteenth-century Spain. It provides a fresh account of modernity from a transnational perspective. Drawing on different kinds of printed images and texts, it explores what being modern meant to people in their daily lives.
Printed ephemera --- Civilization, Modern --- History --- Madrid (Spain) --- Social life and customs --- Madrid. --- Spain. --- city life and urban culture. --- global modernities. --- illustrated press. --- modernity. --- nineteenth century. --- popular and print culture. --- social types and customs. --- visual culture and communication.
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urban and regional economic --- urban culture --- urbanism and suburbanism --- city policy and governance --- rural and urban developement --- urban transport --- Cities and towns --- Study and teaching --- Global cities --- Municipalities --- Towns --- Urban areas --- Urban systems --- Human settlements --- Sociology, Urban --- Study and teaching. --- Urban studies --- Communities - Urban Groups --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Social sciences --- Biological anthropology. Palaeoanthropology
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This book explores the role of native place associations in the development of modern Chinese urban society and the role of native-place identity in the development of urban nationalism. From the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century, sojourners from other provinces dominated the population of Shanghai and other expanding commercial Chinese cities. These immigrants formed native place associations beginning in the imperial period and persisting into the mid-twentieth century. Goodman examines the modernization of these associations and argues that under weak urban government, native place sentiment and organization flourished and had a profound effect on city life, social order and urban and national identity.
Social networks --- Rural-urban migration --- East Asia --- Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East --- History & Archaeology --- History --- Shanghai (China) --- Social life and customs. --- Cities and towns, Movement to --- Country-city migration --- Migration, Rural-urban --- Rural exodus --- Networking, Social --- Networks, Social --- Social networking --- Social support systems --- Support systems, Social --- Migration, Internal --- Rural-urban relations --- Urbanization --- Interpersonal relations --- Cliques (Sociology) --- Microblogs --- chinese bureaucracy. --- chinese cities. --- chinese history. --- city life. --- commercial cities. --- customs. --- immigrants. --- immigration. --- local merchants. --- modern china. --- modern history. --- modernization. --- national identity. --- native place associations. --- native place identity. --- native place settlement. --- politics. --- shanghai. --- social history. --- social issues. --- social order. --- sociology. --- traditions. --- urban culture. --- urban government. --- urban history. --- urban nationalism. --- urban society.
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As one of the most influential and popular genres of the last three decades, rap has cultivated a mainstream audience and become a multimillion-dollar industry by promoting highly visible and often controversial representations of blackness. Sounding Race in Rap Songs argues that rap music allows us not only to see but also to hear how mass-mediated culture engenders new understandings of race. The book traces the changing sounds of race across some of the best-known rap songs of the past thirty-five years, combining song-level analysis with historical contextualization to show how these representations of identity depend on specific artistic decisions, such as those related to how producers make beats. Each chapter explores the process behind the production of hit songs by musicians including Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, The Sugarhill Gang, Run-D.M.C., Public Enemy, N.W.A., Dr. Dre, and Eminem. This series of case studies highlights stylistic differences in sound, lyrics, and imagery, with musical examples and illustrations that help answer the core question: can we hear race in rap songs? Integrating theory from interdisciplinary areas, this book will resonate with students and scholars of popular music, race relations, urban culture, ethnomusicology, sound studies, and beyond.
Rap (Music) --- Music and race. --- Race awareness --- Racism in popular culture --- Popular culture --- Race and music --- Race --- Hip-hop music --- Rap songs --- Rappin' (Music) --- Rapping (Music) --- African Americans --- Monologues with music --- Popular music --- Trip hop (Music) --- Social aspects --- blackness. --- dr dre. --- eminem. --- entertainment industry. --- ethnomusicology. --- grandmaster flash and the furious five. --- hearing race. --- imagery. --- interdisciplinary. --- lyrics. --- mass mediated culture. --- music. --- musical genres. --- musical. --- musicians. --- new understandings of race. --- nwa. --- performing arts. --- political. --- popular music. --- public enemy. --- race and nation. --- race relations. --- race. --- rap music. --- rap. --- rappers. --- representations of blackness. --- representations of identity. --- run dmc. --- singers. --- sound studies. --- sound. --- the sugarhill gang. --- urban culture.
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In Beyond the Metropolis, Louise Young looks at the emergence of urbanism in the interwar period, a global moment when the material and ideological structures that constitute "the city" took their characteristic modern shape. In Japan, as elsewhere, cities became the staging ground for wide ranging social, cultural, economic, and political transformations. The rise of social problems, the formation of a consumer marketplace, the proliferation of streetcars and streetcar suburbs, and the cascade of investments in urban development reinvented the city as both socio-spatial form and set of ideas. Young tells this story through the optic of the provincial city, examining four second-tier cities: Sapporo, Kanazawa, Niigata, and Okayama. As prefectural capitals, these cities constituted centers of their respective regions. All four grew at an enormous rate in the interwar decades, much as the metropolitan giants did. In spite of their commonalities, local conditions meant that policies of national development and the vagaries of the business cycle affected individual cities in diverse ways. As their differences reveal, there is no single master narrative of twentieth century modernization. By engaging urban culture beyond the metropolis, this study shows that Japanese modernity was not made in Tokyo and exported to the provinces, but rather co-constituted through the circulation and exchange of people and ideas throughout the country and beyond.
Urbanization --- Cities and towns, Movement to --- Urban development --- Urban systems --- Cities and towns --- Social history --- Sociology, Rural --- Sociology, Urban --- Urban policy --- Rural-urban migration --- History --- Japan --- Civilization --- Social conditions --- J3382 --- J4000.80 --- J4192 --- J6580 --- Japan: History -- Gendai, modern -- early Shōwa, prewar period (1920s-1945) --- Japan: Social history, history of civilization -- Gendai (1926- ), Shōwa period, 20th century --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- communities -- urban groups, the city --- Japan: Art and antiquities -- urban planning --- 1930s. --- 20th century. --- asia. --- asian history. --- culture. --- east asia. --- economic changes. --- history. --- ideological structures. --- individual cities. --- interwar period japan. --- japan social history. --- japan. --- japanese history. --- kanazawa. --- modernization. --- national development. --- niigata. --- okayama. --- political transformation. --- political transformations. --- prefectural capitals. --- regional interest. --- sapporo. --- social problems. --- social transformation. --- sociology. --- urban areas. --- urban culture. --- urban development. --- urban history. --- urbanism.
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Modern developments of Fourier analysis during the 20th century have explored generalizations of Fourier and Fourier–Plancherel formula for non-commutative harmonic analysis, applied to locally-compact, non-Abelian groups. In parallel, the theory of coherent states and wavelets has been generalized over Lie groups. One should add the developments, over the last 30 years, of the applications of harmonic analysis to the description of the fascinating world of aperiodic structures in condensed matter physics. The notions of model sets, introduced by Y. Meyer, and of almost periodic functions, have revealed themselves to be extremely fruitful in this domain of natural sciences.
Cypriot archaeology --- landscape archaeology --- South-Eastern Provence --- hilltop fortresses --- settlement organisation --- Byzantine settlements of eastern Crete --- Graeco-Roman period --- church architecture --- maritime cultural landscapes --- spatial scales in networks --- Roman imperialism --- connectivity --- resource procurement --- hunting --- Moesia Superior --- ancient sanctuaries --- metals trade --- gateways --- entanglements --- economy --- trading mechanisms --- ancient port cities --- trade links --- Populonia --- Roman mining --- central flow theory --- sacred areas --- central places --- river valley --- marginality --- Byzantine bath-houses --- settlement location --- settlement status --- networks --- Mediterranean archaeology --- liminal landscape --- identity --- nodal points --- assemblages --- site location --- Hauran (Syria/Jordan) --- materiality --- religion --- network relationship qualities --- viewshed analysis --- resource management --- Cyprus --- eschatia --- Marseille --- central place theory --- Secular Byzantine architecture --- Byzantine Mochlos --- centrality --- aridity --- settlement organization --- Roman urbanism --- urban culture of Byzantium --- surface survey --- political economy --- supply basin --- water --- central place --- byzantine and medieval port towns --- Marmarica (NW-Egypt) --- sacred space --- Bronze Age --- island and coastal archaeology --- urbanism --- ideology --- medieval Crete --- new materialisms --- political power --- bird hunting --- Arles --- Timacum Minus --- social networks --- byzantine and medieval Peloponnese --- Roman archaeology --- interaction
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This provocative new history of Palestinian Jewish society in antiquity marks the first comprehensive effort to gauge the effects of imperial domination on this people. Probing more than eight centuries of Persian, Greek, and Roman rule, Seth Schwartz reaches some startling conclusions--foremost among them that the Christianization of the Roman Empire generated the most fundamental features of medieval and modern Jewish life. Schwartz begins by arguing that the distinctiveness of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and early Roman periods was the product of generally prevailing imperial tolerance. From around 70 C.E. to the mid-fourth century, with failed revolts and the alluring cultural norms of the High Roman Empire, Judaism all but disintegrated. However, late in the Roman Empire, the Christianized state played a decisive role in ''re-Judaizing'' the Jews. The state gradually excluded them from society while supporting their leaders and recognizing their local communities. It was thus in Late Antiquity that the synagogue-centered community became prevalent among the Jews, that there re-emerged a distinctively Jewish art and literature--laying the foundations for Judaism as we know it today. Through masterful scholarship set in rich detail, this book challenges traditional views rooted in romantic notions about Jewish fortitude. Integrating material relics and literature while setting the Jews in their eastern Mediterranean context, it addresses the complex and varied consequences of imperialism on this vast period of Jewish history more ambitiously than ever before. Imperialism in Jewish Society will be widely read and much debated.
Jews --- Judaism --- Hellenistic Judaism --- Judaism, Hellenistic --- Civilization --- Greek influences. --- History --- Palestine --- Aelia Capitolina. --- Ancient Judaism (book). --- Archaeology. --- Avodah Zarah. --- Bar Kokhba revolt. --- Beit She'an. --- Book of Deuteronomy. --- Cambridge University Press. --- Capernaum. --- Cathedra. --- Christian. --- Christianity. --- Christianization. --- Church Fathers. --- Early Period. --- Eastern Mediterranean. --- Edom. --- Egypt (Roman province). --- Epigraphy. --- Euergetism. --- Exegesis. --- First Jewish–Roman War. --- Galilean. --- Gentile. --- God. --- Grandee. --- Hebrew Bible. --- Hellenistic period. --- Hellenization. --- Herodian. --- Iconography. --- Ideology. --- Idolatry. --- Israel. --- Israelites. --- Jewish Christian. --- Jewish Palestinian Aramaic. --- Jewish culture. --- Jewish diaspora. --- Jewish history. --- Jewish identity. --- Jewish literature. --- Jewish prayer. --- Jewish religious movements. --- Jewish studies. --- Jews. --- Judaism. --- Judaization. --- Judea (Roman province). --- Kohen. --- Late Antiquity. --- Leiden. --- Levine. --- Libanius. --- Lifshitz. --- Literature. --- Maccabean Revolt. --- Menorah (Temple). --- Mishnah. --- Narrative. --- Near East. --- Paganism. --- Palestinian Jews. --- Persecution. --- Pharisees. --- Piyyut. --- Ptolemaic Kingdom. --- Rabbi. --- Rabbinic literature. --- Religion. --- Religiosity. --- Rhetoric. --- Rite. --- Roman Empire. --- Roman Government. --- Samaritans. --- Scythopolis (see). --- Second Temple period. --- Second Temple. --- Sect. --- Sefer (Hebrew). --- Seleucid Empire. --- Seminar. --- Sepphoris. --- Shabbat. --- Synagogue. --- Syria Palaestina. --- Tax. --- Temple in Jerusalem. --- Theology. --- Tiberias. --- Torah reading. --- Torah study. --- Torah. --- Tosefta. --- Tractate. --- Upper Galilee. --- Urban culture. --- Writing. --- Yohanan.
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