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Spectacular Vernaculars examines hip-hop's cultural rebellion in terms of its specific implications for postmodern theory and practice, using the politics of reception as its primary rhetorical ground. Hip-hop culture in general, and rap music in particular, present model sites for such an inquiry, since they enact both postmodern modes of production--the appropriation of tropes, technologies, and material culture--and a potential means of resistance to the commodification of cultural forms under late capitalism. By paying specific attention to the historical and cultural context of hip-hop as a black artform and locating its practice of resistance in terms of a postmodernist reading of consumer culture, this book offers a complex reading of hip-hop as a postmodern practice, with implications both for theories of postmodernism and cultural studies as a whole [Publisher description].

Postmodernism. --- Rap (Music) --- Political aspects. --- Postmodernism --- Hip-hop --- Political aspects

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May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth collects the private correspondence of the officers and sailors who set out in May 1845 on the Erebus and Terror for Sir John Franklin's fateful Arctic expedition, providing new insights into the personalities of those on board, the voyage's significance, and the dawning realization that they might never return.

Discoveries in geography. --- Explorers --- Sailors --- 19th Century. --- Anglo-Irish explorers. --- Archipelago. --- Arctic sovereignty. --- Canadian. --- Daguerreotype. --- Exploration. --- Inuit. --- Orkney. --- Royal Navy. --- Tasmanian. --- West Greenland. --- Whaling. --- correspondence. --- cultural contact. --- engineering. --- global warming. --- history. --- ice conditions. --- icebergs. --- literacy. --- material culture. --- natural. --- naturalists. --- naval ships. --- nineteenth. --- photography. --- shipboard life. --- signals. --- social class. --- steam-powered. --- terminology. --- writing. --- Great Britain. --- Grande-Bretagne. --- John Franklin Arctic Expedition --- Officers --- Officiers --- Northwest Passage --- Arctique --- Nord-Ouest, Passage du --- Arctic Ocean --- Arctic Regions. --- Discovery and exploration --- British --- Découverte et exploration britanniques