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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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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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Rich with details of everyday life, this multifaceted social and cultural history of China's leading metropolis in the twentieth century offers a kaleidoscopic view of Shanghai as the major site of Chinese modernization. Engaging the entire span of Shanghai's modern history from the Opium War to the eve of the Communist takeover in 1949, Wen-hsin Yeh traces the evolution of a dazzling urban culture that became alternately isolated from and intertwined with China's tumultuous history. Looking in particular at Shanghai's leading banks, publishing enterprises, and department stores, she sketches the rise of a new maritime and capitalist economic culture among the city's middle class. Making extensive use of urban tales and visual representations, the book captures urbanite voices as it uncovers the sociocultural dynamics that shaped the people and their politics.

Merchants --- History. --- China --- Economic conditions --- Politics and government --- 1940s. --- 20th century. --- asia. --- asian history. --- banks. --- capitalism. --- capitalist. --- china. --- chinese history. --- communism. --- communist takeover. --- communist. --- cultural history. --- cultural studies. --- department stores. --- economic. --- economics. --- economy. --- evolution. --- maritime. --- metropolis. --- middle class. --- modern history. --- modernization. --- opium war. --- political. --- politics. --- publishing. --- shanghai. --- social history. --- social studies. --- sociocultural. --- urban culture. --- urban. --- world history.

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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.