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Toward a Chican Hip Hop Anti-colonialism

Toward a Chican Hip Hop Anti-colonialism

Toward a Chican@ Hip Hop Anti-Colonialism makes visible the anti-colonial alterNative politics in hip hop texts created by Chican@s and Xican@s (indigenous-identified people of Mexican descent in the United States). McFarland builds on indigenous knowledge anarchism and transnational feminism to identify the emancipating power of Chican@ and Xican@ hip hop including how women and non-gender conforming (two-spirit) MCs open up inclusive alterNative spaces that challenge colonialism and capitalism. | Toward a Chican Hip Hop Anti-colonialism

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Reimagining Sample-based Hip Hop Making Records within Records

Reimagining Sample-based Hip Hop Making Records within Records

Reimagining Sample-based Hip Hop: Making Records within Records presents the poetics of hip-hop record production and the significance of sample material in record making providing analysis of key releases in hip-hop discography and interviews with experts from the world of Hip Hop and beyond. Beginning with the history of hip-hop music making this book guides the reader through the alternative techniques deployed by beat-makers to avoid the use of copyrighted samples and concludes with a consideration of the future of Hip Hop alongside a companion album that has been created using findings from this research. Challenging previous theoretical understandings about Hip Hop the author focuses on deconstructing sonic phenomena using his hands-on engineering expertise and in-depth musicological knowledge about record production. With a significant emphasis on both practice and theory Reimagining Sample-based Hip Hop will be of interest to advanced undergraduates postgraduates and researchers working in audio engineering music production hip-hop studies and musicology. | Reimagining Sample-based Hip Hop Making Records within Records

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Hip Hop Versus Rap The Politics of Droppin' Knowledge

Hip Hop Versus Rap The Politics of Droppin' Knowledge

'What is the real hip hop?' 'To whom does hip hop belong?' 'For what constructive purposes can hip hop be put to use?' These are three key questions posed by hip hop activists in Hip Hop Versus Rap which explores the politics of cultural authenticity ownership and uplift in London’s post-hip hop scene. The book is an ethnographic study of the identity role formation and practices of the organic intellectuals that populate and propagate this ‘conscious’ hip hop milieu. Turner provides an insightful examination of the work of artists and practitioners who use hip hop ‘off-street’ in the spheres of youth work education and theatre to raise consciousness and to develop artistic and personal skills. Hip Hop Versus Rap seeks to portray how cultural activism which styles itself grassroots and mature is framed around a discursive opposition between what is authentic and ethical in hip hop culture and what is counterfeit and corrupt. Turner identifies that this play of difference framed as an ethical schism also presents hip hop’s organic intellectuals with a narrative that enables them to align their insurgent values with those of policy and to thereby receive institutional support. This enlightening volume will be of interest to post-graduates and scholars interested in hip hop studies; youth work; critical pedagogy; young people and crime/justice; the politics of race/racism; the politics of youth/education; urban governance; social movement studies; street culture studies; and vernacular studies. | Hip Hop Versus Rap The Politics of Droppin' Knowledge

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Cloud-Based Music Production Sampling Synthesis and Hip-Hop

Cloud-Based Music Production Sampling Synthesis and Hip-Hop

Cloud-Based Music Production: Samples Synthesis and Hip-Hop presents a discussion on cloud-based music-making procedures and the musical competencies required to make hip-hop beats. By investigating how hip-hop producers make music using cloud-based music production libraries this book reveals how those services impact music production en masse. Cloud-Based Music Production takes the reader through the creation of hip-hop beats from start to finish – from selecting samples and synthesizer presets to foundational mixing practices – and includes analysis and discussion of how various samples and synthesizers work together within an arrangement. Through case studies and online audio examples Shelvock explains how music producers directly modify the sonic characteristics of hip-hop sounds to suit their tastes and elucidates the psychoacoustic and perceptual impact of these aesthetically nuanced music production tasks. Cloud-Based Music Production will be of interest to musicians producers mixers and engineers and also provides essential supplementary reading for music technology courses. | Cloud-Based Music Production Sampling Synthesis and Hip-Hop

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Hip-Hop and Spoken Word Therapy in School Counseling Developing Culturally Responsive Approaches

Hip-Hop and Spoken Word Therapy in School Counseling Developing Culturally Responsive Approaches

This volume recognizes the need for culturally responsive forms of school counseling and draws on the author’s first-hand experiences of working with students in urban schools in the United States to illustrate how hip-hop culture can be effectively integrated into school counseling to benefit and support students. Detailing the theoretical development practical implementation and empirical evaluation of a holistic approach to school counseling dubbed Hip-Hop and Spoken Word Therapy (HHSWT) this volume documents the experiences of the school counsellor and students throughout a HHSWT pilot program in an urban high school. Chapters detail the socio-cultural roots of hip-hop and explain how hip-hop inspired practices such as writing lyrics producing mix tapes and using traditional hip-hop cyphers can offer an effective means of transcending White western approaches to counseling. The volume foregrounds the needs of racially diverse marginalized youth whilst also addressing the role and positioning of the school counselor in using HHSWT. Offering deep insights into the practical and conceptual challenges and benefits of this inspiring approach this book will be a useful resource for practitioners and scholars working at the intersections of culturally responsive and relevant forms of school counseling spoken word therapy and hip-hop studies. | Hip-Hop and Spoken Word Therapy in School Counseling Developing Culturally Responsive Approaches

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Hip-Hop Authenticity and the London Scene Living Out Authenticity in Popular Music

Hip-Hop Authenticity and the London Scene Living Out Authenticity in Popular Music

This book explores the highly-valued and often highly-charged ideal of authenticity in hip-hop — what it is why it is important and how it affects the day-to-day life of rap artists. By analyzing the practices identities and struggles that shape the lives of rappers in the London scene the study exposes the strategies and tactics that hip-hop practitioners engage in to negotiate authenticity on an everyday basis. In-depth interviews and fieldwork provide insight into the nature of authenticity in global hip-hop and the dynamics of cultural appropriation globalization marketization and digitization through a combined set of ethnographic theoretical and cultural analysis. Despite growing attention to authenticity in popular music this book is the first to offer a comprehensive theoretical model explaining the reflexive approaches hip-hop artists adopt to ‘live out’ authenticity in everyday life. This model will act as a blueprint for new studies in global hip-hop and be generative in other authenticity research and for other music genres such as punk rock and roll country and blues that share similar issues surrounding contested artist authenticity. | Hip-Hop Authenticity and the London Scene Living Out Authenticity in Popular Music

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Teaching with Hip Hop in the 7-12 Grade Classroom A Guide to Supporting Students’ Critical Development Through Popular Texts

Teaching with Hip Hop in the 7-12 Grade Classroom A Guide to Supporting Students’ Critical Development Through Popular Texts

This book presents practical approaches for engaging with Hip Hop music and culture in the classroom. As the most popular form of music and youth culture today Hip Hop is a powerful medium through which students can explore their identities and locate themselves in our social world. Designed for novice and veteran teachers this book is filled with pedagogical tools strategies lesson plans and real-world guidance on integrating Hip Hop into the curriculum. Through a wide range of approaches and insights Lauren Leigh Kelly invites teachers to look to popular media culture to support students’ development and critical engagement with texts. Covering classroom practice assessment strategies and curricular and standards-based guidelines the lessons in this book will bolster students’ linguistic and critical thinking skills and help students to better understand and act upon the societal forces around them. The varied activities assignments and handouts are designed to inspire teachers and easily facilitate modification of the assignments to suit their own contexts. The impact of Hip Hop on youth culture is undeniable now more than ever; this is the perfect book for teachers who want to connect with their students support meaning-making in the classroom affirm the validity of youth culture and foster an inclusive and engaging classroom environment. | Teaching with Hip Hop in the 7-12 Grade Classroom A Guide to Supporting Students’ Critical Development Through Popular Texts

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UK Hip-Hop Grime and the City The Aesthetics and Ethics of London's Rap Scenes

UK Hip-Hop Grime and the City The Aesthetics and Ethics of London's Rap Scenes

Young people in London have contributed to the production of a distinctively British rap culture. This book moves beyond accounts of Hip-Hop’s marginality and shows with an examination of the production dissemination and use of rap in London how this cultural form plays an important role in the everyday lives of young Londoners and the formation of identities. Through in-depth interviews with a range of leading and emerging rap artists close analysis of rap music tracks and over two years of ethnographic research of London’s UK Hip-Hop and Grime scenes the author examines how black and white urban youths use rap to come together to explore their creative abilities. By combining these methodological approaches in the development of a critical participant observation the book reveals how the collaborative work of these urban youths produced these politically significant subcultures through which they resist unfair and illegitimate policing practices and attempt to develop their economic autonomy in a city marred by immense social and economic inequalities. | UK Hip-Hop Grime and the City The Aesthetics and Ethics of London's Rap Scenes

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Turkic Soundscapes From Shamanic Voices to Hip-Hop

Turkic Soundscapes From Shamanic Voices to Hip-Hop

The Turkic soundscape is both geographically huge and culturally diverse (twenty-eight countries republics and districts extending from Eastern Europe through the Caucasus and throughout Central Asia). Although the Turkic peoples of the world can trace their linguistic and genetic ancestries to common sources their extensive geographical dispersion and widely varying historical and political experiences have generated a range of different expressive music forms. In addition the break-up of the Soviet Union and increasing globalization have resulted in the emergence of new viewpoints on classical and folk traditions Turkic versions of globalized popular culture and re-workings of folk and religious practices to fit new social needs. In line with the opening up of many Turkic regions in the post-Soviet era awareness of scholarship from these regions has also increased. Consisting of twelve individual contributions that reflect the geographical breadth of the area under study the collection addresses animist and Islamic religious songs; the historical development of Turkic musical instruments; ethnography and analysis of classical court music traditions; cross-cultural influences throughout the Turkic world; music and mass media; and popular music in traditional contexts. The result is a well-balanced survey of music in the Turkic-speaking world representing folk popular and classical traditions equally as well as discussing how these traditions have changed in response to growing modernity and cosmopolitanism in Europe and Central Asia. | Turkic Soundscapes From Shamanic Voices to Hip-Hop

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Europe's Green Ring

Europe's Green Ring

Around the fringe of Europe lies a green ring of countries which have followed different pathways into modernity from the industrial core of the continent and have until recently been characterized by a strong agrarian presence in their politics economy and culture. This book brings together case studies from both the post-socialist countries and EU member states which make up the green ring to compare experiences of rural and agricultural groups. It provides a fascinating opportunity to identify similarities and contrasts in the ways in which these countries have managed their rural areas when faced with the challenges set by industrialization political integration and globalization. The book focuses on agrarian transformation as de- (and sometimes re- ) peasantization - referring to the changing economic social cultural and political positions of farmers and food production workers. It also problematizes the standard rural models and opens up discussion of the problems these models pose for the farmers of the green ring countries. | Europe's Green Ring

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Kendrick Lamar and the Making of Black Meaning

Kendrick Lamar and the Making of Black Meaning

Kendrick Lamar has established himself at the forefront of contemporary hip-hop culture. Artistically adventurous and socially conscious he has been unapologetic in using his art form rap music to address issues affecting black lives while also exploring subjects fundamental to the human experience such as religious belief. This book is the first to provide an interdisciplinary academic analysis of the impact of Lamar’s corpus. In doing so it highlights how Lamar’s music reflects current tensions that are keenly felt when dealing with the subjects of race religion and politics. Starting with Section 80 and ending with DAMN. this book deals with each of Lamar’s four major projects in turn. A panel of academics journalists and hip-hop practitioners show how religion in particular black spiritualties take a front-and-center role in his work. They also observe that his astute and biting thoughts on race and culture may come from an African American perspective but many find something familiar in Lamar’s lyrical testimony across great chasms of social and geographical difference. This sophisticated exploration of one of popular culture’s emerging icons reveals a complex and multi faceted engagement with religion faith race art and culture. As such it will be vital reading for anyone working in religious African American and hip-hop studies as well as scholars of music media and popular culture. | Kendrick Lamar and the Making of Black Meaning

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Grim Phantasms Fear in Poe's Short Fiction

Grim Phantasms Fear in Poe's Short Fiction

This title originally published in 1992 presents an assessment of Poe’s short stories that treat horror and more specifically how he manipulated the conventions of that horror to register subtly on the fears and phobias of his reading audiences. Short-stories examined include The Black Cat Hop-Frog and Morella. This title also explores the theories of Stephen King and Benjamin Rush on the horror genre. This title will be of great interest to students of American Literature. | Grim Phantasms Fear in Poe's Short Fiction

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The Economics of International Environmental Agreements

The Economics of International Environmental Agreements

This title was first published in 2000: Conflicts between developed and developing countries over global environmental problems and the fact that the co-operation required to solve environmental collective action problems is typically elusive in the world of international relations suggests a research agenda regarding how one might hop to bring about co-operation in an inherently non-co-operative international setting. In particular what can economic theory tell us about the design of international environmental agreements (IEAs) that will protect the world's fragile environmental resources? This book collects work on IEAs which demonstrates the value of rigorous microeconomic and econometric modelling in comprehending the many and varied facets of the design and implementation in IEAs. | The Economics of International Environmental Agreements

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Dance Appreciation

Dance Appreciation

Dance Appreciation is an exciting exploration of how to understand and think about dance in all of its various contexts. This book unfolds a brief history of dance with engaging insight into the social cultural aesthetic and kinetic aspects of various forms of dance. Dedicated chapters cover ballet modern tap jazz and hip-hop dance complete with summaries charts timelines discussion questions movement prompts and an online companion website all designed to foster awareness of and appreciation for dance in a variety of contexts. This wealth of resources helps to uncover the fascinating history that makes this art form so diverse and entertaining and to answer the questions of why we dance and how we dance. Written for the novice dancer as well as the more experienced dance student Dance Appreciation enables readers to learn and think critically about dance as a form of entertainment and art.

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Digital Sampling The Design and Use of Music Technologies

Digital Sampling The Design and Use of Music Technologies

Digital Sampling is the first book about the design and use of sampling technologies that have shaped the sounds of popular music since the 1980s. Written in two parts Digital Sampling begins with an exploration of the Fairlight CMI and how artists like Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel used it to sample the sounds of everyday life. It also focuses on E-mu Systems and the use of its keyboards and drum machines in hip-hop. The second part follows users across a range of musical worlds including US/UK garage indie folk music and electronic music made from the sounds of sewers war zones and crematoriums. Using material from interviews and concepts from the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) Digital Sampling provides a new and alternative approach to the study of sampling and is crucial reading for undergraduates postgraduates and researchers from a wide range of disciplines including music technology media communication and cultural studies. | Digital Sampling The Design and Use of Music Technologies

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The Routledge Dance Studies Reader

The Routledge Dance Studies Reader

The Routledge Dance Studies Reader has been expanded and updated giving readers access to thirty-seven essential texts that address the social political cultural and economic impact of globalization on embodiment and choreography. These interdisciplinary essays in dance scholarship consider a broad range of dance forms in relation to historical ethnographic and interdisciplinary research methods including cultural studies reconstruction media studies and popular culture. This new third edition expands both its geographic and cultural focus to include recent research on dance from Southeast Asia the People’s Republic of China indigenous dance and new sections on market forces and mediatization. Sections cover: Methods and approaches Practice and performance Dance as embodied ideology Dance on the market and in the media Formations of the field. The Routledge Dance Studies Reader includes essays on concert dance (ballet modern and postmodern dance tap kathak and classical khmer dance) popular dance (salsa and hip-hop) site-specific performance digital choreography and lecture-performances. It is a vital resource for anyone interested in understanding dance from a global and contemporary perspective.

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Commercial Dance An Essential Guide

Commercial Dance An Essential Guide

This is an exploration of the vital and rapidly evolving world of Commercial Dance tracing the evolution and merging of Hip-Hop Club and Jazz dance styles from the music videos of the early 1980s to today's huge influence on pop music and dance in a multi-media culture. Chapters including ‘Iconic Moments’ and ‘Main Movers’ contextualise and analyse culturally significant works and choreographers. With direct contributions from an international array of industry leading dancers choreographers and creatives - including JaQuel Knight (Beyonce’s choreographer) Rich + Tone Talauega (Madonna & Michael Jackson collaborators) Rebbi Rosie (Rihanna’s dancer) Dean Lee (Janet Jackson’s choreographer) and Kiel Tutin (BLACKPINK’s choreographer) - this book shines a light on the creatives in the Commercial Dance industry who have made significant impacts not just on the world of dance but on popular culture itself. Chapters discussing dance history copyright law inclusivity and dance class culture as well as additional contributions from dance scholars enable this book to give credence to Commercial Dance as a legitimate academic area of study. This is a complete and comprehensive textbook for all dance students at any level of study on college university or conservatory courses. | Commercial Dance An Essential Guide

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The Soul of Learning rituals of awakening magnetic pedagogy and living justice

The Soul of Learning rituals of awakening magnetic pedagogy and living justice

The Soul of Learning is a groundbreaking book that bridges together cultural work contemplative practices and ancient scriptures. Inside each chapter readers are challenged and inspired to come face-to-face with themselves as they encounter teachers in all forms—from spiritual sages to critical theorists from prophets to poets from hip-hop rappers to reggae artists. This book is multifaceted and multidisciplinary. It models the essence of education by offering multiple entry points into holistic learning: somatic aesthetic emotional intellectual ethical relational and spiritual. The Soul of Learning embodies a pedagogical disruption in pursuit of personal sovereignty. What process must we go through to reimagine ourselves in relation to each other and the world around us? This book offers a semblance of an answer. As a way to bring the sacred into schooling Keator and Watson courageously connect spirituality activism and education through curated readings guided activities and intentional exercises. It’s a ready-to-go syllabus and hands-on workbook all in one! Altogether this book is revelatory and provides innovative ways to teach and learn lead and live. The Soul of Learning documents a transformative journey through the interiority of our being into a revolutionary call for collective belonging. | The Soul of Learning rituals of awakening magnetic pedagogy and living justice

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Horror Noire A History of Black American Horror from the 1890s to Present

Horror Noire A History of Black American Horror from the 1890s to Present

From King Kong to Candyman the boundary-pushing genre of horror film has always been a site for provocative explorations of race in American popular culture. This book offers a comprehensive chronological survey of Black horror from the 1890s to present day. In this second edition Robin R. Means Coleman expands upon the history of notable characterizations of Blackness in horror cinema with new chapters spanning the 1960s 2000s and 2010s to the present and examines key levels of Black participation on screen and behind the camera. The book addresses a full range of Black horror films including mainstream Hollywood fare art-house films Blaxploitation films and U. S. hip-hop culture-inspired Nollywood films. This new edition also explores the resurgence of the Black horror genre in the last decade examining the success of Jordan Peele’s films Get Out (2017) and Us (2019) smaller independent films such as The House Invictus (2018) and Nia DaCosta’s sequel to Candyman (2021). Means Coleman argues that horror offers a unique representational space for Black people to challenge negative or racist portrayals and to portray greater diversity within the concept of Blackness itself. This book is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how fears and anxieties about race and race relations are made manifest and often challenged on the silver screen. | Horror Noire A History of Black American Horror from the 1890s to Present

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Venus in the Dark Blackness and Beauty in Popular Culture

Venus in the Dark Blackness and Beauty in Popular Culture

In this second edition of the remarkable and now classic cultural history of black women’s beauty Venus in the Dark Janell Hobson explores the enduring figure of the Hottentot Venus and the history of critical and artistic responses to her by black women in contemporary photography film literature music and dance. In 1810 Sara Baartman was taken from South Africa to Europe where she was put on display at circuses salons museums and universities as the Hottentot Venus. The subsequent legacy of representations of black women’s sexuality—from Josephine Baker to Serena Williams to hip-hop and dancehall videos—refer back to her iconic image. Via a new preface Hobson argues for the continuing influence of Baartman’s legacy as her image still reverberates through the contemporary marketization of black women’s bodies from popular music and pornography to advertising. A brand new chapter explores how historical echoes from previous eras map onto highly visible bodies in the twenty-first century. It analyzes fetishistic spectacles of the black booty with particular emphasis on the role of Beyoncé Knowles in the popularization of the bootylicious body and the counter-aesthetic the singer has gone on to advance for black women’s bodies and beauty politics. By studying the imagery of the Hottentot Venus from the nineteenth century to now readers are invited to confront the racial and sexual objectification and embodied resistance that make up a significant part of black women’s experience. | Venus in the Dark Blackness and Beauty in Popular Culture

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Senses of the Empire Multisensory Approaches to Roman Culture

Senses of the Empire Multisensory Approaches to Roman Culture

The Roman empire afforded a kaleidoscope of sensations. Through a series of multisensory case studies centred on people places buildings and artefacts and on specific aspects of human behaviour this volume develops ground-breaking methods and approaches for sensory studies in Roman archaeology and ancient history. Authors explore questions such as: what it felt like and symbolised to be showered with saffron at the amphitheatre; why the shape of a dancer’s body made him immediately recognisable as a social outcast; how the dramatic gestures loud noises and unforgettable smells of a funeral would have different meanings for members of the family and for bystanders; and why feeling the weight of a signet ring on his finger contributed to a man’s sense of identity. A multisensory approach is taken throughout with each chapter exploring at least two of the senses of sight hearing smell taste and touch. The contributors’ individual approaches vary reflecting the possibilities and the wide application of sensory studies to the ancient world. Underlying all chapters is a conviction that taking a multisensory approach enriches our understanding of the Roman empire but also an awareness of the methodological problems encountered when reconstructing past experiences. | Senses of the Empire Multisensory Approaches to Roman Culture

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Winning Habits How Elite Equestrians Master the Mental Game

Winning Habits How Elite Equestrians Master the Mental Game

A unique and groundbreaking analysis of how to succeed in equestrian sport this book unpacks the winning habits of successful equestrians to form a toolkit for readers to develop their own winning habits. Applying psychological understanding in peak performance this book is bolstered by interviews with top contemporary professional show jumping athletes to explore and show how leading equestrians have interpreted various methods and built them into approaches for their own training. Theoretical concepts such as mindset deliberate practice focus and flow are broken down and translated into practical steps for a more powerful and effective way of thinking training and performing. Renowned equestrian mental coach Annette Paterakis reveals factors of success as well as answers common questions from building lasting confidence to responding to failure. Smashing the myths of talent and hard work Paterakis offers a refreshing take on mindset focus and approach to success both in and out of the show ring. An essential read for anyone who would like to learn about or improve their mental game this book is uniquely suited for equestrian riders coaches and other athletes as well as offering supplementary reading for applied sport psychology courses. | Winning Habits How Elite Equestrians Master the Mental Game

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Ocean as Method Thinking with the Maritime

Ocean as Method Thinking with the Maritime

Ocean as Method presents a new way of thinking about the humanities and the social sciences. It explores maritime connections in social and humanistic research and puts forward an alternative to national histories and area studies. As global warming and rising sea levels ring alarm bells across the world the chapters in the volume argue that it is time to think through oceans to realign discourses which better understand our future. The volume: • Engages with the paradigms of oceanic narratives to identify connections between continents through trade migration and economic processes thinking beyond the artificial distinctions between the Pacific Atlantic and Indian Oceans; • Discusses oceanic travel accounts by Muslim travellers to counter the idea that the colonial era was marked by European travel to Asia and Africa without a counterflow of “native travel”; •Examines the connections between South Africa South Asia and South East Asia through histories of Indian indenture and the slave trade and engages with the idea of the ocean and enforced movement; •Compares and connects recent scholarship in the social sciences and the humanities centring the ocean to break away from inherited paradigms which have shaped world history so far. As a unique transdisciplinary collaboration this volume will be of much interest to scholars and researchers of history especially oceanic history historiography critical theory literature geography and Global South studies. | Ocean as Method Thinking with the Maritime

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Shakespeare Adaptation Psychoanalysis Better than New

Shakespeare Adaptation Psychoanalysis Better than New

In Shakespeare Adaptation Psychoanalysis Matthew Biberman analyzes early adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays in order to identify and illustrate how both social mores and basic human psychology have changed in Anglo-American culture. Biberman contests the received wisdom that Shakespeare’s characters reflect essentially timeless truths about human nature. To the contrary he points out that Shakespeare’s characters sometimes act and think in ways that have become either stigmatized or simply outmoded. Through his study of the adaptations Biberman pinpoints aspects of Shakespeare’s thinking about behavior and psychology that no longer ring true because circumstances have changed so dramatically between his time and the time of the adaptation. He shows how the adaptors’ changes reveal key differences between Shakespeare’s culture and the culture that then supplanted it. These changes once grasped reveal retroactively some of the ways in which Shakespeare’s characters do not act and think as we might expect them to act and think. Thus Biberman counters Harold Bloom’s claim that Shakespeare fundamentally invents our sense of the human; rather he argues our sense of the human is equally bound up in the many ways that modern culture has come to resist or outright reject the behavior we see in Shakespeare’s plays. Ultimately our current sense of 'the human' is bound up not with the adoption of Shakespeare’s psychology perhaps but its adaption-or in psychoanalytic terms its repression and replacement. | Shakespeare Adaptation Psychoanalysis Better than New

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