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Ripped, torn and cut
Ripped, torn and cut offers a collection of original essays exploring the motivations behind – and the politics within – the multitude of fanzines that emerged in the wake of British punk from 1976. Sniffin’ Glue (1976–77), Mark Perry’s iconic punk fanzine, was but the first of many, paving the way for hundreds of home-made magazines to be cut and pasted in bedrooms across the UK. From these, glimpses into provincial cultures, teenage style wars and formative political ideas may be gleaned. An alternative history, away from the often-condescending glare of London’s media and music industry, can be formulated, drawn from such titles as Ripped ;amp; Torn, Brass Lip, City Fun, Vague, Kill Your Pet Puppy, Toxic Grafity, Hungry Beat and Hard as Nails. Here, in a pre-internet world, we see the development of networks and the dissemination of punk’s cultural impact as it fractured into myriad sub-scenes: industrial, post-punk, anarcho, Oi!, indie, goth. Ripped, torn and cut brings together academic analysis with practitioner accounts to forge a collaborative history ‘from below’. The first book of its kind, this collection reveals the contested nature of punk’s cultural politics by turning the pages of a vibrant underground press.
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Performing Place, Practising Memories
During the 1970s a wave of 'counter-culture' people moved into rural communities in many parts of Australia. This study focuses in particular on the town of Kuranda in North Queensland and the relationship between the settlers and the local Aboriginal population, concentrating on a number of linked social dramas that portrayed the use of both public and private space. Through their public performances and in their everyday spatial encounters, these people resisted the bureaucratic state but, in the process, they also contributed to the cultivation and propagation of state effects.
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Cultures in motion
\"In the wide-ranging and innovative essays of Cultures in Motion, a dozen distinguished historians offer new conceptual vocabularies for understanding how cultures have trespassed across geography and social space. From the transformations of the meanings and practices of charity during late antiquity and the transit of medical knowledge between early modern China and Europe, to the fusion of Irish and African dance forms in early nineteenth-century New York, these essays follow a wide array of cultural practices through the lens of motion, translation, itinerancy, and exchange, extending the insights of transnational and translocal history. Cultures in Motion challenges the premise of fixed, stable cultural systems by showing that cultural practices have always been moving, crossing borders and locations with often surprising effect. The essays offer striking examples from early to modern times of intrusion, translation, resistance, and adaptation. These are histories where nothing--dance rhythms, alchemical formulas, musical practices, feminist aspirations, sewing machines, streamlined metals, or labor networks--remains stationary.\" Publisher's website.
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Critical Issues in Early Israelite History
The origin of the Israelites is one of the most frequently
discussed issues among archaeologists and biblical scholars. Only a
few decades ago, biblical stories such as the Conquest were
heralded as confirmed by archaeology. But in the 1970s, Thomas L.
Thompson and John Van Seters were in the vanguard of a movement
among scholars that was intent on reassessing the historical
reliability of the biblical narratives. This reassessment gained
momentum during the 1980s and 1990s; today, the mainstream opinion
is that there was no Conquest, and the Israelites, if they can be
identified as a national entity or as a people, did not arrive in
Canaan by means of a military conquest.
For three days in March 2004, a group of scholars met to
consider the state of the question and to provide a response to the
predominant academic skepticism, a response that considers the
biblical text to be an important datum in the construction of the
history of the people of Israel. To do so, the authors of the
papers read at the conference take into account both biblical and
extrabiblical literary evidence, as well as the contributions of
archaeology, to describe as completely as possible what may be
known about the early history of Israel. Critical Issues in
Early Israelite History publishes the papers read at this
conference in the hope that the result will be a balanced portrayal
of this watershed event based on all of the currently available
evidence.
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Different cultures
In this book, beginning readers will learn about diversity, culturally influenced behaviors, and practices people bring to our society.
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