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From Kung Fu to Hip Hop
From Kung Fu to Hip Hop looks at the revolutionary
potential of popular culture in the sociohistorical context of
globalization. Author M. T. Kato examines Bruce Lee's movies, the
countercultural aesthetics of Jimi Hendrix, and the autonomy of the
hip hop nation to reveal the emerging revolutionary paradigm in
popular culture. The analysis is contextualized in a discussion of
social movements from the popular struggle against neoimperialism
in Asia, to the antiglobalization movements in the Third World, and
to the global popular alliances for the reconstruction of an
alternative world. Kato presents popular cultural revolution as a
mirror image of decolonization struggles in an era of
globalization, where progressive artistic expressions are aligned
with new modes of subjectivity and collective identity.
eBook
Mediterranean Mosaic
First published in 2003. The Mediterranean region, which includes Turkey, the Middle East, and North Africa, along with Italy, Greece, Spain and other European countries, encompasses a plethora of diverse but also interconnected cultures. The musical styles are just as diverse. Mediterranean Mosaic weaves together issues of music contemporary geopolitics and identity struggles. Acknowledging the region's historical legacy, it examines the ebb and flow of traditional musics within the region as well as outside influences on these traditions. Topics covered include: Klapa singing and Cha Wave from Croatia, the pop group Alibina, Pop-Rai from Algeria, and jazz in the Mediterranean. Also includes 20 musical examples.
eBook
An analytical study of percussion literature influenced by Eastern musical practice
This paper aims to fill in a gap in percussion research by providing analyses on several significant percussion works that have been influenced by Eastern musical practice with Wind in the Bamboo Grove by Keiko Abe, Rain Tree by Toru Takemitsu, and Kembang Suling by Gareth Farr. The paper also provides an analysis on improvisational jazz in George Gershwin’s Someone to Watch over Me and focuses on compositional devices used in percussion notation through Western and Eastern music with Nebojsa Zivkovic’s Pezzo Da Concerto and Michio Kitazume’s Side by Side. Although not influenced by Eastern music, these pieces in turn inspired Eastern composers by expanding twentieth century music composition. The percussion literature analyzed within this document expresses the differences between the Western and Eastern styles by providing a synthesis that can be attained through performance. These percussion pieces are part of a growing library of literature further developing the solo percussion repertoire. The performance analyses in each chapter will examine the approaches exhibited in the composition along with the instrumentation as it pertains to the Eastern influenced harmonic language. The knowledge gained by both the Western and Eastern approach to music can be utilized to develop a well-rounded percussionist.
Dissertation
Seven Rhapsodies of Ts'ao Chih
To scholars of the present day the fu or \"rhapsody\" remains yet a rather neglected genre of Chinese poetry, even though it was of great importance to writers from the Han (206 B. C.-A. D. 220) through the T'ang (618-907) dynasties. Ts'ao Chih (192-232), the most famous of third-century poets, has more than half as many fu extant as shih-poems, but these have been largely and unfairly ignored. This paper presents seven of Ts'ao Chih's fu, with comments on some related matters.
Journal Article