"Why would a punk band popular only in Indonesia cut songs in no other language than English? If you're rapping in Tanzania and Malawi, where hip hop has a growing audience, what do you rhyme in? Swahili? Chichewa? English? Some combination of these? Global Pop, Local Language examines how performers and audiences from a wide range of cultures deal with the issue of language choice and dialect in popular music. Related issues confront ..."
Music/Culture Ser. Identity and Everyday Life : Essays in the Study of Folklore, Music and Popular Culture von HarrisM. Berger, Giovanna Del Negro Hardcover, 232 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2004 von Wesleyan University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8195-6686-7, ISBN: 0-8195-6686-1
"Identity and Everyday Life A critical examination of core issues in social and cultural theory. Full description"
"During the past three decades, heavy metal music has gone global, becoming a potent source of meaning and identity for fans around the world. In "Metal Rules the Globe," ethnographers and some of the foremost authorities in the burgeoning field of metal studies analyze this dramatic expansion of heavy metal music and culture. They take readers inside metal scenes in Brazil, Canada, China, Easter Island, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Malaysi ..."
"... Roden , 93–99 . Los Angeles : Errant Bodies Press ; Smart Art Press . Chion , Michel . 1994. Audio - vision : Sound on Screen . Translated by Claudia Gorbman . New York : Columbia University Press . Connor , Steven ... Martin Thom . London ..."
"Theory for Ethnomusicology: Histories, Conversations, Insights, Second Edition, is a foundational work for courses in ethnomusicological theory. The book examines key intellectual movements and topic areas in social and cultural theory, and explores the way they have been taken up in ethnomusicological research. New co-author Harris M. Berger and Ruth M. Stone investigate the discipline’s past, present, and future, reflecting on contemp ..."
Stance(1st Edition) Ideas about Emotion, Style, and Meaning for the Study of Expressive Culture (Music/Culture) von HarrisM. Berger, Agha Shahid Ali Hardcover, 200 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2010 von Wesleyan ISBN-13: 978-0-8195-6877-9, ISBN: 0-8195-6877-5
"Why does music move us? How do the immediate situation and larger social contexts influence the meanings that people find in stories, rituals, or films? How do people engage with the images and sounds of a performance to make them come alive in sensuous, lived experience? Exploring these questions, Stance presents a major new theory of emotion, style, and meaning for the study of expressive culture. In clear language, the book reveals d ..."
Music Culture Ser. Metal, Rock, and Jazz : Perception and the Phenomenology of Musical Experience von HarrisM. Berger Hardcover, 350 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1999 von Wesleyan ISBN-13: 978-0-8195-6371-2, ISBN: 0-8195-6371-4
"I extend my thanks to Patrick Leary who helped copyedit an earlier version of
the manuscript and to Barbara Weis and Michel Leonard who prepared the ..."
Women in America Social and Economic Achievements and Challenges (Women's Studies) von Charlotte G. Harris, Andrea M. Berger Hardcover, 132 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2011 von Nova Science Publishers Inc ISBN-13: 978-1-61324-582-8, ISBN: 1-61324-582-3
"This book provides a statistical picture of women in America in five critical areas: demographic and family changes, education, employment, health, and crime and violence."
" Jacob Katz (1904-1998) was one of the greatest Jewish historians of the twentieth century. A pioneer of new foci and methods, Katz brought extraordinary insights to many aspects of Jewish life and its surrounding contexts. With a keen eye for both "forests" and "trees," Katz transformed our understanding of many areas of Jewish history, among them: Jewish-Christian relations in the Middle Ages, the social-historical significance of ..."