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Global Pop, Local Language(1st Edition)
von Michael Thomas Carroll, Harris M. Berger
Paperback, 352 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2003 von University Press Of Mississippi
ISBN-13: 978-1-57806-536-3, ISBN: 1-57806-536-4

"Cultural Studies -- Ethnomusicology-- 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 po ..."

Global Pop, Local Language
von Harris M. Berger, Michael Thomas Carroll
Hardcover, 352 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2003 von University Press Of Mississippi
ISBN-13: 978-1-57806-535-6, ISBN: 1-57806-535-6

"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 ..."

Global Pop, Local Language
von Harris M. Berger, Michael Thomas Carroll
352 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2003 von Univ. Press Of Mississippi
ISBN-13: 978-1-60473-803-2, ISBN: 1-60473-803-0

"directly in the work of another rap group, Silent Majority, which is based in Switzerland and raps in a mixture of English, Jamaican patois, French, Spanish, and Swahili. Referring to themselves as “funky multilinguals,” Silent Majority's members foreground their collective linguistic dexterity in a track entitled “Dans une autre langue” (In another language). In it, guest Spanish rapper MC Carlos from the bilingual Lausanne-based ..."

Phenomenological Approaches
To Popular Culture (Hardcover)
von Editor-Eddie Tafoya, Michael Thomas Carroll, Michael Carroll
Hardcover, 269 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2003 von Bowling Green University Popular Press,Us
ISBN-13: 978-0-87972-809-0, ISBN: 0-87972-809-4

SUNY Series in Postmodern Culture Ser.
Popular Modernity in America : Experience, Technology, Mythohistory
von Michael Thomas Carroll
Hardcover, 237 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2000 von State University Of New York Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-4713-0, ISBN: 0-7914-4713-8

"Experience, Technology, Mythohistory Michael Thomas Carroll ... Throughout the latter half of the nineteenth century in the industrialized West, photography was not only the defining image technology but also the diasporic center for the entire range of Victorian spectatorship: the panorama and diorama (of which Daguerre himself was master), circuses, magic shows, industrial expositions, lithographic reproductions, and the stereosc ..."

Phenomenological Approaches to Popular Culture(1st Edition)
von Michael Thomas Carroll, Eddie Tafoya, Michael T. Carroll
Paperback, 278 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2000 von Popular Press 1
ISBN-13: 978-0-87972-810-6, ISBN: 0-87972-810-8

"Within popular culture studies, one finds discussions about quantitative sociology, Marxism, psychoanalysis, myth criticism, feminism, and semiotics, but hardly a word on the usefulness of phenomenology, the branch of philosophy concerned with human experience. In spite of this omission, there is a close relationship between the aims of phenomenology and the aims of popular culture studies, for both movements have attempted to redirect ..."

Popular Modernity in America
Experience, Technology, Mythohistory (SUNY series in Postmodern Culture)
von Michael Thomas Carroll
Paperback, 254 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2000 von Suny Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-4714-7, ISBN: 0-7914-4714-6

"If blood is the central fluid of the slasher film and semen of pornography, then in the "Barf-O-Rama" books (whose titles include The Legend of Bigfart, Mucus Mansion, and Dog Doo Afternoon), vomit is the iconographic center. Indeed, there is a strange similarity between the cum shot of pornography and the "vomit shots" in Pat Pollari's The Great Puke-Off: I imagine I looked pretty wild. There was gack dripping from my mouth. Allie ..."

No Small World
Visions and Revisions of World Literature
von Michael Thomas Carroll
Paperback, 211 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1996 von Natl Council Of Teachers
ISBN-13: 978-0-8141-3368-2, ISBN: 0-8141-3368-1

"According to The Talisman, then, the subjected Other has two obvious options: like the early Sir Kenneth, he can accept his subjection, and effectively die as a distinct self; or, like the Marabout who is mirrored in Richard's shield as Kenneth's inverse, he can openly resist, and be killed. But Scott recommends Saladin's more complex and creative strategy. Saladin teaches Kenneth to accept his own otherness, and thus neither to re ..."