Custodians Of The Past

Author : Sarah Baker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317335504

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Community Custodians of Popular Music’s Past by Sarah Baker Pdf

This book examines do-it-yourself (DIY) approaches to the collection, preservation, and display of popular music heritage being undertaken by volunteers in community archives, museums and halls of fame globally. DIY institutions of popular music heritage are much more than ‘unofficial’ versions of ‘official’ institutions; rather, they invoke a complex network of affect and sociality, and are sites where interested people – often enthusiasts – are able to assemble around shared goals related to the preservation of and ownership over the material histories of popular music culture. Drawing on interviews and observations with founders, volunteers and heritage workers in 23 DIY institutions in Australasia, Europe and North America, the book highlights the potentialities of bottom-up, community-based interventions into the archiving and preservation of popular music’s material history. It reveals the kinds of collections being housed in these archives, how they are managed and maintained, and explores their relationship to mainstream heritage institutions. The study also considers the cultural labor of volunteers in the DIY institution, arguing that while these are places concerned with heritage management and the preservation of artefacts, they are also extensions of musical communities in the present in which activities around popular music preservation have personal, cultural, community and heritage benefits. By looking at volunteers’ everyday interventions in the archiving and curating of popular music’s material past, the book highlights how DIY institutions build upon national heritage strategies at the community level and have the capacity to contribute to the democratization of popular music heritage. This book will have a broad appeal to a range of scholars in the fields of popular music studies, musicology, ethnomusicology, archive studies and archival science, museum studies, critical heritage studies, cultural studies, cultural sociology and media studies.

Author : Abha Narain Lambah,Gautam Sengupta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : India
ISBN : 9350861992

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Custodians of the Past by Abha Narain Lambah,Gautam Sengupta Pdf

Author : Erica-Irene A. Daes
Publisher : Iwgia
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Human rights
ISBN : UCSC:32106017038628

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Indigenous Peoples by Erica-Irene A. Daes Pdf

"Recognition of, and respect for the rights and freedoms of indigenous peoples is an important subject that has received growing attention from the international community especially during the last 25 years." "Erica-Irene Daes, the author of this book has been at the heart of the international discussion on indigenous peoples' rights. This book is her personal record of more than twenty years of efforts to promote the cause of indigenous peoples and the recognition of their fundamental rights by the United Nations. Through this account of her own experience, the author commemorates the suffering, oppression and discrimination experienced by indigenous peoples, and outlines their continuing struggle for freedom and for cultural, and physical survival. The book is also about her discovery of indigenous knowledge, heritage and culture, through her close relationships with many indigenous nations such as the Sami people of Europe; the Cree of Quebec (Eeyou Istchee); the Aboriginal peoples of Australia and the peoples of the Torres Start Islands; the Maya of Mexico and Guatemala; and the Ainu of Japan."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Peter M. Magolda
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000978056

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The Lives of Campus Custodians by Peter M. Magolda Pdf

This unique study uncovers the lives and working conditions of a group of individuals who are usually rendered invisible on college campuses--the custodians who daily clean the offices, residence halls, bathrooms and public spaces. In doing so it also reveals universities’ equally invisible practices that frequently contradict their espoused values of inclusion and equity, and their profession that those on the margins are important members of the campus community.This vivid ethnography is the fruit of the year’s fieldwork that Peter Magolda’s undertook at two universities. His purpose was to shine a light on a subculture that neither decision-makers nor campus community members know very much about, let alone understand the motivations and aspirations of those who perform this work; and to pose fundamental questions about the moral implications of the corporatization of higher education and its impact on its lowest paid and most vulnerable employees.Working alongside and learning about the lives of over thirty janitorial staff, Peter Magolda becomes privy to acts of courage, resilience, and inspiration, as well as witness to their work ethic, and to instances of intolerance, inequity, and injustices. We learn the stories of remarkable people, and about their daily concerns, their fears and contributions.Peter Magolda raises such questions as: Does the academy still believe wisdom is exclusive to particular professions or classes of people? Are universities really inclusive? Is addressing service workers’ concerns part of the mission of higher education? If universities profess to value education, why make it difficult for those on the margins, such as custodians, to “get educated.”The book concludes with the research participants’ and the author’s reflections about ways that colleges can improve the lives of those whose underpaid and unremarked labor is so essential to the smooth running of their campuses.Appendices provide information about the research methodology and methods, as well as a discussion of the influence of corporate managerialism on ethnographic research.

Author : Isabella Frost
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 064859291X

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Custodians of the Past by Isabella Frost Pdf

A chill ran through me as I thought of Eamnonn in his cave beneath the Dragon's Crest, sitting atop his piles and piles of gold treasure. I could see the Dragon's aqua, teal and brown scaled form as he spoke the same words he had to us in those stone depths."I offer you and your companions a warning: the one you call the Revenant is striking at the Custodians of the Past. All of them.""The Custodians of the Past," I murmured, everyone turning to me as I looked up at the man and woman. "That's you, isn't it?"After escaping the treasonous nobles responsible for the conspiracy against her family, Leander and her companions flee in search of safety. However, the appearance of a terrifying necromancer leaves the Princess questioning whether anywhere is safe for her to go as she soon faces the prospect of leaving her home nation behind. Now finding herself in the middle of a battle between the necromancer and the mysterious Custodians of the Past, Leander is set on a path that will change her life forever as she draws nearer to a dire confrontation with the Shadow Lord himself...

Author : Michael Kammen
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 879 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1993-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780679741770

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Mystic Chords of Memory by Michael Kammen Pdf

Mystic Chords of Memory "Illustrated with hundreds of well-chosen anecdotes and minute observations . . . Kammen is a demon researcher who seems to have mined his nuggets from the entire corpus of American cultural history. . . . Insightful and sardonic."—Washington Post Book World In this groundbreaking, panoramic work of American cultural history, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Machine That Would Go of Itself examines a central paradox of our national identity. How did "the land of the future" acquire a past? And to what extent has our collective memory of that past—as embodied in our traditions—been distorted, or even manufactured? Ranging from John Adams to Ronald Reagan, from the origins of Independence Day celebrations to the controversies surrounding the Vietnam War Memorial, from the Daughters of the American Revolution to immigrant associations, and filled with incisive analyses of such phenonema as Americana and its collectors, "historic" villages and Disneyland, Mystic Chords of Memory is a brilliant, immensely readable, and enormously important book. "Fascinating . . . a subtle and teeming narrative . . . masterly."—Time "This is a big, ambitious book, and Kammen pulls it off admirably. . . . [He] brings a prodigious mind and much scholarly rigor to his task. . . . An important book—and a revealing look at how Americans look at themselves."—Milwaukee Journal

Author : Rumi Sakamoto,Stephen Epstein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429679889

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Popular Culture and the Transformation of Japan–Korea Relations by Rumi Sakamoto,Stephen Epstein Pdf

This book presents essays exploring the ways in which popular culture reflects and engenders ongoing changes in Japan–Korea relations. Through a broad temporal coverage from the colonial period to the contemporary, the book’s chapters analyse the often contradictory roles that popular culture has played in either promoting or impeding nationalisms, regional conflict and reconciliations between Japan and Korea. Its contributors link several key areas of interest in East Asian Studies, including conflicts over historical memories and cultural production, grassroots challenges to state ideology, and the consequences of digital technology in Japan and South Korea. Taking recent discourse on Japan and South Korea as popular cultural superpowers further, this book expands its focus from mainstream entertainment media to the lived experience of daily life, in which sentiments and perceptions of the "popular" are formed. It will be useful to students and scholars of Japanese and Korean studies, as well as film studies, media studies and cultural studies more widely. Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Author : Mariko Asano Tamanoi
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1998-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780824865399

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Under the Shadow of Nationalism by Mariko Asano Tamanoi Pdf

The contribution of rural women to the creation and expansion of the Japanese nation-state is undeniable. As early as the nineteenth century, the women of central Japan's Nagano prefecture in particular provided abundant and cheap labor for a number of industries, most notably the silk spinning industry. Rural women from Nagano could also be found working, from a very young age, as nursemaids, domestic servants, and farm laborers. In whatever capacity they worked, these women became the objects of scrutiny and reform in a variety of nationalist discourses--not only because of the importance of their labor to the nation, but also because of their gender and domicile (the countryside was the centerpiece of state ideology and practice before and during the war, during the Occupation, and beyond). Under the Shadow of Nationalism explores the interconnectedness of nationalism and gender in the context of modern Japan. It combines the author's long-term field research with a painstaking examination of the documents behind these discourses produced at various levels of society, from the national (government records, social reformers' reports, ethnographic data) to the local (teachers' manuals, labor activists' accounts, village newspapers). It provides a wide-ranging yet in-depth look at a key group of Japanese women as national subjects through the critical chapters of Japanese modernity and postmodernity.

Author : Lynn Meskell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134643905

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Archaeology Under Fire by Lynn Meskell Pdf

The Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean are some of the most politically charged regions in which archaeology is implicated. Historically, they played a formative role in the birth of archaeology as a discipline. Archaeology Under Fire addresses archaeology's role in current political issues, including the ethnic cleansing in the Balkans, the division of Cyprus, and the continued destruction of Beirut. The contributors consider the positive role of the past as a means of reconciliation, whether it be in Turkey, Israel, and the Gulf. They advocate a responsible global archaeology, and an awareness of contemporary issues can only enhance this aim.

Author : Margaret Plant
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300083866

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Venice by Margaret Plant Pdf

Margaret Plant presents a wide-ranging cultural history of the city from the fall of the Republic in 1797, until 1997, showing how it has changed and adapted and how perceptions of it have shaped its reality.

Author : Dolores Cannon
Publisher : Ozark Mountain Publishing
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781886940048

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The Custodians by Dolores Cannon Pdf

UFO sightings and abductions by aliens were the beginning, the tip of the iceberg. Dolore Cannon's work in Hypnosis has taken the study beyond abduction. Dolores traces the phenomenon from the simple to the complex. Exploring areas untouched by other investigators, she makes the unbelievable become acceptable and understandable!

Author : Linda J. Ellanna,Ernest S. Burch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000323061

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Key Issues in Hunter-Gatherer Research by Linda J. Ellanna,Ernest S. Burch Pdf

Hunter-gatherer research has experienced enormous expansion over the past three decades. In the late 1950s less than a score of anthropologists were actively engaged in issue-oriented studies of foraging populations. Since then, the number of active researchers has grown into the hundreds.This book offers the most up-to-date anthology of papers on hunter-gatherer research and contains possibly the most comprehensive bibliography on hunter-gatherers ever published. It will be essential reading for all students of hunter-gatherer societies.

Author : Sarah Falcus,Heike Hartung,Raquel Medina
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350204355

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The Bloomsbury Handbook to Ageing in Contemporary Literature and Film by Sarah Falcus,Heike Hartung,Raquel Medina Pdf

Across more than 30 chapters spanning migration, queerness, and climate change, this handbook captures how the interdisciplinary and intersectional endeavor of Age(ing) studies has shaped contemporary literary and film studies. In the early 21st century, the literary study of age and ageing in its cultural context has 'come of age': it has come to supplement and challenge a public discourse on ageing seen mainly as a political and demographic 'problem' in many countries of the world. Following a tripartite structure, it looks first at literary and film genres and how they have been shaped by knowledge about age and ageing, incorporating both narrative genres as well as poetry, drama and imagery. The second section includes chapters on key themes and concepts in Age(ing) Studies with examples from film and literature. The third section brings together case studies focussing on individual artists, national traditions and global ageing. Containing original contributions by pioneers in the field as well as new scholars from across the globe, it brings together current scholarship on ageing in literary and film studies, and offers new directions and perspectives.

Author : Freemasons. Grand Lodge of Iowa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 870 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101079810188

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Annals of the Grand Lodge of Iowa by Freemasons. Grand Lodge of Iowa Pdf

Author : Seeliger, Henriette-Juliane
Publisher : University of Bamberg Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783863099657

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Men of the House by Seeliger, Henriette-Juliane Pdf