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Czeslaw Niemen's Niemen Enigmatic

By: Mariusz Gradowski,Ewa Mazierska

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Czeslaw Niemen's Niemen Enigmatic

By: Mariusz Gradowski,Ewa Mazierska

Niemen Enigmatic is the fourth album in the career of Czeslaw Niemen, arguably one of the greatest Polish musicians of all time (from pop and rock to jazz-rock and avant-garde). The book asks how significant was this album? How enduring is its popularity? Has the popularity and meanings changed over time? It does this by unpacking its production, which was unprecedented in the history of the Polish popular music due to its large number of musicians with varied backgrounds, including progressive rock, mixing jazz, rock and soul with classical music. It also examines its appeal to different segments of Polish population, and failure to reach foreign audiences, despite Niemen himself privileging this album, especially its centrepiece, Bema pamieci zalobny rapsod (Mournful Rhapsody in Memoriam of Bem aka A Funeral Rhapsody in Memory of General Bem aka Mourner's Rhapsody), in his attempt to make a career abroad.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501372696

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Women in Polish Cinema

By: Ewa Mazierska,Elżbieta Ostrowska

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Women in Polish Cinema

By: Ewa Mazierska,Elżbieta Ostrowska

Polish film has long enjoyed an outstanding reputation but its best known protagonists tend to be male. This book points to the important role of women as key characters in Polish films, such as the enduring female figure in Polish culture, the "Polish Mother," female characters in socialist realistic cinema, women depicted in the films of the Polish School, Solidarity heroines, and women in the films from the postcommunist period. Not less important for the success of Polish cinema are Polish women filmmakers, four of whom are presented in this volume: Wanda Jakubowska, Agnieszka Holland, Barbara Sass and Dorota Kędzierzawska, whose work is examined.

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Berghahn Books

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1571819487

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9781571819482

Poland Daily

Economy, Work, Consumption and Social Class in Polish Cinema

By: Ewa Mazierska

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Economy, Work, Consumption and Social Class in Polish Cinema

By: Ewa Mazierska

Like many Eastern European countries, Poland has seen a succession of divergent economic and political regimes over the last century, from prewar “embedded liberalism,” through the state socialism of the Soviet era, to the present neoliberal moment. Its cinema has been inflected by these changing historical circumstances, both mirroring and resisting them. This volume is the first to analyze the entirety of the nation’s film history—from the reemergence of an independent Poland in 1918 to the present day—through the lenses of political economy and social class, showing how Polish cinema documented ordinary life while bearing the hallmarks of specific ideologies.

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1785335375

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Women in Polish Cinema

By: Ewa Mazierska,Elżbieta Ostrowska

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Women in Polish Cinema

By: Ewa Mazierska,Elżbieta Ostrowska

This work aims to explore the main types of female character in Polish feature cinema, from its beginnings to contemporary times and also to analyse the work of the most prominent Polish women film directors against the background of the roles being played by women in Polish history and their positions within society.

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1571819479

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Popular Viennese Electronic Music, 1990–2015

A Cultural History

By: Ewa Mazierska

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Popular Viennese Electronic Music, 1990–2015

A Cultural History

By: Ewa Mazierska

The author presents a cultural history of popular Viennese electronic music from 1990 to 2015, from the perspectives of production, scene and national and international reception. To illustrate this history in depth, a number of case studies of the most successful and distinguished musicians are explored, such as Kruder and Dorfmeister, Patrick Pulsinger, Tosca, Electric Indigo and Sofa Surfers. The author draws on research about electronic music, the relationship between music and the urban environment, the history of Austria and Vienna, music scenes and fandom, the digital shift , stardom in popular music (especially electronic music), as well as theories of postmodernism. Chapters 4 and 8 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

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Routledge

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1351862618

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Masculinities in Polish, Czech and Slovak Cinema

Black Peters and Men of Marble

By: Ewa Mazierska

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Masculinities in Polish, Czech and Slovak Cinema

Black Peters and Men of Marble

By: Ewa Mazierska

Gender, especially masculinity, is a perspective rarely applied in discourses on cinema of Eastern/Central Europe. Masculinities in Polish, Czech and Slovak Cinema exposes an English-speaking audience to a large proportion of this region’s cinema that previously remained unknown, focusing on the relationship between representation of masculinity and nationality in the films of two and later three countries: Poland, Czechoslovakia/the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The objective of the book is to discuss the main types of men populating Polish, Czech and Slovak films: that of soldier, father, heterosexual and homosexual lover, against a rich political, social and cultural background. Czech, Slovak and Polish cinema appear to provide excellent material for comparison as they were produced in neighbouring countries which for over forty years endured a similar political system – state socialism.

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178238216X

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Czeslaw Niemen's Niemen Enigmatic

By: Mariusz Gradowski,Ewa Mazierska

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Czeslaw Niemen's Niemen Enigmatic

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Polish Estrada Music

Organisation, Stars and Representation

By: Ewa Mazierska

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Polish Estrada Music

Organisation, Stars and Representation

By: Ewa Mazierska

Polish estrada music dominated Polish popular music throughout the state socialist period but gained little attention from popular music scholars because it was regarded as being of low quality and politically conformist. Ewa Mazierska carefully examines these assumptions, considering those institutions which catered for the needs of estrada artists and their fans, the presence of estrada in different media and the careers and styles of the leading stars, such as Mieczysław Fogg, Irena Santor, Violetta Villas, Anna German, Jerzy Połomski, Maryla Rodowicz, Zdzisława Sośnicka, Zbigniew Wodecki and Krzysztof Krawczyk. Mazierska also discusses the memory and legacy of estrada music in the post-communist period. The book draws on Poland’s cultural and political history and the history of Polish popular music and media, including television and radio. Mazierska engages with concepts such as genre, stardom and authenticity in order to capture the essence of Polish estrada music and to provide a comparison with popular music produced in other countries.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000935922

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Mapping Warsaw

The Spatial Poetics of a Postwar City

By: Ewa Wampuszyc

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Mapping Warsaw

The Spatial Poetics of a Postwar City

By: Ewa Wampuszyc

Inspired by the spatial turn in the humanities and social sciences, Mapping Warsaw is an interdisciplinary study that combines urban studies, cinema studies, cultural studies, history, literature, and photography. It examines Warsaw's post-World War II reconstruction through images and language. Juxtaposing close readings of photo books, socialist-era newsreels called the Polska Kronika Filmowa, the comedies of Leonard Buczkowski and Jan Fethke, the writing and films of Tadeusz Konwicki, and a case study on the Palace of Culture and Science—a "gift" from none other than Stalin—this study investigates the rhetorical and visual, rather than physical, reconstruction of Warsaw in various medias and genres. Ewa Wampuszyc roots her analysis in the historical context of the postwar decade and shows how and why Poland's capital became an essential part of a propaganda program inspired by communist ideology and the needs of a newly established socialist People's Republic. Mapping Warsaw demonstrates how physical space manifests itself in culture, and how culture, history, and politics leave an indelible mark on places. It points out ways in which we take for granted our perception of space and the meanings we assign to it.

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Northwestern University Press

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0810137917

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Poland Daily

Economy, Work, Consumption and Social Class in Polish Cinema

By: Ewa Mazierska

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Economy, Work, Consumption and Social Class in Polish Cinema

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Crossing New Europe

Postmodern Travel and the European Road Movie

By: Ewa Mazierska,Laura Rascaroli

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Crossing New Europe

Postmodern Travel and the European Road Movie

By: Ewa Mazierska,Laura Rascaroli

Although a long-established and influential genre, this is the first comprehensive study of the European road cinema. Crossing New Europe investigates this tradition, its relationship with the American road movie and its aesthetic forms. This movement examines such crucial issues as individual and national identity crises, and phenomena such as displacement, diaspora, exile, migration, nomadism, and tourism in postmodern, post-Berlin Wall Europe. Drawing on the work of Said, Hall, Shields, Urry, Bauman, Deleuze and Guattari and other critical theorists, Crossing New Europe adopts a broad interpretation of "Europe" and discusses directors and films who have long been associated with the road movie, such as Wim Wenders (Alice in the Cities, Lisbon Story) and Aki Kaurismäki (Leningrad Cowboys Go America!), and other more recent contributions such as Run Lola Run, Dear Diary and The Last Resort.

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Wallflower Press

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1904764673

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Polish Postcommunist Cinema

From Pavement Level

By: Ewa Mazierska

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Polish Postcommunist Cinema

From Pavement Level

By: Ewa Mazierska

This book covers the history of Polish cinema from 1989 up to the present in a broad political and cultural context, looking at both the film industry and film artistry. It considers the main ideas behind the institutional changes in the Polish film industry after the collapse of communism and assesses how these ideas were implemented. In discussing artistry, the focus is on the genres which dominated the Polish cinematic landscape after 1989 and the most important directors.

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Peter Lang

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3039105299

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From Self-fulfilment to Survival of the Fittest

Work in European Cinema from the 1960s to the Present

By: Ewa Mazierska

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From Self-fulfilment to Survival of the Fittest

Work in European Cinema from the 1960s to the Present

By: Ewa Mazierska

Contrary to the assumption that Western and Eastern European economies and cinemas were very different from each other, they actually had much in common. After the Second World War both the East and the West adopted a mixed system, containing elements of both socialism and capitalism, and from the 1980s on the whole of Europe, albeit at an uneven speed, followed the neoliberal agenda. This book examines how the economic systems of the East and West impacted labor by focusing on the representation of work in European cinema. Using a Marxist perspective, it compares the situation of workers in Western and Eastern Europe as represented in both auteurist and popular films, including those of Tony Richardson, Lindsay Anderson, Jean-Luc Godard, Andrzej Wajda, DušanMakavejev, Jerzy Skolimowski, the Dardenne Brothers, Ulrich Seidl and many others.

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1782384871

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9781782384878

Nabokov's Cinematic Afterlife

By: Ewa Mazierska

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Nabokov's Cinematic Afterlife

By: Ewa Mazierska

This book offers critical studies of films that adapted works by Vladimir Nabokov. One of the most screened twentieth century authors (with over ten books adapted for cinema), his works are full of quirky and forbidden romance, and his writing is renowned for its cinematic qualities (e.g., frames, stage directions, and descriptions suggesting specific camera positions and movements). Films discussed include Lolita (both Kubrick's 1962 and Lyne's 1997 versions), Richardson's Laughter in the Dark (1969), Skolimowski's King, Queen, Knave (1972), Fassbinder's Despair (1978), Foulon's Mademoiselle O (1994), Kuik's An Affair of Honor (1999), Gorris' The Luzhin Defence (2000), and Rohmer's The Triple Agent (2004). A final chapter discusses similarities between Nabokov and Jean-Luc Godard.

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McFarland

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0786480084

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9780786480081

From Moscow to Madrid

Postmodern Cities, European Cinema

By: Ewa Mazierska,Laura Rascaroli

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From Moscow to Madrid

Postmodern Cities, European Cinema

By: Ewa Mazierska,Laura Rascaroli

Travelling from Warsaw to Blackpool, Marseilles to Madrid, this lively and accessible book investigates the postmodern nature of contemporary Europe's urban life and cinema and shows how European films represent the cities across old and new Europe. Interdisciplinary in approach, the text engages with diverse films, including "Luna Park", "Run, Lola, Run", "Trainspotting", "Wonderland" and many more. It tackles the issues of postmodernity raised by these films and the changes wrought in European cities since the 1980s under the effects of political change, from the post-communist era in Moscow and Berlin to the effects of Thatcherism in Edinburgh and London.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0857712772

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9780857712776

Roman Polanski

The Cinema of a Cultural Traveller

By: Ewa Mazierska

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Roman Polanski

The Cinema of a Cultural Traveller

By: Ewa Mazierska

Polanski is one of the most talented and distinguished of modern film makers. A well-informed cultural traveller, interested in the position of the outsider, he is hard to pigeonhole: he moves easily between mass audience and art-house tastes, between settings and genres; his films, including 'Two Men and a Wardrobe', 'Cul de Sac', 'Rosemary?s Baby', 'The Pianist' and 'Oliver Twist', represent diverse characters and cinematic influences. Like a magpie, he?s interested in everything he encounters, but then easily discards his treasures and moves onward. Covering all Polanski?s films as director, this welcome book addresses the eclecticism, ambiguity and paradoxes of his cinema, while seeking out the common elements in his films. Ewa Mazierska examines the autobiographical effect of Polanski?s films, his characters and diverse narratives, and the place of absurdism, surrealism and the ?double life? of things in his cinema. She looks into the function of music, of religion, power, patriarchy and racism in the films, as well as Polanski?s literary adaptations and his use and subversion of film genres. Herself a Polish emigre, she uncovers Polanski's Polish roots and the extent of their influence on the cinema of this mercurial film maker, at large in the world.

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0857716557

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9780857716552

Jerzy Skolimowski

The Cinema of a Nonconformist

By: Ewa Mazierska

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Jerzy Skolimowski

The Cinema of a Nonconformist

By: Ewa Mazierska

Jerzy Skolimowski is one of the most original Polish directors and one of only a handful who has gained genuine recognition abroad. This is the first monograph, written in English, to be devoted to his cinema. It covers Skolimowski's career from his early successes in Poland, such as Identification Marks: None and Barrier, through his émigré films, Deep End, Moonlighting and The Lightship, to his return to Poland where, in 2008, he made the internationally acclaimed Four Nights with Anna. Ewa Mazierska addresses the main features of Skolimowski's films, such as their affinity to autobiographism and surrealism, while discussing their characters, narratives, visual style, soundtracks, and the uses of literature. She draws on a wide range of cinematic and literary texts, situating Skolimowski's work within the context of Polish and world cinema, and drawing parallels between his work and that of two directors, with whom he tends to be compared, Roman Polański and Jean-Luc Godard.

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Berghahn Books

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1845458079

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Popular Viennese Electronic Music, 1990–2015

A Cultural History

By: Ewa Mazierska

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Popular Viennese Electronic Music, 1990–2015

A Cultural History

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Masculinities in Polish, Czech and Slovak Cinema

Black Peters and Men of Marble

By: Ewa Mazierska

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Masculinities in Polish, Czech and Slovak Cinema

Black Peters and Men of Marble

By: Ewa Mazierska

Gender, especially masculinity, is a perspective rarely applied in discourses on cinema of Eastern/Central Europe. Masculinities in Polish, Czech and Slovak Cinema exposes an English-speaking audience to a large proportion of this region's cinema that previously remained unknown, focusing on the relationship between representation of masculinity and nationality in the films of two and later three countries: Poland, Czechoslovakia/the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The objective of the book is to discuss the main types of men populating Polish, Czech and Slovak films: that of soldier, father, heterosexual and homosexual lover, against a rich political, social and cultural background. Czech, Slovak and Polish cinema appear to provide excellent material for comparison as they were produced in neighbouring countries which for over forty years endured a similar political system - state socialism.

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Crossing New Europe

Postmodern Travel and the European Road Movie

By: Ewa Mazierska,Laura Rascaroli

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Postmodern Travel and the European Road Movie

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The Cinema of Nanni Moretti

Dreams and Diaries

By: Ewa Mazierska,Laura Rascaroli

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The Cinema of Nanni Moretti

Dreams and Diaries

By: Ewa Mazierska,Laura Rascaroli

This volume provides an analysis and interpretation of the work of the most important Italian film-maker of the past thirty years and an outstanding figure in contemporary European cinema.

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1903364779

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Careers in Media and Film

The Essential Guide

By: Georgina Gregory,Ros Healy,Ewa Mazierska

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Careers in Media and Film

The Essential Guide

By: Georgina Gregory,Ros Healy,Ewa Mazierska

Written for students, graduates and academics from the disciplines of film, media and related subjects, and for those from other disciplines who want to break into the media, this book is a virtual career coach and an employability course all in one package. A practical handbook, it offers encouragement, advice, information and case studies to help students to make the most of the opportunities in this very competitive career world. The book can be used as a textual support for careers modules and PDP (Personal Development Planning), graduate workshops, on-line courses and as a departmental or careers library resource. Equally, it works effectively as a self-help guide to enable individuals to focus on their career / life development.

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SAGE

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1446224104

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9781446224106

Third Cinema, World Cinema and Marxism

By: Ewa Mazierska,Lars Kristensen

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Third Cinema, World Cinema and Marxism

By: Ewa Mazierska,Lars Kristensen

Third Cinema, World Cinema and Marxism offers an analysis of Third Cinema and World Cinema from the perspective of Marxism. Its starting point is an observation that of all cinematic phenomena none is as intimately related to Marxism as Third Cinema, which decries neoliberalism, the capitalist system, and the Hollywood model of cinema as mere entertainment to make money. This is largely to do with the fact that both Marxism and Third Cinema are preoccupied with inequalities resulting from capital accumulation, of which colonialism is the most extreme manifestation. Third Cinema also defines cinematic modes in terms of representing interest of different classes, with First Cinema expressing imperialist, capitalist, bourgeois ideas, Second Cinema the aspirations of the middle stratum, the petit bourgeoisie and Third Cinema is a democratic, popular cinema.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501348280

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From Moscow to Madrid

Postmodern Cities, European Cinema

By: Ewa Mazierska,Laura Rascaroli

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Postmodern Cities, European Cinema

By: Ewa Mazierska,Laura Rascaroli

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I.B. Tauris

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1860648509

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9781860648502

Relocating Popular Music

By: E. Mazierska,G. Gregory,William L Miller

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Relocating Popular Music

By: E. Mazierska,G. Gregory,William L Miller

Relocating Popular Music uses the lens of colonialism and tourism to analyse types of music movements, such as transporting music from one place or historical period to another, hybridising it with a different style and furnishing it with new meaning. It discusses music in relation to music video, film, graphic arts, fashion and architecture.

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Palgrave Macmillan

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1349690570

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