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Diva Nation

Author : Laura Miller
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520969979
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Diva Nation written by Laura Miller and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2018-06-08 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diva Nation explores the constructed nature of female iconicity in Japan. From ancient goddesses and queens to modern singers and writers, this edited volume critically reconsiders the female icon, tracing how she has been offered up for emulation, debate or censure. The research in this book culminates from curiosity over the insistent presence of Japanese female figures who have refused to sit quietly on the sidelines of history. The contributors move beyond archival portraits to consider historically and culturally informed diva imagery and diva lore. The diva is ripe for expansion, fantasy, eroticization, and playful reinvention, while simultaneously presenting a challenge to patriarchal culture. Diva Nation asks how the diva disrupts or bolsters ideas about nationhood, morality, and aesthetics.

Diva

Author : Kirsty Fairclough
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501368273
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Diva written by Kirsty Fairclough and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-09-07 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The diva a central figure in the landscape of contemporary popular culture: gossip-generating, scandal-courting, paparazzi-stalked. And yet the diva is at the epicentre of creative endeavours that resonate with contemporary feminist ideas, kick back against diminished social expectations, boldly call-out casual sexism and industry misogyny and, in terms of hip-hop, explores intersectional oppressions and unapologetically celebrates non-white cultural heritages. Diva beats and grooves echo across culture and politics in the West: from the borough to the White House, from arena concerts to nightclubs, from social media to social activism, from #MeToo to Black Lives Matter. Diva: Feminism and Fierceness from Pop to Hip-Hop addresses the diva phenomenon and its origins: its identity politics and LGBTQ+ components; its creativity and interventions in areas of popular culture (music, and beyond); its saints and sinners and controversies old and new; and its oppositions to, and recuperations by, the establishment; and its shifts from third to fourth waves of feminism. This co-edited collection brings together an international array of writers from new voices to established names. The collection scopes the rise to power of the diva (looking to Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Dolly Parton, Grace Jones, and Aaliyah), then turns to contemporary diva figures and their work (with Beyoncé, Amuro Namie, Janelle Monáe, Cardi B, Megan Thee Stallion, Shakira, Jennifer Lopez, and Nicki Minaj), and concludes by considering the presence of the diva in wider cultures, in terms of gallery curation, theatre productions, and stand-up comedy.

Breaking the Power of Familiar Spirits

Author : Kimberly Daniels
Publisher : Charisma Media
ISBN 13 : 1629995290
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Breaking the Power of Familiar Spirits written by Kimberly Daniels and published by Charisma Media. This book was released on 2018 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defeat the Unknown Enemy in Your Home This book will help you gain insight, and if needed, deliverance from familiar spirits, which if even entertained can cause havoc.

Great Australian Sporting Moments

Author : Michael Roberts
Publisher : The Miegunyah Press
ISBN 13 : 0522855474
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (228 download)

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Download or read book Great Australian Sporting Moments written by Michael Roberts and published by The Miegunyah Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a fully illustrated book highlighting some memorable moments in Australian sporting history."--Provided by publisher.

History of Popular Culture in Japan

Author : E. Taylor Atkins
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350195952
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book History of Popular Culture in Japan written by E. Taylor Atkins and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-08 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The phenomenon of 'Cool Japan' is one of the distinctive features of global popular culture of the millennial age. A History of Popular Culture in Japan provides the first historical and analytical overview of popular culture in Japan from its origins in the 17th century to the present day, using it to explore broader themes of conflict, power and meaning in Japanese history. E. Taylor Atkins shows how Japan was one of the earliest sites for the development of mass-produced, market-oriented cultural products consumed by urban middle and working classes. From traditional monochrome ink painting, court literature and poetry to anime, manga and J-Pop, popular culture was pivotal in the rise of Japanese nationalism, imperialism, militarism and economic development, and to the present day plays a central role in Japanese identity. With updated historiography throughout, this fully revised second edition features: - A new chapter on popular culture in the Edo period - An expanded section on pre-Tokugawa culture - More discussion on recent pop culture phenomena such as TV game shows, cuteness and J-Pop - 10 new images - A new glossary of terms including kanji This improved edition is a vital resource for students of Japanese cultural history wishing to gain a deeper understanding of Japan's contributions to global cultural heritage.

Can't Stop the Grrrls

Author : Lily E. Hirsch
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 153816907X
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Can't Stop the Grrrls written by Lily E. Hirsch and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From stars like Britney Spears and Mariah Carey to classic icons like Yoko Ono, female musicians have long been the target of toxic labels in the media and popular culture: liar, crazy, snake, diva, and so on. This book takes a candid look at the full range of sexist labeling and inspires us to think about these remarkable women on their own terms"--

Passing, Posing, Persuasion

Author : Christina Yi
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824896270
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Passing, Posing, Persuasion written by Christina Yi and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passing, Posing, Persuasion interrogates the intersections between cultural production, identity, and persuasive messaging that idealized inclusion and unity across Japan’s East Asian empire (1895–1945). Japanese propagandists drew on a pan-Asian rhetoric that sought to persuade colonial subjects to identify with the empire while simultaneously maintaining the distinctions that subjugated them and marking their attempts to self-identify as Japanese as inauthentic, illegitimate forms of “passing” or “posing.” Visions of inclusion encouraged assimilation but also threatened to disrupt the very logic of imperialism itself: If there was no immutable difference between Taiwanese and Japanese subjects, for example, then what justified the subordination of the former to the latter? The chapters emphasize the plurality and heterogeneity of empire, together with the contradictions and tensions of its ideologies of race, nation, and ethnicity. The paradoxes of passing, posing, and persuasion opened up unique opportunities for colonial contestation and negotiation in the arenas of cultural production, including theater, fiction, film, magazines, and other media of entertainment and propaganda consumed by audiences in mainland Japan and its colonies. From Meiji adaptations of Shakespeare and interwar mass media and colonial fiction to wartime propaganda films, competing narratives sought to shape how ambiguous identities were performed and read. All empires necessarily engender multiple kinds of border crossings and transgressions; in the case of Japan, the policing and blurring of boundaries often pivoted on the outer markers of ethno-national identification. This book showcases how actors—in multiple senses of the word—from all parts of the empire were able to move in and out of different performative identities, thus troubling its ontological boundaries.

Cross-Cultural Influences between Japanese and American Pop Cultures

Author : Kendra N. Sheehan
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527512827
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Cross-Cultural Influences between Japanese and American Pop Cultures written by Kendra N. Sheehan and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-26 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection features examinations of popular culture, including manga, music, film, cosplay, and literature, among other topics. Using interdisciplinary sources and analyses, this collection adds to the global discussion and relevancy of Japanese popular culture. This collection serves to highlight the work of multidisciplinary scholars who offer fresh perspectives of ongoing cross-cultural and cyclical influences that are commonly found between the US and Japan. Notably, this collection considers the relationships that have influenced Japanese popular culture, and how this has, in turn, influenced the Western world.

ICHSS 2021

Author : Herman J Waluyo
Publisher : European Alliance for Innovation
ISBN 13 : 1631903683
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book ICHSS 2021 written by Herman J Waluyo and published by European Alliance for Innovation. This book was released on 2022-10-10 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Conference of Humanities and Social Science (ICHSS) 2021 aims to encourage and provide opportunities for researchers and academics to exchange views and opinions, answer and debate policy-relevant issues, and produce academic research outputs on important topics language. ICHSS is an Indonesian Language Education Doctoral Program Alumni Association program, Sebelas Maret University, Surakarta. The basic idea to encourage research in the linguistic sciences is to have maximum research impact on education, culture, social, arts and humanities, language and literature, religion, gender and children, and literacy. It also aims to improve coordination between academics & scholars, stakeholders and policymakers.

New Intimacies, Old Desires

Author : Oishik Sircar
Publisher : Zubaan
ISBN 13 : 9385932365
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (859 download)

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Download or read book New Intimacies, Old Desires written by Oishik Sircar and published by Zubaan. This book was released on 2017-06-21 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last 15 years, queer movements in many parts of the world have helped secure the rights of queer people. These moments have been accompanied by the brutal rise of crony capitalism, the violent consequences of the ‘war on terror’, the hyper-juridification of politics, the financialization/ managerialization of social movements and the medicalization of non-heteronormative identities/ practices. How do we critically read the celebratory global proliferation of queer rights in these neoliberal times? This volume responds to the complicated moment in the history of queer struggles by analysing laws, state policies and cultures of activism, to show how new intimacies between queer sexuality and neoliberalism that celebrate modernity and the birth of the liberated sexual citizen, are in fact, reproducing the old colonial desire of civilizing the native. By paying particular attention to the problematics of race, religion and class, this volume engages in a rigorous, self-reflexive critique of global queer politics and its engagements, confrontations, and negotiations with modernity and its investments in liberalism, legalism and militarism, with the objective of queering the ethics of our queer politics. Published by Zubaan.

The Beatles in Japan

Author : Carolyn S. Stevens
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315533030
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book The Beatles in Japan written by Carolyn S. Stevens and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following their first tour to Japan in 1966, the Beatles would become an important part of Japan’s postwar cultural development and its deepening relationship with the West. By the 1960s Japan’s dramatic rise in prosperity and the self-confidence of the country’s ‘economic miracle’ period were yet to come; it was not, at this stage, considered a fully-fledged partner of the West. All these potential developments were consolidating around the time of the 1966 tour. The Beatles' concerts in Tokyo contributed to the construction of a new Japanese national identity and introduced Japan as a new potential market to UK and US music producers, broadening the country’s transnational cultural links. This book explores the Beatles’ engagement with Japan within the larger context of the country’s increased global connection and large-scale economic, social and cultural change. It describes the great impact of the Beatles’ contentious 1966 tour, which took place amid public displays of both euphoric ‘Beatlemania’ and angry protests, and discusses the lasting impression of this tour on Japanese culture and identity to the present day. The Beatles’ relationship with Japan did not end after their departure; this book also examines the Beatles’ subsequent contacts with Japan, including John Lennon’s marriage and artistic partnership with Yoko Ono, and Paul McCartney’s later Japanese tours and the warm reception the ex Beatles and their musical legacy have received over the years.

The Diva's Guide to Divorce

Author : Traci Smith
Publisher : Traci Smith
ISBN 13 : 9780977691029
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Diva's Guide to Divorce written by Traci Smith and published by Traci Smith. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Diva's Guide to Real Estate Sales

Author : Traci Smith
Publisher : Traci Smith
ISBN 13 : 9780977691036
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Diva's Guide to Real Estate Sales written by Traci Smith and published by Traci Smith. This book was released on 2006-12 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Maiko Masquerade

Author : Jan Bardsley
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520296435
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Maiko Masquerade written by Jan Bardsley and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maiko Masquerade explores Japanese representations of the maiko, or apprentice geisha, in films, manga, and other popular media as an icon of exemplary girlhood. Jan Bardsley traces how the maiko, long stigmatized as a victim of sexual exploitation, emerges in the 2000s as the chaste keeper of Kyoto’s classical artistic traditions. Insider accounts by maiko and geisha, their leaders and fans, show pride in the training, challenges, and rewards maiko face. No longer viewed as a toy for men’s amusement, she serves as catalyst for women’s consumer fun. This change inspires stories of ordinary girls—and even one boy—striving to embody the maiko ideal, engaging in masquerades that highlight questions of personal choice, gender performance, and national identity.

The Beatles and Humour

Author : Katie Kapurch
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501379372
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Beatles and Humour written by Katie Kapurch and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-08-10 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Beatles are known for cheeky punchlines, but understanding their humor goes beyond laughing at John Lennon's memorable rattle your jewelry dig at the Royal Variety Performance in 1963. From the beginning, the Beatles' music was full of wordplay and winks, guided by comedic influences ranging from rhythm and blues, British radio, and the Liverpool pub scene. Gifted with timing and deadpan wit, the band habitually relied on irony, sarcasm, and nonsense. Early jokes revealed an aptitude for improvisation and self-awareness, techniques honed throughout the 1960s and into solo careers. Experts in the art of play, including musical experimentation, the Beatles' shared sense of humor is a key ingredient to their appeal during the 1960s-and to their endurance. The Beatles and Humour offers innovative takes on the serious art of Beatle fun, an instrument of social, political, and economic critique. Chapters also situate the band alongside British and non-British predecessors and collaborators, such as Billy Preston and Yoko Ono, uncovering diverse components and unexpected effects of the Beatles' output.

Homeward Bound Reflections

Author : Jojo
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1453573372
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book Homeward Bound Reflections written by Jojo and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever gone through a storm in your life? Did you feel like you were alone? Have you ever thought about death? Did you wonder where you would go when you died? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this book is for you. Homeward Bound Reflections is a book of poetry that reflects my journey on the road of life. It offers hope to those going through storms, those who feel alone, and those who question where they will go when they die. Put your reading glasses on and take this journey with me!

Voicing Diverse Teaching Experiences, Approaches, and Perspectives in Higher Education

Author : Alvarez, Wilfredo
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1799890023
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Voicing Diverse Teaching Experiences, Approaches, and Perspectives in Higher Education written by Alvarez, Wilfredo and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2022-04-22 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. higher education system is changing demographically. With these complex changes also comes a greater diversity of people entering spaces that they could not previously access. This new dynamic is exciting; however, it also comes with challenges. New approaches must be developed to facilitate the acceptance of this greater diversity. Voicing Diverse Teaching Experiences, Approaches, and Perspectives in Higher Education extends the conversation on how to engage diverse and complex social identity groups in a system historically designed to be exclusive of their lived experiences. This book elevates the voices of people who have been absent in the academy and considers these experiences across various types of institutions, academic disciplines, and ranks. Covering topics such as critical race theory, diverse gender identities, and interpersonal needs, this book is an essential resource for higher education administrators, faculty and students of higher education, organizational leaders, academicians, pre-service teachers, and researchers.