minority reports on the increasing integration of the two German states’ pop music industries in the waning years of the Cold War. Because the first of these lp s was released in 1983, and the last one in 1989, a six-year-period in which the East German
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DIY, im Eigenverlag
East German Tamizdat LPs
Seth Howes
The Sounds of Music in Tehran
Soheila Shahshahani
This article aims to contextualise music as it was experienced in Tehran in 2004 (when the research for this work was conducted) - music that comes from various ethnic groups within Iran, and music coming from the diaspora. The relationships between various genres of music and people, as well as between music and the government, are examined. The malleability of musicians and their capacity to coordinate their expertise with popular and governmental expectations and limitations are then analysed. In this way, a fascinating yet little studied area in the anthropology of Iran at the time of research is addressed.
Ally Sloper, Escape Magazine and the Situation of English Comics
Nicholas Robinette
as international as Cinema or Pop Music. Successful artists and writers are mobile, going where opportunity takes them. … Wherever they travel, their style and ideas go with them, adapted from country to country. They move through a network of
Historicising the Emergence of Comics Art Scholarship in Spain, 1965–1975
Antonio Lázaro-Reboll
integrati , which was published that same year by Editorial Lumen. Both books, according to critic Enrique Sordo, traversed similar territories – ‘pop’ cultural forms like comics, film, television and pop music – and responded to ‘fenómenos tecnoecómicos
Social Criticism through Humour in the Digital Age
Multimodal Extension in the Works of Aleix Saló
Javier Muñoz-Basols and Marina Massaguer Comes
humour on the basis of phonetic and semantic associations, humour that is directed towards both the comic reader and the video watcher. With regard to the intertextuality with cultural icons, allusions to television, cinema, pop music, literature, art and
Exhibition and Book Reviews
Nick Nguyen, Philippe Kaenel, Michael Kelly, Charles Forsdick, Rikke Platz Cortsen, Sylvain Rheault, Hugo Frey, and Mark Nixon
hybridisation and transculturalism, concepts that could be used to analyse other intercultural phenomena, like K-pop music. The essays do not seem to have been organised in a logical progression. Given the eclectic nature of the articles, this is not a concern
Searching for the Young Soul Rebels
On Writing, New Wave, and the Ends of Cultural Studies
Richard Langston
generation of columnists capable of emulating this highfalutin discourse on pop music, but some of these writers then went on to become best-selling prose authors in their own right, whose literary works have, in turn, garnered the attention of German Studies
Knitted Naked Suits and Shedding Skins
The Body Politics of Popfeminist Musical Performances in the Twenty-first Century
Maria Stehle
—just human,” says McGowan. This anti-“dream-factory” video is drastically gaga-esque: an optical dream with the message of a nightmare. 2 Glitter Skins and Penis Suits Within a few days of one another, the German pop-music magazine Spex published
Sounds German?
Popular Music in Postwar Germany at the Crossroads of the National and Transnational
Kirkland A. Fulk
Circulation, Global Networks and Contemporary Pop Music,” Atlantic Studies 1, no. 1 (2004): 85–106, here 90ff. 12 See Kodwo Eshun, More Brilliant than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction . (London, 1998), 3; Sean Albeiz, “Post-soul Futurama: African
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Patrick Young, David Looseley, Elayne Oliphant, and Kolja Lindner
he is intent on filling in, such as youth, pop music, and sport. He begins with French chanson, tracing the evolution away from the lyrical sophistication of Trenet and Aznavour toward the arrival of rock and pop. His biographical portrait of Johnny