Full Product Details
Author: Paul Mercieca ,
Anne Chapman ,
Marnie O'Neill
Publisher: University Press of America
Imprint: University Press of America
Dimensions:
Width: 16.10cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 23.60cm
Weight: 0.367kg
ISBN: 9780761860785
ISBN 10: 0761860789
Pages: 168
Publication Date: 04 April 2013
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Their book explores in detail how music, memory, and place combine and recombine to make this music meaningful again in another new home, adding another vital piece of the jigsaw to our understanding of popular music culture. -- Tim Wall, professor of radio and popular music studies, Birmingham City University [This book] brings into clear relief ways that soul music has traveled and continues to travel dynamically across international borders. This book significantly extends the expanding research on Northern Soul and the power and efficacy of African American musical aesthetics and cultural products. -- Kimasi Browne, director of Ethnomusicology and Music Research, Azusa Pacific University . . . shows the practical roles played by various forms of cultural literacy in orienting how subjects identify with, navigate through, and utilize different cultural categories, genres, spaces, and sites. -- Tony Schirato, School of English Film Theatre and Media Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
Their book explores in detail how music, memory, and place combine and recombine to make this music meaningful again in another new home, adding another vital piece of the jigsaw to our understanding of popular music culture. -- Tim Wall, professor of radio and popular music studies, Birmingham City University [This book] brings into clear relief ways that soul music has traveled and continues to travel dynamically across international borders. This book significantly extends the expanding research on Northern Soul and the power and efficacy of African American musical aesthetics and cultural products. -- Kimasi Browne, director of Ethnomusicology and Music Research, Azusa Pacific University ... shows the practical roles played by various forms of cultural literacy in orienting how subjects identify with, navigate through, and utilize different cultural categories, genres, spaces, and sites. -- Tony Schirato, School of English Film Theatre and Media Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
Author Information
Paul Mercieca is a lecturer in the School of Education at Curtin University in Western Australia, where he coordinates postgraduate programs in applied linguistics. He has worked in the UK, Egypt, Oman, Australia, and Vietnam, and completed doctoral research into migrant subcultures in 2010. Currently, he is the executive editor of the English Australia Journal. Anne Chapman is Winthrop Professor of Education in the Graduate School of Education at The University of Western Australia. She is the director of transnational programs and coordinates and teaches units in the school’s postgraduate programs. Marnie O’Neill is a professor of education in the Graduate School of Education at The University of Western Australia, where she served as dean and head of school for five years. She was also the inaugural director of teaching for pre-service teacher education and joint coordinator of the Doctor of Education program.
