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Gangsta Scholarship: A Review of Nuthin but a “G” Thang

James Braxton Peterson

James Braxton Peterson is the Director of Africana Studies and Associate Professor of English at Lehigh University. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Hip-Hop Headphones : A Scholar’s Critical Playlist

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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...Eithne Quinn’s exceptionally executed study, Nuthin’ but a “G” Thang: The Culture and Commerce of Gangsta Rap, signifies the fullest potential of 
Hip-Hop scholarship and its undeniable place in the fields of American Studies...

Gato

Leonardo Waisman

Leonardo Waisman

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume IX : Genres: Caribbean and Latin America

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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...The gato was the most popular folk dance in Argentina during a large portion of the nineteenth century, when it was called ‘Gato mis-mis’ or ‘Perdiz.’ In the late 1700s it was also danced in neighboring areas and throughout the Spanish...

Guarimba

Igor de Gandarias

Igor de Gandarias

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume IX : Genres: Caribbean and Latin America

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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...The guarimba, also known as seis por ocho (six by eight), is one of the most characteristic marimba dance musics practiced in urban areas of Guatemala by Ladinos (the mestizo, Spanish-speaking population of the country). Guarimba...

Paul Robeson

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He’s not there: Velvet Goldmine filmhauntological approachVelvet Goldmine and the Spectres of David Bowie

Glenn D’Cruz

Glenn D’Cruz

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Enchanting David Bowie : Space/Time/Body/Memory

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...Introduction Named after a relatively obscure David Bowie outtake, Velvet Goldmine is an audacious film, which divided critics and audiences alike. Inspired by David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust period, the film, on a literal level, provides...

Gagá

Daniel C. Piper

Daniel C. Piper

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume IX : Genres: Caribbean and Latin America

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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...Dominican or Haitian-Dominican Gagá is a Lenten season religious society, appearing first in the 1920s, whose rituals and carnivalesque processions make extensive use of an exuberant style of music and dance, also known as Gagá. Its members...

Gaita (Colombia)

Federico Ochoa Escobar

Federico Ochoa Escobar

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume IX : Genres: Caribbean and Latin America

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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...In Colombia, the word gaita refers to three things: a traditional wind instrument found along the country’s northern coast; the instrumental ensemble to which it belongs; and a type of fast cumbia, a common dance genre from...

Contemporary Christian Music

Young Shawn David

Young Shawn David

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Popular Music

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

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...Evangelical popular music is connected to a mythology, a history that dates back in time to the American counterculture of the 1960s, specifically a revival of conservative Christianity known as the Jesus Movement, a new way of expressing...

Lucknow

James Kippen

James Kippen

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume V : Locations: Asia and Oceania

Continuum, 2016

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...Population: 2,000,000 (2002) Lucknow is the capital of India’s most populous state, uttar Pradesh. It is in many ways an ordinary city where, as with most Indian conurbations, one can hear strains of Bollywood hits...

CeCe Winans, Black Gospel Music, and the Ambivalence of Stardom

Angela M. Nelson

Angela M. Nelson

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Religion and Popular Music : Artists, Fans, and Cultures

Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

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...Introduction This chapter engages in the debate about the role of the Christian religion in daily life and the extent to which Christianity is compatible to and aligned with culture. Although these debates are evident in the New Testament...