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The Art of the Creative Commons is a book about peer-to-peer
production, providing a unique model of commons from the creative
industries. The book expands the knowledge about the role in which
an alternative framework of copyright protection (Creative Commons)
regulates and establishes norms and conventions within the commons.
The book gives insight into a vibrant community that fosters
creative projects and a variety of works, from elementary school
plays to exhibitions in the Smithsonian or multimillion-dollar
Hollywood films. Taking up the perspective of the creative
workforce involved in production and collaboration allows us to
understand the rules of production that follow an alternative model
of production. By analyzing issues of media production, this book
engages with current scholarship on critical management, political
economy and cultural studies.
Responding to the development of a lively hip hop culture in
Central and Eastern European countries, this interdisciplinary
study demonstrates how a universal model of hip hop serves as a
contextually situated platform of cultural exchange and becomes
locally inflected. After the Soviet Union fell, hip hop became
popular in urban environments in the region, but it has often been
stigmatized as inauthentic, due to an apparent lack of connection
to African American historical roots and black identity. Originally
strongly influenced by aesthetics from the US, hip hop in Central
and Eastern Europe has gradually developed unique, local
trajectories, a number of which are showcased in this volume. On
the one hand, hip hop functions as a marker of Western
cosmopolitanism and democratic ideology, but as the contributors
show, it is also a malleable genre that has been infused with so
much local identity that it has lost most of its previous
associations with "the West" in the experiences of local musicians,
audiences, and producers. Contextualizing hip hop through the prism
of local experiences and regional musical expressions, these
valuable case studies reveal the broad spectrum of its impact on
popular culture and youth identity in the post-Soviet world.
Responding to the development of a lively hip hop culture in
Central and Eastern European countries, this interdisciplinary
study demonstrates how a universal model of hip hop serves as a
contextually situated platform of cultural exchange and becomes
locally inflected. After the Soviet Union fell, hip hop became
popular in urban environments in the region, but it has often been
stigmatized as inauthentic, due to an apparent lack of connection
to African American historical roots and black identity. Originally
strongly influenced by aesthetics from the US, hip hop in Central
and Eastern Europe has gradually developed unique, local
trajectories, a number of which are showcased in this volume. On
the one hand, hip hop functions as a marker of Western
cosmopolitanism and democratic ideology, but as the contributors
show, it is also a malleable genre that has been infused with so
much local identity that it has lost most of its previous
associations with "the West" in the experiences of local musicians,
audiences, and producers. Contextualizing hip hop through the prism
of local experiences and regional musical expressions, these
valuable case studies reveal the broad spectrum of its impact on
popular culture and youth identity in the post-Soviet world.
The Dialectical Meaning of Offshored Work analyzes how offshoring
investments function as a platform for intercultural encounters
among corporate actors and local populations of hosting
communities. The book synthesizes ethnographic research, media
reviews, and policy analysis to examine how localized forms of
offshoring production occur in social, political and economic
processes to highlight dilemmas connected to mobility of capital,
modernization, social equality and capitalist expansion. The book
delineates the complex interplay between Western neoliberalism and
a transforming post-socialist Europe, to show the complex ways in
which offshoring production infiltrates local communities.
Analyzing issues of labor, work and employment, this book engages
with current scholarship on critical management, sociology,
anthropology, and East European studies.
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