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This book assesses the legacy of Dick Hebdige and his work on
subcultures in his seminal work, Subculture: The Meaning of Style
(1979). The volume interrogates the concept of subculture put
forward by Hebdige, and asks if this concept is still capable of
helping us understand the subcultures of the twenty-first century.
The contributors to this volume assess the main theoretical trends
behind Hebdige's work, critically engaging with their value and how
they orient a researcher or student of subculture, and also look at
some absences in Hebdige's original account of subculture, such as
gender and ethnicity. The book concludes with an interview with
Hebdige himself, where he deals with questions about his concept of
subculture and the gestation of his original work in a way that
shows his seriousness and humour in equal measure. This volume is a
vital contribution to the debate on subculture from some of the
best researchers and academics working in the field in the
twenty-first century.
This book provides an 'insider' view of worlds of popular music. It
shows the relationship between music, creativity, ideas and
localities by looking at cities, independents, genre, globalization
and musician's relationships with each other. Webb examines groups
of musicians, audiences and people involved in the music industry
and shows the articulation of their position as well as how to
understand this theoretically by looking at the city as a centre
for music production; the industrial music inspired neo-folk genre;
independence and its various meanings as a productive position in
the music industry; the globalization of music; and musicians own
narratives about working together and dealing with the industry.
Utilizing case studies of a variety of different cities -- Bristol,
London, New York, San Francisco, Berlin -- and genres -- Trip-hop,
Hip-hop, Industrial, Neo-folk -- this volume is a landmark in
popular music studies.
This book brings together historians, sociologists and social
scientists to examine aspects of youth culture. The book's themes
are riots, music and gangs, connecting spectacular expression of
youthful disaffection with everyday practices. By so doing, Youth
Culture and Social Change maps out new ways of historicizing
responses to economic and social change: public unrest and popular
culture.
This graduate-level text provides a thorough grounding in the
representation theory of finite groups over fields and rings. The
book provides a balanced and comprehensive account of the subject,
detailing the methods needed to analyze representations that arise
in many areas of mathematics. Key topics include the construction
and use of character tables, the role of induction and restriction,
projective and simple modules for group algebras, indecomposable
representations, Brauer characters, and block theory. This
classroom-tested text provides motivation through a large number of
worked examples, with exercises at the end of each chapter that
test the reader's knowledge, provide further examples and practice,
and include results not proven in the text. Prerequisites include a
graduate course in abstract algebra, and familiarity with the
properties of groups, rings, field extensions, and linear algebra.
This book provides an `insider' view of worlds of popular music. It
shows the relationship between music, creativity, ideas and
localities by looking at cities, independents, genre, globalization
and musician's relationships with each other. Webb examines groups
of musicians, audiences and people involved in the music industry
and shows the articulation of their position as well as how to
understand this theoretically by looking at the city as a centre
for music production; the industrial music inspired neo-folk genre;
independence and its various meanings as a productive position in
the music industry; the globalization of music; and musicians own
narratives about working together and dealing with the industry.
Utilizing case studies of a variety of different cities -- Bristol,
London, New York, San Francisco, Berlin -- and genres -- Trip-hop,
Hip-hop, Industrial, Neo-folk -- this volume is a landmark in
popular music studies.
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The Excellence of the Arabs (Hardcover)
Ibn Qutaybah; Translated by Sarah Bowen Savant; Edited by Peter Webb, James E Montgomery
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The Excellence of the Arabs is a spirited defense of Arab
identity-its merits, values, and origins-at a time of political
unrest and fragmentation, written by one of the most important
scholars of the early Abbasid era. In the cosmopolitan milieu of
Baghdad, the social prestige attached to claims of being Arab had
begun to decline. Although his own family originally hailed from
Merv in the east, Ibn Qutaybah locks horns with those members of
his society who belittled Arabness and vaunted the glories of
Persian heritage and culture. Instead, he upholds the status of
Arabs and their heritage in the face of criticism and uncertainty.
The Excellence of the Arabs is in two parts. In the first, Arab
Preeminence, which takes the form of an extended argument for Arab
privilege, Ibn Qutaybah accuses his opponents of blasphemous envy.
In the second, The Excellence of Arab Learning, he describes the
fields of knowledge in which he believed pre-Islamic Arabians
excelled, including knowledge of the stars, divination, horse
husbandry, and poetry. And by incorporating extensive excerpts from
the poetic heritage-"the archive of the Arabs"-Ibn Qutaybah aims to
demonstrate that poetry is itself sufficient corroboration of Arab
superiority. Eloquent and forceful, The Excellence of the Arabs
addresses a central question at a time of great social flux at the
dawn of classical Muslim civilization: what did it mean to be Arab?
A bilingual Arabic-English edition.
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The Excellence of the Arabs (Paperback)
Ibn Qutaybah; Translated by Sarah Bowen Savant; Edited by Peter Webb, James E Montgomery
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The Excellence of the Arabs is a spirited defense of Arab
identity-its merits, values, and origins-at a time of political
unrest and fragmentation, written by one of the most important
scholars of the early Abbasid era. In the cosmopolitan milieu of
Baghdad, the social prestige attached to claims of being Arab had
begun to decline. Although his own family originally hailed from
Merv in the east, Ibn Qutaybah locks horns with those members of
his society who belittled Arabness and vaunted the glories of
Persian heritage and culture. Instead, he upholds the status of
Arabs and their heritage in the face of criticism and uncertainty.
The Excellence of the Arabs is in two parts. In the first, Arab
Preeminence, which takes the form of an extended argument for Arab
privilege, Ibn Qutaybah accuses his opponents of blasphemous envy.
In the second, The Excellence of Arab Learning, he describes the
fields of knowledge in which he believed pre-Islamic Arabians
excelled, including knowledge of the stars, divination, horse
husbandry, and poetry. And by incorporating extensive excerpts from
the poetic heritage-"the archive of the Arabs"-Ibn Qutaybah aims to
demonstrate that poetry is itself sufficient corroboration of Arab
superiority. Eloquent and forceful, The Excellence of the Arabs
addresses a central question at a time of great social flux at the
dawn of classical Muslim civilization: what did it mean to be Arab?
A bilingual Arabic-English edition.
Who are the Arabs? When did people begin calling themselves Arabs?
And what was the Arabs' role in the rise of Islam? Investigating
these core questions about Arab identity and history by marshalling
the widest array of Arabic sources employed hitherto, and by
closely interpreting the evidence with theories of identity and
ethnicity, Imagining the Arabs proposes new answers to the riddle
of Arab origins and fundamental reinterpretations of early Islamic
history. This book reveals that the time-honoured stereotypes which
depict Arabs as ancient Arabian Bedouin are entirely misleading
because the essence of Arab identity was in fact devised by Muslims
during the first centuries of Islam. Arab identity emerged and
evolved as groups imagined new notions of community to suit the
radically changing circumstances of life in the early Caliphate.
The idea of 'the Arab' was a device which Muslims utilised to
articulate their communal identity, to negotiate post-Conquest
power relations, and to explain the rise of Islam. Over Islam's
first four centuries, political elites, genealogists, poetry
collectors, historians and grammarians all participated in a
vibrant process of imagining and re-imagining Arab identity and
history, and the sum of their works established a powerful
tradition that influences Middle Eastern communities to the present
day.
The callous taking of two lives by an act of pure self-interest
brings together DCI Arnold, WPC Desai, Linden Lea, the twin to one
of the victims, and Jasper, the deceased's terrier. This coalition
of the willing pursue events, both global and personal, past and
present, through the jungle of media and politics and into the
inner sanctum of the English aristocracy. During their
investigations they find redemption for some, retribution for
others and discover that revenge is not exclusively a human trait;
they confirm the certain knowledge that what goes around comes
around.
Who are the Arabs? When did people begin calling themselves Arabs?
And what was the Arabs' role in the rise of Islam? Investigating
these core questions about Arab identity and history by marshalling
the widest array of Arabic sources employed hitherto, and by
closely interpreting the evidence with theories of identity and
ethnicity, Imagining the Arabs proposes new answers to the riddle
of Arab origins and fundamental reinterpretations of early Islamic
history. This book reveals that the time-honoured stereotypes which
depict Arabs as ancient Arabian Bedouin are entirely misleading
because the essence of Arab identity was in fact devised by Muslims
during the first centuries of Islam. Arab identity emerged and
evolved as groups imagined new notions of community to suit the
radically changing circumstances of life in the early Caliphate.
The idea of 'the Arab' was a device which Muslims utilised to
articulate their communal identity, to negotiate post-Conquest
power relations, and to explain the rise of Islam. Over Islam's
first four centuries, political elites, genealogists, poetry
collectors, historians and grammarians all participated in a
vibrant process of imagining and re-imagining Arab identity and
history, and the sum of their works established a powerful
tradition that influences Middle Eastern communities to the present
day.
On Barn Tor, as on any English sporting estate, the
poacher/gamekeeper dynamic has developed, over centuries, into its
present state of poorly concealed dislike and with one unwritten,
explicit rule; do not cross the line. So, what do you do when
someone you love ceases to abide by these rules? The Quarry follows
the lives of two families and finds that, when affairs of the
estate are blurred by affairs of the heart, the idyllic
country-life veneer is soon stripped away and it will only take one
slip, one slight misreading of just who and what the quarry is, to
ignite a volatile cocktail of suppressed emotions, raw passion and
explosive confrontation.
Spanning three centuries and two countries, Ladies of the Shire
weaves together the lives of eight individuals on their
unforgettable, epic journey from the hay-meadows of Leicestershire,
England to the mud and bloody artistry of 1914-18 France. From
these trenches rises a retribution that will claim all they hold
precious, demanding a sacrifice none ever thought would be asked of
them......
A wild tale of space and technology, of justice and emotions, of
war, romance and travel. Where the truth will get you killed, and
where escape seems the only freedom.
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