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This book studies the long-term developments in the South African recording industry and adds to the existing literature an understanding of the prevalence of informal negotiations over rights, rewards and power in the recording industry. It argues that patronage features often infiltrate the contractual relationships in the industry.
In the bitter winds of autumn 1963, Tove Jansson, helped by Brunstroem, a maverick fisherman, raced to build a cabin on a treeless skerry in the Gulf of Finland. The island was Klovharun, and for thirty summers Tove and her beloved partner, the graphic artist, Tuulikki Pietila, retreated there to live, paint and write, energised by the solitude and shifting seascapes. Notes from an Island, published in English for the first time, is both a chronicle of this period and a homage to the mature love that Tove and 'Tooti' shared for their island and for each other. Tove's spare prose, and Tuulikki's subtle washes and aquatints combine to form a work of meditative beauty. '... Tooti wandered aimlessly around the island and stood stock still for long periods. I thought I knew what she was doing. She was working again. Copperplate etchings and wash drawings. Mostly the lagoon, the lagoon as a consummate mirror for clouds and birds, the lagoon in a storm, in fog. And the granite, first and foremost, the granite, the cliff, the rocks. It's all peace and quiet now.'
"All traders are thieves, especially women traders," people often
assured social anthropologist Tuulikki Pietila during her field
work in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, in the mid-1990s. Equally common
were stories about businessmen who had "bought a spirit" for their
enrichment. Pietila places these and similar comments in the
context of the liberalization of the Tanzanian economy that began
in the 1980s, when many men and women found themselves newly
enmeshed in the burgeoning market economy. Even as emerging private
markets strengthened the position of enterprising people, economic
resources did not automatically lead to heightened social position.
Instead, social recognition remained tied to a complex cultural
negotiation through stories and gossip in markets, bars, and
neighborhoods.
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