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Nicky Agate posted an update in the group
Feedback and Feature Requests on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoWe are about to embark on a UX audit of MLA Commons and would love to know what you like (and, more importantly, don’t like) about the platform. Help us make the Commons a more user-friendly place to be!
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Andrew Eisenberg deposited Rumba Rules: The Politics of Dance Music in Mobutu’s Zaire by Bob W. White on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months ago
Review of: Rumba Rules: The Politics of Dance Music in Mobutu’s Zaire by Bob W. White.
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Andrew Eisenberg deposited Sound of Africa! Making Music Zulu in a South African Studio by Louise Meintjes on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months ago
Review of: Sound of Africa! Making Music Zulu in a South African Studio, by Louise Meintjes.
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Caitlin Duffy's profile was updated on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months ago
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Andrew Eisenberg deposited Eric Charry, ed. Hip Hop Africa: New African Music in a Globalizing World. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012. x + 390 pp. Graphs. Maps. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Discography. Videography. Webography. Index. $35.00. Paper. on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months ago
Review of Hip Hop Africa: New African Music in a Globalizing World by Eric Charry 2012
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Angela Gibson's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months ago
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Amadeu Corbera Jaume deposited Vine a la festa! La creació i consolidació de l’escena pop catalana: 1991-2008 in the group
Ethnomusicology on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months agoA principis dels anys 90, amb el boom del Rock català, comença formar-se tota una escena musical pròpia dels Països Catalans, amb un model de funcionament diferenciat del de l’escena espanyola. Actualment, aquesta escena ha canviat, s’han obert noves vies: per una banda, l’eco del Rock català segueix vigent, mentre que per l’altra es…[Read more]
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Andrew Eisenberg deposited M-Commerce and the (Re)making of the Music Industry in Kenya: Preliminary Notes and Findings on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months ago
This report lays out preliminary notes and findings from an on-going investigation intothe ways in which mobile phone commerce, or ‘m-commerce’, is transforming the Kenyan music industry.
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Andrew Eisenberg deposited African musics in context: institutions, culture, identity/Ethnomusicology in East Africa: perspectives from Uganda and beyond on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months ago
BOOK REVIEW
African musics in context: institutions, culture, identity, edited by Thomas Solomon, Kampala, Uganda, Fountain Publishers, 2015, xxvi + 365 pp., £28.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-9-970-25245-9
Ethnomusicology in East Africa: perspectives from Uganda and beyond, edited by Sylvia Nannyonga-Tamusuza and Thomas Solomon, Kampala, Uganda,…[Read more] -
Review of: Hip-Hop Colony. DVD. Michael Wanguhu, director, 2007. Chatsworth, CA: Emerge Media Group.
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Amadeu Corbera Jaume deposited Vine a la festa! La creació i consolidació de l’escena pop catalana: 1991-2008 on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months ago
A principis dels anys 90, amb el boom del Rock català, comença formar-se tota una escena musical pròpia dels Països Catalans, amb un model de funcionament diferenciat del de l’escena espanyola. Actualment, aquesta escena ha canviat, s’han obert noves vies: per una banda, l’eco del Rock català segueix vigent, mentre que per l’altra es…[Read more]
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Amadeu Corbera Jaume deposited Seguint el rastre de la Sibil ! la a Menorca in the group
Ethnomusicology on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months agoEl cant de la Sibil·la és una tradició medieval que avui encara es canta a l’illa de Mallorca durant la nit de Nadal. Però existeixen traces que demostren el coneixement popular d’aquesta representació a l’illa de Menorca almenys fins al segle XIX.
The Chant of the Sibyl is a medieval tradition that is still sung in the island of Mallorca duri…[Read more]
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Andrew J. Eisenberg's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months ago
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Andrew Eisenberg deposited The Swahili Art of Indian Taarab: A Poetics of Vocality and Ethnicity on the Kenyan Coast on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months ago
Employing approaches from ethnomusicology and vocal anthropology, Eisenberg undertakes an interpretive-ethnographic analysis of Indian taarab, a genre of Swahili song on the Kenyan coast that features Swahili words set to Hindi film song melodies performed in a distinctly Indian style. Eisenberg argues that Swahili musicians and audiences derive…[Read more]
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I’ve used Commons a lot. The things I think are best:
* many privacy & participation options for different types of pages;
* ability to upload documents and files for sharing; discussion boards;
* ability to get activity updates in digest form, so that it’s easy to tell when new things happen.
Things that could be improved:
* make all MLA…[Read more]