Title:
Popular democracy in Japan how gender and community are changing modern electoral politics / Sherry L. Martin.
Author:
Martin, Sherry L., 1971-
ebrary, Inc.
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : why don't they stay home? -- The political distance between citizens and elites -- New styles of political leadership and community mobilization -- National attitudes and local action : changing the center from the periphery -- Politically excluded "commoners" : a gendered pathway to participation -- Gender and "communities of practice" : escaping the regulatory boundaries of formal education -- Conclusion : engendering knowledge and political action.
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Publisher:
Cornell University Press,
Publication Place:
Ithaca :
ISBN:
9780801449178 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780801460821 (e-book)
Subject:
Democracy -- Japan.
Political participation -- Japan.
Political culture -- Japan.
Women -- Political activity -- Japan.
Community power -- Japan.
Japan -- Politics and government -- 21st century.
Electronic books.
Contents:
Introduction : why don't they stay home? -- The political distance between citizens and elites -- New styles of political leadership and community mobilization -- National attitudes and local action : changing the center from the periphery -- Politically excluded "commoners" : a gendered pathway to participation -- Gender and "communities of practice" : escaping the regulatory boundaries of formal education -- Conclusion : engendering knowledge and political action.
Physical Description:
xiv, 191 p. : ill.
Electronic Location:
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/excellence/Doc?id=10468055
Publication Date:
2011.
Title:
Popular literacy in early modern Japan Richard Rubinger.
Author:
Rubinger, Richard, 1943-
ebrary, Inc.
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-227) and index.
Literacy in early Tokugawa villages -- Signatures, ciphers, and seals -- Country culture and the rise of provincial literati in the eighteenth century -- The nineteenth-century expansion of popular literacy -- Direct measures of popular literacy in the nineteenth century.
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Publisher:
University of Hawai'i Press,
Publication Place:
Honolulu :
ISBN:
9780824830267 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780824831240 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject:
Literacy -- Japan -- History.
Popular education -- Japan -- History.
Electronic books.
Contents:
Literacy in early Tokugawa villages -- Signatures, ciphers, and seals -- Country culture and the rise of provincial literati in the eighteenth century -- The nineteenth-century expansion of popular literacy -- Direct measures of popular literacy in the nineteenth century.
Physical Description:
xii, 238 p. : ill., maps.
Electronic Location:
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/excellence/Doc?id=10386704
Publication Date:
2007.
Title:
Popular literature in America; a symposium in honor of Lyon N. Richardson. Edited by James C. Austin [and] Donald A. Koch.
Author:
Austin, James C., ed.
Koch, Donald A., 1916- ed.
Richardson, Lyon N. (Lyon Norman), b. 1898.
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Popular literature in America, by J. C. Austin.--A microcosm of popular taste: Cleveland, Ohio, by M. P. Ford.--Detective fiction as American realism, by C. H. Holman.--Hear the guns roar: the feud in Southern mountain fiction, by W. Eckley.--Native themes in early nineteenth-century American fiction, by J. T. Flanagan.--Kenneth Roberts and the American historical novel, by L. Coyle.--The cowboy: from High Noon to Midnight, by G. W. Linden.--Satire as colonial protest literature, by S. Kluth.--The Lovingoods: notes toward a genealogy, by L. Leary.--The dialect sermon in American literature, by J. T. Flautz.--The Americanization of burlesque, 1840-1860, by G. Kummer.--The roots of American reform literature, by D. A. Koch.--Woman militant in The arena of Benjamin Orange Flower, by A. J. Payne.--The uncertainties of authorship in the South after the Civil War, by A. Turner.--TV and the American way of life, by H. M. Brown.
Publisher:
Bowling Green University Popular Press
Publication Place:
Bowling Green, Ohio,
ISBN:
0879720301
087972031X (pbk)
Subject:
American literature -- History and criticism.
Contents:
Popular literature in America, by J. C. Austin.--A microcosm of popular taste: Cleveland, Ohio, by M. P. Ford.--Detective fiction as American realism, by C. H. Holman.--Hear the guns roar: the feud in Southern mountain fiction, by W. Eckley.--Native themes in early nineteenth-century American fiction, by J. T. Flanagan.--Kenneth Roberts and the American historical novel, by L. Coyle.--The cowboy: from High Noon to Midnight, by G. W. Linden.--Satire as colonial protest literature, by S. Kluth.--The Lovingoods: notes toward a genealogy, by L. Leary.--The dialect sermon in American literature, by J. T. Flautz.--The Americanization of burlesque, 1840-1860, by G. Kummer.--The roots of American reform literature, by D. A. Koch.--Woman militant in The arena of Benjamin Orange Flower, by A. J. Payne.--The uncertainties of authorship in the South after the Civil War, by A. Turner.--TV and the American way of life, by H. M. Brown.
Physical Description:
205 p. port.
Publication Date:
[1972]
Title:
Popular music censorship in Africa edited by Michael Drewett, Martin Cloonan.
Ashgate popular and folk music series
Ashgate popular and folk music series.
Author:
Drewett, Michael.
Cloonan, Martin.
ebrary, Inc.
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Popular music censorship in Africa : an overview / Martin Cloonan -- The cultural boycott against apartheid South Africa : a case of defensible censorship? / Michael Drewett -- Vocal killers, silent killers : popular media, genocide, and the call for benevolent censorship in Rwanda / Dylan Craig and Nomalanga Mkhize -- Racist hate speech in South Africa's fragile democracy : the case of Ngema's 'AmaNdiya' / Gary Baines -- Zvakwana! Enough! : media control and unofficial censorship of music in Zimbabwe / Diane Thram -- And the beat goes on? : message music, political repression and the power of hip-hop in Nigeria / Wilson Akpan -- Traditional and popular music, hegemonic power and censorship in Malawi : 1964-1994 / Reuben M Chirambo -- Why don't you sing about the leaves and the dreams? : reflecting on music censorship in apartheid South Africa / Johnny Clegg and Michael Drewett -- Popular music censorship in Tanzania / Kelly M. Askew and John F. Kitime -- Silencing musical expression in colonial and post-colonial Kenya / Peter Muhoro Mwangi -- One hundred years of censorship in Ghanaian popular music performance / John Collins -- Where the shoe pinches : the imprisonment of Franco Luambo Makiadi as a curious example of music censorship in Zaïre / Graeme Ewens -- For a song : censure in Algerian rai music / Malika Mehdid -- Concluding comments on the censorship of popular music in Africa / Martin Cloonan and Michael Drewett.
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Publisher:
Ashgate,
Publication Place:
Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT :
ISBN:
0754652912 (alk. paper)
9780754652915 (alk. paper)
Subject:
Popular music -- Censorship -- Africa.
Popular music -- Political aspects -- Africa.
Electronic books.
Series:
Ashgate popular and folk music series
Ashgate popular and folk music series.
Contents:
Popular music censorship in Africa : an overview / Martin Cloonan -- The cultural boycott against apartheid South Africa : a case of defensible censorship? / Michael Drewett -- Vocal killers, silent killers : popular media, genocide, and the call for benevolent censorship in Rwanda / Dylan Craig and Nomalanga Mkhize -- Racist hate speech in South Africa's fragile democracy : the case of Ngema's 'AmaNdiya' / Gary Baines -- Zvakwana! Enough! : media control and unofficial censorship of music in Zimbabwe / Diane Thram -- And the beat goes on? : message music, political repression and the power of hip-hop in Nigeria / Wilson Akpan -- Traditional and popular music, hegemonic power and censorship in Malawi : 1964-1994 / Reuben M Chirambo -- Why don't you sing about the leaves and the dreams? : reflecting on music censorship in apartheid South Africa / Johnny Clegg and Michael Drewett -- Popular music censorship in Tanzania / Kelly M. Askew and John F. Kitime -- Silencing musical expression in colonial and post-colonial Kenya / Peter Muhoro Mwangi -- One hundred years of censorship in Ghanaian popular music performance / John Collins -- Where the shoe pinches : the imprisonment of Franco Luambo Makiadi as a curious example of music censorship in Zaïre / Graeme Ewens -- For a song : censure in Algerian rai music / Malika Mehdid -- Concluding comments on the censorship of popular music in Africa / Martin Cloonan and Michael Drewett.
Physical Description:
xii, 228 p.
Electronic Location:
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/excellence/Doc?id=10211419
Publication Date:
c2006.
Title:
Popular music in contemporary France authenticity, politics, debate / David L. Looseley.
Berg French studies
Berg French studies.
Author:
Looseley, David.
ebrary, Inc.
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Popular music before 1958 -- The 1960s : authenticity and barbarism -- From 1968 to the present : authenticity and métissage -- Chanson as national myth : the authenticity debate -- Denationalising authenticity : the sociological debate -- Music and politics before 1981 -- Music and politics, 1981-93 -- Policy and the music industry at the end of the millennium -- Policy and its discontents : the republican debate -- Techno and the state : the cultural debate.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Publisher:
Berg,
Publication Place:
Oxford ; New Yrok :
ISBN:
1859736319 (cloth)
185973636X (paper)
Subject:
Popular music -- France -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Popular music -- Social aspects -- France.
Electronic books.
Series:
Berg French studies
Berg French studies.
Contents:
Popular music before 1958 -- The 1960s : authenticity and barbarism -- From 1968 to the present : authenticity and métissage -- Chanson as national myth : the authenticity debate -- Denationalising authenticity : the sociological debate -- Music and politics before 1981 -- Music and politics, 1981-93 -- Policy and the music industry at the end of the millennium -- Policy and its discontents : the republican debate -- Techno and the state : the cultural debate.
Physical Description:
xii, 254 p.
Electronic Location:
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/excellence/Doc?id=10032049
Publication Date:
c2003.
Title:
Popular protest in China edited by Kevin J. O'Brien.
Harvard contemporary China series ;
Harvard contemporary China series ;
Author:
O'Brien, Kevin J., 1957-
ebrary, Inc.
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-274).
Prologue : the new contentious politics in China : poor and blank or rich and complex? / Sidney Tarrow -- Introduction : studying contention in contemporary China / Kevin J. O'Brien and Rachel E. Stern -- Student movements in China and Taiwan / Teresa Wright -- Collective petitioning and institutional conversion / Xi Chen -- Mass frames and worker protest / William Hurst -- Worker leaders and framing factory-based resistance / Feng Chen -- Recruitment to Protestant house churches / Carsten T. Vala and Kevin J. O'Brien -- Contention in cyberspace / Guobin Yang -- Environmental campaigns / Yanfei Sun and Dingxin Zhao -- Disruptive collective action in the reform era / Yongshun Cai -- Manufacturing dissent in transnational China / Patricia M. Thornton -- Permanent rebellion? continuities and discontinuities in Chinese protest / Elizabeth J. Perry.
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Publisher:
Harvard University Press,
Publication Place:
Cambridge, Mass. :
ISBN:
9780674030602 (cloth : alk. paper)
0674030605 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780674030619 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0674030613 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject:
Social movements -- China.
Political participation -- China.
Electronic books.
Series:
Harvard contemporary China series ; 15
Harvard contemporary China series ; 15.
Contents:
Prologue : the new contentious politics in China : poor and blank or rich and complex? / Sidney Tarrow -- Introduction : studying contention in contemporary China / Kevin J. O'Brien and Rachel E. Stern -- Student movements in China and Taiwan / Teresa Wright -- Collective petitioning and institutional conversion / Xi Chen -- Mass frames and worker protest / William Hurst -- Worker leaders and framing factory-based resistance / Feng Chen -- Recruitment to Protestant house churches / Carsten T. Vala and Kevin J. O'Brien -- Contention in cyberspace / Guobin Yang -- Environmental campaigns / Yanfei Sun and Dingxin Zhao -- Disruptive collective action in the reform era / Yongshun Cai -- Manufacturing dissent in transnational China / Patricia M. Thornton -- Permanent rebellion? continuities and discontinuities in Chinese protest / Elizabeth J. Perry.
Physical Description:
x, 277 p.
Electronic Location:
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/excellence/Doc?id=10318514
Publication Date:
2008.
Title:
Popular trauma culture selling the pain of others in the mass media / Anne Rothe.
Author:
Rothe, Anne.
ebrary, Inc.
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-201) and index.
Introduction : Oprah at Auschwitz -- Popular trauma culture : generating the paradigm in Holocaust discourse. Holocaust tropes -- Victim talk -- American survivors -- Trauma kitsch -- Television : watching the pain of others on daytime talk shows. Talking cures -- Trauma camp -- Popular literature : reading the pain of others in misery memoirs. Selling misery -- Fake suffering -- Forging child abuse -- Simulating Holocaust survival -- Epilogue : fantasies of witnessing.
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Publisher:
Rutgers University Press,
Publication Place:
New Brunswick, N.J. :
ISBN:
9780813551289 (hardcover alk. paper)
0813551285 (hardcover alk. paper)
9780813551296 (pbk. alk. paper)
0813551293 (pbk. alk. paper)
9780813552200 (e-book)
Subject:
Psychic trauma and mass media.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in mass media.
Electronic books.
Contents:
Introduction : Oprah at Auschwitz -- Popular trauma culture : generating the paradigm in Holocaust discourse. Holocaust tropes -- Victim talk -- American survivors -- Trauma kitsch -- Television : watching the pain of others on daytime talk shows. Talking cures -- Trauma camp -- Popular literature : reading the pain of others in misery memoirs. Selling misery -- Fake suffering -- Forging child abuse -- Simulating Holocaust survival -- Epilogue : fantasies of witnessing.
Physical Description:
xi, 206 p.
Electronic Location:
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/excellence/Doc?id=10535579
Publication Date:
c2011.
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