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Jaipongan: Indigenous Popular Music of West Java

open access: yesAsian Music, 1986
The advent of mass media particularly cassettes and films in Indonesia has led to the flowering of two mass popular music forms, namely, dangdut and jaipongan. Kroncong, an older urban popular form, presents a mixture of Portuguese folksong style and Indonesian features; dangdut style, while in some respects an extension of the orkes melayu tradition ...
Peter Manuel, Randall Baier
openaire   +2 more sources

On account of doomsday

open access: yesAmerican Ethnologist, EarlyView.
Abstract In recent years, Berlin has emerged as an epicenter of climate activism in Germany. There, a range of groups have mobilized in opposition to the role of the German state and the EU in accelerating the climate crisis. Many activists now see conventional political responses as exhausted and have turned to increasingly radical forms of civil ...
Max Jack
wiley   +1 more source

Application of the war of attrition game to the analysis of intellectual property disputes

open access: yes, 2015
In many developing countries intellectual property infringement and the commerce of pirate goods is an entrepreneurial activity. Digital piracy is very often the only media for having access to music, cinema, books and software.
Chávez-Angeles, Manuel G.   +1 more
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Appropriation, Indigenous knowledge, and generative AI

open access: yesAmerican Ethnologist, EarlyView.
Abstract This commentary examines the relationship between First Nations’ knowledge, AI, and cultural appropriation from the perspective of an Indigenous scholar and journal editor. The author highlights the potential conflicts between who controls AI and First Nations sovereignty.
Charles Menzies (hagwil hayetsk)
wiley   +1 more source

Valorising the voice of the marginalised: exploring the value of African music in education

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Education, 2011
I explore the role and value of African music in education, by drawing from a study of Grade 5 learners at a school in the Eastern Cape, which was designed to answer the question: Could Xhosa children in South Africa sing Xhosa indigenous songs ...
Yolisa Nompula
doaj  

Cultures of innovation of the African poor : common roots, shared traits, joint prospects? ; on the articulation of multiple modernities in African societies and black diasporas in latin America [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
The globalized Western culture of innovation, as propagated by major aid institutions, does not necessarily lead to empowerment or improvement of the well-being of the stakeholders.
Kohnert, Dirk
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The Unbecoming Ghost: Spectropolitics in the Making and Unmaking of BHU's Bhoot Vidya Ayurveda Certificate Program

open access: yesAnthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay examines the controversy surrounding the Bhoot Vidya certificate program proposed by the Faculty of Ayurveda at Banaras Hindu University in 2019. Drawing on media coverage, curricular materials, and government policy, I analyze how the debate reveals broader tensions in the politics of contemporary Ayurveda, nationalism, and ...
Thomas Seibel
wiley   +1 more source

Editorial

open access: yesThe Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2001
The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education in the next two editions will feature specialised subjects in matters of teaching and learning in the area of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education.
Jackie Huggins, Michael Williams
doaj   +1 more source

Journal of African Christian Biography: v. 4, no. 1 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
A publication of the Dictionary of African Christian Biography with U.S. offices located at the Center for Global Christianity and Mission at Boston University. This issue focuses on: 1. Introducing African Christian Biography. 2.
Bonk, Jonathan J.   +8 more
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