... In this mainly conceptual, ground-clearing chapter, the author develops thinking on the articulation between music and the social. This task responds to the long-standing demand issued by scholarship in popular music studies, ethnomusicology, and music sociology for clarity in theorizing...

... Black girls and identity social scripts cultural capital performance ...

... at least as much collective expressions that work to entertain and uplift the girls as they are declarations of self-definition meant to respond to mandated social scripts for Black girlhood. A week-long camping trip in Ohio and the oral history surrounding a protest staged by the residents in the early...

... and uplift the girls as they are declarations of self-definition meant to respond to mandated social scripts for Black girlhood. A week-long camping trip in Ohio and the oral history surrounding a protest staged by the residents in the early days of the shelter are the main narratives in this chapter...

... In the conclusion the authors focus on a new mother named Nancy. Deeply invested in traditional gender and family scripts, Nancy struggles mightily to come to terms with the demands of mothering through precarity as the family braces for her husband’s impending layoff. The authors suggest...

... differences that mark Brazilian health care and argues that the appropriation of bodily plasticity is an integral aspect of the ways in which social hierarchies of race, class or gender are renegotiated in Bahia. The chapter sets the scene ethnographically and methodologically and maps out the book’s...

... Chapter 2 investigates how the dissident work practices of migrant domestic workers can be understood as deploying hidden tactics vis-à-vis their employers to appropriate the political script of liberal citizenship. It argues that these accounts of creative resistance are absent in the recent...

... Chapter 4 reads trans people’s practices of transgendering as resorting to the adoption of morphing technologies to appropriate the gender script of liberal citizenship. The idea of morphing differs from Judith Butler’s notion of queer performativity in that, while the latter ultimately...

... staging grounds for entirely new political enactments that include identification and disidentification. Activist women’s personal blogs are intimate rather than private sites of reframing a social self. The centrality of gender performance in these blogs indicates a productive relationship between...

... Chapter 1 discusses the central theoretical frame of ingenious citizenship. It reconceives liberal citizenship as a cultural script, a standardizing and domineering way of life that governs how human subjects ought to live and participate as “proper” citizens, in different realms...

...Beginning Chapter 1 discusses the central theoretical frame of ingenious citizenship. It reconceives liberal citizenship as a cultural script, a standardizing and domineering way of life that governs how human subjects ought to live and participate as “proper” citizens, in different realms...

... filmmaking that was marked by a reliance on scripts and a polished, professional practice of making films. Embraced for its freshness, this turn to improvisatory filmmaking nevertheless raised a set of social, political, and aesthetic issues that inflected the reception of the Nouvelle Vague. A turn...

...Episodes Chapter 2 investigates how the dissident work practices of migrant domestic workers can be understood as deploying hidden tactics vis-à-vis their employers to appropriate the political script of liberal citizenship. It argues that these accounts of creative resistance are absent...

... on scripts and a polished, professional practice of making films. Embraced for its freshness, this turn to improvisatory filmmaking nevertheless raised a set of social, political, and aesthetic issues that inflected the reception of the Nouvelle Vague. A turn to improvisation was seen as a rejection...

... and sexuality is central to the narrative analysis in this chapter. The chapter argues that assumptions regarding young Black women’s sexual agency regulates the nature of the informal and formal protections they are afforded and whether they are perceived as productive citizens or as socially destructive...

... Chapter 5 examines suicide bombing as a deathly act that unsettles and appropriates the life script of liberal citizenship. Focusing on the Palestinian context under Israeli occupation, where the Palestinians exist under conditions of “living-death,” the chapter suggests a rereading...

...Part II In this chapter, Tamara Roberts provides an insider perspective on the construction and development of Teatro Luna’s Machos script. Having served as the sound designer and composer for Machos , Roberts aims to provide unique insights into the final performance text, as well...

... discourse allowed. The two pieces here about Angela Carter, including reviews and an interview, also were meant to point to transgressive and radical alternatives. This great feminist writer was taking apart sexual mores by altering all the old scripts. Freud Dorothy Dinnerstein sexism oppression...