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... about such issues as racial inequity, social injustice, and challenging the global dominance of corporate capitalism. She greets me with a hug and laughs when I ask her why she is on the floor stretching instead of breaking. She hurt her legs doing the splits but promises to dance later. Next, I see Naj...

... escarpment, hidden away in a little bowl of land like a natural amphitheater. We took our drugs and danced to the pulsing beat. I took my shoes off to feel the cool grasses tickling my feet. The summer breezes bustled about my limbs, warm and relaxing, and tiny shivers ran up my spine. This was heaven...

... might urge us to "force the frozen circumstances" of this division "to 3 4 NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE dance to their own melody. " Yet which is the melody, which is the counterpoint, which is background noise? These are the questions that have to be answered before the dancing can begin, before the wound...

..., community experiences where people from the same neighborhood and across neighborhoods contribute to the music, dance, and costumes/masks of second lines. The history of parades in NOLA (Mardi Gras and social aid and pleasure club second lines) and the krewes (clubs organized to celebrate the season...

... music and black churches in the American struggle for civil rights and racial equality, but not really conveying the sheer physicality of the emotional and embodied experience, quite inseparable from the music, and often qualifying as dance, or at least challenging what we think of as dance. More...

... and Contemporary Geopolitical Lessons from Sri Lanka, the Island-state In 7999, when I was studying Kandyan dance, one of my dance teachers choreographed a few dance pieces for a tourist show in Sri Lanka. One of the pieces he choreographed was Gajaga vannama, the recital of the elephant. He had two choreographic...

...) territories challenge the foundational underpinnings of extractivist settler-colonial governmentality. We can sing to water and we can dance to water. It is going to love when you sing to it. It will dance with you and the vibrations of your sound. You can't see it when it is dancing. It is powerful. It can...

... stories, such as the impact of hearing their children use racial slurs, losing friends and partners to drug addiction, seeing the desperation in their victims' eyes, watching news reports on racist violence, or more positively, playing on integrated prison sports teams and learning to break dance at anti...

..., on the evidence of this book, he does not seem to be. Consider the following passage: In 2011, Adbusters magazine released the now famous poster in which a ballerina danced over the symbolic bull of the New York Stock Exchange, calling on activists to occupy Wall Street. At the top of the poster, one reads...

... is the preservation and use of memory (looking backward). Our use of art and popular culture to imagine a more democratic future is tied, she argues, to our ability to draw from our past, as captured in our stories, our music, and our literature. Drawing from other contributors, we can add our theater, our dance, our...

...-or, in his terms, "to figure out what is wrong with us" (p. 114). The experiment is inspiringly bold, but the findings are not. Here are a few samples: the place is "surprisingly clean" and the women dancing go by unusual names he can't quite recall ("perhaps Crista, possibly Felony He does not ask them...

... Readings in American Politics, Fifth Edition, New York, NY: Pearson Education, Inc., 2004. David D. Joyce, Howard Zinn: A Radical American Vision, Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2003. Bertell OIlman, Dance of the Dialectic: Steps in Marx's Method, Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2003. William P...

... on it, in caring for it. In being friends with it. Perhaps we can learn to listen to the mountains and rivers, trees and animals, by evoking them in ritual, dance, poetry, myth, and meditation. (Starhawk 1990) Perhaps, it is possible to communicate with them in altered states ofconscious - trances, dreams, prayers...

...," Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music 5, no. 2 (2013). sRedd, Marques. "Astro-Black Mythology: The Poetry of Sun Ra," Esotericism in African American Religious Experience, 2015: 225-245. doi:10.1163/9789004283428_016. 6Asante, Molefi K. Malcolm X as Cultural Hero: And Other Afrocentric Essays (Africa...

... the World (2001); Ballbuster? True Confessions of a Marxist Businessman, 2nd edition (forthcoming); Dance of the Dialectic: Steps in Marx's Method (forthcoming); and "What Is Political Science? What Should It Be New Political Science, No.4 (2000). ...

... in higher education, because a fetish is an object or ritual that is believed to have magical properties. Thus, a shaman believes that if a rain dance is performed properly, it will rain. However, if it does not rain, this does not lead the shaman to conclude that the ritual is a superstition. It leads...

.... Marx (both of them) would be proud. So, as Ollman would have it, do not be afraid to conform while doing the "dance of the dialectic" and unraveling the mysteries of the system. Just as Plato says we have to turn ourselves around to see knowledge, OHman says we should reorient ourselves, or "adjust our...

... beendeveloping an ideological power ofexpression hitherto unknown. Originally music was utilized to establish the rhythms of work, the rhythms of dances which were ritual observances (Raynor, 1976:16). And we know that it was treated as a vital symbolic reinforcement of the "hannony" of ancient Chinese...

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... Marcuse's ideas dance with vitality and contemporary political relevance. All in all, Reitz's book is an excellent way to be introduced to the vibrancy of Marcuse's ideas, and it poignantly exhibits what an avid participant in a living tradition of critical theory can produce that will help us move toward...