... silenced, and music has become the most powerful means of rendering that voice audible. The primary medium for contemporary pilgrimage music is the audiocassette, which offers the advantages of convenient production and distribution, but espe- cially portability. Cassettes anthologize repertories...

... to Hausa video and its media infrastructure, above all to Alhaji B. K. and Alhaji Musa Na Sale of the Kano State Cassette Sellers and Recording and Co-operative Society Ltd.; the directors Ado Ahmad, Tijani Ibrahim, and Aminu Hassan Yakasai; and the cultural activism of Ibrahim Sheme, Umar Farukh...

... experience based on the criteria that the material is pre duced in Asia, by Asians and for Asians. In order to make the material more readily accessible all the cassettes have been bans- ferred to the color standard used in North America, NTSC, so that special VCR equipment is not necessary...

... influence Israeli Palestinians’ musi- cal tastes, the cassettes they buy, and the music they expect local singers to perform. The market for recorded music consists mainly of cassettes. These are imported from Egypt...

... of Representation in Thailand.” East-West Film Journal 7 (1): 81–105. Reprinted in Vimal Dissayanake, ed. Cinema and Nation in Asia . Bloomington: Indiana University Press, in press. O'Regan , Tom . 1991 . “From Piracy to Sovereignty: International Video Cassette Recorder Trends.” Continuum 4 ( 2...

...Steven Feld Copyright © 1991 by the Center For Transnational Culture Studies 1991 PUBLIC CULTURE’S current cover is also the cover of a CD/cassette recording of music and environmental sounds from Bosavi, Papua New Guinea, commercially released by the Rykodisc label in April...

.... The Ethical Soundscape: Cassette Sermons and Islamic Culture. New York: Columbia University Press. Kennedy, David. 2006. Of War and Law. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. King, Samantha. 2006. Pink Ribbons, Inc.: Breast Cancer and the Politics of Philanthropy. Minneapolis...

...- cassette. Clarke, Lee. 1999. Mission Improbable: Using Fantasy Documents to Tame Dis- aster. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Cocks, Catherine. 2001. Doing the Town: The Rise of Urban Tourism in the United States...

... the eye. Condensed in this lyric is the thrill and awe that 'TransFormers' inspire in the very young. TransFormers (variously manufactured in Japan and Taiwan) are robot toys which, through a series of mechanical manipula- tions, can be transformed into weapons, cassettes, insects, dinosaurs...

.... Last year, the best-selling cassette in China was “Red Sun,” a tape that adapted old Maoist songs to soft-rock rhythms and electronic synthesizers. The sacred has become the pastime. There is still a general confusion in cultural circles about what’s commercial and what’s serious...

... in Germany and Sweden, film and video cassettes ensure the continuous flexing of the muscles of memory, and the tapping of hidden veins of nostalgia. Complex transna- tional flows of media images and messages perhaps create the greatest dis- junctures for diasporic populations, since...

... decades, India has developed forms of public culture which draw it into the cosmopolitanism of the rest of the world. Yet today's cos- mopolitan cultural forms contain a paradox. As forms, they are emerging everywhere: films, packaged tours, specialized restaurants, video-cassettes and sports...

... of Society . Trans. Stephen Holmes and Charles Larmore. New York: Columbia University Press. Manuel , Peter . 1988 . Popular Musics of the Non-Western World: An Introductory Survey . New York: Oxford University Press. Manuel , Peter . 1993 . Cassette Culture: Popular Music and Technology...

.... RESEARCH INTERESTS: Cultural transformations in urban areas; intersocietal flow of culture. BRENNEIS, DON. Pitzer College, Claremont, CA 91711, USA. RESEARCH INTERESTS: Grant proposals as a discourse genre; local cassette in- dustries and patterns of musical change...

... for the technological, however, in the making of public culture in the city of modest means. For one, the sensorial fields cited above are shot through with technological objects and infrastructures such as loudspeakers, cassette players, cars, stoves, buildings, chemical products, engineered surroundings, barrels...

..., the popular Indian cinema had begun to depend upon the West. The dependence became almost total with the emergence on the scene of video directors: directors who sit at the beachside hotels of Bombay, watch video cassettes of American films, and then proceed directly to the studios. No film scripts...

... Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society . Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California press. Abu-Lughod , Lila . 1989 . “Bedouins, Cassettes, and Technologies of Public Culture.” MERIP Middle East Report 159, 19 ( 4 ): 7 -11. Abu-Lughod , Lila . 1990 . “The Romance...

... karaoke machine was invented either by Daisuke Inoue, a former Kobe lounge musician currently based in Osaka, Japan, or by Roberto Del Rosario, a Filipino piano manufacturer who developed a sing-along machine using “minus one” technology (originally on cassette tapes), in which vocals are subtracted from...

... can be found in the vicinity of Mylapore's impressive seventh-century Kapaleshwarar temple, one of the 275 recognized tevaram , Saivite shrines. It is also a spot where you are sure to get all of the singer Bombay Jayashree's classical and light music on cassette, CD, or any other form of electronic...

... by cassette). Publicity thus fits with this set of words (i?un), but also with shuyu‘, meaning publicity, but more generally anything that spreads. Note the nuances of both terms. Z‘h is the antonymn of sin (secret), and means “to bring out of secremess,” “to make public,” in contemporary lingo, also...