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Social Text (2016) 34 (4 (129)): 87–110.
Published: 01 December 2016
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Social Text (2012) 30 (4 (113)): 1–24.
Published: 01 December 2012
...Shane Vogel This essay develops a theoretical framework of biopolitical performance, or more simply bioperformance , with which to approach the 1957 televised broadcast of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn’s A Drum Is a Woman . Presented on the drama anthology program The United States Steel Hour...
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Social Text (2007) 25 (3 (92)): 19–36.
Published: 01 September 2007
... Bissau disrupted the dancing and drumming on a sugar hacienda along O’Toole the northern coast of Peru. Witnesses reported that these enslaved men, who were known as brans, demanded that a group of criollo and other African men (born in west or southwestern Africa) cease to play. One...
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Social Text (2004) 22 (4 (81)): 91–112.
Published: 01 December 2004
... from sensual, un-Islamic origins for religious purposes? Moreover, the controversy over bandiri music is not just about Indian love songs. Bandiri is named after the drum—the bandir—used in ritual practice by Sufi s to enter...
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Social Text (2008) 26 (1 (94)): 3–28.
Published: 01 March 2008
... writes the memoir, she can exclaim that only “God . . . knows how many times I’ve sung that song accompanied by drums while dreaming of again seeing Cuba’s green royal palms.”6 The song and her relationship with it very powerfully inform two telling anecdotes from her life that bear further...
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Social Text (2010) 28 (2 (103)): 85–112.
Published: 01 June 2010
... the intensification of noir’s mannerism, and the reification of its forms as signs of Americanness. Thus, in the writings of Drum magazine and in popular cultural production of the 1950s and 1960s, more generally, a general Americophilia is widely visible. In them...
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Social Text (2001) 19 (4 (69)): 53–65.
Published: 01 December 2001
... specifically, in drums in frenzy funk, hip hop, music and specta- samba and percussion cle oriented both Dread[s] and adrenaline pagode...
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Social Text (2002) 20 (2 (71)): 21–47.
Published: 01 June 2002
... poles, throw their pager out the window, and have AOL make their e-mail stop.38 In a different vein, the members of Blaque describe their sexual superiority by insisting that their “love goes boom like an 808,” a drum machine, used on countless hip hop, house, and techno recordings, that does...
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Social Text (2013) 31 (3 (116)): 111–122.
Published: 01 September 2013
... up inside a reggae groove. Before this actually occurs, however, Chimes on drums ratchets up the tension still another notch, beginning to lay down the tempo that the song will maintain until the end — but initially the context within which he does...
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Social Text (2010) 28 (1 (102)): 125–146.
Published: 01 March 2010
... with drums and a trumpet made out of an elephant’s tusk. I took that sound and modified it by using the likembe, the thumb piano. It was made out of bamboo back then.”30 Mingiedi explains the blasted electronic technique that began to form in their sound: “I...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (1 (106)): 37–42.
Published: 01 March 2011
... the vultures are circling over, we hearken to the drumming of the Ruffed grouse calling for attendance at his springtime dance, we taste the berries the budgerigars are gobbling up. There is an inner desolation in a human life that speaks to only human voices and grasps only human hands, caresses only...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 107–112.
Published: 01 March 2018
... to get a chant going at a protest unless the protest is absolutely massive. No one wants anyone else to pay attention to their chanting. Someone will be on the mic, there’ll be an overamplified drum, and the chant will begin: No Trump, No KKK, No Fascist USA. Tentatively, like lapsed churchgoers...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (2 (99)): 159–164.
Published: 01 June 2009
.... What I mean to say is that whenever we are forced to make concessions, we should not accept them as our own will with beat of drum and flourish of trumpets. Rather, we should accept them in the harsh knowledge of the compulsion weighing on us...
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Social Text (2010) 28 (1 (102)): 59–85.
Published: 01 March 2010
... subject positions like “white,” “black,” and “brown” as historical accretions of sonic phenom- ena and stereotypes that can function without their correlating visual sig- nifiers and can often stand in for them. The tropicalized “jungle drum” motif that opens the film version of West Side Story...
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Social Text (2000) 18 (3 (64)): 47–66.
Published: 01 September 2000
... was one that seemed easily secular, eas- ily amenable to the modernizing, temporal impulses that drummed the pulse of a nation as a state-to-be. It was no accident, then, that the prime minister’s slogan was picked up as the centerpiece of the program, which...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (3 (136)): 25–45.
Published: 01 September 2018
.... A backing chorus, slow-rolling bass drum, and synthesized strings lend it an air of militaristic melodrama. The song recalls Jin’s work from forty years earlier and was quite far from the typical Red Shirt musical canon, which was otherwise heavy on guitar-driven luk thung , hip-hop, and morlam sing...
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Social Text (2010) 28 (1 (102)): 35–58.
Published: 01 March 2010
..., and hence speed.) Carl Ludwig introduced the graphic method into the experimental life sciences in the 1840s with his kymograph — a drum, rotated by clockwork, on whose blackened surface a vibrating bristle recorded the fluctuations of blood pressure...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (4 (109)): 129–150.
Published: 01 December 2011
... with a Japanese ceremony celebrating the seizure of the city. In what might perhaps be considered a grand concluding gesture, 134 Dai ∙ I Want to Be Human the Japanese military, clad in native costume, march in perfect unison to the beat of a Taiko drum...
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Social Text (2007) 25 (1 (90)): 17–39.
Published: 01 March 2007
... almost expired and no resolution in hand, DiStefano was forced to ask for a thirty-day extension in order to see what sort(s) of pretext might be drummed up for proceeding against me. Meanwhile, on 3 March...
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Social Text (2000) 18 (1 (62)): 31–54.
Published: 01 March 2000
... to about 70 percent.17 Along the way, Local 399 embarrassed countless office landlords and wreaked justifiable havoc by staging bois- terous demonstrations: occupying lobbies, chanting and screaming and banging drums...