Wild music : sound and sovereignty in Ukraine / by Sonevytsky, Maria

Table of Contents: “…On wildness -- Wild dances : Ethnic intimacy, auto-exoticism, and infrastructural activism -- Freak cabaret : politics and aesthetics in the time of revolution -- Ungovernable timbres : the failures of the rural voice on reality TV -- Eastern music : the liminal sovereign imaginaries of Crimea -- Ethno-chaos : provincializing Russia through Ukrainian world music -- Conclusion. …”
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Problematic Identities in Women's Fiction of the Sri Lankan Diaspora. by Watkins, Alexandra

Table of Contents: “…Problematic Identities in Women's Fiction of the Sri Lankan Diaspora; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1: Mimicry and Detection:Dismantling Identity in Michellede Kretser's The Hamilton Case; 2: In Fear of Monsters:Women's Identities and the Cultof Domesticity in British Ceylon; 3: Combatting Myths:Racial and Cultural Identityin Postcolonial Sri Lanka; 4: Chandani Lokugé and Yasmine Gooneratne: Deconstructing Postcolonial Tourism, Exoticism, and Colonial Simulacra; 5: Diasporic Identities:Inscriptions of Celebration and Psychic Trauma in Western Locations.…”
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Music in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries / by Auner, Joseph Henry, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Expanding musical worlds : New inner and outer landscapes ; Modernism, modernity, and "systems of happiness and balance" ; Gustav Mahler and the symphony as world ; Alma Mahler and the new woman ; Debussy, symbolism, exoticism, and the century of aeroplanes ; For further reading -- Making new musical languages : Atonality, post-tonality, and the emancipation of the dissonance ; Busoni's new aesthetic of music ; Futurism and The art of noises ; Strauss and referential tonality ; Skryabin's new harmonic structures ; Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern ; For further reading -- Folk sources, the primitive, and the search for authenticity : Locating the folk ; Sibelius: creating Finnishness ; Ives's America ; Primitivism and the folk ; Bartók and the search for a mother tongue ; Stravinsky, Russianness, and the folk estranged ; For further reading -- Part II: The interwar years. …”