The recent resurgence of interest in the People's Republic of China (PRC) in the story of the King of Qin, later the First Emperor (Qin Shihuang, 259-210 BeE) after China was united, is quite remarkable. In the last decade ...

Drawing analogies with issues of localization in hip-hop, this chapter argues that processes of localization are more complex than a notion of languages or cultures spreading and taking on local forms; rather, we have to ...

I once heard the jazz bassist and composer Marcus Miller explain how he composed the score for the film 'Siesta', in 1987, laying a bass line first, the using a synthesiser to build up the percussion, layer by layer. At ...

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An account of music that has been produced in Auckland in the 1950s, 1980s and the present which expresses the character of the city

For a small subcultural tourist group, graffiti have become an object of their travelling gaze. Jinman (2007), for example, reports that Melbourne's graffiti have achieved international renown to the extent that tourists ...