Music, Media and Film Studies – July 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 3, 2012|Music, Media and Film Studies|0 comments

Dancehall : from slave ship to ghetto / Sonjah Stanley Niaah. Can’t stop won’t stop : a history of the hip-hop generation / Jeff Chang. The music of Jōji Yuasa / Luciana Galliano ; edited by Peter Burt Kyeʺ lakʻ to rvā teʺ kabyā / Ūʺ Soʻ Jaṅʻ pru cu saññʻ. ʼAlaṅkā Kyoʻ Cvā Ūʺ Hanʻ Pa / Nanʻʺ Ññvanʻʹ Chve. Unearthing gender : folksongs of North India / Smita

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Films and Sound Recordings – July 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 2, 2012|Films and Sound Recordings|0 comments

Films Divine intervention [videorecording] : a chronicle of love and pain / a film by Elia Suleiman starring Elia Suleiman, Manal Khader, Nayef Fahoum Daher, Amer Daher, Jamel Daher, George Ibrahim … Cry, the beloved country Disgrace / Film Finance Corporation Australia presents in association with Newbridge Film Capital … [et al.] a Wild Strawberries/Sherman Pictures production a Steve Jacobs film director, Steve Jacobs writer, Anna-Maria Monticelli producer, Anna-Maria Monticelli,

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Japan – April 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 30, 2012|Japan|0 comments

The face of Jizō : image and cult in medieval Japanese Buddhism / Hank Glassman. Bonds of the dead : temples, burial, and the transformation of contemporary Japanese Buddhism / Mark Michael Rowe Japan’s shrinking regions in the 21st century / Peter Matanle and Anthony S. Rausch with the Shrinking Regions Research Group. Passionate friendship : the aesthetics of girls’ culture in Japan / Deborah Shamoon. The Okinawan diaspora in

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