America Amerikkka

Download or read book America, Amerikkka written by Rosemary Radford Ruether and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America views itself as a nation inhabiting a "promised land" and enjoying a favoured relation with God. This view of unique election has been coupled with racial exclusivism and the marginalization of non-white citizens. America, Amerikkka traces the historical and ideological patterns behind America’s sense of itself. In its examination of America’s "chosenness", the book ranges across the doctrine of the "rights of man" in the 18th and 19th centuries, the role of America in the twentieth century as "global policeman", and the enforcement of neo-colonial relations over the "third world". The volume argues for a vision of global relations between peoples based on justice and mutuality, rather than hegemonic dominance.

Download or read book Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon written by Michael K. Bourdaghs and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the beginning of the American Occupation in 1945 to the post-bubble period of the early 1990s, popular music provided Japanese listeners with a much-needed release, channeling their desires, fears, and frustrations into a pleasurable and fluid art. Pop music allowed Japanese artists and audiences to assume various identities, reflecting the country's uncomfortable position under American hegemony and its uncertainty within ever-shifting geopolitical realities. In the first English-language study of this phenomenon, Michael K. Bourdaghs considers genres as diverse as boogie-woogie, rockabilly, enka, 1960s rock and roll, 1970s new music, folk, and techno-pop. Reading these forms and their cultural import through music, literary, and cultural theory, he introduces readers to the sensual moods and meanings of modern Japan. As he unpacks the complexities of popular music production and consumption, Bourdaghs interprets Japan as it worked through (or tried to forget) its imperial past. These efforts grew even murkier as Japanese pop migrated to the nation's former colonies. In postwar Japan, pop music both accelerated and protested the commodification of everyday life, challenged and reproduced gender hierarchies, and insisted on the uniqueness of a national culture, even as it participated in an increasingly integrated global marketplace. Each chapter in Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon examines a single genre through a particular theoretical lens: the relation of music to liberation; the influence of cultural mapping on musical appreciation; the role of translation in transmitting musical genres around the globe; the place of noise in music and its relation to historical change; the tenuous connection between ideologies of authenticity and imitation; the link between commercial success and artistic integrity; and the function of melodrama. Bourdaghs concludes with a look at recent Japanese pop music culture.

Download or read book Amerika written by Mikhail Iossel and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For half of the twentieth century, there were two superpowers in the world and a gulf of silence between them. Knowledge of Russian culture was based on propaganda and rumour, and their knowledge of the West was no better. When the Soviet Union fell, Russians began to travel to America more regularly, and what they discovered was a very different place to the one they had imagined, but, at the same time, not exactly the one that Americans think they know. This collection of beautifully written and entertaining literary essays by a wide range of Russian writers - young and old, funny and sombre, angry and celebratory, many being translated for the first time - offers readers a unique chance to see Americans in a whole new light, to question how the American dream stands up to the American reality, and to experience the wit and generosity of today's Russian writers.

Download or read book Base Amerika Earth written by S. Prather and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The deadliest parasite in the world's history threatens to make the human race extinct.

Download or read book Amerika written by Franz Kafka and published by Random House LLC. This book was released on 1996 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depicts the tragicomic misadventures of a young immigrant in New York.

Download or read book This Is Amerikkka written by Kamaj Tawhid and published by . This book was released on 2020-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book police and prison officials never wanted you to read! Kamaj Tawhid tells the truth to America about America!Part memoir, part manifesto, and all social and political commentary, follow the author's provocative, insightful, and heart-thumping journey from nationally-recognized schoolboy scholar to the first American prisoner fighting to be euthanized as an alternative to serving life imprisonment for a wrongful conviction. Kamaj currently awaits trial for the false accusations of orchestrating the attempted murders and kidnappings of three prison guards during a 2017 prisoner uprising...

Download or read book Coyote Satan Amerika written by Steven Johnson Leyba and published by Last Gasp. This book was released on 2001-04 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume documents the Unspeakable Art and Performances of Reverend Steven Johnson Loyba a natived American artist whose ritualistic, sexual adn political mixed media paintings and performances reflect our times with a reicentiess and fiorcely unapologetic vision Redemer of the swastika and dosecrator of the American flag 'to mock; blind nationalism and patriotism Leqba is a master of art as social satire giving birth to conroversies and theretical debatos alike.