Style Wars


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The American Way -No Strike Laws- Rightwingers Conspiracy Roman Style Wars


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A NON-FICTIONAL RAW RESPONSE TO THE DEMISE AND PREJUSTICESCONSERVATIVE RIGHTWINGERSBUSH-CHENEYS ADMINISTRATION, ILLEGALLY APPOINTED IN THE NAME OF DEMOCRACY, AND COMMITED WAR CRIMES. WE NEED TO HAVE TERM LIMITS FOR FEDERAL JUSTICES OF THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT, IN CONJUNCTION, THE UNITED STATES LEGISLATORS OF THE ROMAN SENATE AND CONGRESS CONTINUE TO ENDORSE IMPRISONMENT WITHOUT EDUCATIONAL BENIFITS. THANK GOD FOR DNA, BECAUSE THEY WANT TO TURN THE PROGRESS OF INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS, PRIVACY, AND WOMENS RIGHTS. WOMEN SHOULD NOT HAVE TO RETURN TO COAT HANGERS, COKE-COLA BOTTLES, AND ANYTHING ELSE THEY COULD PROTRUDE IN THEIR WOMB, IN ORDER TO ABORT AN UNWANTED PREGNANCY, AS WAS DONE DURING MY TIME GROWING UP IN HIGH SCHOOL. WHY WOULD THE GOVERNMENT AND THE CONSPIRACY OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH COLLABARATE TO CONTROL FEMALE BODIES? I WOULD SUGGEST THAT IT IS ALL-RACIST, IN ORDER TO REQUIRE THE MASS AMOUNT OF THE LIGHTER COMPLEXED HUMAN TO OVERCOME SOME WORLD STATISTIC OF RACES. THE SO-CALL FOUNDING FATHERS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE CREATED TO FREE THEM FROM GREAT BRITIANS KING GEORGES RULE, TO THE PRESENT GEORGES WHO ARE THE KINGS OF SKULLS AND BONES FAMILIES. THE FOUNDING FATHERS COULD NOT HAVE IMAGINE IN THEIR WILDEST DREAM HOW WE AS A NATION HAS COME. LIVE FREE OR DIE AND THEY ARE CONSTANTLY STACKING THE COURTS WITH BIAS JUDGES AND JUSTICES THAT ARE ADVOCATING THAT PEOPLE OF AMERICA SHOULD PRETENT THAT TIME STANDS STILL AS THE RACIST MORMONS AND THE RACISTARMISH OF THE FOUNDING FATHERS, LIVING AS THOUGH IT IS STILL THE 1800S. THE MISEDUCATION OF DESCENDANT OF THE UNITED STATES SLAVE SYSTEM AND MISS HEALTH CARE FOR ALL, AND ESPECIALLY THE VETERANS OF AMERICA. DENYING THE RIGHTS OF ORDINARY UNITED STATES CITIZENS BECAUSE OF THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEFS BIASNESS FOR PERSONAL FINANCE GAINS FOR HIM, HIS FAMILY.




Dressing a Galaxy


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In this exquisite volume, the intricate and beautiful fashions that have appeared in all six "Star Wars(" films are on display--from military gear to royal gowns and the iconic garbs of Obi-Wan Kenobi and Darth Vader.




The Hip Hop Wars


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A pioneering expert in the study of hip-hop explains why the music matters--and why the battles surrounding it are so very fierce.




Hip Hop on Film


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A reclamation and interpretation of a once-dismissed aspect of American film history




From the Platform 2


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This is a nostalgic, visual account of the best time and place to be a graffiti writer. In the 1980s, brothers Kenny, a.k.a. KEY, and Paul, a.k.a. CAVS, immersed themselves in the graffiti scene in the Boogie Down Bronx, dutifully photographing hundreds of pieces on now-discontinued MTA subway cars and capturing their proud comrades before, during, and after the act. "Bombing" "White Elephants" with their pilot markers and documenting them with their cameras, which they always carried, they were on the ride of their lives--until 1989, when the last painted train was removed from service. Tags by names like QUIK, IZTHEWIZ, and many others appear here in color exposures, and dozens of artists share stories and drop knowledge with no filter. A foreword by graffiti historian Henry Chalfant, coproducer of Style Wars--the seminal documentary on New York graffiti and hip-hop culture--kicks things off.




Documentary Making for Digital Humanists


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This fluent and comprehensive field guide responds to increased interest, across the humanities, in the ways in which digital technologies can disrupt and open up new research and pedagogical avenues. It is designed to help scholars and students engage with their subjects using an audio-visual grammar, and to allow readers to efficiently gain the technical and theoretical skills necessary to create and disseminate their own trans-media projects. Documentary Making for Digital Humanists sets out the fundamentals of filmmaking, explores academic discourse on digital documentaries and online distribution, and considers the place of this discourse in the evolving academic landscape. The book walks its readers through the intellectual and practical processes of creating digital media and documentary projects. It is further equipped with video elements, supplementing specific chapters and providing brief and accessible introductions to the key components of the filmmaking process. This will be a valuable resource to humanist scholars and students seeking to embrace new media production and the digital landscape, and to those researchers interested in using means beyond the written word to disseminate their work. It constitutes a welcome contribution to the burgeoning field of digital humanities, as the first practical guide of its kind designed to facilitate humanist interactions with digital filmmaking, and to empower scholars and students alike to create and distribute new media audio-visual artefacts.




Understanding Graffiti


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This collection of original articles brings together for the first time the research on graffiti from a wide range of geographical and chronological contexts, and shows how they are interpreted in fields as diverse as archaeology, art history, museum studies, and sociology.




Hip-Hop Archives


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This book focuses on the culture and politics involved in building hip-hop archives. It addresses practical aspects, including methods of accumulation, curation, preservation, and digitization and critically analyzes institutional power, community engagement, urban economics, public access, and the ideological implications associated with hip-hop culture’s enduring tensions with dominant social values. The collection of essays are divided into four sections; Doing the Knowledge, Challenging Archival Forms, Beyond the Nation and Institutional Alignments: Interviews and Reflections. The book covers a range of official, unofficial, DIY and community archives and collections and features chapters by scholar practitioners, educators and curators. A wide swath of hip-hop culture is featured in the book, including a focus on dance, graffiti, clothing, and battle rap. The range of authors and their topics span countries in Asia, Europe, the Caribbean and North America.




Are You Entertained?


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The advent of the internet and the availability of social media and digital downloads have expanded the creation, distribution, and consumption of Black cultural production as never before. At the same time, a new generation of Black public intellectuals who speak to the relationship between race, politics, and popular culture has come into national prominence. The contributors to Are You Entertained? address these trends to consider what culture and blackness mean in the twenty-first century's digital consumer economy. In this collection of essays, interviews, visual art, and an artist statement the contributors examine a range of topics and issues, from music, white consumerism, cartoons, and the rise of Black Twitter to the NBA's dress code, dance, and Moonlight. Analyzing the myriad ways in which people perform, avow, politicize, own, and love blackness, this volume charts the shifting debates in Black popular culture scholarship over the past quarter century while offering new avenues for future scholarship. Contributors. Takiyah Nur Amin, Patricia Hill Collins, Kelly Jo Fulkerson-Dikuua, Simone C. Drake, Dwan K. Henderson, Imani Kai Johnson, Ralina L. Joseph, David J. Leonard, Emily J. Lordi, Nina Angela Mercer, Mark Anthony Neal, H. Ike Okafor-Newsum, Kinohi Nishikawa, Eric Darnell Pritchard, Richard Schur, Tracy Sharpley-Whiting, Vincent Stephens, Lisa B. Thompson, Sheneese Thompson