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Sounds of Other Shores

Sounds of Other Shores

A study of transoceanic musical appropriation and Swahili ethnic subjectivity on the Kenyan coastSounds of Other Shores takes an ethnographic ear to the history of transoceanic stylistic appropriation...
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Fraught Balance

Fraught Balance

A vivid and intricate study of dance music traditions that reveals the many contradictions of being Syrian in the 21st centuryDabke, one of Syria's most beloved dance music traditions, is at the center...
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Notice

Notice

A chapbook from Pulitzer Prize winner Rae Armantrout on climate changeNotice is the product of a life-long interest in natural sciences by Pulitzer Prize winning poet Rae Armantrout. The collection...
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Selected Poems of Calvin C. Hernton

Selected Poems of Calvin C. Hernton

The definitive guide to a major African American poetThis volume promises to be the definitive guide to Calvin C. Hernton's unparalleled poetic career, re-introducing readers to a major voice in American...
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Celebrating Professor Sumarsam

A Maestro of Javanese Cultural Heritage at Wesleyan Written by Natalie Goodgold for Wesleyan University Arts and Humanities. Available from Medium. Professor Sumarsam is a gamelan performer, teacher, and scholar. He…

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Cardinal Poetry Prize Winner Announced

Wesleyan University Press announces Five-Paragraph Essay on the Body-Mind Problem byRachel Trousdale as the inaugural winner of the Cardinal Poetry Prize. MIDDLETOWN, CT – Wesleyan University Press announces Five-Paragraph Essay…

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Cardinal Poetry Prize Finalists Announced

Announcing the finalists for the inaugural Cardinal Poetry Prize We are excited to announce that out of 428 submissions, we have selected fifteen finalists for the inaugural Cardinal Poetry Prize….

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Between the Night and Its Music

Between the Night and Its Music

Classic and new work by poet and jazz writer A. B. SpellmanA. B. Spellman is an acclaimed American poet, music critic, and arts administrator. He is widely recognized as a leading figure in the Black...

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