Songs and Gifts at the Frontier

Songs and Gifts at the Frontier
Author: Jose S. Buenconsejo
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2013-11-26
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1136719806

This book investigates the particular history and social experience by a marginalized society in Mindanao Island, Philippines, through an analysis of the speech, song and dance in spirit possession ritual. Using the concepts of exchange and reciprocity, Buenconsejo connects the performativity of ritual song to the formation and maintenance of sociability, personhood and subjectivity. Also inlcludes maps.

New York Magazine

New York Magazine
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Total Pages: 104
Release: 1983-07-18
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New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.