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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Graceland"”.
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Paul Simon's "Graceland" and its social and political statements on apartheid in South Africa.
Paul Simon's Graceland album is one of the most controversial rock-and-roll albums in history because of its strong connection with South Africa during the apartheid. Simon's interest in South African music led him to record the album, which became a collaboration between South African popular …
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Writing the Lagosian Homeland: the ambiguous and precarious African urban in Chris Abani's GraceLand (2004)
… city of Lagos, Nigeria in Chris Abani's novel GraceLand published in 2004. While exploring the cartographies of urban space in the novel, the study applies principles and theories of Southern Urbanisms, notably AbdouMaliq Simone, Ato Quayson, Edgar Pieterse and so much more to reading Lagos as …
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A Place of Happy Retreat: Benefiting Locals and Visitors Through Sustainable Tourism Practices at Beale Street, Graceland and the National Civil Rights Museum
… interdisciplinary work examines Beale Street, Graceland, and the National Civil Rights Museum through the lens of sustainable tourism. It specifically examines the value of integrating the culture and history of the host community into the attraction, and using tourist attractions to provide …
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South African popular music of the 1980's and the role of the Graceland Project: A case of International (USA- RSA ) collaboration and co-production
… multinational music project called Graceland. Although South African popular music can facilitate the prosperity of musicians, only few musicians have succeeded in fostering this aspect. Using popular music and pop culture Afrocentrism as frameworks, this study analyses the Graceland …
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The Blues Is Alright: Blues Music as a Root for Cultural Tourism and Public History
… focus on the Mississippi Delta, Elvis Presley's Graceland, and Austin, Texas, this thesis is an exploration of the successes, failures, and necessary re-imaginings of sites of music lore, places in which the blues have played a role in music tourism, and how public history is used in different …
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The Book of Possibilities
… hold the four parts of the book together: Part I Graceland or Homeland, Part II Speak the Document, Part III Desertscapes and Part IV Rhizomes. Through departures, arrivals, endless journeys and returns, I question and demonstrate what it means to be at home in language, culture and the world at …
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The Nigerian novel and the postcolonial city
… Ndibe's Arrows of Rain (2000), Chris Abani's GraceLand (2004), and Sefi Ata's Everything Good Will Come (2006). The selected novels' analyses foreground the argument that there is no universal template for theorizing the city; hence, there is a legitimate basis for talking about the …