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Part I Variance in use in everyday photography; 1 'I'm a picture girl!' Mobile photography in Tanzania ; 2 'Today I dressed like this': selling clothes and playing for celebrity: self-representation and consumption on Facebook; 3 Amplification and heterogeneity: seniors and digital photographic practices ; 4 Illness, death and grief: the daily experience of viewing and sharing digital images. ..

Curate' is now a buzzword applied to everything from music festivals to artisanal cheese. Inside the art world, the curator reigns supreme, acting as the face of high-profile group shows and biennials in a way that can eclipse and assimilate the contributions of individual artists. At the same time, curatorial studies programs continue to grow in popularity, and businesses are increasingly adopting curation as a means of adding value to content and courting demographics.

"Centres on a virtual gallery of art made in the region from the 1940's to the 2000s. Work featured is contextualized within its historical background from the Pre-Columbian times to the present day, through narrative text and time line."--Cover.

"This ambitious and comprehensive volume of essays, edited by two committed scholars, mirrors a collection of insights, analyses and approaches to the works by Ghana's foremost woman writer, who has prevailed for over thirty years on the African literature scene by her sheer tenacity of purpose and the freshness of her writing. Ama Ata Aidoo comes across as a sturdy, well-rounded, dignified and reputable writer of world class, not only in the originality, complexity and sophistication of her thoughts, but also in the diversity of the possibilities in her writing. Students of cultural politics, international relations, womens' studies, history and African studies will find this anthology a compelling resource."--Jacket.

Mass-produced images have long been produced and used in India by religious and nationalist movements – the emergence of Indian-run chromolithograph presses in the late 1870s initiated a vast outpouring that have come to dominate many of India’s public and domestic spaces.

"At one level or another, all the work in the collection seeks to find ways to understand and articulate our multiple identities and senses of place?

The Twentieth-Century Performance Reader has been the key introductory text to all types of performance for over fifteen years. Extracts from over fifty practitioners, critics and theorists from the fields of dance, drama, music, theatre and live art form an essential sourcebook for students, researchers and practitioners. This carefully revised third edition offers focus on contributions from the world of music, and also privileges the voices of practitioners themselves ahead of more theoretical writing.