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...central characters in The Lonely Londoners. For Selvon, this period was significant for what it taught him about himself and other West Indians, as well as presenting him with some negative first impressions of England: It was my first experience of living among other West Indian islanders, happening in the heart of London thousands of miles from our home territory, and I...

...Central Africa, Sundanese gamelan music from Indonesia, and Arab classical music from Syria. The course explores how notes are represented through words and symbols, devoting special attention to Western staff notation while also considering Arab and Sundanese notation. You will have opportunities to read and write notes and to sing and play short musical extracts with...

...centrality of infrastructural and logistical registers to piratical practices cuts across public/private distinctions and calls for a parametric sense of the political, rather than the fall-back on a public sphere model that always-already depoliticizes piratical practices as private acts of appropriation without authorization. There is no necessarily progressive vision...