Corresponding to social, economic, and technological change, popular music is intimately linked to the identity of musicians, performers, or artists, as well as audiences and fans. ... Through survey research, tastes in popular music are understood as being shaped by a person's gender, age, social class background, and race/ethnicity. ... The organization of the popular music business entails a number of major and independent labels. ... Sociologists of popular music have made several attempts to theorize the production of popular music and the organization of the music industry. Richard...

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The Bangarra Dance Theater is an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organization founded in 1989 by African American arts administrator, Carole Johnson and is based at Walsh Bay in Sydney. ... There is no such thing as a specific traditional "Aboriginal dance." One of Bangarra's theatre pieces I have watched is called "Mathinna," it tells the story of one young Aboriginal girl's life journey and the social issues and hardships that she went through during the early days of Australia's colonization as the British settlers relocated the Aboriginal people from their trib...

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The full value of translations and their use as invaluable tools of cultural and social integration has been understood by academics and historians and even when the printing press was just beginning to reveal its potential, the translators of King James' Bible remarked about translation that, "Translation it is that openeth the window, to let in the light; that breaketh the shell, that we may eat the kernel; that putteth aside the curtain, that we may look into the most holy place; that removeth the cover of the well, that we may come by the water.... Just as the 21st century, in terms...

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Globalization is essentially a process by which an ever tightening network of ties that cut across national political boundaries connects communities in a single, interdependent whole, a shrinking world where local differences are steadily eroded and subsumed within a massive global social order (Mowforth and Munt, 1998: 12). ... The essay submits that tourism and globalization may be argued to be a deadly mix for indigenous peoples or host communities due to the negative impacts it has brought about such as commodification and erosion of culture, loss of cultural identity, social problems suc...

• Word Count: 1995
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Factors that significantly effect the nature and the progression of the therapy are the ethnicity and cultural background of the patient, the social context, the environment in which the therapy is conducted and the attitude that the patient may have toward psychotherapy. ... Through this framework they established that some determinants of personality are common (biological), some are particular to a certain social group, and some features are unique and come from individual learning experiences that in turn influence values and beliefs (Leong & Lee, 2006). ... It is common that Western thi...

• Word Count: 2645
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