Andrew Walder
- Published in print:
- 1988
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520064706
- eISBN:
- 9780520909007
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520064706.001.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Asian Cultural Anthropology
Based on official Chinese sources as well as intensive interviews with Hong Kong residents formerly employed in mainland factories, this book's neo-traditional image of communist society in China ...
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Based on official Chinese sources as well as intensive interviews with Hong Kong residents formerly employed in mainland factories, this book's neo-traditional image of communist society in China covers topics with respect to China and other communist countries, but also industrial relations and comparative social science.Less
Based on official Chinese sources as well as intensive interviews with Hong Kong residents formerly employed in mainland factories, this book's neo-traditional image of communist society in China covers topics with respect to China and other communist countries, but also industrial relations and comparative social science.
Michael Jarrett
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781469630588
- eISBN:
- 9781469630601
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469630588.003.0005
- Subject:
- Music, Popular
When digital audio workstations (DAWs) do not multiply recording options to unthinkable levels of over-choice, they have simplified and automated tasks that were exceedingly difficult and time ...
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When digital audio workstations (DAWs) do not multiply recording options to unthinkable levels of over-choice, they have simplified and automated tasks that were exceedingly difficult and time consuming to execute on analog tape. But they have informed jazz production most profoundly in the smallest sorts of ways. Fixing the little stuff that once marred, otherwise stellar, performances is now very quick and easy. A number of jazz recordings discussed in this chapter were not recorded digitally, and when they were, many of their producers merely treated digital tape and hard drives as the new, perhaps "improved," analog tape. Much of the time, in the world of jazz production a potentially revolutionary technology is just added to—and conceptualized in terms of–what was already available.Less
When digital audio workstations (DAWs) do not multiply recording options to unthinkable levels of over-choice, they have simplified and automated tasks that were exceedingly difficult and time consuming to execute on analog tape. But they have informed jazz production most profoundly in the smallest sorts of ways. Fixing the little stuff that once marred, otherwise stellar, performances is now very quick and easy. A number of jazz recordings discussed in this chapter were not recorded digitally, and when they were, many of their producers merely treated digital tape and hard drives as the new, perhaps "improved," analog tape. Much of the time, in the world of jazz production a potentially revolutionary technology is just added to—and conceptualized in terms of–what was already available.
Peter Geschiere
John L. Comaroff and Jean Comaroff (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780226510767
- eISBN:
- 9780226511092
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226511092.003.0002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, African Studies
In chapter two, Geschiere argues that, in contemporary Africa, customary law and chiefly authority are best understood as “neo-traditional.” Neither strictly customary – although their legitimacy ...
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In chapter two, Geschiere argues that, in contemporary Africa, customary law and chiefly authority are best understood as “neo-traditional.” Neither strictly customary – although their legitimacy lies in claims to the sanction of custom – nor wholly constructed anew in the present, they are a blend of both, a fusion that has emerged in the post-Cold War moment dating back to the late 1980’s. Making the point that the so-called “return” of chiefship has varied greatly across the continent – it has not occurred at all in some countries -- Geschiere relates recent transformations in traditional authority to the effects of structural adjustment policies; policies, imposed by the World Bank and the IMF, that resonated with the neoliberal tendency in a rising global economy to favor decentralization, deregulation, and devolution away from the state to “the local,” thus to empower those who appeared to enjoy legitimate sovereignty over indigenous communities.Less
In chapter two, Geschiere argues that, in contemporary Africa, customary law and chiefly authority are best understood as “neo-traditional.” Neither strictly customary – although their legitimacy lies in claims to the sanction of custom – nor wholly constructed anew in the present, they are a blend of both, a fusion that has emerged in the post-Cold War moment dating back to the late 1980’s. Making the point that the so-called “return” of chiefship has varied greatly across the continent – it has not occurred at all in some countries -- Geschiere relates recent transformations in traditional authority to the effects of structural adjustment policies; policies, imposed by the World Bank and the IMF, that resonated with the neoliberal tendency in a rising global economy to favor decentralization, deregulation, and devolution away from the state to “the local,” thus to empower those who appeared to enjoy legitimate sovereignty over indigenous communities.
